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Over time I've made a few rec lists for friends and never thought to share them with the wider fandom, so I thought it would be nice to do that and post it here!

An SNK (specifically Levi/Eren) rec list from Aug. 13 2022 with 40 recs, split into CANON, CANON DIVERGENCE, REINCARNATION and ALTERNATE UNIVERSE.

Example recs:

Grown To Be Wild by graves | T, 4k | Hanahaki. Eren wakes hours before dawn with his hands tearing at his throat.

Pinecones by ShamelesslyPoetic | G, 5k | While Eren is wandering in the forest, he meets a short, dark, handsome soldier and immediately falls in love.

10 X-Men: First Class (Charles/Erik) fics under 1000 kudos, posted on Apr. 30, 2022 (some of these stories have since gotten 1k kudos).

Example recs:

Kiss and Tell by pearl_o | T, 2k | It's been a long time since Charles and Raven were able to sit down and really talk to each other, but the awkwardness of the occasion is lessened by a lot of red wine and comparing notes on something they have in common - namely, what Erik was like in bed.

Kintsugi by xtinethepirate | E, 49k | When Charles had told Hank there would be a time when they would all be together again, he hadn't meant immediately. In Charles’s mind, that indeterminate time was something more along the lines of “in a few months or a year, once Erik realized what a colossal ass he had been and Charles had stopped wanting to punch him again.”

An MDZS Fic Sampler with 16 fics, with a subsection of fics specifically where the Wen Remnants survive, posted on Apr. 22, 2020.

Example recs:

Seldom All They Seem by fahye | 24k, E | He bows to Wei Wuxian, sword in hand, sleeves falling properly. Wei Wuxian bows in return, and the sect leaders begin the opening courtesies, and for all of ten minutes Lan Wangji is under the impression that he is betrothed to a boy who is perfectly normal and acceptable apart from an unfortunate tendency to fidget with his clothes. That impression does not last.

Operation Old Men by chiharu | 17k | An ill-fated parent teacher conference reunites Jin Ling's wayward uncle with Sizhui's father. AKA: A matchmaking disaster as told by Jin Ling, Sizhui, and Jingyi.

snickfic

Fic recs at my journal!

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fanarts/other kinds of fanwork/fics/fanvids/podfics have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/fics/podfics/fanvids/fanarts/some other kind of fanwork have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here

doranwen

I posted the following here but in case it doesn't get approved, and to spread the recs among a wider audience, I'm crossposting it here:

Have a multifandom set of recs. Some are shippy but over half are gen, and they vary wildly in length. The one commonality is that they are among the very best in their respective fandoms, in my opinion.

1. http://archiveofourown.org/works/12245919
[Leverage] Feels Like Home by daniellemydear (80k, Mature)
Slow burn Eliot/Parker, with hilariously accurate characterization and lines. Laugh, cry, sigh happily, you get all of the above with this fic.

2. https://archiveofourown.org/works/52010518
[Lois & Clark:TNAOS] Fictitious Persons by classicalgal (146k, General Audiences)
An AU focusing on Kara Kent, who happens to be the daughter of Clark and Lois… who ends up in a world where Superman is a fictional character. Child character-focused but very, very well-done and the story is very compelling. You can read it even if you don’t know L&C; all you need is the basic idea of Superman and you’re good. Gen.

3. http://archiveofourown.org/works/29793855
[The Matrix] The Dream Chronicles by Trin303 (75k, Mature)
Funny yet also serious AU focusing on Neo/Trinity with a happier ending than the first film. (Dreams are, obviously, a huge part of the story setup.)

4. http://archiveofourown.org/works/210087
[Rizzoli & Isles] The End of the World by romana2525 (3k, Teen and Up Audiences)
Apocalyptic AU set sometime after S1, focusing on Jane and Maura (pre-ship but the bond is there). The ending makes me want to cry in a good way.

5. https://archiveofourown.org/works/318935
[Rookie Blue] Deep by surreallis (12k, Explicit)
Fantastic AU where Andy goes undercover with Sam (with predictable shippy results). The ending is the best!

6. https://archiveofourown.org/works/569661
[Sue Thomas F.B.Eye] Breakfast Date by DKateri (5k, General Audiences)
A sweet missing scene in the middle of the S3 ep Adventures in Babysitting; Sue/Jack-focused.

7. https://archiveofourown.org/works/1361
[Lord of the Rings] The Long Road Home by Scribblesinink (Scribbler) (95k, Teen and Up Audiences)
A Boromir Lives! fic that is a wonderful tale of shame and redemption. Excellent for anyone who loves Boromir and wishes to see more of him. Gen.

8. https://archiveofourown.org/works/29464
[X-Men original movieverse] The Evolution of Jubilee by Mara (11k, General Audiences)
An excellent fic wherein Jubilee embarks on a crusade after taking a field trip to a museum. Gen.

9. https://archiveofourown.org/works/600324
[Push] …and that has made all the difference by maharetr (4k, General Audiences)
A great post-movie fic that’s a bit of emotional hurt/comfort and fluff, and just a wonderful feel-good ending. Gen.

10. http://archiveofourown.org/works/42983565
[The Fugitive film] The Anatomy of a Heartbreak Éclair by OrionLady (23k, Teen and Up Audiences)
Excellent post-film fic from Sam’s POV that deals with some PTSD and the building of an epic friendship. Gen.

I’d have come up with a slightly different set if the best fics for some fandoms were on AO3, but sadly some fandoms haven’t migrated over much, and their best fics are still hiding on other platforms.

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/fanart/fics/podfics/fancrafts/some other kind of fanwork have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fancrafts/podfics/fics/fanvids/some other kind of fanwork/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool podfics/some other kind of fanwork/fics/fancrafts/fanvids/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanvids/podfics/fics/fanarts have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

beatrice_otter

Dirty Computer, Inside Daisy Clover, 16th Century RPF, Addams Family, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Astronomy (anthropomorfic), Ballet Shoes, Batman, Brigadoon, Brother Cadfael, Captain America, Casablanca, A Christmas Carol, The Emperor's New Groove, Enchanted Forest Chronicles, Enola Holmes, Fairy Tales, Galaxy Quest, Green Knight, Goblin Emperor, Guys and Dolls, Gypsy, Humans are Space Orcs, Imperial Radch, In the Heights, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Law and Order, Lion in Winter, Lord Peter Wimsey, Mansfield Park, Miss Marple, Moana, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Ms Marvel, Much Ado About Nothing, Murder, She Wrote, Murderbot Diaries, Ocean's 8, Persuasion, Peter Pan, Philadelphia Story, Piano Man, Political Animals, Poirot, Pride, Rivers of London, Secret Garden, Singin' in the Rain, Shang-Chi and the Legend of Ten Rings, Spiderman, Stardust, Star Wars, Superman, Ted Lasso, Time Team, World of Five Gods (Chalion), X-Men, Young Wizards

glitteryv

Every Thursday, we have a community recs post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments. This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account to make posts of your own, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget, you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. :D!)

So what cool fic/podfic/fanart/fanvid have we discovered this week? Leave a comment below. Anon comment is enabled.

doranwen

These are all the fics from miscellaneous fandoms and crossovers that didn't fit in my other posts. All complete, not flagged in my database for anything in particular.

As always with my db-generated lists, ratings are all converted to a single system for convenience:
Fanfiction.net - G through R
AO3 - PG through X (though the occasional child-friendly fic I mark G)
anything without a rating (AO3 or other site) - Unrated

There are few enough of these that it wasn't too hard to put ships - most of them are unusual enough that I remembered what they were about.

( Chronicles of Narnia [books] / Lord of the Rings [books] )

( Deep Impact )

( Gold Diggers )

( Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman / Smallville )

( Smallville / The Pretender )

( Stick It (2006) )

( Misc. Crossovers )

If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

doranwen

I wouldn't remember most fics under 1k if I were asked off the top of my head, and the few I would, I rec'd the other week in the "works I re-read" post. However, this is exactly why I built a fanfic database in the first place. A little fiddling with the SQL to build the right query and some formatting to create a report, and I have a list of all my favorite fics (that were entered in the database so far - I didn't quite get to 1000 total fics before the Yahoo Groups project took over my life last fall, only a handful of smaller fandoms) which are under 1K words. Since that list includes any favorites of the works I wrote, which would violate the self-rec rules, I'll paste the recs here and filter those out.

The one thing that this list doesn't have are the ships, though I'll try to note those if I remember them. (I can run queries and generate reports that limit by ships - or any number of themes, for that matter - that's easy enough, but to include the list of ships in the query results or report would be prohibitively difficult and the results would be terrible to try to wade through, formatting-wise.) So you're getting author - title, with rating and words below that. I'll group fandoms under cuts to make it easier to expand just the ones you know, since this is mainly tiny/rare fandoms. (I'd started with the small ones, adding those to my database, and I hadn't finished the Matrix ones, even, plus I know I'm behind on the FBI ones since that's been an active fandom.)

With short fics it takes more time to describe them than it does to read them, so I'm probably not going to say anything about most of them, and recommend just trying them. I'll try to warn if there's any serious triggers that I remember, but mostly just look at the tags.

One note about ratings: My database includes fics from both Fanfiction.net and AO3, so I adopted a standard MPAA-style rating system, where G to R corresponds to ff.n's K to M, and PG to X (which was shorter to use than NC-17) corresponds to AO3's General Audiences to Explicit, but I may occasionally mark a General as G if it's particularly suitable for children to read. It's a bit of a compromise but so would be any other option. Fics that chose not to use a rating (on AO3 or a blog post) are Unrated.

( Crossovers )

( Alphas )

( FBI (TV) )

( Flood (2007) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Push (2009) )

( The Matrix )

I hope someone finds something enjoyable on this list. :)

kingstoken

bring me home (like memories do) by echelons
Fandom: X-Men Comicsverse
Pairing: Logan/Ororo
Word Count: 863 words
Rating: T
Warnings: Canon Typical Violence
Summary: Alone, injured, and amnesiac, Logan remembers someone else.
Reccer's Note: Poor amnesic Logan has some memory flashes of Ororo, I really like how this author describes the memory flashes, and really conveys the thought process of a sad, confused, but determined Logan.

I Saved A Plate For You by ilgaksu
Fandom: Hawkeye Comics
Pairing: Clint & Kate
Word Count: 326 words
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Kate finds out about the farm.
Reccer's Note: A little bit of a mix of the Hawkeye comics and the films, because here Clint has the farm which is a movieverse creation. It is Clint's POV and a look at how much he wants Kate to be a part of his universe.

The Grand Plan by Cornerofmadness
Fandom: Star Trek TNG
Pairing: Beverly & Deanna
Word Count: 228 words
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Beverly has something she wants to ask Deanna.
Reccer's Note: I'm a little biased because this was written for me, but it is a cute little slice of life, where Bev knows exactly how to tempt Deanna

Fictober18 #7 "Don't Worry, We Still have Time" by KaCole
Fandom: Star Trek VOY
Pairing: Janeway/Chakotay
Word Count: 331 words
Rating: T
Warnings: None
Summary: Chakotay has issues after Tom Paris and Kathryn's trip into transwarp.
Reccer's Note: A little coda to Theshold, if Janeway and Chakotay had already been in an established relationship.

misbegotten

X-Men's Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr are one of my favorite relationships, and there is a wealth of great stories from which to choose. These recs are some of the ones that I've read over and over.

( 6 stories in no particular order )

rigormorphis

Vid recs for Rectember! Here's a handful of vids that I keep going back to, a few of them old classics and a few more recent finds. All recced vids are SFW.

Marvel Comics / MCU / X-Men Movieverse
Straightening Up the House by

eruthros
The tag "angry vidding" in conjunction with the vidder's summary pretty much says it all: Commemorating more than ten years of queer characters (not) appearing in Marvel films. I love this vid, it's bitter and ambitious and visually engaging, it's set to the perfect music, and... well, it illustrates its point VERY EFFECTIVELY. As a long time queer comics reader it felt a lot like someone had gathered up all my frustrations and set them whimsically to music.

The Untamed / The Fatal Journey
children's work by

LuckyDiceKirby
A vid about Nie Huaisang and Nie Mingjue using (mostly) footage from The Untamed's spinoff film The Fatal Journey. (Fair warning: this vid contains massive spoilers for the plot of The Untamed!) There are some genius moments in this vid that will always stick in my head the most - the upshot of Nie Huaisang bowing is one example - but every time I rewatch I spot another great little subtlety I hadn't noticed before.

RPF (or Real Person Vid?): Britney Spears
Piece of Me by

obsessive24
This vid is 12 years old and I still think about it whenever I think about Britney Spears. It was a little before its time in that regard, I think (though perhaps also reflective of its time in the vidders' notes/comments). It sucks how relevant this vid continues to be more than a decade on, but I think it's an excellent vid that does a great job of making its point about how the American pop music industry chews up and spits out its young stars.

My Cat From Hell
Tail as Old as Time by

eruthros &

thingswithwings
I almost didn't include this vid here because I already have a vid by eruthros on this reclist and besides, what if it wasn't as good as I remembered? But then I rewatched it and great news, it's still fantastic. I hadn't seen a single episode of My Cat From Hell when I first saw this but honestly, you really don't need to have; you just need to have at least some degree of affection for cats. I'm pretty sure that I clutched my chest cartoonishly irl the first time I watched it.

doranwen

I don't have a lot of rarepairs to recommend, as either the fandoms are so rare that any fic for it is rare, or the rarepair fics were not my favorites for various reasons, but here's a handful of excellent ones.

[Alphas - Lee/Rachel] Six Kisses of Rachel Pirzad by Teyerin (3468 words)
At first the idea of this relationship raised my eyebrows very high - but by the time I finished reading, I was smiling at it. It's an interesting one!

[Rookie Blue - Dov/Gail] To hell with it by JadeSelena (7654 words)
A S2 fix-it for a pairing the show only used as a means of breaking up Chris/Gail. (What a waste of screen time when you could have this!)

[Rookie Blue - Dov/Gail/Chris] A Series Of (Un)fortunate Events by amathela (8290 words)
Not only are there very few fics for these three together, this fic has them as a poly vee ship, which is a rare version in the fandoms I've read so far (admittedly, I haven't seen a ton of poly ships in my favorite fandoms), with Gail as the pivot. It's all very fluffy.

[Sue Thomas F.B.Eye - Myles/Tara] WNE 1: Weekend in New England by aubreysmom (23459 words)
This fic was the one that got me to see the potential in Myles/Tara. I've seen those two that way ever since. It's not *exactly* shippy but it feels shippy enough to me, and the sequel to it is most definitely shippy. (You can find the sequel from the author's profile, but it's definitely a part 2 of 3, and they never wrote the third… This one can stand on its own.)

The rarest of rarepairs for STFBE I would share a link to (it's a Myles/Sue fic!!!), but it was only hosted on RomanticFanfiction.com (which went down years ago) and since one had to log in to read the fics there, none of them were saved in the Wayback Machine. Back in the day I painstakingly copied it into an epub to re-read (and I'm really glad I did, now), because it's super well-written. It was called Surrogate and written by JoM. Mentioning here out of honor for the rarity and the great writing.

[X-Men Original Movieverse - Scott/Ororo] Loss of Composure series by Diana / Titaniafae / Dee / viscerate (no wordcount available)
I've seen this author's stuff in at least three or four different places with a different name each time, so I'm really not sure which nick they prefer! But no matter which it is, this series is really well-done and was one of a tiny handful of fics that taught me to love Scott/Ororo. I linked to the overall fanfic page because it has the whole series all linked together there and in the correct reading order, and the fics themselves aren't linked one to each other.

Happy reading!

doranwen

I can't count the number of times I've read these fics… I've got lots of favorites, but all of the ones on this list are ones I will just browse to on my hard drive (I save everything I like reading) and pull up to read, because I remember the author and title straight off, lol.

I left out anything that was a perma-WIP, or where I couldn't pick even just *one* of the many fics I love by an author. Those are better suited for a thorough recs post on another day.

( Leverage )

( The Lord of the Rings (books) )

( The Matrix )

( The Pretender )

( Rizzoli & Isles )

( Rookie Blue )

( Smallville )

( Sue Thomas F.B.Eye )

( X-Men Original Movieverse )

I ended up skipping Alphas and Push entirely because as much as I enjoy re-reading fics from those fandoms, I have a lot of "I love reading these" rather than a few really strong standouts - or in the case of Alphas, I have one that I'm saving for the rarepair post I'll get to another day.

And I couldn't even *try* to come up with a list for Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. I've read and re-read SO MANY of the fics over the years (it was one of my first fandoms) that the list would be ridiculously long. Suffice it to say, I'll have to make a recs list just for that fandom sometime. But that might be a while, lol.

aurilly

I love crossovers!

(I'm talking about the kind where characters from different fandoms interact; not fusions/AUs.)

MCU is my main fandom, so MCU/anything-not-Marvel-related would be awesome to read. Any ships or characters or lengths welcome. It's fine if it's a WIP or permanently abandoned, too. I'll take anything!

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