Sterek Fic Recs

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Are y'all not doing the recs anymore?? (Just curious because your last post is from April...)

Hi Nonny!

Us mods are still alive and well! However, life has very much gotten in the way of our ability to keep on top of this blog. Fear not! This hiatus won't last forever and we will be back before you know it.

Thanks for checking in!

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Recent Recs Submission Update

We are changing the way we feature our recent recs! 

We still want to feature your favorite new fics! In a fandom that has so many years’ worth of incredible content, it can be hard to find newer work that, no matter how awesome, will never have the same reach as the fandom works from the heyday. So throughout the month we’ll accept submissions for new works posted in that month. We will still be sharing the recs as and when the asks are sent in, and sharing our picks in the same way, but there will no longer be a monthly masterlist. Now, we’re going to compile a quarterly masterlist and share every 3 months, so these will be seasonal recent recs. 

The way you submit your faves to be featured is the same: just send us an ask with a link to the fic, a rating, and word length :) Of course you’re welcome to share what you loved about the fic / relevant tags etc but not required.

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March Submissions Are Open!

We are currently accepting submissions for fics posted in March, so head to our ask page here to start submitting your faves straight away!

- @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon​ 

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April Submissions Are Now Open!

We are currently accepting submissions for fics posted in both March and April so don't forget to submit your faves to be featured ❤️

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Post-Apocalyptic AU Rec List

Whether it’s zombies, a supernatural uprising or an out-of-control infection, we love reading about how our boys navigate the end of the world together. Hope you enjoy our selection of Post-Apocalyptic fic recs!

Happy reading!

-mods @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon

💀 Enemy of My Enemy | calrissian18 | E | 8k

Stiles blinks hard. He can’t argue that he’s not quite all there, a little woozier than he would like, but he’s done more difficult things a lot worse off. The wolf didn’t know shit and Stiles sure as hell didn’t need him. He huffs out a little laugh into his own chest, leaning back against the armrest and chin dropped to his sternum, head lolling slightly. His eyelids are heavier than they were a minute ago. “What makes you think I wouldn’t use the opportunity to gut you? I hunt werewolves for sport, and so does everyone I have left.”

A careful claw tilts his chin up and it takes Stiles’ eyes a second to bring the face in front of him into stark relief. “You can barely keep your eyes open,” the wolf says softly, “I don’t think you have the upper hand now, human.”

💀 build me a city (and call it jerusalem) | orphan_account | T | 3.5k

The way Derek sees it, they'd all be screwed if the supernatural among them weren't immune to whatever it is that's put the country in a state of perpetual turmoil. He's lost track of how many times he's had to slit someones throat and flush the blood caked beneath his claws down the drain of the sink. Sometimes it's too much, for all of them. Stiles especially.

💀 Time Is Numbered By Days | secondstar | E | 7.6k

It's been fifty four days.

💀 Come with Me and Walk the Longest Mile | DevilDoll | E | 39k

"Stiles shouldn't accept rides from werewolves he meets behind abandoned convenience stores." In which the zombie apocalypse is just one of their worries.

💀 World Gone Mad | veritas_st | M | 1.6k

Stiles can’t remember when he last slept longer than three hours.

They’ve been running for so long now that it seems his body just survives on adrenaline and nothing else, a few stolen bites of food here and there, a couple of snatched hours of sleep then they’re off again.

💀 Radio Tower | HyperLittleNori (Shiguresan) | E | 130k

Inspired by the concept and stunning art by the talented Suis0u on Tumblr. Everything was different. The world he knew was gone. It’d been a long time since he’d started thinking he was probably one of the last humans on earth, that out there the only sentient beings were those that would devour him whole. He wasn’t sure why he continued with the radio broadcasts, continued to talk into nothingness. The only explanation was that there was a spark of hope in him yet that he wasn’t alone. The lonely safety Stiles has built around an old radio tower in the middle of nowhere is about to be broken. Stiles isn’t sure if Derek is a harbinger of chaos or hope at the end of the world.

💀 Ride | wolfbeater | E | 35k

The howlers emerged after the war that stripped the world of its colour. All Stiles knows is the wasteland and he calls the road his home, hunting the mutants wreaking havoc on what’s left of humanity. But when he becomes the hunted, he has to team up with the very thing he kills. And it’s possibly the worst road trip he’s been on.

💀 A Rock to Cling to While We Catch Our Breath series | Hyperion327 | various ratings | 40k

The apocalypse isn't necessarily the end. Taken from a line in the film Interstellar, here we see Derek and Stiles as they endure worlds scarred, and deformed.

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Recent Recs Submission Update

We are changing the way we feature our recent recs! 

We still want to feature your favorite new fics! In a fandom that has so many years’ worth of incredible content, it can be hard to find newer work that, no matter how awesome, will never have the same reach as the fandom works from the heyday. So throughout the month we’ll accept submissions for new works posted in that month. We will still be sharing the recs as and when the asks are sent in, and sharing our picks in the same way, but there will no longer be a monthly masterlist. Now, we’re going to compile a quarterly masterlist and share every 3 months, so these will be seasonal recent recs. 

The way you submit your faves to be featured is the same: just send us an ask with a link to the fic, a rating, and word length :) Of course you’re welcome to share what you loved about the fic / relevant tags etc but not required.

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March Submissions Are Open!

We are currently accepting submissions for fics posted in March, so head to our ask page here to start submitting your faves straight away!

- @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon​ 

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♥ Sweet Tart | DerRumtreiber | M | 6.2k

Scott huffs, like it pains him to say whatever is about to come out of his mouth. “It’s just… whenever you bring up the boyfriend thing. He gets this… smell.”

It can’t be a good smell, with the way Scott’s face looks.

“A smell. Like, what kind of a smell are we talking, here?”

“Like longing,” Scott grits out, and oh.

~*~*~

Or, the one where Stiles calls Derek baby, and Derek likes it a little too much.

*Submissions for March 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until the end of April! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a spring masterlist in June. Submissions info here, submit here*

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Recent Recs Submission Update

We are changing the way we feature our recent recs! 

We still want to feature your favorite new fics! In a fandom that has so many years’ worth of incredible content, it can be hard to find newer work that, no matter how awesome, will never have the same reach as the fandom works from the heyday. So throughout the month we’ll accept submissions for new works posted in that month. We will still be sharing the recs as and when the asks are sent in, and sharing our picks in the same way, but there will no longer be a monthly masterlist. Now, we’re going to compile a quarterly masterlist and share every 3 months, so these will be seasonal recent recs. 

The way you submit your faves to be featured is the same: just send us an ask with a link to the fic, a rating, and word length :) Of course you’re welcome to share what you loved about the fic / relevant tags etc but not required.

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March Submissions Are Open!

We are currently accepting submissions for fics posted in March, so head to our ask page here to start submitting your faves straight away!

- @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon​ 

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February Submission Recs

Here is the February 2022 masterlist containing all the fics that you guys submitted to be featured, as well as a few of our picks.

Thank you to everyone who submitted their faves. Make sure you comb your bookmarks for fics you’ve enjoyed posted in March for the next round of submissions (which are open now!) :)

Happy reading!!

-Mods @thisgirlsays22​ & @snarkatthemoon​

💕 Accidental Valentine | raisesomehale | G | 1.6k 

Stiles extends his neck to scope this way and that down the sidewalk on either side of the diner, but there is no sign of a hysterical parent looking for their lost child.

He turns back to the little kid.

His tiny, bushy eyebrows crease in consternation, and then he’s offering Stiles the lollipop again. He shoves it forcefully at him in the air, making melodic, prompting noises high in his throat.

Which is when Stiles realizes that this kid is actually more like a baby, if his lack of vocabulary is anything to go on, and there’s gotta be a joke hidden somewhere in this situation about not taking candy from a baby.

💕 hot dads doing chores near you | bleep0bleep | G | 1.2k

Derek finds the camera on accident.

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“Why is there a camera inside the teddy bear you bought for Zoey?”  

Cora laughs. “Oh, that, it’s just a nanny cam, silly!”  

“Why would Zoey need a nanny cam?” Derek grits his teeth. “I’m home with her all the time.”  

“Exactly–I mean, exactly, you’re always home with her! You should go out, and that’s why I got it for you. So you can check up on any potential sitters, big brother.”  

“But why was it on?” Derek asks.

💕 saviour complex (sequel to spit the blood back) | Poe | M | 22.7k

"The first time Stiles told Derek he loved him, he didn’t exactly tell Derek. And that shouldn’t hurt, but it does. Stiles told a crowd of people and Derek happened to be one of them. And Derek had known, of course he’d known, he’d known for months, he’d known when he was helping Stiles pick out lyrics for the album and he’d known in early mornings and late nights and lazy afternoons. But those words, so often whispered and thrilled, weren’t given to him, they were given to an audience."

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(or: Trauma is an unreliable narrator. A sort-of sequel to spit the blood back, focusing on Derek Hale. The author may have watched the All Too Well short film too many times.)

💕 yes, deputy | sterekhale | M | 1.7k

His radar reads the speed as the dark SUV comes into view, and his first thought is that he might have to seize and impound the vehicle, then he realizes who the driver is.

💕 and you feel like falling down | Fenris13 | T | 1.2k

"You know that this is totally unnecessary, right? There's no reason you have to carry me all the way back to the car, I'll be fine—"

"Oh? Okay, I'll just drop you here then," Derek says.

💕 looking | Helenish | M | 3.5k

Stiles likes enchiladas, true crime novels, black coffee, eggs over-easy, Pearl Jam, he’s tall and kind and great with kids—

(warnings for things that happened in canon with Kate)

💕 In Vodka Veritas | fairytalesandfolklore | T | 2.1k

"Listen, the only reason I suck so badly is because I'm drunk," Stiles insists, swiping Derek's controller out of his hands and settling it back onto the charger. "Under normal circumstances, I could totally kick your ass."

"Sure you could," Derek teases with a playful roll of his eyes. "Tell you what — I'll have another drink to even the score."

"Fucking werewolf stamina," Stiles scoffs and shakes his head, immediately regretting it when the room spins violently.

Derek shrugs. "I could go for another round of Sex on the Beach," he says, though admittedly, he's already quite drunk as it is, wolfsbane-infused vodka swimming giddy laps in his veins.

"The drink or the activity?" Stiles quips, and something about the way Stiles looks at him in that moment, eyebrows arched suggestively, big goofy grin plastered across his sun-kissed face, makes Derek let out a snort of laughter, and without thinking, he blurts out, "Oh my god, I fucking love you so much."

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Recent Recs Submission Update

We are changing the way we feature our recent recs! 

We still want to feature your favorite new fics! In a fandom that has so many years’ worth of incredible content, it can be hard to find newer work that, no matter how awesome, will never have the same reach as the fandom works from the heyday. So throughout the month we’ll accept submissions for new works posted in that month. We will still be sharing the recs as and when the asks are sent in, and sharing our picks in the same way, but there will no longer be a monthly masterlist. Now, we’re going to compile a quarterly masterlist and share every 3 months, so these will be seasonal recent recs. 

The way you submit your faves to be featured is the same: just send us an ask with a link to the fic, a rating, and word length :) Of course you’re welcome to share what you loved about the fic / relevant tags etc but not required.

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March Submissions Are Open!

We are currently accepting submissions for fics posted in March, so head to our ask page here to start submitting your faves straight away!

- @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon​ 

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♥ In Vodka Veritas | fairytalesandfolklore | T | 2.1k

"Listen, the only reason I suck so badly is because I'm drunk," Stiles insists, swiping Derek's controller out of his hands and settling it back onto the charger. "Under normal circumstances, I could totally kick your ass."

"Sure you could," Derek teases with a playful roll of his eyes. "Tell you what — I'll have another drink to even the score."

"Fucking werewolf stamina," Stiles scoffs and shakes his head, immediately regretting it when the room spins violently.

Derek shrugs. "I could go for another round of Sex on the Beach," he says, though admittedly, he's already quite drunk as it is, wolfsbane-infused vodka swimming giddy laps in his veins.

"The drink or the activity?" Stiles quips, and something about the way Stiles looks at him in that moment, eyebrows arched suggestively, big goofy grin plastered across his sun-kissed face, makes Derek let out a snort of laughter, and without thinking, he blurts out, "Oh my god, I fucking love you so much."

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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♥ looking | Helenish | M | 3.5k

Stiles likes enchiladas, true crime novels, black coffee, eggs over-easy, Pearl Jam, he’s tall and kind and great with kids—

(warnings for things that happened in canon with Kate)

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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♥ and you feel like falling down | Fenris13 | T | 1.2k

"You know that this is totally unnecessary, right? There's no reason you have to carry me all the way back to the car, I'll be fine—"

"Oh? Okay, I'll just drop you here then," Derek says.

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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♥ yes, deputy | sterekhale | M | 1.7k

His radar reads the speed as the dark SUV comes into view, and his first thought is that he might have to seize and impound the vehicle, then he realizes who the driver is.

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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saviour complex, M, 22,669 words

lots of heavy themes but so, so, so good <3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36366232/chapters/90666190

Thank you, anon, doing my job for me as I was going to rec this myself ♥

♥ saviour complex (sequel to spit the blood back) | Poe | M | 22.7k

"The first time Stiles told Derek he loved him, he didn’t exactly tell Derek. And that shouldn’t hurt, but it does. Stiles told a crowd of people and Derek happened to be one of them. And Derek had known, of course he’d known, he’d known for months, he’d known when he was helping Stiles pick out lyrics for the album and he’d known in early mornings and late nights and lazy afternoons. But those words, so often whispered and thrilled, weren’t given to him, they were given to an audience."

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(or: Trauma is an unreliable narrator. A sort-of sequel to spit the blood back, focusing on Derek Hale. The author may have watched the All Too Well short film too many times.)

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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♥ hot dads doing chores near you | bleep0bleep | G | 1.2k

Derek finds the camera on accident.

* “Why is there a camera inside the teddy bear you bought for Zoey?”

  Cora laughs. “Oh, that, it’s just a nanny cam, silly!”

  “Why would Zoey need a nanny cam?” Derek grits his teeth. “I’m home with her all the time.”

  “Exactly–I mean, exactly, you’re always home with her! You should go out, and that’s why I got it for you. So you can check up on any potential sitters, big brother.”

  “But why was it on?” Derek asks.

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 25th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*

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Sterek Alpha Stiles/Omega Derek Fic Recs

Enjoy a selection of Alpha!Stiles / Omega!Derek fics that we’ve enjoyed!

α Rare Books and Special Collections | orphan_account | E | 15.3k

Derek Hale hates libraries.

Unfortunately, not all books can be ordered on Amazon.

(Or: in which Derek is a grumpy omega writer, and Stiles is an annoyingly attractive alpha special collections librarian.)

Ω And Pink Shoelaces | LupusScintilla (inkandblade) | M | 8.8k

It was Derek’s turn. It had to be. He looked at the comm-disc in his hand. Even if he had to debase himself with going to this damned matchmaking service, he was determined to find his mate.

α here comes trouble | grimm | E | 106k

All Derek wants is one day where he can sleep without worry of being woken by gunfire, without the threat of death hanging over his head. He wants a full stomach and no pain clinging to his bones, no ache in his feet from months of running. He wants a shower, a safe place to put his head. He wants his family, the healing comfort of pack. He'll never have any of that again.

Ω Say Hello to the Brushfire | Gorgeous Nerd (gorgeousnerd) | E | 10.6k

The night before Stiles turns eighteen, Derek Hale spills coffee on him. Things get weirder (and more awesome) from there. 

α Jump (For My Love) | KaliopeShipsIt | G | 6.7k

Stiles wants to get married in an untraditional way to defy the "Alphatriarchy".

Derek doesn't think before he speaks and ends up regretting all of his life choices.

Turns out, he needn't have worried at all.

Alternatively titled, "The One Where a Severely Acrophobic Derek Gets Out of Bungee Jumping Into Holy Matrimony And Still Manages To Defy the Alphatriarchy"

Ω Chocolate & Pomegranates | Dexterous_Sinistrous | T | 9.7k

Derek has been an Omega for what feels like centuries. He is constantly hounded by Alphas and Betas who can't control their hormones. He's thankful for Laura defending his honor, but there is one person he's always dreamed of giving himself to.

Too bad Derek is certain Stiles doesn't know he exists.

Prompt: "Hey can you write a fic where Derek is like this little super adorable omega that every body is competing for but he only wants Alpha Stiles, even though stiles couldn't care less about him until one day Stiles realizes they're mates and tries to woo Derek into forgiving him! I know that's probably a terrible prompt but soothing along those line??? Also it'd be super amazing if the Hale family was alive and they all tried to like shelter Derek???"

α Sustainable Management (series) | Guede | E | 410K (*Please note this series is also Peter/Derek/Stiles*)

An alternate universe where werewolves and other supernatural creatures aren't just integrated, but are so deeply embedded that they're considered part of the natural ecosystem.

In other words, Stiles and his father work for a U.S. Forest Service that's way different from the one here, if only because it involves many more secret-agent hijinks.

Ω Like Roses and Clover | LupusScintilla (inkandblade) | T | 5.6k

Derek bit at his lip and extended a fang to stop himself from thinking about it again. There were others in the villages around that he might like far better, but, ever since the first morning he’d woken up with the mate-mark on his arm, he’d promised himself that he’d not think about what kind of Mate he would favor, what kind of person he might enjoy spending the rest of his life with.

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Feb '22 Fic Rec Submissions are Open!

There have been so many great new fics posted this month, and we want to feature your favourites!

All you have to do is send us an ask with a link to the fic, a rating, and word length :) Of course you’re welcome to share what you loved about the fic / relevant tags etc. but this is not required. The only requirement is that the fic has to have been posted in Feb '22.

We will be sharing the submissions as they come in as well as adding recs of our own, and then compiling them in a masterlist which will be posted on March 27th.

Please submit your recs here between now and March 25th.

Happy reading!

- @thisgirlsays22 & @snarkatthemoon

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

♥ Accidental Valentine | raisesomehale | G | 1.6k

Stiles extends his neck to scope this way and that down the sidewalk on either side of the diner, but there is no sign of a hysterical parent looking for their lost child.

He turns back to the little kid.

His tiny, bushy eyebrows crease in consternation, and then he’s offering Stiles the lollipop again. He shoves it forcefully at him in the air, making melodic, prompting noises high in his throat.

Which is when Stiles realizes that this kid is actually more like a baby, if his lack of vocabulary is anything to go on, and there’s gotta be a joke hidden somewhere in this situation about not taking candy from a baby.

*Submissions for Feb 2022 Sterek fic recs are open until March 20th! We’ll be sharing on an ongoing basis and will be posting a masterlist on March 27th. Submissions info here, submit here*