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Rosé Pine Site Skin by BlackBatCat
Fandoms: Site Skins - Fandom, AO3, Archive of Our Own
29 Aug 2025
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A chic, streamlined site skin based on the Rosé Pine palette.
"All natural pine, faux fur and a bit of soho vibes for the classy minimalist."
✿ UPDATED - 6/17/26 ✿
This skin has received a major update—please review the instructions carefully as many changes have been made!
For existing users: The font, text decoration, and UI variable sections have been moved from the theme skin to the base skin for easier control. If you've made personal modifications to the base or theme skins I strongly recommend saving them somewhere else before updating.
When updating, make sure to update all of the skins!
You can view update details on Github.
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The first letter Essek receives from Caleb Widogast is secreted into his pocket at some point during a tense interview with the Bright Queen. For the life of him, Essek cannot figure out how it was done. He doesn’t recall so much as brushing against the other man as he escorted the Mighty Nein out of the Lucid Bastion.
Yet when he returns to his office, there it is, tucked into a nearly invisible pocket in his mantle — a piece of subpar parchment folded to vaguely resemble a cat’s face with tiny pointed ears.
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10 Dec 2025
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Misery is a Talent You can Hone by XXXandrian (themcgeek)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
03 Mar 2025
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It's been almost three hundred years. Essek visits the grove.
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09 Dec 2025
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When a house is both hungry and awake, every room becomes a mouth.
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Nobody was okay after Cognouza. This has consequences for the Nein-Sided tower.
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07 Dec 2025
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discretion by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi), saturdaysky
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
23 Jan 2023
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Like this, Essek is a partially-wrapped gift. Caleb has many ideas for how to unwrap him fully from right here, kneeling between satin-clad thighs. Not satin-clad for long, maybe, if Essek keeps saying his name like that. If he will let Caleb give him what he wants.
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21 Nov 2025
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The rune chews them up and spits them out.
Jayce takes Viktor and runs.
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07 Dec 2024
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Jayce counts down the minutes as he listens to them talk about various professors and what "positions" they probably prefer. He’s mostly succeeding in blocking it out, until he’s jerked back into his body by the sound of one of the men saying Viktor’s name.
“Who?” A second one asks, “Oh—the one that works with Talis? Zaunite with the cane, right?”
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02 Dec 2024
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There May Not Be Meaning, So Find One and Seize It by FourOddApples
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
28 Feb 2023
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“Caring about me is not exactly a good investment.”
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Viktor is a dying man on a desperate search for legacy and purpose. Jayce Talis is the man who confronts him with what it really means to be alive.
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- Part 1 of An Ode to Our Mortality
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01 Dec 2024
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They toast. They toast again. To Piltover. To their partnership. To their dream.
Viktor idly wonders how long they’ve been sitting so close, how long he’s been smiling, watching Jayce drink and talk, how easily he could get used to this.
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30 Nov 2024
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Lost Time by spicedrobot
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
01 Dec 2021
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Viktor was wrong about so many things, but he wasn't wrong about this.
Jayce had understood.
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29 Nov 2024
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Love was the Law by ruinthatboy
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), League of Legends
09 Mar 2025
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“This is wrong,” Jayce rasped, his voice strained with torment, so unlike the Jayce that had left mere hours ago to dance and drink and make merry and maybe even make love to the beautiful Mel Medarda. “This is too far back, I shouldn’t be here—”
This Jayce was like a wild animal, bearded and shaggy, furious and heartbroken.
The huge weapon thudded to the floor once again, and Viktor finally dared to speak.
“Jayce, is that… you?”
Stewing in his loneliness, research assistant Viktor witnesses an Anomaly take place in the laboratory he shares with Jayce Talis, potentially altering life as they know it (or might never come to know).
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27 Nov 2024
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Ten short stories that take place between the end of Painted Devils and the beginning of Holy Terrors.
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18 Nov 2024
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just listen to the rhythm of my heart by KmacKatie (kmackatie) for Loekazz
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
21 Aug 2021
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“What if I didn’t care.” The words surprise Essek for how true they actually are. He wouldn’t care if the Nein saw them kissing, they all knew they did anyway. What difference did it make if they had some actual evidence of it?
Caleb’s eyes darkened.
“Essek.”
“What if I decided that I don’t care, that all I’ve been able to think about for the last hour is your hands and I’ve had to sit there and converse—” He breaks off, licking his lips as his mouth is dry. “I want you. I want you and it’s distracting, and you have utterly broken my ability to sit there and pretend that I am not thinking about anything but your hands and skin. What have you done to me.”
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In which Essek's concentration is tested, the wizards have feelings, and discover that maybe they should pay a slight bit more attention to their surroundings.
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11 Jun 2024
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remote times and places and ultimate causes by mllekurtz (TheKnittingJedi)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
29 Jan 2023
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The Vigil bells are still tolling, calling the monks to the nightly orations. In his bed, Caleb is still adrift between sleep and wake, not sure if he is dreaming the gentle fingers combing his hair in absent-minded strokes, their owner absorbed in his reading.
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08 Jun 2024
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Unfettered Thoughts: Do Drow Dream of Astral Sheep? by MinnesotaBruja
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
15 Feb 2022
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When Essek excuses himself from a classic Mighty Nein dinner in the Nein-Sided Tower, Caleb takes his chance to show Essek his new customized room in the space, complete with books...including Tusk Love... and maybe the tension between them finds a moment to finally snap. (Chapter 1 is T/M, Chapter 2 is E.)
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08 Jun 2024
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“I care for you, Caleb,” Essek says suddenly, as Caleb walks towards the door to the rest of the outpost. “I expect nothing from it, but, ah. We are heading into peril tomorrow, and...honesty is a new habit.”
There’s a bitter edge of amusement beneath his words.
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A conversation after the Nein return to Eiselcross, the day before the expedition. Feelings are hard for the unlovable.
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06 Jun 2024
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Beau rolls her eyes. “Okay. To recap, you’re sending the Bright King—”
“Queen,” Caleb interrupts. “The Dynasty ambassadors state that their people prefer to retain the word in Common regardless of the gender of the actual monarch holding the title.”
“Queen,” Beau says, relenting. “Anyway. You’re sending a lock of hair as part of your marriage proposal to the Bright Queen?”
“The Dynasty does not do marriage. You know how it is,” Caleb says firmly. His cheeks are growing pink. “What I am offering is a long-term alliance between two nations.”
[In Blumenthal, to send a lock of hair is a gesture of devotion. In Rosohna, to receive a lock of hair is a declaration of war.]
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13 May 2024
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“Are you telling me that you’ve been forcing yourself to have sex with me when you didn’t want to?” Caleb’s voice is soft, yet paradoxically echoes around the space as if the salon has become a mausoleum.
Essek shifts about uncomfortably. “Well—yes, I suppose that is a way to describe it.”
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- Part 1 of Strong Enough to Bend
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08 May 2024
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"Unfortunately, our progress has stalled out somewhat," Ikithon says, slowly circling the beacon on its stand. Under any other circumstances, that would be the thing that drew Essek's eye.
Instead, his gaze is fixed on the man sitting in a chair at the circle's center. A picture of misery, he is bound hand and foot to the chair with thick iron cuffs. His face is mottled with bruising, his rust colored hair hangs in limp, tangled clumps, and his clothes are torn and burnt. Wide, frightened eyes the color of daylight sky whip frantically back and forth between them.
Essek knows that face. He knows it all too well. Not two months ago, that face kissed him on the forehead and told him that he was still capable of good.
The bottom drops out of Essek's stomach. Please not him.
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After the peace talks at sea, Ikithon approaches Essek with an offer he can't refuse... But dearly wishes he could.
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- 8/8
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08 May 2024
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Caleb and Essek are fleeing, separated from the Mighty Nein.
Desperate and almost beaten, Caleb grabs a trinket and his friend and Teleports them to safety. Except the destination they land in is not the one he had chosen.
And for a second he wonders whether he sent himself to hell.
Written for Shadowgast Week 2021!
Day 5: Ashes & Artifacts- Language:
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Bookmarked by Alye
02 May 2024