Rec the Thing

A friend of mine recently asked me to create a couple posts of recs from my database for her - emotional and physical hurt/comfort, and excluding any fics tagged with incest or crack/parody. She also wanted ALL of the themes (tropes and more) listed underneath so it would be very spoilery.

If that appeals to you at all - my previous posts have avoided potential spoilers via the tags - you are also welcome to browse them. I thought it might be useful to link them here:

Emotional Hurt/Comfort
Fandoms: Alphas, FBI CBS, FBI Most Wanted, Flood (2007), Fried Green Tomatoes (book/movie), Push (2009), Speed (1994), The Matrix

Physical Hurt/Comfort
Fandoms: Alphas, C-16: FBI, FBI CBS, FBI Most Wanted, Push (2009), Speed (1994), The Matrix

All of these are fics I read in the past month and added to my fanfic database. Most of them are for The Matrix, as usual, because of the fandoms I've added to my database, that one is by far the most active. There were more Matrix fics than the ones I added, too - mostly kink and/or ships I'm not into, so if those sound appealing, you'll have to check the actual fandom tag for what's been posted. But if you'd like a more curated list, the ones below I thought were all interesting enough to suggest, and they're sorted by wordcount so you can choose what fits the length of time you have to read. (And while I always love Neo/Trinity, the ones with no major ships at all are all short and quite intriguing, so if you don't know where to start, try those.)

I'm assuming at this point that most everyone has seen The Matrix: Resurrections and don't need spoiler warnings; the fics in this list are mostly for that film. If you're wanting lists separated by the film(s) they're based on instead, those are linked from my master recs post, and also contain the fics below.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

All of these are fics I read in the past month and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. I have NOT seen the Matrix: Resurrections trailer yet, so I avoided reading any Matrix fics that mentioned it was based on or inspired by the trailer. I've also not had the opportunity to watch the season openers for any of the FBI shows, so I'm avoiding new FBI and FBI: Most Wanted fic until I can, lol. What I have in this post was posted before those came out.

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

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).

( Icon guide )

( 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! :)

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.)

( Icon guide )

( 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! :)

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! :)

FBI fics this time (I'm doing only one post a day so I don't bombard y'all - I'm hoping someone is finding these helpful). I got behind on the fics for this show (as it's still ongoing) so these are all from like 2019, pretty much, and there's a bunch missing I otherwise would have (I'll get to them soon, I hope!).

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

EDIT: With some help from a very SQL-knowledgeable friend, I've managed to pull the list of all the ships I thought were major. 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. (Chars in ships are in whatever order I happened to think of when I created the ship, so it doesn't match AO3 order necessarily.)

( FBI fics below the cut )

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! :)

I wouldn't remember most fics under 1k if I were asked off the top of my head, and the few I would, I rec'd the other week in the "works I re-read" post. However, this is exactly why I built a fanfic database in the first place. A little fiddling with the SQL to build the right query and some formatting to create a report, and I have a list of all my favorite fics (that were entered in the database so far - I didn't quite get to 1000 total fics before the Yahoo Groups project took over my life last fall, only a handful of smaller fandoms) which are under 1K words. Since that list includes any favorites of the works I wrote, which would violate the self-rec rules, I'll paste the recs here and filter those out.

The one thing that this list doesn't have are the ships, though I'll try to note those if I remember them. (I can run queries and generate reports that limit by ships - or any number of themes, for that matter - that's easy enough, but to include the list of ships in the query results or report would be prohibitively difficult and the results would be terrible to try to wade through, formatting-wise.) So you're getting author - title, with rating and words below that. I'll group fandoms under cuts to make it easier to expand just the ones you know, since this is mainly tiny/rare fandoms. (I'd started with the small ones, adding those to my database, and I hadn't finished the Matrix ones, even, plus I know I'm behind on the FBI ones since that's been an active fandom.)

With short fics it takes more time to describe them than it does to read them, so I'm probably not going to say anything about most of them, and recommend just trying them. I'll try to warn if there's any serious triggers that I remember, but mostly just look at the tags.

One note about ratings: My database includes fics from both Fanfiction.net and AO3, so I adopted a standard MPAA-style rating system, where G to R corresponds to ff.n's K to M, and PG to X (which was shorter to use than NC-17) corresponds to AO3's General Audiences to Explicit, but I may occasionally mark a General as G if it's particularly suitable for children to read. It's a bit of a compromise but so would be any other option. Fics that chose not to use a rating (on AO3 or a blog post) are Unrated.

( Crossovers )

( Alphas )

( FBI (TV) )

( Flood (2007) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Push (2009) )

( The Matrix )

I hope someone finds something enjoyable on this list. :)