my dead dove with left grief rec list!
yayyyy here's my reclist for TLT darkfics and fanart to participate in dead dove with left grief :3 I'm sure I've recommended all of these before repeatedly, but they are truly among my faves
obviously as this is a rec list for a dark fanworks event, disturbing themes go without saying... lmk if you want me to tag anything beyond what I already have ^_^
bigmouth strikes back by reconquer (@sophelstien) with
a tridentarii noncon/character study and one of my favorite tridentariicests of all time OBVIOUSLY. it has kind of a slow burn perhaps to be considered a darkfic (although I love the author's completely sick and now-canon-to-me reading of the tridentarii codependence and dysfunction, which hopelessly infests every part of both their relationship and the story), but the scene at the end rings SO true to me and is so hideous that it's gotta be #1 with a bullet on this list
art for the above by @dorkfruit
yargghhh this fic illustration is such a fantastic pairing with this. I really love the artist's style, it's so grotesque and unconcerned with anything except visceral realness (compliment), and the lumpy/fleshy/knobbly way they draw people is the perfect way to illustrate the tridentarii, who are both allied with flesh magic plus their whole eidolon thing. and the way the twins' faces are just different enough and corona's skin and hair shading contrasts-yet-coheres with ianthe's... ahhhh soo good
and she asked, what is hell? (hell lives inside you) by anonymous
the kiriona cohort gang rape I didn't know I wanted until I read it... 😳 I love an author who just puts the pedal to the metal and gives the people everything they want to see without a single ounce of squeamishness. an inspiration for us all 💦
a kept girl by apredatorywasp
this is the cytherea/gideon porn entry 🤭 what a fabulous lineup of tags & tropes this has, including the curveball, forced fem on a butch O_O" gosh I just love these two together, and I love how gideon is gradually boxed into a smaller and smaller mental landscape... plus the shock collar in chapter 3... oh cytheon army we are the true inheritors of the world and the conquerors of all pervkind
untitled ("I wanted you to use me, you malign, double-crossing, corpse-obsessed bag of bones...") by @bluetheking
GRIDDLEHARK GORE GRIDDLEHARK GORE when I first saw this I think my mouth actually fell open in real life. I LOVE when artists are not afraid to make ""ugly"" things that communicate some greater truth, and not only are these gideon & harrow designs wonderfully expressive of who they are, the thick viscous tears they're both crying and the way they're still clinging to each other despite the hideous injury and suffering they're each causing... the way gideon ripped her heart out of her chest and is forcing it into harrow's mouth... AAAGH also hng griddle delt
like real people do by liesmyth (@liesmyth)
an incredible mercymorn/john gorefest with the yummy gushing prose that makes gore such a divine treat to read... plus such excellent worldbuilding feelings as: "You remembered, vaguely, the rush of siphoning. [...] This was nothing like it. You were in flames. Siphoning God’s soul felt like all of Dominicus burning in your chest, like channeling the River entire through your soul. You were surging with so much power that you felt crushed by it—you held it in the palm of your hand and it stung like burning coals."
untitled ("how would you have asked Alecto the First to lie") by @rosenkranz-does-things
this one is simple it's just my wifey alecto looking enchanting and covered in blood <3 I love her ocean hair and eclipse eyes in the first one transitioning to human hair & john's eyes, really evocative design.. plus the noir-y shadow... it's perhaps not as explicit as some of the other entries on this list but this alecto always sends a shiver down my spine
with custom of fell deeds by rnanqo (@rnanqo)
harrow/john belt whipping in which harrow begs john to whip her as an act of atonement for her heretical act in opening the locked tomb, and john, the worst and most awkward daddy dom ever, does it, but only after repeated entreaties and huge amounts of harrow anguish and self-castigation. need I say more. LOVE this john btw so in-character
may it sleep insensate by thelockedtomb
some DELICIOSO wake revenant body horror!! one of my fave interpretations of wake's summoning on the ninth, and gives that real eerie atmosphere of haunting/ghostliness/a hideous specter from beyond the grave that's sometimes hard to find in the fandom. really awesome and grotesque and I luv it :3
untitled ("see you on the flip side, sugarlips") by @kaereth
augh god that's that GOOD good griddlehark grief T_T I love how harrow's teeth are bared, and how that and her ribcage corselet (and gideon's hair ofc) pop so intensely against the background of the bloody wasteland. and the sword as the cross at the head of the grave of course.. then your eye is gradually drawn to the bloody stakes, looking almost as innocent as flowers..... WAH
bread and wine by anonymous
this is a tragically deleted fic involving harrow nova forced breeding on drearburh to continue the line of the tombkeepers, with some mercy/forced gratitude by reverend daughter gideon. GREAT PREMISE RIGHT??? sadly, it was apparently deleted due to people being shitty little assholes in the comments, despite being respectfully and extensively tagged.
in addition to planting my flag as a lover of this story in particular, I would also like to dedicate this entry in my list as a memorial for all the darkfics that gave their intended audience hours of pleasure and enjoyment, but were deleted or privated due to harassment, doxxing, and/or shitty comments from people they were never written to please. POUR ONE OUT FOR ALL THE FALLEN WORKS OF ART 😭😭
can't wait to see everyone else's rec lists and get lots more juicy stuff to read and look at! ^_^
gummygunk
prguitarman
annaxmalina
kaledo-art
stormborns
