Today, we're reaching out to you for a "reverse" Virtual Book Club: some of our members in our Discord have asked for fandoms (January) and/or ships (February) with which no other member is familiar enough to hand out recommendations. So we're asking you for help!
Please check the list (including the extra info our members added) below the cut, see if you can help (or maybe reach out to friends you know will be able to help? 👀), then answer directly to this post or send us an ask with your recs, and we'll make sure our members see them.
The link will be enough, but if you want to add more info, that would be very much appreciated. Also, please don't forget to add which fandom/ship request you're answering 😊
Thank you in advance, we love you all 😘
Admin Noxy
Fandoms (January)
1. All For the Game crossovers
I’m looking for crossover fics.
Love long fics (will read anything but prefer over 20k)
Any crossovers will do, but you get cookies if you can find me an All for the game x Katekyou Hitman Reborn fic.
I will also accept Omegaverse, Sentinelverse, and BDSM verse fics.
2. Interview With The Vampire (Television)
Hi! Looking for any fics related to the amc version of Interview with the Vampire. I am fine with any ships (including actor RPF within the fandom), but particularly love Devil's Minion (Armand/Daniel).
3. The Vampire Diaries
I put TVD instead of The Originals bc I wanna read a fic, it can be a snippet or a drabble, about Elijah and Klaus giggling over their deception/fake sun and moon curse (lore)
Just them laughing and making jokes about how they have 2 species running around doing all the work for them for like an idea they had at 2am, drunk on rum-y blood, yk?
thinking about this after reading the Cyrus Mikaelson fic
But other fics unrelated to my craving are completely welcome!
Ships (February)
1. James Kirk/Leonard McCoy/Spock (Star Trek)
Looking for some McSpirk recs.
I'd much prefer to keep it SFW, but other than that I'm pretty open! And maybe something skewing a little longer?
Thanks in advance, y'all!
2. Kaladin/Shallan (Stormlight Archives)
Hi, I'm looking for oneshots/shorter fics with the pairing. I also don't mind the addition of Adolin 😉
Content-wise, I'm very open, I love angst (aka Kaladin) and am fine with open and/or unhappy endings.
3. Hua Cheng/Xie Lian (Tian Guan Ci Fu)
Looking for super tropey stuff for this ship. Any rating, canon or AU, I'm super easy, really. Maybe not super-angsty for me right now, though. Thanks!
4. Mal/Simon (Firefly)
I'd prefer more manageable lengths below 40k or so; you are welcome to suggest longer, but the higher the wordcount, the exponentially lower my likelihood of ever reading it 😅
My likes are: comedy, angst, ensemble cast stuff, character- and emotion-focused stories, cultural differences and misunderstandings/miscommunications, relatively 'equal' pairs who respect one another, complicated or neutral power dynamics (D/s just isn't interesting to me, sorry), outsider POV, unreliable narrator, forced proximity (inc. fake relationship), pining, awkwardness and self-consciousness, different kinds of intimacy.
I'm also up for poly; wanna bring Kaylee or Inara in? River?? (Incest is a-okay) I'm less interested in Jayne as a character, but otherwise I'm pretty game, haha! 😄
5. Robin Buckley/Chrissy Cunningham (Stranger Things)
Just getting into this ship, so please hit me with your best shot!
Hello! Looking for suggestions for the May Virtual Book Club task. Ships I enjoy are Loki/Mobius and Clint/Natasha. I also enjoy platonic Thor and Loki, their dynamic as brothers. Thanks, everyone!
Hello, hello 😊
as always, our server was consulted, and we came up with suggestions for all of these:
Loki/Mobius:
Paint Me in a Corner (But My Color Comes Back) by chamel,
oneshot with 16,661 words
Loki/Mobius with Loki & Thor:
Chasing Chaos by KiraStrange and nanamishole,
WIP with currently 108,192 words
Loki/Toni but with a great Loki & Thor bond:
Across the Rivers of Time by SailorChibi,
WIP with currently 77,078 words
Clint/Natasha:
Ships in the Night by BairnSidhe,
complete with 14,662 words
Breaking the Surface by red_b_rackham.
oneshot with 1,256 words
Howdy! I am having so much fun with the challenge! It’s getting me to read more (and more varied) fanfic and also getting me out of my shell regarding commenting.
But can you explain the difference between “destined to meet in every lifetime” and “destined to meet in every universe” under the Tropes category?
Thank you!
Howdy 🤠 we're so happy to hear how much you enjoy this challenge. Getting people out of their shells, broadening their reading horizon - that is exactly what we love to achieve with it!
As for your question:
Destined to meet in every lifetime plays with the trope of characters being reborn and/or living multiple lifetimes, often found in soulmate AUs. I think there's even a soulmate trope that says "soulmates who meet in every lifetime". Sometimes they know they've met before, sometimes not, always depends on the fic. A book example I can think of right now is Fallen (don't quote me on this, it's been a while, but I think he was an angel and she was his great love but would always die as soon as they kissed or something, only to be reborn and he would meet her again 18 or so years later... something like that)
Destined to meet in every universe plays with the trope of multiverses existing. Think Marvel, for example, where you have a multitude of universes - and in every one of those, the ship is destined to find each other. Or it could be mirror-verses, etc. If you're a Supernatural fan, there was this one episode where Sam and Dean met their counterparts from another universe - imagine that but with your ship
Now, these were the original thoughts behind this task but of course we're aware that they do not work for every reader. Therefore, as with all our tasks, we also say that you can interpret these as strictly or as loosely as you like. For example, there are many ships where shippers/the entire fandom unanimously agree "oh, these two are so perfect, they're destined to always meet" - if you have a ship like that, perfect. In that case, consider something simpler, like this:
Destined to meet in every lifetime could also just be a historical AU with your ship, showing that no matter in what lifetime/era they would've existed, they would've found each other
Destined to meet in every universe could also just be a random AU (coffee shop AU, college AU, firefighter AU) - something completely different from the canon setting - or even set on another planet/in space (you know, cause, "universe"), and once again, your ship meets, showing that no matter the universe, they would eventually end up together
I hope this makes sense and helps a bit. If not, feel free to send us another ask, maybe with a few fandoms you like to read, and we'll try to find examples for you. Or you could always join our discord server where we love to help each other, discuss things like this, and help spread our wings to have the most fun during this challenge 😊
