#and most rwby fics are kind of a nightmare rip

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Fanfic Ask Game: 🍰 Name one of your fave comfort fics (doesn’t have to be your all time fave).

I'm gonna separate this into two categories: My own comfort fics that I wrote that make me smile and the fics that I go and reread constantly because they provide Serotonin (comfort =/= pure fluff for me)

My fics (I am big enough to admit that I reread my own works)

Everything's Grey 'Til it's Painted Blue: By far probably one of the softst things I've ever written, I wrote this for Owl of @ironpines as a Secret Santa gift and it owns my goddamn soul. Irontai is one of my all-time favourite ships and I adored playing with the common idea of the Soulmate AU to try and create something a little different. Featuring: long-distance pining over video calls, Qrow being a supportive wingman, recovering from trauma, and a metric butt-ton of fluff

Run Boy Run, This World is Not Made For You: A little less fluffy than the previous fic, this is a oneshot where Mercury sees the aftermath of Oscar getting beaten up and provides some compassion and first aid, in his own gruff way. More of a character study of Mercury than anything else, I love reading this fic and just pretending that vol8 ended with Mercury punting Hazel off the whale and stealing Oscar for a 'I'm gonna Give 10-year-old me everything he wants' roadtrip.

Drawing Silver From Stone: Another Secret Santa gift (and another Merc fic), this time for @invincibleweasel, this is a Modern AU 88 Days oneshot featuring Human Disaster Mercury Black and Hot Neighbour Sun Wukong. It's fluffy, it's cute, it has undertones of horrifically tragic backstory, it's got it all!

Comfort fics I read that were made by other people!! (mostly found by me trawling ao3 or other things and being like ooo interesting)

First on the list absolutely has to be Lies in the guise of truth by Jeanemon, this is a super soft Toshinko fic that features Baby Izuku, Toshinori taking the Clark Kent approach to All Might having a secret identity, and the best Hisashi Midoriya ever of all time, we stan 'Amicable Exes who stayed best friends after the divorce'. It's soft, it's sweet, Inko is Amazing TM (but we all know that), and the ensemble cast is fantastic too, this fic has ruined me for all Edgeshot characterisation forevermore.

Next is another bnha fic, The Chronicles of a Cuddlebug by Varmint. This fic is SO. FUCKING. CUTE. Shouji is my fucking son (he's the youngest! he is the youngest of the class!! child!!! babey!!!!) and this fic is basically just Shouji Appreciation. He gets lots of hugs and he deserves them all.

I've currently been on a bnha kick for fics so there's a lot but I'll keep this list down and add one last one: between the lines (it was there the whole time) by placesinfive which is just. Eri bonds with everyone in Class 1-A and it is adorable and she gets all the love, and affection, and friendship, and I will DIE for this fic, and especally this Sero, because I love Sero, and he's great in this. (and Mineta does not exist in it which is icing on the goddamn cake)

Now: there are some rwby fics that I also adore, I would like to give a huge shoutout to @jadekitty777 who has written just. So many good fics, but two of my absolute favourites have to be Spinning Sunshine Into Straw, a heartwrenching look at Taiyang in the aftermath of Summer's death, trying to raise Yang and Ruby, keep things together, and an introspective look at depression that has all of the nuance that the show lacks. The other is The Hero's Road, which is a fantastic lil exploration of Oscar, Ozpin, and Ozma, and god. I wish that this was canon. It is just. So much better than everything the show did to the Ozs, and Jade gives them all their own individual character POVs and it's great.

Then there is an absolutely hilarious fic by Tazii, the aptly named Out Of The Frying Pan Into The Fire, written for Nuts & Volts week and can be accurately summed up from it's simplistic summary: Arthur cooks an egg. I will say no more on the matter.

If we leave RWBY behind, we move to the absolute masterpiece that is Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail, a monster of an AU by owlet which is all about Bucky Barnes and it's funny, it's got angst, it's cute, Bucky's inner monologue is delightful, the tag 'Everyone has their sassy pants on' exists for a good reason, and I just love this fic.

Then finally, I will throw you all a wildcard with Lucky Number Thirteen, a fic written by Das Mervin of Das Sporking that is a Fifty Shades of Grey fix-it, almost, in which Mervin has through sheer fucking TALENT managed to not only make Ana's inner monologue bearable while staying in character, but also contains: Christian Grey being the abusive creep he is, discussion of actual BDSM and how E.L. James does not stack up, and a really fun OC that bounces off Ana really well. (this fic discusses nsfw topics so uh. take it how you will)

and those are some of my go-to comfort fics!!