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

Summary:

‘It doesn’t have to change anything,’ he thinks to himself, staring in the mirror at the words that refuse to budge from where they’ve permanently etched themselves into his skin, his blood, his bones. ‘Nobody has to know.’

In a world where your soulmate’s first words to you end up on your skin, Peter and Wade take turns figuring things out, rescuing each other, and falling in love.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Unspeakably good; marvelous atmosphere and pacing. The soulmatism in this fic didn't feel like destiny so much as inevitability; call that a kind of destiny if you want, but for me the distinction is the "digging in my heels" component you get out of fics like this.

Words: 12,716   Bookmarked Date: 16 Sep 2024

Pairings: Uchiha Itachi/Original Character(s)
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

The water and power company that services the Akatsuki’s house (which they obviously have) sends a guy every month to read the meter. One day, a pretty lady comes instead. Itachi has a lot of feelings about this change.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Perfect in every way. I laughed. I cried. I adored this beyond what could possibly be considered reasonable. "The Akatsuki have Misadventures" is one of my favorite subgenres

My Collections: SI/OC open_in_new

Words: 3,572   Bookmarked Date: 15 Sep 2024

Pairings: Hidan & Kakuzu, Akatsuki (Naruto) & Original Female Character(s)
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

The number one reason to hate Uchiha Itachi is, of course, the familicide. This fic is about the other reason.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Brilliant work and a joy to read. This OC fits a really fun niche in the shinobi ecosystem, such a creative concept!

Words: 4,392   Bookmarked Date: 15 Sep 2024

Pairings: Kakuzu (Naruto) & Original Female Character(s)
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

Maddie gets her mail, struggles with conflicting impulses, goes on a wee little adventure, and works toward her dream of exploiting other people's tragedies for her own personal gain.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I found this an absolutely delightful sequel to Tozette's other work, Deadbeat. (read that first!). Bonus points for the inclusion of Sasori and Deidara, the fact that Sasori and Deidara get to be complete losers, unconventional displays of tenderness, and Maddie's fascinating biology.

My Collections: SI/OC open_in_new

Words: 13,260   Bookmarked Date: 13 Sep 2024

Pairings: None
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

“So is this why you can just pass sharingan around like hot potatoes?”

Orochimaru paused in the middle of writing, blinking at her.

“Hot potatoes?”

OR: speculative biology gets real weird.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Ohoho, this was a fun one. Gestures vaguely. It's the speculative biology of it all . . .

My Collections: SI/OC open_in_new

Words: 3,298   Bookmarked Date: 13 Sep 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:

There was no blood. No char. There was nothing to see except the strange softening of the Yiling Patriarch's mouth, as if just for a moment he was another person entirely.

"There is the mark of our bargain, and here is the challenge," said the Yiling Patriarch. "You may strike at me, exactly once, with your sword. I will not fight back; I will not resist you at all, Hanguang-jun." That silvery suggestiveness crept into his voice again. "And a year and a day from now, you will come to me and I will deliver exactly the same to you."

Lan Wangji heard his brother's voice raised in sharp and incomprehensible protest. His own heart was beating too loudly for him to hear anything else.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Adorable! Loved the identity bullshit and Lan Wangji at the Burial Mounds keepin' a promise. I really wish I could be there to see Xichen's face when he learns that his brother is marrying this man . . .

Words: 13,138   Bookmarked Date: 07 Sep 2024

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

Summary:

His hand is tugged up, and moved so that it covers Deku’s mouth like a gag. He feels the other boy’s lips move, slowly. Repeating the same words over and over again.

Dread spreads through his chest.

Katsuki copies the movements with his own mouth, exhaling sound around them.

“I...can’t—” Katsuki stops. He is staring, but he knows he is not staring at Deku’s face. Who knows what he's staring at. He doesn’t know either.

“You can’t speak,” he says for Deku, and feels the other boy’s head move in an exaggerated nod.

This, Katsuki thinks, is pretty fucking bad.

Katsuki is blinded. Izuku is muted. Both of them are kidnapped. Things get worse.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Exploration of self in relation to the other.

Words: 5,461   Bookmarked Date: 01 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: 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. 

 

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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