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it's really late but here's the fic recs for clextober!!!

Day 1: Spirit Week! 

who are you wearing? by geralehane (@geralehane)

is your classic halloween soulmate au that, thanks to the quality of the writing, hits extremely hard everytime. for a simple concept i have layed awake at night thinking about it.

Day 2: Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice 

A Bit of Clarity by Aphrodites Law (@aphrodites-law)

is a sweet fall themed supernatural au that I'm sure we all know and love but is always worth giving a shout out. everyone begins to get visions of their past lives and it's a coffee shop au. If you like soulmates, read this asap.

Day 3: Annual Fall Festival 

the river's deep (but I swam it) by isawet (@sunspill)

i love isawet's one shots and this collection of halloween prompt fills written in 2017 is some of my favorite that they've done. highly recommend to anyone who wants to stay in the halloween spirit. mostly modern aus and all absolutely perfectly bite sized while still remaining filling.

Day 4: Magical Nights 

oh where do we begin? (the rubble or our sins) by the_crownless_queen

this is one of those lost in the clexa tag one shots that i always think gets overlooked. i always wished they would continue it, but even as a one shot it is so fantastic to think about and adore, and absolutely worth the read.

Day 5: The Other Side 

breathe into my lips the life i do not have by ur_the_puppy (@ur-the-puppy)

ur_the_puppy's ability to put 40k words into one chapter and still have it be not only coherent but heart wrenching and gorgeous is unparalleled. this one follows clarke in a haunted house, falling in love with her roommate. would highly recommend if you need to cry and also feel joy but in the way zadie smith defines it.

Day 6: Vampires vs. Werewolves 

bleeding love by geralehane (@geralehane)

you know, i try to avoid reccing the same author twice in a rec list, but i could not decide between these two, and i gave up. especially since i'm supposed to be doing a reading rn lol. i can't telly ou how many times ive read this goddamn story and lost my fucking mind. it wouldn't be possible, honestly. young vampire clarke and elder vampire lexa fall in love. trust me.

Day 7: Free Day

Shifters by DreamsAreMyWords (@dreamsaremywords)

damw is fairly (and rightfully) well known in the fandom for specifically their ability with craft in the fantastical genre. I like to pick less well known fics for my free day and i have to say, this one is entirely overlooked. i love a zombie apocalypse and this is a total twist on the genre. the line "birth is always violent" has stayed with me not as just a powerful line but as a mantra to remind myself that becoming will hurt but is worth it. would highly recommend you move it up your marked for later lists.

[halfbaked-cupcake]

It was all so strange And it's so surreal That a ghost should be so practical

[blair-stone]

[cyclothimic]

resurgam ch22 | clexa

- pairing: lexa / clarke griffin - genre: romance / alternate universe / royalty - summary:

When Clarke joined a military hospital in Libya, she didn't expect Princess Alexandria of Polis rolling into her operating theater on a gurney. After saving the princess' life and spending a few hours of laughter with said princess, she thought that was it.

It is when she returns to Polis that she finds out her relationship with Lexa doesn't just end at former doctor-patient or saving the princess' life. And maybe Clarke is more okay with it than she would think.

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"I'm a doctor, first and foremost, and I was not about to let the most iconic princess of all monarchies in the world to die on my table."

"Iconic?"

"You're the first out and proud lesbian princess…like ever. William and Harry can suck it."

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or Lexa is a princess and retired soldier, Clarke is the doctor who saves her life, and they don't expect each other in the best way possible.

- to read: ao3 | ffn - links: ao3 account | ko-fi | commission details

[evelynns-sugar-bby]

You know what we missed?

Clexa being soft together, thinking they're subtle but they're not...

Like after they're night together, they keep their relationship on the DL due to the tension between their people.

And one night, after a particularly hard day Clarke his calming Lexa down. They're sitting on the couch in Clarke's room foreheads pressed together, Clarke massaging the baby hairs on Lexa's neck, when someone bursts in (Octavia, Abby, or Raven, someone like that) causing them to jump apart.

Cue suspicious staring as Clexa puts a little distance between themselves.

[wstronekobietpl]

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[n1ghtwr1ter]

On the two-year anniversary of Lexa's death

So, yesterday was the anniversary. Two years since we watched Lexa bleed out on the bed where she and Clarke had just made love for the first and last time.

And somehow, I totally missed it.

At first I was really pissed at myself, and really upset. But later I realized that I wasn't as mad at myself as I thought I should be. Why?

Because Lexa is still alive.

We have kept her that way. Through this fandom's outpouring of fic, gifsets, art, videos, and love, we have kept her alive. I may have watched her get shot and bleed out in Clarke's arms, but in a way she's more alive than ever before. That's one of the reasons - a big reason - I wrote Young Gods: as an attempt to write Lexa back from the dead, and give her the life we all know she deserved.

Every attempt to kill her on the show - seeing her die again to save Clarke in the City of Light, every time they talk about her legacy - has only made her stronger, because we respond with anger but also pure love. Love for our Heda, and our ship, and also each other.

Never stop, Clexakru. Never let that end. Because as long as Lexa is alive in our hearts, as long as we carry her Flame in our minds and her Spirit in our spirits, she can never truly die.

[saracensmatt]

― Cecelia Ahern, P.S. I Love You