Acts of Contrition: The Beginning of the Acts!Verse.
I feel like it's only appropriate to start up this Tumblr with an appropriately epic fic rec, by the appropriately epic co-authors at web-of-thorns.
and that fic is... Acts of Contrition.
Acts of Contrition Title: Acts of Contrition (Complete) Rating: NC-17 (overall) Warning(s): Violence, language, graphic m/m sex Pairing(s): HoMin, JaeChun, HoSu, JaeChunMin JaeSuChun, YunChun, JaeHo, MinSu, HoMinSu, OT5 Summary: The Imperial Guard is the elite combative force of the Empire. Changmin Shim was lucky to even get recruited. But when a mission goes wrong and he finds himself stranded behind enemy lines, it's up to his former Captain to get him back. No matter the cost.
Acts of Contrition is... probably one of the best fanfics I have ever read in my life (second only to The Shoebox Project. Maybe.) If you read this one, prepare to be hooked on the Acts!verse and spending the next couple of weeks of your life reading all the sequels (as well as the sort of alternative story starring YunChun- Dune, inspired by Enemy Mine and... Dune.) I love the sprinkling of mythology throughout all of it... The Guard ship that Changmin, Yunho, and Junsu live on in the beginning is called the Acheron, the planet Jaejoong and Yoochun live on is called Elysia, Changmin's home planet is Annwn (which is all the more heartbreaking when you read Acts of Succession), etc. etc.
The best things about this fic are... every single thing, I swear. The characterization and character development? Spot on, amazing. I feel like I've learned things from these characters and how they've grown that I've never learned anywhere else. The plot? It never stops, it's wonderful, there's tension, there's growth. Even when they're having sex there's a plot. Even if the whole chapter is just them having sex, there's something happening there besides just sex. You know how amazing that is? It is so amazing. You're constantly in suspense, hoping for a happy ending, afraid there isn't going to be one. Your heart breaks and is stuck back together again over and over. It is wonderfully, deliciously painful but pleasurable. The perfect balance of salty sweet.
I could go on about this wonderful, amazing, awesome, action-filled, love-filled, beautiful universe forever, but you should go explore it yourself. I don't care if you don't like sci-fi, or if you don't know DBSK that well, read this fic, now.
And then read it again. And again.
The Acts!verse tag.
(I'll be reccing other fics from them in the future, but not from the Acts!verse- this whole post is meant for all of the installments, basically. READ THEM. /fangirls)