The Library
A curated collection of Smallville fanfiction centered on Lois & Clark. Occasionally may include Clois fic that leans into “Superman - all media types”.
Updated Daily, Monday through Saturday.
The Criteria
All stories shared here are ones I have read and enjoyed myself. I will mostly only share completed stories, but if one has not been updated in a long enough time and I believe it is abandoned, if I like it enough I will share it here with an “Incomplete” tag.
Stories will not be posted in any particular order, just as I read/discover them, or if specific types of stories are requested.
All stories posted here will be Clois endgame, pro-Clois, focused on Clois, and will be tagged accordingly if they start with another relationship (such as Clark/Lana, Clark/Chloe, Clark/Alicia, Lois/Oliver, etc).
Please feel free to ask me any questions regarding how to access a story, if I can recommend stories of a specific caliber, or if you would like to recommend me a good story/author.
The reason I am starting this blog in the first place is to bring better awareness to the large (but unfortunately scattered and hard to find) catalog of fic of this pairing. Since the show aired pre-AO3, stories are hidden away in older communities, some password protected. As a new fan, it has taken me months to figure out how to navigate multiple fan sites to try and access much of the work about these characters. I want to help more people find these wonderful works I have discovered. I also hope that sharing love and attention to some authors of yesteryear might bring some of the greats back into the fandom fold, or inspire them to share their works on AO3 for better access.
I will be sharing fics from the following sites and communities: Archives of our Own, Fanfiction.net, Divine Intervention, Red Haze, LiveJournal, and KryptonSite. If you know of any other communities with Clois fic, let me know so I can add it to my list.
Posting Rules
Schedule:
For the most part, I will post as I read a story and make a write up on it. For these first few weeks, I may post more than what will be usual to create a bit of a backlog, but on average I plan to post a fic daily Monday-Saturday, and then on some Sundays have an Author Spotlight where I interview an author and write up masterpost of a single author’s works, or a requested Masterpost where I link fics of a requested theme/trope (just send an ask!). For this, I will mostly focus on older authors whose work is harder to find, as a way to bring readers back to their wonderful catalog (and maybe encourage a few talented writers to come back into the fandom).
Browse by:
Length: Short Story (<10k) Novella (10-40k) Novel (>40k)
Season: Pre Canon | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 (Comics) | Post Canon
Era: High School Years | Young Adult “College” Years (Seasons 5-7) | Metropolis Years (8-10) | Married Years
Storylines: The Blur | Daily Planet | Red Kryptonite | Time Travel
Genre: Action | Angst | Comedy | Drama | Fluff | Horror | Mystery | Smut
Tropes: Fake Relationship | First Time | Kid Fic | Love Potion | Missing Scene | Only One Bed | Pregnancy | Slow Burn | Jealousy
Holiday Themes: Christmas | Birthday | Halloween | New Year’s | Thanksgiving | Valentine’s Day
Setting: Prime Universe | Earth-2 | Alternative Universe | Canon Compliant | Canon Divergent |
For specific episodes: Search by episode number or title. Ex: “9x18” or “Charade”
You can search for a specific type of story by combining tags and adding "from:cloislibrary" to your Tumblr search. For example, if you wanted to find a fic that is action centered, novel length, and taking place during the Metropolis Years:
#action #novel #Metropolis Years from:cloislibrary
Also, I will use tags in “AO3 fashion” even for stories that were not tagged accordingly by the author. So if you are looking for something that you assume would be tagged for the type of story you are looking for, go ahead and search it.
Cataloguing
I will post all fic with the following entries:
Link
Title
Author(s)
Publication Year (Last Updated)
Genre(s)
Word Count (Short Story, Novella, or Novel)
Rating
Season/Era
Setting(s)
Other Important Characters/Relationships
Summary (as provided by the author if possible)
Librarian Notes (if needed)*
If not otherwise stated, fic is completed.
If I find that a story is posted in multiple locations, I will provide all links for ease of access for everyone (unless it’s publicly accessible on AO3, then I might just provide that link). If you know that a story is posted somewhere I do not have listed, maybe under a different author name or title, let me know in a comment.
The Librarian
I’m new to the fandom, as I just started watching the show in late January of this year, and finished it this month after about 4 months. Before I’d even finished the show, I’d already began looking for fanfiction of our favorite comic book couple, but found AO3 pretty bare in comparison of the fandom size from the time the show was airing into today. This lead me to going down many a rabbit holes to find the stories I was looking for.
While doing so, I realized most people wouldn’t be going to the same lengths I was for the vast amount of fic hidden right outside the “mainstream” (if that word should ever be used in reference to fic) channels for fanfic we have today.
I started the show for a few reasons, 1) I caught a glimpse of Tom Welling and 2) it’s right up my alley with shows like Roswell and Buffy being some of my favorites. From what I’ve gathered while entering the fandom, is that there seems to be a bit of a renaissance happening in regards to the show, likely thanks to streaming, Talkville, and social media/edits. Knowing I was not the only one who is likely delving into the lavish and somewhat confusing land of Clois fic, made me want to start this in the first place.
Hopefully this blog can be a way we can all discover hidden gems, as well as old and new classics alike.
Since this is a secondary blog, I can’t follow/message anyone from this blog name. My personal account is @kcchameleon17 so if you see that address that’s me!
If anyone having trouble viewing a fic shared from on some of the “locked” forums, send me an ask for an explanation. (Hopefully I have one). Most only require you to make an account with an email if you hit a password wall.
Sources & Additional Resources
I will be sharing works found on Archives of Our Own, Fanfiction.net, as well as from forums/collections:
Divine Intervention: A Lois and Clark Forum
Red Haze - Clois NC-17 Fanfic Board
KryptoSite
Cloisverse - Lois & Clark Multiverse Community (LiveJournal)
Cloisfic - destinies are more entwined than they realize (LiveJournal)
Clois Fest (LiveJournal)
Iconic Lois Lane (LiveJournal)
If you are to join, comment, or interact in anyway on any of these sites, please read and follow the Rules and Guidelines section, remaining respectful at all times. Many of these are inactive communities, or ones that have a long standing culture— please be careful to be respectful if you are coming into a new space.
The Credits
All stories will be credited to their creators in each entry. I am not claiming any of the featured stories as products of my own. I’m simply acting as a fan of these works to help them reach more likeminded fans.
If you are an author whose work I’ve included in this collection and wish for it not to be so, let me know and I will remove it.
I encourage everyone to leave comments of encouragement and appreciation, kudos, etc. on the works you find through this blog, regardless of when the story was last updated or where it is located. Of course I can’t make anyone do so, but I definitely hope it happens!
Finally, thank you to all the Clois writers, past and present, who have added to the adventures of Lois and Clark.
