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Murder in the Clavist Autonomous Zone, by Rich Larson

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/murder-in-the-clavist-autonomous-zone/

excerpt: She knew to expect Kierk’s homegrown MDMA analog to hit like a blissy staticky tsunami. She knew to expect Mona’s band—formerly the Noctambulists, now Gristleswing—to pack the dancefloor into an electric sea of skin and sweat. She knew to expect the long rambling goodbye pep-talk from Vawn on the rooftop and the frantic-turned-tender goodbye sex with Ilya at hers. She did not expect to stumble home and find a corpse on her doorstep. ➜ a short story about a dystopian future, a murder investigation, community, and someone who's trying to leave the only home she's ever known ➜ the information reveals over the course of the story are handled so well ➜ and the narrative tone of...hm. of inevitability? of sadness. of people trying their best to hold the line against the constant pressure of external forces. idk it's real good. ➜ written for a Stop Copaganda short story contest! ➜ 4.7k words

#about-dystopia #about-murder #about-police #by-richlarson #fandom-profic #focus-gen #focus-world #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction

1 month ago | View Shared by soph

As a stranger give him welcome, by morethanfantasy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61341184

Summary: “It started with the ghost,” Horatio said after a moment, clearly coming to a decision. He looked upset, finally, but in a frustrated way, not in the way you would expect from someone who had just witnessed four people die, and one of them in his arms. “I got roped into it because of the ghost.” // Why Hamlet chose to put his trust in Horatio. ➜ yuletide fic - for Hamlet ➜ taking an interpretation that Horatio and Hamlet barely knew each other before the start of the play, and running with it from Horatio's pov ➜ I love the way this interpretation shapes the story! ➜ And Horatio's pov is so good. the way he feels helplessly drawn into the mess by Hamlet's charisma, never sure what he can do or what he should do, but unable to make himself step back and leave Hamlet alone ➜ because Hamlet IS so charismatic, and so visibly struggling at the same time! and there's so much depth there that Horatio simply cannot have the context to understand, but he wants to, he wants to be there for Hamlet ➜ but in the end, of course, all he can do is tell everyone what happened. ➜ I'm so emotions!!!! ➜ 9k words

#about-outsidepov #about-rarefandom #by-morethanfantasy #char-hamlet #char-horatio #fandom-hamlet #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-hamlet&horatio #type-fanfic #➤ouchy #➤teary #➤yeah

3 months ago | View Shared by soph

The First Morning, by genarti

https://archiveofourown.org/works/61428073

Summary: The day after Sara's visit to the Carrisford house, Becky leaves Miss Minchin's for her own happily ever after. ➜ yuletide fic, for A Little Princess ➜ Becky's pov on the day after all the climactic reveals, when she gets to leave Miss Minchin's and go join Sara next door ➜ this does such a good job of capturing the tone of the book, the magic and wonder and the depths of emotions, and the kind of relationship Sara and Becky have ➜ these two young edwardian-era girls doing their best to navigate what they can be to each other within the bounds of societal understandings of power differentials, and their own internalized senses of such things.....I'm so emotions!! ➜ 3k words in length

#about-postcanon #by-genarti #char-becky #char-sara #fandom-alittleprincess #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-becky&sara #type-fanfic

3 months ago | View Shared by soph

Improving Fortinbras, by a_t_rain

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51880441

Summary: Horatio attempts to use his humanist education to mold the new king of Denmark into an ideal ruler, with mixed results. ➤ post-canon fanfic of shakespeare's Hamlet ➤ from Horatio's pov as he considers how best to mould the new young king Fortinbras in useful directions ➤ I love the evolution of Horatio's thoughts over the course of the fic, and the brief glimpses we get of Fortinbras ➤ love the integration of various minor characters and OC's, to good effect! ➤ 9k words in length

#about-grief #about-postcanon #by-a_t_rain #char-horatio #fandom-hamleet #focus-dudeslash #focus-gen #focus-ship #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-fortinbras&horatio #ship-hamlet/horatio #ship-horatio/oc #type-fanfic

4 months ago | View Shared by soph

Chapter 742; Unleash the Holy Globes of Justice!!, by Margo_Kim

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58268560

Summary: If Shizun was hoping to hide his mysterious visitor from his peak, his edict for everyone to leave and not remark on her made it impossible for her to go unremarked on. Ming Fan was currently scurrying around, punishing anyone who suggested anything untoward was possibly happening. This mostly meant people waited to gossip until he was gone. The leading theory was that the woman was from one of the brothels Shizun was rumored to have frequented in the past. Luo Binghe had never seen any evidence that this rumor was true (he was actually concerned that Shizun didn’t know what sex was), so he’d dismissed the claims as slander. Then a woman had prostrated herself at the bottom of the stairs of Cang Qiong and begged that a message be delivered to all on the mountain. It was urgent, she said. She could not say more at this time, but lives depended on the right person hearing these words. “What is the message?” a disciple had asked. The woman raised her head. “Beyonce,” she had said clearly. “Internet. The general concept of astronauts.” ➤ svsss fic featuring another transmigrator coming to qing jing during the pre-abyss era, to talk to sqq about how to derail the plot ➤ I love her perspective on the whole experience! and how baffling sqq finds her desires and priorities ➤ the whole fic is very funny! ➤ 6k words

#about-outsidepov #by-margo_kim #char-oc #char-shenqingqiu #fandom-svsss #focus-/ #focus-dudeslash #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-luobinghe/shenqingqiu #type-fanfic

4 months ago | View Shared by soph

Poll: would you read the peerless cucumber transmigration romance?, by envyenvy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/59957209

summary: -dick jokes [screenshot of a text from Peerless Cucumber that reads “Do you still take commissions?”] -passionate ranting no fucking way he’s still alive??? -binghe obsession of course this is how we find out -homoerotic undertones maybe he really was dead and he just rose from the grave to commission art of lbh one last time in a totally hetero way ofc -binghe obsession ofc ➤ it's an outside pov fic consisting of a chat between pidw friends in a discord specifically for discussing Peerless Cucumber ➤ Peerless Cucumber has reappeared after being absent from the internet for a year, and he wants to commission art of himself and his husband in sqq x lbh cosplay ➤ cue the chat going wild ➤ it's SO FUNNY and so much fun, I love this fic both in premise and execution, chef's kiss ➤ 2.4k words

#about-chatlog #about-outsidepov #by-envyenvy #char-oc #char-shenqingqiu #fandom-svsss #focus-/ #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-luobinghe/shenqingqiu #type-fanfic #➤funny #➤yes

5 months ago | View Shared by soph

the youngest wound-dresser, by lonelyghosts

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58511005

summary: She'd never been anyone's favorite before he'd told her that, the lesser daughter of a prestigious family that had enough heirs and spares that she could be given away and the act called an honor. It was a scary but lovely thing to be the best, the most loved. When she'd heard those words she'd clutched them to her chest and hoped she'd never prove them false. That did not mean that she did not hate him, too. // OR: Ning Yingying loves her shizun; she loves Binghe, too. These things come into conflict, whether she wants them to or not. ➤ an svsss fic set in the original PIDW, about Ning Yingying ➤ and holy shit this fic is so good, so everything I didn't even know to hope for from a fic about pidw nyy, I am all emotions?! ➤ the complexity of nyy's relationships with sqq and lbh, the mix of love and hate, the way she doesn't feel able to do anything but to witness and to go along with how things are ➤ and seeing the awful things that happen through her eyes.....it's so powerful and bleak and believable ➤ I adore this fic, I'm just absolutely blown away by it ➤ 9k words

#about-pidw #by-lonelyghosts #char-ningyingying #char-originalluobinghe #char-originalshenqingqiu #fandom-svsss #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-ningyingying&originalluobinghe #ship-ningyingying&originalshenqingqiu #type-fanfic #➤feelings #➤ouchy #➤yeah

5 months ago | View Shared by soph

Friends of Cordelia, by PhoenixFalls and sanguinity

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57205348

summary: During her decades of service to the Imperium, Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan commanded a special place in the hearts of queer Barrayarans. Explore their stories today at the Vorbarr Sultana Capitol Museum. ➤ document fic about the vorkosigan saga, presented as a posthumous museum exhibit about Cordelia and her role in the queer community of Barrayar ➤ wonderfully done - I loved all the different voices we hear from, and the looks at different aspects of queer culture and history ➤ and the sense of queer joy and love and resilience throughout! ➤ 6k words in length. podfic available.

#about-documentfiction #about-museum #about-queer #by-phoenixfalls #by-sanguinity #char-cordelia #fandom-vorkosigan #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

5 months ago | View Shared by soph

After We Kill Our Father and Before We Reach the Mainland, by Max Franciscovich

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/after-we-kill-our-father-and-before-we-reach-the-mainland/

Excerpt: After we kill our father but before we leave the island, we argue. Cal doesn’t want to go; he’s afraid of the water. Even after the rest of us outvote him two to one, he refuses to move, crouching on the ground, pressing the ruined side of his face into the earth, snarling whenever we try to touch him. In the end Ari has to sit down with him and say something in a quiet soothing susurrus, like they do, and the whole time Mir is pacing in the waves at the very edge of the water, where it barely comes up to her ankles. She is moving back and forth and back and forth, with her eyes on the horizon, and when this is happening Father’s blood is still on all of our hands but mostly on hers. ➤ that's a very evocative short story title right there and it's like. yeah. that's what the story is about! ➤ a fantasy story about three teens who have escaped their powerful and abusive father figure, who are a team in escaping, who might not always like each other but who are bound together in inextricable ways ➤ the entire story takes place in a boat as they make their way away from the island, hoping to find the mainland, but it never feels static, it's always pushing you onward, as you get more hints of the backstory, of what exactly all the context is for the murder and the escape ➤ it's so good!!! ➤ also. it's told in plural first person? which is so cool. The three teens are the "we" and "us" of the narrative voice. it's so well done! I love when stories play with pov. ➤ also. trans characters! ➤ 5k words

#about-family #about-trans #about-waterrelatedstuff #by-maxfranciscovich #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #type-fiction

6 months ago | View Shared by soph

The Thirteenth Dancer, by Leah Cypess

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-thirteenth-dancer/

Excerpt: I had warned a hundred mortals not to trust the boatman. I’d told them: No matter how much you pay him, no matter what you promise, it will never be enough. Yet somehow, I found myself surprised when he grabbed my wrist before I could step off the boat. I gave him my most forbidding stare, which only made him smirk as he held out his other hand. We had an agreement, I almost said. I caught myself just in time—I would have to shed my mainland habits, and fast, now that I was back. ➤ A novelette inspired by the fairy tale The Twelve Dancing Princesses ➤ about one of the princesses who managed to escape, but who comes back ➤ a fascinating reimagining, leaning into the dangerous appeal of the fae, and the desire for belonging, and what you will and won't do for love -- or for freedom ➤ I've read a lot of retellings of this fairy tale and there are a lot of good ones but this one definitely ranks pretty high on the list! ➤ 10k words

#about-faerie #about-family #by-leahcypess #fandom-12dancingprincesses #fandom-fairytales #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #focus-world #length-2-10k #type-fiction

6 months ago | View Shared by soph

Nameless, by a_t_rain

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54241369

Summary: Rebecca Heminges has never liked watching Othello. She thinks she'll like the King's Men's new tragedy even less. ➤ historical rpf about 17th century theatre actors associated with shakespeare ➤ I've never heard of these characters before or the play they're putting on that's central to the themes of the fic but the the fic does a good enough job introducing it all that it works nonetheless ➤ a really interesting and thoughtful work about life vs fiction, and acting, and finding a new life, and the realities and ramifications of abusive relationships ➤ I loved it, and I see the author has written other fics about this group of characters and I want to read them too! ➤ 5k words in length

#about-rarechar #about-theatre #by-a_t_rain #char-rebeccaheminges #fandom-historical-rpf #fandom-shakespeare #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤good

6 months ago | View Shared by soph

Who Are You Wearing? by nerdyjellyfish

https://archiveofourown.org/works/57019204

Summary: Ling Wen wakes up in Hua Cheng's bed. ➤ omg I am LIVING, someone wrote me so many words of ling wen fic wherein post-canon ling wen bodyswaps with xie lian ➤ the ling wen pov in this fic is sooooo good, her pragmatic approach to dealing with whatever happens in her life, her disinterest in attending to her emotions, her independence and unwillingness to rely on anyone who isn't her ➤ and seeing xie lian and hua cheng through ling wen's eyes is so good too!! ➤ there are so many fun character relationship dynamics, connected with a really fun premise, and I loved it all ➤ 8k words in length

#about-bodyswap #about-postcanon #by-nerdyjellyfish #char-lingwen #fandom-tgcf #focus-& #focus-/ #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-huacheng/xielian #ship-lingwen&peiming #ship-lingwen&xielian #type-fanfic #➤delightful #➤yeah

8 months ago | View Shared by soph

veritas levata cordis, by SleepyMaddy

https://archiveofourown.org/works/56759311

summary: or: A piece of Ancient technology requires some honesty to grant access to its workings; Rodney and Jeannie find themselves telling each other a few unspoken truths. ➤ sga gen fic about Rodney and Jeannie's sibling relationship ➤ in order to access the Ancients' science thingy they need to tell each other truths....enough to make the door-opening device accept them ➤ some petty things get said but also, in the end, some pretty major acknowledgements ➤ I love this sibling pair and it's always a delight to see a fic focusing on their relationship with each other! ➤ the balance of their conversation and truth-telling and how it shifts over time is so well done ➤ 4k words in length

#about-family #about-truthserum #by-sleepymaddy #char-jeannie #char-rodney #fandom-sga #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-jeannie&rodney #type-fanfic

8 months ago | View Shared by soph

The More You Learn, by Neery

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54254623

"Explain your human," Luo Binghe snapped. ➤ svsss canon divergence au, focused on the dynamics between mbj and lbh, with background moshang and bingqiu ➤ I love mbj's pov omg. in his own head he's so straightforward! and just doesn't feel the need to explain himself most of the time ➤ mbj internally: alright sure I'm willing to be allies with this powerful young heavenly demon. mbj out loud to lbh: nothing ➤ also holy shit mbj's pov on sqh!!! ➤ and the way he judges lbh - powerful, smarter than he expected, less unlikeable than he initially thought, still very young. awwwww <3 such a different pov on him than we usually get. ➤ I loved the whole negotiation conversation with lbh talking about wishes ➤ and holy shit mbj's pov on sqh!!! like. he's not WRONG about sqh's ability to grant wishes! I adore this way of understanding sqh's whole deal ➤ I loved this line especially: "This meant that he could now wish for them to be allies, so things were going to be all right." mbj has figured out nice and early what he needs to figure out, and everything else is for lbh's benefit! ➤ and holy shit I just put it together in the process of writing this that mbj knows things will be alright because he can WISH for them to be allies, and no matter what goes down, sqh will make it happen!!!! god that's good ➤ 3k words in length ➤ sequel to The More You Don't Know

#by-neery #char-luobinghe #char-mobeijun #fandom-svsss #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-bookmarked #note-commented #ship-luobinghe&mobeijun #ship-luobinghe/shenqingqiu #ship-mobeijun/shangqinghua #type-fanfic #➤delightful

8 months ago | View Shared by soph

An Intergalactic Smuggler's Guide to Homecoming, by Tia Tashiro

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_04_24/

quote: There are seven hundred aliens hidden in Miko’s backpack, and the Galactic Security Agent currently studying her passport (hopefully) has no clue. The agent is an alien themselves, some tentacular species with assistive devices hooked into its uniform to mist its soft skin every few seconds. A puff of evaporated solution exits from one of the devices by its neck as it draws her passport closer to its pitted eyes. ➤ a scifi short story set in space, about a smuggler who left her sister behind when she left the shitty planet she grew up on ➤ but her latest mission has her returning to that planet to deliver the goods ➤ (the goods are hundreds of teeny tiny sentient bioluminescent jellyfish fleeing civil war) ➤ I enjoyed the worldbuilding, and the difficult emotions about family, and how the things that felt world-endingly true at 17 don't need to be true forever ➤ 7k words in length

#about-family #about-smugglers #about-space #by-tiatashiro #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction

8 months ago | View Shared by soph

The Spindle of Necessity, by B. Pladek

http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-spindle-of-necessity/

quote: Andrew was convinced the writer had been trans. By this point his friends were tired of hearing about it, but he had no one else to tell besides the internet, and he was too smart for that. That would be asking for it. ➤ short story about a trans man who's obsessed with the m/m novels of a dead historical novelist who he's convinced was trans ➤ and about the dreams he has where he meets her and talks with her ➤ it's a story that feels unsatisfying but like, in a satisfying way? ➤ idk how to explain! it makes me want to reread it 3 more times and think about the way one's relationship with oneself is mediated through the stories one reads and loves ➤ it's really good ➤ 6k words in length

#about-dreams #about-timetravel #about-trans #by-bpladek #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction #➤ooh #➤yeah

8 months ago | View Shared by soph

Himalia, by Carrie Vaughn

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/vaughn_06_24/

Quote: Outside the viewport, light and shadow stitched a tapestry across the surface of Himalia. The shuttle ticked the countdown, thrusters firing to control descent to the docking cradle at Base Camp. I videoed everything, but the footage looked like a million other landings on a million other rocky airless surfaces. What made this different? Well, it was me, and this was home. ➤ Scifi novelette about growing up somewhere you always know you're going to have to leave eventually, because it was never intended to be permanent ➤ and leaving your best friend behind, who wants to never leave, because it's home ➤ it's really good!! I had a lot of feelings about the characters, and the way Niri is drawn in Jenny's life through her absence in this day of her return ➤ also it's set in space, on one of the satellites of Jupiter! ➤ wistful vibes ➤ 8k words in length

#about-space #by-carrievaughn #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction

10 months ago | View Shared by soph

One Flew Over the Songhua River, by Qi Ran, translated by Andy Dudak

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/qi_03_24/

quote: Dad says Auntie was beautiful when she was young, with a bright-eyed gaze, pure yet alluring, and a slender, curving waist. When happy, her face was like springtime. When sorrowful, she was like a thin willow bending in the wind. Sometimes I try to imagine my aunt’s youthful beauty, and I end up thinking of those fox demon women in Zhiyi novels, eyes flickering like stars. With a slight twist of the demon’s waist, your soul is hers. But Auntie was the type who’s a thousand miles removed—aloof, full of rebuffs. Every boy who saw her back then suffered pangs of desire, yet they shunned her. Before Deng Baolin met her husband, she scratched the faces of thirteen boys. She was a prickly beauty, a thorny rose. In short, she was completely unlike the person before my eyes. ➤ scifi short story translated from chinese; originally published in 2021 ➤ it's a fascinating outside-outside pov, a nephew telling the story of his aunt, whose story is that of her famous physicist-astronaut husband ➤ the multiple layers of abstraction work well for this story -- and the narrative loops around itself in how it's told too, wandering forwards and backwards in time to circle around the heart of things ➤ which is really a story about family and about place and about how you decide what to prioritise in your life ➤ it's lovely and thoughtful and wistful. I really liked it! ➤ 7k words in length

#about-family #about-space #by-andydudak #by-qiran #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #focus-het #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction #➤quiet

10 months ago | View Shared by soph

Forays Into Human Sexuality (or whatever Laurence is doing), by WerewolvesAreReal

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55207495

Summary: Laurence says, “It is wholly natural, anyway, with no women around.” ➤ delightful post-canon queer gen temeraire fic ➤ ft. Laurence & Tharkay friendship, and Laurence realising some things about himself ➤ I love how much fun Tharkay can have teasing Laurence, and how Laurence despite his excess englishness is still willing to engage with the conversation! ➤ 800 words in length

#about-friendship #about-postcanon #about-queergen #by-werewolvesarereal #char-laurence #char-tharkay #fandom-temeraire #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-laurence&tharkay #type-fanfic #➤delightful

10 months ago | View Shared by soph

Shen Qingqiu's Harmony in the Workplace, by raitala

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55864573

Summary: Prompt: Oblivious aro ace SQQ who somehow matchmakes everyone around him into perfectly happy relationships by giving wrong context but applicable advice. ➤ svsss fic wherein sqq is an oblivious aroace who just wants to be left alone to enjoy his disciple's company in peace (binghe even does the voices when he reads aloud!) but other people in his sect keep bothering him by needing things ➤ sqq has no idea that his efforts to get people's problems dealt with results in impressively effective matchmaking ➤ cute and fun! ➤ 6k words in length

#about-asexuality #about-matchmaking #by-raitala #char-shenqingqiu #fandom-svsss #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-luobinghe&shenqingqiu #type-fanfic

10 months ago | View Shared by soph

lotus blossoms out of season - Kieron_ODuibhir

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36111961

Summary: “How could you let him?” she asked abruptly. It came out—menacing. Her own voice hadn’t been capable of conveying anger like that. If she’d tried very hard to rage, it would have been shrill and unimpressive, and if she’d spoken the way she’d tried to just now, it might have chilled the right room but it would still have sounded gentle. A-Cheng’s voice had no softness in it, and both boys went very still. ➤ mdzs/cql canon divergence au, where instead of mxy sacrificing himself to resurrect wwx, jc sacrifices himself to resurrect jyl ➤ jyl and wn and mxy eat soup together about it ➤ and jyl grapples with how she feels about everything that happened. and what she's going to do next ➤ and like. DANG I love it!!! ➤ 5k words in length

#by-kieron_oduibhir #char-jiangyanli #fandom-cql/mdzs #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-jiangcheng&jiangyanli&weiwuxian #type-fanfic #➤yeah

11 months ago | View Shared by soph

how Yao Yongzheng traveled back in time to save everyone - ShippersList

https://archiveofourown.org/works/51184570

no summary ➤ mdzs/cql time travel au fic where Sect Leader Yao travels back in time at the point of his death, and intends to Make Changes For The Better ➤ a funny and fun look at how things happen, with and without his intervention! ➤ 6k words in length

#about-timetravel #by-shipperslist #char-weiwuxian #char-yaozongzhu #fandom-cql/mdzs #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

1 year ago | View Shared by soph

Bird on the Wire - villainousfriend (katzenfabrik)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54847861

summary: <blockquote>“If you died,” Huaisang started, not knowing quite where he was going with this. “I mean, you did die, da-ge, but if someone had killed you… what would you want to happen next?” / In the wake of Nie Mingjue’s death, Nie Huaisang realises how much he’s been left in ignorance. How could the artsy little brother be left to run their ancestral asteroid-mining clan? What other secrets are hidden in his san-ge’s past? And how should he get revenge? Maybe having da-ge’s personality backed up on a server was supposed to help with all this. Maybe.</blockquote> ➤ mdzs space au about nie huaisang and his years-long project in avenging his da-ge ➤ a repeated theme throughout the fic is nhs visiting and talking to back-ups that had been taken of nmj's personality before death, and the way that this makes literal how HAUNTED nhs is by his brother's absence is just sooooooo good ➤ the worldbuilding is great, the things that are changed from canon due to this different context are great, the anguish and monofocus of nhs are great ➤ I AM ALL EMOTIONS ;_; ➤ 8k words in length

#about-ai #about-au #about-space #by-katzenfabrik #by-villainousfriend #char-niehuaisang #char-niemingjue #fandom-cql/mdzs #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-niehuaisang&niemingjue #type-fanfic #➤ouchy #➤yeah

1 year ago | View Shared by soph

everyone knows; we saw for ourselves - bosbie

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54900601

summary: <blockquote>When news reaches Qing Jing Peak of Luo Binghe’s ascension as the undisputed sect leader of Huan Hua Palace, Ming Fan seethes and Ning Yingying mourns.</blockquote> ➤ svsss gen fic about ning yingying and ming fan, reacting to the news about luo binghe becoming the sect leader of huan hua ➤ nyy and mf only know what they've seen, and their shizun is dead and luo binghe is behaving as if he has no love or loyalty left in him ➤ oof this is so GOOD, I had emotions at the end!!! ➤ 2k words in length

#by-bosbie #char-luobinghe #char-mingfan #char-ningyingying #fandom-svsss #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-mingfan&ningyingying #type-fanfic #➤yeah

1 year ago | View Shared by soph

Afflictions of the New Age - Katherine Ewell

https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/afflictions-of-the-new-age/

Summary: <blockquote>Eveline yellow-dressed golden-hair. Eveline. She came to me four years ago. I think it was four years. Maybe five. No, no. Seven. Time passes so strangely now, after so long, the world drip-dropped now like honey, sticky and swimming. I was a different woman once. So bright and sharp. Now I have the dreaming sickness, a cruel twist of modern medicine, time coming unglued, the price we pay for longevity. If you can pay for all the treatment, you all end up like me in the end. Not the old kind of dementia, where you abandon pieces of yourself to time, no, we’ve cured that—this kind is new, I abandon nothing, all of it just as sharp and kept as ever within the cage of my mind. The dreaming sickness takes away its relevance, its place. I am, as Vonnegut said, unstuck in time.</blockquote> ➤ A sci-fi short story about an elderly woman hundreds of years old, making use of every life extending treatment she can, but her grasp on time and on memory is no longer good ➤ Focuses on her relationship with her family, with her home aide, with her fear of death, with her experience of the confusion of past and present ➤ Evocative melancholy wistful tone, really effective! ➤ At the end of the story I'm left with many questions, but in a good way ➤ 4k words in length

#by-katherineewell #fandom-profic #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-downloaded #type-fiction #➤melancholy

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A Good Fit - nirejseki

https://archiveofourown.org/works/34102618

Summary: <blockquote>“The…Lan sect?” Meng Yao said doubtfully. “Are you sure?” “I am,” his mother said, her mouth tight. She looked upset, the way she always did these days when he referenced, intentionally or otherwise, the original plan that she had had to send him to join his father, sect leader of Lanling Jin. She’d raised Meng Yao on a steady diet of stories of what his life would be like when his father finally took him back the way he’d promised her he would, stories that had filled his days and nights for years and years and years, and then just last year she’d suddenly stopped talking about it entirely. It was as if the person who’d told those stories had nothing to do with her. Meng Yao didn’t know what had happened, but he assumed it must have been pretty bad. “It'll be a good fit,” she added.</blockquote> ➤ canon divergence fic where young Meng Yao goes to the Lan Sect to learn cultivation as a guest, instead of trying to be accepted into Jin ➤ I had a lot of fun with the route this fix-it took! ➤ and I enjoyed that it included friendship between Meng Yao and Su She <3 ➤ 5k words in length

#about-canondivergence #about-fixit #by-nirejseki #char-jinguangyao #fandom-cql/mdzs #focus-char #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

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Dragons and Other Metaphors - esama

https://archiveofourown.org/works/7740889

Summary: <blockquote>Shindo Hikaru was a monster and sometimes Akira could admit to himself that he was actually a little scared of him.</blockquote> ➤ canon divergence genfic about Akira's pov on Hikaru, and like, it's been SO long since I've been in this fandom that I've forgotten all the contextualization to recognize what the point of divergence is lol ➤ but it's a REALLY good fic about how large a figure Hikaru is in Akira's life, and the rivalry experience Akira is so committed to ➤ 3k words in length ➤ I saw this fic thanks to a rec from @Rozzychan@fandom.ink so thank you!

#about-canondivergence #by-esama #fandom-hikarunogo #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-akira&hikaru #type-fanfic

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Small Fish in an Unsettled Pond - Violent_entertainment

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53544574

Summary: <blockquote>Airplane Shooting Towards the Sky was an anti-social agoraphobic loser if there ever was one, albeit one with a talent for writing highly addictive and wildly entertaining stories. Who would live that kind of shitty, isolated life except by choice? / Wang Qingjie, Peak Lord of Ku Xing Peak, had a secret of his own, that should his fellow sect members been aware of it, would have had them shouting it from the rooftops for their own gain—which was why he had never revealed it.</blockquote> ➤ this is part of a series of unconnected works the author is writing, each one focusing on the relationship between Shang Qinghua and a different one of the various Cang Qiong peak lords ➤ today's is about Shang Qinghua and the Ku Xing Peak Lord! yes, one of the peak lords who doesn't even get a name in canon ➤ sqh and the kx peak lord are friends and unlikely allies in the effort to make sure lbh doesn't destroy the sect and mash the realms together ➤ I love how the author comes up with so many different backstories for sqh in the different fics ➤ and I love this vision of the kx peak lord! and what lbh would be like under this lord's tutelage! ➤ 4k words in length

#about-canondivergence #by-violent_entertainment #fandom-svsss #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #ship-shangqinghua&kuxingpeaklord #type-fanfic

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Reunion Dinner | 团圆饭 - vivisextion

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25979641

Summary: <blockquote>Jiang Cheng realises that his own nephew has never tried his mother's signature dish, and takes it upon himself to rectify this. [Recipe at the end]</blockquote> ➤ post-canon, jiang cheng realises jin ling has never tasted his mother's soup ➤ cue the epic quest to learn how to recreate it, and the things he learns along the way ➤ lovely fic about family and about food ➤ 4k words in length ➤ thanks to stultiloquentia for the rec!

#about-family #about-food #by-vivisextion #char-jiangcheng #char-jiangyanli #char-jinling #char-weiwuxian #fandom-cql/mdzs #focus-& #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic

1 year ago | View Shared by soph

A Personal Challenge - bobbiewickham

https://archiveofourown.org/works/52983415

Summary: <blockquote>While Alanna is King's Champion, Jonathan forbids her to issue personal challenges--but what happens after she retires? (Alanna challenges Wyldon, that's what happens).</blockquote> ➤ fic for the Tortall books, in epistolary form ➤ Alanna was forbidden from challenging Wyldon to a duel because she was king's Champion, but obviously as soon as she's not anymore, she goes for it ➤ various people react ➤ it's perfect. it's delightful. it's everything. ➤ 2k words in length

#about-epistolary #by-robertawickham #char-alanna #char-wyldon #fandom-tortall #focus-gen #length-2-10k #note-commented #note-downloaded #type-fanfic #➤yes

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