Pairings: Ling Wen & Pei Ming & Shi Wudu
Fandom: Tian Guan Ci Fu | Heaven Official's Blessing open_in_new

Summary:

See, before the CBD becomes awash in suits and ties, business calls and pager beeps, closed deals and train rides home, there’s really nothing that makes this part of the city different from any other part of Beijing. There’s the blue-black before the dawn. There’s the switch of the traffic lights cueing the first pass of drivers. And there’s the silence.

And what separates the strongest of the nine-to-fivers—the tip-top, the best of the best, destined to lead the Fortune 500’s that they slave for one day—from the wet, limp noodles?

[or; it's quarterly review day for The Three Tumors]

Bookmarker's Notes:

This was a work of art. A faithful interpretation of canon with a modern twist. This is easily my favorite TGCF fic – sheer sadistic glee.

Words: 5,555   Bookmarked Date: 27 Nov 2024

Pairings: None
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes the immortal leader of a cult tries to summon the god of death and gets you instead. ‘Not dying’ just got a lot more complicated than ‘follow chemlab safety instructions.’ A tongue-in-cheek, Akatsuki-centric SI/OC.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I love love love love love Tori. This is an absolutely flawless SI/OC fic which I devoured in less than 24 hours. I love the ninja science, I love the Akatsuki interactions, I love the absurd applications of fuinjutsu.

Do you want to see an OC lecture Orochimaru and Kabuto on the scientific method? Do you want passionate literary critiques of Icha Icha? Do you want answers to questions such as: "do microbes have chakra" and "does the Naruto world have penicillin?"? You do, for the record. This fic is the answer to all your problems. Molt your morals along with our protagonist – I promise that you won't regret it.

My Collections: SI/OC open_in_new

Words: 185,081   Bookmarked Date: 12 Nov 2024

Pairings: Hyuuga Hinata/Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura/Yamanaka Ino, Hyuuga Neji/Nara Shikamaru
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

Sasuke’s Rinnegan gives him the ability to open portals to other dimensions; with enough chakra, he can even bring other people along with him. What Sasuke’s Rinnegan does not do is give him the emotional bandwidth to deal with whatever the fuck he might find in those other dimensions.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I'm a huge fan of canon being told as a crazy, improbable joke where the punchline is that everyone is actually in a loving relationship. My heart is happy. I really love this Hinata in particular, she seems more comfortable in her skin and settled in her life. Compelling argument for at least one flavor of SasuHina for sure.

Words: 17,573   Bookmarked Date: 10 Nov 2024

Pairings: Hiei/Kurama
Fandom: Yu Yu Hakusho open_in_new

Summary:

An estimated half of one percent of Japan's population is Christian. An estimated seventy-three percent of the general public celebrate Christmas by eating a cake. An estimated zero percent of demons care. (Or: why Hiei is having a hard time adjusting to ningenkai, and how Kurama does--or doesn't--make it easier for him.)

Bookmarker's Notes:

"QNNNA, did you read Yu Yu Hakusho just so that you could read this fic?"

YES. YES I ABSOLUTELY DID AND I HAVE NO REGRETS. Tend has this uncanny ability to merge interpersonal struggle with magical mundanity and the subtleties of changing seasons that I find myself inextricably obsessed with. Gnash my teeth and curl my toes for romance that is nothing more than proximity, negative space, and things left unsaid. Companionship. THe fucking lights on the ceiling from the city below. I'm so terribly in love.

Words: 10,592   Bookmarked Date: 25 Sep 2024

Pairings: Kaiba Seto/Jounouchi Katsuya
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! open_in_new

Summary:

It's a bad sign when you start to feel cold in July--not that you have to worry now. Domino hits a heat wave, Jounouchi can't get any sleep, nobody can keep the power on, and if Kaiba acts any weirder, the world really will end.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This was so effectively told that I was left almost breathless. I love utterly cloying, oppressive fics that build and build, especially with motifs of heat, intensity, or loss of self. In this fic, this presents as a reformation of self through hazy sleep deprivation and odd tenderness. The way this is portrayed is so raw that it feels almost intrusive to read. This genre of Yu-Gi-Oh fic is incredible. I'd recommend this fic to anyone.

Words: 46,230   Bookmarked Date: 20 Sep 2024

Pairings: Haruno Sakura & Hidan
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

The invasion of Konoha during the chuunin exam didn't fail. Team seven is broken, people are dead, and Sakura is hurt and frightened and a very long way from home.

Alternative summary: In which Sakura carries half of Hidan across two countries, leaving a trail of blood, bodies, and other people's legs.

 

Edit: Hey, can we please stop putting my fics on goodreads, thank you.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Fantastic fantastic fic that I've been procrastinating my read of since The Natural Habitat. I've said it before and I'll say it again but Tozette excels at portraying the interactions between women who are less normal than they appear and absolutely unhinged men. Beautiful fic that comes across as pretty damn believable within the boundaries of canon. Sakura finding her new equilibrium while sorting through torment and claiming it as her own was cathartic to me. Very strange to say, but I'm so incredibly grateful for Hidan's stabilizing presence in this fic. I adore them.

Words: 90,013   Bookmarked Date: 31 Aug 2024

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

In 1988, three witches in Montana are growing a monster in their garden, and Sam is holiday snack. When Dean and John show up to get him, one witch is killed, and Dean gets a love curse that he keeps secret. As teenagers, Sam and Dean are living in a dying industrial town in Pennsylvania, where they come across a crooked old creature that takes an unusual interest in Dean. As adults, Sam and Dean return to Montana for a hunt and run into the two surviving witches who have been unsuccessfully trying to grow their monster. Dean, still carrying the love spell from the dead witch, is looking like perfect plant feed.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This author sold their soul to the devil for pretty prose. I have no explanation for the genuis and artistry present in every turn of phrase. The witches fit so seamlessly into this world, to the point that I was actually more invested in them than I was in Sam and Dean (sorry, boys). So creative and inspired, fitting almost entirely outside of the binary boundaries of trope categories. I feel so lucky to have read this.

Words: 30,348   Bookmarked Date: 12 Jul 2024

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

Everything Dean is, even all these years later, is still for Sam, only ever Sam, it beats through his blood more real to him than his own heartbeat, Sam, Sam, Sam. The common fucking denominator of Dean's entire life.

or

Four years later, Dean has Sam back. Some things have changed. The main thing hasn't.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Sequel to the next fic down. This was an arrow to the heart, so intense and smothering that it made me nauseous at times.

Words: 35,769   Bookmarked Date: 10 Jul 2024

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

dean makes sloppy joes for dinner the night before sam leaves for stanford.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Bare prose rife with pain. Feels like a bruise you can't stop poking at.

Words: 1,067   Bookmarked Date: 07 Jul 2024

Pairings: Peter Parker/Wade Wilson
Fandom: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) open_in_new, Deadpool (2016) open_in_new, Marvel Cinematic Universe open_in_new

Summary:

“What did I fucking say?!” Deadpool yells from across the room. “‘Don’t go into the drug lord’s sex den without me.’ I was very specific!”

Bookmarker's Notes:

This one left me haunted and horny. The oppressive atmosphere tastes like old detective shows. This is exactly how I want them. Pure lyricism in prose form.

Words: 9,394   Bookmarked Date: 30 Jun 2024