#Fic Back Friday

[mollywog]

Ficback Friday

📚 First Bookmark 🔖

Thank you all who replied to my Ao3 bookmark question! Many of you indicated that you use bookmarks for beloved stories to revisit or for fic recs, so I thought it would be fun to start a tag game:

Rules: Share (one of) your first Ao3 bookmark(s) then tag others to join!

I picked my first non-hunger Games bookmark (since I’ve talked about my first THG bookmark many times).

I love Jane Austen’s Emma and discovered cwmilton while looking for book/2009 miniseries Emma fanfiction. ‘A Very Good List’ was the first of theirs I discovered and it’s a delight! Recommend!

Tagging all who replied to my earlier post (thank you!!): @dead-dolphins @firawren @caesarflickermans @kingedmundsroyalmurder @maidstew @dorcaloveskotlc @teafiend @those-things-we-said @margarita-secreta @youreyesholdgalaxies @mtk4fun @giedd @no-where-new-hero

Plus anyone else who would like to join!

[the-bar-sinister]

Ficback Friday

Welcome to Ficback Friday.

How to participate: Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave. This doesn't just need to be AO3. It could be right here on Tumblr, etc.

Trying to actually participate with these and this one struck me so🙏 @bardic-tales

I have actually had it in my head to rec a few Chrisker fics from WAY back that I had read this year and this is a perfect opportunity.

Please note all these are adult/explicit fics.

F*cks like a S.T.A.R. (5986 words) by Merci : This fic was written in 2007 when Y!gallery was still around and its one of my favorites. It's a pretty simple bondage/captivity scenario with Wesker forcing Chris to do exactly what he wants.

Blowing Off Steam (2016 words) by ficbear: From 2010! Just some rough locker room screwing with hatesex/throwing one another around. STARS era.

Mercenaries (2774 words) by entanglednow: Another 2010 fic. This one takes place roughly during Code Veronica era so it's got that great push/pull of Wesker and Chris being recurring enemies but still attracted to one another.

Mind the tags on all of these and the fact that they're very old but they're some of my favorite in terms of quick fun.

[bardic-tales]

Good morning! I hope that you have a wonderful Friday. As I mentioned in my taglist post, the Creators’ Club is to foster a community between like-minded individuals.

Every day, there will be a theme: such as Blorbo Blursday where it is encouraged you go into each other’s ask boxes or even a post on your blog asking about each others’ weekly project or muse.

This project is not to promote your work – even though that will happen organically – but to support the other Tumblr members. It’s to foster a community. You don’t need to participate every day, as I know how it’s important to focus on your health, but please try to interact with each other.

Also, please remember to be kind to everyone and their characters / WIPs. No drama in the creative pool.

Our Friday's are on rotation. We have three: FlashFiction Friday (where you can write from the prompts hosted at the flashfictionfridayofficial's tumblr), Ficback Friday where you share you favorite fics / media from at least a year ago, or Share A Few Lines Friday where you share you favorite lines from your WIP that you have recently written.

How to participate: Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave. Please remember that this is to post your fic recs, so please do not include your own work.

Reblog art, edits, and gifsets from seasons past. Dig out those old headcanon and meta posts and bring them back.

Our Members' Recommendations

@nightingaleflowlibrary: naruto: creosote

@bardic-tales: final fantasy 7: gif set

@bardic-tales: criminal minds: against all odds

@themaradwrites: jurassic park: lots of JP recs

@pinkevilwriter: star wars: heartbeat

The following are the current members of our club:

@watermeezer @nightingaleflowlibrary @megandaisy9 @sliceoflifeshepard @themaradwrites

@serenofroses @kricketbee @pinkevilwriter @asirensrage

To sign up for the Creators’ Club, please see this post on @bardic-tales’ blog about it:

Creators’ Club Tag List

Thank you for your interest, and we look forward in getting to know you and your works.

[deanwinchesterswitch]

Image courtesy of @scoundrels-in-love

Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history, and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave.

Going to rec a few. I know it's still early in the month, but they're going to be holiday-themed. A word of caution - some are not fluffy.

Divider by @firefly-graphics

12 Days of Deanmas ~ @thinkinghardhardlythinking Dean x Reader

Christmas Dean ~ @wayward-and-worn Dean x Reader

Cross-check to the Heart ~ @winchester-girl67 Dean x Reader

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ~ @foreverwayward Dean x Reader

If We Make It Through December ~ @thoughtslikeaminefield Dean x Donna

Operation Mistletoe ~ @princessmisery666 Steve Rogers x Reader

Rock Around My Christmas Tree ~ @justagirlinafandomworld Bucky x Reader

Silent Night ~ @impala-dreamer Dean x Reader

Sweetness ~ @katymacsupernatural Jensen x Reader

The Pine Passenger ~ @trexrambling Dean x Reader

This Means War ~ @waywardnerd67 Jensen x Reader

There are SO many more. I may need to do a special Christmas fic rec post. 😬😳😂

Who else would like to share?

[noratilney]

For today's fic back Friday, I wanted to recommend the fic To Live In The World by IvorySteel92.

The aim of fic back Friday is to "make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave."

To Live In the World is new to me as I read it for the very first time earlier this year but it certainly qualifies as a fic back Friday fic as it was begun in 2021 and completed in 2022.

TLITW is a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic set in an alternate version of season six where Giles, unaware of Willow's plans to bring Buffy back, visits Faith in prison and convinces her to return with him to Sunnydale.

I’m going to confess here to finding Faith kind of frustrating. She feels like a very hyped fandom character and truthfully, it’s rare that the character lives up to the hype. There’s also my bitterness in how we had Kendra for a very short time and it feels like both show and a large number of fans are happy to forget all about her and focus on Faith instead. I say all this to explain my headspace and to clarify that the summary for TLITW was that intriguing that despite my misgivings I clicked it.

And it very much did not disappoint. Unsurprisingly, being in Faith’s head made her much more compelling, interesting, and relatable. I really liked how the Slayer dreams were used as this connection between Buffy and Faith. 

There are some delicious twists in TLITW I don’t want to spoil.

Everyone feels in character and it’s very cool to see an alternate version of season six which stays true to the themes of the show and even the themes of season six while still offering an alternate vision.

Please go read To Live in the World by IvorySteel92 and stay tuned for more fic recs. 💙

[prolestariwrites]

The fic that started the Dark Heart series! A Greek myth AU featuring Meliodas as king of the Underworld and Elizabeth as the goddess who unlocks his heart.

[mithrilhearts]

I wanted to have a space where I could reminisce about some older fics that have been finished for a time, and deserve a little love! I can't just "shelve" them in my mind, so instead of letting them collect metaphorical dust, I want to showcase them! (Will I do this every Friday? Highly unlikely.)

Between Vices and Virtues

King Thorin Durinson has only held the throne for a few months after the death of his greedy predecessor. When Shire Inquiry journalist Bilbo Baggins is brought in to observe a meeting of powers, it's quickly made apparent that Thorin's sheltered and strict lifestyle has him completely disconnected from those he rules, as well as his family. It's up to Bilbo to show Thorin that the world is worth exploring and that not everything is as it seems. (modern royalty au, gen, 40k)

This was a part of 2022's Tolkien Reverse Summer Bang, where I had the amazing opportunity to work with @sleepysandwichguy! I've been thinking about this one a lot lately, and I have two sequels planned for it. So naturally, I had to share this one first!

[midnightwinterhawk]

Mutually Beneficial by @scandalsavagefanfic

11k | Explicit | SladeJay

Jason knows who Slade Wilson is and that he should stay away from him.

He knows the man is a vicious competitor of his father’s with a business ethic firmly in the dark gray to black side of the spectrum.

He also knows that his older brother drank too much one night, while he was in college, and fell for Wilson’s sweet talk, whatever that could possibly sound like, and that the older man still, years later, finds ways suggestively drop Dick’s name into conversations with their father.

So when he sees the man’s signature white hair and eye patch approaching his position at the bar, Jason makes a real attempt to avoid him.

[dei2dei]

FBF: Nothing Else Matters

Have some more tasty tasty Mekamechanic! Today I give you NOTHING ELSE MATTERS by @chilliebean5, one of my OW besties. This is very E Hana/Brig and well worth the read.

[nimata-beroya]

I have like a month that I don't do this (oops! 😅), but I remembered today! So, here's an old fic of mine (well not that old, but anyway, I'm doing self-promotion here). Yet another story where Alexsandr Kallus get whumped. Why is he so whumpable? I don't know, but I have a blast writing making him suffer. Of course, that's it with the corresponding comfort at the end, especially if it's Zeb who gives it 😉

Enjoy!

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars - All Media Types

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Words: 1897.

Relationships: Alexsandr Kallus/Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios

Characters: Alexsandr Kallus, Garazeb "Zeb" Orrelios, Ezra Bridger

Additional Tags: Whump, Whumptober, Day 1, Bound, au where kanan lives and ezra stays home, star wars xtober extravaganza 2k21, swxt 2k21, Prompt: Bound, Hurt Alexsandr Kallus, Established Relationship

Series: Part 1 of Star Wars X-tober Extravaganza 2k21, Part 2 of Rebel Hearts

Summary: After a solo mission to the planet Dela goes south, Kallus finds himself in a tight spot. The Spectres go to his rescue but the actual saving turns out more complicated than expected.

AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION

An explosion at a distance distracts Kallus from the cramping muscles on his shoulders and back. As the concussive wave rattles the complex, he forgets for a moment the deep ache on his legs and arms aggravated by the stress position he’s forced to be in. He’s sitting on the floor with his legs crossed and his wrists and elbows cuffed behind his back. A thick collar around his neck is connected by a short bar to the cuffs around his ankles and forces him to hunch forward. The bent position makes it difficult to breathe deeply. Kallus concentrates on taking measured breaths.

An alarm for intruders goes off somewhere in the base, and Kallus groans. He’s not afraid of the torture promised by the Imperial captain who visited him earlier, neither he’s of dying. To have lost the opportunity to say “I love you” to Garazeb one more time before dying doesn’t desolate him as much. He’s petrified of what the commotion means. There’s no way for him to be certain, and yet, his instinct tells him that the Spectres are committing the great stupidity of rescuing him. He just knows is them. Nobody else would risk their lives to save him.

He ordered D4 to leave him behind and get away in the Glimmer with the information gathered in their clusterkriff’d mission. Kallus told him not to come back for him. Thanks to his programming, D4 is beyond sentimentalism and affection, which often get in the middle of what needs to be done. Kallus’ life is worth the sacrifice as long as the Rebellion gets what it needs to defeat the Empire. 

The sound of a blaster fight grows louder and louder. As best as he can, Kallus looks at the ray shield trapping him in the cell and the shadows beyond it, revealing the fight going on at the end of the hallway. He listens to a familiar growl followed by the distinct sound of a stormtrooper hitting a wall. He can see in his mind’s eye the powerful image that it’s Garazeb throwing troopers with ease.

His heart flutters with unbound love for his mate, coming for him, but at the same time, dread makes his stomach roll nauseatingly. Zeb is walking into a trap. He won’t be able to free Kallus and will die trying. The thought is far worse torture than any of that his captors have planned for him. Kallus can’t bear the idea of being once again the Empire’s tool to hurt Garazeb.

Keep reading

[alyssalenko]

Fic sharing Friday

I was tagged by @pikapeppa and @kittynomsdeplume for this one. I've been in a pretty bad headspace lately and have been having to just zone out on my days off to keep from crying because work has been a stressful hell and I'm emotionally and creatively drained, but I was able to finally complete a Harry Carlyle/Sis! Ryder (Rydyle) smutty one-shot that I started a year ago, so that's a high note--which is what I'm sharing today :). I had covid this last week as well (3rd bout since 2021...woo...) so my brain has been mush.

A03

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He threw his head back and laughed, the first genuine laugh he'd had in a long time--this woman was definitely something special. He closed whatever he'd been working on and turned the screen of his datapad dark as he angled himself to give her his full attention, unable to focus on anything but her and the indecent thoughts crowding his mind. She smiled and dragged a stool closer and hopped onto it, perching herself on the edge of the seat and crossing one leg over the other, her dress riding higher as her foot brushed against his calf. Harry inhaled sharply as she leaned a little closer and placed her hand on his knee, giving him the perfect view down the front of her dress; she knew exactly what she was doing, and he was enraptured by her every move, watching her through half lidded eyes, lust clouding his vision.

"If it wasn't considered public indecency, I'd have you right over this bar top, but instead I'd like to take you home and bend you over the kitchen counter, since I don't think I'll be able to wait until we get to the bedroom…"

"I live a block away; pretty sure it's closer than your place." Marlo teased as she smirked at him, running a teasing hand up his thigh and over the bulge of his erection, feeling him grow harder with how much he wanted her. "Looks like someone's eager for a healthy dose of vitamin me."

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Tagging back to the lovelies who tagged me, and tagging forward to @sinsbymanka @commander-krios @amarmeme @starsandskies @hunnybadgerv @a-shakespearean-in-paris @foofyschmoofer @charlatron @briarfox13 @vorchagirl and anyone else who would like to share!!

[mollywog]

Ficback Friday

Ao3 Bookmark Tag Game

Total number of bookmarks: 165

What was your first bookmark: Thicker Than Blood by AnnieOakley1 (Aug 3, 2022)

What is your most recent bookmark: The Flatshare by absnow (Mar 24, 2024)

Sort bookmarks by ‘date updated’ and share the oldest: Each Blessed Hour Brings Sixty of ‘Em by Mithrigil (2011)

Pick a bookmark to share: Every Time I Choose You by endlessnightlock -> Everlark, This Would Have Happened Anyway featuring Katniss threatening Mrs. Mellark 🩶

Tagging: @rainymyx @waywardangel-wilds @triassictriserratops @pinwheelwhirl @youreyesholdgalaxies @realmermaid333 @kehlana-wolhamonao3 anyone who’d like to play!

[kelliealtogether]

Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave.

I worked in the library in college, so I have a certain soft spot for fics where Adam works in the campus library. I also have a soft spot for fics where Ronan finds Chainsaw and learns how to take care of a baby raven.

Smash those two things together, give it a punny title, and you get this week's rec, Check You Out by themidnightbagel. Ronan comes into the campus library looking for information on what to do with an injured Chainsaw, and Adam gets a lot more than he intended when he agrees to help this hot guy figure out how to raise a raven. It's a meet-cute tossed together with some smut, and it's an all-around fun time for everyone.

Give it a read, leave a kudo, leave a comment. Show the writer some love. 💕

[kittynomsdeplume]

Sweet Whispers

Summary: Alistair has grown accustomed to being met with scorn and derision. He has learned to deflect it with humour, holding his vulnerable self safe behind an impenetrable wall of farcicality.

He believes he’s found acceptance among these strange new companions, but how does he open himself to love and trust, when in the past, even those who professed to care about him, stood by and allowed him to be mistreated and abused?

Is it possible to let his guard down, or is he doomed to always expect the worst?

Relationship: Alistair/Solona Amell Rating: Teen+ Word Count: 4348

Preview: He first noted it with Bodahn; a furtive look and a forced smile. That is what greeted Alistair when he happened upon the dwarven merchant and Solona, their whispered conversation abruptly terminated. Immediately it roused feelings within him; long buried but never forgotten. A sense of shame; of guilt; of quaking resentment.

Too many times as a child he had rounded a corner of Redcliffe Keep to catch people talking about him. The memory of their scornful or pitying expressions and hissed remarks were branded upon his heart. Too young to understand or know better, he could not help but feel that he was to blame — that these people must have good reason to treat him with such disdain. He must have been a very naughty boy indeed.

He was a man grown now, and knew that he had never been at fault as a child. It was not possible for him to ever earn Isolde’s favour, no matter what he did. 

The Arlessa could barely even bring herself to be polite when they’d arrived to help at Redcliffe. It seemed that Isolde would rather perish than ever be indebted to the likes of him. 

It had stung a little, but at least he had the maturity now to know that Isolde was at fault, it wasn’t him. It had never been him. These feelings of shame however, how quickly they bubbled to the surface with something so simple as a look.

Yet when Solona turned from Bodahn and gifted him a breezy smile, all innocence in her expression, he dismissed those old fears and feelings readily enough. How could they linger when Solona was near? Such dread could not match the warmth that spread through every inch of his being at the sight of her. It could only be his imagination that something was amiss; his own insecurities.

Until he came upon Solona and Leliana later in the week, huddled together by the dying fire. So deep in the other’s confidence, they seemed almost one person in the flickering shadows. 

Girl talk, he assured himself, doing his utmost to ignore the creeping unease that prickled in warning at his nape. He could live in this delusion, if he ignored their nervous shushing and the peculiar, knowing gleam in Leliana’s eyes. 

Continue reading at AO3

[deanwinchesterswitch]

Image courtesy of @scoundrels-in-love

Make a post recommending a fic you love from at least a year ago. Dust off the archives, dig through your AO3 history, and share those old fics with newer fans who might not have seen them - and the fans who’ve been around forever and might want to revisit an old fave.

[safaiagem]

Hello everyone and welcome to another Fic Back Friday. This one is interesting in the sense that this might be the longest a fic has ever sat in my head in idea form before it finally made it to the metaphorical page. I wrote about the idea in December 2016 and I didn't get around to writing the story until March 2020. As always, I turn up late to fandoms, with some rare exceptions. I really liked how That Which Is Lost By Not Trying turned out once I wrote it, and I managed to connect all of my Star Wars fics together, but that will be for another Fic Back Friday.

That Which Is Lost By Not Trying - Complete - Part One of the Persevere and Get It Done Series - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso, Chirrut Îmwe/Baze Malbus

Jyn is forced to relive the Battle on Scarif over and over again until she gets it right. And maybe she falls in love with Cassian on the way.