#rec:fic

[lilbreckrec]

I Want Something so Impure

Link: AO3 Fandom: Game of Thrones Pairing: Jon / Sansa Author: SilentFrenzy Summary: “You have caused this, you and your queen. You allowed her to speak to me that way, allowed her to order my obedience in my own home as if I’m to be her new dog to train. I am the Lady of Winterfell, and your inbred aunt has no right to-”

Lovely angst starts this out, but gets wonderfully resolved.

[lilbreckrec]

like a map that traced her pain

Link: AO3 Fandom: Game of Thrones Pairing: Jon / Sansa Author: graceverse Summary: Like a map that traced her pain, the aches and the sorrows of her soul, a network of intertwined lines, veins and rivers and roads that aimlessly meander across her skin, Jon follows the latticework of scars with his fingers, his skin barely grazing hers, gentle and calloused.

It's full on hurt/comfort sex done so beautifully.

[lilbreckrec]

More than Wednesdays

Link: AO3 Fandom: Game of Thrones Pairing: Jon / Sansa Author: @myrish-lace-love Summary: Sansa can't stop staring at the handsome guy at the laundromat who looks like a hot history professor. When he asks her for soap one day, they get to know each other better. Fluff and angst ensues.

Modern AU is my crack in this fandom.

[lilbreckrec]

I might hold a son of my own blood in my arms.

Link: AO3 Fandom: ASoIaF Pairing: Jon / Sansa Author: Queenofthebees Summary: He had heard much about the bond a mother has with her child. But nobody had ever truly told him about the love a father has. Not even Ned Stark, who had loved his children fiercely, could have prepared Jon for this sudden rush of love and desperate need to be near this tiny, tiny person.

Pure post cannon fluff. Like, you're gonna get a tooth ache.

[lilbreckrec]

true north

Link: AO3 Fandom: Game of Thrones Pairing: Jon/Sansa Author: bythunder Summary: The Night’s King had been defeated, but Jon… he hasn’t been seen since. “Assumed dead, my lady,” one of the survivors told her, but Sansa could not believe it, refused to believe it. If Jon had died, she would’ve felt it. She would have known.

Some of you may not know this, but I'm a sucker for bleak and/or dark stories. This one packs that punch in 500 words.

[lilbreckrec]

Planning for Life

Link: AO3 Fandom: Game of Thrones / ASoIaF Pairing: Brienne/Jaime Author: WauryD Summary: When tragedy befalls the family of her mentor, Brienne Tarth uproots her life to attempt and foster two of the remaining children. As a single woman of 23 who has neither children of her own, nor the expected maternal looks, however, social services aren’t too keen on releasing the kids into her care. Enters an option, complex in its legality, that is only going to complicate things further...

Marriage of Convenience!! I love that trope. Modern AU, they're doing it to save the kids. Mentions of incest and sexual abuse. Suicide mention. Also, fair warning: We're on chapter 21 and there's no nookie yet. It's a slow one, y'all. Strap in.

[lilbreckrec]

Always Waging Wars

Link: AO3 Fandom: Vampire Diaries / The Originals Pairing: Caroline/Klaus Author: @cupcakemolotov Summary: When the Gemini Coven comes for the twins, Caroline makes the choice to protect them. Even if that means walking away. But first, she needs to make sure that the coven can never find them and for that she needs Klaus.

I'm a sucker for fics where Caroline needs to get away / needs to have something taken care of and Klaus does so with no strings. It's so very them.

[yiqiyihui]

Title: Universal Languages Pairing: Jongdae/Tao [TAOCHEN] Rating: PG-13 Summary: Jongdae goes to China to learn about wushu, and ends up learning about himself, instead. (AU, 32k) Warnings: This is so fluffy it may kill you. Also the particular tournament that occurs in this story is a real tournament, but this is not when it’s run, and not how it’s run.

she's done it again. maayacola just seriously produces the best exo fic, consistently. she always sets a slow pace, never rushes, and yet you barely even notice the length of the piece. in fact, you don't want it to end. yes, even after reading 5 extremely long parts of it.

i am usually wary of love stories that overcome language barriers but this was simply believable. that's what most of her stories are, tbh. they feel real. they're not mere love stories where two people meet and fall in love (though i enjoy those too and i have no problem with them). they usually have lots of dialogue which show multiple relationships. we are given a glimpse of the life and development of her characters.

and even though some are set in alternate realities, she never forgets to integrate canon. you can even see a bit of the usual krislay, layhan, taoris, krischen dynamics here, to name a few. and imo that's one of the charms of her work. i'm always interested in how she's going to take what we know and love about exo and incorporate it into a new reality.

this is probably my favorite fic in this fandom now (and i don't even actively ship taochen), because it speaks to me on a personal level. i identify with who chen was before china, before the temple, before tao. someday i'd love to find something to be fiercely passionate about, something (or perhaps someone) i want so bad i would gladly step out of my comfort zone just to go after it and fight for it.