#[REC]⁴ - Apocalypse

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Did I make fanart for my own fic?

Oh heck yeah I did!!

"𝕶𝖎𝖓𝖌 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖆𝖕𝖔𝖈𝖆𝖑𝖞𝖕𝖘𝖊, 𝖎𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖊𝖉."

@shr00mi3writefight @that-0n3-shr00mi3

[dangermousie]

A danmei lover's biased and incomplete het web novel rec list

@mercipourleslivres thanks for inspiring me!

When it comes to Chinese web novels, I mainly read danmei. I tend not to care too much for OP heroine with a hero who dotes on her for no reason as she fights with 14 year olds narratives, nor inner courtyard fights. BUT!!! There are some het web novels I like and so here is my biased and incomplete rec list. Most of these don't have OP heroines, and very little to none courtyard fights.

Before I start, my favorite het web novel authors are: Gong Xinwen, Mo Shu Bai, Peng Lai Ke, and Jiu Lu Fei Xiang. I have yet to read anything bad by them.

Anyway, rec list:

1000 Miles of Bright Moonlight - one of my ultimate favorites, this would make such an epic drama! A smart as hell heroine, a hero who is a monk and a warrior (but also terminally?) ill and such a vivid world and amazing secondary characters (heroine’s brother is possibly my favorite supporting character of all time) and so much angst and happy ending. This has an amazing romance but it’s not romance-centric if it makes sense - ML doesn’t appear for a while. But once he does, it’s worth it!

Accompanying the Phoenix - the one that just got adapted into The Legend of Shen Li, this is high adventure and cottage core and funny and tragic and powerful ML being putty in the hands of capable FL and just EVERYTHING.

Apocalypse Arrival - Gong Xinwen’s novels are made just for me. Her heroines are always powerful as fuck and rescue abused MLs. In this novel, our heroine who lives in the post-apocalyptic world, wakes up right before that apocalypse happens. She forms a survival crew and also rescues ML who has miraculous blood and has been drained of it and is now hunted after the rescue for it. SO GOOD!!!

Black Moonlight Holds the BE Script - so fucked up, so good, with monster hero who learns to love and be human and heroine who learns to love and be human (but from the other side, her tower of perfection.) Much better than the drama which I did enjoy.

The Blue Whisper - the drama was so-so, but the novel is a bona fide angst masterpiece, which really delves into what it feels like to be imprisoned or to love.

Counterattack of the Cannon Fodder Chambermaid - I remember starting this and loving the realistic feel and the heroine and wanting to stab the hero and @mercipourleslivres telling me to be patient. She was right, by the end I was on board with both the hero (who was abused and is rather autistic-coded) and the OTP. Anyway, heroine is a servant who was a concubine in the last life and got killed as part of a rich family’s harem intrigues. In this life, she just wants to keep her head down but her life gets derailed anyway. She gets sold away and eventually made a servant in the household of an exiled prince who takes a fancy to her and she endures it because what choice does she have? All she wanted was to serve out her term and become a small time merchant. This is quite realistic about lack of options for women, especially lower class women or upper class male attitudes (ML is never vicious or mean to FL but it does not initially occur to him to wonder if she fancies him or enjoys being his concubine or w/e.) It is a DELIGHTFUL slow burn tho as they grow to love each other and grow together and become one of the most wholesome cnovel couples out there.

Dandere General and His Lord - hi there, Gong Xinwen! God, I love this one. Heroine transmigrates from modern world into a brutal slave-holding world at war (think something like Warring States era.) Our heroine transmigrates into the body of a noblewoman who just hung herself. When she comes to, she discovers that woman’s twin brother was the ruler of a city poisoned by a rival claimant and the besieging army of said claimant is about to take the city and original occupant of the body and the rest of the family chose suicide as a way to avoid dishonor. Our heroine refuses, schemes with advisors to pass as the brother and rally the troops. Once the invaders are defeated, she keeps on the masquerade and rides off to one of the never-ending wars “she” is summoned to. Our hero couldn’t be farther from this. A slave and a son of a slave, he’s escaped a horrific, starving childhood during which he narrowly avoided being murdered or raped, and ended up in the army. When the story opens, he distinguished himself in battle and as a reward, he and a few of his fellow slave warriors are invited to a banquet, where they are given some alcohol and to be playthings of any nobles who want them. One of them does not survive this but ML is lucky - heroine feels terrible and so “claims” him for herself. Instead she just tends to his wounds and sends him back. She does not fancy him or anything, she is just a human being with a conscience. And the story goes from there.

Demon King's Repayment - another delicious Gong Xinwen tale with a powerful ML dedicated to capable FL. This one is a great fantasy plot (I keep imagining it as an animated series) and a sprawling cast of amazing secondaries (and secondary OTPs - there is, I swear, an OTP that is Dong Hua x Feng Jiu done thru GXW lens) to boot.

Doomed to Be Cannon Fodder - I hesitated to put this one on the list because by the end I was not keen on how misogynistic novel got to original female lead but it was one of my earliest novels and I loved it for 90% and it’s fucking hilarious at times. Heroine transmigrates as bit villainess into a novel, all she wants is not to die, but her new attitude of “pls stay away” catches the attention of her terrifying general husband. Honestly, imo still worth it.

Dreamer in the Spring Boudoir - my n1 novel on this list, smart and fierce and don’t really read this for romance because it does not start until really late, but ice cold heroine x ice cold hero both of equal brains and ruthlessness is everything. I went from loathing the ML to finding him fascinating to adoring him (and yet he softened around the edges only for FL, he never became “nice”) and loved FL throughout; secondaries are epic. If you read only one non-danmei web novel, make it this one.

The Emperor’s Beloved Ugly Girl - my n2 novel on this list. Our heroine is the unlucky laundry maid A’Chou. She is a di daughter of an upperclass family but her family got destroyed in one of the political upheavals of the time and A’Chou, only a small child at the time, was the only survivor and was made an enslaved laundry maid. Due to various events, at the start of the novel she is a laundry maid in a minister’s household and the minister’s beloved daughter is having a fit because she’s supposed to marry the former Crown Prince which may have been great a few years back but Crown Prince had since been deposed, tortured, imprisoned and now is living in the middle of nowhere under conditions that are too meager to be called house arrest. And he’s seriously crippled too. Understandably, the young lady doesn’t want to marry him! She’d rather kill herself and so she does. And so, a desperate plan is hatched - why don’t we pretend the laundry maid is the di daughter of the minister’s household and send her off? And so A’Chu is sent as the bride. She arrives to discover a broke, seriously injured man on the verge of death…and we go from there. This is so gorgeous and tender and slow in just the right way and like AAAAAA! Secondary OTPs (one of which is MM) are also epic.

Futu Tower - the drama (Unchained Love) was a mess but the novel is such a lovely, dark exploration of coming back to life, for the ML from his dark revenge-strewn path and for heroine from not being allowed wishes of her own. She is a tribute bride, he’s a (fake) eunuch, they are both servants who use themselves to achieve goals and find peace and happiness together.

The Grand Princess - a tale where both members of the OTP reincarnate as their younger selves after killing each other in their 50s, and get a new start, this is smart and slow and so good in portraying old souls in young bodies. Their rediscovery of not just each other but themselves and their passion for living is just AAAAAA!

Heroine Saves Gentleman - Gong Xinwen novel so we have a tough martial artist lady saving a very upper class scholar and it goes from there. If elegant gorgeous ML being saved and protected (and lovingly dommed) by awesome FL is your bag, pls come right in.

Husband Be a Gentleman - schemer meet schemer. He’s an idle prince she’s perfect daughter, in reality both are wolves out for blood. Mmmm. Very OTP gets together early and is us against the world.

I’ll Be the Male Lead’s Sister in Law - one of my all time favorite novels. Heroine is made to marry a disabled nephew of the emperor. He used to be a victorious god of war but went mad and now is basically locked away and kept as a beast. GOD I LOVE THIS NOVEL SO MUCHHHHH! So much hurt/comfort and awesome OTP and after he eventually recovers, all he wants to do is to fight and murder things and dote on wifey. MMM. He’s honestly one of my fave MLs.

I Married a Disabled Tyrant After Transmigrating - if you have a Florence Nightingale complex, this is for you. Heroine wakes up as tribute bride to an almost dead dragon lord and slowly nurses him back to life as his rivals try to murder him. They are both utter adorable babies!

Let the Villain Go - another Gong Xinwen novel, this and Apocalypse Arrivals are AUs of each other. Heroine is surviving in the apocalypse, ML is the “bugbear” of the world but in reality just reacting to all abuse and torture and after she accidentally saves him, devotes himself. Fun fun fun!

Long Wind Crossing - Amazing ML and FL who grow together, clever plot, arranged marriage to love etc etc. Oh, and one point he feeds her his blood to keep her alive, what’s not to love? (Adapted into Chang Feng Du/Destined)

Lost You Forever - this is a short but delicately wistful tale of trauma and loss and love, wrapped in a high fantasy setting but so relatable despite it.

Love In Another Life: My Gentle Tyrant - so so fucked up in the best way! ML cannot live with OR without heroine. It opens on them banging in jail night before her execution (ordered by him) with corpses of men he killed for trying to defile her cooling nearby. If you want healthy relationships with respectful boundaries, gentle and considerate male leads who are modern men in period clothes, OP heroines who have everyone help them and are OP to the max, fluff and wholesomeness, that is about the worst book for you.If you want complexity, dysfunction, darkness, pain and an absolutely lyrical even if fucked up story, come right IN!!!!I am so fucking in love with the melancholy heroine, with ruthless psycho hero and the endless regret and devotion and paaaaain!

The Marquis Is Innocent - our heroine is a beautiful woman married to a warlord who hates her family. (Yes, this was gonna be The Prisoner of Beauty until SZE tax scandal.) Except she's a transmigrator from the future who knows how it ended last time around and has no interest to end up this tragically. This is in my top 5 - FL is smart but believably so (and doesn't have super battle powers) and ML is a believable period warlord. The way their relationship develops so gradually and the way his character changes so gradually as well (and the way they slowly fall in love, her slower than him) is just amazing. It is such a smart, nuanced, gorgeous slow burn. With some gonzo sex scenes :P

Mulberry Song - you like tragic endings? Come right IN! This is short and heartbreaking and wistful and very what-if.

Nightfall (Ever Night) - so long but also so smart and unusual and bloody and tho it’s not primarily a romance, you will never see another ML who loves his FL as much as Ning Que does his Sang Sang. 

Offering Salted Fish to Master - in some ways, this novel is a mess, but I am recommending it because this is a rare example of "nope he's 100% a villain and murderdude and odd, but he does love the heroine" that the author commits to.

Pihanjin - yet another awesome PLK novel, this is once again, like with Marquis, a ruthless man and a beautiful woman getting a second chance on a second go-around. FL is a lot more wounded this time around though. If you LOVE watching ML grovel and slowly, gradually win FL over, this one is for you.

Princess Agents - a dark tale with an incredibly competent and militarily powerful/ruthless heroine and two terrifying men who love her (but neither is as terrifying as she is.) There is an OTP switch halfway through that shockingly makes sense and it's just SO SO GOOOOOOOD

Rebirth of the Malicious Empress of Military Lineage - this is probably the one “typical” novel on this list, heroine is reborn as her youngest self and gets revenge on those who wronged her last time around. It is really really well-written and heroine is competent, hero is doting and powerful etc. It’s not a trope I tend to love but I do when it’s done THIS well.

Rebirth of the Tyrant’s Pet: Regent Prince is Too Fierce: Borgias cnovel style! Our heroine was empress in last life and put her husband on the throne tho he did not love her. However, he had her executed and had his half-brother carry out the orders and heroine died horrifically. She opens her eyes and she’s a little girl again. The OTP this time around is heroine and half-brother executioner. Why do I love it? Heroine is smart and tough but also this is a rare rebirth novel where heroine does NOT decide to seek revenge for past life wrongs because they haven’t happened yet! In fact, she sees ML abused and stands up for him because he’s a kid and no kid should be mistreated and this go around he hasn’t done anything wrong. She also gets and likes her former life husband. Anyway, this is fakecest galore because she’s supposed to be their half-sister and while she knows (from past life) she is not, they do not and fall for her anyway. ML is especially gonzo, at one point carving chunks of his flesh to save her. He’s feral and unhinged and she’s the one person he worships because she protected him and like - it’s all awesome. (I love secondary ML too.)

Reborn to Love Lord Qiansui - yes, this is a eunuch novel! If you like gender tropes reversals, this one is for you. Heroine is a tough martial artist, hero is a smart as hell and powerful eunuch. A real eunuch. Heroine finds out she owes him her life and decides to protect him. This is a total delight and an awesome love story between two really scarred people. And yes, there is sex - heroine literally reads manuals on pegging :P

Return of the Swallow - so freaking long! But really good. Heroine is neither transmigrator nor reincarnator, just a smart period woman. She is a lost family daughter taken back in. Her father is a minister in a dying empire (father-daughter relationship is one of the best things in this novel), her OTP is enemy general, and the smartness and the awesomeness of this all knows no bounds.

Seven Unfortunate Lifetimes - probably the wackiest JLFX novel I read, this is quite different from Love You Seven Times drama that was adapted from it. Our deity protagonists go through a bunch of lives figuring out they fancy each other. It's light like a souffle but just as delicious.

To Be a Virtuous Wife - some people prefer 8 treasures trousseau but I never warmed up to that one. This one is so good, with smart people (who actually enjoy sex, a ratity) and a perfect mix of plot and romance.

Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator - my very first web novel. A lot lighter than a lot of the ones on this list but a total delight. Heroine transmigrates into a novel as the heroine; she has no interest in drama or chasing true love, she just wants to live a nice life with her nice husband. Too bad for her, her husband has reincarnated into his younger self and remembers how she betrayed him, so is not interested. This one is funny and light and romance doesn’t start till late on but a total delight!

Wishing You Eternal Happiness - this is tied with Dreamer as my favorite het web novel ever though it couldn’t be more different from Dreamer, with its hard-edged and hard-souled protagonists ruthlessly cleaving their way to the world and, eventually, each other, its smart cynical air. Except in one thing - the world of Wishing is just as bloody and dark. Its two protagonists are gentle, deeply wounded souls who may find salvation in each other but even something as basic as safety almost seems out of reach.

Jliafu, our heroine, is neither a modern-day transmigrator, nor some exotic princess or demoness. She is very much a period woman of her time, from a weathy merchant clan, whose beauty is her curse. You can tell the novel’s tone from that utterly bleak opening chapter where she, a favorite concubine of a capricious dying emperor, is ordered to be buried alive with him and is not even given the “grace” of white silk but slowly suffocates in the coffin, scrabbling at the lid. There is no grand threats of vengeance on her part, not dramatic opera events. Just despair and death. The whole introductory chapter is haunted by emotional ghosts - the empress’ unrequited love for the monster on the imperial bed (turning into desire for Jiafu’s suffering after he dies), the emperor slowly dying in his prime after waging too many wars, and his fear of being haunted by Pei Youan, a brilliant if sickly minister who died of illness long ago on one of imperial campaigns. There is no triumph for anyone, only loss.

When she wakes up as still a young woman, all she wants is to escape the same fate. There are no plans for power or revenge, only a desire for survival. And so she latches on asking for help from Pei Youan, the only man in her past go-around who showed any consideration and desire and ability to protect her, though he barely knew her. Pei Youan is probably my favorite het web novel ML. Despite his brains and ability, he drifts through life. In modern terms, he clearly has depression. One of the biggest, best joys of the novel is watching these two very good, very quiet, very wounded people discover happiness and love with each other. I sort of want to cry just thinking about it, tbh.

The Yandere Came During the Night - a bit of fluff that’s oddly delightful. Heroine is reborn as a (fake) sister of ML, she hurts her legs saving him and the “siblings” form a bond that ends up in fakecest delight. They are both smart and efficient and he becomes a sexy marquis etc.

[nosferatini]

The End of All Things 🌊[PODFIC]

A podfic gift for @hakunahistata from @goodomensafterdark and @whickberstreetwriters based on her gorgeous and heartwrenching fanfic, featuring amazing art by @vavoom-sorted-art! (Support her patreon!)

17 Minutes | Rated T

TW/CW: Angst, Hurt No Comfort, Major Character Death 💀

🎧Listen Here!🎧

Summary:

The city was empty and neither flock of angels nor horde of demons had come to thwart them for a final time. Their last gift, perhaps. After all, this was it. This was actually the end.

If you like the pod, throw love at the original fic too!

[goldenseresinretriever]

Hatch and Tyler from “We Abide” by @sailor-aviator

“Humanity always survived to carry on.”

(one more general moodboard for the fic bc im obsessed)

[profoundbondfanfic]

Something to fight for

Something to fight for by anyrei || @anyreiart Rating: Teen and Up Word count: 13K

When Cas goes to an apocalyptic parallel world to find an ingredient for a spell to cure Sam Winchester from a curse, he finds a little girl is the only survivor in a world dominated by demons. Saving her will start the journey of his own true happiness.

If you want a Dadstiel story, but not with the usual suspects, this is the place to be. It's also a big plus if you are a fan of post-apocalyptic tales, because the descriptions and the whole vibe of the story will plunge you right into that eerie world.

When he finds the girl, Castiel is immediately drawn to her child-like innocence that does not belong in that cruel place, and, being the amazing angel that he is, he goes out of his way to make sure she stays safe, promising himself to bring her along when he returns home.

There is a certain melancholic feeling throughout the story that makes your heart ache, but then you read about Cas teaching Kira something new, you read how sweet and caring he is, and it just mends everything. Of course, not everything can work smoothly, but that just makes it all the more fun to read. Naturally, a happy ending is ensured. A very happy ending for Cas, Dean, Kira, and Lady Giraffy.

[tylersayscool]

Bearnelli Zombie Apocalypse AU - Fic on ao3

Epping Forest - Chapter 1/3

summary: One minute Ollie was finishing up a uni assignment, and the next Kimi appeared in his room, wearing an apron and a horrid expression. “The zombie apocalypse.” he said, pale and frightened with a smear of flour on his cheek. “It’s happening.”

[chris-in-the-headlights]

Aka Peter has the gut to talk to Erik a lot sooner, resulting in a magical little fic that checks almost all your boxes on a dadneto/quickson fanfic.

Featuring: Peter babysitting a bunch of his smaller siblings and being adorable about it, Magda taking in the fact that Erik has some other random child incredibly well and Erik. Because he should be reason enough

[steddieunderdogfics]

shake this world off my shoulders by judasofsuburbia

@judasofsuburbia

Rating: Explicit

6,625 words, 1/1 chapters

Archive Warning: Creator Chose not to Use Archive Warnings

Tags: Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Zombie Apocalypse, Voice Kink, Southern Eddie Munson, Church Sex, Multiple Orgasms, Overstimulation, Hand Jobs, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, Top Eddie Munson, Bottom Steve Harrington, vaseline as lube i'm SORRY ITS THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Summary:

"I-I was worried about them too.” “I know you were,” Eddie says. “I just wanna know what got you all worked up?” “Your‒your um,” Steve stammers. Eddie uses his other hand to lift Steve’s chin up with two fingers. “My what? Gotta speak up for me, sugar.” “Your accent,” Steve blurts out. Eddie tilts his head to the side and furrows his brows. “My…accent?” Suddenly, the confusion is gone from his face as his lips stretch back into a smirk. “You like it when I talk all country?” or: eddie's southern accent comes out when he's stressed, angry, or drunk and steve’s horny brain loves to kickstart at the absolute worst moments.

Thanks for the rec! This recommendation is apart of our Writer's Wednesday! All of the recs today are written by @judasofsuburbia Want to nominate an author? Fill out this form!

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[mythmerth]

just started thinking about zombie apocalypse merthur. anyone know of any zombie apocalypse merthur fics cause in ALL of my reading I think I’ve found a whole total of 1, and its not as gritty as I’m imagining. like oh god the intensity whenever they’re parted, the way Merlin’s magic could be integrated, the not knowing who to trust, the not knowing if it’s your last night. anyone got anything I’m on my knees

[breakdownsbuttlights]

Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: The Transformers (IDW Generation One), Transformers - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Drift | Deadlock/Ratchet Characters: Drift | Deadlock, Ratchet (Transformers) Additional Tags: Empire of Stone, Drift's Exile, Alternate Universe - Human, Whump, Fever, Delirium, Religious Crisis, legionnaire's disease, (all in good time) Summary:

“For eighteen months Drift wandered beyond the fringes of civilization, living out of the trunk of his car, eating little, sleeping less, each day sinking deeper into a magical, malignant world of his own creation. If Ratchet hadn’t caught up with him when he did, he likely would have died in that wilderness.”

[itllbeoneofthese]

Favorite Lines From: It Will Come Back

“Even if sometimes you feign your snarl for a smile, it’s only the fault of those who believe such a lie.” - ch 1

“Hard to kill a monster with a familiar face.” - ch 1

“You consider questioning the ‘we’ in her lengthy monologue but you decide against it and bite your tongue.” - ch 2

“But there goes that snarl of yours, so much like a toothy grin that of course this stupid kid would fall for it.” - ch 2

“It resonates deep in your chest and when you chance a glance over your shoulder you see the wave of walking dead rising like a high tide over the horizon.” - ch 3

“He must have realized that he made the wrong choice in following you out here, has decided that if he will die it won’t be next to the person who brought death to his doorstep.” - ch 3

[metal-music-quiz]

Starting a music tag game because Spotify Wrapped sucked:

Make a wrap of your favourite music albums that came out this year (however many!) + one that's not new, but you listened to it for the first time in 2024!

Optional: explain in 1 sentence why you love each of them!

"The Obsession" by Charlotte Wessels is to me the cherry on the top of her solo work (maybe even all of her work) so far - unique, super personal and touching!

Despite being an awful fan (forgot when it was supposed to come out), I was pleased to see that Illumishade's "Another Side of You" shows once again the band members' amazing talent - the lyrics are not as fantasy-themed as in the debut, but the style I can describe only as "cinematic" hits just as hard (I'm still not over the fact that they have a literal film score composer in the band...).

"The Catalyst" was the perfect treat for both old and new Amaranthe fans, what can I say (I think I fall in both categories XD).

"Pirates II Armada" was, surprisingly for me, another example of Visions of Atlantis managing to one-up themselves and create a fun musical journey that has just the right amount of entertaining and touching songs.

"Opera" by Fleshgod Apocalypse really deserved its dramatic name - bombastic, chilling and overall amazing record.

One record I regret not hearing in full sooner is "A Dark Euphony" (2023) by Blackbriar - it's not that I didn't know of the band, but I somehow never really checked their music beyond the one song I liked (Cicada) before seeing them live - after which it's safe to say that I'm not normal about their music. 🥴 *sigh*

The tag is open for everyone, but I want to specifically mention (no pressure for joining 🙂) my treasured supporters of this small blog @do-androids-dream-ao3acc , @sour-cr3am , @severalpossiblemusiks , @emotionally-charged-arson , @hawthorn-crow , @ay-miphae , @a-funeral-pyre , @smolsleepyfox , @sea-of-machines.

Tagging also my fellas @starsirrah , @sunsetroseart , @enbymetalhead , @frenchvani11a , @deep-space-siren and @shanaraharlyah and @akasztofavirag-por! 💚

[wordingg]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dead Boy Detectives (TV), A Quiet Place (Movies - Krasinski) Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne/Charles Rowland Characters: Edwin Paine | Edwin Payne, Charles Rowland (DCU) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, set in the quiet place universe, Violence, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Hurt No Comfort, During the Apocalypse, non-graphic fountain sex, Asthma, Sick Character, Running Away, Horror Summary:

Set in "The Quiet Place" universe. Edwin and Charles navigate their time through New York City through the first year of the invasion. * No prior lore for either fandom required to enjoy!

[profoundbondfanfic]

A Fabulous Evening’s Apocalypse

A Fabulous Evening’s Apocalypse by MrBotanyB @mrbotanyb Rating: Teen and up Word Count: 62k

Look at it this way: Their trip to the far end of space and time to chase a (very) long shot at freeing Dean from the Mark of Cain could have ended a lot worse than it did. It wasn't even the worst idea they'd ever had. The so-called Restaurant At the End of the Universe loops endlessly in time through the final hours of Creation while guests dance, eat, and drink until the very last of last calls. A consequence of it being a time loop is that anybody who visits can meet everybody else who was ever there. Even a centuries-dead witch who likes the challenge of lifting unbreakable curses. It didn't work out like they'd hoped, but they didn't die. And Cas did get stranded there for a bit but they got him back. Eventually. So it was fine. That was then. And now, Sam and Dean are out of ideas for getting Cas out of the Empty. Dean has been thinking a lot about realizing important truths too late, and missed chances, and (very) long shots. And he wonders if the key to rescuing the Cas he lost might just be enlisting the help of the Cas he left behind nearly ten years ago. If it doesn't work, at least he'll get to see Cas one more time.

I'll admit I am the number one target audience of this fic. I am a massive Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fan. That being said, you don't have to love that series to enjoy this story.

Expect Dean and Cas in increasingly ridiculous surroundings, fun aliens, working conditions that would make OSHA weep, and some timey wimey ridiculousness that is really quite clever and fun. Also pining. So much delicious pining.

The OCs are a treat as is the setting at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe aka Milliways. If you ARE a fan of HHGTTG, you will also have fun spotting the references.

And, of course, like any good fix-it, we get a happy ending for Dean and Cas.

[eleanor-bradstreet]

Bridgerton Brothers - so sexy it’s scary

A Masterlist of Spooky/Supernatural Bridgerton fics

Men are beasts...

Forever by @queen-of-the-misfit-toys (vampire Benophie)

Enthralled (x Reader) by @fayes-fics (vampire Benedict)

Enthralled (OC) by @fayes-fics (vampire Benedict)

Chiaroscuro by yours truly (vampire Benedict)

Faoladh by @queen-of-the-misfit-toys (werewolf Benedict)

As the world ends...

If The World Was Ending by @thebabblingbrookenook (apocalyptic Benedict)

I'll Be Seeing You by yours truly (zombie Benedict)

All the Time in the World by @colettebronte (apocalyptic Anthony)

Enjoy these sexy, spooky, dark AUs with Benedict and Anthony Bridgerton from my endlessly talented fellow authors. 🖤 Something to sink your teeth into as the days grow darker... Dividers by @firefly-graphics

[retrobr]

i'm letting out a desperate call: are there any extra cute "x-men: apocalypse" cherik fics? like some fix-its or maybe pre-apocalypse stuff? i'm having the shittiest day ever and i need to cheer myself up somehow.