lots of requests for fic recs so finally threw a list together! not comprehensive, not in any particular order. mostly wm. as usual pls tell me if you'd like to be untagged or removed. love admiration and respect to you all.
schrodinger's dead kennedy // @iodinejam. hazy evocative masterclass in ambiguity. everything else by sid too: hemorrhage is scorching hot and citgo has a deliciously self-contained will. webweavings on their mezzanine tag!
shirley temple // @thomasmomwell. incredible character study and voices / dialogue. an all-timer mack for me, in particular.
one year stand // @loglady1980. credit card baby is her big chart-topper but one year stand is foundational will and leno. for ME. ten years of tidal locking!!!
please be somewhere tonight // @rainybelieverland. one of my fav wills of all time!! pathetic gay virgin will, authentically unhinged colleen, canon 0-100 crazy mack. don't be scared by the other pairings; wm is the loadbearing pylon.
farther than they appear // @drivestraight. some of my fav will and leno characterisations of all time. lies mostly to spare his own feelings! lives rent free in my head. also a big fan of kinda want you.
adage // eyeonthesparrow. gorgeous shimmering hazy heat wave of a fic. the dialogue - incredible. some of my favourite run-on sentences ever (step aside faulkner).
just your getting over him guy and amputation // @czargasm. hot fun brofucking summer fling outsider pov fic vs mental trauma + ntdp and the best will vote you'll ever read. top tier mack chara in both!!
kaleidoscope // @zejeni. THE chicago steel fic. will smith is, after all, a comiskey. gap toothed long haired baby mack, billeting with the smiths. so determined. so in love. so foundationally incapable of not skating his heart out for what he wants!
oh well // thegoldenrecord. this and too dull to flee are both phenomenal hockey boy voices + logic + sex. buy a fleshlight and a diary!
wake me up when september ends // @passtheseppie. so incredibly dark and delicious. college au done right! all hockey players are dogs at heart. mind the tags!
elaborate on the sentiment // @pseudini. the unintentional yenta logan cooley fic. does the addition of sex make someone an opponent? god. will, reinventing (rediscovering?) himself out of love for mack.
aphasia // @moncuries. mack comes out. will didn't know. the pleasure never comes clean! hiding doesn't make it any easier! a classic and for good reason.
stare slave djedovino // @pert1nents. foundational mack celebrini family issues character study. no one ever told mack he could just come home if he felt like it!
he's mean i'm meaner // @sagecolouredleaf. NOT wm. but suchhh a good will. prey animal with a blood instinct. obsessed.
devotion // @toxotesjc. mack is outed. will struggles with the catholicism and the homophobia of it all. but he can be good enough! always comes first is also phenomenal.
you'll just have to taste me (when he's kissing you) // @iezzern-ao3. mostly will/gabe/leno/jhags, background wm. rule 63 will, jhags + mack. incredibly (pos) icky. the ineffable combination of jealousy and protectiveness you feel for your replacement, the only other girl in the room.
a light that never goes out // @aliensshe. THE gay catholic will and religion study.
your need grows teeth // @yamssoup. comphet: the fic! will can laugh off anything except for being pretty. mack can't conceive of a happier ending than a romantic tragedy.
on the line // @planetadfic. comphet: the fic pt. 2! girl-will wouldn't have been able to hold back, and so right here, right now will can let himself. canon mack (to me).
the night wants us back // @valoaa. honestly you could (and probably have) read any of her fics. but i have a special place in my heart for part-time homos.
your boy // @bluecanvastotebag. mack thought he was just following the plan. will left because mack broke his heart.
daisies // @tesserxcts. vaguely horrifying, moody, atmospheric. about losing yourself to roles pre-defined for you before you were ever born, and what we can see and what we can't.
helen of troy // @tanlineswrites. author is ofc a wm celebrity but listen this rickwill... mack with his coffee and cinnamon rolls! i don't want to lie to mack! god.
i think i'm going to boston // @whitch-bhitch. willmackleno. one of the very few non-hockey aus i love for the characterisation and scorching hot sex. be warned: here be kink.
preacher teacher // @m4waru. mack needed to know that whatever dada got out of will. he could get too! rick celebrini is not there but he is Present.
hotel // celesbrini. fem!quentin musty pegs will at dev camp that first year before mack ever shows up on the scene. famous in the gc.
girls, they wanna have fun // dresme. local straight boy feminises himself to suck his straight bsf's dick and realises oh, fuck. he's into it.
