Saturday Night Recs

[doranwen]

All of these are fics I read in the past month and added to my fanfic database, which means they met a minimum personal standard for quality as well as personal tolerance for themes/content. Personal taste may vary, but most of these should appeal to any Matrix fan. The majority, unsurprisingly, are for The Matrix: Resurrections. All of them will soon be merged into my overall recs lists for The Matrix so they can be browsed several ways.

As always with my db-generated lists, ratings are all converted to a single system for convenience:
Fanfiction.net - G through R
AO3 - PG through X (though the occasional child-friendly fic I mark G)
anything without a rating (AO3 or other site) - Unrated


I have tried not to spoil readers too much.
Most of the fics in this list are given with no information beyond author, title, rating, word count, and major ships.
However, my database does store information on themes, which cover everything from grammatical things like tense & person (I mark for present tense, first person, second person, and direct address), to format (poetry, songfic, 5+1, etc.), trope (fake couple, stranded together, etc.), general feel (angst, fluff, etc.), and warnings (major character death, non-con, violence/wounds, etc.).
If you would like to see the themes for the recs from any of the fandom lists below, please comment and let me know so I can reply with that information. It is very simple to generate the recs for a large list of fics in such a way that all of the themes are listed.
If you would rather just have a list with certain themes excluded, please also comment to let me know which one(s). You can find the full list of themes here, titled Fanfic Themes.


I listed any ships I thought were major below each fic. If there are any minor/background ships you want to avoid, please leave a comment and ask for a list to be made for you. Note that ships may refer to one-sided or unrequited ones as well as to requited/mutual.


Below are the recs:

The Matrix

FloaromaMeadow - Face in the Crowd
502 words, PG
no major ships

TLynn - Breaking
618 words, PG
Neo/Trinity

meanderingsoul - Providence
1269 words, PG-13
Morpheus & Neo, Neo/Trinity

RainAwhile - Tomorrow
1646 words, PG
no major ships

meanderingsoul - Touchstone
1913 words, PG-13
Morpheus & Trinity

TLynn - Well and Truly
2892 words, X
Neo/Trinity

TLynn - Dirty Pretty Things
3512 words, X
Neo/Trinity

DesertFlower303 - Cold Comfort
3824 words, PG-13
Neo & OFC, Neo/Trinity, Trinity & OFC

DesertFlower303 - Choices
6101 words, PG-13
Neo & OFC, Neo/Trinity, Trinity & OFC

meanderingsoul - habit formation
7733 words, X
Neo/Trinity

tylerandburnham - Wake Me Up
7987 words, PG-13
Neo/Trinity

TLynn - All We Ever Wanted, All We Ever Got
8456 words, X
Neo/Trinity

Thene - Corona
10762 words, X
Neo/Trinity


If any of the links above no longer work (and are inaccessible via the Wayback Machine), please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)