Hi ! Thank you so much for your services here, its life saving! Wondering if you could recommend any fandom-iconic fics that everyone has read/should read?
hmmm well it depends on which fandom you're looking at here.
for merlin:
1. it's a love story, baby (just say yes) by schweet_heart
When Arthur confesses his love for his Court Sorcerer, Merlin is certain it must be some kind of enchantment. After all, Arthur is in love with Guinevere, right? Right. Now if only people would stop trying to convince him otherwise...
Or: five times someone tried to explain to Merlin that yes, Arthur really is in love with him, and one time he finally got the message.
Written for Scruffy Pendragon Fest 2020.
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this author is pretty well known in the fandom and this is a pretty popular fic from them. it’s a pretty light hearted fic, but there are moments where the angst just punches, which is what this author is just super talented at doing.
2. True Love by platonic_boner (@vegan-hermione)
AU where soulmates can’t lie to each other.
(That’s okay, Merlin wasn’t planning to lie to Arthur anyways! Haha.. ha.. ha…)
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ahhhhhhh this fic is another very iconic fandom fic in my opinion. the angst does not just punch it literally beats you up (but we also get the happy ending). also every fic by this author is so worth checking out. it’s literally all just quality fiction.
3. Fundamental Imperfection by Starlingthefool
In which an argument about Dickens leads to a Twitter scandal, broken bones, midnight conversations, and transatlantic longing.
(Or, an AU with Arthur and Merlin as moderately famous authors.)
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this au!! this au!! that bit with the lonely house made me scream so hard internally. the pacing is fantastic! essentially, tl;dr: super super good fic
for 00q:
1. Luminous Beings Are We by Castillon02 (@castillon02)
In an effort to persuade Q to accept him and his feelings, Bond learns the way of the nerd and creates a special Halloween cosplay.
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this is the first fic that came to mind when i read your question. it’s so good and angsty and i love bond’s characterisation in this fic.
2. Synchronicity by stereobone
It goes on like that for months, and then Q realizes that James Bond is "hanging out" at his flat.
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i feel like it goes without saying in the 00q fandom that everyone has probably read this at least once. it’s not a long fic, but it’s a good fic. the writing is tight, and it moves very very well.
3. So If You Give by TheCatOnTheMoon (@iamthecatonthemoon)
Bond gives Q things because of reasons. Q thinks that Bond completely misses the point.
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this fic is super iconic too. the characterisation is as always, impeccable.
I have been reading and collecting fanfiction for this blog for several years now and I believe it’s time to create my masterlist of the most iconic fics for Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz. Finished works only, no roleplays. If a fic has a sequel, you need to check the authors biography and related works.
Many of these fics can be found in my collection on ffnet: It’s A Ship
FFN: link to fanfiction.net story
Ao3: link to Archive of our own
* Fics with sequels
Movie Verse:
Haunting Temptation by Fairdrea - FFN - Ao3
Djinn Out of the Bottle By Llewlyn - FFN
Life Sentence By Llewlyn - FFN
Tangled Time By Psi Fi - FFN - Ao3
Mad Love* By: Wishes2Dreams - FFN
Rigor Mortis by ThunderheadFred (formerly Opal Lynn) - Ao3
The Honeymoon From Heck By Gnom DePlume - FFN -Ao3
A Haunting in Connecticut* By: The Art of Suicide - FFN - Ao3
The Wooing of Lydia DeetzBy: Velvet Storm - FFN
Movie AU:
Lydia was late* By: WithoutHesitation - FFN
Lydia was Early?* By: WithoutHesitation - FFN
Toon Verse:
Cinderjuice* by LadyNorbert - FFnet , Ao3
Twister By: FairDrea - FFN
Tempest By: FairDrea - FFN
Prince Vince, Vampire Hunter By: Ten Story - FFN
A Pair and a Petition By: serrah.hawke - FFN - Web
Stage Pressure By: serrah.hawke - FFN - Web
Forget Me Not By: Lydia Goth - FFN
Marriage: You know I hate it! By: bedazzled-bat - FFN
Queen of the Sandworms By: Bat13SJx - FFN
It's a Sign of Trust - orphan_account - Ao3
Dark Toon:
Only To Her* By: WithoutHesitation - FFN
But He Promised Her Forever* By: WithoutHesitation - FFN
Mo-Toon Verse:
Why Can't My Life Ever Be Simple?* By: The-Fabulous-Person - FFN
Year One: Intertwined - FFN
Musical Verse:
In the Spectre's Shadow by Lady Strange and Unusual - Ao3
Till Death Do We Start by BDZ - Ao3
Musical AU:
Waiting for complete fics
Three B Crossovers:
Waiting for complete fics
Notes: This list will be actively updated. Keep that in mind if you choose to reblog. |Recommendations are encouraged, but no guarantee that suggestions will make it to this list. | More lists to be created based on theme.
Escapade by dolce_piccante
{mature, 146k, 5 chapters, fake relationship AU, slow build, side ziall, ot5 friendship + involvement, enemies to lovers, smut, sharing a bed}
In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.
Can be found in:
Iconic Fics
Fav Fics
Enemies to lovers
Fake Relationship
Sharing a bed
Playlist of the songs mentioned can be found here!
It’s about time I finally rec’d this fic. I really enjoyed this! I see why it’s such an iconic fic in the fandom.
The story showed great character development, for both Harry and Louis. Louis was a pretentious, stuck up corporate bozo at the start, but grew into a wonderful character.
“Because I would rather go alone to every event for the rest of my life than pay the ghost of Mick Jagger’s youth to pretend to tolerate me”
“Do you like golf?” “I f*ck old men for a living. Of course I love golf”
“What’s with the all white trend?” “Babe, it’s not like you’re going to get your period”
“Invisible, inexplicable heat, like the shock of an electrical fire o the remnants of a lightning storm in humidity”
Although it says in the beginning it’s incomplete, it’s actually fully finished with an epilogue and everything, so don’t let that stop you!
This was an amazing book, I definitely recommend it and understand why it’s so famous! Go read it!
Hi! Can you do a fic rec with the most iconic and classic larry fics ever like the ones everybody knows and everybody has read. Thank you in advance
Sure ! (Warning : so this is a iconic larry fic rec, meaning 1/ it doesn’t necessarily reflect my own taste in fics or what I think about it. , 2/ it’s my own choice of what I think are iconics fics . Just saying. )
- And Then a Bit : Or, take a parallel universe where Louis and Harry were never together, mix in a two year hiatus and an impending comeback, pour in a dash of lost fans, two tablespoons of strong friendship and a Modest! employee with a good idea. Add a squeeze of pretending to be a couple, lots of kisses and a tattoo or two. Stir. Serve: the mother of all publicity stunts.(aka Harry and Louis fake a relationship for publicity. Eventually it becomes a lot less fake and a lot more real.) (128k)
- Relief Next To Me : AU. What happens when a baker and a graphic designer meet via a very specific Craigslist post? Fate, friendship, food, and maybe more. (333k)
- Wear It Like A Crown : AU. As part of a team of fixers hired to handle a gay scandal in Buckingham Palace, Louis expects Prince Harry to be a lot of things—most notably a royally spoilt brat. Never mind that the very same Prince Harry used to star in quite a number of Louis' teenage fantasies. (141k)
- Love Is A Rebellious Bird: AU in which the boys still make music. Louis is the concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra, Harry is the New! and Exciting! interim conductor/ex-cello prodigy who "has made Mozart cool again" according to Esquire Magazine (Louis hates him immediately, which is definitely why he internet stalked him in his dark bedroom late at night that one time), and Niall is the best. Zayn and Liam are around too.Don't hum Bolero. (134k)
- Empty Skies: For three years, Harry has been running from his past. Now, he is moving to London and pledges to fulfil his only dream -- making it big in the music industry. Not everyone has a place, though, and the competition is tough. As is his past catching up on him.Louis is part of the biggest boy band of the world, and getting there had meant a lot of hard work, as well as sacrificing parts of his heart and soul. He's still happy. Maybe not as happy as he could be, but who is he to complain?Featuring Perrie as Harry's adorable flatmate, Niall as his manager, and Liam and Zayn as Louis' bandmates. (134k)
- Fading : Louis knows about beauty; the combination of qualities that pleases the aesthetic senses. He creates that combination every day in the garments he designs while studying fashion at uni. The cut of the design, the color of the fabric, the intricacy of the stitching; it all comes together to create something beautiful. When the science student with the long legs and dimpled smile agrees to model for him, Louis decides he’s found beauty personified. Harry just thinks Louis needs someone to show him how beautiful he is. (202k)
- like a bastard on the burning sea : au; harry breaks louis, louis breaks everything. (22k)
- Escapade : In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for. (146k)
- You Are The Blood : A seventh-year Hogwarts AU in which Niall gets all the girls, Liam goes on a journey of self-discovery, Zayn falls in love, Harry wants something more, and Louis tries to figure out once and for all why he, a Muggleborn, was sorted into Slytherin. (175k)
- Baby Heaven's in your Eyes: Or a sixth form!AU where Harry is the fucked up bad boy with too many problems, Louis is the perfect rich boy with too much money and their schools are right across from each other. They meet at a party and that’s the last (and maybe the only) thing they need.(120k)
- Pull Me Under: AU. As the first British footballer to come out at the prime of his career, it helps that Louis Tomlinson is in a long-term, committed relationship. Even if that relationship is fake. (Featuring Niall as Louis' favourite teammate, Liam as Louis' agent, and Zayn as Liam's boyfriend, who just happens to be good friends with one Harry Styles.) (140k)
- Wild And Unruly: Harry is a cowboy sitting on the biggest oil reservoir in Wyoming, and Louis is the paralegal assigned to pressure him into selling his land. (123k)
- Young & Beautiful : Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn't stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes. (227k)
- Swim In The Smoke: “What about this, Captain?” Liam asks, nudging the boy kneeling between their feet with the toe of his boot. The boy hisses and swipes at him, slurring out something unintelligible around the makeshift gag Niall had to stuff in his mouth. He misses by a mile and tries again, just as ineffectively.Harry looks down at him, at the way the sun streams over his face and shoulders, at the way the gag stretches his mouth, lips pink and chapped. He’s lithe and pretty, smudged all over with dirt. They had found him tied up below deck, mostly unconscious, next to a barrel full of gold. He’s clearly a prisoner, but there’s something familiar about him, something that niggles at Harry’s brain. Something he can’t quite put his finger on.“Put him in my cabin,” Harry decides, turning back to deal with the rest of the loot. The boys screams out jumbled curse words at Harry’s back, muffled by the gag, and Harry can’t understand any of it. (101k)
- You'll Breathe Me In (You Won't Release) : Or, the AU where Louis is a 25-year-old driving instructor and Harry is a 17-year-old virgin who's really awful at seduction, except for the time he gets Louis to fall for him and fuck him senseless and take him on kinky adventures. (95k)
- Red Brick Heart : Harry has only had his room for thirty-two minutes when it stops being his.Uni AU. Harry had turned up at the halls of residence expecting fun, new friends, and maybe a life experience or two. What he doesn't expect is a surprise roommate who's loud and dramatic and obsessed with tea and is maybe, actually, all he's ever wanted. (98k)
- feel the chemicals burn in my bloodstream : Harry is a journalist with a lot of secrets and Louis is the future king of the United Kingdom; they live together for 60 days. (123k)
- Unbelievers: It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies “with benefits” was not exactly the plan.Or: The one where Louis and Harry definitely aren’t friends, and football is everything. (136k)
- Into The Blue : AU. In which Louis is Harry's scuba instructor and quite happy to provide the requested special treatment, pun fully intended. It can't be all that difficult to convince Harry that they're on the same page, right? Also, Niall and Liam may or may not be dating, and Zayn is surrounded by emotionally stunted idiots. He bears it with dignity. (117k)
- Fugue : Harry falls asleep a 17 year-old who lives in Cheshire and is probably rockstar Louis Tomlinson's biggest fan. He wakes up 24 with a wedding ring on his finger, two kids, and Louis Tomlinson attempting to wake him up with a blow job. The doctor calls it organic retrograde amnesia, says he might never get back the last seven years of his life. The only thing that feels the same is how he feels when Louis touches him, and maybe that's enough to make him fall in love all over again. (16k)
AU. As part of a team of fixers hired to handle a gay scandal in Buckingham Palace, Louis expects Prince Harry to be a lot of things—most notably a royally spoilt brat. Never mind that the very same Prince Harry used to star in quite a number of Louis' teenage fantasies.
Can be found in:
Royalty AU
Famous/Non Famous
Iconic Fics
Fav Fics
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This fic was great! I loved it so much, the plot development was really well done and the smut was amazing. The author did a wonderful job and I can’t wait to read more of their writing!
“Since it was a moral obligation to stop him from spouting bullshit, Louis covered Harry’s mouth with his own. It was a sacrifice, of course, but Louis had always believed in doing right by the people -- and now that he’d begun to reclaim his birth name, he had better live up to the noble responsibility that came with it”
Pull Me Under by zarah5
{explicit, 140k, fake relationship, footballer louis!AU, famous/non famous, ot5 friendship, side ziam}
AU. As the first British footballer to come out at the prime of his career, it helps that Louis Tomlinson is in a long-term, committed relationship. Even if that relationship is fake. (Featuring Niall as Louis' favourite teammate, Liam as Louis' agent, and Zayn as Liam's boyfriend, who just happens to be good friends with one Harry Styles.)
{explicit, 120k, 24 chapters, highershool AU, punk!Harry, rich!Louis, hate to love, partying, homophobia, awakening, side ziam, smut, fluff, OT5 friendship}
They couldn’t be more different if they tried. Louis Tomlinson is 17 years old and in his last year of the most prestigious private school in Doncaster. If there’s one thing that completely annoys him, it’s that there is a poor community college right across the street.
Harry Styles is 19 years old, and (once again) in his last year of college. He goes to community college in Doncaster. He never shows up to classes and if he actually bothers to, he’s either high or drunk; sometimes both. His skin is littered with tattoos and if there’s one thing he absolutely hates, it’s the snobby students attending the private school right across from his.
Or a sixth form!AU where Harry is the fucked up bad boy with too many problems, Louis is the perfect rich boy with too much money and their schools are right across from each other. They meet at a party and that’s the last (and maybe the only) thing they need.
