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:

“Everybody knows my type.” Kacchan’s breath is hot against Izuku’s face. “It’s pretty obvious, don’tcha think?”

Bookmarker's Notes:

One of my favorite dynamics and an absolutely horrifying fic. I had to include my favorite turns of phrase, as follows:

Kacchan’s teeth are bared in the low light, glistening with spit and pale as bleached bone. His mouth opens, tongue pink. Izuku can see into his dark throat, a swallowing thing.

and

A gold haloed monster gazes down at him, eyes hot coals.

I adore the sense of danger Izuku gets, and the patronizing, over-sexed way that Katsuki wants him. Leaves me numb.

Words: 5,680   Bookmarked Date: 22 Aug 2024

Pairings: Chu Wanning/Mo Ran | Mo Weiyu
Fandom: The Husky and His White Cat Shizun open_in_new

Summary:

The jokes about soulless, unfeeling AIs are in pretty bad taste. Mo Ran's always thought so. They've got the full range of emotions that comes with sapience — and, yeah, he knows what that means now, he looked it up. AIs just…process those emotions differently. Faster. In dimensions made of pure computational matter. Anger and happiness, all made of math. 

There's nothing that says AIs can't cry. It's still a shock when Mo Ran comes around the end of a row and finds Xia Sini crying under the haitang tree. 

 

*

Mo Ran learned a long time ago exactly how little Chu Wanning thinks of him, and he's given up trying to change things. Still, hating his teacher doesn't mean he can't be friends with Xia Sini, Chu Wanning's newest AI, right?

...right?

Bookmarker's Notes:

Sci-fi AUs of Xianxia scratch a very particular itch for me – the genres mesh together in such a satisfying way. This was a beautiful exploration of Mo Ran and Chu Wanning, ft. my favorite plot device, Xia Sini!

Words: 12,190   Bookmarked Date: 20 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: Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo/Reigen Arataka, Kageyama "Mob" Shigeo & Reigen Arataka
Fandom: Mob Psycho 100 open_in_new

Summary:

The shame trickles back into him. It fills his spine with a chilly wet cold but his face grows hot and Mob doesn’t know what he’s supposed to say now, knowing that Reigen is half-smiling and that his father is dead.

(Despite Mob's best attempts, he has terrible, terrible timing.)

Bookmarker's Notes:

Quiveringpalm always knocks all the wind out of me. Almost painfully beautiful. I chose a random fic from my marked for later list, otherwise I would have probably avoided aged-up altogther, but I'm so glad I ended up reading this. The longing is palpable.

Words: 13,735   Bookmarked Date: 20 Aug 2024

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

"'Sacrificial'? What are you sacrificing?"

Dean's black eyes glittered in the fluorescent lights. Sam's head was pounding from blood loss, his wrist ached where the knife went in and and he was freezing, wearing just his robe in the dungeon. He sighed.

"A quart of blood and most of my dignity."

Words: 8,425   Bookmarked Date: 20 Aug 2024

Pairings: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Fandom: Modao Zushi | Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation open_in_new, The Untamed open_in_new

Summary:

Wei Ying's body hurts sometimes; she lets Lan Zhan help her.

A fic about the complicated nature of having a body, and also the versatility of sex toys.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This one had me crying a little I must say. Intimate and bright, refreshing, lyrical prose. Longing and citrus.

Words: 13,734   Bookmarked Date: 19 Aug 2024

Pairings: Nico di Angelo/Percy Jackson
Fandom: Percy Jackson open_in_new

Summary:

The first inkling I got that something wasn't right was when Nico hugged me.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I opened this in my browser what amounts to about a year ago, but I'm glad I found it (again) when I did. I should probably warn that this is pretty intense, untagged dub/noncon. With that out of the way, this is absolutely magnificent. Badwrong and grossgood and disgustingly sticky-sweet delicious. I love love love victim having to comfort their aggressor, and I would've absolutely loved to see the aftermath of all this.

Words: 7,625   Bookmarked Date: 16 Aug 2024

Pairings: Jounouchi Katsuya | Joey Wheeler/Kaiba Seto
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga) open_in_new

Summary:

Jounouchi opened his mouth, closed it, then opened it again. “Oh, fuck no,” he said.

“You’ll do it, because you don’t have a choice,” Kaiba said icily. “And neither do I. Unfortunately.”

Bookmarker's Notes:

Full disclosure: I thought I hated these two together. This may prove an exception to the rule. The hate and lust and tension are all so impactful. I've been brought back to my enemies to enemies who fuck roots for the day. Thank fuck for the "Unromantic" tag here, it really pulled its weight.

Words: 15,844   Bookmarked Date: 8/6/24

Pairings: David & Max, David/Harrison
Fandom: Camp Camp open_in_new

Summary:

So basically Max finds out David is a pedophile and decides to blackmail him.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This is horror, plain and simple. Alcoholic_Kangaroo does it again!

Words: 6,969   Bookmarked Date: 1/8/24

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

Dean was getting hard, watching Sam. The worst part was that he was surprised by it: he lied to himself, so perfectly and for so long, that he actually managed to feel scandalized, as if it were news to him. Me? Hard for my brother? Since when?

But it wasn’t news. It wasn’t the first time. It wasn’t the fifth time. Sparring last night. Watching him sleep last week. At a motel pool in Arizona last year. Dean had been sick for so long.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I could write an essay about Goshen's specific brand of wincest. I'm absolutely head-over-heels for this claustrophobic, angry, boundary-pushing awkward masichismo that's especially present in their unpolished years. It's just something about how far it goes and how far Sam is able to push within his self-imposed deadline. As for Dean, I'm obsessed with watching these rules he's carefully crafted for himself all they fall apart as he spirals forwards towards inevitability. That last line is just the cherry on top, what a gorgeous fic.

Words: 25,194   Bookmarked Date: 31 Jul 2024

Pairings: Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Sasuke
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

Satsuki's been having recurring dreams.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Imgur removed some of this comic, but it's still beautiful.

Words: 0   Bookmarked Date: 30 Jul 2024

Pairings: Uchiha Itachi/Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Itachi & Uchiha Sasuke, Uchiha Fugaku & Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Fugaku & Uchiha Sasuke
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

On the brink of ruin, Itachi is forced to make a decision that will change the course of the future: He aids his father, and the entire Uchiha clan, in the operation of a coup d'état against the leaders of Konoha. Following its success, he must bear witness to what becomes of his beloved village while recognizing his own responsibility in its creation.

Worse still, his relationship with his younger brother has grown fraught and distant over the years, burdened both by their father's influence and Itachi's own conscience. Bridging the gulf between them seems an impossible task.

Bookmarker's Notes:

“I don’t need it to work, I just need it. As many times as you decide you’ll give it to me.”

Jarring and brilliant and wonderful and terrible. This is what I want from canon divergence; Itachi's disassociation throughout, the bond between these two, and that final scene especially were masterfully done. This fic left me feeling cold dread.

Words: 34,658   Bookmarked Date: 24 Jul 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