Curated Curios (with rec notes in the bookmarks)
All the gems I've found in my time digging through A03. Any length, any fandom, any genre, but no explicit fics. There will be warnings for sexual content.
Each bookmark will have notes abt what I like in the piece, warnings (if applicable), and sometimes a 'vibe'. AKA my description of the piece's tone/aesthetic. Don't be worried if it doesn't make sense!
There are also tags for length and feel. They are:
Short story(0-30k), novella (30k-50k), novel (50k-100K), and Epic (100k+)
Silly (humor/crack), Scary (horror), Soft (fluff), Sharp (angst), Smarp (light angst), and Smooth (narrative)
the last three of those are really badly defined and I'm not quite sure how to explain them. Smooth is, like, 'this is an engaging story' and Sharp is about the emotional impact?? You'll figure it out
Format fuckery is for epistolary fics/anything that plays with its medium
Romance is also tagged. I'm not sure why.
To skip to my faves, check out the 'must read' and 'something else' tags! These are the best of the best. There's about 15 of them, ranging in length, and I love all of them dearly.
Also, feel free to suggest your own additions! I'd love to read something new <3
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Prince Zuko is born with eyes of pure gold, the surest sign of a strong inner flame.
Prince Zuko is born unlucky. He has no fire to speak of. No spark of potential.
(Until swords start bending to his will.)
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Cover of Knight by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022), Doctor Strange (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Hawkeye (TV 2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Ms. Marvel (TV 2022), Iron Man (Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse), Thor (Movies), Eternals (Movie 2021), Captain Marvel (2019), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV), Loki (TV 2021), Daredevil (TV), Black Panther (Marvel Movies)
27 Apr 2023
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Steven, Marc, and Jake have finally learned to be a mostly-functional system. Coordinating their home lives. Sharing the Fist of Khonshu powers to carry out missions around the world. They've even started doing team-ups with other superheroes!
...None of whom need to know personal details about their psych history, thank you very much.
A series of times when Avengers notice Moon Knight switching/dissociating/just plain talking to himself...and the growing collection of (inconsistent, mostly ad-libbed, increasingly complicated) cover stories they get for it.
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- Part 1 of Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe
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"Connor became ‘woke’, as the kids say, on a biting December morning. Upon careful consideration, he determined it was best not to tell anybody."
List of things Connor has ruined since he deviated: the police force. Hunts for deviants. The printer. Lieutenant Anderson’s patience. Gavin Reed’s kneecap. The sense of safety and security that came when you were not acting as a double agent for the month old yet still unsuccessful terrorist organization and spilling confidential government secrets. The coffee machine. His life.
Mostly his life.
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Hope, Etc. (Dickenson et al.) by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 Mar 2021
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"What therefore God hath joined together in human and daemon, let not man put asunder." (Mark 10:9)
Jonathan Sims, six months after the Unknowing, wakes to find himself without a daemon - without humanity, without a soul. It's a cursed half-life, but existence as a shell without a heart isn't so bad: between solving the mystery of a persistent illusion cast over his friends and some light pseudo-cannibalism, a life as a monster is better than no life at all. At least, it would be, if it wasn't for the fucking Owl.
Or: break free, Jon. You have nothing to lose anymore.
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shall i find rest by dog_fish
Fandoms: Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
19 Dec 2024
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On the Planet of his birth, Cloud had destroyed Sephiroth years ago. The reactors are long cold, the world is saved, and he and Tifa keep their little family in remembrance of the dead.
In this new dimension, it's like the apocalypse Cloud remembers was half-averted. Mako's still around, ShinRa's in business, and Tifa supposedly died years ago under Cloud's JENOVA-fueled rampage. The other problem? Everyone's alive, looking for answers, and this dimension is a little more different than it seems.
It's hard, taking out reactors while being hunted across the continent by the people who are apparently your soulmates. It's hard, and no one understands.
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- Part 1 of we eat well in summer
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On the day before Ba Sing Se falls, Katara decides two things: 1) not to stop for a cup of tea; 2) consequently, the fate of the world.
Behind the walls, Zuko loses sleep, runs errands, contemplates treason, and drinks a lot of hot leaf juice—not necessarily in that order.
- Language:
- English
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- 159,933
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 19
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- 1,927
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
11 Feb 2023
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WONDERFUL!! Masterfully juggled POVs from everyone and your mom, and some incredibly developed characters. Also whatever's going on with Mai and Ty Lee is so fucking sapphic in the best way.
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Hi Jon and all,
I would like to extend my congratulations, I suppose, to you Mr. Sims. You have reached 500 complaints here at HR! I have never seen this happen before, except for the researcher in Artifact Storage who found a Leitner that made everyone think she was assaulting them constantly. In your three years as the Head Archivist, you received these complaints from over 130 people.- Language:
- English
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- 10,346
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- 1/1
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- 5
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- 205
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- 3,550
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- 816
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
19 Dec 2022
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This one slaps actually. World's coolest Leitner
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Rest for the Wicked by metisket
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
04 Dec 2012
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FMA best case scenario. But the Elrics, even at peace and completely happy in themselves, are still kind of alarming to bystanders.
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- English
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- 4,469
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- 1/1
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- 10
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- 224
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- 8,212
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- 2,340
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- 71,490
Bookmarked by Meepius147
26 Oct 2022
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insane post-canon fma fic my beloved <3
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Obi-Wan's Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad Life by MirandaTam
Fandom Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
07 Dec 2021
- Words:
- 20,297
- Works:
- 6
- Bookmarks:
- 73
Bookmarked by Meepius147
12 Oct 2023
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you like horror? You like pain? Are you a fan of stories with no happy ending, at least not yet?
Read this fic and suffer wonderfully :D -
caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
- Language:
- English
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- 18,925
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- 1/1
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- 2
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- 211
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
26 Mar 2024
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100000/10 Astarion character study, with raw prose, great blocking, and KARLACH
