Masterpost Of Arc Fic
/taps all this into a calculator. So I have over 1,311,254 1,365,918 words of fic. I've written a lot of things, and I sometimes get asked what folks should try reading. I'm going to try to do a fast pitch on all of my major stories.
Now, it's at this point a running gag with my readers that a good chunk of them read my stuff without knowing the canon, to the point I make a conscious effort to structure many of my fics in a way that's friendly to reading them like original novels. But that's not the case for all of them. So I will mark the ones that are most friendly to people who don't know the canon:
✔️ Totally accessible to people who don't know the canon!
⚠️ Could be accessible to people who don't know the canon, but you'll need to be good at inferring from context clues or be willing to google one or two things!
🛑 Canon Lock-Out. This fic is either set in the canon material or relies on a lot of knowledge of the canon!
Now for my own recommendation scale.
🌟 I AM EXTREMELY PROUD OF THIS STORY AND YOU SHOULD READ IT. I put a lot of work in and I think it holds up very well!
⭐ I think this is a pretty damn good fic, though maybe not one of my Best of The Best. Read these second unless the summary calls to you.
🐙 This is a Weird Story! Some of my stories are unabashedly very strange and this is one of them!
Okay lets get started. I'm ordering this by word count and separating by fandoms.
Homestuck
so we don't kill the ones we love (SWDKTOWL or KTOWL). 223,097 words (yeah). Explicit. ✔️🌟
Karkat Vantas has escaped Alternia, and landed himself in a brand new problem. To pay his way to Earth, he takes a contract with the Undying Umbra as an assassin and wetwork generalist. With a pricetag assigned to his life, Karkat assumes he just has to work his way out. Day by day, job by job, he's going to claw his way out from Under The Table. Then: He meets his handler, Dave Strider. And things get complicated. Like, really fucking complicated.
Vibes: This is my best story. Look at it like its own miniseries; it's separated into three arcs with two large intermissions, and has a very rigorous plot. Complicated characters with very different views of the situation, plot twists that recontextualize the story, a lot of moving parts, all navigated by one stubborn fucking protagonist who's superpower is that he cares too much about people in a world that does not. I'm extremely proud of this one, but its Enormous, so maybe read it second?
Hey, I read this one, what next? Try The Eurydice Suite for more Davekat. If you wish KTOWL focused on Dirk, Jake, Roxy, and Jane more, TWYCC.
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you can only take what you can carry to the edge of the sea (TWYCC). 150,254 words. Explicit. ✔️🌟🐙
Crocker Magitech is among the foremost developers of innovative magic and technology for the modern home, and the team of Crocker, Lalonde, and Strider are among the most important cogs in their clockwork machine. After a long dry spell without new projects to work on, Jane hits it big with a grand new discovery: a remote island out in the South Pacific that’s teeming with lost majyyks to rediscover. What the team finds out there is far more than their next big break: a lost settlement, a forgotten god, strange arcane flora, and a friendly boy living in the lake. Not even the combined knowledge of the team can prepare them for their expedition to this strange, hidden island. Magic, sex, and mayhem ensue.
Vibes: This is the one that takes place on a remote island that's powered by tantric magic and involves a lot of strange xenokink. It's also the one about losing hope about finding your place in a world that doesn't seem to have a place for you and how to emotionally heal from that trauma. Both are true! Until KTOWL, I would say this was my best work.
Hey, I read this one, what next? If you want more emotions, chamomile. If you want more weird xeno stuff, TSAD. If you want more weird magic specifically, earth and water.
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we float before the sea at dusk. 119,572 words. Explicit. ✔️⭐🐙
Jake English is a minor celebrity of the sublight net who often goes on intragalactic adventures to amazing locales to share his excursions with his lovely followers. It can be very good press for new interstellar tourist traps, so he's used to being hired to check out new vacation spots. When his old friend Jane hires him, Jake winds up on Alcyone to promote the new resort CrockerCorp has opened there. There's but one small, remarkable detail about the planet: it's covered entirely in breathable liquid. It would make a perfect tourist trap. Shame it's already inhabited. (A very weird AU, in which humans try to settle a big waterworld to build a tourist hotspot, and the native mers enact castle doctrine.)
Vibes: Fucking balls to the wall weirdness, and yet prob the fic I got the most fun feedback on. There's hypnosis, spooky sexy alien mers, and a full on Soft Bad End. If you want to just experience something super fucking weird but also sexy, this one has you.
Hey, I read this one, what next? If you want even more intense weird kink, ear tags. If you want something with less of a bad end, TWYCC.
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The Eurydice Suite, v2.0. 116,613 words. Explicit. ⚠️🌟
Dream-sharing: a highly illegal little industry in which agents delve into people's dreams, and unearth their deepest secrets and memories. Within this business, the Strider-Lalondes are known as the best there is — until Dirk Strider gets his fool-ass trapped within the confines of his own subconscious, with his Auto-Responder playing malicious prison warden. To save him, the best and brightest dreamers in the world will have to form a team. Backed by the token rich friend, lead by the surliest extractor ever bribed out of retirement, haunted by the shade of the latest, greatest agent in the biz, and on the run through a dangerous tiered dream in a hostile mind… It's going to take a miracle to pull this one off.
Vibes: Did you watch Leverage? That's the vibe. This is the kind of story where a bunch of terrifyingly competent people have their skills and relationships put to the test. It's the sort of story where in chapter 4, you are told What The Plan Is solely so by chapter 6 you can see just how much the plan can fall apart. This is also by far the most Cinematic story I have ever written, and feels like watching a blockbuster movie. (But like a pre-MCU blockbuster, back when ppl knew wtf pacing was.) I personally think having some Homestuck knowledge helps understand the fic, but I've had multiple people tell me you can read it without knowing the canon.
Hey, I read this, what next? If you want more hot Karkat, KTOWL. If you wanted more DirkJake and Roxy, ASAFAF.
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chamomile, rose water, and other unlikely intoxicants. 86,573 words. Explicit. ✔️⭐
"I do swear by Skaia's guiding light to eschew ambition and direction to serve in the holy retinue. I will lay my head in the safety of the bower and pay penance in thought and deed. For the King of All Winters and the Undying Prince, I will provide succor and balm, and yield my being to ease the burden he carries for us all." In which Dirk plays the role of resigned god-prince of Skaia, locked in a twisted version of the Year King fable. His life is a sorry routine until one year, he receives a very bold, strange offering from the heir to House Harley, Jake. A story about cycles, and how to break them, and the patterns left in the scattered pieces afterward.
Vibes: Isolation, winter thaw, a lot of very textured alchemic magic, and dark fairy tales. A very quiet story in many ways, driven by emotions and character arcs more than plot. This is one of my most popular stories. It has a small fun sequel, valerian, borealis, and other unusual marital aids.
Hey, I read this one, what next? If you really like the vibe of the coda, a steady hand. If you want more royalty stuff, ASAFAF.
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A Spark, A Flame, A Fire (ASAFAF). 56,156 words. Explicit. ✔️⭐
Deep in Derse's shadowy core languishes the stolen second-in-line to the Prospitian throne. He plays the part of reluctant Ambassador, though rather than politics he finds himself juggling the heavy heart of Derse's Prince, which he regrets ever asking for, and charting out his new life far from the Sunburst Court. Jake is grimly sure he'll never be warm again.
Vibes: Mountainous winter kingdoms, political intrigue without getting overcomplicated, finding you have a place in the world that wants you and fighting to keep it. Obnoxiously endearing clairvoyant twins. The inherent eroticism of late night tea. I came very close to spinning this off into its own OG novel but it was just too fucking long.
Hey, I read this, what next? Almost certainly chamomile.
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pump your veins with gushing gold. 55,327 words. Explicit. ✔️
Dirk Strider goes out into the world with two goals: find something, and lose himself in the process. It works well enough until a handsome boy with bottle green eyes follows the trail of missed connections and ticket stubs right to his heart and decides to help himself to everything Dirk was determined to throw away. (Fae Jake/listless semi-sex addict Dirk, and a lot of self-indulgence.)
Vibes: Okay, I think this one is rough just due to how fast I wrote it, but it's by far one of my most lasting stories. People regularly bring it up. I plan on doing a clean up revision on it soon when I get the time. But the vibes are dark and sexy and dangerous, and emotionally complicated.
Hey, I read this, what next? The spiritual successor to GG is the Intermission chapters of KTOWL. You will enjoy them a lot, I promise.
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ready to start the conquest of spaces. 54,664 words. Explicit. 🛑⭐
The only thing standing between Dave, Aradia, and Jake and their masters is their mandatory fieldwork. When Aradia has the brilliant idea to find the Temple of the Signless, it seems like an low-effort way to get those fancy initials slapped onto the end of their names. One tripwire of a prophecy later, and the Signless returns. Which doesn't look great for their easy final project. In fact, things only get more complicated from there.
Vibes: Very comedic weird story in which Dave, Aradia, and Jake accidentally bring the Second Signless, Karkat, back to life. There's a lot Fish Out Of Water humor but also prophecies and dream sex and Dave faced with the fact he's hiding a revived rebellion leader in his room.
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all the world is earth and water. 35,289 words. Explicit. ✔️⭐🐙
It was pretty common knowledge around the mortals that you had to be wary of tradespeople. Not that they were all malicious or anything, but when you lived next door to beings with that much power, it paid to be careful. The problem is Dave Strider is not very careful.
Vibes: What if body horror was super gentle and romantic? This is a very gentle story with maybe my favorite magic I've ever written. It's short and very sweet. Read this one if you want something comforting.
Hey, I read this, what next? If the scope of this one appealed to you, try dustsceawung. If you liked the weird body horror stuff, TSAD.
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The Magnus Archives
a steady hand, a delicate man. 52,899 words. Explicit. ✔️🌟
Martin is the proprietor and manager of a very discrete and fairly exclusive brothel situated between Belgravia and Chelsea. Blackwood House excels at special requests and pleasing any client. Except for Jon, who probably has never been pleased a day in his entire life. Despite that, he still comes back. It eventually begs the question: how do you solve a problem like Jon Sims?
Vibes: Sex work and the reasons people seek out submission and the tricky nuances of being a kinky asexual. A very light story.
Hey, I read this, what next? chamomile has similar healing vibes, so maybe that one.
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I (don't) come to you seeking peace. 42,496 words. Explicit. 🛑⭐
In his capacity as Peter Lukas' assistant, Martin dresses differently. The pale hues and muted blues of his family are smeared all over Martin like an bruise. It's formal. It's professional. For reasons he's not willing to examine right now, Jon cannot handle this. At all.
Vibes: Did you enjoy the claustrophobia and tension of TMA Season Four? But just wanted to see Jon go off his shits? This is the one for you. I find this one really dramatic and fun.
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dustsceawung. 38,269 words. Mature. ✔️⭐
Martin had always been favored by the summer courts, and moving up north to the little village of Lacuna is a difficult adjustment. It's rainy and lonely and everyone seems to have a strange, distant relationship with the local faerie court. However: there is a strange man in a cloak who walks past Martin's remote little cottage every few days. However: there is a moth that keeps getting stuck in Martin's house during the rain. These events are not as disconnected as they first appear.
Vibes: Small spooky town, fae magic, textiles, and cozy romance. If you want something gentle practical magic and no real Bad Guy, try this one.
Hey, I read this, what next? Both chamomile and earth and water will scratch the same itch. If you wanna read a story about faeries but a less savvy protagonist, gushin gold.
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ear tags. 33,617 words. Explicit. ⚠️🐙
Among all of the alterations made, the one that really draws Jon's eye is surprisingly mundane. He keeps looking at the ear tag.
Vibes: If TSAD is not intense and weird enough for you, then this is the next step up from that. This is body horror with worldbuilding, some very strange humor, and people making the best out of a weird spooky situation. TMA was a weird fandom, lemme tell you.
Hey, I read this, what next? As mentioned, TSAD for sure. If you really liked the "rationalizing a very specific weird kink for the real world" aspect, then Territory, Voice, and Choice.
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Other Fandoms
dripping with alchemy. Borderlands, 34,501 words. Explicit. ⚠️
It wasn't that Rhys had anything against being an omega. He didn't have any self-loathing or resentment for how he presented. It was just easier with the suppressants, especially when you had his ambitions. Unfortunately, after sort of accidentally-on-purpose using them for years, Rhys finds himself very ill and having to quit his suppressants for his health's sake. Suddenly, he has to figure out how this whole omega thing works. There's plenty to learn.
Vibes: Kind of goofy, dangerous fun A/B/O fic set in a capitalist hellscape. This doesn't use my New System Of A/B/O, its more the standard trope set. Fun afternoon read.
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Territory, Voice, and Choice: A Case Study in Isolated Societies in Desert Biomes. Welcome to Night Vale, 63,348 words. Explicit. ⚠️🌟🐙
The list of things in Night Vale worthy of study is long, and part of Carlos’ work in this strange desert community is deciding what takes precedence. With the impossible seismology, apparently psychotropic sandstorms, fake clocks, and whatever those deer are, there's just not enough time to cover everything. Also, call it an oversight, a budgetary limitation, or Carlos having seven degrees in natural sciences and none in social sciences, but studying the actual societal structure of Night Vale and its… peculiarities hasn't been a priority. Six months in Night Vale to the day, he's going to wish he'd taken the time. (The AU in which A/B/O exists… but only in Night Vale. And after six months of residency, the scientists have just officially become citizens.)
Vibes: I'm very proud of this one still. It is technically a WIP but it ends at a good point in the story. It kind of petered out because I accomplished everything I wanted to with it, and that's a a thorough retooling of the A/B/O trope. I… still super love this one, and it takes place in very early WTNV so canon knowledge shouldn't be an issue.
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The Hunters' Initiative. Rooster Teeth RPF, 203,243 words. Explicit. ✔️🐙
Vibes: THIS IS PROBABLY THE OLDEST FIC I'M OKAY LISTING. It's super rough but it literally benefits from you knowing NOTHING about the source material, I think. Superheroes, learning how to be forgiven for terrible things, and the nature of identity and how to become something new.
