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Random Top 5 Fics Recs of All Time

I've kept a note in my phone for the past 10 goddamn years where I accumulate fics that I love and return to often. So here are my top five favs of all time.

1. Bend Sinister, mortsix, Forgotten Realms, 2019

Glorious writing, building upon established canon to weave an enticing and many-layered narrative that takes place seamlessly within the main plot of 'Servant of the Shard' (not an easy task). Unapologetically better than canon. Sadly never completed but a masterpiece nonetheless.

2. art is for arrogant blowhards, leoandsnake, Disco Elysium, 2021

This fic has amazing depth and attention to detail that extends into every character and setting, and really nails the rationale of self-sabotage in a way that's translates very much to the real world. I always appreciate a Harry POV where you can feel his "skills" without resorting to actual DE style internal dialogue. 3. To Beard the Lion, BurnItAllDownDahling, Dragon Age Inquisition, 2015

Another self-sabotage fic (I'm beginning to sense a trend), this fic is a really unique perspective on Cullen in particular, which investigates the idea of a fix-it fic, where -surprise- you can't actually fix him. I also really enjoy a more naive Dorian who is absolutely in over his head. 4. Living With the Firelight, Yakkai, Red Dead Redemption II, 2019

It may be a short, porny, one-shot but it's hiding a great little character study on Javier in there. The environment descriptions are so vivid and well realised it feels genuinely like eavesdropping to read. 5. Storm Warning, NeverwinterThistle, Baldur's Gate 3, 2023

GOAT Durgetash fic. The writing is bulletproof. The characterisation is flawless. There's an operatic quality to the way the story builds, and leaves you craving answers. It's one of those fics where you go to the author's profile and read every fic they've written regardless of fandom because it's just that good.

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Joseph Dilnot

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[sutexii]

ABSOL Print ✦ X

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Peruvian textile fragment

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Ange de Carbone by Cahetel Rosier

[yargoelster]

[miamaimania]

Arching lava fountain at Mauna Ulu ▲ Kilauea, Hawaii (March 1, 1974)

[miamaimania]

“绿墅芳塬” (2003) ⍋ Xue Liang — ink and colour on paper

[thepinkpestilence]

The Birdcage (1996) dir. Mike Nichols/But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) dir. Jamie Babbit/Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee/Portrait of a Lady on Fire "Portrait de la jeune fille en feu" (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma

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Jesus Ministered to by Angels (1894)

— by James Tissot

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René Magritte - "The Seducer" (1953)

[bobdylanyaoi]

“Subverting” Catholic art? Oh, okay. I see, you think this has nothing to do with you. You log onto the internet and you post about how “Wound of Christ” from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg, attributed to Jean le Noir, c.1349, for instance, looks like a vulva because you're trying to tell the world that you enjoy Catholic art and imagery in an alternative, queer, risqué way that challenges Christian beliefs. But what you don't know is that that stigma isn’t just a vulva. It's not just a mandorla. It's not just yonic. It's actually intentionally erotic. And you're also blithely unaware of the fact that around 1297, Saint Angela of Foligno experienced a vision of Christ himself, who called her to put her mouth to the wound in his side and lick the freshly flowing blood. And then I think it was Saint Catherine of Siena who drank blood and a clear liquid from the wound before receiving a ring made from Christ’s foreskin? And then graphically erotic encounters with the side wound of Christ quickly showed up in the writings of eight different mystics. And then the yonic interpretation of the stigmata filtered down through the illuminated manuscripts and then trickled on down into some pseudo-intellectual corner of the internet…where you, no doubt, fished it out of some Pinterest board. However, that interpretation represents hundreds of years and countless visions of religious ecstasy. And it's sort of comical how you think that you've come up with an idea that exempts you from Christian theology when, in fact…you're posting an image that was sexualized for you by the very Medieval saints you think you’re so different than…from “subverted” Catholic art.

[frostedmagnolias]

Basket

c. 1645

Metal frame worked with glass beads, applied motifs of gold and silver leafed paper and linen, plain weave; beaded

England

Art Institute of Chicago

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replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

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Sol LeWitt, Double Negative Pyramid, 1997,

Europos Parkas (Park of Europe), Vilnius, Lithuania,

Built from concrete blocks,

5.6 meters high and 12 meters wide.

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