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
(Open, Moderated)
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Zuko botches his escape on the day of the eclipse and sits out the war in prison. What will the Gaang do with a new Fire Lord they can't trust? Season Four "Zuko never joined the Gaang, and he's really bad at being good" AU.
Featuring Azula's extended field trip, Jun not signing up for this, and Sokka's increasing desire to scream. Come get your international politics with a side of baby dragons.
Podfic and German translation now available, see chapter one notes!
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- Part 1 of Towards the Sun
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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)
26 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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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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Tim
Things get creepier the closer they are in proximity to “The Archivist” these days. It’s just a fact of life now.Cass
“The Archivist”??Tim
Apparently it’s a thing. He introduces himself as “Jonathan Sims, the Archivist”Cass
That’s…. Weird??
It’s not just me, right?
That’s weird?Tim
Like I said.The events of The Reverb in These Holy Halls look a little different from the outside.
Series
- Part 2 of Reverb
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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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A Cartographer’s Guide to Romancing your Demon Lord by Sulimo
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
03 Apr 2021
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When Shen Yuan stumbles upon a peculiar set of ruins on one of his many expeditions through the Endless Abyss, he never thought exploring them would lead to being saddled with babysitting duty. You know, if keeping an eye on an old, powerful, clingy demon lord to make sure he doesn’t run off and destroy the world can be considered “babysitting.”
Not that he could stop Luo Binghe from destroying the world if he wanted to, mind you. His cultivation isn’t that good. But for whatever reason, the ex-Emperor of the Combined Realms has decided to spend his time following around ordinary little Shen Yuan instead of doing... whatever it is that disgraced demon lords do when they’re suddenly freed from their century-long imprisonment.
He needs a drink.
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After the events of PIDW, Bingge is caught by his enemies and sealed away. Ninety years later, hapless cartographer and rogue cultivator Shen Yuan finds his resting place and accidentally-not-accidentally frees him.Now with a Russian translation!
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
22 Oct 2022
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A super fun AU! it's got some sick worldbuilding too. sadly, it hasn't updated in like a year... but it's still worth it to read!
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Katara’s fingers leave Jet’s temples and it is not just Lake Laogai that he remembers, not just the one made-up story to make what’s missing make sense that he forgets.
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- Part 1 of firebender!Jet
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 58,870
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- 25/25
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
04 Sep 2023
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Incredibly well written. The characters feel deep, complex, and themselves. 10000/10!
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Capra by SiryyGray
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist (Anime 2003), Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
27 Aug 2020
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Edward should be dead. Bullet to the back, straight through his lungs and out the other side. But instead he wakes up back in Amestris, fully alive and baffled. Problem is, this isn’t his Amestris. Someone’ll catch on eventually, so he runs and hopes they don’t follow. Unfortunately for him, Mustang’s team is stubborn in every world and already has a collective degree in conspiracy-busting.
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I grab post-canon by the throat, break it over my knee and caber toss 03 Ed into the Brotherhood-verse. Chaos ensues, as is tradition with all things Elric-related.Series
- Part 1 of A Hop, Skip, and a Jump
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- English
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- 56,016
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 8
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
02 Dec 2022
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Some days you just need to read about some guy having a shit time. also wHAT THEY FUCKING. DID THEY *CANONICALLY* SEND HIM TO WWI TIMES W H A T
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In which former Boatem has a totally normal one, trapped together, in the void, for three months. Definitely.
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- English
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- 27,761
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- 28/28
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- 1
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
09 Dec 2022
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Bee_4 writes some incredibly comsically horrifying shit, but it always sctratches that hyper-specific itch in the back of my brain for a lil' bit of whatever this is. It's also just, REALLY well written. I love when authors try to push past the limits of their medium and write things beyond description
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What if the game mechanics didn’t force Stanley to hit the Skip Button?
Would time still force him to do it, anyway?
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- Part 4 of Advanced Ludology
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 43,476
- Chapters:
- 16/16
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
03 Feb 2023
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An amazingly emotional tale of the importance of stories, the author/reader/protagonist relationship, and the importance of hope. The tags look REALLY bleak, I know-- and this IS a really sad story at times! But also it's a hopeful one. ORV type tragedy, ya feel?
Also ch. 15 is smut kinda so just be warned