Do you have a comfort fanfic? (You know, one you go back to when you're feeling sick or down or whatever.) Link, please?
Ohhhhh friendo. I read a LOT of fics. I can recommend good fics from a lot of my fandoms, and from across ship types. I read a pretty good amount of reader-insert fics too, so those are aplenty.
I will say that I can always provide more recs (I'm more than happy to, this ask got me really excited to share!!)
THERE WILL BE EXPLICIT/SMUT FICS ON THIS LIST. PLEASE HEED THE WARNINGS ON EACH FIC ON AO3!
I love this fic which has trans male Mulan and bisexual Li Shang in a barista x gym bro AU
I love this fic/series which is like a Big Bang Theory reworking -- I used to really like the show and I'm pretty meh about it now but this fic genuinely like fixes a lot of issues I have with the show now and I like it better than many parts of the actual show
I love this fic which has Veela!Hermione x Draco -- it's a strange concept, it really is. but honestly sometimes I still go back to a real good Dramione fic (and this is one of my faves) despite not liking the OG material as much anymore either and thinking the OG author is a TERF trashbag
Speaking of fics from HP, I can also recommend these canon divergent AUs: one where Harry essentially uses Dolores like a puppet and has the ministry in the palm of his hand, and one where Harry realizes he's Lord Potter and has a lot of political and hidden powers and marries Daphne Greengrass. Both of these fics I discovered through my ex and have maintained a soft spot for. They're both the kind of fics where Harry grows some balls and becomes pretty OP, and at the very least the first one is pretty Dumbledore-bashing and Weasley-bashing for a while if I remember correctly. I enjoy them tho and I have read them a few times, if not recently.
Another is this Addams Family x HP Crossover. Just... just trust me.
I love this series which is a Fallout OC x Nick Valentine x John Hancock creation/masterpiece -- I'm just starting to reread it now bc when I first started reading it part 3 wasn't done yet and I lost track of where I was so I'm just gonna let myself get lost in it again
Speaking of Fallout, I cannot enough recommend Gaqalesqua and AbhorrentGodliness if you're into strange smut (this Arthur Maxson x Sole Survivor AU is probably my fave)
I love this fic which has trans male Dean Winchester and it made me cry like a baby
Speaking of fics that made me cry like a baby, this McSpirk Hanahaki Disease trope fic did just that last night
I am a sucker for angst sometimes, and one of my fave angst fics is this NCIS fic about Tony dealing with a significant trauma. It's VERY dark. Like please read the tags dark.
Another dark one - but in different ways - is this fic which is a Marvek Mafia AU with Bucky x Steve x Reader where Reader is saved from a shitty relationship and then Stucky straight up murder Reader's shitty ex. Listen, I was having some anger issues when I found this fic. It just happened to stick out nicely. It gets dark and is incredibly smutty.
Another reader insert fic I enjoy is this Tenth Doctor x Reader one that's just... it's just smut. It's completely unabashed smut. Reader and the Doctor have sex in a glass cage in a nightclub. That's it. One of the best horny AF PWP I've ever seen just because it's so... it's so smut.
One that isn't smut but has a smut effect on my heart because it's so fluffy is this Bones Mccoy x Reader fic that's like a bookstore owner x local doctor AU. It's so cute.
On a smutty Bones fic note if so desired, this one has plot. No, really, it's got 60k words and 12 chapters, and is like a really good read even if you skip the smut. It's adorable.
Edit to add: Hanahaki Disease McSpirk? Take it. Take the angst and hurt/comfort. Take it. You know you want it.
And this McKirk/Reader fic that has angst galore but also a three-way-marriage and babies. Let's go!!
And as a final addition I will bring in my most absolutely foolproof comfort smut -- it's a Smosh fic, set between Reader and Damien Haas, and it's genuinely one of the best slow burn smut fics I have ever read. This is one of the fics that makes me dig thru all my bookmarks to find again no matter how deep it gets.
Thank you so much for asking!!!! I am always happy to provide more. Again I read a lot of reader inserts so those are in no shortage of supply!! I have a LOT of Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy x Reader bookmarked either on AO3 itself or in my internet browser... Like a lot.
Overall I am a sucker for fluff and won't generally read fics without happy endings. I also am a sucker for certain tropes, with Hanahaki Disease being one of my current faves... I also go and reread my own fics sometimes haha
