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wyndewalkerThis month instead of reading fics all over a certain length I opted for shorter stories but read more of them. With one exception all of the tropes have two or three fics per trope. Weirdly a lot of fics don't bother with the wedding night. Also, due to the sheer number of fics I read I'm not going to do individual comments on each fic unless I feel something really needs to be expounded upon.
For March the plan is to read a single long fic that I've not read before - A Marauder's Plan by CatsAreCool FFN or AO3 It's just shy of 900k words. It shouldn't be too difficult since I read an average of about 1.1 million words of fic a month.
February Reading Trope Bingo Card
With one exception that I made note of, none of these stories had anything that needed warning for but, as usual, please check the tags and author notes just to be safe.
Column 1:
Against the Wall
Title: I'm not calling you a liar
Author: crowbarwolf
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: Pacific Rim
Pair: Chuck/Raleigh
Words: 777
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: For the prompt: "Raleigh Becket/Chuck Hansen, hatesex. Brutal fighting that leads to hatesex is a classic, what can I say?"
Title: The Way Love Sounds
Author: FranktheSnek
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 3,322
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: In which John and Rodney run into Nancy at an event. Rodney gets jealous and Nancy gets an ear full.
Title: All the Better to Smell You With
Author: HaleHathNoFury
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 9,198
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: A post-break-up Stiles finds himself standing on the front step of the rebuilt Hale house. He needs a place to stay and Derek has always accepted him as a member of his pack and one of his best friends. The only problem is, now that Stiles is seeing clearly, he's suddenly realised that maybe he never got over the pesky crush he had on a certain sourwolf and being in the same space is just going to make things awkward.
Or is it?
Touch Starved
Title: Just Hold Me, Please
Author: christinchen
Prompt: Touch Starved
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 2,852
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: It just so happens that John desperately needs some human contact and Rodney's back is kinda sore. It's just a simple massage between two friends. No, really!
Title: Coala Cuddlers
Author: 3rdgenderfromthesun
Prompt: Touch Starved
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 30,193
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: It really wasn’t a difficult decision. Derek was a werewolf without a pack and the Coala Cuddlers was a company that had a nice little footnote at the bottom stating they were “Werewolf Friendly”. In a world that still thought ‘werewolf’ meant ‘murderer’ that was huge. Werewolves required contact for their own mental and emotional health. A were’ without a pack tended to become anxious and fight with their inner wolf, which led to feral behavior when the inner wolf lashed out. Derek could already feel his wolf clawing angrily at his mind, despite his attempts to make casual contact outside of his nonexistent pack. So, really, he had no choice but to spend his money getting his head straightened out until he could form or join a healthy pack... which he was honestly afraid to do anyway. Repeated death of packmates would do that.
Fake Relationship
Title: A Favor For Felicity
Author: sidhe_faerie
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: Arrow
Pair: Felicity/Oliver
Words: 34,445
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: Felicity needs a ‘boyfriend’ for a family wedding. She gets more than she bargained for. (Set in Season 2)
Title: In Harmony
Author: respoftw
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 13,860
Rating: General Audience
Warnings: None
Summary: It was quite a surprise for Rodney to find out that he had been betrothed to Harmony ever since that first visit.
It was an even a bigger surprise for him to find out that he couldn't follow through on the marriage because he was already married to John.
A fake marriage/pretend relationship fic because, why not?
Title: Oh Shit!
Author: kchayes54
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 11,604
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Oh Shit. Stiles takes a moment to revel in the fact that this is his oh shit moment. Not, oh shit, a dead body in the woods. Not, oh shit, werewolves. Not, oh, shit, Derek wants me to cut off his arm. Not, oh shit, kanimas, or hunters, or any other of bevy of supernatural fuckery. No, Stiles’ oh shit moment is walking past an alleyway and having his Derek Hale spidey tingle go off. His oh shit moment is seeing Derek Freaking Hale crouched in an alley trying to coax a completely demonic looking cat with a massive gash across it’s forehead out from behind a dumpster. Stiles assumes so that Derek can help getting Demon!cat treated.
Stiles oh shit moment is oh shit, I’m in love with this asshole.
Column 2:
5+1 Things
Title: What Would Hildy Johnson Do?
Author: seren_ccd
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: Arrow
Pair: Felicity/Oliver
Words: 7,721
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: “Look, you wanted a Girl Friday, you’re going to get a Girl Friday” aka five times Felicity decides to channel Hildy Johnson and tell it like it is. Snark, pop culture references, hugs and pocket universes ensue.
Title: Five things Rodney heard, but wished he hadn't, while having telepathy, and the one thing he was glad he did
Author: mckays_girl
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 2,344
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes being able to read people's minds wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and sometimes it was.
Title: 5 Times the Sheriff saw something and the one time Sterek did
Author: Slayer_of_destiny
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 10,733
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: The developing relationship of Sterek as seen through the eyes of the Sheriff for the first five chapters and then one of Sterek. Humour in bits, and a possible need to visit a dentist at the end.
Undercover Missions
Title: Stereolove
Author: furloughday
Prompt: Undercover Missions
Fandom: H5O
Pair: Danno/Steve
Words: 9,150
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Steve and Danny must go undercover on a charity couples cruise. Pretend-to-be-together fic, on a ship!
Title: The Road to Self-Actualization is Littered with F-Bombs
Author: blue_fjords
Prompt: Undercover Missions
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 24,811
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: It's Stiles’s final Spring Break of his college career, and he's got plans to do a whole lot of nothing. But Derek has other plans for him, and before he knows it, Stiles is joining Derek to go undercover at a couples' retreat in a bid to catch a ring of thieves. It's the world's most perfect plan! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Coming Out
Title: A Love to Mars and Back
Author: Hellsbells
Prompt: Coming Out
Fandom: NCIS/The Martian
Pair: Tony DiNozzo/Mark Watney
Words: 23,538
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Tony DiNozzo had no idea that going to a simple chemistry lecture would start a love that would cross the solar system and even have the whole world rooting for him.
Or, how Tony and Mark found a love that made them forget to be cautious.
Title: How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It
Author: Causeways
Prompt: Coming Out
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 14,332
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: If you asked John, the part where he had to marry Rodney to save him from the poisoned brownie he ate off-world? It never happened.
Column 3:
Wedding Night
Title: The One Where They're Forced to Marry in Ye Olden Times
Author: Stoney
Prompt: Wedding Night
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 16,100
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Due to the destruction of House Hale and the debts incurred in their survival and search for justice, the King (blah blah, make believe world) arranges a marriage between Derek and Stiles, eliminating all debts the Hales may owe. Derek is very unhappy. Stiles is pretty shocked at who he's being matched with, but he's certainly not unhappy. It's pretty clear from the start Derek doesn't share that feeling.
Stiles passes the time by hunting with his falcon, Derek broods. Until...
Canon Divergence
Title: The King and the Halfling
Author: Bernie_N
Prompt: Canon Divergence
Fandom: Hobbit
Pair: Bilbo/Thorin
Words: 20,992
Rating: Mature
Warnings: See note
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield works as a blacksmith in The Shire, trying to cope with a new nomadic way of life after the loss of his home, Erebor, when he finds a young Bilbo Baggins, injured in the woods. After a number of occurrences as time passes, Thorin decides that it might be time to try and reclaim his homeland, and he sets off with Bilbo Baggins in tow, regardless of his suggestions otherwise.
Note: It's not listed in the tags but I feel that this fic has some Dubious Consent issues in the last couple of chapters. Not to give too much away, Thorin never truly shakes off the gold madness but instead kind of transfers it to Bilbo. Bilbo does love him, and Thorin never abuses him, but it's not really a healthy relationship either because Bilbo can't leave for fear that Thorin will descend into the same madness as his father and grandfather.
Title: We Do What We Always Do. We Survive
Author: mckays_girl
Prompt: Canon Divergence
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 30,474
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Shortly after the expedition returned to Atlantis, the Asurans arrived with more warships.
AU after The Return Part 2 (S03E11)
Domestic Fic
Title: Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore
Author: Scifigirl47
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: MCU
Pair: Steve/Tony TEXT
Words: 22,187
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
Title: Zen and the Art of Jumper Maintenance
Author: Indybaggins
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 39,976
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: The one where Rodney gets sucked in and John… follows. Featuring a quirky John, Rodney in orange robes, crazy Ancient-worship, sheep milking and jumpers that aren't broken but need to be fixed anyway.
Title: The Accidental Hale Brood
Author: Julibean19
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 42,370
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: The one in which Stiles and Derek have been BCPD partners for years when they are assigned Halloween duty and run into a couple of kids from the orphanage. One fake marriage and two real adoptions later, they somehow become a family.
For March the plan is to read a single long fic that I've not read before - A Marauder's Plan by CatsAreCool FFN or AO3 It's just shy of 900k words. It shouldn't be too difficult since I read an average of about 1.1 million words of fic a month.
February Reading Trope Bingo Card
With one exception that I made note of, none of these stories had anything that needed warning for but, as usual, please check the tags and author notes just to be safe.
(of the Closet) |
Column 1:
Against the Wall
Title: I'm not calling you a liar
Author: crowbarwolf
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: Pacific Rim
Pair: Chuck/Raleigh
Words: 777
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: For the prompt: "Raleigh Becket/Chuck Hansen, hatesex. Brutal fighting that leads to hatesex is a classic, what can I say?"
Title: The Way Love Sounds
Author: FranktheSnek
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 3,322
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: In which John and Rodney run into Nancy at an event. Rodney gets jealous and Nancy gets an ear full.
Title: All the Better to Smell You With
Author: HaleHathNoFury
Prompt: Against the Wall
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 9,198
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: A post-break-up Stiles finds himself standing on the front step of the rebuilt Hale house. He needs a place to stay and Derek has always accepted him as a member of his pack and one of his best friends. The only problem is, now that Stiles is seeing clearly, he's suddenly realised that maybe he never got over the pesky crush he had on a certain sourwolf and being in the same space is just going to make things awkward.
Or is it?
Touch Starved
Title: Just Hold Me, Please
Author: christinchen
Prompt: Touch Starved
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 2,852
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: It just so happens that John desperately needs some human contact and Rodney's back is kinda sore. It's just a simple massage between two friends. No, really!
Title: Coala Cuddlers
Author: 3rdgenderfromthesun
Prompt: Touch Starved
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 30,193
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: It really wasn’t a difficult decision. Derek was a werewolf without a pack and the Coala Cuddlers was a company that had a nice little footnote at the bottom stating they were “Werewolf Friendly”. In a world that still thought ‘werewolf’ meant ‘murderer’ that was huge. Werewolves required contact for their own mental and emotional health. A were’ without a pack tended to become anxious and fight with their inner wolf, which led to feral behavior when the inner wolf lashed out. Derek could already feel his wolf clawing angrily at his mind, despite his attempts to make casual contact outside of his nonexistent pack. So, really, he had no choice but to spend his money getting his head straightened out until he could form or join a healthy pack... which he was honestly afraid to do anyway. Repeated death of packmates would do that.
Fake Relationship
Title: A Favor For Felicity
Author: sidhe_faerie
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: Arrow
Pair: Felicity/Oliver
Words: 34,445
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: Felicity needs a ‘boyfriend’ for a family wedding. She gets more than she bargained for. (Set in Season 2)
Title: In Harmony
Author: respoftw
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 13,860
Rating: General Audience
Warnings: None
Summary: It was quite a surprise for Rodney to find out that he had been betrothed to Harmony ever since that first visit.
It was an even a bigger surprise for him to find out that he couldn't follow through on the marriage because he was already married to John.
A fake marriage/pretend relationship fic because, why not?
Title: Oh Shit!
Author: kchayes54
Prompt: Fake Relationship
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 11,604
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Oh Shit. Stiles takes a moment to revel in the fact that this is his oh shit moment. Not, oh shit, a dead body in the woods. Not, oh shit, werewolves. Not, oh, shit, Derek wants me to cut off his arm. Not, oh shit, kanimas, or hunters, or any other of bevy of supernatural fuckery. No, Stiles’ oh shit moment is walking past an alleyway and having his Derek Hale spidey tingle go off. His oh shit moment is seeing Derek Freaking Hale crouched in an alley trying to coax a completely demonic looking cat with a massive gash across it’s forehead out from behind a dumpster. Stiles assumes so that Derek can help getting Demon!cat treated.
Stiles oh shit moment is oh shit, I’m in love with this asshole.
Column 2:
5+1 Things
Title: What Would Hildy Johnson Do?
Author: seren_ccd
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: Arrow
Pair: Felicity/Oliver
Words: 7,721
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: “Look, you wanted a Girl Friday, you’re going to get a Girl Friday” aka five times Felicity decides to channel Hildy Johnson and tell it like it is. Snark, pop culture references, hugs and pocket universes ensue.
Title: Five things Rodney heard, but wished he hadn't, while having telepathy, and the one thing he was glad he did
Author: mckays_girl
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 2,344
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: Sometimes being able to read people's minds wasn't all it was cracked up to be, and sometimes it was.
Title: 5 Times the Sheriff saw something and the one time Sterek did
Author: Slayer_of_destiny
Prompt: 5+1 Things
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 10,733
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: The developing relationship of Sterek as seen through the eyes of the Sheriff for the first five chapters and then one of Sterek. Humour in bits, and a possible need to visit a dentist at the end.
Undercover Missions
Title: Stereolove
Author: furloughday
Prompt: Undercover Missions
Fandom: H5O
Pair: Danno/Steve
Words: 9,150
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Steve and Danny must go undercover on a charity couples cruise. Pretend-to-be-together fic, on a ship!
Title: The Road to Self-Actualization is Littered with F-Bombs
Author: blue_fjords
Prompt: Undercover Missions
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 24,811
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: It's Stiles’s final Spring Break of his college career, and he's got plans to do a whole lot of nothing. But Derek has other plans for him, and before he knows it, Stiles is joining Derek to go undercover at a couples' retreat in a bid to catch a ring of thieves. It's the world's most perfect plan! Nothing could possibly go wrong!
Coming Out
Title: A Love to Mars and Back
Author: Hellsbells
Prompt: Coming Out
Fandom: NCIS/The Martian
Pair: Tony DiNozzo/Mark Watney
Words: 23,538
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Tony DiNozzo had no idea that going to a simple chemistry lecture would start a love that would cross the solar system and even have the whole world rooting for him.
Or, how Tony and Mark found a love that made them forget to be cautious.
Title: How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About It
Author: Causeways
Prompt: Coming Out
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 14,332
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: If you asked John, the part where he had to marry Rodney to save him from the poisoned brownie he ate off-world? It never happened.
Column 3:
Wedding Night
Title: The One Where They're Forced to Marry in Ye Olden Times
Author: Stoney
Prompt: Wedding Night
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 16,100
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Due to the destruction of House Hale and the debts incurred in their survival and search for justice, the King (blah blah, make believe world) arranges a marriage between Derek and Stiles, eliminating all debts the Hales may owe. Derek is very unhappy. Stiles is pretty shocked at who he's being matched with, but he's certainly not unhappy. It's pretty clear from the start Derek doesn't share that feeling.
Stiles passes the time by hunting with his falcon, Derek broods. Until...
Canon Divergence
Title: The King and the Halfling
Author: Bernie_N
Prompt: Canon Divergence
Fandom: Hobbit
Pair: Bilbo/Thorin
Words: 20,992
Rating: Mature
Warnings: See note
Summary: Thorin Oakenshield works as a blacksmith in The Shire, trying to cope with a new nomadic way of life after the loss of his home, Erebor, when he finds a young Bilbo Baggins, injured in the woods. After a number of occurrences as time passes, Thorin decides that it might be time to try and reclaim his homeland, and he sets off with Bilbo Baggins in tow, regardless of his suggestions otherwise.
Note: It's not listed in the tags but I feel that this fic has some Dubious Consent issues in the last couple of chapters. Not to give too much away, Thorin never truly shakes off the gold madness but instead kind of transfers it to Bilbo. Bilbo does love him, and Thorin never abuses him, but it's not really a healthy relationship either because Bilbo can't leave for fear that Thorin will descend into the same madness as his father and grandfather.
Title: We Do What We Always Do. We Survive
Author: mckays_girl
Prompt: Canon Divergence
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 30,474
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None
Summary: Shortly after the expedition returned to Atlantis, the Asurans arrived with more warships.
AU after The Return Part 2 (S03E11)
Domestic Fic
Title: Some Things Shouldn't Be a Chore
Author: Scifigirl47
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: MCU
Pair: Steve/Tony TEXT
Words: 22,187
Rating: Teen and Up
Warnings: None
Summary: Steve takes things like personal responsibility and respect seriously. Tony's got people he pays to take care of that kind of thing, and anyway, he's pretty sure that he's going to die of some exotic disease in his workshop, because Dummy's still a little spotty about what is 'clean' enough to put on an open wound. The rest of the Avengers are in this for personal gain, except for Clint, he just enjoys being a dick.
And some things shouldn't be a chore.
Title: Zen and the Art of Jumper Maintenance
Author: Indybaggins
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: SGA
Pair: McKay/Sheppard
Words: 39,976
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: The one where Rodney gets sucked in and John… follows. Featuring a quirky John, Rodney in orange robes, crazy Ancient-worship, sheep milking and jumpers that aren't broken but need to be fixed anyway.
Title: The Accidental Hale Brood
Author: Julibean19
Prompt: Domestic Fic
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Pair: Derek/Stiles
Words: 42,370
Rating: Mature
Warnings: None
Summary: The one in which Stiles and Derek have been BCPD partners for years when they are assigned Halloween duty and run into a couple of kids from the orphanage. One fake marriage and two real adoptions later, they somehow become a family.
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Date: 2021-03-02 07:00 pm (UTC)And some lovely fic there in your list!