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Uhhhhh it was meant to be Agatha All Along fic recs but then a Wandavision one snuck in. Anyway I keep seeing fic rec lists and going 'wow! all of those sound boring and awful and like the fics were written for a totally different show!' so I made my own. Alphabetical order by title, minimal warnings, these authors almost certainly have other good A3 fics that I didn't rec, yknow, all the Kimara Makes A Rec List staples. Weirdly weighted towards smut, to an extent I wasn't expecting.

allow my love to find her brutal way to me. agatha all along, agatha/rio, billy, mrs hart. 9.1k words, rated e. by

thiswildernessismyhome.

Rio just wants one conversation with Agatha. One. And if she has to trap them both in a time loop to make it happen, so be it.

Fic that made me think 'yeah okay I'll believe the show's version of Nicky specifically so I can read this fic reacting to it'. Which is not a thing I thought I would ever say, but here we are, the Rio voice in this is that good.

body of work. agatha all along, agatha/rio. 38.k+ words (wip), rated e. by

gnawingsuspicion

Throughout history, Agatha Harkness has left behind no shortage of casualties. As her power and body count grows, she catches the eye of Death herself.

Fic that doubles and triples and quadruples down on YES Agatha's an unrepentant mass murder and YES magic is super fucking weird and YES Rio is Death is also not human. Still a WIP so possibly will lead to regrets later, but eh, the first seven chapters are probably one of my favourite backstories for them I've seen.

don't give it a hand, offer it a soul. agatha all along, agatha/rio. 2k words, rated e. by

HenryMercury

The sweet things she says are always bait.

Road sex ft asphyxiation.

don't look now. agatha all along, agatha/rio. 10.3k words, rated e. by

thatyourefuse.

So it turns out, when you get to the bedroom, there's nothing fucking there: you should've expected as much.

Have rec'd before will rec again this is one of THE defining Agnes-spell fics, all unsettled memories and identity grief, and menstrual sex.

the kindest thing (is to never leave you alone). agatha all along, agatha/rio, alice/rio, agatha & alice. 4.3k words, rated m. by

spillentireuniverses.

In the cabin, Rio faces her biggest obstacle yet: a genuinely good person. (or, the time loop fic where Death drags Alice Wu-Gulliver, rather unwillingly, back to life)

Rio doesn't understand how she can eat Agatha whole. Rio makes this Alice's problem. Alice is not Not okay with this despite her best efforts.

until next time. wandavision, agatha & wanda. 3.8k words, rated t. by

mothersquared.

One day Agnes woke up and went to the square. Every day Agnes woke up and went to the square.

Pyschological horror (psychological fun!) in the immediate aftermath of Wandavision, ft Wanda facing the consequences of her own actions.

you are only a visitor on this dark earth. agatha all along, agatha/rio. 7.1k words, rated e. by

moonmotels

Agatha + Rio + testing the limits of love

Domesticity but make it WrongTM (the best kind of domesticity for them).

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Yknow this started out as a rec post for ambiguous relationship/'secret third thing' relationship fics and then I realised how much Locked Tomb fic was on the list and I want to post this in a uhhh reasonable amount of time, so lets just go with these ones to start! They're not all necessarily tagged as some sort of ambiguous, but they (and the canon relationships) all have that same vibe. In alphabetical order. I would apologise for the Overwatch icon but unfortunately the Mercy-Mercymorn parallels are never not preoccupying a minimum of 10% of my brainspace.

'it's two thousand years old, it's essentially public property'. abigail & mercy. 1.7k words, not rated. by

KaiserJo

Mercy is at her wit's end with the new lyctors, but Abigail Pent won't stop rifling through old letters for the sake of 'history'.

Abigail the First meets Mercymorn the First, and their grief is not at all compatible, but that won't stop them from colliding anyway.

dead flowers in the sand. cytherea/loveday, cythera & john. 2.7k words, rated t. by

glasslilies

Driven to insanity after trying to plant a bomb on a Resurrection Beast, Cytherea recovers on the Mithraeum and reminisces about Loveday.

What it means for a Lyctor to see a Resurrection Beast, and what it means for her to love her cavalier and hate her god. A really excellently fragmented capture of Cytherea's mind.

glassware may be hot to the touch. augustine/mercy. 3.9k words, rated e. by

transversely

There was a mark on the shoulder of her robe where someone had bitten the epaulet clean off; it explained to distasteful precision the sequins he’d extracted from his teeth in the last hours.

Augustine contemplates the perils of embodiment in the aftermath of Dios Apate Major, and also lets Mercy fuck him about it. One of those fics where the weight of every day that makes up their ten thousand years is so deeply, profoundly felt, and also one that leans real hard into this relationship is not nameable because it could never be named.

overgrown. cytherea/mercy, cytherea/loveday. 692w, rated m. by

covertly

Cytherea requests Mercy's help with a particular affliction.

Hanahaki-as-body-horror of the 'what if you're stuck like this because the person you love is the person you killed and ate, and she's inside your soul now but you will never be free because you hate yourself for what you did to her' sort, aka the best sort.

poor old sisyphus, poor old us. augustine/mercy, augustine & alfred, cristabel & mercy. 8.1k words, rated m. by

chemicalpixie

the morning after their cavaliers die, mercymorn and augustine wake up to find them alive again. and again. and again.

On the horror of inevitability, and repetition, and being known, and knowing what you have to do, and (what else) hating God about all of it. I think the end of the loop is predictable, from the reader's standpoint, but wow it does not make it less of a gut-punch.

to show my love was endless. mercy~dulcinea~abigail. 496w, rated t. by

hollowbolding

Mercy dies and, indignity of indignities, it is not the end.

In a River bubble there are the waves, and the bits of your cavalier's soul stuck in your teeth, and kissing. Gorgeous liminal-spaces fic.

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Work's been horrid, I owe so many people comments, such is life over here. Have a tiny week (two weeks?) late

femslashex recap: one thing written, one thing received, one thing rec'd. I joked elsenet that the theme of my exchange requests all year has been 'sad gay cops' and I was about to say this post was remarkably on theme but actually they all seem to've had okay nights except Liandrin.

residual. law & order: criminal intent, eames/barek. 1.5k words, rated t. for

mangledgutspretending

It wasn't even that bad, as far as their cases went, and that might have been the worst part. It rattles around in her head as she finishes up paperwork, not actually looking forward to going home despite the lack of other options. And maybe that's why, when Barek hesitates passing by her desk on her way out and says, "Drinks?" Alex doesn't actually pause to think that long before saying, "Sure."

Post-case drinks, coming out without saying the words, friends with benefits. You know, all the usual crime-drama-as-Katatonia-song vibes.

My gift was the incredible the edge of the world (Scott & Bailey, Rachel/Janet in the wonderful 'who needs a relationship definition when we've got each other and also Gill laughing at us' space) from

thiswildernessismyhome - this is one of those fics that I feel deserves paragraphs of praise but all I ever manage to come up with is 'it's THEM and they're PERFECT', which, I suppose, is the best thing I could say about a fic.

And while I've not read everything in the collection I Have read & loved greet each overture (mostly-showverse The Wheel of Time, Liandrin/Moiraine) by

kathryne /

tellitslant who, per usual, has chosen to make the Wheel of Time problem that she caused me to have worse at every opportunity.

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Watched Arcane, was murdered by montages in two separate episodes, have the appalling urge to play League again, am attempting to channel that particular idiot urge into something slightly more productive, so: head empty, thoughts Caitjinx, have some alphabetically-ordered fic posted with a Wheel of Time icon because I have no good Arcane ones.

hangsaman. 11k words, rated e. by

konvalija.

"I could kill you right now," Jinx says. "Clean your bones, carve them up, do it myself."
"You could," Caitlyn says, weary. Her slick hair doesn't curl even with all the humidity in the air. "But we both know you won't."

Sometimes love is stored in raising your mom from the dead with the girl who killed her - well, no, maybe it's not but-
It is quite complicated, actually.

Come for the Shirley Jackson title. Stay for the grief and the necromancy and the gunplay. Very lush and thinky and very much grounded in the specific steampunk-scifi-fey court world of Piltover+Zaun.

obstruct. 1k words, rated m. by

ElasticElla

But Jinx knows. Caitlyn is danger-danger-dangerous. And Vi can't be trusted, needs Caitlyn taken care of for her. That's okay. Jinx is good at that. Silco has her take care of people all the time!

In which Jinx is obsessed with Caitlyn being obsessed with her, and masturbates about it. Really captures the specific mix of mania and affection in Jinx without infantilising her.

the enormity of my desire disgusts me. 2.1k words, rated e. by

Seicchanart

It starts out slow, creeping up on her, like all horrible things do. "Caitlyn," she mutters, quietly, with a breathy laugh, and that’s the beginning of the end.

Jinx picks herself apart, Jinx puts herself back together by imagining what she might do to Caitlyn.

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snickfic mentioned wanting more rec posts, which reminded me I've had two horror recs open in a draft for ... a while ... and I've not wanted to post them since reccing only two things seemed silly. But! I was inspired to go poking round my bookmarks and see if I had anything else to add, and look, I did!

So: Multifandom, mostly gothic/cosmic/psychological horror, other additional warnings in fic tags when you click through to AO3. Alphabetical by fandom.

And What They Found There. call of cthulhu: shadows of the crystal palace. ida, mason, archie. 1.5k words, rated m. by

Ma_Kir

Six people went into the British Museum to retrieve an artifact from the darkness, but three returned. The other three still remain, somewhere else, as reflections and shadows.

If you, like me, finished watching Critical Role's Call of Cthulhu oneshot and went 'wait but why did all my favourites get trapped in the mirrors?' you might like this look at what might've happened to them! Actually, lbr, it's a great fic and you'll like it no matter who your faves were.

[FILE]: Known Unknowns. changeling: the lost, gen. 8.1k words, rated t. by

hauntedmusings

A collection of audio transcripts from different changelings, as they struggle to describe the abstract and alien natures their Keepers. To be updated as the collection grows.

So: yes, this is a WIP, though each chapter stands alone so it's less 'oh no what happens next' and more 'better subscribe so I can meet the next Changeling when the new chapter goes up'. It's a collection of interview transcripts with escaped Changelings, with some incredible True Fae/Arcadia worldbuilding, and every sketch is just delightfully chilling.

and whatever walks there, walks alone. crimson peak, Lucille/Edith. 6.7k words, rated m. by

Ias

You are coming to understand that love and hatred are not easy for Lucille Sharpe to distinguish.

Post-canon, Lucille keeps Edith alive against the house and the growing loneliness. Chilling and claustrophobic and even more perfectly gothic than the film.

Til Human Voices Wake Us. fringe, olivia gen. 3.4k words, rated t. by

waketosleep

Idyllic settings were getting in the habit of making Olivia's skin crawl.

Wondefully reminiscent of early-seasons case-of-the-week episodes, eerily atmospheric with a fittingly ambiguous ending.

Consummation. star wars sequel trilogy, rey/kylo. 2.8k words, not rated. by

QueenOfCarrotFlowers

Kylo wants to give himself to Rey, and she is more than happy to take him.

In which Kylo's way of showing his devotion to Rey is to let her eat him. Joyful and obsessive in all the best ways.

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I don't do yuletide for [list of mostly-petty but irrelevant reasons] (I did yuletide 2018 — an exception in a weird year), but have a handful recs of things that have delighted me in the collection this year.

AITA for accusing my father of multiple crimes on his own news station?. succession, gen. 2.8k words, rated T.

Reddit's view of Kendall Roy over the years.

Does what it says on the tin! Featuring conspiracy theories, the r/roysucks subreddit, and someone with the username dikpix4profit, because there's always That Guy.

Life/Time Opportunity. the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson, gen. 1k words, rated T.

Once you experience all that Hill House has to offer, you’ll never want to leave.

A real estate listing for Hill House, pitch-perfect blend of overwrought realtor-ness and creeping horror.

Whatever our souls are made of. last tango in halifax, calamity & flora. 4k words, rated g.

Calamity has always had more than enough family to go ‘round, but Flora is something special.

Calam and Flora growing up together, being each other's person, discussing ghosts, and dragging John to within an inch of his life.

Until We Meet Again. hell house - richard matheson, edith/ofc. 3.3k words, rated e.

"I don't mean ordinary nightmares," Fischer says. "I've had enough of those that I can tell the difference."
"I have dreams too," Edith says carefully. "Very vivid ones, even. But I think it's a mistake to read too much into them."

A looping, unreal, gorgeous, cruel piece of horror, full of psychological warfare with ghosts and cannibalism.

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I! Have! A lot of feelings! About How to Get Away with Murder! And

elasticella let me indulge all of them in Flash FuckAround, the infidelity-themed flash exchange. And I also have a lot of feelings about Big Little Lies and FFA allowed me to indulge all of them as well, and, y'all, I was kinda ehhhh about the concept of flash exchanges when they first started but they are consistently so much fun, goddamn.

Title: only the bravest girl
Fandom: How to Get Away with Murder
Characters: Annalise/Michaela
Rating/Warnings: T, infidelity, minor exhibitionism, minor references to Annalise's alcoholism
Summary: Tonight, Michaela feels too real, too close, and all the parts of Annalise that want to be good want to tell Michaela to leave, go home, study for another class and prove that she's smart like that, too, because god knows someone in this house has to be.

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AND in return I got absolutely stunning Big Little Lies fic

intoxicatelou — see the bruise, see the truth , Celeste/Amanda Reisman, rated M. Sharp gorgeous canon divergence and everything I could ever want from Celeste fic.

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Work's been a horrorshow recently and I have compensated by, uh, reading/watching a lot of horror? And then looking for fanworks and being disappointed that so little of it actually leans into the horror! Like, do you know how many Magnus Archives fics I backbuttoned out of even after filtering out the 'Fluff' tag because it was all soft girlfriends in no-apocalypse AUs? It makes me sad, friends.

So: some f/f recs, alphabetical by fandom. Mix of fics tagged for horror and fic for horror canons. Mind the AO3 tags even more than usual, I suppose.

Black and White and Red All Over. black swan (2010), lily/nina. 1.6k words, rated e. by

scioscribe

Lily has trouble taking on the role of the White Swan.

Beautiful and strange post-canon fic.

life, starring you. dare me (tv + book), tacy cassidy. 2.4k words, rated m. by

ODed_on_jingle_jangle

Beth almost died. That’s what she has to compete with. It’s a pretty tall order.
The more Tacy thinks about it, the more she realizes it can’t actually be topped. Not with any of her conventional ideas, like screwing an older guy, or driving drunk, or twisting an ankle during a routine.
The more Tacy thinks about it, the more she realizes if she cannot top Beth, she has to match her. Tit for tat.

It's a mix of book and show canon (keeping Beth and Tacy as siblings but picking up after the end of the book). Pitch-perfect character study of Tacy as she tries to take Beth's place once more.

Golden Ticket. hannibal (tv), abigail/beverly. 7.1k words, rated m. by

Selden

Abigail Hobbs can raise the dead.
One person from the dead, to be precise.
She brings back Beverly Katz.

Combination come-back-wrong AND women-shaping-other-women-into-a-weapon fic? Yes excellent.

pale purple petals and strangling fruit. star wars sequel trilogy, amilyn/leia. 700ish words, rated t.

On the flower moon of Endor, everything is changing. The expedition is lost and only Leia remains intact.

Southern Reach fusion with the prettiest of plant based body horror and so much joy.

[ART] Little Red Riding Hood. the magnus archives, basira/daisy. rated t. by

fandom_The_Magnus_Archives_2020

what are you doing in the woods?

Hunt!Daisy, Red Riding Hood!Basira, absolutely stunning body horror and wolves and flowers and ahhhh it's so pretty.

holding darkness in. the silmarillion & other histories of middle-earth, aredhel/thuringwethil. 1.7k words, rated t. by

Ias

Unsavory things thrive in the absence of light. Something darker comes to inhabit the lonely house in Nan Elmoth.

Spoilers: Eol gets chomped.

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I feel like I am disconnected enough from broader fandom to not know whether 'extremely specific Netflix-style genres' is or ever was a meme, but I have been thinking about how if it is/was, one of my favourite Netflix-style fanfic genres is crime drama f/f that feels like a Katatonia song. You know the type. Quiet pieces a little obviously-aware about how thoughtful they're being. There was a big loss not too long ago - or, at least, it doesn't feel long ago at all. The whole fic probably takes place in the fall/winter/night, or, if it's a longer fic that covers a year+, the important bits all do. The whole thing feels rather noir. If there's joy, it feels both incongruous and deeply earned. You know ... a Katatonia song.

Possibly I am the only person at the centre of the venn diagram of Katatonia songs and crime drama f/f, but other people should join me. Alphabetical by fandom.

the clean horse of our courage. law & order: criminal intent, eames/barek. 3.3k words, rated e. by

omiceti

Carolyn talks to herself, so choose your bar carefully.

It's kind of-sort of a fic about a one night stand that isn't going to stay one night, but it's also about unexpected connections and inexplicable warmth, about being tired and realising you care about something (someone) enough to want it.

things forgotten and reinvented. law & order: special victims unit, alex/olivia. 1.2k words, rated t. by

humanveil

"You mad?"
Olivia shakes her head. "I think that would be easier."

Season 10, Alex and Olivia finally (and with more than a little help from Elliot) have a conversation about what five years means, and how five years feels. On choosing to care, and wanting a future, ~~and how canon definitely has not done anything to contradict this~~.

walk slow through the fire. the fall, stella/dani. ~900 words, rated m. by

whiteberryx

There's nothing here for her, but that doesn't stop her.

Dani falls into bed with Stella over and over again, and only gets part of what she wants. A really incisive look at what happens when mismatched desires meet matched expectations.

the right of way. scott & bailey, julie/gill. 7.3k words, rated t. by

anacel

Julie senses this ordeal will be harder to shake off than Gill is willing to yield, as Helen's ghost looms over her like a passenger on her soul.

Gill and Julie at Sammy's engagement party, in the aftermath of 3x08. Comes with content warnings for, you know, absolutely everything that happened to Helen Bartlett, but a really lovely look at trauma, reunions, and endearments.

alone and adrift on a tide. shetland, rhona/phyllis, rhona & jimmy. 3.6k words, rated t. by

mazily

Rhona came to Shetland for the water.

Post-season 3 Rhona, on moving on when you still love someone but they've done unforgivable things, and on comforts allowed and unallowed. It's definitely the story of the end days of a relationship, rather than romantic shipfic, but it feels very true and sharp and necessary.

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I mean, literally every day is Kalida Sharma Deserved Better Day but today is also [a] a Thursday, which is (my reading list informs me) rec things day, and [b] a day when I actually have the brain + time for a reclist. So. Mostly femslash. A fair amount of Kalinda/Lana, because goddamn does Lana also deserve better, but not entirely. Not in any real order.

where two lines meet. kalinda/lana. 5k words, rated m. by

feartown

"Maybe we should just leave, Kalinda."

For a moment the idea hangs in the air, absurd, but then Kalinda starts to wonder if Lana might be right. Chicago has dragged her down for years. Chicago is a place of death and cracks that can’t seem to be patched up. She shrugs her free shoulder. “We could.”

The summary says "Set post 6x09", but, really, it's a story about their entire relationship, in flashbacks - the way coming together means something different every time, how Kalinda starts to believe she was telling the truth when she said I take you seriously, and how they prove to each other that the future exists.

existent. kalinda/lana. 700 words, rated m. by

PoeticallyIrritating

Kalinda doesn't seem real.

Lana, on Kalinda, appearances, and reality. A really interesting look at how Lana always saw more than Kalinda strictly meant to show her, but never found the will to use it against her.

dreaming gives one such bad luck. kalinda/lana. 2.3k words, rated t. by

summerstorm

It kills time, leaving a question in the air. At least it helps Lana stop thinking about what a waste of it Kalinda's relatively irregular middle-of-the-night appearances on Lana's floor at the FBI are.

Kalinda visits Lana, Lana finds all of the knives she's carrying.

ladies who lunch. kalinda/diane. 1.4k words, rated g. by

kathryne

Here's to the girls on the go / Everybody tries / Look into their eyes and you'll see what they know / Everybody dies. Diane, Kalinda, and a power lunch.

Pre-canon, Diane interviews Kalinda for the in-house job. Really excellent getting-to-know-you power games and understated not-flirting and wardrobe details.

at the border. kalinda/sophia. 6.5k words, rated m. by

lunchinanelevator

Kalinda and Sophia before, during, and after.

Weird domesticity and genuine affection set against a whole lot of politics, and one of my favourite examples of the sort of - comfort that's doesn't permanently fix things but that matters and is important.

in pieces, quietly. kalinda & alicia, will, cary. 1.4k words, rated g. by

fiftymissioncap

Kalinda spends the Christmas holidays alone. Post Battle of the Proxies.

Kalinda opens presents, deals with the fallout from Nick, survives.

something to think about. kalinda &/ will, diane, cary, eli, alicia. 1.1k words, rated t. by

Vampire_Penguin

Kalinda's mind wanders, when she gets bored...

Specifically, wanders to the ways she might seduce or kill her coworkers. Kalinda picking people apart is always one of my favourite Kalindas.

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femslashex is one of those exchanges I love so much I always end up signing up twice, and it did not disappoint this year! Things what I wrote and things what I got are:

god feared in whose arms i'm sleeping. gentleman jack, anne/mariana. 1.3k words, rated t. for

DCBrierton

It is summer in Paris, and the bright fall of the morning sun across Mariana's face is not so much what wakes her as is the slowly growing awareness that Anne is no longer in their bed.

Anne, Mariana, a morning in Paris. I loved the chance to go pre-canon for them, poking at the possessiveness and the what-makes-a-life-ness and the cracks that neither of them quite recognise yet.

beneath the waves. stargate atlantis, elizabeth/teyla. 1k words, rated t. for

havocthecat /

havocthecat

Atlantis sinks when the Asurans come. Life reconfigures itself.

Probably deeply un-anonymous Wraith!Teyla and Asuran!Elizabeth take a moment to themselves in a sunken city. I had the benefit here of knowing Exactly what havoc likes in Stargate fic, so :P

And I got PRESENTS \o/ A Scott & Bailey fic, come back breathing, messy Rachel/Gill in the aftermath of Janet's stabbing, and a Doctor Who fic, dressed, undressed, where a newly-embodied Missy goes in search of a gown and finds one of Clara's echoes in Revolutionary France

Current Music: ego - indila

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Surprising absolutely no one

darkestnightex is full of my favourite things, and I ~~maybe signed up twice~~ definitely wrote two things!

this is the sound of joy. midsommar, dani/pelle. 1.5k words, rated mature. for

psychomachia

The Hårga community is built on blood and dreams.
And joy.

I had sort of a weird fannish time with Midsommar, where I saw the movie and loved it with all my heart and then was ... deeply alienated by basically everything everyone was saying about it. And then! I saw these prompts! Wanting spooky things and folk horror and the liminal spaces that dreams and reality create! And I'm so pleased I was able to write for them :3

heart-strings undone. star wars sequel trilogy, f!kylo/rey. 1.6k words, rated mature. for

tristesses

A stem gets caught on Kylo's tongue before she can answer and she chokes, tries to swallow it down. The roots are around her lungs, somewhere so deep she can't even use the Force to dislodge them. It isn't worth trying, anyway: it hasn't worked in years.

So ... for a very long time I thought I wasn't super into hanahaki disease as a trope. And then I saw this request, with all of the possibilities for leaning into the body horror and the 'what if the love is unrequited because one person is an eldritch manifestation of the Force literally unable to love' and. Guys. I really like this particular version of the hanahaki trope, help.

And! I got two excellent gifts!

LadyBrooke wrote me Queens of the East and West, a Dark Queen Galadriel AU with some excellent necromancy, and

tristesses wrote me desiderate, a perfect Rey/Kylo fic with horror-of-the-Light and implied cannibalism.

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Video game fics! I only managed one fic, but it was a very nice change from last year when I had to drop because I couldn't write for anyone. AND I got to write some forever favourites, so what's not to love?

one more wrong (come back). overwatch, ana/widowmaker. 1.6k words, rated teen. for

abyssopelagick.

Everything the Widowmaker had become was built upon the foundations laid by Ana's early love, Ana's first lessons. They had had the words for loneliness then, but never used them right. Perhaps things would have been different if they had.

The Widowmaker thinking about her relationship with Ana throughout the years, and waiting for a reunion.

And in return

wednesday wrote me Fluid, a lovely look at Geralt and Iorveth at the beginning of their time in Vergen. There is GRUMPILY SWEET HAIR-BRUSHING, pls go give it love.

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everywoman revealed last night, which means I can say my first exchange went off very well! I wrote four fics amongst the modly adventures.

on the merits of muggle libraries. harry potter - j.k. rowling, hermion & luna. 600ish words, rated gen. for

fleurlb

Hermione and Luna meet up in Dundee before heading back to Hogwarts.

Pre-year 8 academic nerdery. I am notoriously bad at turning my Harry Potter worldbuilding thoughts into fic, so this was great fun

in the valley, in a dying flame. the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson, eleanor/theodora. 2k words, rated teen. for

slashmarks.

Where was dear sweet Theo? Rare were the days she couldn't be lured even from slumber with the smell of coffee, and Nell has lost track of the number of cups she has made by now. She has asked Hill House about the queer absence of her friends, of course, but it hasn't responded.

[ Nell stays, Theo returns. ]

Ghosts, love, time that doesn't quite move how you would like it to.

your killer and your lifeline too. the silmarillion & other histories of middle earth - j.r.r. tolkien. 2.4k words, rated teen. for

Solanaceae.

She worried over such futures in the furrows of the world, the spaces of the in-between that she was sure held answers she had yet to grasp. Thuringwethil's skin did not come with her memories, but Lúthien knew what it meant when the world she saw no longer responded to her song. No more could she draw flowers from the earth, or ask the waters of Sirion to dance beneath her outstretched hand.

[ Lúthien, and the price she paid for skin. ]

Tolkien never said how vampires were created and thievery has consequences: the fic.

fascination is her name. star wars (sequel trilogy/solo), amilyn~qi'ra. 800ish words, rated gen. for

spookykingdomstarlight.

Qi'ra meets a contact and makes a deal.

What's the point of a bit of espionage if you don't get to kiss or be kissed by pretty girls, yknow?

ALSO I got an absolutely INCREDIBLE Southern Reach fic from

tristesses, Abnormality, which explores what might have happened to the Surveyor when she was left alone during Annihilation and it is SO GOOD and the BEST sort of horror and I love it so muchhhhhhhhhh.

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nightonficmountain and

fandom5k revealed in the past few days, and I wrote things in both!

[NoFM] the promise to teach wildness. killing eve, nadia/villanelle. 1.1k words, rated m. for

engmaresh

Oksana and Nadia meet in prison.

I didn't sign up this year, but this was an absolutely irresistible post-deadline pinch hit. Villanelle's voice is so much fun to slip into, her sort of malicious boredom and incredible capacity for obsession, and pre-betrayal Nadia is a really intriguing character to play with.

[F5K] the day even longer. overwatch, hana/ana. 7k words, rated t. for

echoslam

Hana, post-Shooting Star, on appearances and living.

I loved every single prompt echoslam had for Hana, and was absolutely delighted that I had free reign to write nearly any relationship I wanted. The contrast between the face she has to present to the public and what she's actually gone through fascinating, and I loved getting to write her with her teammates and Ana.

My F5K gift was goddamn stunning:

the harrowing. under the pendulum sun, cathy/mab, cathy/ariel. 7k, rated m. by

pendrecarc.

The morning after the hunt, Mab sent a summons, and Catherine Helstone's brother went in his sister's stead.

If she had responded herself, things might have turned out differently.

Canon divergence of my DREAMS, ft arranged marriages and Arcadian worldbuilding and gorgeous body horror and Cathy in her marriage bed with Mab wearing Ariel's dress and it's SO GOOD I cannot DEAL.

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I don't remember now why I didn't sign up for

jukebox_fest - I think I probably forgot about either nominations or signups, though considering what my past few months have been it's probably for the best - but I did manage to slide in one treat, after asking for recs for requests with dark f/f potential (look. I have a niche.)

kiss them all goodnight. bellyache - billie eilish (song), narrator/her lover. 1k words, rated t. for

sapphire2309.

TRANSCRIPTION OF THE TESTIMONY OF E. K[]
24.2.2017
STATE OF CALIFORNIA V. E.K[]
LAC BA342574 - 01

The narrator of the song is a girl who killed her friends after they robbed a bank together, and sorta-maybe feels sorry about it but also sorta-maybe doesn't care, beyond, perhaps, a vague curiosity about what she's just done. I got to have some fun with the formatting here, writing the fic as a transcript of the narrator's deposition as part of the post-canon criminal case she's at the centre of serving as a way to flip between the depths of her head and the outside world, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

And some recs:

between the strand and the sea. sailor and siren - kunika (song), ofc/ofc. 1.6k words, rated t. by

Scytale.

After a life at court, Lynet settles down to a life of solitude, music, and gardening. She doesn't expect an old friend to show up.

Spymaster bard/pirate queen friends-to-lovers, with some really lovely thoughts on folklore preservation.

christmas Letters from the andersons, 1971-1975. angie baby - helen reddy (song), gen. 2.4k words. by

gamerfic.

As the holiday season draws near, we especially miss our friends and family back in Council Bluffs. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. Walt's transfer and our move have had their ups and downs for the family, and things haven't always turned out like we expected they would. We're all still hoping the best is yet to come!

Snapshots of a family, perfectly on the line between mundane and fantastical horror.

trouble. addicted to you - avicii (music video), ofc/ofc. 1.5k words. by

thedevilchicken.

Everyone said Evy had a reputation. Ola couldn't help but want to find out why.

Hot joyous noir-tinged girlfriends, and what it means to be bad.

and then there were none. russian roulette - red velvet (song), gen & m/f. 1.7k words, rated t. by

Reishiin.

How many ways are there for a girl to die? As many as there are stars in the sky.

A dreamy sort of fairytale about what happens when the threads between murder and love are pulled apart.

gathered, buried, burnt. furnace room lullaby - neko case, gen. 1.4k words, not rated. by

Measured_Words.

Desperation is a matter of perspective.

What happens when you find a heart under a faerie tree and drink it down, pitch-perfect horror.

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snickfic and

kore coined it as 'Thursday is for recs' but alliteration makes it more fun, no? Two recs, then, based off the very thoughtful metric of uhhhh 'most recently bookmarked'? On second thought they are both explicit, one for cannibalism and one for sex, so there's that as well! (...Does that even count as a similarity?) I will try to do this ... well, frequently, at least, though Thursday posting is occasionally my what-are-you-reading/playing/etc day. It is, if nothing else, a reminder to comment on things, because I feel weird reccing things I haven't commented on.

consummation. star wars sequel trilogy, rey/kylo. 2.8k words, explicit. by

leoba

Kylo wants to give himself to Rey, and she is more than happy to take him.

Do you want soft loving dismemberment and cannibalism? I have a fic for you!

a warmer light. overwatch, ana/mercy. 4.6k, explicit. by

fabrega

Sunset at Gibraltar, before and after.

By turns tender and sharp, with one of the most consistent and truthful emotional arcs I've seen in a lot of before-and-after fic for this ship.

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smutswap reveals happened this weekend! I always feel a little weird about setting out to write porn, especially for a person and a deadline, but I always have fun with it anyway.

the taste of you alone (of glass and bone). killing eve, anna/oksana. explicit, 2.1k words. for

summerdayghost.

Oksana is experimenting with crying, lately. Anna is so pretty when she cries, there is maybe something about tears that she can use, if she ever needs - Anna has always been the best of teachers, the best of women, and if crying will make her happy, well, Oksana will give her as many tears as she would diamonds.

Anna, Oksana, a weekend alone. I've wanted to get into Villanelle's head since I finished the show, and this letter was such an amazing invitation. Villanelle's such an intriguing mix of outwardly cold/inwardly burning, sinking into others and yet being so deceptively easy to read, and I had a great time writing this and exploring some of the early days of her relationship with Anna.

And I got two wonderful gifts! Both by people I hadn't crossed paths with in the exchange scene before, but I'm definitely going to keep my eye out for them from now on.

jealousy is a cruel mistress. doctor who, missy/river. explicit, 1.4k words. by

chamilet.

Missy has always been jealous of River Song. Turns out, there was no need to be.

Delightful sexy interrogations with bonus fix-it for Missy's death, I love.

mark me up, mark me down. chilling adventures of sabrina, prudence/lilith. explicit, 1.9k words. by

misswriterly.

Prudence's Queen hears her worship and decides to make use of it.

Dreamy praise kink-y prophet/goddess sex, as they both deserve.

And three fics that were not technically for me, but may as well have been.

hidden spring. the hobbit (movies), tauriel/ofc. explicit, 3.1k words. by

Innin.

Following an ill-advised fight against the Mirkwood spiders, Tauriel and fellow captain Lindalmë have a chance to rest and recover.

Lush and affectionate, by turns playful and sad, and edged with a whole lot of spooky-gorgeous forest imagery.

fits the crime. star wars sequel trilogy, rose/kylo. explicit, 1.1k words. by

lucymonster.

Rose has never agreed with the decision to grant Kylo clemency. She’d rather see him locked in a dungeon, shackled and helpless – but with that off the table, her innovator’s mind has found another way to administer justice.

There’s nothing she can do to force this on him. There’s nothing he can do to make himself say no.

Kylo is still looking for ways to self-sabotage, Rose is uninterested in forgiving him, and I'm a lot dead.

from the desk of gertrude robinson. the magnus archives, mary/gertrude. explicit, 2.5k words. by

Zai42.

Mary has a tendency to bring Gertrude gifts.

A Leitner made them do it, ft incredible knifeplay and an absolutely perfect Gertrude voice.

Current Music: paranoia - liza anne

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agegapexchange reveals were gonna be today c/o being some variation of sick all damn week? Me! I had treating plans, but work and life both had other plans :(

step on the glass, staple your tongue. buffy the vampire slayer, drusilla/willow. 1.8k, rated M. for

summerdayghost.

"People will come looking for me," the witch says, soon after she's come home. "My friends miss me."

Drusilla brushes her hair back from her face, the crimson brittle like dried blood, crackling cold over her skin. "Will they really, pet?" she asks softly. Mustn't frighten the fragile things, mustn't drop them from shelves just yet. "They're afraid of you and me. Too much magic, too much blood, too many spirals."

Drusilla makes a friend, or something close to one. Mind the AO3 tags for - among other things - extreme dubcon and blood drinking. Dru's an eternal, formative fave of mine, and getting to spend some time in her head nailing down her voice was an absolute joy.

And in return

venndaai wrote me in the dark, a really glorious Darth Zash/Female Inquisitor fic that gets into absolutely everything I love about weird darkside stuff and ambiguously cruel mentorship, I love it a lot and you should too.

Current Music: so human of you - shireen

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yuletide this year for the first time, though it was far from my first exchange, and it ... was fun? In the way all exchanges are fun? The Yuletide Hype(tm) put me off it for years - twinned with the fact that I tend to request pretty rare fandoms/ships anyway - but I'd do it again. I wrote one thing and got three gifts, and added a lot of people to my 'to treat if they request this again' list. I wrote:

a sycamore tree, as sick as can be. the haunting of hill house - shirley jackson, theo/nell, theo/ofc. teen. for

luna.

There's no risk of a picnic here, nothing it needs to keep me safe from. I go out into our building's tiny back garden and tilt my head back to see the green-feathered branches of the single tree brush the sky. Dear Nell is in a tree now, I think, and then I laugh at the absurdity, because Nell is a house, of course.

( some thoughts about ghost stories, hill house, the reception this fic got, and ambiguity, of the director's-commentary sort that is not meant to take away from anything you might have gotten from the fic. )

And I got three wonderful gifts, two in the main collection and one in Madness.

Five Life Goals for the Working Country Girl. goblin market - christina rossetti, jeanie & lizzie & laura. teen. by

LittleRaven.

Five fates they never got to choose.

Not content with absolutely murdering me with Goblin Market fic in Darkest Night, LittleRaven has written me the girls as vampires AND werewolves AND ghosts AND fey flowers AND space travellers and I am spoilt beyond measure, truly.

Where The Wild Roses Grow. goblin market - christina rossetti, jeanie/lizzie. teen. by

sweetcarolanne.

The flowers on Jeanie's grave did not die - they lived, and grew ravenous. They will bring Jeanie the vengeance that she seeks, and lead her back to hope and love...

Is this 1.1k of sweetcarolanne indulging my id's desire for Jeanie as an eldritch plant monster who eats goblins and watches over her little sister and plots to steal Lizzie away to somewhere where they can be eldritch plant monster girlfriends together? Yes. Is it perfect? Also yes.

comatose. the source (ayreon album), the counsellor/the biologist. NR. by

kalypsobean.

I allllmost didn't request The Source because I had a moment of 'seriously, who is going to write fic for an hour and a half long symphonic metal concept album about aliens and androids during the apocalypse' but I DID and I GOT FIC FOR IT. This is a lovely little 'getting together during wartime with the fate of the world on our shoulders' fic that feels very real and wild and hopeful, and I love it.

Current Music: Loreley - Lord of the Lost

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