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Tales from Netheredge
"Stories set in a light fantasy world (Age of Sail + limited magic). Generally queer, generally whumpy, all angst.
Can be read in any order (mostly) see the story notes."
What to be afraid of: Heavy stuff in every story. The series deals with sexual coercion, rape & noncon, homophobia, slavery, violence and other dark things. Check the tags for each part!
Why I love it: Magic, suspense, evil empires, scary elves, relatable characters stuck in difficult situations that leave no room for perfect choices, hot/emotional/both-at-once sex... and personally for me a window into aspects of human condition I haven't considered before, so I'm thankful for that.

Bright Flame
"A ship's pillow boy tries to help a captured freedom fighter and their fates become entwined in a hopeless situation. An epic romance."
What to be afraid of: Rape, legal homophobia, torture
Why I love it: I came to call it "Brokeback Mountain but at sea". Morally grey characters and actions everywhere, unintrusive worldbuilding that leaves plenty of room for the main story, ridiculously well-structured storytelling (the symmetrical situations they end up in! the delicious angst! ahh!), a love triangle that doesn't pull cheap tricks and made me root for everyone involved.

Depravity
"Runi Assam the young High Chancellor of Bow has great plans to transform the kingdom, using the work of the Bow’s mysterious court magician, Myr. But in order to fulfil his plans Myr asks more from him than he ever expected."
What to be afraid of: Sexual coercion, rape, BDSM-verse setting closer to the end
Why I love it: MYR AND RUNI HAVE MY ENTIRE HEART. I didn't expect to want to yell from the rooftops about their dommy-subby adorableness by the end, but here I was. Especially when they start communicating, yes, god, why were you so quiet before. Runi is relatable to me with his impostor syndrome, and Myr has a subtle growth to him too as their bond evolves from lust to fondness. Also the worldbuilding continues to be stellar.

His Tribute
"Twenty years ago, the great warrior Varak saved The Genzies from something unspeakable <...>. In return, Varak was offered anything he wanted from the grateful people of The Genzies. He asked <...> that every year he be given the chance to select any 18 year old man on the islands to be one of his personal slaves.
No one expects Varak to pick out Blue as the only slave he wants to take back to his castle on Salvation this year. <...>
But everyone on The Genzies owe Varak their lives, how can they refuse him if Blue is what he wants?" (whoa this is long)
What to be afraid of: Sex slavery, brainwashing sort of, colonialist bullcrap from the evil empire (again)
Why I love it: Honestly, don't like it as much (mental abuse stories are NOT my cup of tea and the semi-villain gets away with it soooo...). But the mystery of "how did we end up here at all??" is pretty compelling, the setting is refreshingly off the main road of the series, and the background characters are great - I rooted for them even as I continued to not understand them. The ending has gotta be intentionally referencing Ace Attorney or I'll eat my hat.

Jewel of the Harem
"A well connected whore takes a fancy to a naive young Harem Guard."
What to be afraid of: Torture, emotional manipulation, love triangle which idk felt kinda boring, MC being a bit of a plank
Why I love it: There's this guy with barely any boundaries, a mysteeerious pretty royal favourite with superpowers, and also mysteeerious clingy foreign prince with also superpowers. What can possibly go wrong, amirite? Some old characters make an appearance, and seem to be doing well which is awesome. The prince is a sad case, all things considered, and I want him to sort himself out and be happier. (Like that's gonna happen.)
NOTE: Takes place 20 years after the previous stories (which were all around the same time).

P.S. My post including a lament about how few people know it. Thx

schneefink for suggesting this very comm in response to that!

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community recs post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fanart/podfic/vid/fic have we discovered this week? Leave a comment below. Anon comment is enabled.

schneefink

I posted 5 recs for Books of the Raksura fic (including one SPN crossover, and two that are for different fandoms (Band of Brothers, FF7) but AUs set in the world of the Raksura) here.

doranwen

All of these are fics I read in the past week and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. Most are Matrix, as I'm still going through all the Matrix fics to see which I want to save, but there's one each of FBI (yay for current fandoms which are actively producing fic) and Push (a fic I'd missed adding somehow).

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( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

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.

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Push (2009) )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

schneefink

I recced 5 original works from AO3 here.

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community recs post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool vid/fic/fanart/podfic have we discovered this week? Leave a comment below. Anon comment is enabled.

doranwen

All of these are fics I read in the past two weeks and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. From now on (for the near future, at least) I should be able to post on a weekly basis. I hope someone finds these lists useful! :)

Most of them are Matrix, but I realized I'd forgotten to thoroughly go through the tiny chunk of Speed fics on both main sites, and FBI fandom is active enough that there are a few new fics here and there. In case anyone's curious, there are 88 fics in this post and they total to 331,503 words, lol. (The joys of queries, I can pull relatively useless information such as this.)

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( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

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.

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Speed (1994) )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

glitteryv

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

(But don't forget, you can deffo make posts of your of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool podfic/fanvid/fic/fanart/any other type of fanwork have we discovered this week? Leave a comment below. Anon comment is enabled.

snickfic

Original m/m including dragons aliens and superheroes! (not in the same fic)
Star Wars art, Han/Luke/Leia specifically
Fic recs for The Long Price Quartet and Kentucky Route Zero
Recs for The Witcher (art), hockey RPF, and Bridgerton
Assorted recs, including:
- Hockey RPF (Sid/Geno)
- Harry Potter (Hermione/Pansy)
- Justified (gen)
- Fallen London poetry

yuuago

Fic rec: there is only one thing by basketofnovas (slashmarks), written for the recent Fandom 5K exchange.

Pairing is Gideon/Harrowhark/Ianthe, rating E, length 5.2k. Canon-divergent AU + knowledge of the second book is necessary.

Author's summary: Resurrection Beast Seven stays on the original timeline, and Harrow's plan unravels anyway.

The rating isn't just for sex, though there is some of that. Author tagged for "sexy gore", and there's plenty of that in here - more of it than the actual sex; but then again, this is Locked Tomb. It's pretty hot sexy gore, and I really enjoyed the dynamic the author got at here between Ianthe and Harrow. The voice for Gideon was great too, or at least I thought so.

In general I feel like the vibe is Book 2-typical, except with some boning in addition to bones, as well as the necessary divergence to make everything fit. So if that sounds appealing, I definitely suggest reading this!

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works well if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fic/vid/podfic/fanart have we discovered this week? Leave a comment below. Anon comment is enabled.

doranwen

Before I get to the rest of the post, I thought I should probably link to my dead fics post. From here on out I won't be posting any recs here on this comm for fics which are inaccessible even via the Wayback Machine. Any such fics I run across on my hard drive will be rec'd on that post instead, updated as necessary. (See the instructions there for how to read those fics, should you want to.) I won't try to keep the tags on this post updated to match, however (currently there are only recs for Push, Stick It, and The Matrix there, but at points in the future I'll be adding - at the very least - Pern, Rizzoli & Isles, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, and Young Wizards fics to that post).

On to the Saturday Night Recs:
All of these are fics I read in the past couple of weeks and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. (I will also be unable to post on the 3rd, so the next Saturday Night Recs will be on July 10, if anyone cares, lol.)

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( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

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.

( FBI (CBS show) )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works well if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fic/podfic/fanart/vid have we discovered this week? Leave us a comment below! Anon comment is enabled.

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fic/vid/podfic/fanart have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

mossy_bench

Title and Link: Letters From Home by bookgazing
Fandom: Murder Most Unladylike
Pairings/Characters: Harold Mukherjee/Bertie Wells
Length: 1.2k

Summary: Letters from home can be worrying when your younger siblings are Great Detectives, but luckily Bertie and Harold have each other for support.

My Notes/Canon Background: This is a very sweet fic about two background characters, who are young men at Cambridge in the 1930s and canonically in a relationship. They both have younger siblings who constantly get mixed up in detective work and crime-solving (along with their friends): Harold's brother George plus his friend Alexander Arcady, and Bertie's sister Daisy plus her friend Hazel Wong.

doranwen

Back with more fics I've read this past week. I won't be able to post on the 19th, so the next batch of these will be on the 26th.

I've finally caught up with FBI and FBI: Most Wanted - at least, with what I've spotted on AO3 and ff.n. If people are posting fics elsewhere, I have no idea how to find them and therefore haven't read them.

I've caught up with Matrix fics on AO3 now but have tons to go through on ff.n and other sites yet.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

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.

( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI (CBS show) / Rizzoli & Isles )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week.:D!)

So what cool fic/vid/fanart/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

doranwen

Maybe I'll start a tradition - all the fics I've enjoyed and added to my database in a week. I've been working on other projects, but still reading fic to catch up. There's a bunch more I just haven't had time to get in the database yet - but I wanted to post this before it hit midnight in my time zone. :)

Fics I tagged as favorites:

Fics I thought were exceptionally well-written:

WIPs:

(Icons come from the Icon pack by Icons8.)

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 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.

( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI (CBS show) / FBI Most Wanted )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole 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 can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fic/vid/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

doranwen

I decided against rec'ing these from the database because it's a series and you're best off going to the series page and seeing the order from there.

For anyone who has enjoyed FBI: Most Wanted, starring Julian McMahon, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Kellan Lutz, and a host of other people (Nathaniel Arcand, Miguel Gomez, YaYa Gosselin, Irene Bedard, etc.), I'm rec'ing a series featuring an interesting OC.

The Wild Hunt by Bastet5 is at 422,604 words currently and is on hold, so there may not be more forthcoming (it didn't make it to S2), but what is there is plenty complete and enjoyable.

The author adds an original female character who is an FBI agent from the same tribe as Clinton Skye (Nathaniel Arcand's character) and who also speaks Mohawk as well as French (hailing from Quebec originally). She has PTSD and claustrophobia so there's quite a bit of dealing with that involved, in addition to mentions of child physical abuse. There are no romantic ships involved beyond brief mentions of canonical ones, but a variety of friendships and a whole lot of team-as-family.

The series reads like a cross between a recap of the episodes and outsider POV with a side dose of A-plot (and plenty of h/c) that we don't get to see on the show, and I found myself being genuinely interested in the original character as the time went on (and wishing she actually existed on the show). It doesn't completely walk through all of the episodes, as the OC isn't always present for some of them due to various events, but it adds another perspective plus some backstory to things like the quote from the backdoor pilot in FBI 1x18 where Jess tells Kenny "next time a fugitive throws a refrigerator down a staircase, don't try to catch it". If you love this show, I highly recommend trying it out.

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