Just Leave A Comment Fest
Right, so I thought it would be fun to make a rec list of all the great fics I commented on during @justleaveacommentfest . I didn't have a ton of time to read fic this week, not just because of Ao3 going down, but I did my best! For fics that were multi-chapter I commented on every chapter.
New (published 7/8/2023, updated 7/11/2023) — Near Misses, Wishes by Underthebluerain | T | The Witcher | Jaskier/Radovid
Even if they don't fully realize it, Jaskier and Radovid's story is one of near misses.
Old (published 2/15/2013) — In the Hay by Hammocker | T | The Witcher | Jasker & Geralt
The night is too cold for Dandelion, but traveling with your closest friend has its perks.
1,917 words — Equal to Law by cyparissuscried | T | The Terror | Sophia Cracroft/Thomas Hartnell
Tom, she thinks. She could write a whole play with his name alone. He would be embarrassed of it and hide his face in the front of her kirtle at its premiere and she would not make fun, because that is the very reason for writing a play of his name. Tom. Thomas. Tom. Thomas. Tom. Thomas. Tom.
918 words — untitled (ghosts) by grahamgore | T | The Terror | Francis Crozier/James Clark Ross
It's 1854. Francis finally visits the Abbey at Aston Abbots.
Soulmate AU — a grove without a name by stiltonbasket | G | MDZS/The Untamed | Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
Wei Wuxian was ten years old when he first began wearing mourning for his dead soulmate.
Eight years later, he meets Lan Wangji.
(Or, the one where a soulmate bond goes silent and shatters during the Sunshot Campaign, but Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji were always meant to be.)
Daemon AU — You're the Demon I Know by maely1234 | T | MDZS/The Untamed | Gen, Nie Huaisang
Nie Huaisang has spent nearly a decade working and planning and scheming, his daemon A-Zhi at his side. But while he may have survived Jin Guangyao's plans, dragging his hated enemy down in the process, he hadn't prepared for after. Left floundering without his quest for vengeance guiding him, Nie Huaisang navigates what it is he wants from life. Follows from the second siege of the burial mounds onwards.
July 13, Rarepair/Platonic:
Rarepair (12 fics) — all known effects of time and absence by robokittens | T | The Terror | John Irving/William Malcolm
My Dear Malcolm,—
When next you receive post from me it will be in a batch, all post-marked from the Sandwich Islands and all beginning with a longing for your company.
Platonic — Lost Brothers by FormlessVoidbeast | M | Mad Max: Fury Road | Capable & Nux
Capable had brothers. She’d held them in her arms, and whispered their names in their ears over and over in hopes that they would remember who they were.
(No War Pup ever remembered who they were by the time they were a War Boy)
New Fandom — Frankenstein
we face the night by hilaryfaye | E | Creature/Elizabeth Lavenza
I no longer claim to know why Victor said that I died that night. I believed once that I knew him, likely better than anyone in the world, but after that night we became strangers to each other in a way that we could not repair. Did he believe he was shielding his father and brother from a greater horror? Was it truly easier to face the notion of me dead, than me lost to him? Better a martyr, perhaps, than a saint defiled.
let them come and tear us free (we are bound eternally) by hilaryfaye | E | Creature/Elizabeth Lavenza/Victor Frankenstein
Victor speaks of me too kindly. I know this. He paints me as a saint because it is easier for him, I think. He imagines that he can make for himself a childhood that was innocent and guiltless, myself an angel found in humility.
It is not true, of course.
