Currently compiling on-theme rec lists of my 400+ bookmarks on Ao3, I hope you will enjoy!
I'm making an effort to read works that I find myself through searches on ao3, instead of re-reccing the same fics other users have, as I find myself currently doing. But tbh, this blog was just meant to replace the document I had going of all the fics I'd ever read. Love ya!
imagining a hucklerobby moment with trans whitaker where robby finds out whitaker has been wearing his binder for way too long, robby teaches him to tape, whitaker is like how,,, do you know this? and robbys like um. uh. a good friend of mine used to need help with this. before he um. didnt anymore. not that hes gone or anything just! doesnt need,,, the tape ,,,, (hes stuttering bc he doesnt want to out dr abbot,,,,)
I have gathered here for you 12 more JayVik AU fics! These range from knights and mermaids to modern and canon divergence. There are only a few rhymes to my reason. Love y'all! Check the tags on the fics for content ratings
Part 1
Saltwater Kisses by phallingphoenix 4.9k words
On a dark and stormy night, Jayce is saved from nearly drowning at sea by a beautiful mermaid, making her determined to find her mysterious savior. When she finally does, Jayce and Viktoria quickly grow close, learning about each other and each other’s worlds. Then, an entire year after the accident, they decide to take their friendship to the next level.
Or
Jayce is a trans woman and a marine biologist. Viktoria is also a trans woman and a mermaid. They end up becoming more than friends when they have sex in the cove where they first properly met.
sticky by vnTal 6k words
Jayce makes a deal with his roommate that they will both be abstinent from alcohol, weed, and sex until their midterms are over. Something unexpected tests Jayce's resolve.
notes: Viktor gets slutty drunk at a party and reveals his feelings <3
love is the hot chocolate we made along the way by Bwebeks 9.6k words
Jayce breaks a total of five (5!) glass burettes on his first day of lab at Piltover University. Damn titrations. His lab partner thinks he's cute. Jayce is too embarrassed to notice. Give him a few seconds...or semesters, actually.
(three semesters where Viktor calls Jayce pet names and one semester where Jayce realizes that maybe they've been dating the whole time)
partially inspired by the "diet pudding cup boy" anonymous tumblr ask
notes: lighthearted and sweet, I reread this when I need to revisit them with a happy ending
Happiness Theory by PaperbackHoliday 10k words
“This is...very different,” he murmured, his accent thick and rolling around the words as if testing them on his tongue. “What’s gotten into you?”
“Would it really be so bad,” Jayce began, speaking against the edge of Viktor’s lapel. “To share a name along with our dreams? Because I’d gladly take yours if you’d give it to me.”
Jayce's attempts at getting Viktor out of the lab lead to the pair becoming regulars at a coffee shop near the bridge. Things go well until an innocent misunderstanding nearly throws a cog into everything they've built between them.
notes: everyone is happy au, J and V visit The Last Drop which is a coffee shop, J thinking happiness looks good on V, lighthearted but misunderstandings and anxious boys lie within
Latency by sycoraxx 10k words
They’ve known each other more than a decade, in usernames, voices, messages, and long-distance yearning. Jayce lives in California. Viktor lives in Prague. They've never met in person, but Jayce knows the shape of his laugh and the weight of his silences.
Now, with their PhDs nearly finished, they’re both attending the same international engineering conference.
Jayce has waited years for this. But meeting someone you already love — someone you've only ever known through a screen — is its own kind of terrifying.
Aqua Regia by MangoTalie 10.6k words
Captain of the Guard Jayce lives his life according to two simple facts:
1. He is willing to die in protection of Crown Prince Viktor
2. He has been hopelessly in love with Viktor for years now
Jayce and Viktor grew up together within the same castle walls, and yet their close relationship already tests the boundaries of what is acceptable for a member of the monarchy and his highest-ranking guard. How could Jayce risk breaking what they already have? He is prepared to take his feelings to the grave, but when he ingests poison in Viktor's stead, he finds that he might not have been the only one holding himself back...
notes: GENIUS writing, love the plot its so brilliant, in any universe indeed, viktor going nuts when jayce gets hurt
enrichment best fit for a tumbling scientist by theomania 11.7k
When Jayce has a rough day at the Academy, he returns to he and Viktor's shared dorm in hopes of getting a good night's rest. What he finds instead, is admittedly much better for his wellbeing.
He’s been coming ‘home’ to Viktor for the past year. Viktor is the one who made soup for him when he fell ill in winter. Viktor is the one who validates his work, who stays up until the sun rises to triple check an equation. Viktor, who brings food to his mother when she visits. Viktor is his home. Although a Piltover native, there’s always that itch in the back of Jayce’s mind. He’s never felt like he belonged, the way he does when he’s with Viktor.
The people he surrounds himself with, don’t click with him. They don’t see the inner workings of Jayce’s being. They make him feel smart, with their idling and frankly wrong theories — Viktor makes him feel equal.
partners? partners. by owedwings 12.6k words
“You pilties are so sensitive,” Viktor teased. “Do not act ignorant, Jayce. Most people topside don’t bother introducing themselves to undercity folk.”
“I’m not like most people,” Jayce countered. “Stuff like that doesn’t bother me, and why should it, people are people.”
Viktor shrugged. “Isn’t that a bit egotistical?”
“I think you're the one who just insulted me three times in one minute.”
or
They meet early at the academy, try to change lives, and don't destroy the world in the process.
Monuments by begaydocrimes10001 14.8k words
Friends make friends stuff all the time, and Jayce did break Viktor's cane. It'd be a nice thing to do. A cane, plus some cool tools, and Jayce will be able to know he's a good friend. He likes this plan.
(Or, Jayce makes a new cane for Viktor. He then makes some more stuff. It spirals from there very, very quickly.)
notes: This is an AU Arcane universe, Jayce goes down to the undercity to buy overpriced gifts and accidentally secures Zaun independence in the name of his love for Viktor while being oblivious that he is doing that. I love this himbo.
Be Still My Foolish Heart, Don't Ruin This On Me by brightestplanet, freddie (ready_freddie) 18.9k words over 7 works
snippets of time, in which viktor and jayce get the love they need and deserve, in a modern world
notes: Very soft lovely modern au
Hunger and Heat by imarattalking 19.5k words
Jayce and Viktor are on a mission commissioned by Heimerdinger in search of an artefact to stabilize Hextech completely. They have been travelling alone for some time on horses and with few rations, not knowing exactly where they will end up on this trip. Tensions rise between Jayce and Viktor, until one hot night. They find a small abandoned cabin and decide to rest there.
notes: putting this in AU because it canon diverges so hard, very good stranded-in-a-cabin vibes, I especially like the tussle they have when the frustration is too much. loved.
Jayce Talis' Many Firsts by cryptidwilliam 22.5k words over 3 works
This is a series of one-shots set in a modern college AU. It follows Jayce as he navigates his freshman year at MIT and his growing feelings for his Professor's aloof TA, Viktor.
Notes: Getting stuck in an elevator together, smoking in a party bathroom, going on a first date, running from security guards. All very cute shenanigans <3
Just reread sherlock holmes's "the yellow face" and god i love this story. Its a nice lowstakes mystery that has a happy ending, that 1. Has a good moral even for our time (yay for interracial marriage!), 2. Has Holmes fail to solve a case because of his one obvious blind spot - positive romantic entanglements, and 3. He trusts Watson enough to ask him to call him out when hes being too overconfident in himself.
oh and a sketch of Lucy because i think she's very cute
”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media
some of you don’t seem to realize that In the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade and he carries the reminders of every glove that laid him down or cut him till he cried out in his anger and his shame "I am leaving, I am leaving" but the fighter still remains
How it feels to genuinely enjoy the Pitt and not get caught up on every little bad thing a character has done because they’re all complex human beings and none of them are truly evil like everyone in this fandom seems to think
Thinking about that “white people like the blues just fine, they just don’t like the people who make it” quote from Sinners since it was robbed of the Best Film Oscar.