Community Recs Post!

[glitteryv]

Every Thursday, we have a community recs post, like this one, where you can drop a rec or two in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and you don't want to make a post for it, or if you don't have a DW account to make posts of your own, or if you're shy. :)

(But don't forget, you're welcomed to post recs to the comm seven days a week. :D)

So, what cool fic/vid/art have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comments are enabled.

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[douleur]

Two fics for Rurouni Kenshin by Ayezur:

Vaster than Empires
Kenshin/Kaoru
Summary: The Western Army is defeated; the country stands, uneasy, under the hand of the Tokugawa. Kaoru Kamiya, whose family was on the losing side, has been sold into marriage for the sake of peace. Her new husband is a legend, a demon bound in human form, marked by his blood-lust and his bright red hair...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/692609

Invictus
Kenshin/Kaoru, background Sano/Megumi
Summary: In the eleventh year of the Meiji, 1878, Japan still practices chattel slavery. The Tokugawa shogunate still reigns from Edo castle, backed by the infamous Kanryu family and their merchant empire. And Kaoru Kamiya finds an abandoned slave hiding under the docks as she's walking home...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/652009

Both of these fics are long, meaty AUs that skillfully integrate canon events into the AU setting, with a great slow-burn romance and also great plot beyond the romance. Unfortunately, the sequel to Invictus seems to be an eternal WIP (last updated 2015), but I enjoyed Invictus very much on its own.

[glitteryv]

Meat AUs are love. And crossing fingers thar the WIP will one day get completed.