chocochipbiscuit | Snowflake Challenge #8: Fanwork Recs!

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it.

Welp!!!! I have a whole bunch of bookmarks on AO3, plus a tag just for fic recs! I know it skews things to whatever I read most recently though, so here are some prime fanfics that are a little bit older.

No Bed of Roses by

montparnasse is the first Jack/Miranda fic I ever read and it just. It shook me with a vast and inchoate longing for more. I love how messy and raw they are with each other, I love the slow transformation of mutual friction sparking into mutual passion, I love the little pieces of background character dynamics with the rest of the crew and I love how raw and sensual it is. And now that I've recc'd it, I'm going to have to read it again.

And Wolves Beneath Their Seams by

cyprith is a slowburn F!LW/Charon fic and was the first longfic I ever read, as well as the first fic that ever made me reconsider the Charon character dynamics. It still resonates with me because of the use of language, both stark and lovely, and how much it pried into the world as presented to the player/character compared to what the game tells us we should think. This is the story that really got me into writing fanfic, not just reading it, and thinking about the characters extending beyond the canon.

To be seen, feeling by

stonestrewn is the Josephine/Vivienne fic of my heart, the thing I feverishly flail for, the thing that encapsulates everything I love about this ship and their dynamics and the sheer swoony romance of two very sensible women having their own insensible moment as they fall in love and just. The final scene where Vivienne duels for Josephine's hand? Just. MWAH.