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• room to grow by firefright, KmacKatie (kmackatie), lakrisrot (enheduane), mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), VillainIHaveDoneThyMother

  Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)  

  • Explicit
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  14 Dec 2025

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  • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
  • Essek Thelyss
  • Caleb Widogast
  • 5+1 Things
  • Developing Relationship
  • Post-Canon
  • Trans Essek Thelyss
  • Dom/sub Undertones

  Summary

  "Every room is the sex room."

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  13,530

  Chapters:

  6/6

  Comments:

  31

  Kudos:

  310

  Bookmarks:

  29

  Hits:

  4,006

• eusocial by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  23 Aug 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast
  • Caleb Widogast
  • Essek Thelyss
  • Gender Dysphoria
  • Eating Disorders
  • made up drow culture
  • not a/b/o but a secret other thing
  • termite gender
  • honeybee gender
  • a lot of discussions of food issues and food insecurity and food influencing bodies
  • Canon Compliant
  • Post-Campaign 2 (Critical Role)

  Summary

  Drow Is Bugs!

  (or, Essek is acting strangely and Caleb is worried. Then, when he gets answers, he's worried and confused.)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,592

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  18

  Kudos:

  123

  Bookmarks:

  10

  Hits:

  691

• the birth of the gods (redux) by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Mature
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Other
  • Complete Work

  31 Oct 2024

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Ioun the Knowing Mistress (Critical Role)
  • Torog the Crawling King (Critical Role)
  • Zaharzst (Critcal Role)
  • Avandra the Changebringer (Critical Role)
  • Zehir the Cloaked Serpent (Critical Role)
  • Asmodeus the Lord of the Nine Hells (Critical Role)
  • Milo Cowst
  • Zerxus Ilerez
  • Sarenrae the Everlight (Critical Role)
  • Trist | Sarenrae the Everlight's Avatar
  • Amaris (Critical Role)
  • Moradin the Allhammer (Critical Role)
  • Corellon the Archeart (Critical Role)
  • S.I.L.A.H.A. (Critical Role)
  • Selena Erenves (Critical Role)
  • Bane the Strife Emperor (Critical Role)
  • Melora the Wildmother (Critical Role)
  • Asha | Melora the Wildmother's Avatar
  • Gruumsh the Ruiner (Critical Role)
  • Tishar (Critical Role)
  • Kord the Stormlord (Critical Role)
  • Lolth the Spider Queen (Critical Role)
  • Umleta (Critical Role)
  • Emhira (Critical Role)
  • The Raven Queen (Critical Role)
  • Pelor the Dawnfather (Critical Role)
  • Ayden (Critical Role)
  • Sehanine the Moonweaver (Critical Role)
  • Erathis the Lawbearer (Critical Role)
  • Episodes: c03e099-101 Downfall Parts 1-3 (Critical Role)
  • Immense Amounts of Violence
  • Implied/Referenced Suicide
  • Implied/Referenced Torture
  • Body Horror
  • Harm to Children
  • Implications of Infanticide
  • look it's the calamity
  • Time Crystals
  • Ecology
  • Fictional Religion & Theology
  • miracles as a minor horror element
  • Dysfunctional Family
  • what if your baby was clearly something terrible but you loved them anyway?

  Summary

  Becoming something smaller, realer, and more fragile is just as hard the second time around.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  10,918

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  14

  Kudos:

  41

  Bookmarks:

  15

  Hits:

  410

• murders some part of the world by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  24 Aug 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Amaris & Father Milo | Asmodeus the Lord of the Nine Hells' Avatar
  • Amaris (Critical Role)
  • Asmodeus the Lord of the Nine Hells (Critical Role)
  • Hailey (Critical Role)
  • Father Milo | Asmodeus the Lord of the Nine Hells' Avatar
  • Dramatic Irony
  • Episodes: c03e099-101 Downfall Parts 1-3 (Critical Role)
  • Post-Apocalypse
  • the trials and tribulations of having a demigod child and the worst inlaws in the world

  Summary

  Chance encounters with distant relatives; Amaris and his daughter come across a kindly priest in the woods.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  2,446

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  6

  Kudos:

  34

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  217

• goeth before the fall by VillainIHaveDoneThyMother

  Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/F, Other
  • Complete Work

  01 Aug 2024

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  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • The Raven Queen/Cassida Previn
  • The Raven Queen & Cassida Previn
  • Emhira (Critical Role)
  • The Raven Queen (Critical Role)
  • Cassida Previn
  • Purvan Suul
  • Halas Lutagran
  • Episodes: c03e099-101 Downfall Parts 1-3 (Critical Role)
  • Hallis is Halas Lutagran
  • god issues
  • the steady unshakeable progress of time and death
  • the scar tissue of ruined faith and what comes after

  Summary

  Cassida Previn dies and meets (one of) the gods who killed her.

  They spend a while in each other's company.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,694

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  8

  Kudos:

  63

  Bookmarks:

  10

  Hits:

  307