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: Dirk Strider/Dirk Strider/Dirk Strider/Dirk Strider
Fandom: Homestuck open_in_new

Summary:

“Four Dirks In Search Of an Author”
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being Four Dirks”
“Dirkencrantz And Gildensdirk And Two Other Dirks Are Dead”

Bookmarker's Notes:

I watched the video a few years ago without realizing that it was a written fic too. When I came back to the video, I bookmarked the fic. This is one of those Homestuck essentials.

Words: 3,689   Bookmarked Date: 01 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

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

Sam watched Dean hack up firewood with his hatchet. The magically-induced heat wave had his shirt soaked with sweat.

“Did you ever have a, uh… experimental phase?” Sam smacked his lips, trying to think of a diplomatic way to phrase it. “That kid–by which I mean you–has been staring. At me. Kind of a lot.”

(Sam and Dean get sent back to 1996 and go on a hunt with their teenaged selves. The kids don't know who they are.)

Bookmarker's Notes:

As much as I love the "It's the natural next step" Wincest, there will always be a special fondness in me for disgusting-messy Wincest and the unfiltered horror of familial codependency. This fic is that to a T. They're ugly and horrible and a fucking trainwreck and this fic really, really sells all of that. Something about the brutal inevitability of it all is just staggering – every stray scrap of symbolism contributes to this suffocating, inescapable atmosphere. The fever pitch is in the separation of seasons and thirteen years. The paranoid anxiety of it all is practically psychedelic.

This was such a unique premise and a faithful presentation of these characters in all the ways that are good, bad, and ugly.

Words: 105,324   Bookmarked Date: 28 Jun 2024

Pairings: None
Fandom: Naruto open_in_new

Summary:

Madeline Arslan died in 2025.

And then she woke up in her new life as Murakami Madeline, the only child to a sad, vagrant ninja.

That was unexpected.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Tozette is one of my favorite authors for a reason. I don't want to spoil anything, but this one is a real treat.

Words: 33,259   Bookmarked Date: 6/22/24

Pairings: Lan Zhan | Lan Wangji/Wei Ying | Wei Wuxian
Fandom: The Untamed open_in_new

Summary:

"Maybe you should get me out of your system," Wei Ying blurts. "Maybe that'll help."

*

Wei Ying finds out her best friend Lan Zhan is in love with her and offers a really super solution.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Engrossed me from beginning to end. I'm a lesbian Wangxian convert. As a bonafide fan of the "female bully" character archetype, I more than approve. The fantastic prose is the cherry on top.

Words: 20,359   Bookmarked Date: 6/20/24

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester
Fandom: Supernatural open_in_new

Summary:

"The werewolf." Sam says, quick. Hushed. Scared. "I don't know how. I was…"He was standing above you and then he wasn't. And I think I did that."

Dean keeps whispering stuff to Sam, banal reassurances that Sam soaks up like a sponge, but he feels sick. Sammy did something impossible. Sammy's been doing impossible things.

For years.

Or: Pre-Canon/Teen!chesters AU in which Sam develops powers at age eleven, Dean will do anything to protect him, and they have to live with the consequences

Bookmarker's Notes:

This is one of the most beautiful fics I've ever read. Atmospheric and lovely, aching with possession and codependency, simple and gripping. They're only each other's . . .

Words: 55,501   Bookmarked Date: 6/18/24

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:

Lan Zhan stops in front of one of the bespoke duplicates– a male figure, small, creamy-skinned and lithe. The name on the plinth reads Mo Xuanyu. Lan Zhan tested it on his first pass through the room. The doll was empty. No signals bouncing around its artificial brain, no operating programs queued to autostart. Not even a blinking dormancy light.

"Hey big guy," says Mo Xuanyu, chrome eyes sparkling with fun. "Who do I gotta fuck around here to get unplugged?"

Wei Ying is a rogue AI come to life. Lan Zhan is… handling it.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Head-over-heels in love with this setting and its worldbuilding. Extremely satisfying narrative arc, everything is true to character and canon. I loved this one.

Words: 70,100   Bookmarked Date: 5/29/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

Ju Ying, a tsundere brothel-worker with a strong but underdeveloped foundation and some sort of mysterious backstory involving a dead teacher, was absolutely not one of Luo Binghe's wives. Ju Ying, with her intense gaze and her kind hands and her beautiful, calculating eyes, never crossed Luo Binghe's path in the novel. Shen Qingqiu would definitely remember. She would have been in his top five. Maybe at the top of his top five; he would have been screaming in the comments for her to get a better arc, for Airplane not to just shove her in the back of the harem to waste away into nothing. Maybe, Shen Qingqiu thought, she would have been his favorite.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Identity fuckery, BingYuan, and misunderstandings. What more could you want?

Words: 32,114   Bookmarked Date: 5/28/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

They're calling HDF a miracle cure.

Shen Yuan could really use a miracle.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Delightful worldbuilding. I'd take an entire novel's worth of x_los's particular brand of witty smut blended with medfet. This has no right to be this good.

Words: 4,678   Bookmarked Date: 5/27/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

Pretending to be Shen Qingqiu comes easily to Shen Yuan, who's spent his whole life pretending to be someone he's not.

Bookmarker's Notes:

This level of compartmentalization hurts just to read. The scene near the end of this fic was my favorite. It was full of mutual love and longing, sweet, platonic tenderness that's too much and not enough.

Words: 3,126   Bookmarked Date: 5/22/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

Binghe grinds his sex skillset until he is authorised to re-enter more advanced quest areas on the game map.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Wit, fluff, and smut. Very charming fic

Words: 7,823   Bookmarked Date: 5/22/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a stallion protagonist must be in want of a horse girl.

Bookmarker's Notes:

I'm so glad that I read this one. I ended up devouring it and losing all track of time. This is the most important fic of all time and I will not be taking questions. THis was a hilarious, scathingly witty, fantastically written love letter to canon. I adored the side characters' perspectives, and Binghe's vulnerability and astuteness. I loved Shen Yuan's sense of humor, and I loved Shang Qinghua's characterization on the whole. Prepare to laugh out loud.

Words: 37,908   Bookmarked Date: 5/20/24

Pairings: Luo Binghe/Shen Yuan | Shen Qingqiu
Fandom: The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System open_in_new

Summary:

Shang Qinghua's fertilizer has unexpected effects on the mushroom body. In addition to...that, Shen Qingqiu doesn't remember his death. Or anything at all after planting the Sun Moon Dew Mushroom seed in the dirt.But he doesn't need to, right? Shen Qingqiu knows PIDW and Luo Bing-ge like the back of his hand. He'll be fine. He just has to avoid getting noticed – you know what happens to beautiful women in PIDW!

…though would life in the harem be so bad?

Bookmarker's Notes:

Cannot stress enough how much I enjoyed this. Shen Yuan is DAMAGED. I love how he thinks. "Ohh, I have no choice, it's my body that's aroused by Luo Binghe for narrative reasons, no use fighting it, haha! Oh well, I guess I have to have sex with him. Poor me."

Words: 15,790   Bookmarked Date: 5/20/22