Signing on the Line - andrewiel - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
When Neil Josten is offered a position as a starting striker for a professional Exy team, he feels like all of his dreams are coming true. He signs the contract, not caring about the strict morality clause that controls who he can and can't date in the public eye. Then he meets Andrew Minyard, the top-ranked goalie of a rival team, and then Neil thinks he might just have to care after all.
the kids are okay - snoozalicious - Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson [Archive of Our Own]
AU where Connor tries his best to make friends with the cute boy that moved in next door. It goes a lot better than expected. A heavily gay high school slice-of-life. Chapters are short but I update frequently. NOTICE: This has officially turned into a Sincerely Three fic! The focus is mainly on Tree Bros in the beginning but I was too weak to leave Jared out of it.
The Desperate Type - chchchchcherrybomb - Dear Evan Hansen - Pasek & Paul/Levenson [Archive of Our Own]
After falling from the tree didn't do the trick, Evan begins to seek out another solution. A partner. Peer pressure to get the job done. He spends several weeks trolling a website with a section called Suicide Partners after breaking his arm. He finds a potential match in someone else who is looking to make sure they actually pull the trigger this time (metaphorically speaking). Three guesses whose message Evan responds to. It's Connor's, of course. Inspired by My Heart and Other Black Holes
A list of spideytorch (Johnny Storm/Peter Parker) fanfiction that I’ve enjoyed. Most of these are those sappy romantic ones. And fake relationships. I’m convinced more than half of my recs are fake relationship fic or friends-with-benefits realising how much they love each other. And Pining. Always Pining. Stars indicate the relative number of times I’ve re-read the fic and cried, because it was so beautiful. I have been blessed by good fic even though it’s a pretty small fandom. Thank god. I haven’t read such Quality Trope in so, so long. This list isn’t complete, because there will always be more and more fic! If you have any fics to rec, shoot me an ask.
The Fox-Kit - CaptaInCynophobIa (Alasmylove) - Naruto [Archive of Our Own]
The seal is weakened not just by anger, but by fear and loneliness, too. Kurama is protective of the child his chakra was curled protectively around for ten months, before he was dragged from Kushina's seal. Naruto is just as much his child as anyone else's. And so, Naruto grows up with with a small physical manifestation of the fox trapped in his gut at his side at all times, a friend, confidant, parent, ally, teacher, and for the sake of appearances, pet. This goes about as well as you'd expect -- chaotically.
In Which Neil Josten is a PR Nightmare - CoverYourEyes - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
Eve was not the best person in the world. Sometimes she didn’t hold the elevator open when she saw people rushing to catch it from the other side of the lobby. Cutting the line at Starbucks was a semi-regular action. But Eve did not deserve to be Neil fucking Josten's publicist. ********** Or, the one where Neil does what he wants, picks fights with reporters, discovers Twitter, breaks the internet, and really shouldn't be allowed out of his house. Andrew does nothing to discourage him.
A shinobi is one who endures | Okay I’m sorry but I’m rewatching the chunin exams...
Okay I’m sorry but I’m rewatching the chunin exams arc and with how overdramatic and fake edgy Gaara is there is NO WAY his siblings don’t mock him for it as petty revenge the second he stops being a psychopath. Baki asks him where he’s going and his completely straight faced response is “to remind myself I’m alive” like okay ebony darkness dementia ravenway, it’s all fun and games now, but it’s not gonna be so edgy when your older brother uses this line to clown you every time he leaves a room for the next 2 and a half years.
remembering that kakashi was fuckign 26 years old when he got assigned team seven is blowing my mind right now. I was naruto’s age when I got sucked into this shit and now I’m kakashi’s and like,,,I get it. my man got assigned the generation’s WORST of the WORST gremlin children and he did the best he fuckin’ could. he nearly dies on every mission because sasuke refuses to go to anger management and naruto is so dumb he probably can’t even read. he’s got like 7 summons that are dogs and he could be spending all his time with them but is he/?? no. he’s got a sharingan making him so Perpetually Exhausted it’s a straight up medical condition and he has to spend all his free time restraining the two finalists of Konoha’s Next Top Orphan from getting people killed instead of like….teaching them. 26 years old and all that unbelievable bullshit. god. and!! then when he finally gets to take a fucking nap they make him hokage I honestly can’t believe he did it. wasn’t even 30 fucking years old. I can’t believe he didn’t leave the damn village himself.
So we know how two of the favorite superhero peril tropes are A) Threaten a Loved One and B) Villain unwittingly taking the in-civvies Hero as a hostage. Venom and Eddie’s situation presents an opportunity for a special hybrid of both. Because honestly, both Venom and Eddie have all the subtlety of a firework stand in a bonfire and X Evil Organization is bound to tail the burly man-eating monster to Eddie’s home and Goons, breaking down the door: Alright Brock, no more games Eddie: What Goons: Don’t play dumb here, Eddie. We know the truth and our employer is determined to have a long, violent chat with the bastard eating all of his men. So we’ll make this simple for you: Goons: Where is your 10 ft tall cannibal boyfriend? Eddie: Venom, inside Eddie: Eddie. Eddie, tell them where he is Eddie, going thru every stage of grief and inventing new ones: ………………..um Venom, all up in Eddie’s everything, every slime cell of him laughing to tears: Tell them where your boyfriend is, Eddie
And We'll Be Running - allyasavedtheday - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
It had been six months ago when Kevin called him, sounding drunk off his ass and on the verge of a breakdown, begging Neil for help. Andrew Minyard, guitarist for The Monsters, had been assaulted by his old foster brother and it finally convinced the courts to take him off the mood altering medication he’d been taking since almost two years prior after an incident where he’d defended his cousin from a bunch of homophobic assholes outside a club. At the time, he’d had nothing else going for him so he said yes. It was just meant to be something to do for a few months. Now, well, he doesn’t really want to leave.
spiderman loves you - owlinaminor - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) [Archive of Our Own]
Or: how to figure out if your son is actually Spiderman without letting him know that you suspect he’s Spiderman because you want to make sure you’re right about him being Spiderman before you ground him for the rest of his adolescent life.
so hold me tight (or don't) - SashaSea (SHCombatalade) - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
It turns out that being in a fake relationship with someone for both four weeks and thirteen years takes up far more of Andrew’s time than he thought. All in all, pretending to date Neil Josten feels very much like actually dating him. Until it doesn’t.
a month went by quickly. it didn't want to hang around. - everyone: Harry don’t do something stupid year 3:...
everyone: Harry don’t do something stupid year 3: [blankly] why would I do something stupid year 4: /I/ don’t do stupid things. Stupid things are just done… by me year 5: SOMETHING STUPID!? LIKE WHAT, EXACTLY!???? LIKE WHAT IM DOING RIGHT NOW!?????!????????????? year 6: [seen at 1:52] year 7: stupid times call for stupid measures
Latchkey Child - KING (pelted) - All For The Game - Nora Sakavic [Archive of Our Own]
The segment’s title declared EXY’S DARLINGS - WHERE WILL THEY GO FROM HERE? in a yellow banner along the television screen's bottom. It was a spotlight feature on where Kevin Day and Riko Moriyama were planning to go after their high school graduation. Of course they were expected to join the best, but a few reporters speculated on favoritism from the Raven’s coach if they signed on at Edgar Allan, and if that’d impact the Exy prodigies’ relationships with their potential teammates. Usually his mother would box his ears for looking at anything Exy-related, but he changed the channel long before her shower finished, the black ink on a younger Day’s cheekbone haunting him worse than the date in the corner. ( Neil wakes up seven years younger, and, slowly, takes matters into his own hands. )
Masquerading as Kunlun, Zhao Yunlan sets out on a mission to recover the stolen Hallows alongside the young Shen Wei. Along the way, he discovers new abilities, forges new bonds, unearths old histories, and learns that the universe goes beyond his wildest imagination.
The Dawn Will Break Before You - thepartyresponsible - Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]
“Okay, heartbreaker,” he says, “how much to put the tires back on the car?” Jason rolls his eyes and gestures at him with the lug wrench. “Why don’t I just beat you up and steal your money? Is this the first time you’ve been to a bad part of town? Don’t show me your wallet, asshole. Come on.” The man heaves a heavy, aggrieved sigh and starts pulling out bills. “Five hundred?” He tries. “Six? We can go to an ATM.” “You are mugging yourself,” Jason says, oddly impressed. “Holy shit.”
Try to Freeze Time - thepartyresponsible - Marvel Cinematic Universe [Archive of Our Own]
The circus has a way of evening people out. Everyone looks the same when the lights center on the stage. The whole audience, just blank shadows, staring in. Everyone looks like nothing. Someone like this, though. Someone like him. They’ll throw off that nothing before they get back to whatever pampered bed they crawled out of. Everyone else stays nothing, but, for people like that, it’s just a temporary state. Clint doesn’t mean to watch him. It’s just that he keeps catching Clint’s eye.
Time Turned Back - TaraSoleil - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
Broken and angry after losing Sirius fifth year, Harry recklessly puts himself in harms way, dragging Hermione along for the ride. Now they are stuck in another time with some all too familiar faces. Will the time with lost loved ones heal Harry or end up doing more damage?
It starts with Harry's eyes - blurredink - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
Another of those time travel stories to save Sirius (in more than one way) and for Harry to have some more emotional chaos. Some creature stuff thrown in. Love the clichés and maybe create some new. Or the one in which a mysterious artefact kicks Harry back to a time where he collides with the Marauders and has to deal with completely unexpected emotions AND an upcoming creature inheritance - with consequences that are really going to freak him out. Maybe.
House of Snakes - flitterflutterfly - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
At 30 years old, divorced, and headmaster of Hogwarts, Harry Potter doesn't have the life he'd always dreamed would come after defeating Voldemort. A chance discovery in the Chamber of Secrets allows him an opportunity to go back in time and change some things. Wherein Harry—now Hadrian—raises his younger self, dances the political dance with Death Eaters and a resurrected Tom Marvolo Riddle, and searches for a way to stop the destruction of the magical world.
now, for the second act - WDW - Naruto [Archive of Our Own]
After his death at Pein's hands, Kakashi finally makes his peace with his father. But when he opens his eyes, it's not to the the ruins of his village. Instead, he's thirteen again, armed with all the knowledge he has of the future and the skill set of a thirty year old ex-ANBU Commander. He's ready to save his precious people. Except, he's not the only one to make it back. [Team Minato wakes up in the past after their deaths, a week before the mission to Kannabi Bridge. Yes, all of them.]
Bandaged Hand - Jorie2127 (Flight_orFight) - Katekyou Hitman Reborn! [Archive of Our Own]
Time-Travel. Tsuna is thrown into a time he's unfamiliar with, in a country he can barely speak the language. But it's his choice, so with only determination and his intuition to keep him moving forward, he'll complete his mission while trying to not lose all. Of course, that doesn't mean trouble won't find him; things are never easy when fate loves to screw with one.
Now in the errant sun - Dissenter - Katekyou Hitman Reborn! [Archive of Our Own]
In which Tsuna has some fairly inconvenient opinions, Iemitsu has been happily living in denial for years, and Reborn now somehow has to sell organised crime to a bunch of student hippie activists. He is not amused.
the nutcracker: a remix | ofgeography.com | a trashbag full of donuts
in the story they tell later, marie stalhbaum is given a toy, and loves him alive. marie's feet are so light that she cannot feel the floor beneath them. the stars shimmer close enough for her to reach out and pluck them from the cloud-wool sky, close enough to hold in her palm. in the story they tell later, he held his arms open and the stars came to collect him, waving and humming a song she will forget upon waking. but that is only the story they tell later. in the story as it happens, marie stahlbaum is not given a toy. she is given a hand and grabs it; given a sword and wields it; given a crown and wears it. in the story has it happens, marie is given a choice and she chooses wrong.