#author: Philosophics

[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!

[fictionadventurer]

But does your man buy an entire hawking establishment just because he saw a painting of a hawking party where one of the women kind of resembled you?

[cigarettesandcoffee1904]

Albert Camus 1955.

[thepersonalwords]

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

[fortunaestalta]

[ukdamo]

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Chicago writer's mural: James Baldwin

[theidealistphilosophy]

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson, Matter And Memory.

[psalmsofpsychosis]

there are fic writers writing stories, and then there are darthfett writers, constructing narrative structure that would make Nietzsche almost believe in the inherent goodness of human nature,

[wojakgallery]

Title/Name: Slavoj Žižek, popularly known as 'Žižek', born in (1949). Bio: Slovenian philosopher, director, professor, senior researcher, cultural theorist, and public intellectual. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism), political theory, film criticism, and theology. Country: Slovenia Wojak Series: Chad (Variant), Feels Guy (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: Žižek Wojak

[cegodaltonico]

"Morreremos como mortais que somos, e vivemos como se fôramos imortais."

Sêneca

[darkacademianew]

I derive my personality from his. He showed me that even philosophers can be cool.

[amethysttribble]

A strange question that came to me when rereading your lovely fanfic: what does Fëanor Blackfyre think of the word "valar" being used for men in Westeros?

Not strange at all! A very good question.

Hmmm, how much to say...

Feanor Blackfyre spent much of his life studying the 'higher mysteries' and trying to find answers to questions he had about himself (but he wasn't working with anything concrete for most of that time, unlike our boys). Linguistic study was, of course, a part of that, and I don't think he'd be Feanor is he hadn't tinkered with language and- perhaps- reversed engineered his own writing system. But he didn't know everything, and some of his conclusions were likely wrong.

Now, I've established in my fic that Sindarin has some similarities with Valyrian (mostly to explain some of the whoosy swooshy fantasy~ language similarities lol), but while Feanor's knowledge of Sindarin at the time of his death is certainly up to debate, for the purposes of this fic, he wasn't that familiar with it.

BUT, again, Quenya and Sindarin are divergent languages, there are some- distant- similarities there.

Hm. That's a whole lot of connections and not a lot anything really.

So where does that leave us? If Feanor Blackfyre had ever heard/thought of/ knew of the word 'Valar'- which is not a guarantee AT ALL- would he know what it meant in Quenya?

And if he knew what it meant in Quenya- how?- would he know the connotations that the people that word referred to meant to him?

And if he knew those connotations, would he know the etymology of that word? "Power, divine, god", and if he knew all that, would he know the etymology of "Vala" meaning man and "jaes" meaning god in Valyrian (yes, he would know this)? What about "balan" in Sindarin (meaning 'Valar)? And if he noticed all this, did he notice the other links between Valyrian and Sindarin, and what did he think of that and where did it come from?

This has devolved into 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie', but lets be honest, words are cookies for Feanor.

What I'm trying to say is that there's a lot of pre-requisite knowledge required of Feanor here to even start addressing this question. I think the answer is less 'Feanor had thoughts and feelings that were philosophical and concrete' and more 'If Feanor had any idea there was something up with the word 'Valar', he would have a Charlie Day style conspiracy board in the back of his lab that he lectured to Rhaegar about every now and again'.

BUT TO ACTUALLY ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: A fully remembering Feanor would... probably still have the conspiracy board, wondering what the cosmological, linguistic link between these languages are. He's writing his thesis on it as we speak, haha

[vox-anglosphere]

Bertrand Russell was Britain's leading intellectual of the 20th century

[fishy006]

there’s something about bsd fics written by people who have read and enjoyed classics (usually the irl version of the characters) that hits different

[zentenal]

‘You know the world won’t see it that way’

‘But the history books will’

-A fucking Zukka fanfic (Real Slow by surveycorpsjean on ao3) and not by an ancient philosopher or some shit

[theidealistphilosophy]

You don’t sacrifice the ideal just because you haven’t managed to attain it.

Jordan Peterson, Foundations of the west; Lectures.