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6, 21, and 41 for the fanfiction questions!! :3

6. List your OTP from each fandom you’ve been involved in.

I’ve only been Very Seriously involved in 2 fandoms (on my main I dip in and out of like a million different ones). Sherlock (TRASH): Victorlock? Those were wild days. PB (trash): *cries quietly* I don’t even know

21. What was the first fanfic you ever wrote?

OC x Jason Bourne. I don’t remember her name, but she was an assassin too. She was really into knives and I was really into her, so it was an extremely bi situation. I wrote it in the unused part of an old school notebook and never finished past the first chapter or did anything. That was during middle school.

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

Aside from your historical Luca x OC epic Manhattan’s Song, you mean? Lol

I’m gonna cheat this just do five fic recs, because I’ve finished reading all of em. THANK YOU for giving me a chance to fangirl in public! YEET

You know I am a massive hoe for Dialogue™, and this Jessie x Ada fic not only hits that particular button, but also helps to address the massive need for fic that addresses a f/f or m/m romance without histrionics, without endless empty-calories angst, and yet also without ignoring the time period entirely. The careful, delicate way that the writer (and the women) negotiate the attraction between them makes this one a major standout for reasons beyond the genders of the pairing, though. The Light Is Soft by toyhto (@toyhto on tumblr) leaves the reader wanting just a little bit more, like a piece of dark chocolate.

I don’t even know if I read this one this month, but I lose my MIND every gotdamn time I remember this fic, so it’s going in the list. This is that delicious, rich, textured prose that you usually only find in published books. This is that perfect mix of characterization hewing close to canon and circumstances/pairings well outside canon. This is that professional-grade good shit. Okay? And you know what, I almost never rec smut, but hold on to your fuckin boots cause I’m about to do it now. Three Ghosts by vondrostes not only hooked me on the concept of Tatiana/Alfie/Tommy, which previously had never even occurred to me, but also made me green to the gills with envy over That Prose.

For all of us that keep yelling about how we need more ladies in our lives, there’s this extremely delicious, woman-centered, queer-friendly, Good Good Family Times fic, which nominally focuses on Anna, Polly’s long-lost daughter, but really gives you a pleasant taste of the Shelby life from a different perspective than Tommy’s. With snippets of quality dialogue and a sense of humor, Spring Fever by herequeerandreadytofight (@its-a-metaphor-for-communism on tumblr) is definitely one of the more underrated family fics. (And I’m not just saying that because I wrote two fics with her.) Runner-up is her the beautifully in-character Tommy/Alfie WWI oneshot Not the Same, which showcases the same strengths as well as a restraint I don’t usually see in fic writers. This author can do more to evoke genuine feeling with one simple line than other angst writers do with paragraphs on paragraphs of wailing.

This isn’t PB, but it’s related, because it’s the single good fic that came out of Free Fire, which Cillian Murphy starred in. So there. It’s a what-if, about Justine letting Chris run with her instead of leaving him behind. It’s about what happens between two people who have never trusted anyone but are too wounded and boxed in to leave just yet. And then it’s about how that changes into possibly something else entirely. This fic, due to pure characterization and prose alone, is honestly on a level that very few other fics have ever matched, and tbqh I can’t think of them off the top of my head. Every fic on this list is enjoyable, but this one in particular is so beyond blue-ribbon, I’d absolutely say it’s the best fic I’ve read all month and it may end up being the best I’ve read all year (still have 6 months left, so we’ll see). Utterly believable, not just as a criminal oeuvre or a period piece but also as a work of intense characterization and slow character development, every chapter is mindblowingly immersive and emotionally gripping. The texture of it…I’m sorry, I’m running out of words, I just die every time. the prisoner’s dillemma, by arbitrarily (@widespindriftgaze), IS THAT BITCH. It just really fuckin is. Sometimes I go back and read it when I want to motivate myself not to settle for my bullshit first drafts. I’m getting emotional, let’s move on. (Side note: I know they have written one PB fanfic but it’s got incest so I haven’t read and can’t recommend.)

This also isn’t PB, but it’s so good (and, due to WWI, so relevant) that I don’t care. The gentle, deeply detailed, perfectly-adjusted-for-canon-tone of this fic fits its exquisitely slow burn. In it, a WWI soldier who died during the Anne of Green Gable books (Walter), lives instead. Upon his return, Walter struggles to reconcile his PTSD and guilt about who he’s killed with the deep patriotism and surface serenity of the tiny Canadian town he grew up in. Disconnected from his family and friends, he finds that his childhood friend, the ever-quiet, ever-thoughtful Una, may be the only person he can really talk to. Come Back Home by freyafrida (@sundayinthepark) is a masterclass in how delicate, calm, and deliberate you can be without making the reader bored. Forever in awe of that.

#fic recs #correspondence #alfiesolcmons #toyhto #its a metaphor for communism #widespindriftgaze #sundayinthepark #I am way too close to herequeerandreadytofight to know whether she's a legend or not but having said that:#FUCKING LEGENDS #JUST LEGENDARY OKAY #every fic on this list is Worth Your Time #I Guaran Fucking Tee It

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