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"Nothing is more important than you." What the fuck veth?? Am I suppose to just be normal after that???
This speech Veth is giving has very similar vibes to the speech she gave in 18 to Caleb once Beau left.
I am having many feelings but mostly i just want to cry.
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bravenot · 2 years
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001 widobrave for the ask thing (if u did not already get sent it lol) also 002 about veth or cad ? :-o
thank you !🥰 link to questions
when I started shipping widobrave: i can pinpoint this exactly. It was when I saw this art of the kiss by aramantheia. I think the first time I cried watching cr was when veth kissed him on the lips but even at that point I was like “…they seem like very good friends” and it hadn’t quite clicked that their feelings might be anything different. But when i saw that art afterwards it awakened something in me.
my thoughts / what makes me happy about them: just that they’re so physically affectionate and close with one another. It’s just comforting. It’s like I have a crush on their love. Whenever they have a check in during the game, they can be honest and raw in a way that neither of them are with anybody else, because they know what rock bottom looks like so that type of vulnerability isn’t an issue. They shaped each others’ stories, saved one another, literally rebuilt each other, and chose to stay family after all of it. I guess I also have a big soft spot for friends-to-lovers and mutual, oblivious pining. evil smile
what makes me sad about them: towards the end it felt like they couldn’t be fully honest about their feelings because veth was herself again and it was more apparent that she was married, so, though they clearly needed each other, it would feel wrong to admit that. Veth being canonically in love with him was never explicitly addressed. Also, the fact that caleb had a crush on at least two other people put a certain dampener on things lmao.
Things I look for in a fanfic: this is tricky because I haven’t read fic about them in months :( I kinda stopped after I left the widobrave server because I thought it’d just make me sad. But I love qpr fics where they walk the line between friendship and romance or they’re friends but there’s tension or there’s a sense of taboo to their pining. I’m not a huge fan of happily ever afters or marriage; I like things to feel a little open ended and bittersweet. Also one of the things I most look for without realising is if I can imagine the players speaking n narrating at the table (with the exception of nsfw obviously). I gotta read it in their voices.
Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: for veth, yeza. For caleb…. i am honestly so petty I dislike pretty much every other caleb ship. that’s just the way i am </3
My happily ever after for them: they coparent Luc together with Yeza, so the wee lad grows up the most loved and nurtured halfling in exandria and Caleb gets to heal and be part of the family he missed out on. Veth lives her polyam dream, she and caleb have a camp for young adventurers in the woods every summer, caleb teaches in rexxuntrum, eventually veth starts teaching there too, and all the students gossip about them.
Who is the big spoon/little spoon: caleb is big spoon most of the time but I also think they can sleep in pretty much any position as long as they’re touching, see: caleb sleeping with his head on veth’s ankles, veth curling up against his thigh, waking up with her head on his shoulder. Holding hands. any excuse to lay on each other tbh.
What is their favourite non-sexual activity: quietly co-working by candlelight, inventing spells ✨
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We are halfway through another week, my friends, and so we have yet another recc list for you! This week, we have twelve angsty fics! As always, you can find them below the cut and if you check any of them out, I encourage you to leave kudoes and comments to spread the rarepair love 💕
I Have Been A Fool For Lesser Things by A_Orbit (3,149 words, Teen) Pairing: Veth Brenatto/Caleb Widogast (Widobrave) Warnings: None
Trying to get a hotel room for the night leads to Caleb and Nott pretending to be married to each other. Fluff and angst.
Reccer Says: Amazing character voices!
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Looking for a feeling that I can't remember by CatcherWrites (2,684 words, Teen) Pairing: Ashton Greymoore/Laudna Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Swearing, General Laudna and Ashton Trauma
Team Issylra are making camp by a river when Ashton and Laudna discuss how slow their hair grows. Angsty conversations ensue and they make a pact to cut each others hair.
Reccer Says: It's not too heavy of a fic but that doesn't take away from the tragic implications.
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The Last Safe House in Rexxentrum by Operafloozy (13,266 words, Explicit) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Original Female Character Warnings: Unhappy Ending, Modify Memory, Discussion of Feeblemind
Five years before a group of misfits came together in Trostenwald, Astrid Beck asks a stranger to look into some potentially modified memories.
Reccer Says: It's a juicy and complicated look at how Astrid might have reacted to Bren's escape, from an outsider's point of view.
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polishing the apple eris threw to shake the dead leaves down by grayintogreen (3,558 words, Teen) Pairing: Cree Deeproots/Lucien Tavelle Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Minor Character Death
A Locked Tomb fusion fic featuring Necromancer!Cree and Cavalier!Lucien and the horrifying implications of the Lyctor process.
Reccer Says: I enjoyed it!
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though the scars remain by amateurwordbender (1,472 words, Teen) Pairing: Astrid Beck/Eadwulf Grieve (Blumenduo) Warnings: Implied/Referenced Torture
Astrid is punished for letting the Mighty Nein escape, and she and Eadwulf talk about it.
Reccer Says: So much juicy Blumentrio angst packed in one short fic! Several of the lines in this have stayed in my head since I first read it.
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Victim of Convenience by se1ze (54,243 words, Explicit) Pairing: Kingsley Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidoking) Warnings: Sex While Sick
Essek has been bailing Kingsley out of legal trouble in Rosohna and letting him crash at his towers for some time and the pair have grown close. When Essek falls severely ill, Kingsley with him to look after him. Things escalate between them, which both are pleased about. There's just one complication, in the form of one Caleb Widogast, who Essek has recently begun a relationship with and who Kingsley has been hopelessly pining after for months. Things get messy.
Reccer Says: A wonderful combination of fun dynamics, messy relationship angst, sickfic goodness, and hot sex. Kingsley and Essek are such a good pair, I love their banter. The absolutely disastrous state of King and Caleb's relationship at the start is the fic is so heartaching, with the shadow of past Widomauk hanging over them. And the recently established Shadowgast compliments both of those duos so well!!! I adore the different complications that crop up along the way and the way they're all resolved in the end. Highly recommend! Also, the two previous entries in the series are excellent, though they're just Shadowgast on their own.
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His Last Night by Twistmalchik (2,617 words, Explicit) Pairing: Thorn/Vax'ildan Warnings: None
Set during the events of Kith & Kin, Vax's first kiss with Thorn leads to his first time with him. All the while, the shadow of the Shademaster hangs over them.
Reccer Says: I adore Kith & Kin to no end and I loved Vax and Thorn's relationship. This is a fun expansion of what they were able to have together during the events of the book!
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Time Will Tell by DEV0URMOUS (25,639 words, Mature) Pairing: Yussa Errenis/Original Male Character Warnings: None
Yussa invites Iskamyr, a long-time friend of his from the Dynasty, on a trip into the Happy Fun Ball with him. Both are oblivious to the other's long-standing feelings for them. Pining ensues.
Reccer Says: There is no fic that demonstrates the absurdity of wizards better than this. Two hundred years!!! These idiots pined over each other for two hundred years!!! Oh my god! It's great, it's so great. They're both 1200 years old (Yussa is a dragon and Iskamyr is consecuted) and they're still terrible at feelings. But also! A lot of it comes down to cultural misunderstandings, like Iska doesn't know until the fic ends that Yussa is a dragon and if he did, maybe he would've caught on to Yussa's affection sooner. But he didn't and it took the two of the forever and honestly I love that for them.
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woven of (moon)light by viciousmollymaukery (2,315 words, Teen) Pairing: Mollymauk Tealeaf/Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast (Shadowidomauk) Warnings: References to severe injury
After his wizards Teleport into the middle of the Blooming Grove, nearly dead at the hands of an Aeorian creature, Molly has a lot of feelings about his partners and their mysterious city in the north. Luckily, he has a simple solution in mind.
Reccer Says: It's the perfect balance between sweet and angsty. I love Shadowidomauk so much and it's fun to see someone look at how the wizards Aeor expeditions might look in a world where they're dating Molly too! Also, Moonweaver cleric Molly is too damn perfect, I love it so much.
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it's 3 am (I must be lonely) by Meridas (1,024 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Mollymauk Tealeaf/Yasha Nydoorin Warnings: None
Yasha has a nightmare while out camping alone. She calls Molly in her panic and he comforts her.
Reccer Says: I love this series so much and this entry in particular has stuck with me since I first read it!! QPP circus kids are kind of everything to me and this is just such a perfect little snippet of them; they’re hurting but they love and take care of each other above anything.
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I blame it on my own sick pride by MarsBar2019 (11,918 words, Explicit) Pairing: Fjord/Mollymauk Tealeaf/Caleb Widogast (Widofjolly) Warnings: Non-Consensual Voyeurism
Fjord overheard Molly and Caleb having sex one night and gets off on it. But paper thin inn walls work both ways, Molly and Caleb know Fjord heard them, and they take the opportunity to invite him into their bed.
Reccer Says: It’s very very hot and Fjord’s self-loathing (which is only amplified by him getting off on listening to the two of them) is such a fun complimentary pairing to the overall horniness of the fic.
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I'll crawl home to him by BananasofThorns (20,262 words, Teen) Pairing: Queerplatonic Fjord/Caleb Widogast (Widofjord) Warnings: None
AU where Caleb and Fjord met a few years pre-nein. Now Fjord has been taken by the Iron Shepherds, and Caleb has to team up with the "Mighty Five" to have a chance to get him back.
Reccer Says: Looove that Iron Shepherds arc angst. Plus queerplatonic widofjord, and the *devotion,* like Caleb was willing to go in there after him *alone,* aaaaa
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Thank you for joining us this week’s recc list! All the love to everyone who submitted a fic 💕 All enclosed recommendations were submitted by the community via our submissions form, which you can find here. All fic information is as it was provided by the reccer, so it may not be accurate to the author’s intent or the precise contents of the fic itself. Please assume good intent from all parties 💕
Submissions for next week’s list are already open! We’ll be featuring Spring. If you have any you’d like to highlight, you can send them in here. The week after that, the theme is Jester Rarepairs and the weeks after that we’re taking recommendations for Alternate Universes and Hurt/Comfort! Submissions for all of these themes are currently open.
If you want more rarepair fic, check out @cr-summer-wildflowers and their event collections on ao3! If you want some friendship after all this romance, take a look at @critter-genfic-events and their recc lists! And if you’re interested in everyone’s favorite wizards, you can’t go wrong with the lists at @aeor-is-for-reccing !
Thanks all and have a lovely day/night/timezone! 💕
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revvethasmythh · 4 months
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can we get “oh, my heart is longing to be close to yours again” from the wip meme?
Incredible ability to suss out the one widobrave fic that was on that list 😂 And a chunky snippet because because I don't believe in short excerpts:
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“I have to be honest,” Yeza said, getting the cute furrow in his brow he always did when he was about to say something truthful and a little bit embarrassing. “I hate big parties like this, Veth. I’m much happier at home with Luc than I would be out there. But you’ve got the whole gang in town and that doesn’t happen very often. So go. I want you to. Have enough fun for all three of us, okay?”
Veth was the one sighing now, like she had a thousand times in the past year since the two of them had started to settle back into married life. It was a little rough at times, she wasn’t going to lie. Two years apart and the whole mess of nasty shit that had happened since they’d been separated was kind of a lot to work through. Or, it would be if they’d actually taken the time to work through it, instead of spending all their time fawning over Luc. Not that Veth regretted any of that. Kiddo deserved all the fawning he could get. But they really hadn’t talked much since everything had happened, not really, not about the big things. But it was better not to pick at scabs, right? They’d never heal right if you just kept doing that.
“Okay,” she said. “I’ll light up the dance floor for you, baby.”
He smiled, with an edge of relief that the decision had finally been made. “Can’t wait to hear the recap from Jester tomorrow.” “She’ll talk your ear off all morning long.”
His smile turned brittle and just a little bit of fear entered his eyes. “Okay, maybe I can wait.”
Veth smiled and gave him a hug, squeezing tight, breathing in that familiar scent of chemicals and powder and something kind of acidic that she couldn’t name but always made her think of him. He was a good hugger, and he held her back like she was something delicate, treasured, precious. No one else had ever held her quite like that.
They were still mid-hug when a knock sounded at the door, three sharp, precise raps on the wood that were as distinctive and recognizable to her as Yeza’s scent. She felt a sudden burst of excitement as she pulled away from Yeza’s embrace, followed by an immediate rush of guilt at how excited she was. She ignored that, though. She was getting pretty good at that. After all, her guilt had basically become a third person in their marriage at this point, and the last thing she wanted to do was have to look at it.
“Nice of him to knock, at least,” Yeza said good-naturedly. He knew it was Caleb, too, but only because if it had been anybody else at their door, they would have just walked right in like they lived there. Fjord had walked in on them one time in a…compromising position, and ever since he made Jester go in first. Veth had, of course, commissioned Jester to draw a dramatic re-imagining of the moment, and boy had she delivered. Veth had it hung in the entryway and for about a week Fjord flatly refused to so much as enter her home. She thought it was worth it, though.
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piratespencil · 7 months
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Tagged by @jennathearcher! c:
3 Ships: Widobrave, Blumentrio (yes I am halfway thru c2e141 why do you ask), ZoLu
First Ship: I honestly have no idea... ZoLu is the first ship I ever wrote a fanfic for I think? Some things never change.
Last Song: Trouble by Cage the Elephant (from @awittylemon's absolutely banger Vader playlist)
Last Movie: Bottoms! Went to see it in theaters the other week, absolutely loved it.
Currently Reading: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer! I've been meaning to read it for ages and it's fantastic so far.
Currently Watching: Just finished the live action One Piece show (loved it!!!) and I'm about to start watching the new Fionna and Cake show!
Currently Consuming: As in food? Nothing. As in media? Lots of One Piece fanfic lol.
Currently Craving: More One Piece fics?? The live action show got me.
I'm tagging @awittylemon, @trashpandachaos, @masterqwertster and @wytchcore! If you want. :)
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bonbongiveshell · 3 years
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Widobrave Week Day 2:
Trust | Studying
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vethsbignaturals · 3 years
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Widobrave Week Day 4
Secrets | Fluff
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firespeaking · 3 years
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Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series), The Books of Bayern Series - Shannon Hale Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nott | Veth Brenatto & Caleb Widogast, The Mighty Nein & The Mighty Nein Characters: Nott | Veth Brenatto, Caleb Widogast, others later - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Elemental Magic, prison buddies, Widobrave Week, Queerplatonic Relationships, Other Additional Tags to Be Added Summary:
When the world was created, everything spoke one language. Wind spoke to the hawk, the snail to the stone, the trees to the lakes. Then people, of all races and persuasions, began to walk the planes, and as they took control over the lands the words they spoke to each other became so powerful that the balance broke. From then on, creatures could only understand those of their own kind, and it has remained this way for as long as anyone can remember.
However, it might be that not all has been lost forever...
or: a caleb and nott-focused retelling of roughly the first hundred episodes of campaign 2, with things a little different.
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shin-the-loser · 4 years
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Yeah I don’t know how backgrounds work, and this is sketchy as hell, but I still wanted to contribute to this week, so,,,,,
Day 1 Widobrave Week, pre-stream
Just a little goblin girl and her wizard friend on their way to a town called Trostenwald
[ID: A sketchy, digital drawing of two figures walking towards a hazy town in the distance, on a dirt road with grass and forests to either side. The one on the left is a short, skinny goblin with most of her body covered in baggy gray clothes and bandages. Next to her is a taller human man with red hair, wearing a dirty jacket, boots, and travel gear, as well as bandages on his arms. They are holding hands, with the goblin leading.]
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ozcarma · 4 years
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First watch
Widobrave week, day one: Pre-stream
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sidras-tak · 4 years
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widobrave week, day 1: pre-stream
thinkin about how nott and caleb probably haven’t had positive physical contact since before meeting each other
Caleb was hard to read. It was clear to Nott that he had some issues. He looked the way she had felt, those first few weeks as a goblin. The way he followed her directions in the heat of battle like he was used to someone else doing his thinking for him. Outside of battle, he was quiet and withdrawn—that is, when he wasn’t explosively angry. Though nightmares never made him cry out, Nott knew he had them. She could tell by the circles under his eyes the next day, and his mood was always stormier than usual. Nott decided to give it some time. Maybe he just needed to swing wildly between poles of emotion, to really feel things again, and then he’d settle down. Their first bit of progress, Nott found out, came when he allowed her to touch him. That was one way that humans and halflings were similar: they both needed physical contact to keep sane and happy. Goblins didn’t, not really, but then, Nott wasn’t really a goblin. So one night when Caleb had deemed it too dangerous to light a campfire and Nott had grown sick of watching him shiver, she crawled into his lap. Caleb jumped in surprise.
“What are you doing?” he asked, with something like panic in his voice. Nott shrugged and curled up in a ball, resting her chin on his bony knee.
“It’s cold,” she said. “I’m warm, you’re warm, we’ll be warmer together.”
“Ah,” Caleb said. Hesitantly, he reached down and put a hand on Nott’s head. “Okay.”
Slowly, Caleb started petting Nott’s head. He scratched his fingers through her hair, then down her neck and back. She sighed in contentment and closed her eyes. It felt good—really good—but this was more for Caleb than it was for her. She didn’t pretend to know what had landed him in that prison, exhausted, scared, angry at the world, but it was clear that he needed positive physical contact, to feel like he was caring for another living thing (and no, Frumpkin didn’t count).
After a few minutes, Caleb had relaxed considerably. When Nott risked a peek at his face, there as a gentle smile there. He probably was unaware he was smiling at all. Slowly, she shifted her position from curled up on his lap to sitting upright, facing him. She pressed her front against his, her much-smaller legs dangling off either side of his body—essentially, a full-body hug. With her claws curled for safety, she began rubbing his back in wide, comforting circles.
Caleb froze, but just for a second. When he spoke, his voice was a mixture of embarrassment and amusement. “Nott the Brave, what are you doing?”
“You ever hear the saying ‘you scratch my back, I scratch yours?’ It’s like that, but more literal.”
She could feel him about to protest, so she said, “Listen. I care about you, Caleb. I care about you so much that my face is effectively buried in your armpit right now—and you know how long it’s been since you’ve had a bath. So let me do this, okay?”
“Okay,” Caleb said quietly, and resumed rubbing her back as well. They fell asleep like that, and Caleb woke up with an ease about him that Nott had never seen. The scientist in her considered the experiment a tentative success—but there was no harm in repeating it again tonight, just to make sure. Right?
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widobrave-rights · 4 years
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Critical Role (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Nott/Caleb Widogast, Nott & Caleb Widogast, Widobrave - Relationship Characters: Nott (Critical Role), Caleb Widogast, Veth Brenatto Additional Tags: widobrave week, Widobrave Week 2020, Canonical Character Death, revivify, angsty caleb, why do i like to write angsty caleb?, the happy fun ball is not a happy place Summary:
The Happy Fun Ball is not a happy place.
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revvethasmythh · 2 years
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Got sent a tag game!
You know that thing where you don't do something immediately and then suddenly it's been two weeks since you've forgotten to do the thing you meant to do and now you're scrambling because "omg I can't believe I forgot"? yeah, that
Rules: (okay we're gonna ignore tagging other people because I'm neither social nor brave enough for that. if you want to do this though, you can consider yourself tagged by me!)
Tagged by: @mapleandgingeroatmeal Thanks for the tag!
Favorite time of year: I'm a woman of extremes--I like summer and winter. Summer because I prefer hot weather and can actually enjoy going outside (also just summertime nostalgia, oof that's the good shit) and winter because I am probably irritatingly into the Christmas spirit for someone who is not christian. December is an A+ month for me because it's got my birthday, Hanukkah (usually), AND Christmas. what more could a girl ask for, really?
Comfort food: Big fan of some fried chicken and mac and cheese. BIG fan
Do you collect something: *scoffs* do I collect anything? Oh man, I think I collect everything. I've got bottle caps and a fancy bottle collection, I've got buttons and knickknacks and anything I find at random on the sidewalk that catches my eye (listen, I've found some cool things and I keep them, okay) and I've got collections of seashells and an ENORMOUS collection of rocks from when I was a kid. Now, are any of these collections organized where I'm systematically collecting something? No, not really. But I sure do like to grab things and keep them in my little goblin hoard.
Favorite drink: On the one hand, it's coffee because it keeps me awake. But on the other, tbh, I just really love water. Water's dope. I'm very well hydrated.
Favorite song: Na Na Na, MCR
Current favorite song: Like everybody else, I have been listening to King by Florence and the Machine basically nonstop. Shoutout to Medicine Man by Nico Vega too, though, because wow I've listened to that song A LOT this year
Favorite fic: Oh boy this is hard question to answer, because I tend to be a very picky fic reader (and also because a lot of old favorites of mine have been deleted :() I'd say, at current, the fic I have the fondest memories of reading and really loving was Falling Slowly by winterwaters on ao3 (it's a gendrya fic). It's been a while since I read it, but yeah I have really fond memories of that fic.
Of my own fics, my favorite is still Trouble with Wanting, my first exclusively widobrave piece. That was only the second fic I ever posted on AO3 and boy was I proud of it. Still am, tbh.
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I started off this slow hour at work by breaking my heart over every scrap of Widobrave meta I could find, and ended it by literally tearing up over Caleb getting to be a lighthearted, playful magic nerd again via flirting with Essek.
Such is the multishipper lifestyle.
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bonbongiveshell · 3 years
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Widobrave Week Day 1:
Fire and Ice | Dancing
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Things We Are Manifesting: Episode 109
We made quite a list today, so I thought I’d type it out and add a couple more things.
Jester and Yasha conversation about what “The Traveler” wrote in Jester’s notebook.
maybe they have a conversation that eerily parallels the Brjeaus conversation week... maybe... I mean... we can dream
Nugget 
Professor Thaddeus follows Beau through Nicodranas but refuses to come when she calls
Someone (Beau) talks to Caleb or Veth about wtf is going on between them.
Marion gives Fjord a new hat 
Marion and Fjord have a conversation
Beau and Yasha lunch date part two with no awkward third wheel
Calm beach day
Veth teaches Luc how to aim his crossbow (to Yeza’s chagrin)
Call Essek to check in
Fjord and Jester check in with each other
maybe talk about that dangerous leap over a volcano or something
maybe talk about the way they’ve changed since they met
maybe they talk about how Jester feels now that Travelercon is over and if she’s, you know, okay
Caduceus and Fjord have a check in
Fjord takes his Paladin oath while meditating on the beach
Fjord awkwardly compliments Jester by comparing her to her mom again, like almost every other time they’ve been in Nicodranas 
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