QNNNA's Den of Depravity

Pairings: Bakugou Katsuki & Midoriya Izuku, Midoriya Izuku/Other(s)
Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia open_in_new

Summary:

Izuku goes missing in middle school. Four years later, Katsuki finds him.

What's left of him.

Bookmarker's Notes:

A beautifully intense, oddly soothing tearjerker. Amazed and disappointed to find myself reading BNHA in 2024. Such is life.

Words: 27,949   Bookmarked Date: 23 Aug 2024

Pairings: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku
Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia open_in_new

Summary:

While on house arrest, awaiting trial for a murder he doesn’t remember committing, Izuku comes face to face with himself. Meanwhile, determined to find what no one else will, Katsuki sorts through a pile of notebooks and their lives.

Or: Izuku gets accused of murder and Katsuki tries to prove him innocent.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Recommended to me by a dear friend with good taste. Very fond of the tense atmosphere and fast plot. Casefics are very hit-or-miss, this one is a hit.

Also, my code still isn't formatted for multiple authors. I feel terrible about this. While I devise a new system, here's Wildmage.

Words: 44,413   Bookmarked Date: 23 Aug 2024

Pairings: Bakugou Katsuki/Midoriya Izuku
Fandom: Boku no Hero Academia open_in_new

Summary:

He wants to make a home inside of Kacchan.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Legitimately glad Katsuki's into all that, because Christ almighty. Beautiful fic.

Words: 11,139   Bookmarked Date: 20 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: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Fandom: The Untamed open_in_new, Modao Zushi | Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation open_in_new

Summary:

The next time he reaches for his clothes, Lan Wangji slaps his hands out of the way. Wei Ying's eyes go momentarily wide, then narrow in fiendish pleasure. "Yes," he hisses. "There you are." He tosses his head, hair coming apart in pieces over his face, obscuring his beautiful mouth and shining eyes. "There you are, Lan Zhan. Fuck me. Fuck me, I don't want to–make me listen to you, make me better. Make me better. You could have, you could have–."

(It's one of Wei Wuxian's bad days)

Bookmarker's Notes:

Haunting character study. They're such a beautiful mess of broken glass that fits together just right. I'm haunted.

Words: 1,685   Bookmarked Date: 09 Apr 2024

Pairings: Asagiri Minori & Mogami Keiji
Fandom: Mob Psycho 100 open_in_new

Summary:

Mogami's palm lands solid against the door beside her head, and she barely stifles a whimper as he leans over her. "I expect you know all about that, Asagiri Minori. Tell me–have you always known that's why you choose to torment others? Or was it just for fun?"

"Please," she stammers.

"Please," he echoes. "You haven't even asked me for anything."

Bookmarker's Notes:

This fic – specifically the final scene – made me cry. Visceral, cathartic fic.

Minori has always been one of my favorite MP100 characters, though the horror of her story remains largely unexplored in canon, which works amazingly in a canon focused on Mob, but I still love her and appreciate getting more pieces of the puzzle that is Asagiri Minori. This fic did her justice in a way I can't fully articulate. Most of the fandom seems to fall into the trap of wanting to choose between letting her be a bully and a sad, manipulated girl, but this fic balanced those parts of her brilliantly and with a great deal of respect. Minori wasn't entirely helpless in this fic, but she's also not in control, and she doesn't know how to come to terms with it. A flawless read that will have a place in my heart forever.

Words: 10,961   Bookmarked Date: 08 Apr 2024

Pairings: Rose Lalonde/Dave Strider
Fandom: Homestuck open_in_new

Summary:

He's always at his sickest after he has her cooking. But she's so happy to do it, and he's so missed a maternal touch.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I requested MBP DaveRose on Tumblr and I got this lovely fic in return. I swear I just about swooned.

Words: 488   Bookmarked Date: 25 Dec 2023

Pairings: Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Mikoto & Uchiha Sasuke
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

His mother grows lotuses in the pond. His father is a shadow that only appears at the dinner table. In the middle of the night, the sounds downstairs wake him up but it’s safe, it’s all right. It only comes from his brother who cannot sleep.

The house is dark, they are haunted, and this is home.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Mikoto's conflict and the space that Fugaku doesn't occupy will haunt me forever methinks. The imagery here has me by the throat, I love the build and the decay.

Words: 10,438   Bookmarked Date: 19 Dec 2023

Pairings: Gamzee Makara/Terezi Pyrope, Gamzee Makara/Karkat Vantas, Gamzee Makara & Tavros Nitram, Terezi Pyrope & Vriska Serket, Tavros Nitram/Vriska Serket, Terezi Pyrope/Karkat Vantas
Fandom: Homestuck open_in_new

Summary:

"And then I saw a new Alternia, for the old Alternia had passed away." -- St. Troll John Cusack

How the Empire knelt to a clown, a mutant and a lawyer.

Bookmarker's Notes:

One of the best of the best. Cream of the crop. Absolutely fucking insane take on the premise that law and religion are equally important in the Alternain justice system. I love Gamzee and Terezi, this is such a good breakdown of their characters and Alternia in general.

Words: 130,209   Bookmarked Date: 09 Dec 2023