pixel_the_alien
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- Hermitcraft SMP (41)
- Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series (36)
- New Life SMP (15)
- Empires SMP (12)
- Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series) (6)
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no time to think of consequences by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series), Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series)
07 Apr 2026
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Yasha’s back slams against the rain-damp earth, and it doesn’t hurt as much as she should expect it to.
It wasn’t her brightest idea to jump out of the tree. In her defense, she is nine years old and full of electric energy, and the Skyspear left her unattended. Besides, it’s her tree to climb – there are not many children among the Dolorav, and even if there were, none of them would be tall enough to reach the lowest branches. Yasha must have spent at least two whole days sitting in this tree braiding wildflower crowns in the last month. She isn’t good at talking to people. (She isn’t even very good at making flower crowns.) So it’s not like anyone was going to stop her.
Also, she needed to know if the dream was real.
or: Long before her adventures with the Mighty Nein, Yasha tries out her wings for the first time.
Critical Role Fem Fanwork Fest Day 1: pre-canon / childhood
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people eventually learn, if they know her long enough, that pearlescentmoon lived through the end of the world.
this is common knowledge of the evolutionists, a shared reality. the world broke with them all locked inside, with their admin held somewhere far away, and they barely escaped with their lives. the watchers were the ones who did it.
a select few will learn more.
or: pearl is traumatized in a way the others are not and she will not tell them why
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you'd be surprised to find how much was in your mind by pixel_the_alien
Fandoms: Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
02 Feb 2026
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Violence leads to angst.
Pearl narrowly dodges Gem’s sword as it slashes down towards her. She ducks her whole body behind her shield and shoves it forward, pushing Gem back as hard as she can. Gem’s feet are planted to the ground with unnatural strength, but Pearl manages to drive her back a few steps, just enough to slip away and get out from against the wall. “Just hold on. I don’t wanna hurt you, okay? We’re gonna fix this. We just–” She leaps aside as Gem lunges toward her. “We gotta figure this out. You and me.”
or: The Watchers overstep their authority and try messing with fate, but the players are ready to fight back for each other.
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- Part 19 of it's killing me to love you
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Whatever the poor creature is, she is coded broken.
She is not a Player, nor even a spectator. She does not speak, but words leave her mouth anyway – strings of letters connected into words connected into sentences she doesn’t know how to translate. She moves unsteadily through space. Her eyes see nothing but gray fog. She does not dream.
Why is she there?
She recognizes phonemes over time, then words, clumsy but real enough. She cannot speak them, but she knows them. She tries to hold them in her mind as her mouth speaks. Hello is for the start of interactions. Thank you follows You are. When she hears name, her voice says Merl.
She is Merl. Merl is there.
or: i have been thinking about that #FreeMerl sign that a developer put in the background of the merl ai
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“Pearl.” Gem giggles and rests her chin on Pearl’s shoulder. “C’mon, I’ve seen you play this game! Get in the spirit with me!”
“Gem, I’m not in the mood.” Scarlet Pearl’s knife has become somewhat of a carrot murder weapon.
“See, that’s the spirit I’m talking about–”
“Gem, I told you to leave me alone!”
Definitely-Not-Scarlet Pearl whirls around to face Gem, still holding the knife tight in her hand. Gem notices for the first time that her eyes are red-rimmed and puffy. “Please just let me make my soup. I don’t want to play along.”
or: Pearl's Past Life is haunted by her past life. Gem doesn't know what to make of that.
Recent series
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we're like a strong couple of women! (cr fem fanwork fest 2026) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom Critical Role: Campaign 2 - The Mighty Nein (Web Series), Critical Role: Exandria (Web Series)
07 Apr 2026
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- 738
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it's killing me to love you by pixel_the_alien
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, Hermitcraft SMP, Life Series | 3rd Life SMP Series
02 Feb 2026
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Gem has seen her friends disappear into death games and return broken and scarred too many times. When she discovers Pearl is about to be sent into another, she knows what she has to do – she will follow Pearl into hell and get her through it safely.
Unfortunately, the Watchers have different ideas for everyone. They've had enough of standing by and observing. Now, they want control. When Gem's arrival ruins every plan, there's only one thing for them to do: erase her memory of why she's there.
As the secret tasks become more terrifying and twisted, Gem and Pearl are forced to survive the new world manipulating them – all while figuring out what they want their relationship to become.
or: a canon-compliant retelling of Secret Life, complete with a queerplatonic GeminiTay/PearlescentMoon relationship
*updates are often sporadic, but i promise the series is still active!*
- Words:
- 89,394
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- 19
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- 66
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in any and every universe (mcyt yuri week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom Hermitcraft SMP, X Life SMP
16 Jul 2025
- Words:
- 1,805
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- 2
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i've seen you a lot (beauyasha week 2025) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom Critical Role (Web Series)
02 Jun 2025
- Words:
- 5,221
- Works:
- 4
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blankets and bandages (whumptober 2024) by pixel_the_alien
Fandom 3rd Life | Last Life SMP Series, New Life SMP, X Life SMP
05 Oct 2024
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a few scattered entries for whumptober 2024
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- 2,808
- Works:
- 3
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A house of his own.
The thought slams into Caleb with the force of a sledgehammer, the enormity of it nearly knocking the breath out of him. It's over twice as large as the cottage where he'd spent his childhood—a kitchen separate from the dining room and the sitting room! Not one, but two bathrooms! And best of all, three whole bedrooms! Enough space for Caleb, his books, and whichever of his friends would deign to visit him. The height of luxury indeed. Back then, Bren’s parents could only afford one bedroom, and young Bren himself had slept in the loft. Frumpkin would curl up on the foot of Bren’s mattress, and he'd wake to the smell of breakfast, the early morning light in his eyes, the rafters brushing his hair when he got up.
Or so it had been once, an entire lifetime ago.
“Veth,” he says.
She looks up at him. Then she grins. “Isn't this exciting?”
“I think so,” Caleb says, a split second too late.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
16 Jun 2026
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Winter reminded Yasha too much of home, so bleak and colorless and dead.
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
09 Jun 2026
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Beau was alive and not currently under attack, and that was about the only good thing about this situation. Because she was injured, it was dark, and she was in a mineshaft with who knows how many tonnes of boulders on top of most of her, and the only one around to help is Fjord. Thankfully, Fjord isn't about to leave her alone.
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- Part 2 of Beau Week
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- English
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- 4,170
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Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
09 Jun 2026
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The Mighty Nein has finally left the ruins beneath Bazzoxan, sans one member. None of them are handling it well. Jester wants comfort, Fjord wants answers and Beau just wants something to punch.
It's going to be a long night.
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- Part 4 of Post Episode Fun Times
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
09 Jun 2026
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In the wake of Jester's most recent scry on Yasha, no one is really 'okay'. But some are more okay than others, and Jester's pretty sure Beau isn't okay. When the monk makes an excuse to leave the room, she decides to follow, not quite sure what she has to offer, but wanting to try. Of course, she's not exactly emotionally uncompromised herself.
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- Part 6 of Post Episode Fun Times
Bookmarked by pixel_the_alien
09 Jun 2026