#This is mostly takes involving death and the death sentence ngl

[mariathechosen1]

I genuinely need to stop being online. I’m so tired of stupid leftist takes from US-americans that are so clearly just conservative opinions in disguise.

[rantheon]

the bakarina anime is done! it’s just a drop in the ocean that is the otome isekai genre so these are some recs + what you need to know about them. i just listed most of my favs otherwise it’d be too long :p

in no particular order. includes some non-isekai ones too. needless to say most of these aren’t completed yet

my next life as a villainess: all routes lead to doom

using this to plug that there’s more bakarina content in the form of light novels, manga and 3 spin-offs

an observation record of my fiancee - a self-proclaimed villainess

told in the pov of prince cecil, whose fiancee bertia straight up tells him she’s a villainess of an otome game from her past life

if you ever wonder what jeord from bakarina might be thinking half the time, this is probably close. cecil is the same kind of prince who initially finds things bored and predictable until they met the mc

the things cecil would get up to for bertia? hoo boy

also the way the mangaka draws hair is addicting to look at

the villainess cecilia silvie doesn’t want to die so she decided to crossdress

the title speaks for itself~ after remembering an otome game she played in her past life, cecil (previously cecilia) is now the one capturing the hearts of the academy ladies instead

it’s fairly new so there’s not much of it yet :c but it’s pretty interesting

the original otome game had a whole rpg combat system going on and i’m hyped to see how it’s gonna lead the story

the Angelique vibes are strong in this one

the villainess wants to marry a commoner

isabella used to play an otome game in a past life, but she was really only interested in a side character named ursch. and then one day she finds him in her mansion garden

her past life self is such a mood - i too have 100% otome games in hopes of side characters getting hidden routes but alas

definitely deserves the ‘video game’ tag. isabella can see status screens and character stats/skills etc, and all the gacha rewards and grinding transferred over after her reincarnation. she’s the isekai female protag we’ve always wanted

seriously the main ship is too op for their own good aha

deathbound duke’s daughter

in a past life, erika only managed to finish 2.5/7 scenarios of an otome game thanks to an unlucky encounter with knife-kun. with the different flags of her impending doom approaching, she takes things into her own hands years before the game events start

very fantasy-oriented (the most on this list) and pretty action-packed, once you get past the game exposition in the first 3? chapters

the world building is brilliant, from the hafan mages to the aurelian alchemists, and there’s beasts and wands and spells and dnd stuff sprinkled in

the cast has quite interesting dynamics and interwoven plotlines, and they’re all dorky in their way :>

beware of the villainess

melissa remembers a novel from her past life and desperately tries to cut off contact with the male leads, but they still make her life hell & she rages

she’s just so done with everyone and you can’t help but relate to her

definitely the funniest on this list XD melissa and her reactions takes the cake but even the shit characters are hilarious in their own way

there’s also a lot of parodies to memes etc & best of all, there’s cussing. all the shits and fucks. a whole lot of it

it’s great

death is the only ending for the villainess

penelope wakes up as the villainess from a game she’d been playing in her past life, only right now it's on the hardest difficulty where death is literally everywhere. thus she tries, well, not dying

what’s cool about this is that penelope has access to the original game system. she can see menus, choice options etc. the male leads even have affection percentages floating above their heads :> which is always cool to see (and what i’m a sucker for)

but it’s definitely one of the darker ones on this list. iirc there’s depictions of violence, abuse, drugs and then some. just a fair warning

the daughter of albert house wishes for ruin

upon realizing that she’s the villainess from a past-life otome game, mary decides to stay as one. chaos ensues

i love this manga so much, everyone is so quirky and there’s something to laugh about on almost every page. the story almost feels self-aware of itself and just lets the characters do whatever. like ride bikes

addie is so cute ;o;

it’s definitely something everyone should experience

i’m a villainess daughter so i’m going to keep the last boss

one of the finished ones!

post-annulment, aileen pulls a Lisa Tepes and asks the demon king claude to marry her. he refuses. hijinks ensues

mostly on the fantasy side, as it builds on the world of the monsters

the cast is pretty fun! aileen’s smart, funny and pretty competent in her own right. plus she and claude are positively adorable together

milady just wants to relax

post-annulment, ronia decides to open a cafe in the countryside. it later becomes the frequent hangout of a beastmen mercenary group, who are intensely feared by the townsfolk

well... beastmen. that’s all you need to know /wink

okay, that aside, it’s just as chill as the title suggests. ronia slowly makes friends she can trust, and the beastmen find a second home in the only cafe that’s willing to accept them. it’s pretty wholesome

the banished villainess! living the leisurely life of a nun making revolutionary food

despite actively trying to change her ‘villainess from a past-life otome game’ fate since childhood, elizabeth gets annulled, her noble title stripped, and is sent to a church in a neighboring kingdom. she enjoys it more than expected, despite the appearance of the ever watchful leonid

there’s plenty of 21st-century food like sandwiches, cotton candy leonid’s muscles <3

the entire cast is lovable, and can chris get an f for all the heart attacks leonid keep giving him

seduce the villain’s father

yereninovica (or just yerenica) realizes that she’s in the world of a novel she read in her past life, but as the aunt of said novel’s mc. after thwarting a kidnapping that’s basically the mc’s origin story, she takes it upon herself to also prevent the tragic death of emperor belgoat

a bit different since it switches the roles around (side character x side character) and goes into the “parent generation” of the original work

there’s also an interesting bit where the world seems to recognize her as a hijacker, and where that takes her, we’ll see in due time :o:

plus the way yeni habitually calls him ‘father’ cracks me up every time

transferred to another world but i’m the savior of an otome game

after a ritual gone wrong, “yamada tarou” (fake name) is stuck in the world of an otome game. the only way back is with a magical ring, normally obtained after becoming the lover of one of the male leads. he of course says no i’m going adventuring but the game doesn’t like that

it’s absolutely hilarious - the leads treat our mc like a heroine, and there’s a lot of otome tropes that are called out on/parodied. like the seiyuus’ names oh my god

tarou’s reactions are great and his appraisal skill is the funniest thing alive

endo and kobayashi’s live commentary on the villainess

in modern japan, endo and kobayashi start their playthrough of an otome game, which becomes a bit glitchy and odd. they discover that siegward, a male lead in the game, can hear what they’re saying. they use this chance to finally give lisolette a happier ending

much of the story’s focus is on the characters slowly warming up to lisolette, and a bit on endo/kobayashi’s irl relationship. despite being the primary drive of the story, lisolette herself hardly moves the plot - if you know what i mean

regardless it’s undeniably adorable

tearmoon empire

no isekai, more of time travel? chronoskimming?

mia wakes up 10 years in the past after being sentenced to death. now afraid of guillotine-kun, she strives to solve the issues in her kingdom that had previously led to her doom

a bit similar to bakarina in terms of concept: avoid death flags, unknowingly recruits the people she meets into her little saintess cult. the misinterpretation is very strong, and in brilliantly funny ways

it has really fun narration ngl especially in the light novel

of course, i’ll claim palimony!

to prepare for her annulment, yulia starts scheming recording her fiance’s meetups with the heroine to use as evidence. if you’re gonna lose a suitor, might as well get some money out of it, right? along the way she gets involved with rudonik, one of the male leads

no reincarnation. rather than an otome game, the villainess story comes from a book written by a side character, and the “heroine” just decided to play it out in real life

the cast together is a riot, and it’s entertaining to watch yulia only think in profits and every connection she can make to achieve it

the villainess’ slow prison life began with her broken engagement

no isekai, just a plain old villainess

post-annulment, rachel is sentenced to imprisonment. which she enjoys and is thoroughly, hilariously prepared for

everyone’s a little afraid of rachel and for good reason. it’s better to find out yourself through the LN or manga, but let’s just say that even the king doesn’t want to deal with her XD

the holy grail of eris

now this one is interesting, putting the villainess trope into a mystery ghost story. that said, no isekai either

our innocent heroine constance attends a party and encounters scarlet, an executed villainess from ten years ago. a body possession and some public embarrassment later, they decide to team up to solve the mystery that might be behind scarlet’s death

i mean, ghost villainess? sign me up

+ some honorable mentions

i favor the villainess (the heroine goes for the villainess- girls? girls? yes)

a bellicose lady got reincarnated (a delinquent reincarnates as a heroine; what a concept :o unfortunately there’s not a lot of english content for it yet)

it seems i got reincarnated into a yandere otome game (i like that the mc actively makes it so that game can’t ever happen the way it should; plus, yanderes are always interesting to study)

inso’s law (modern isekai, and quite cute!)

the reincarnated young lady aims to be an adventurer / holy guardian tiger (similar to deathbound duke’s daughter in that there’s more of a focus on the fantasy aspect)

expecting to fall into ruin, i aim to become a blacksmith (so far the only one with a shounen tag that i like; its main charm is probably the cast and their interactions with each other eliza best girl)

since i’ve reincarnated as the villainess’ father i’ll shower my wife and daughter with love (big big wholesome vibes)

level 99 villainous daughter (severely op lady who takes no shit from the people looking down at her, and regularly thinks about blowing up the academy within the first 4 chapters? hell yeah)

may i please just ask one last thing? (post-annulment, the mc literally punches everyone in the room; it’s great)

this is getting long now oops

edit: i also made a visual-friendly personally-tagged-by-me bookshelf here!

[bigweirdfanfictionlibrary]

firstprince - hurt/comfort

at least it was here by saltandburnit

summary:

"Alex knows Henry has bad days; he’s known for a while now. He’s felt them through the safety of his phone, in the absence of a text message or a detachment in his voice. In a worst case scenario Alex was there through a tired midnight phone call where he rambled until Henry could forget his own mind enough to fall asleep. But he has never lived through the lead up, never witnessed Henry’s own emotions chip away at him until they opened a crack for all the sadness to burrow, to leave him too empty and too full. He knows how Henry often hides when he’s like this, no matter how much Alex tries to help, but with them in the same house, there’s nowhere for him to run anymore. And Alex is horrified to realize he doesn’t know how to help him."

tags: Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Depression, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Insecurity, Bad Days, Domestic, I'm Bad At Tagging, I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping, I Don't Even Know, Sad with a Happy Ending

words: 6937

chapters: 1/1

published: 14/04/2020

notes from me: trigger warning: for depression, mental heath issues

lockdown by bibliosoph

summary: 

Based on a prompt I got on Tumblr.Alex and Henry have a fight before Henry leaves to go to England for a bit. While in England, there is an attempted assassination and Alex loses his mind because he can't get in touch with anyone and he left things with Henry up in the air.

tags: Emotional Hurt, Terrorism, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Panic, Panic Attacks, Sad with a Happy Ending

words: 3781

chapters: 3/3

completed: 04/02/2020

notes from me: trigger warnings: for terrorism and panic attacks

Afloat by Nununununu 

summary: 

Pushing his glasses off, Alex rubs his eyes with fingers and thumb, and regrets the fact he’s already eaten his way through all of the ice cream they keep in the freezer. The cursor blinks on the glowing screen in front of him like an accusation, the few paragraphs he’s managed to scrape together painfully inadequate, the feeble sentences blurring together like they’re mocking him.

tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Slice of Life, Post-Canon, Feelings, Established Relationship, Fluff, Light Angst, Don't copy to another site

words: 1587

chapters: 1/1

published: 29/10/2019

i’ll walk with you into the wind by perfect-porcelain

summary: 

Alex refuses to go to the doctor after getting sick. Henry has to take him to the hospital and face some long forgotten memories.

warnings: Major Character Death (not of Alex or Henry, it’s past)

tags: Whump, Hospitals, Mention of Death

words: 2284

chapters:1/1

published:19/09/2019 

notes from me: the death is past but it is referenced to throughout the fiction

Home Safe by HMS_Chill

summary: 

Alex is out later than normal, and Henry is left home to worry.

tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Gun Violence, No one gets hurt, but still, Worried Boyfriend, alex does some dumb shit but that's on brand tbh, all's well that ends in cuddles, Sleepy Cuddles, Couch Cuddles, so many cuddles

words:2051

chapters:1/1

published:09/08/2019

notes from me: trigger warning: for gun violence 

The Olympics, Six Years Later by HMS_Chill

summary: 

Prompt: The RWRB gang involved in a sort of shooting or something at a really huge international event. Worst-Injured Character (Henry) Half-Conscious And Begging To Know If The Others (Alex most especially) Are Okay.

tags: Hurt/Comfort, no one dies I swear, mostly hurt ngl, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst, Heavy Angst, some gay history thrown in, for flavor

words:2148 

chapters:1/1

published:24/01/2020 

notes from me: trigger warning: for injury

Everything’s Bigger by HMS_Chill

summary: 

Everything's bigger in Texas: Alex's smiles, pride parades, and gunshot wounds included

tags: So uh... there's some angst here, Homophobia, Gun Violence, but it's okay!, I promise it'll be okay, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending

words: 7231

chapters: 4/4 

completed:30/12/2019

trigger warnings from author: for mild homophobia, and for gun violence

notes from me: can you tell i love HMS_Chill? haha, seriously this is one of my favourite fic ever it’s so beautiful and makes me emotional every time i read it.

searching low in the night by saltandburnit 

summary:

“Just say it's okay. I just need to hear you say that.” 

Henry steps outside for just a second, but when Alex goes to find him, he finds only empty streets and an excrutiating feeling of dread in his place.

tags: Angst, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst with a Happy Ending, Heavy Angst, Tumblr Prompt, Sad with a Happy Ending, Missing Persons, Swearing

words: 3633 

chapters:1/1

published: 26/04/2020