QL Fic Rec Fest 2025

We're here to celebrate the amazing fanfics the QL fandom has to offer. Follow us for weekly prompts to rec your favorite fics! #qlficrecfest2025

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If you ever have a rec but don't want to make your own post for it, you can also always send an (anon) ask or dm your rec!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Small Fandom Summer 2026!

For the fourth year in a row now, it's time for Small Fandom Summer! Join me for Small Fandom Summer! It's real easy to play:

Make a fanwork for something that has fewer than 1000 English-language works on AO3

Post it to AO3

And then you've done it! You've made a thing and you've diversified the fandom ecosystem! You're basically a hero.

Q: The fandom I want to create for has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but the specific pairing I want to write for has fewer than that. Does that count? A: Yes! Q: What if it has more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but, like, just barely? A: Okay! Q: What if it actually has a lot more than 1000 English-language works on AO3, but it still feels small? A: Sure! Q: What if I don't want to post it to AO3? What if I don't even have an AO3 account? Can I post it somewhere else? A: Wherever! Q: What if-- A: Just do a thing, friend. Make a thing. Share the thing. This is not meant to be restrictive; this is meant to be inspirational. Create the fanworks you want to see in the world. Make a stranger happy by appealing to their niche interests. Bring joy.

And if you want to give yourself some silly little Steam-like achievement badges to commemorate your accomplishments, well, you're in luck! I've made a bunch of them right here! You can grab the ones that apply to your work and paste them wherever you like and feel good about what you've done. Here's a few of my favorites:

So you see? This is meant to be silly and fun.

There's nowhere to sign up. There's nothing to commit to. There's zero pressure. You just do it if you do it, and don't if you don't. But if you do want to play (yay!), tag your stuff with #small fandom summer so we can all swoop in and appreciate everyone else's efforts.

Here's to creativity!

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Images are white text on a black background with a coloured icon taking up the leftmost third of the image. They are as follows:

Green icon of a magnifying class over a beetle. Who's That Boy? (wrote for a character that previously had no AO3 tag)

Orange icon of a tape measure. Size Matters (wrote the longest fic to date in the fandom)

Grey icon of two women holding hands. Lesbifriends (wrote the first F/F fic in the fandom)

Yellow icon of a smiling face surrounded by hearts. My Special Person (wrote something because you knew that one person who'd appreciate it)

Blue icon of an elephant and a mouse. Lorge and Smol (wrote a crossover between a fandom with more than 1000 works and a small fandom)

Grey icon of handcuffs. Testing the Waters (this had better not awake anything in you)

Yellow icon of two fish approaching a hook. Hooked! (wrote something for the first time and are already planning on writing something else for it)

Green icon of a bag with a leaf on it implying soil or plant food. A Brand-New Bag (wrote for a fandom so small you had to teach AO3 what it was)

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Maybe stretching the prompt a little bit, but this is a really amazing Word of Honor fic set in the Chinese community in San Francisco and it give a really cool look into Chinese culture, language, food and what it's like to be Chinese and move to America: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32077528

Thanks a lot for the recommendation! This fic is for this prompt asking for fics that feature something about the culture from the country the show is from:

this harbored deluge for you and i // 像我和你需要下一场雨 (30442 words) by gardencitymovements Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 山河令 | Word of Honor (TV 2021) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu Characters: Zhou Zishu, Wen Kexing, Zhang Chengling, Gu Xiang (Faraway Wanderers), Luo Fumeng, Liu Qianqiao Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Food as a Metaphor for Desire, the inherent eroticism and love in a green apple slush, banquet cook wkx, unemployment zzs, Falling In Love, Getting Together, Hurt/Comfort, moderate angst but, Happy Ending, Domestic, Found Family, i think wenzhou should be surrounded by women, this fic is hate mail for horrible chinatown parking, lost in translation but replace scarjo with responsibilities Series: Part 2 of let wenzhou eat

Summary: Three months. He’ll stay three months. Just long enough for that shrimpy Zhang Chengling to wean into this new world, and then he’ll leave. Just three months he’ll allow himself that brassy, beautiful line cook, who barked the most flirtatious insult at Zhou Zishu as he charged down the cracked asphalt with a towering pallet jack of wholesale soy sauce boxes; his voice magnetic like an army general’s, clear above the rumbling gallop of his condiment fleet. - chaperoning a new orphan across the Pacific runs into complications.

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Week 22: Rec a fic that features something from the culture of the country the show is from!

Watching shows and writing fics is a very fun way to learn new things about another culture. For this prompt, every fic is allowed as long as it features something from the culture the show is from – folklore, religion, specific Holidays, wedding ceremonies or anything else you find interesting. It doesn't have to be a major part of the fic but the cultural context should be evident.

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Week 22: Rec a fic that features something from the culture of the country the show is from!

Watching shows and writing fics is a very fun way to learn new things about another culture. For this prompt, every fic is allowed as long as it features something from the culture the show is from – folklore, religion, specific Holidays, wedding ceremonies or anything else you find interesting. It doesn't have to be a major part of the fic but the cultural context should be evident.

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Week 22: Rec a fic that features something from the culture of the country the show is from!

Watching shows and writing fics is a very fun way to learn new things about another culture. For this prompt, every fic is allowed as long as it features something from the culture the show is from – folklore, religion, specific Holidays, wedding ceremonies or anything else you find interesting. It doesn't have to be a major part of the fic but the cultural context should be evident.

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Week 22: Rec a fic that features something from the culture of the country the show is from!

Watching shows and writing fics is a very fun way to learn new things about another culture. For this prompt, every fic is allowed as long as it features something from the culture the show is from – folklore, religion, specific Holidays, wedding ceremonies or anything else you find interesting. It doesn't have to be a major part of the fic but the cultural context should be evident.

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Week 21 - Round-up Post

Prompt of the week: Made you laugh

The fics that were recommended this week:

KinnPorsche:

Familiar

Machine Gun Kick

shit therapist/bad vegas crack fic

The Untamed:

save a sword, ride a socialist

Thanks to everyone who recommended a fic! Check out the prompt for this week here.

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Week 22: Rec a fic that features something from the culture of the country the show is from!

Watching shows and writing fics is a very fun way to learn new things about another culture. For this prompt, every fic is allowed as long as it features something from the culture the show is from – folklore, religion, specific Holidays, wedding ceremonies or anything else you find interesting. It doesn't have to be a major part of the fic but the cultural context should be evident.

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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Here are two more recs for the last prompt, both for KinnPorsche. One where Kim is a were-cat: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51247153/chapters/129489982 and one where Pete is Vegas' terrible therapist: https://archiveofourown.org/works/58362676

Thanks for the recs, we hope they'll make more people laugh as well!

Were-cat Kim: Familiar

Pete as therapist: shit therapist/bad vegas crack fic

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Small announcement

My Sundays have been really busy lately and it doesn't look like it's going to get better soon, so I'm shifting the ql fic rec fest schedule a little and will be posting the new prompts on Mondays instead!

If you still have a rec for the current prompt, feel free to post it and look out for the new prompt coming soon!

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oh! before I'm too late! a fic that made me laugh:

save a sword, ride a socialist by sysrae

(wangxian, the untamed, modern-with-magic au, smutty and funny and cute and delightful. maybe skip it if you are a lan qiren fan lol)

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QL Fic Rec Fest: a fic that made you laugh

ok i know i've recced this before but it's been a WHILE and also, when I saw the prompt was "a fic that made you laugh" what IMMEDIATELY came to mind was Porsche frustrated and yelling "I fucking WISH it was cocaine!" I don't know why that specifically stuck in my mind but it has. This whole fic is hilarious. The whole series is great. I hope Chay works on his situational awareness.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Title: Machine Gun Kick

Author: majestictortoise (@majestictortoise)

Rating: Teen and Up

Pairing: Kinn Theerapanyakul/Porsche Kittisawat, Kim Theerapanyakul/Porchay Kittisawat, Vegas Theerapanyakul/Pete Saengtham

Summary: Porsche watches the security video from Yok's bar. He has so many questions.

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Week 21: Rec a fic that made you laugh!

Fics with silly premises, funny characters, sarcastic inner monologue or just pure crack fics. Fics that take the comedy from the series to the next level or fics that take a serious show and turn it into a comedy. There are so many funny fics out there, tell us about your favorites!

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

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If you have a fic to recommend don't forget to share with us until tomorrow!

[qlficrecfest]

Week 21: Rec a fic that made you laugh!

Fics with silly premises, funny characters, sarcastic inner monologue or just pure crack fics. Fics that take the comedy from the series to the next level or fics that take a serious show and turn it into a comedy. There are so many funny fics out there, tell us about your favorites!

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

[qlficrecfest]

If you have a fic to recommend don't forget to share with us until tomorrow!

[qlficrecfest]

Week 21: Rec a fic that made you laugh!

Fics with silly premises, funny characters, sarcastic inner monologue or just pure crack fics. Fics that take the comedy from the series to the next level or fics that take a serious show and turn it into a comedy. There are so many funny fics out there, tell us about your favorites!

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?

[qlficrecfest]

Week 21: Rec a fic that made you laugh!

Fics with silly premises, funny characters, sarcastic inner monologue or just pure crack fics. Fics that take the comedy from the series to the next level or fics that take a serious show and turn it into a comedy. There are so many funny fics out there, tell us about your favorites!

As always, make a post and tag it with #qlficrecfest2025 or send an ask with your recommendation if you know a good fic you want to share!

What is QL Fic Rec Fest?