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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Barbara has a routine. Every evening, at around seven o’clock, she pulls up a live feed of the Joker’s cell.
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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.
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The Chips Didn't Work by Peppermint_Shamrock
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
18 Aug 2020
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Darth Sidious: Execute Order Sixty-Six
Clones: eXeCuTe oRdEr SiXty-sIX
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(The end is never the end. There's too much blood on too many hands and too many unhappy endings. Six years is a long wait for a grieving mother and a damning curse. It's time for more desperate measures. Perhaps resourcing one of the counselors - as she had watched so many do before - will prove benign. Looks like it's time to save the sole survivor.)
Dylan wakes up in a blind panic, kicking out and falling backward off of the log bench he's sitting on. Maybe it's a bit dramatic, but in his defense, he was just being pinned down in the kitchen, about to get his throat torn out by a goddamn werewolf. Sue him for startling.
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- Part 1 of take me back & back again
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He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”
“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”
“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”
The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”
On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.
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- Part 1 of Come What May
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Someone is building machines that look and act like people.
Meanwhile, the Winter Soldier tries to be Bucky Barnes.
- Language:
- English
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- 62,707
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 3
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- 1,202
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
09 Apr 2023
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Going a little feral in the house tonight... this fic is like, 60k words of pure, undiluted catharsis (angst version)
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Cinderella, as told from a plastic deck chair while drunk at 1 AM.
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- Part 1 of Nite's Fairy Tales
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 45,200
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Comments:
- 1,338
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- 2,952
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- 1,370
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- 33,981
Bookmarked by Meepius147
03 Apr 2023
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THE Cinderella retelling. Wonderful prose, kick-ass themes, and rats in silly clothes.
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A rogue alchemist, desperate to restore the alchemy of the famous Fullmetal Alchemist, pushes Truth into playing a new game - one that has Edward Elric waking up on the floor of his house where a transmuted abomination should have been, just in time to save his younger self and brother. He might have a chance to do everything again, now, though...He would never hold anything but bitterness for the title of 'dad,' but maybe an older brother could make things better.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 167,458
- Chapters:
- 79/?
- Collections:
- 44
- Comments:
- 8,281
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- 18,622
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- 5,769
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- 469,705
Bookmarked by Meepius147
31 Oct 2022
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I've never really 'got' royed, but this fic is well-written enough that i'm starting to see it. it's also just plain good.
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After the end of the end of the world, Jon and Martin end up in the same place the Entities do—which is to say, everywhere. The problem is, they’ve never been everywhere before, and it’s not as easy as it looks. While they would very much like to help the innumerable worlds that they doomed to the predation of the Dread Powers, they don’t have much practice at influencing reality through spooky books, monsters, or spacetime manipulation. That doesn’t mean they don’t try their best.
Elsewhere, in one of these innumerable worlds, Jon finds a book. It tells him to fall in love, and also, to invest in a cement mixer.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 140,833
- Chapters:
- 19/19
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 654
- Kudos:
- 600
- Bookmarks:
- 177
- Hits:
- 12,798
Bookmarked by Meepius147
06 Jan 2023
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HOO boy is this fic good. It's got incredible thematic weight, the best (and funniest!) damn prose you'll ever read, and interpretations of the characters so good they permanently changed how I percieve TMA as a whole. It perfectly straddles the line between fix-it fic and post-canon fic, giving the gang a happy ending (sort of?) without making their past struggles feel cheap. It's a tragedy. It's a comedy. It's a fix-it fic. It isn't. It reads like if the Hitchhiker's galaxy was written from am omniscient POV, and I AM LITERALLY IN LOVE WITH IT.
Like, You know a fic's good when my comment on the epilogue takes up an ENTIRE PAGE in the google docs, and it's pretty much JUST all of the small details I noticed and stuff. Forget enjoyable, this shit changed me as a person, and it has a writing style more competent than most professional authors!
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Tango fails, the moon falls, everyone dies—and then he's woken up, told none of it was real, that they're safely on the Hermethius headed for the next season, and that everyone is perfectly fine, including Tango himself.
Tango's coping great, thanks for asking.
Bookmarked by Meepius147
21 Nov 2022
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Bee_4 is just a really good writer, man