buzzfeed unsolved fanfiction recommendations
This is all Ryan/Shaneā so donāt like, donāt read.
PSA: I am not in any way stating that Ryan and Shane from Buzzfeed Unsolved and Watcher are together, or that I want them to be together; this is for entertainment use only. I urge you to not contact them or @ them on twitter or instagram making comments about their relationship, as they are humans just like the rest of us. Some things are none of our business!
This is a masterlist of my favourite fanfictions in this fandom! Thanks to @gigaledom for cheering me on. Never thought I was going to do more RPF, but here I am.
and iām puffing my chest, getting red in the face by pissedofsandwich- 6k, Teen
Summary: "Zack's going to be there?" Shane asks, masking his... whatever it is he's feeling in his chest, with nonchalance.
Well, never mind dancing with the fucking sun. Heās Icarus, wings melted and falling face-first into the asphalt.
Or: Shane is definitely not at all jealous of how close Zack and Ryan are getting during the making of Sports Conspiracies. Except that he is.
My notes: Theyāre both so jealous of each other and so bad at communication. Thank goodness they have their friends to help them out! Really funny and entertaining!
lay your demons at the door by abovetheruinsā 7k, Teen and Up
Summary: Ryan had been so careful. For months he had learned to train his face into a semblance of normalcy every time a spirit got too close or he was overwhelmed with some indiscernible emotion on location. He had learned to channel his fear into something more manageable, something entertaining enough for the cameras but not so severe that anyone would be able to tell he wasnāt just jumping at shadows or groaning floorboards anymore.
Shane wasnāt supposed to find out. He wasn't supposed to know.
My Notes: The Seer!Ryan AU that I wasnāt expecting to like so much. A lot of pining and caring! Shane with a lovely ending!
First Impressions by luxbuhreeā 9k, Mature
Summary: The chance to work with and sit next to THE Shane Madej was one of the things Ryan was looking forward to, now that he's starting his first day in BuzzFeed. But while he was expecting a charming and friendly guy, he was instead met with someone who couldn't care any less.
Will the case of why Shane hates Ryan remain unsolved?
My notes: In which Shane is really bad at feelings and Ryan has the hots for a certain person who pins him against walls. Awesome ending.
a short history of almost something by cooliohoolioā 6k, No Warnings
Summary: "I think I'll wait another year."
Shane's in love with Ryan, and will get around to telling him. One of these days.
My notes: A lovely short high school! AU with mutual pining. Theyāre best friends ahhh
only happy accidents by barnesā 8k, Explicit
Summary: In hindsight, Shane is too old to have thought that friends with benefits was something that the two of them would be able to pull off. Heās had friends with benefits before that worked beautifully, but they were not with people whose jobs were tied up in his own, whose friendships were as closely interwoven into Shaneās everyday life as Ryanās is. Heād thought these were the very things that could keep it from getting weird, because they were such good buddies, Ryan would be solidly cemented as his pal that nothing could shift him.
This was a miscalculation, on Shaneās part.
My Notes: Iām not usually a fan of friends with benefits to lovers, but this had so much mutual pining and fluff that I enjoyed it so much! A must-read.
Gurl, Imma Marry You (ryan is a mess) by orphan_accountā 2k, General Audiences
Summary: Ryan is perpetually doing dumb things. Starting a ghost show? Dumb. Going to demon houses? Dumb. Talking to ghosts? Dumb.
But those are all new dumb things. Ryan's known he wants to marry Shane forever. That is an incredibly old dumb thing.
My notes: Really cute and fluffy and I love it so much. Itās a kind of read-to-make-yourself-feel-better kind of fic!
Por Favor, Sweetheart by carrieonfightingā 8k, Teen and Up
Summary: Two dorks raise a baby and don't even realise they're doing it together until it's too late
Alternatively, Ryan Bergara is Trying His Best Thanks
My notes: Normally not a raising-a-child-fic person, but holy smokes this was written so well and the fluff! the domesticity i-
Pushing All Your Buttons by beethechangeā 9k, Explicit
Summary: Ryan and Shane get stuck in an elevator at Buzzfeed HQ. There is tension. They relieve the tension. Thatās it, thatās the fic.
My notes: I was literally able to see the tension floating off my laptop in front of my face, it was so palpable.
like you want to be loved by poetdameronā 16k, Teen and Up
Summary: "Settle down with me", Shane says without thinking and as Ryan looks at him with wide open eyes, all he can think of it's how many of Ryan's secrets he knows, how Ryan likes his coffee, and the fact that he has loved him since the moment Ryan first looked up at him and smiled.
My notes: The PINING and CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT and ANGST my god. Really well written and lovely happy ending.
ships that pass in the night by beethechangeā 20k, Explicit
Summary: The more Ryan thinks about it, the more he thinks he just needs to return the favor, thatās all. And then itāll be done, like it was meant to be done weeks ago, and they can both move on for real.
Itās not that he wants to. Itās that he wonāt be able to stop thinking about it until he evens the score. He has to restore balance to the Force or order to the universe, orāor whatever. Itās a karma thing.
āI think you have to let me jerk you off,ā Ryan tells Shane one night. Theyāre working late, alone in the Watcher office, one of many such late nights these days.
āWhāhere?ā Shane asks. He looks around, baffled, like heāll have been magically transported somewhere else. āHave to?ā And then: āLet you?ā
My notes: haha what if I dare you to jerk me off dude haha donāt be a chicken
Do you not know how love works? by leylinesā 12k, No Rating
Summary: āFuck you, man,ā Ryan growled, rubbing his tailbone where he landed on when he fell down just moments ago.
āIām pretty sure thatās what Devon already thinks weāre doing,ā Shane said cheerfully, not at all sounding bothered by the thought.
My notes: One of my favourite things in this cold, dark universe is when two characters are dating but they donāt know it but everyone else does. This is so hilarious and warms my dead heart
Full-Court Press by beethechangeā 12k, Explicit
Summary: To be clear, these are not tactics Ryan would recommend. Being an athleisure-obsessed pervert, and lying, and clothes-sabotage: these are not things heās proud of.
But they have undeniably worked.
Shaneās standing next to him in the hotel lobby while Devon checks them all out of their rooms, and he's wearing a sleeveless purple Lakers jersey and the worldās softest, clingiest sweatpants. Itās so exactly as Ryan pictured it, so precisely in line with his fantasies, that he has to pinch himself.
My notes: Really hot and funny and p i n i n g
may your days be merry and bright by bodhirookesā 19k, General Audiences
Summary: āYour turn, Ry Ry.ā
Ryan looks down to find only one piece of paper remaining. āWow, so much selection to choose from.ā
āNo time for your negativity, Scrooge. Your Secret Santa deserves a better attitude.ā
Ryan sticks his tongue out, but takes the slip of paper. Heās loudly yelling Give me Jen, please please please give me Jen as he unfolds it, but heās too busy begging for her to be truly prepared for what he ends up getting:
A simple but damning SHANE in Andrewās scribbly handwriting.
Or, Ryan gets Shane for Secret Santa and has a subsequent breakdown about what to get him
Notes: This is so sweet and cute and I would die for both of them. A lovely classic christmas fic!
want you in my room by beethechangeā 13k, Explicit
Summary: As they watch, Tall Guy takes his beanie off, revealing a mess of thick, shiny brown hair. He runs his hand through it to shake out the hat hair and Ryan feels like heās stuck in an Herbal Essences commercial, except heās the one making inappropriate lustful noises.
Ryan adjusts his snapback, determined. He is, after all, wearing his very finest basketball shorts, without even a single hole at the hem, and the knowledge puts an extra spring in his step.
āIām gonna climb that dude like a tree,ā he tells Curly.
My notes: Just really dumb, cute pining in a wonderful frat boy/nerd college AU!
Muscles Better and Nerves More by beethechangeā 26k, Explicit
Summary: āIām serious,ā Ryan says. āDonāt go fucking up my body. I want that shit back in the same condition I left it.ā
āThe same conditionāRyan. Iām not spending hours in a gym every day so you donāt lose muscle mass.ā
āI want you to treat my body with the respect you would a national park. Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but memories.ā
A certain meddling Voodoo Queen of New Orleans thinks Ryan and Shane need some new perspective on life. After an inadvisable ritual deposits Ryan in Shaneās body, and Shane in Ryanās, the ghoulboys pursue some soul-searching and self-discovery to put things right. Sometimes in a sexy way.
My notes: This is so sexy and in character! A freaky friday kinda scenario where they only switch back when they pull their figurative heads out of their asses. So wonderful.
Dreams to be daring for by allonsy_gabrielā 24k, General Audiences
Summary: On May 11, 2018, Eleanora Rose Austin was born in Chicago, Illinois.
On May 20, 2018, Shane Alexander Madej agreed to act as the godfather to his best friend from college's daughter.
On October 26, 2018, Olivia and Michael Austin were victims of a mugging gone sideways.
On October 29, 2018, Shane Madej found himself in the possession of one real, actual, human child.
My notes: Accidental Baby Acquisition is now my favourite trope because of this fic. The fact that theyāre already acting like a couple with the baby before they actually become one is sooo beautiful,,, give it a read im begging you
Fifty Shades of Gold by beethechangeā 21k, Explicit
Summary: Shane tires of doing the same bits over and over. He tires of telling the same stories until they all, him and Ryan and the fans, have every beat memorized. Whenever Ryan pulls out his Ricky Goldsworth impression, ah yes, that old chestnut, Shane plays along only begrudgingly. Heās bored.
Thatās his official position: heās over Ricky Goldsworth.
Shaneās unofficial position, regrettably, is that heād rather be under Ricky Goldsworth.
My notes: Shaneās got the hots for Ricky Goldsworth and thatās the TEA. Lots of sexual tension and cute and unsure! Ryan!
Precious metals by StrikerEurekaā 73k, Mature
Summary: Ryan and Shane have been moving around something that is coming to a head between them. After a car accident, on the way to an investigation, Ryan slowly starts to become suspicious that Shane might not be what he seems. He realizes, though, that he just might not care.
Shane sits forward suddenly. āHey, pull over up here.ā
Ryan follows the instruction without questioning it, which probably says something about either his willingness to listen to Shane or his sanity. Maybe both; they go hand in hand. He puts on his blinker, even though they havenāt seen another car in a couple of minutes, and pulls off onto the shoulder.
āAre you gonna puke or something?ā he asks, putting the car into park, as Shane takes off his seatbelt with one hand and tugs off his Ray Bans with the other.
āYou better hope not,ā he murmurs as he leans over the center console and kisses Ryan solidly on the mouth.
My notes: My favourite Demon!Shane AU ever! Really sweet and loads of tension and pining... must-read.
darling itās a faded notion by varnesā 28k, Explicit
Summary: The sun is too bright and Ryanās whole body is alight with something that is eating him all the way up from the inside out, but he keeps his eyes open and he makes himself look, and he tells himself that once he finds Shane, heāll think about it. Once he finds Shane, theyāll make a plan. Once he finds Shane, and only then, heāll let himself have the thought heās been swallowing down like bile since he came to: that they didnāt fall.
OR: Ryan and Shane get cursed by a ghost, and now they can't be not-touching. It's ... not great.
My notes: They get cursed and have to be touching all the time!! and theyāre pining so hard yāall like what more could one want
Bed-warm Hands and the Ghost of Elvis by MiraclesofPaulā 21k, Teen and Up
Summary: They get used to sharing a bed while filming the show. Ryan's just trying not to let his feelings get in the way.
So Ryan tells himself heās going to ride out whatever it is theyāve fallen into, but heāll bow out gracefully when the time comes. He can just enjoy the now.
My notes: They share a bed!!! And their hearts!! so much lack of communication, itās wonderful
Hope that someone will enjoy these fics that I did so very much! If you want more buzzfeed unsolved fics let me know because iāve read sooo much fanfiction...
