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Cdrama Favs So Far

HISTORICAL TOP TEN

一 Nirvana in Fire - The classic revenge plot, the political dramas of all dramas. Mei Changsu will get Justice for 70,000 lives no matter what, and it is SO satisfying, but! The cost. Oh, the cost.

二 Joy of Life - Some of the best political games the sequel, but with a twist or two. Follow Fan Xian as he figures out who and why, when all he really wants to do is get married.

三 Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty - Detective trio made up of a war vet chef/guard, adhd baby/judge, and a terrifyingly smart 17 year old eunuch, and their found family ensemble of friends. Have snacks while you watch this one.

四 - Love Like The Galaxy - Two feral leads who say screw filial piety and their biggest shipper is the sweetest emporor you’ve ever met. Seriously, that man was born to be on ao3.

五 - New Life Begins - What if an Anne Shirley-esque girl gets sent off to marry the least fav prince, and they take over the kingdom via love and friendship and good food? Fun and sweet and feminist if you want something lighter.

六 - Mysterious Lotus Casebook - Detective trios strike again, with a quack doctor, his moving castle, his two loyal dog-coded companions, his actual dog, and all the angst you could ask for.

七 - The Princess Royal - What if we super divorced (read: killed each other) and then woke up 20 years in the past on our wedding day and had to do it all again? Can we save the kingdom from ruin this time… and maybe ourselves too?

八 - Word of Honor - What if we are truly the worst people ever, and found solace in each other, because who else possibly could? And the three kids and weird grandpa we picked up on the way. Also, glazed donuts.

九 - Knight Flower - Since the lead lady’s marriage to a dead guy she’s never met was so miserable, she took up vigilante Justice at night, just to feel something. Stumbling upon state secrets wasn’t part of the plan. Korean, for something different.

十 - Go East - It’s just another boring day slacking off at the foreign affairs office, until he meets the love of his life and the plot says it’s time to stop avoiding being the main character, we have work to do.

ANIMATED

No Doubt in Us - Comedy body swap, harem plots, wuxia typical medicine, all manner of shenanigans and fun. Has a live action called The Trust, both are good, told from slightly different angles.

MODERN

Reset - Basically if speed and a timeloop had a baby, and only two people get reset everyday, and have to face the bus trips together and stop it. A very tightly written and intense mystery, in a good way.

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

The Double, Guardians of the Dafeng, Romance on the Farm, and other things I watched can be found on this list. There’s some dishonourable mentions there too, things I did not like. Watch those at your own risk!

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weekly fic recs | 60

prompt: time travel (pt. 2!)

fandoms: bnha, mcu, mdzs, naruto, orv, tma, tr

bnha

Celestial Cartography by orkestrations

(graphic depictions of violence)

All For One attacks UA. Determined to get rid of the centuries-long thorn in his side, he uses a quirk called "Banishment" on Izuku. No one knows where this quirk's banished objects go.

Except, now, Izuku. He wakes up, face-to-face with someone he's only seen in dreams.

Back in the present, his friends and family struggle with grief and hope: Izuku may be alive, but they don't know of any way he could ever come back.

and in the end, i'd do it all again (i think you're my best friend) by tempestaurora

“What I’m about to tell you is a secret,” Bakugou said. “It’s my biggest secret in the world, and you need to swear to me that you’ll never tell anyone ever.”

Bakugou produced his Edgeshot tin lunchbox from the drawer, in which all of his notes were hidden.

“Cool lunchbox,” Izuku murmured.

“It’s not about the lunchbox.” He opened the lid and produced the typed list.

Before he showed it to Izuku, he held it to his chest.

“I’m from the future, sort of.”

-

On the morning of his 24th birthday, pro hero Dynamight wakes up in his 4 year old body. It's not long before he realises he's going to have to live his life all over again - so this time, he's determined to do it right.

mcu

the Futurist by esama

Tony wakes up in a literal pool of bad decisions and past mistakes.

Landslide by spqr 

(mature)

Peter jumps into the quantum realm with his heart in his throat. He steps out in 2018, on the edge of a lake he still has nightmares about.

A hundred yards away over the water, the lights in the lakehouse are on.

Brighter Stars by esama

Thor from 2023 travels back into 2011, mostly by accident.

mdzs

Contrapuntal by WithBroomBefore

In which Wei Wuxian is cast back in time to the school at Cloud Recesses instead of falling to his death. Everyone is very confused and upset. Wen Qing fixes things.

Melody of the Lost and Found by esama

Lan Xichen and Wei Wuxian set out to change the past and undo the many losses they'd suffered.

Practical Mythology by metisket

The Yiling Patriarch is a living legend—a terrifying, ancient force of nature, dispensing punishment or reward with implacable, indifferent fairness.

Wei Wuxian, on the other hand, is a weird but oddly charming guy who wanders around the cultivation world making fun of people's art and mooching food from sect leaders.

It really upsets people to find out that they're the same person.

naruto

Visionary by esama

(explicit)

A last desperate measure, last foolish hope, last chance. Of course it went wrong.

(It's your usual time travel fic and then it just isn't.)

Time Flies Like An Arrow by Katlou303

Sakura traveled back in time with the intent of changing everything, but something went wrong, and now she's four years old having nightmares about impossible monsters and losing friends she has yet to meet.

backslide by blackkat

(mature)

Naruto’s friends are gone, his lover is dying, Konoha is destroyed, and Madara’s second return has pushed the entire world to the brink. Hunted and harried, Naruto is sent back in time to upend Madara’s plan before it even starts, and sets about changing everything. Butterfly effect nothing: the world is at stake, and Naruto is hardly about to let it fall to ruin once more. Not while he’s still breathing.

For this her loveliness was curved (--And carved as silver is:) by llamallamaduck

(mature) (graphic depiction of violence)

It all started a month back, when Itachi appeared to have forgotten that he is a sweet, gentle child who abhors killing and always looks to be a hairsbreadth away from dissolving into masochistic rituals of repentance.

orv

precipice by oronine

“I want to kill them.” Yoo Joonghyuk looks tired. His sword is drawn but unable to draw a line in the soil. In this world, he is the most powerless being. “I hate them.” Kim Dokja is sprawled on the ground, head in his hands. There are footprints and blood all over his shirt and the ground; he wishes he could meld with the grass and never wake up. “I hate them too.”

tma

Ashes by PitViperOfDoom

The knife goes in. The tower falls. When Jon opens his eyes, he is sitting in the uncomfortable chair in front of Elias Bouchard's desk, signing his employment contract as the Magnus Institute's newest researcher.

He is alone in his memories of the future; his old friends might as well be worlds away. He demonstrably does not do well alone.

Luckily, in the year 2011, he has options.

tr

the perfect future (can you see it?) by Quillium 

Takemichi Hanagaki appears at the Sano Dojo on a Tuesday, holding out a flyer saying "50% Off Tuesday Children’s Classes!" and cash that Shinichiro isn’t entirely sure wasn’t stolen from his parents.

He doesn’t mention it outright, of course. Instead, he leans forward and says, “Usually a guardian is here to accompany the kid.”

Takemichi scrunches his nose, like he has faced an unexpected obstacle, and then, with a child-like sort of triumph, “Keyword being usually.”

OR: Takemichi takes one last chance to fix things in the past, with permanent consequences.

Lines in Sand by Nythtak

At 26 years old, Takemichi dies when he's pushed in front of a train.

Except he doesn't. He lands in the past with a chance to live his life right - whatever 'right' means.

It won't be the last death he suffers, or even the worst.

Seeing glimpses of the future means experiencing their violent ends, and wearing his failures on his skin. And these aren't nightmares he can escape without giving up on the people he loves.

On the other side of the equation, Mikey and Draken pine over their new, very strange friend like the overdramatic teenage boys they are.

weekly fic recs | 14

prompt: time travel

fandoms: bnha, dc, hp, mdzs, tw, yoi

bnha

the flutter of a butterfly's wings by kit_kats

Midoriya Izuku dies at eighteen, in a desperate, final, battle against the League of Villains. The war has not been won; he is merely another name in a long, long list of casualties.

It is a bitter, meaningless end— except it is not.

He wakes up again, somehow, six years in the past. It is a new world, a new life. Another chance.

Izuku has already failed his world once; he refuses to fail it again. So he does the only logical thing— and joins the League of Villains at the age of twelve years old.

Down the Road by Strix4

Bakugou quite literally kicks a can, with catastrophic results. Todoroki doesn't really understand invisible capital letters, and also the idea of family, but there's been vague insinuations that he's about to learn. Aizawa-Sensei's bingo card of Class 1-A destruction is surprised by none of this.

Viridian by SilvermistAnimeLover

"So why should I be the one to go?! You’re the teacher! The Hero!! What good could someone like me do?!”

“Izuku.” The man’s voice was harsh, and made the younger man’s eyes focus on his friend. His eyes softened. “It must be you. You’re not who you were back then. You aren’t useless. Remember this: You are a Hero. And the world is counting on you—even if nobody realizes it. Here. When the time comes... give this to him. You'll know he trusts you when he calls you 'Problem Child.'" He smiled fondly, handing Izuku a pair of rings on a chain.

~~~~~~~

When the world ends, their only hope is to send one Quirkless man back in time. Back in his 14-year-old body, will Midoriya Izuku be able to save the world that shunned him all his life? And will he finally be able to become a hero this go around?

Good thing he had time as a vigilante to practice.

dc

Take It Back Now Y'all by TimTheToaster (tabletoptime)

(mature)

There was absolutely no way this sunshine was from Gotham in April.

Not possible.

Which meant, Tim was no longer in Gotham, in April.

(In which Tim finds himself in the past, and tries to do the right thing. It's more complicated than he'd like.)

one day at a time by Nyame

Jason Todd is Batman.

Jason Todd was never supposed to be Batman.

Jason Todd never wanted to be Batman.

(Or, in a depressing-but-not-entirely-terrible future, Jason Todd is the third “official” Batman after the deaths of Bruce and his brothers. Getting into his old age and diagnosed with a terminal disease, he passes on the Cowl to his chosen successor, Terry McGinnis, and spends his last years in peace.

And then wakes up on the day Talia threw him into the Lazarus Pit.

Death called it a gift. Jason can only hope to make the most of it.)

hp

Harry Potter and the Greatest Show by shadowscribe

The last real thing Harry remembers is standing across from Voldemort and watching the killing curse fly at his face.

Then he visited a fluffy white limbo that somewhat resembles King Cross Station and instead of choosing to move on or go back he does something else entirely.

And wakes up in his cupboard on the morning of Dudley's eleventh birthday.

Because that makes sense.

(No. No it doesn't.)

But Harry is going to roll with it anyway.

The Source of Grief by withthekeyisking

No one had ever met Hadrian Gaunt before the man suddenly whirled into their lives and started fixing problems they didn't even know existed.

And yet, not a single person regretted meeting him.

Gilt in Silver and Gold by Araceil

(graphic depictions of violence, major character death)

It started with a wretched scream from a Death Eater, a burst of accidental magic so powerful it flung away the people holding him down.

It started with an unknown spell and a potion bottle and a desperate cutting curse from an unknown wizard trying to save him, it started with a blood sacrifice and a gargled mispronounced spell from an accidentally half-decapitated head, and a broken bottle exploding at his feet.

And the world heaved around them.

Harry Potter vanished in the plume of burning potion fumes, a burst of golden smoke that engulfed him so suddenly he hadn't the chance to move.

It started with the death of Voldemort and the one person in the entire damn world that wanted to save him for his own sake following on his heels, and the unspoken left to hang between them, and the single sliver of soul that knew love through him.

Harry had no idea where he was, just that he was under attack. He didn't intend to irrevocably alter the timeline. He didn't intend to draw attention to himself at Hogwarts. He didn't intend to get the attention of Tom Riddle. But he did it anyway.

mdzs

if you can't beat them, recruit them by moeblobmegane

Rather than mourning a future that had not happened yet, he would rather work with all his might to prevent it from happening. [...] His aim was to fortify his home and his family so that they would never again be left vulnerable to greedy cultivators aiming for his genius. For that, he needed help. He may be a genius, but he was not the cunning manipulative man they thought him to be. No, that was not him. He knew who was, though.

(Or: Wei Wuxian uses a powerful array to go back in time and builds a secret squad to prevent the misfortunes of the future.)

oh they call us young and free (hold the golden gates open) by Treha

Before he was feared for massacring people by the four digits, before he was the master of a mountain built of corpses and rage, Wei Wuxian was just a wild child with dreams too big to hold. He set them aside to drag the sun down to the earth, then let them go when he took his last breath. There is no room for blooming stars when the night sky is filled with smoke and screams.

Except now there are fluffy rabbits in the hills, less fluffy but equally cute duckling disciples trailing behind him, and a loving husband on one side and a loving son on the other. Perhaps it is time he picked up those long forgotten dreams.

::In which it's another time-travel fic, except there's very little substance and far too much prose - but at least there's happy endings all around.

tw

How To Walk Before You Run by finnickyfox

“You’re not supposed to be here,” Stiles blurts out. Which yeah, okay, that probably isn't the right thing to say when he’s actively trying to not seem like the enemy. To the eruption of growls, Stiles throws his hands in front of him. “I’m not a hunter! I’m from the future and Derek’s supposed to be at a basketball game. Calm down.”

“Calm down?!”

“Right, can we just ignore foot-in-mouth disease? And focus on what I'm doing—saving your lives.”

“Wait," one of the wolfed-out Hales slurs between their fangs, "aren’t you Hot Babysitter?”

Stiles focuses on breaking the mountain ash line. He can despair about his Beacon Hills nickname when he's not in a burning house with semi-feral werewolves.

yoi

On My Love by RikoJasmine

For the second time, the Sochi Grand Prix Finals arrive, and with it a reborn Yuuri Katsuki. “Viktor,” Yuuri thinks over the pounding of his heart, the crowd going silent as the music begins. “I’ll show the world what you meant to me.”

Yuuri often thinks of his life as Before and After Viktor Nikiforov, the marking point being the day Viktor swept into his life and turned his world upside-down. After many years together, an accident leads to Yuuri suddenly waking up in the Before—back in Detroit, before the GPF, before he ever knew Viktor as anything other than his childhood idol.

As if it had all been just a dream.

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Drawing this one made me so emotional. I just love how attentive Damen was in realizing Laurent was fighting with himself in that moment.

I had far too much free time on my hand this week, so I kept going. I wanted to try a cleaner way of drawing a comic page this time. The more rougher "coloring" style worked great for the fight scenes, but I wasn't sure about it for emotional ones... even if it did, I really like to try things out and see what happens.

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Fall, Fallen

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sorry if i’m being a party pooper but because rabies is apparently the new joke on here ??? please remember that rabies has an almost 100% fatality rate after symptoms develop so if you’re bitten or scratched by an animal that you aren’t 100% sure is vaccinated then GO TO A DOCTOR. it’s not a joke. really. 

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He is aware that it’s woman’s getup. But is Dracula aware how much it suits?

Brief comeback to this hellsite just to remind you how good @esamastation fanfiction is. And how I love Desmond on heels. From Live a Life or Die Trying 

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bro got put in a morbillion-year situation 😩

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The empty space where you used to be; the part of you that's a part of me

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So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

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How To Put "I am a Ao3 Author" on Your Resume

"Published (number of works on ao3) written works spanning (lowest word count) to (highest word count) to a nonprofit international digital archive dedicated to preserving and maintaining society's reactions, impressions, and culture regarding various forms of fictional media."

You can also simplify it to "Creative Writer - Archive (dates) and then put "Wrote for a nonprofit digital archive as a volunteer."

Plus, if you have a lot of hits or kudos on your works, you can say, "I reached (number of hits) people and (number of kudos) of those people signified to the Archive that my work resonated with them."

Because, technically, we are all volunteering our time and donating our writing to AO3's cause of preserving the fandoms and the culture around them. And people do sometimes just call it "Archive". So nothing I just said was a lie.

If you're writing on Ao3, then you have experience writing -- which is the skill you're presenting here. In the long run, you're not doing anything wrong by phrasing your experience in impressive ways.

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weekly fic recs | 58

fandoms: genshin, mcu, mdzs, svsss

genshin

emergency food by littolteapot

An exercise in mortality and all that it involves...including hunger. [Traveler Lumine]

Resonance by LunaChai

To resonate is to join as one, to see, to understand, breathes the hollow echo of stone and mountain in her ear, the last sigh of an eternal dragon. Do you realize what you are trifling with, little god?

or; Lumine, Zhongli, and a connection beyond.

Alles Gute by Princeliest

(explicit)

Venti gives Xiao his birthday present. It doesn't turn out much different from usual in the end, but they both certainly enjoy it anyways. Why mess with what works?

Or: It's Xiao's birthday, and he doesn't even get to come.

mcu

A Partial Dictionary Of The 21st Century By Captain Steve Rogers, US Army by copperbadge

(explicit)

Steve is adapting well to the new millennium, and he has the dictionary to prove it.

A Fire to be Kindled by drifloon 

It makes perfect sense, of course. The serum gave Steve the perfect body, so why wouldn’t it also give him the perfect mind? In the quietness of his own mind, Tony can admit he’s a little stung Steve didn’t tell him, but he’s not really surprised.

(Or: the one where Steve is smarter than Tony, and neither of them deal well.)

Collateral by InsaneTrollLogic

(mature)

After the snap, it rains people.

mdzs

watching my heart go round by typefortydeductions

(explicit)

Lan Zhan falls apart. As it turns out, that's not the end.

if for each bit of gladness by millepertuis

The dream is reluctant to let go of him, a strange double vision of the closed door lingering. His knees hurt, from kneeling in the snow. Wei Wuxian has not knelt in the snow in years and years. His teeth are chattering, even though he was hot enough to kick off the cover in the night, even though his husband is still there around him to keep him warm. He was waiting for something.

in the blossom season (in the pouring rain) by varnes 

(mature)

“A-Yuan,” he says, carefully, “did—did you make the flowers grow like this?”

A-Yuan shakes his head in exasperation. “Baba, I said. Doctor Flowers did it.”

“Doctor Flowers,” Lan Zhan repeats, pointing at the tiny plum tree, just to confirm that his son is suggesting a magical tree named Doctor Flowers sprouted overnight and made their tame family project turn into a verdant jungle.   A-Yuan nods. “Doctor Flowers,” he confirms. “He’s funny! I like him.”

-

A mysterious garden blooms on Lan Zhan's rooftop. His internet forum pen pal gives great gardening advice but never seems to sleep. The man who works at the florist, who keeps reviving the plants that Lan Zhan can't seem to keep alive, has a beautiful smile.

These things are related.

svsss

this point of pale light by Tossawary

(mature)

A Science Fiction / Space Opera AU.

Peak Master Shen Qingqiu holds his past and his present separate, and his secrets close to his chest, but his worlds collide when his past comes back to haunt him. He finds himself unwillingly brought back to a moon he thought that he'd left behind forever a long time ago, in a part of the galaxy far, far away from anyone who might come for him.

We Are Not Wise by Boomchick, Suzoomie

When Shen Qingqiu drew Shen Yuan’s soul sword, it felt like being burned from the inside out. The fire wasn’t cruel, but it was still fire—hot and destructive, searing the softest pieces of him.

When Binghe’s fingers touch the hilt, he is ready for pain.

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Transmigrated into a version of Proud Immortal Demon Way where cultivators manifest their own souls into spiritual weapons, Shen Yuan finds himself sort of kind of…accidentally blackmailing Shen Qingqiu into taking him on as a disciple before Luo Binghe joins the sect.

That should give Shen Yuan plenty of opportunities to make sure nothing goes wrong for his favorite protagonist, right? RIGHT!?

A story of twists, turns, hope, despair, and soul swords. Written for the Bingqiu Reverse Minibang 2023, illustrated and conceptualized by the incredible Suzu!

Cold Hands, Warm Heart by Zizzani

“If the body can’t warm up, then things get uh, b-bad?”

Mobei-jun cuts him a look that’s made for slaughter. “What does that mean?”

“A-ah, it’s called hypothermia, my king.”

“And you die once it happens.”

Again, not a question. “You can.” When Mobei-jun makes an absolutely terrifying face, Shang Qinghua hastens to add, “But not instantly! Y-you can actually recover from it, if the hypothermia doesn’t progress too far.”

“How far?” Mobei-jun growls.

“There are f-f-f-five stages,” Shang Qinghua shivers out, lips numb. “The fifth stage is death.”

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Shang Qinghua and Mobei-jun have their spiritual powers sealed before getting dumped in a white-out snowstorm. Mobei-jun quickly learns that humans are far more susceptible to the cold than he thought.