#anyways yeah read my fic please if you havent its silly i think

[imsorryithurts]

im torn between writing essays on what the symbolism on disco elysium means to me and writing fics in which i shake the shit out of those middle aged men in a jar until they threw up. i can not choose both im swamped with work and other junk 😭

anyway, glad to see another DE whump enjoyers, if you had any fic recs please please please tell me (esp if its kim centric, i really like the caretaking reversal trope)

I FEEL YOU. DE is such a deep and beautiful game but also. I want Kim's picture framed on my wall like that one person in the news.

I remember thinking "I'm not going to fandom-fy this. I will enjoy this like a normal adult person". Which is pretty good, but then you have the writers posting stuff like "yeah, I think Jean and Harry fucked", and fan artists posting the characters as c.alico critters, and fanfiction writers writing literal novels as fan sequels, how can I resist??

But then someone comes and does a deep analysis of themes, characters and motifs and I'm like "damn. should I be poor meow meowing these men?"

Anyway, I guess the conclusion I came to was:

DE is such an amazing game and it leaves space for both brain rot and intellectual reading. It's not often I get this involved with media that tackles complex and real issues and criticisms, with characters that are not really great people but they are so incredibly charismatic you forget, and at the same time makes silly jokes, has an idle animation of them cracking each other's backs and makes you want to pet these greasy/balding middle aged men. So I'm managing to balance both Fandom Brain and Enjoyer of the Actual Game and it's Brilliance Brain so far. I guess what I'm trying to say is that most fandoms I'm in I don't take the media so seriously, but I absolutely would submerge myself in a pool of DE source material and be serious about it.

I don't know. I'm not rusty with words. All I know is DE good, and I want to see them hurt.

I'll rec some fics under the cut so this doesn't get too long!

So, you might have already filtered AO3 by "whump" and "hurt/comfort" and found these. But here are some I really enjoyed and have saved:

Tenth of a Second by SupposedtobeWriting

AU where Kim gets shot after the tribunal and Harry is the one that takes care of him. One of the first fics I came across when I first searched the fandom tag. One of my favorites, I remember having to pace myself while reading it to make it last longer!

Small Light in a Dark City by SupposedToBeWriting

Kim has a nightmare after the case. More psychological whump.

An Impression of Smoke by nicpic

I'm just going to copy the tags: kim is sick, jean is soft, That's it, that's the fic

Also really like this one :) The Day After comes before in the series, and it's also fun, just short and lighter on the whump.

nicpic also has Blood on Snow, it's a bit more heavy on the hurt, and Jean is the hurt one. Plus, they seem to have some really cool fics I havent gotten around to reading yet.

In sync by DistressPlop

Tribunal aftermath, Harry whump, with some Kim psychological whump. I remember reading this, but I must have read it in bed before sleeping because I don't remember much about it lol. Guess I'll get to enjoy it fresh one more time.

sans sommeil by narramin

Kim, who was undercover until then, shows up hurt at Jean's door. Now that I think about it, this one might have been one of the first fics I read. I was finishing up this list and my brain went "wait what about that undercover Kim one?" and I had to search for it, because I read it before making my ao3 account. I don't remember much about it, except that I really liked the whump in it.

Ace's (All-Time) Low by new_career_in_business

Kim shows up hurt at Harry's door. TW for homophobia

I believe Ace's (All-Time) Low was the last one I read before deciding to not pick up new ones because I really need to focus on studying for the admittance test of the master's program I want to get in. So now I only have a bunch marked for later, both whump and non-whump. Maybe I'll do an updated list in the future, I'd like to have a neat little list so I can revisit them easily :).

Happy reading, and feel free to rec back! Here's to more DE whump in our lives! *raises glass*

[bokurroo]

yoooo wanna share some of those h!! fics u read with the ‘good characterization’?? i’ve been on like a manhunt for good fics but uhhh i’m so picky and i like to read recommended ones more anyways 😬👍🏽

ah okay ! i hope they have good characterization in your opinion. they do in mine so… yeah. i’ll just recommend all of my favorites that i’ve read so far :)

FIRST OF ALL please go check out An Anonymous Tip it was written by the other runner of this blog and my best friend, Jessi. It’s a group chat/texting fic and it’s also kind of a fun mystery because you have to figure out who everyone is. It’s really funny too. it has kagehina, iwaoi, daisuga, and a few other ships to come! It would mean the world to us

 You HAVE TO read Unconventional Wisdom by @grumpyelf​ ! I think it’s my favorite haikyuu!! fic so far. It’s ongoing and there is some time between updates but it’s worth it! It’s a post-canon university fic featuring our four favorite captains: kuroo, bokuto, oikawa, and daichi. and it has bokuroo, iwaoi, and daisuga

please do yourself a favor and read new phone who dis it’s an iwaoi college AU and it’s a texting fic. this fic introduced me to the texting fic and i never turned back i love them so much. literally if you havent read one you have to ! this is such a good read and its so fun and its definitely my other favorite fic in the fandom

do you want some iwaoi angst ? well here is Roommates. i can still feel the way this fic made my heart clench when i think about it. honestly. its just very real and believable, i think. its a happy ending though so don’t worry about that! its post-canon and its a college fic as well (can you tell i like college fics because i really like college fics) please read this beautiful fic

okay MORE TEXTING FICS. this is a texting fic series. the first fic features bokuroo and the second one features iwaoi. the third fic is in progress and is an asanoya fic. these fics are told entirely through texting and they’re silly af. like they’re just a fun read because they’re ridiculous. they’re also college fics (of course) and are post canon. the first two both are like friends with benefits ? so i hope you enjoy this wild ride

okay this is also a texting/skype chat fic. Stranger Danger is an iwaoi AU (also university lmao) in which they start chatting online, but iwa-chan refuses to tell oikawa anything. which leads to their eventual unknown meeting. you can imagine how this turns out 

OKAY this is all of the ones i’ve really enjoyed. sorry they’re all university and texting fics… it’s just what i enjoy reading. i’ve read some others but these are the major ones. PLEASE go check out An Anonymous Tip and leave Jess some comments/kudos and maybe an ask on tumblr ! she’d really like to get people’s opinions and also hear your theories about who the characters are :) thank you so much for this ask i’ve never done a fic rec before