#asherhyder

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

you reblog that post about jareth. i reblog it from you with a tag mentioning that i've been meaning to reread roommates. i click open your tags. you mention roommates. i am immediately struck with a sense of delight.

that comic was WEIRDLY formative for me i swear to god

oh my god same. literally LITERALLY rewired my brain and introduced me to so much other excellent/formative media. need somebody to hit me over the head once a week so i continue archiving it bc if it disappears i WILL be inconsolable.

[yeehanfrf]

Week 1 Recs: One Shot, One Kill

The Week 1 Fic Rec Friday theme was "One Shot, One Kill," or fics that clock in under 10,000 words. Here are all the bite-sized fics recommended by the Yeehan community, organized by rating, then alphabetically by title.

General Audience

A Dragon's Treasure by SetsunaNoroi [5,958 words] Reccer comment: "It's a bit of comfort read; short, sweet, humourous, charming, and hits a lot of what I enjoy reading in a YH fic."

Hanzo can't help himself in developing feelings for Jesse McCree, but that doesn't mean he has to share them. With his sins, he is better off alone but still he can't help but want him. It should be fine as long as he just never says anything. Unfortunately his dragons have different ideas and keep trying to lay claim on the cowboy. Mostly McCree is just confused.

In Hot Pursuit by AsheRhyder [3,928 words] Reccer comment: "Loser man Cassidy fumbling the bag with Hanzo ft. Papa Reaps."

Cassidy can flirt, but he's never had someone actually take him up on the offers his silver tongue makes.

Hanzo is determined to win whatever game they're playing, especially when the prize is a flustered cowboy.

Gabriel and Jack just want to play cards.

To Grow Old Together (Is the Ultimate Declaration of Love) by PlanetaryRose [697 words] Reccer comment: "v short but v v sweet"

“I don’t just love you Jesse, I adore you, you are my heart but it is more than that. I want to spend the rest of my days with you, to grow old with you and have you forever by my side and in my arms.

You consume me in every way, mind, body, and soul. I would spend the rest of my days with you, dedicate my life to you.”

Teen and Up

Dreamlike by mataglap [4,063 words] Reccer comment: "4,063 words of achingly sweet fluff!"

Hanzo is used to bad dreams, and he never would have expected that a good dream would end up haunting him the most.

Finding Home, Building Home by coinin [1,975 words] Reccer comment: "rly sweet slice of yeehan, punches u in the face in under 2k words!"

It's taken a while, helped along by teammates, arguments about furniture, and quite a bit of cat hair, but Jesse's finally made a home.

Midway by robocryptid [2,329 words] Reccer comment: "2329 words that I go back to often because it hits a perfect balance between funny, sweet and romantic."

Cassidy and Hanzo go undercover at the fair to track a mark. Obviously they blend in best if everyone assumes they're a couple. It goes exactly how you think.

Silver Screen by DerpyMcButtface [1,990 words] Reccer comment: "Some people might hate me for recommending this one bc it’s SAD, but I really love the premise, and it’s VERY well written."

It's far, far in the future. The heroes are dead, old, or getting there fast. They're making movies now, about Overwatch, but not everyone's happy about that.

Mature

All the Love You Ever Get by SaltCore [3,387 words] Reccer comment: "3387 words to make you cry (mind the tags!)"

Some carry the last words they'll ever hear their soulmate say like a brand on their skin. Whether it's a blessing or a curse is for the philosophers to decide.

Hanzo, for his part, would rather fate had passed him by instead of leaving her mark.

Electric by mataglap [2,212 words] Reccer comment: "Caught up in a thunderstorm, gets spicy"

They get caught in a storm. Things get slightly out of control.

Fire from the Gods by Adolphus Longestaffe [1,372 words] Reccer comment: "very short but beautifully written"

Used to be every time he looked away you got afraid he didn’t love you no more. Now every time he breathes out you’re afraid he won’t breathe in again.

Shrimp Heaven Now by Liquid_Lyrium [5,916 words] Reccer comment: "utterly silly fun"

Hanzo is single-handedly trying to get them thrown out of every Red Lobster in town. McCree is just along for the ride.

Explicit

blisters by cosmicevil [3,141 words] Reccer comment: "A gut punch every time I read it"

Hanzo is going to figure it out.

Debriefing by MittenCrab [6,332 words] Reccer comment: "The scene from this fic haunts me (in a good way). I think about it quite a lot. 6332 words by MittenCrab. A lot of feelings. So many feelings."

“You did not debrief,” Hanzo says finally. It’s more a statement than a question.

[McCree’s mission goes badly when he crosses paths with Reaper - the man who was once everything to him. Wounded and frustrated, he meets Hanzo at one of their safe houses, where he discovers that debriefing can be a lot more fun than he’d previously imagined. (PWP)]

Familiar Habits by Philosophics [8,176 words]

After joining Overwatch, Hanzo finds it difficult to sleep some nights. It is nothing a hot cup of tea cannot fix, but he never expected that he would have company.

(or: hanzo is very thirsty, in more ways than one)

It Will Come Back by CorvidFightClub [3,434 words] Reccer comment: "3,434 words, it’s fuck or die with bonus werewolf :D"

McCree and Hanzo are captured by a gang somewhere in the American Midwest after a mission. The situation becomes more dire when Hanzo finds out the gang isn’t the only thing he has to worry about.

On the Mouth by super_duper [3,292 words] Reccer comment: "I always come back to this one bc it's such a perfect balance of virgin and manslut Hanzo"

Jesse and Hanzo have a thing. Jesse would like it to be more than a thing. Hanzo has a secret.

Slippage by robocryptid [1,389 words] Reccer comment: "some more angst with smut and questionable comfort in 1389 words"

Cassidy compartmentalizes. Hanzo knows it, because he does the same.

It’s supposed to be simple, and it’s anything but.

your good side by motorghost [2,053 words] Reccer comment: "this one by motorghost is so delicious!!!"

Hanzo feels himself changing because of Cole. There's lots of ways to thank him, but when you only have nightly webcam chats, your options are limited. Luckily Hanzo is more creative than Cole knows.

Thank you to everyone who sent in a recommendation! Keep an eye out for next week's theme: "Feel-Good Hour," for all your heartwarming fluff needs!

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: The One You Feed by AsheRhyder

Title: The One You Feed Author: AsheRhyder Canon: Overwatch Pairing: Gabriel Reyes/Jack Morrison Rating: Teen [🍋] Word Count: 12,603 Summary: Fairy-tale happy endings are a lie Jack gave up on a long time ago.

Continue reading...

[veryace-ficrecs]

overwatch. cass/hanzo, genji + zen (found family + like adoptive father zen shit is goooooood for my soul), moira/mercy (especially when they actually hate each other), brothers zen + ramatra (but cute when they were at the monastery stuff (or angst ur choice lol)), hog/rat, junker queen being bby girl, mei being competent, anything else u think i would like lol. anything and everything plz

I'll do my best!! o(*￣▽￣*)ブ

Overwatch Fic Recs

Cass/Hanzo

In Hot Pursuit by AsheRhyder - Rated G

Cassidy can flirt, but he's never had someone actually take him up on the offers his silver tongue makes. Hanzo is determined to win whatever game they're playing, especially when the prize is a flustered cowboy. Gabriel and Jack just want to play cards.

Cup Noodles by Kalikuks - Rated G

Cassidy meets Hanzo's spirit dragons in person.

Unaddressed by robocryptid - Rated T

He gave twelve years of his life to the original Overwatch. He’s seen dozens of MIA cases, investigated more than a few of them himself. It’s not new. It’s just that now the organization’s so small; it makes it feel a lot more personal. Winston gave the order. He can’t argue with the logic that he’s the one whose background best fits this particular task. But it was Genji asking him directly — trusting him with this in a way he knows it’s hard for Genji to trust — that made him agree to it. So he rummages through Hanzo’s desk in search of anything that could help.

Perspective Shift by mataglap - Rated T

Cassidy has a bad day, and then he has an even worse day. Hanzo tries to provide comfort and accidentally goes the extra mile.

Heartless by AsheRhyder - Rated T

Once upon a time, a wicked sorcerer cut out his heart and sealed it away. He hid it in a needle, put the needle in an egg, put the egg in a duck, put the duck inside a rabbit, and put the rabbit in a box on an island at the end of the world. So long as his heart was safe, nothing could kill him. Or so the legends say, anyway. Nowadays, people know what a silly story that was. Nobody bothers with rabbits anymore. Cole Cassidy has no heart.

Just Shy of a Gun by helo572 - Rated T

“Hanzo!” Winston's voice, all of a sudden, like static in his ears. Hanzo takes another breath, deeper this time to orientate himself. The air catches in his throat. “Hanzo, you've been hit! Single bullet wound, multiple punctures, exit wound. I'm reading an inferior vena cava rupture and damage to...” His voice trickles into white noise, ringing in Hanzo's ears.  “Oh,” he whispers to himself.

Second Thoughts (A Monster with Two Heads and One Heartbeat) by AsheRhyder - Rated M

Hanzo knew three things about the gunslinger with absolute certainty: 1.) That he was ruggedly handsome 2.) That he was dangerous 3.) That he was not human It probably said a lot about him that he was more concerned about the first thing than the other two.

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Genji & Zenyatta

forward out into the day by burningdarkfire - Rated T

As the years pass, Genji finds what it means to live again.

A tale through Seasons by Lacertae - Rated T

Zenyatta is not one to allow anything to stop him -especially not something as small as a virus.

Hands covered in Blood (Thank god it's not yours) by SlGMA - Rated T

His hands had been covered in blood for a long time. He wanted peace. He wanted to be comfortable. He wanted a proper home but his family, his kin were dying. So he would fight. Sometimes in times of war however, people lose sight of the ones that matter the most. It takes going through hell and back to realize how important they really are.

of the fleeting year by ApatheticRobots - Rated T

He was not surly, or standoffish, or indiscriminately violent. He was an absolute menace. As Zenyatta had discovered, and would continue to discover. (Winter at the Sanctum is a rambunctious affair.)

Blue by Naopao - Rated G

He follows her into the shop, tilts his head at her smile, joy infectious as they view the display. Life is so fleeting, so fragile.

But it is also glorious, spontaneous.

it comes around by tanyart - Rated G

Genji finds himself back in his old body, ten years in the past. He meets Zenyatta again for the second time in his life.

The Sparrow, The Rabbit, and the Arcade Cabinet by BoltGSR - Rated T

This is a story about the comforts of old pastimes, the ways atonement can warp into self-loathing, and the fear of reconnection. But it's mostly a story about Genji getting dunked on by D.Va so hard he drags Zenyatta across the entire globe trying to prove he's not owned.

Look who came for lunch. by takumiraine - Rated T

There is a fable about two dragon brothers. They get into a fight over a mortal and bring great harm to themselves and the towns around them. Ashamed or injured, they flee their home and have not been heard from since.

Zenyatta manages to find someone, or someTHING that reminds him of that fable.

Though it is in the same verse as the rest of 'The Dinner Series' it can be read alone with no issues

Though the Mountain is Tall by Moonsheen - Rated G

Genji adjusts to life in Nepal. Genji adjusts to Tekhartha Zenyatta.

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Moira/Mercy

Antipode by Mogatrat - Rated E

Angela Ziegler joins Overwatch without a second thought, fueled by her desire to help people in need. She isn't expecting her new colleague, Dr. Moira O'Deorain, to challenge her and wear her down. Especially when catastrophe strikes.

On Losing a Reputation by CyborgShepard - Rated E

Everything in Moira’s life has a place, and she makes sure that in order to keep herself sane the facets of her life don’t bleed into one another. But she’s here, at her best friend’s boozy house party, with the suddenly not-so-taboo person that Moira’s entire life seems to circumnavigate.

Third Kind by Flosscandies - Rated E

Angela and Moira have met many different times, but one of their meetings changed their views on each other.

To be at odds by CountDraluka - Rated T

Angela has her first kiss at the age of 23.

Silver Suits The Devil by CountDraluka - Rated M

“To be burdened with a love spell… I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy, sorceress. But I’m not a miracle worker, or a charitable person, nor do I attempt to be either”, she says, and her words come out kinder than intended. She tells herself it is to soften the disappointment. Perhaps there is a part deep inside her, a part chained to dungeon walls along the row of all her repressed urges and desires, that is relieved to be finally accused of all the crimes she worked so hard to commit. Witch of the Wilds - the title suits her.

Heart of Oasis by Ludlovescake - Rated T

"That’s how she found herself in Oasis, that’s why she was at the conference and that was why she was now looking into the eyes of a woman she had thought she might never meet again. Moira O’Deorain. " Angela is attending a medical conference in Oasis and runs into an old rival. Talon interrupts.

Epistolary by anna_thema - Not Rated

After everything that went wrong with Overwatch, Moira and Angela are drawn together across the world.

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Junkrat/Roadhog

Gaining Experience by ArmsShanks - Rated T

Jamieson Fawkes doesn't have a whole lot going on. He decides to play a video game. Maybe he'll make a friend. Or something like that.

Cumulative by FormlessVoidbeast - Rated M

For the first few days, Roadhog enjoyed the increasing quiet from Junkrat. The loss of energy, of appetite, the way Junkrat's patchy hair was falling out in chunks - it all should have clued Roadhog in. He should have realized sooner that something was very wrong.

A Phantom Pain in the Ass by PomegranatePomsom - Rated T

Junkrat gets some pains. Junkrat gets some help.

Just Trust In Me by Krasimer - Rated T

Mako kept his eyes closed, his arms propped up on the sides of the tub as he allowed his body to relax in the water. From Junkrat, he could hear a small splashing noise as the man tested the water with a few of his fingers, probably flicking them through the surface quickly. When he felt the surface ripple, he smirked. "If you're going to get in, you need to remove your prosthetics." The pause made the air itself go still as Junkrat considered it.

Burning The Wick At Both Ends by PrettyQueerDear - Rated T

Roadhog needed to look tough not just for his reputation, but for his partner's safety. That was hard to do when Junkrat kept trying to make him laugh and show his soft side. Or the one where everyone asks "Why hasn't Roadhog killed Junkrat?" because they can't see that the trash boys are in love.

In Which Junkrat Fucks up his Prosthetic for the Hundredth Time by Hirose - Rated T

…and Roadhog carries him home.

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Junkerqueen-Centric

Wrecking Ball's Reckoning by TrashFr0g - Rated T

The Queen of Junkertown is tasked with dealing with a rat. A 'big' rat. It puts up a better fight than she thought it would.

And the Queen That Was One by TrashFr0g - Rated G

Junkertown had no stars in it's sky, but that didn't mean it couldn't have any inside it.

Are You Smarter Than a Hamster? by TrashFr0g - Rated G

The Queen of Junkertown was unlike any other human Hammond knew before. She was a fighter, strong, tough, and fierce… and she wasn't smart. For some reason that detail seemed to bother him more than it bothered her.

[burnt-kloverfield]

Happy New Year! Just dropping links to some of my sideblogs, because hey, why not? I think they’re pretty neat. Anyways, there’s a bunch of random things, some aesthetic stuff, a Reylo sideblog, I mean, you might find some more stuff you just love, right? And likes come from me, this is my main, but I might reblog the stuff I love to my sideblogs. That’s how that works. Anywho, links below the read more:

Aesthetic Blogs

@darkspringaesthetic​  If you’re looking for cottagecore, classical paintings, green countrysides, purple flowers, stormy skies, etc. you’ll find it all here. Perhaps most regular of my sideblogs. It really started before cottagecore took off. It’s that feeling of a rainy spring day, where there’s new life everywhere, but it’s dark and rainy. 

@feverdreamsummer This is a vaporwave aesthetic blog. "VaporWave Americana It's the feeling you get, when you're on a road trip, and you've just woken up from a nap, and your face is hot from the sun coming in through the window, and you might have just missed the Hollywood sign, but you're catching sight of the most beautiful sunset you'll never see again."

@royalwinterkingdom Wintry, snow, velvet. It's gotten a tad pink/purple/pastel, but it was originally meant to feel like you're royalty in all your fur and velvet looking over the pine forests of your snow covered kingdom.

Fandom Blogs

@pulltothelight Reylo sideblog, need I say more? Okay, well, I do write Reylo fanfic, and you can find that there. It's a mix of classic Reylo stuff, new Reylo stuff, Star Wars, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, etc.

@buildingverse I'm going to catch up one day, I promise! "The center of Multidimensional Chaos caused by AsheRhyder's Roommates and all the Buildingverse Fandom. A fanblog who went on hiatus and then never caught up but will, eventually. " I mainly reblog Labyrinth, Phantom of the Opera, and Pirates of the Caribbean here. Like I reblog all of those on my main, too, but here is specifically for that kind of stuff. I never finished the comic, but I am going to sit down and completely binge it, one, day! I swear!!!

@kloversims I play sims, and I used to post more. Now, I guess this is cc or something, IDK. Pretty dormant? Maybe I'll start up a new legacy or something *shrugs*

Random Blogs

@cringydashboard This one is pretty much me digging through the depths of my ancient dashboard (I just figured out a way to see how my dashboard would look in like 2011, etc) and I'm reblogging old, classic, funny, interesting, truly cringy tumblr posts. It just feels like time to dig back into the past and relive why we all love tumblr.

@dollchronicles Look, I love cute things, games, toys, childish things. I personally have a tag about wanting to live with the muppets. This blog though is about toys and cute games. Originally for Toca Boca, but now it's mainly Tsuki Odyssey.

@becominglolitaprincess Speaking of cute things, You wanna follow my selfie blog?

@autismwehaveaproblem I'm autistic, I love autism, I post enough about it to really have a whole blog for itself, right?

[wontyoureadtome]

“Six Seconds (Don’t Blink)” by AsheRhyder

 Author Summary:

Jesse McCree can stare Death in the eye to shoot six people in less than six seconds. Six bullets, six kills, as long as he doesn't blink first.

What will the cost be to keep his eyes open when the odds are stacked against the team with twenty-four enemies instead of six?

Fandom: Overwatch 

Ship: McHanzo

Rating: General

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On my last stream I recorded a bunch of 1-shots then rolled a die to decide which to edit first, so here we are! Has been cross posted on Ao3.

They’ll be another 1-shot next week, and then back into another multi-chapter fic!

[hellomynameisandiam]

   Winston says nothing, but hits ‘play’ on the desktop interface between them. The screen shows a fleeting glimpse of some brightly colored streak sailing through the sky like a very determined rainbow. Winston hits a few more keys and the track replays at one-quarter speed.

   D.Va’s MEKA goes flying across the screen, thrusters flared to the maximum output. Atop the machine, Lύcio and McCree cling to the top of the frame, each lit up by their own colorful glow: Lύcio in the bright green and blues of his speed boost, McCree red and gold in the middle of a Deadeye.

   Winston hits pause around the time McCree starts pulling the trigger. He stares at the three.

   “Well now.” McCree tips back his hat. “Ain’t that a sight.”

from @badsleeptwins/AsheRhyder’s Pack Tactics, part 2 of the Lone Wolf series! another great series of fics that i love, and i had to draw the Shooting Star, just had to.

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

@vaguely-concerned I can't believe you've done this.

the thesis for the locked tomb series is that to love and to have been loved is to change and to have been changed, fundamentally, forever, and nothing can take that from you. that love is transformative. that love survives within those that have loved and have been loved. that love perseveres. that love matters. that life is too short and love is too long. that love is an indelible weight that you carry with you forever, for better or worse. that love transcends your body and your soul. that love and freedom doesn't coexist. that love is a terrifying mutual ownership, and by having a part of someone in you, and a part of you in them, you are forever tied. that to devote yourself to another person may lead to your destruction, but you do it anyway because life without love is only a shell of itself. that devotion is violent, and we are all its casualties in the end. that love is a force of nature, and it is the one thing humanity has always known, and will always know, how to do. that even when it doesn't change anything, you just cant help but love anyway — and that changes everything. that love is horrifying and it can consume you but nothing is more important than love.

[theimpossiblescheme]

The Tropes Are Hungry: The Collateral Damage of Narrative Causality

Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett The Last Unicorn, Peter S. Beagle Greek Religion, Walter Burkert trans. John Raffan Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood Hamlet, William Shakespeare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard Antígona González, Sarah Uribe trans. John Pluecker “Roommates”, AsheRhyder “Deconstruction”, Mary Ruefle Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett

[ao3feed-mchanzo]

Sum of All And By Them Driven

by AsheRhyder

Originally written for the Danger and Dread 'zine.

  “If you ever want to try your hand at hunting something else, well, the world’s full of monsters who need killing.”

 “Monsters?” Skepticism colors Hanzo’s voice a disdainful shade.

  “You know that old saying, ‘kill a killer and the number of killers stays the same;?” Hanzo makes a derisive sound, and the way the man’s smile sharpens makes him tighten his grip on his bow. “That equation only checks out if you stop after one.”

Words: 6346, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Overwatch (Video Game)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: M/M

Characters: Hanzo Shimada, Cole Cassidy (Overwatch)

Relationships: Cole Cassidy/Hanzo Shimada

Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Body Horror, Hanzo Kills a lot of People, I mean a LOT

from AO3 works tagged 'Cole Cassidy/Hanzo Shimada' https://ift.tt/3o3UvT3 via IFTTT https://ift.tt/3o3UvT3

[realdeadlyfangs]

AsheRhyder made some wonderful drawings. These drawings got the gears in my head turning. The result? Another story of mutated Karl in pain, and with another happy ending!

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

So help me God, I WILL finish archiving this webcomic, bc if anything ever happens to it I will be beside myself

[yeehanfrf]

Week 11 Recs: He's a Magic Man

The Week 11 theme was "He's a Magic Man," or recs featuring the mystical, the magical, the fantastical, and a lot of werewolves, apparently! (If you missed your chance, monsterhuggers, don't worry: we'll have a monster-centric theme when spooky season rolls around!)

Behind the cut, you'll find the recs gathered from the Yeehan community, organized by rating and then alphabetically by title!

Not Rated

What Lies Undone by AsheRhyder [8,117 words]

There are rules to this sort of thing. Not the common sort, made to be broken and bent and outright ignored, but the old kind, made for dealing with dangerous things.

And they are all dangerous things, in Overwatch.

McCree survives by knowing which rules to break and which to obey and when to do the opposite of what he usually does. Dangerous things stay dangerous because they can change - he knows this all too well.

General Audiences

And Time Passed by Tevokkia [4,108 words] Reccer comment: "Sweet and innocent; will make you cry in a good way. Vimeddiee did art for it too"

A small cowboy in a large hat wandered out of the mist one day, and asked a lonely young dragon to be his friend. Such requests hold great weight out on the edge of reality, where the dragon kept his cave. The dragon and the little boy shared secrets and adventures.

And time passed ...

... until the little boy grew up.

Teen and Up

Fool's Gold by leoandlancer [193,940 words] Reccer comment: "I REMEMBERED ANOTHER MONSTERS, DRAMA, & EERIE THINGS BEYOND OUR MORTAL COMPREHENSION"

A vast and powerful dragon hires a surprisingly lethal monster hunter in order to kill an upsettingly big bug. It's not ideal, but they work on it. (Hanzo is pretty sure McCree can kill anything and both of them are trying not to be quite so in love with someone who can and probably will, kill them. Dragon and Monster Hunter AU)

Heartless by AsheRhyder [6,504 words]

Once upon a time, a wicked sorcerer cut out his heart and sealed it away. He hid it in a needle, put the needle in an egg, put the egg in a duck, put the duck inside a rabbit, and put the rabbit in a box on an island at the end of the world. So long as his heart was safe, nothing could kill him. Or so the legends say, anyway. Nowadays, people know what a silly story that was. Nobody bothers with rabbits anymore.

Cole Cassidy has no heart.

Sideshow by Kestrel_sama [5,414 words]

Hanzo manages to steal a night for himself at an American circus. What he finds there is no ordinary freak show.

So Nice to Meet You by fishpoets [9,142 words]

There it was again, something pale that shifted in the shadows - a mass of pure, white fur. Jesse stared. The wolf – for that's what it was, a huge, white wolf, sprawled out in front of the kitchen doors – raised its head, and stared right back.

(Five times Jesse interacts with Hanzo's daemon, plus one)

The Looking Glass by firefly_quill [9,509 words]

Hanzo lives a quiet life in his small magical antiquities shop, just far enough off the beaten-path. Quiet, at least, until Ana arrives with a magic mirror and a request. Modern fantasy AU.

Written for the McHanzo Reverse Bang 2018.

Turn Around, Lie Down (Come Home) by AsheRhyder [17,455 words] Reccer comment: "i loved this werewolf au fic"

In the dark, snow-filled night, a wolf howled.

Run with me. Eat with me. Sleep beside me. Be pack.

Mature

Cast No Shadow by PersonalSpin [46,029 words] Reccer comment: "a HDM-esque daemon AU"

Jesse McCree knows better than to trust a man without a soul. A His Dark Materials AU about things said and unsaid, and those you stay and those who leave.

(Not that kind of demon, this kind of dæmon.)

Death's Best Man by deliciously_devient [Series; WIP; 16,901 words] Reccer comment: "The Death's Best Man series by deliciously_devient is a must. It's one of the first I read when I got into the fandom"

Jesse is fifteen years old when he earns a favor from Death.

Kelp(ie) by Wulpia [5,734 words] Reccer comment: "Achingly poetic"

When biologist Hanzo goes on a trip to a remote reservoir in Scotland to study the flora of a lake there, he finds something far more interesting, ancient, and potentially deadly.

Not Another Moment by Author of Kheios [30,431 words] Reccer 1 comment: "a harry potter au, a small nsfw scene, is a long oneshot and cole is a single dad, mutual pining. Not Another Moment by author of kheois"

Reccer 2 comment: "The OW-HP crossover fic none of knew we needed"

Years ago, Cole retired as the Defense Against Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts to raise a little girl. Now, she's old enough to get accepted, but she dislikes the professor who took his place, and he has to intervene.

Hanzo has heard so many stories about the the man, the myth - nay, the legend - whose post he took at Hogwarts, yet not in a single one of them did anyone say anything about how attractive the Deadeye Cowboy is. But even if the man's daughter didn't hate him for no apparent reason, Hanzo can't afford to fall for someone who would kill him on the spot if he ever found out Hanzo's true nature. So of course, he falls head over heels.

Explicit

All That We Were, Are, and Will Come to Be by Dracoduceus [Series; WIP; 30,894 words]

His instructions were deceptively simple: visit the planet Hanamura and bring back two of the sons of the famous Shimada Clan.

McCree, captain of the Santa Fe and an independent contractor that worked with the Overwatch space station, should have known better than to think that anything about this would go according to plan.

Away by Vimeddiee [29,154 words] Reccer comment: "Light on the magic lore, strong on the feelings"

Hanzo awakens to the feel of grit in his eyes and the crunch of sand between his teeth. This in itself doesn’t rudely force him into consciousness, but the insistent flicking against his nose that he groggily attempts to bat away, does.

“High tide’s coming, you better nap someplace else.”

AKA I wanted to write Cassidy as a slappy boy so I DID.

Call of the Wild by deliciously_devient [Series; 4,712 words] Reccer comment: "Pretty sure the Call of the Wild series is the actual, literal first OW fanfic I read"

The moon is full, and the air is full of....promise.

Clipped Wings by Vashoth [14,631 words] Reccer comment: "possibly the first magic AU I read in this fandom, and the intrigue of it has stuck with me ever since"

Any hunter worth his salt knows that you should take all possible precautions to avoid messing with the Fair Folk. Most of the Fair Folk, however, don't really give a rats ass what precautions are taken and delight in messing with anything unlucky enough to get within arms reach.

Or: Hanzo is in way over his head and Jesse is loving it.

Dangerous Phases by Vrunka [13,593 words]

There are eight phases in a moon cycle. Eight phases in thirty days. And then it repeats. Over and over. Hanzo Shimada never really saw a reason to care. The moon comes, the moon goes. Hanzo Shimada also never really saw himself getting into an explicit sexual relationship with a werewolf. But well...these things do happen.

The Epic and Wondrous Tale of the Librarian and the Demon Hunter by annella [47,403 words] Reccer comment: "Hands-down one of the best AUs I've ever read, and I want desperately for the author to turn it into a series of books"

Jesse's got a pretty good job as the librarian in a magical library. He spends his days cataloguing, tracking down rare titles, fixing up the occasional spell gone awry, and dealing with the smoke monster in the basement.

Then Hanzo Shimada, Demon Hunter, shows up to turn his world upside down.

Freedom's a Funny Thing by robocryptid [4,940 words] Reccer comment: "a deliciously unnerving trickster Cassidy with a side of sex magic"

Once a year, magician Hanzo must perform a ritual to bind the dragon spirits to himself. This year, something about the ritual doesn't quite go right, and he summons a trickster along with the dragons. Now he's stuck with the stowaway until he can figure out how to dismiss him. Luckily Cassidy seems mostly benign, if irritating and predisposed to dressing as a cowboy.

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Originally for the Myth//Legend zine, but now with a couple bonus scenes. Consider this the director’s cut.

Ghost Stories on Route 66 by Nagaina [210,058 words] Reccer comment: "Monsters, drama, & eerie things beyond our mortal comprehension."

Hanzo Shimada is an expatriate student of the Fine Arts, attending college in what he assumes to be a reasonably sedate corner of the American southwest. Jesse McCree is an occasionally leather-clad NPS ranger whose duties extend somewhat further than shooing lost tourists back onto the clearly marked hiking trails. Something weird is going on in the desert south of Santa Fe and their lives unexpectedly come together in the middle of it.

In the Woods Somewhere by CorvidFightClub [WIP; 3,946 words]

Hanzo has spent years of his life a captive werewolf, fighting in underground dogfights for a master that values his ability to kill and nothing else. One night he's stolen from the back of a transport van and wakes somewhere new.

A small farm in the woods somewhere.

[The Big Long E-Rated Version of the fic of the same title I wrote for the Rising Moon Fanzine.]

Licensed to Slaughter by ChillieBean [16,910 words] Reccer comment: "ChillieBean's "Licensed To Slaughter" (explicit, 16K words) features vampire Hanzo and werewolf Cassidy caught in the midst of a small-town murder mystery. It has a great plot and is excellently written. 10000000/10!"

Hanzo, an author who is struggling with his murder mystery draft, decides to move across the United States, trading the bustling city for quiet mountain life for inspiration.

Little does he know that he lands right in the middle of a real-life murder mystery and is suspect number one.

Never Saw it Coming by Kestrel_sama [WIP; 12,794 words] Reccer comment: "a cute modern-with-magic AU"

Fortune-telling was just supposed to be a way to make some money for Genji's business. It was easy enough with the dragons whispering secrets in his ears, and the outfit certainly helped bring in customers. But it was a skeptic named Jesse McCree who turned everything on it's head.

Possess by sciencefictioness [3,978 words] Reccer comment: "This week's theme covers half my bookmarks, but this is the first story that came to mind."

Jesse closes his eyes and he is not at home anymore.

He is not alone.

Jesse is in a large, open room with a high ceiling full of exposed wooden beams and what looks like straw mats spread out on the floor.  Some of the walls are solid, others are made of paper.  Words come to Jesse to unbidden like memories that aren’t his own.  Dojo.  Tatami.  Shoji.  The characters on the pillars are kanji.    

Jesse is in Japan.  Parts of him, anyway.

There are people lingering along the edges of the room.  There are two figures in the center, one of them older with his eyes flashing eerie red, black hair greying at his temples.  In front of him is a boy about Jesse’s age— seventeen.  Eighteen, maybe.  He’s kneeling with his eyes downcast, long hair pulled up into a messy bun, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.  His clothes are hanging down off his left shoulder to expose an intricate tattoo, dragons and storm clouds and lightning in blue and grey and gold.  

He’s beautiful like nothing Jesse has ever seen, a tangle of contradictions.  He looks delicate.

He looks powerful.

He’s breathtaking and he’s afraid and oh, fuck.

He’s Jesse’s. 

Resonant by sciencefictioness [6,473 words] Reccer comment: "Resonant by sciencefictioness is pretty sexy"

The table seems endless stretched between them; polished wood, incense filling the room with smoke, ceremonial cups of sake. Jesse stares across the length of it, his gaze locked on Hanzo with an intensity usually reserved for the hunt, except he’s never been interested in any prey the way he is now; voraciously.

Savagely.

Teeth curve long out of his jaw, and his body rolls into the half-shift all on its own. Ears pricked, tail sprouting from the base of his spine, eyes lit up red. Hanzo is doing no better.

His eyes are black, pupils blown wide, nothing but a thin ring of gold set in an impossibly dark sclera. Jesse watches Hanzo’s horns lengthen, watches his claws extend. Watches his cheeks turn red, even more pronounced against the blue of his skin.

Everything goes sideways, as Jesse always expected it would.

It just doesn’t go sideways the way he expected.

Jesse had been ready for a fight.

Survival Instinct by mataglap [36,482 words] Reccer 1 comment: "OH, ha, also monsters, drama, & eerie things beyond our mortal comprehension"

Reccer 2 comment: "Survival Instinct, by mataglap, is one I've read multiple times"

Cassidy takes a new monster hunting contract. It's pretty decent as contracts go: the pay is good, the perks even better, and he's got two competent companions to fight at his side when the monsters come.

Then a third companion arrives and ruins everything.

Watcher in the Woods by Kalikuks [84,072 words] Reccer 1 comment: "Kali does a lot of monster and magic/fantasy fics, but if I can only choose one, this is it"

Reccer 2 comment: ""Watcher in the Woods" by Kalikuks 🥰 (explicit, old name for Cass) Blind Hanzo and eldrich being Cassidy. Buckle up cause is a long one with sequels!❤️"

Hanzo gets the uncanny feeling that he’s being towered over and instinctually tips his head up, even if he sees nothing.

“You can’t see me,” a deep honeyed voice rumbles from above, a good few feet above, Hanzo guesses.

“I—“

Hanzo’s reply is drowned out when the hunting party crashes through the foliage behind him and the screaming begins.

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AU Where Hanzo is Blind and Jesse is an eldritch being of sorts that drives men mad when they look upon him. They fall in love.

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And that's it for the Week 11 recs! Thank you so much to everyone who submitted a recommendation.

If you happen to find a fic you love using this rec list, be sure to leave the author kudos and a comment! Even "I found this fic because someone recced it" is a lovely thing to say.

Come back next time for Week 12: "Simple Pleasures," or all the smutty PWPs your heart desires.

In the meantime, you can also check out the Week 10 recs here, or check the full list of past and future themes here.

[mymusehatesme]

Webcomics, List Three

As everyone knows, there are a lot of things out there on the World Wide Web to watch, listen, read, and engage with and only one lifetime to do it in. However! I like making lists and here are a few lists of some webcomics that have caught my eye over the years. Please feel free to add your own favorites!

*DISCLAIMER*: I have not read all of these. Some have content warnings, some don't. Some are discontinued, some were completed years ago or very recently. As always, you are responsible for the media you consume - so be sure to check out the About page (if there is one) for possible warnings.

SO! In no particular order, here we go! Webcomics, List One

Webcomics, List Two

Webcomics, List Three

Webcomics, List Four

Helvetica

"Helvetica is a young man who has recently died! When you die, you don’t remember anything in life, and your first word(s) is your name. This story follows Helvetica’s desire to uncover who he was in life, his existential crises, and his struggle to make death worth living."

Headless Bliss

"[A] story about stories, story-telling, and other metaphysical themes such as humor! Fights! Heads flying and legs missing! Adventures galore and failed teamwork! Fantasy realms and nonexistent rules! Character bonding and growth and nightmares!"

The Well by the House on the Hill

"The Well by the House on the Hill is about a young girl named Marie who loves umbrellas very much and who was hired to babysit some children in a house."

Lonely Vincent

"This is a story about Vincent. (But not really.) Vincent's been on sabbatical recently, and promised his professor to visit his old friend. Because of this, some say Vincent's a nice fellow. But he's not, honestly. (Nice people don't try to run away from their families, homes and responsibilities.) Lucky for him, Vincent finds all the excuses he needs when the "old friend" turns out to be Victoria, a mysterious vampire with two wicked children."

Floraverse - (Synopsis retrieved from here.)

"Floraverse is a rather unique fantasy [story] that sports a large cast of vibrant and diverse creatures all living in a world rich with both magic and technology."

Peritale

"Peritale tells the story of a magicless fairy named Periwinkle, and her quest to gain her peers' approval by fulfilling a simple Fairytale. If she is able to join two designated humans in destined wedlock, she can prove she's just as good as any other fairy!"

Unsounded

"Daughter of the Lord of Thieves, Sette Frummagem is on a mission, and she'll lie, cheat, and steal to make sure it's a success (she'll lie, cheat, and steal anyway). Condemned to aid her in her rotten endeavours is a rotten corpse who seems oddly talented with the supernatural, and oddly not laying motionless in the dirt. The road is long and no one is what they seem. Never trust a thief, and never trust anyone who won't let you look into their eyes."

Spindrift

"Spindrift is an online comic featuring a modern fantasy story."

164 Days

"164 days is an attempt at learning to draw a comic by drawing one. It involves airships and family problems."

Derelict

"Discontinued post-apocalyptic story."

BONUS! Fanfiction webcomics that I LOVED TO DEATH when I was a teen!

Roommates by AsheRhyder on DeviantArt

Girls Next Door by Pika-la-Cynique on DeviantArt

[lemon-sage]

Searching For Game... by AsheRhyder. Genji wants McCree to play the new game he helped develop: Overwatch. McCree just wants his hot upstairs neighbor to stop throwing food at him every time he says "hello".

McCree and Hanzo coming to like each other through video games!!

[imagitory]

💤, 💖, 💓

Ship that is canon but you don’t ship: 💤 

Rey/Kylo from the new Star Wars films. *sigh* I’m sorry, Reylo fans, truly, but Kylo Ren as a character just always rubbed me the wrong way, reminding me not only of some of the men in my life who felt entitled to my or my friends’ affections or, worse, to those types of toxic men who scream about making our country great again and how minorities are “taking their country away from them” and…yeah, considering I quite related to Rey in the first two movies and really was more interested in exploring her tight, close friendships with Finn, Poe, BB-8, Chewie and Leia than any romantic relationships, I didn’t really care for the direction the films went. I can’t help but feel even if I liked Kylo more as a character, the realization of the Kylo/Rey relationship in the three films wasn’t done as well as it could’ve been, given that they were directed by two directors with very different images of the characters and story and written without any sort of endgame planned in advance. Sorry, Reylo shippers, I’m glad you enjoy it – I just can’t join in.

Ship that needs more love: 💖 

Elisa/Goliath from Gargoyles – but mainly because Gargoyles as an entire show needs more love, come on!!

Ship that you didn’t expect to ship but now do: 💓

Javert/Valjean from Les Miserables. Yes, really! I really didn’t get into the Javert/Valjean storyline in Les Miserables on first listen and watch, being much more enamored with ma chere Apollo Enjolras and the friends of L’ABC, but thanks to the comic Roommates by AsheRhyder, I really grew more of an appreciation for both characters. In the original story, I wasn’t as invested in Javert in particular because he didn’t end up really growing from his experiences with Valjean. He stayed ridiculously stubborn almost all the way until the end, before deciding to commit suicide rather confront the fact that he was wrong. I know it sounds judgmental of me, but that just felt so cowardly to me, and it still does. I’m a proud person, but to be so proud that you would rather die than admit that you’re a fallible human being and learn from the experience so you can grow into a better person? Yeah, I don’t see it as tragic, I can’t help but see it as kind of pathetic. But in Roommates, as well as some other fanworks, we get to see Javert post-existential-crisis – we get to see him coming to grips with his own fallibility and grow more as a person. And yeah, Valjean helped instigate that. Fortunately most depictions of their relationship aren’t lopsided all Javert’s way either: Javert can also check Valjean’s more self-destructive tendencies and be a rock of stability for Valjean, who has always been so transient.

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