wanderings

dates for iftar by eruthros
Breaking Fast | 2:37 | G | Mo/Kal, Mo & Sam
Summary: Food and love and friendship during Ramadan.
Music: Leila by Clarissa Bitar feat Abby Abdel-Khalek
     + So one of the things that this vid has gifted me is the knowledge that this film exists: it's a film about a queer Muslim man, set during Ramadan, who brings a boy home, and there's a HEA. There are some great shots of food, and people enjoying food. There's also a wonderful tension in this vid: there's music and feelings and mistakes and ridiculous gestures and the best *chinhands*-inducing ending scene.

The Phoenix by thingswithwings
The Expanse | 3:10 | R | Camina Drummer
Summary: tryna see my descent?
you're gonna have to play the tape backwards
Music: 5 out of 6 by Dessa
     + I continue to not watch The Expanse but deeply enjoy it in vid format. This is great. One of the tags is "polyamorous cyborg space queer" and the vid appears to be about Drummer being a badass action hero, leveling up their competency, and building connections.

Long Way to Come Here by absternr
Fast Color | 2:37 | G | Ruth, Lila, Bo
Summary: take your heart back from where you left it
Music: Get Up by Caitlin Canty
     + More source material I haven't seen - this one or its vidder does that cinematography thing where every frame is like a picture - strikingly and functionally composed. So that's a delight and there's this lovely slow unfurling of the film's narrative over a country song that's a satisfying match to its rural setting and has a king of hopeful yearning upward thrust to it.

WORK THIS BODY by Katie K
Haikyuu!! | 2:57 | G
I will work this body
Music: Work this Body by WALK THE MOON
     + Have I seen any of the source material on this list? Yes, but not this. Sports anime dance vid. The sport is volleyball. They are probably in high school and as the vid unfolds the cuts get faster and hit the beat more. It's ridiculous (because sports anime) and I love it. Team-building and friends and rivals and training sequences and over-the-top effects. It's a joy.

Math by Rhea and sandalwoodbox
The King: Eternal Monarch | 2:04 | G |Jeong Tae Eul/Jo Yeong/Lee Gon
Summary: It may be a nerdy way to flirt, but Lee Gon's love is like the square root of two.
Music: The Square Root of Two by Countercurrent
     + There's so much math and OT3 and comedy and drama in this. Jaunty and adorable.

Go High, Go Low by eruthros
Lil Nas X RPF | 2:44 | PG-13 | Lil Nas X
We go high / we go low
Music: Go High, Go Low by Dope Saint Jude
     + A fuck-the-haters celebrity dance vid, heavily enriched by Lil Nas X's fuck-the-haters social media presence. There's a lot of text - largely tweets - integrated into this and if you're like me you'll be watching this multiple times so that you can pause and read all the things, and also revel in the continually A+ aesthetic choices.

Bang! by teyla
The Lost Tomb | 2:51 | G | Wang Pangzi & Wu Xie & Zhang Qiling
Summary: All the best faces of Wu Xie.
Music: Bang! by AJR
     + Another vid whose source material I don't know at all: this vid pulls from six different sources with six different actors playing the same character, so I have no idea what is happening, but it's action-adventure-comedy full of clip transitions on the beat and split screens to the lyrics "bang, bang, bang" with some solid visual lyric matches, so it's a solidly good time.

1941 by rhoboat
Marvel | 3:01 | G | Peggy Carter
Summary: Follow the beat and let it ring.
Music: 1941 by Klaypex feat. Virian
     + A Club Vivid vid tagged "Electro Swing", this vid does just about exactly what you'd expect. Lots of punching, power-walking, and action scenes.

Flyweight Love by such_heights
Marvel | 3:22 | PG-13 | Jane/Thor
Summary: "She likens it to a kite; it flies higher when a longer length of string is unleashed."
Music: Flyweight Love by Vienna Teng
     + Airy and romantic. Full of stars, the mysteries of the universe, adventure, separation, longing, and dorks in love being charmed by each other.

My Strongest Suit by periru3 & Tafadhali
M*A*S*H | 4:07 | G | Klinger
Summary: In negligée or formal, Klinger's anything but normal.
Music: My Strongest Suit from Aida
     + A celebration of Klinger and Klinger's many outfits to a musical theatre song.

Dance Apocalyptic by eruthros and thingswithwings
Multifandom | 3:38 | G
Summary: I really really wanna thank you for dancing to the end.
Music: Dance Apocalyptic by Janelle Monáe
     + Multifandom dance vid of the end of times. I'm always really impressed when vidders manage to integrate drastically different footage - live action with animated, different animation styles, and black-and-white with colour; there's some spot-on transition work in this and it's a great dance vid for these times. I'm especially fond of the repeated "smash, smash" motif.

No Place Like Home by thingswithwings
Multifandom | 4:13 | G
Summary: A multivid of queer people living and thriving in rural spaces and small towns.
Music: Glasgow (No Place Like Home) by Jessie Buckley
     + Queers in rural environs being and finding themselves and their people. This vid is schmaltz and also like being punched in the face with fix-it-fic for my youth.

Nice Don't Make No Money by hartknyx
Ocean's Eight | 3:25 | PG-13
Summary: Sugar and spice makes everything nice but nice don't make no money
Music: In Women We Trust by Tanerélle
     + This is so smooth and hits so much of the criminal joy of the film - I just want to watch these women commit crimes and get what they want, forever. I really love the cheers moment about halfway through this and just the extent to which this vid picks a vibe and commits to it. Glorious revelry.

Ne Me Quitte Pas by purplefringe
Pushing Daisies | 3:39 | G
Summary: The truth is that there are a lot of people like you, us, with strange hobbies or talents or gifts and we try to hide it because we’re afraid that it makes us seem weird or turn people off, but that’s a mistake. What makes me unique has bought every person I love into my life.
An ensemble vid for Pushing Daisies, to Ne Me Quitte Pas by Regina Spektor.
Music: Ne Me Quitte Pas by Regina Spektor
     + Spektor's beat structure is such a great match to the series' comedic rhythm. An excellent ensemble vid that's chock full of colourful joy.

Shots by mithborien
Robin Hood: Men in Tights | 3:40 | G
Summary: "Because, unlike some other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent." Made for Club Vivid 2017.
Music: Shots by LMFAO ft. Lil Jon
     + There's something about an incredibly stupid dance tune - there's so much possibility for vidded delight. The source material's a good tonal match for the song and, yeah, there's something about sardonic masculinity here in paticular. All of the shots with the arrows are also great: excellent recurring bit.

Odds Are by Nestra
Schitt's Creek | 3:02 | G
Summary: We're gonna be all right.
Music: Odds Are by Barenaked Ladies
     + Schitt's Creek, BNL, and character development. Emotional journeys, comedy, positivity, things falling apart and getting put back together, better. Sweet.

Blindfold by littleheaven70
Secretary | 4:37 | NC-17 | Lee/Edward
Summary: "Put both your hands on the desk palms down."
Music: Blindfold by Morcheeba
     + Tension, kink, and the plot of the film, basically (so there's self harm and domestic violence in another of Lee's relationships). The song's a great temporal fit for the film and a smoky delight.

Wait for It by RhaegalKS
Star Trek | 2:18 | G | Kirk/Spock
Summary: Between Generations and the events that triggered the Reboot, Spock is alone for nearly 100 years. Fortunately, Vulcans are very patient.
Music: Wait for It by Leslie Odom Jr.
     + Hamilton and Star Trek are another great tonal match, in a *chinhands* kind of way, and then it's this amazing tragic space opera. The beginning is in black and white and then there is colour and we are moving through space and everything is excellent. Dramatic and satisfying.

Gasoline by melodytree
Yuri!!! on Ice | 2:41 | G | Victor
Summary: Victor's pre-canon depression
well my heart is gold but my hands are cold
Music: Gasoline by Halsey
     + This entire vid is edited like a fabulous skating routine, which is to say with dead-on physical and emotional beats.

Phoenix Burning by Yahtzee
Buffy the Vampire Slayer | 88,766 words | R | Buffy/Angel
Summary: At the end of Season Five, Buffy plunges to her death. Then she is resurrected -- 350 years in the future.
     + The Buffy/Angel fix-it fic that young me craved, plotty and twisty in a keep-you-up-past-your-bedtime way. Reasonably epic.

Let Me Go by kaydeefalls
Moana | 3:03 | G | Moana
Summary: Lock our eyes on distant horizons -- Moana, coming into her own.
Music: Copenhagen (Let Me Go) by Vienna Teng
     + This is such a lovely narrative vid about Moana's journey.

Change You Like A Remix by bessyboo
Multifandom | 4:12 | G
Summary: No, I think it looked a little better on me.
Music: The Phoenix by Fall Out Boy
     + So one of the tags is "guess who had a lot of meta feelings about the message of The LEGO Movie"; it's meta about Lego and transformative works. This feels and I think it is very personal - vidder-specific - this is not a vid about the history of fandom and it is not trying to be; it is meta feelings about transformative works, and the way in which the vidder has made themselves part of this vid is very cool.

Dance Monkeys by cupidsbow
Multifandom | 3:30 | G | Fred/Ginger
Summary: I beg to see you dance just one more time.
Music: Dance Monkey by Tones and I
     + I love this. There is the whole dance, monkey, dance angle, and also all of their dancing, which is such a joy - fluid and fun and beautiful. This makes me want to watch and rewatch all of their films.

Sisters are doin' it for themselves by colls
On the Basis of Sex | 4:28 | G | Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Summary: "You can't spell truth without RUTH"
Music: Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves by Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin
     + RBG and the fight for equality for women.

Suffer by anoel
Person of Interest | 1:31 | PG-13 | Root/Shaw
Summary: I kind of enjoy this sort of thing (I do, too).
Music: Suffer by Charlie Puth (Vince Staples & AndreaLo Remix)
     + Femslash kink vid with painplay and bondage and blood and needles and blades and consent issues and all of the Root/Shaw kink that's in canon, basically.

You Might Think by sisabet
Pushing Daisies | 3:06 | G | Ned/Chuck
All I want is you
Music: You Might Think by The Cars
     + So this is really fun and bouncy and the old-timey song is a fantastic match for the show's aesthetic. (It's kind of interesting watching a vid about a show where the love interests can't physically touch in the midst of this pandemic, and also thinking about the queerness of that premise in terms of what mainstream media representation of affection between same gender couples has looked like.)

I'll Be There by bironic
Roar | 2:20 | PG-13
Summary: Heartbreak and hostage situations! Bandits and booby traps! Smiles and sword fights! Team is team, no matter what.
Music: I'll Be There by Walk Off the Earth
     + I'd never heard of Roar, but it is late '90s action-adventure historical fantasy starring Heath Ledger and I am delighted. His face. All of their faces. Team. Hurt/comfort. This is excellent.

Renegades by bironic
Roar | 2:32 | PG-13
Summary: This is OUR home.
Music: Renegades by X Ambassadors
     + Taking on the Roman invaders. Uprising.

see it all by thingswithwings
Schitt's Creek | 5,064 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
It’s not like David was trying to hide it. The truth of the matter is, he doesn’t wear skirts all that often, doesn’t get the urge all that often, and Patrick just hasn’t known him all that long. A year, Patrick’s known him a year, and David’s wardrobe is extensive; he really wasn’t trying to hide it.
     + Gender and sexuality and clothing and opening up and falling in love.

Let Me In by Trelkez
Train to Busan | 3:46 | PG-13
this heart's full of nevermore
Music: Let Me In by Glen Hansard
     + I haven't fully unpacked this yet but this is kind of emotionally devastating. It's delicate and full of flesh and blood and hurt.

Two Trucks by findmeinthealps and Neery
Transformers | 3:29 | PG-13 | Megatron/Optimus Prime, Everyone/Everyone
Summary: (Having Sex)
Music: Two Trucks by Lemon Demon
     + It is exactly what it says on the tin: two trucks, having sex. A+ (This is crack, but now I have meta questions about masculinity as presented in the Transformers.)

Hurricane by alpheratz
The Untamed | 3:11 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: You're the finest thing that I've done. (Lan Wangji, Wei Wuxian, and their son.)
Music: Hurricane by The Hush Sound
     + Pretty. This is a let-me-show-you-their-epic-love-to-piano-music thing, a bit.

ascend and try again by alpheratz
The Untamed | 1:38 | G | Wei Ying
You shouldn't ever feel pain.
Music: Ascend and Try Again by Okay Kaya
     + A Wei Wuxian vid about the most important people in his life and maybe also his journey and the way he keeps coming. (I haven't seen the source.)

Unstrictly Ballroom by Ariaste
The Untamed | 47,522 words | PG-13 | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: Thirteen years ago, Wei Wuxian brought scandal and shame down upon his head and was thrown out of the competitive ballroom dance circuit. He vanished, never to be heard from again.
Lan Wangji aches when he remembers the way Wei Ying danced--like a laugh given movement and form. He has never stopped searching for him.
     + The Strictly Ballroom AU where they face down homophobia in the dance circuit world through dance and ensemble plots, and dance all the dances. The Cloud Recesses is a dance studio, Lan Zhan is forced to teach teenagers to tango and hates it. ...also technically a stripper AU.

Daylight by helcinda
The Untamed | 4:15 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
I once believed love would be black and white / But it's golden
Music: Daylight by Taylor Swift
     + Wei Ying's pain with Lan Zhan as sunlight and then vice versa. This works as a Taylor Swift music video - thematically and in terms of the aesthetics of the imagery - like, if there were to be a Taylor Swift music video about historical fantasy Chinese cultivators who met as teenagers, fell in love, and were kept apart for many years by duty - this works.

Heaven by helcinda
The Untamed | 4:22 | G | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Trying to embrace the picture I paint / And colour me free
Music: Heaven by Troye Sivan
     + Lan Zhan's love of Wei Ying.

through a window softly by impossibletruths
The Untamed | 14,102 words | PG-13 | Lan Zhan/Wei Ying
Summary: Wei Wuxian plays the flute. Someone in Wei Wuxian's apartment complex plays violin. Sometimes, they play the flute and the violin together, and it's... nice. It's really nice. It's sort of the nicest thing going on in his life right now, honestly.
It's like the poets say: Music is love in search of a word.
     + Music student college AU with identity porn.

Untitled Goose Game Vid by eruthros and thingswithwings
Untitled Goose Game | 1:57 | G | goose
Summary: HAVOC
Music: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett
     + Sometimes you just want to watch a goose fuck some shit up and hassle some people. Satisfying.

Lawless by CherryIce
Whip It | 3:08 | G
Summary: There are many ways to shine.
Music: Lawless by Troi Irons
     + Follows the narrative of the movie and does a really great job of matching the emotional beats of the song. I love this.

Inch of Skin by the_ragnarok
Bandom | 8,272 words | PG-13 | Pete/Patrick
In his interviews, Pete Wentz likes to joke about the soulmark. He went on a talk show once with his right wrist bared to show a temporary Care Bear tattoo. There was kind of a media uproar about it, which is the only reason Patrick knows this—he doesn't even follow media for musicians he likes. He's not going to do it for a pop-punk teen heartthrob who sold his soul to MTV.
     + AU where high school Patrick and pop-punk sell-out Pete begin as an anonymous epistolary romance - different approach to the soulmark trope, neat.

Coming In by thingswithwings
Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 1,822 words | G | Rosa Diaz
Summary: For the prompt "someone on the team coming out to Rosa." Can also be seen as a fic version of this twitter thread I made once: https://twitter.com/twwings/status/994748328737816576
     + Everyone is queer and it's delightful. (Punk recced this on fancake.)

Meet Shoot by Grenegome
Dresden Files | 4,280 words | PG-13 | Dresden/Marcone
Summary: Harry meets Marcone before his rise to power.
     + Basically the if they'd met earlier they might have been friends thing. (It's been a bit since I've read this and if I try to write about it I'm going to ramble ship meta about power dynamics and character, probably.)

The Lightning Knives by jadelennox
Dresden Files | 3,804 words | PG-13 | Dresden/Marcone
I rested my forehead on my fingertips and closed my eyes. Last night’s dream flashed on my closed eyelids, and I opened them again to banish images of toddlers with my face and Harry's magic. "Of course I do. I just need to figure out... I need to figure things out."
     + Pregnant cis woman Marcone deciding what to do and talking to Harry.

Cross by lightgetsin
Dresden Files | 33,878 words | NC-17 | Dresden/Marcone
“Because,” Dresden said, “you’re going to bring me back.” He hesitated, looking somewhat sour. “You’re the only one who can, apparently.”
     + This is like two stories in one; I'd read this fic before and I forgot that the last third existed reading it this time around; I'd remembered it as a separate fic. It's porn and punch topping up a fun quest-type deal.

Enemy Mine by Rassaku
Dresden Files | 4,280 words | PG-13 | Dresden/Marcone
Summary: Harry gets invited on a date by everyone’s favorite mob boss, and then things get weird.
     + Plotty. When I remembered what this fic was I went ooooh - it's like a really great murder mystery with fight scenes and politics and scheming and it opens with Marcone asking Dresden out.

Blow by anoel
Gone Girl | 1:48 | R | Amy/Nick
Music: Blow by Kesha (Cirkut Remix)
Summary: "The bad guy wins? Fuck him." Or, Fuck Yeah Amy!
     + Film overview. Lots of blood and tension, sharp.

Devotion, Threefold by anticyclone
Original | 14,900 words | NC-17 | Male Fire God/New King Who Marries Him In What He Assumed To Be A Symbolic Ceremony
Summary: "You know," Aatenel said, lowering his voice, "most people who are graced with my physical form tend to say something in response."
There had been a ritual greeting he was supposed to use, Pando abruptly remembered. It was like having water dumped on his head. He had fucked this up entirely.
An unnatural fire threatened Pando's kingdom. The people of Vrae and his Expanse had never before demanded things from each other, so Pando had begged. He agreed to marry a fire god, sight unseen - only the wedding day has come, and the fire god does seem to enjoy what he's seeing now.
     + This reminds me of a paperback of collected short stories I have squirreled away from years ago that I kept because it had this one queer enemies to lovers soulbond story; I would hold onto like 20+ stories I did not care about to retain access to this thing. More. It's tropey and it has a sense of humour. (It is great.)

Take Me To Church by LithiumDoll
Person of Interest | 4:07 | G | Root/Shaw(/The Machine)
Music: Take Me To Church by Neon Jungle
Summary: Now, let's begin: Alice and Bob are stranded in the desert.
     + This is beautiful.

Black Widow by kiki_miserychic
Practical Magic | 3:34 | PG
Music: Black Widow by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora
You should've known better than to mess with me, honey.
     + There's a lot in this vid - it has the Gilly and Sally relationship and all the dudes I forget the names of -ships, plus all of the women. The beginning is really interesting - I still need to unpack this whole thing.

Don't Take The Money by sisabet
Schitt's Creek | 3:35 | G | David Rose
Music: Don't Take The Money by Bleachers
Summary: Now the story of a wealthy family who lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together
     + This is such a nice build and journey. (Also I have no idea how this would read without canon familiarity.)

Slow Show by sisabet
Schitt's Creek | 4:07 | G | David/Patrick
Music: Show by The National
I want to start over, I want to be winning
Way out of sync from the beginning
     + Lovely. Builds and builds and squeezes your heart. (Also: their faces.)

A Fair Return by thingswithwings
Schitt's Creek | 237,410 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
Summary: and there are some like us,
just walking, making our feet move ahead of us,
a little bored, a little lost, a little angry,
walking as though we were really going somewhere,
walking as if there was something to see at Adelaide or maybe on King,
something that will give a fair return for this use of shoe-leather,
something that will make us smile with a strange new
happiness, a lost but recovered joy.
- Raymond Souster, “Yonge Street Saturday Night”
     + This is queer, and full. I fell in love with this fic before I finished reading the notes, and then it took me two weeks to read it because life. It's a love letter to community and identity and carving out your place in the world, learning to be yourself, and also to that kid who hadn't or hasn't and maybe isn't or wasn't a kid. I have a lot of feelings about this fic and love it for a lot of different reasons.

Maybe One Day by Mireille
Sports Night | 2,893 words | PG-13 | Dan/Casey
Summary: Five times Dan thought about coming out.
     + Snappy dialogue and happy endings.

Don't Wait Up by Penknife
Star Wars | 1,025 words | PG-13 | L3-37 & Lando Calrissian
She wants to trust him, but she can't afford sentiment.
     + I haven't seen Solo, but ethics and androids(?) and relationship-building and the uncertainty of trust.

it's just breakfast by screamlet
Boy Meets World/Girl Meets World | 5,585 words | G | Shawn/Topanga/Cory
“I hate school I hate school I hate school,” Maya chanted as she ran into her room and slammed the door.
“It’s a necessary evil and I’m sorry you can’t appreciate that right now!” Shawn called back.
Their shitty home printer jammed twice and there was a vertical line running down each page of Maya’s English essay, but hopefully that wouldn’t matter—it was done, it was printed, there was a neat staple in the top left corner and everything was formatted according to the very detailed 8th grade essay guidelines. They would have breakfast downstairs and it would all be okay.
     + OT3 domesticity, a strong Maya & Shawn relationship developing, emotional vulnerability, and love. Excellent show vibes.

that first, initial feeling by varnes
Buzzfeed RPF | 21,276 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: “You’re called the Treasure Chest,” Shane says blankly to the man behind the counter, who is looking at him with a completely neutral expression. His name tag suggests that he is called Ryan. “It’s -- literally every sex shop in the history of sex shops was called The Treasure Chest. I’m pretty sure it’s in the by-laws.
“The by-laws ... for sex shops?” Ryan asks.
Shane fixes him with a look. He sells crystals, which means he’s a con man, which means he’s a deviant of at least some kind, which means he’s been to a sex shop and he knows exactly what Shane means. “Listen,” Shane says, and then nothing else, because Ryan The Counter Man pulls an arm behind his head to stretch and the sight of his surprisingly beefy arms short-circuits Shane’s brain.
The man blinks patiently at him. “I’m listening,” he says, encouragingly.
OR: An AU in which Ryan runs a crystals store, and Shane is beguiled by him anyway.
     + One of those if-they-hadn't-met-the-way-they-did-they-would-have-ended-up-in-exactly-the-same-place-anyway AUs. They're just so delighted by each other. The banter in this is great and there's a good amount of feelings, no in this. ♥

Everything by Trelkez
Buzzfeed RPF | 2:09 | PG | Ryan/Shane
Music: Everything by Scruffy the Cat
Summary: Did you just call the demon a motherfucker?
     + This is fun. There's smiling and laughing at each other and Ryan getting freaked out by stuff, a bit. Charming.

Hot Scary Summer by thewindupbird
Buzzfeed RPF | 11,627 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: The boys hunt some ghosts, make some impulsive choices, and try their best to sort out what it means to get to the heart of this thing.
     + Navigating America, the supernatural, and their own relationship. There's a kiss and then a whole lot of processing.

Begin the Begin, Over and Over by beethechange
Buzzfeed RPF | 33,398 words | NC-17 | Ryan/Shane
Summary: Shane only agrees to be handcuffed to Ryan for a video because he can put up with anything for twenty-four hours. That’s the funny thing about time loops, though—they don’t always adhere to the parameters set by clickbait videos.
     + Groundhog Day, and the thing about the set-up is that he's basically dating Ryan, taking Ryan on all the dates. (This thing reminds me of hockey fic, with the way it ties up the personal and the professional; it feels like cup fic.)

Etta Candy's Last Stand by sanguinity
DCU | 1,788 words | PG-13 | Etta/Diana
This is the way Etta is going to die: trapped between a bed and Diana Prince’s breasts.
     + Funny and adorable. Spot-on voices.

Scandal by Gwen77
Game of Thrones | 21,652 words | NC-17 | Brienne/Jaime
Summary: This is a quasi-Victorian AU, set in a nineteenth century version of Westeros.
     + It's a romance novel (like, there are some strong genre ties happening here) and Brienne's a journalist. lazaefair recced this on fancake and sold me on it.

the unlocking and the lift away by beyond_belief
Generation Kill | 59,262 words | NC-17 | Brad/Ray
Summary: You can't not build a life just because things might change.
Or, Ray gets an MBA.
     + Ray runs away to Brad's/college with a cat, and then they're roommates. Ray makes friends with his classmates and he and Brad fall in love. There's also some stuff with Ray's family.

家教 - or - Domestic Education by rageprufrock
Guardian | 9,034 words | PG-13 | Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Summary: Shen Wei is the Ghost King, born out of the unyielding chaos of entropy that had consumed the underworld before the creation of the wheel of reincarnation. He's the cosmic guardian of death and all her darlings, and the universe through the lens of his eye is rife with demons, hungry ghosts, and shadows creeping out of their places. So there is absolutely no way he is getting sick.
     + He is getting sick and Zhao Yunlan and his take care of him. I love the mundane and domesticity and family-ness of this, and the contrast of that and what Shen Wei is is kind of perfect.

Without A Net Upon The Wire by torakowalski
Marvel | 41,982 words | NC-17 | Clint/Phil
Summary: Since he was abandoned by his brother and then the circus, Clint Barton has resigned himself to making his own way in the world. So when he ends up living on the streets of New York in the middle of winter, he’s not expecting to be taken in by injured army veteran, Phil Coulson, or accidentally involved in an escalating war against the Russian mafia.
     + The one where Coulson lives in the tracksuit mafia building and takes a young Clint in and they are both very stubborn about accepting each other's help and liking each other. (Also features Nick, Barney, and Natasha.)

Counterfeit and Counterpart by Frea_O
Marvel | 28,013 words | PG-13 | Maria & Natasha
Summary: Five times Maria Hill doesn’t understand Natasha Romanoff, and why she might be better off that way.
     + Maria-centric, and awesome. There's a road trip in here, and also their beginnings at SHIELD and it does not read like a five times fic, because it's so fluid and you get swept up in their relationship.

love is for children and other lies by Fahye
Marvel | 30,095 words | PG-13 | Natasha
Summary: War is the child's emptiness, the surrender of identity, the transformation into a simple system: purpose goes in, action comes out. (Natalia Alianovna Romanova, and everything that she became.)
     + Natasha's history and her friendship with Clint. She's asexual in this, though that's not a word that's anywhere but the tags.

Citation Flirtation by scioscribe
Marvel | 3,166 words | PG-13 | Shuri/OFC
Summary: Shuri's paper is refuted in a subclause of a footnote. This means war. (And somehow eventually takeout and fully-funded projects and kissing.)
     + This is so good. Crushes and posturing.

Good Lives by jibrailis
Naruto | 7,637 words | PG-13 | Gai/Kakashi
Summary: Gai accidentally becomes first lady of Konoha.
     + Gai is fantastic. Kakashi starts getting him to do ceremonial stuff and *points at summary*.

cultivating in themselves something by thingswithwings
Schitt's Creek | 5,090 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
Patrick shrugs with one shoulder. “I just―it’s a nice fantasy. I thought you might like to play with it."
“And the fantasy is . . . ?” David lets his hands roam over Patrick’s sides and back, stroking slowly.
“Hot, repressed gay guy comes into the store,” Patrick says, beginning the scene.
     + God, they're so in love, and there's so much communication in this, and it feels celebratory, of fantasy and sexuality and sex; it's great.

Watching Through Windows by helvetica_upstart
Schitt's Creek | 38,537 words | NC-17 | David/Patrick
Summary: David gapes at the man calling himself David’s husband. “You think I’m falling for the married amnesiac trap? Yeah, no, my sister has been-there done-that and sent me the Embassy’s postcards.”
Or, David falls off a ladder and can’t remember Schitt’s Creek. Things fall apart and come back together.
     + I love how complicated this is, detailed and thought out. This is incredibly rich and full of feelings.

do u expect me, a gay, to remember everything i write by lazulisong
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System | 3,973 words | PG-13 | Mòběi-jūn/Shàng Qīnghuá
"What?" says Shang Qinghua. "No, he's not. Why would he court me? He thinks I'm like, a hamster.
"Okay, then why is he dropping like, monsters and shit at your door?" says Cucumber-bro. "That's how they like, show people they can provide for them or whatever."
"Why would they do that!" shrieks Shang Qinghua. "I never --"
"It was a plot point, dude," says Cucumber-bro, in the slow, patient voice of someone speaking to a stupid dog. "It was an actual, literal plot point you typed in with your own like, sinful hands."
"No it wasn't," says Shang Qinghua immediately. "I think I would like, fucking remember writing a scene where some chick gets an actual fucking dragon corpse dropped on her door and immediately gives it up for the person who brought it!"
     + I do not know this fandom, but this is very fun and has some entertaining trope takes.

The Rose of Terok Nor by cicak
Star Trek | 12,167 words | PG-13 | Bashir/Garak
Summary: It's five years after the war and everyone's talking about the hottest new publishing sensation out of Cardassia, The Rose of Terok Nor.
In which roses don't shine, spelling over instant messenger is still fraught, limited edition art books are acquired, and it's all true, especially the lies.
     + After he returns to Cardassia Garak rewrites his past as a soppy love story starring serial-numbers-filed-off versions of himself and Julian; a teenaged Cardassian female gets Julian to read it.

A Brief Introduction to Live Action Roleplaying by wldnst
Teen Wolf | 28,171 words | PG-13 | Danny/Stiles
Summary: Jackson tells Danny he's a werewolf. Danny gets werewolf advice from a stranger on the internet. Things escalate from there.
     + Identity porn and teenaged romance. Sweet.

A Fever Moon by morphosyntactic
Teen Wolf | 4,649 words | NC-17 | Danny/Stiles
Summary: Danny has only ever been human, and he’s pretty sure there’s meant to be some kind of rule, an unwritten moral code of the gay scene: you are not obligated to be every straight boy’s experiment, you should leave them to work through their confusion alone. The thing is, though, Danny is one of just two guys who are out and proud in the whole school. Beacon Hills is a small town.
     + Danny and Stiles get drunk and fool around. It's a good thing.