#fic: narcissus

[midnightg0dd3ss]

Chapter 5

[reegis]

do you ever think about Narcissus. about how he was the one that suggested Orpheus- his very best, and possibly only, close friend- try and get Eurydice back from the Acheron? About how Orpheus never came back afterwards and Narcissus probably has no idea what happened to him? yeah me neither haha

[mokkkki]

swte's narcissa black

[spocks-kaathyra]

see I'm always going on about how I'm an emotionless robot with no heart who can't be bothered to expend the disproportionate amount of effort required to care about anything but then a read a little bit of a fanfiction about a fictional guy I like and I feel as though an excess of some kind of stimulant drug has been injected directly into my veins and need to repress the urge to make sounds at the upper limit of human hearing so. maybe I just have autism

[lindenmybeloved]

Something something Narcissus and Echo dynamic

[rosesradio]

[mark of athena, page 114] just throw the whole book away 🧍

[theearlgreymage]

It is finally here! The COBB Project that myself and @ivelovedhimthroughworse have been working on together!!

This is a Greek Mythology AU inspired by Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe ❤

Read it here on AO3

Prologue |

Chapter 1 | Accompanying Art by Apricot

Chapter 2 | Accompanying Art by Apricot

Chapter 3 | Accompanying Art by Apricot

This work is a part of the Carry On Big Bang 2023 Event (@carry-on-big-bang )

Summary and Additional information below the cut

Fandom: Carry On | Simon Snow Series - Rainbow Rowell

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Relationships: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch/Simon Snow, Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch & Simon Snow

Characters: Simon Snow, Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch, Penelope Bunce, Natasha Grimm-Pitch, Malcolm Grimm, Ebeneza "Ebb" Petty, The Mage (Simon Snow), Lucy Salisbury, Fiona Pitch, Nicodemus Petty, Daphne Grimm (Simon Snow), Pippa (Simon Snow), Lamb (Simon Snow), Shepard (Simon Snow), Agatha Wellbelove, Dev (Simon Snow), Niall (Simon Snow), Gareth (Simon Snow), Rhys (Simon Snow), Insidious Humdrum (Simon Snow)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Fusion, Inspired by Lore Olympus, Slow Burn, Hades!Simon, Persephone!Baz, Pining, Mutual Pining, Miscommunication, False Identity, Arranged Marriage, Magic, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Eventual Sex

Summary:

The Underworld is a fickle realm. Difficult to control on one's own - which leaves Simon in a difficult predicament. Find a co-ruler or eventually crumble and lose everything. But Simon doesn't want to burden anyone with this responsibility. Determined to find a way to do things in his own way.

Natasha has raised her son in the Mortal Realm, planning an idyllic future for him. Whether he wants it or not. That is until Malcolm shows up with a plan for Basil. One that Basil doesn't want and is willing to flee from. Determined to choose his own fate.

So what happens when these two gods who are both struggling with their own destinies cross paths?

[transfemzedaph]

worm man & evil x fic uwu

[be-the-glenn-to-my-maggie]

Well now you’ve got me started on the ikran racing au and now I’m curious so!

Nocorro fic recs for the noob please? 😂

BESTIE finally join the dark sideee.

As I said over dms; unfortunately for you, there are better locorro (and spiri, although I really only rec one hardcore) fics then there are Nocorro. Nocorro is like a desert spot, there really aren’t any aside from a few really short but cool one shots. It's a very small fandom, and it's pretty young right now so tbh most of the fics are not very good, so it'll be a short list anyway. So, as we discussed, here are the high quality, well written Spider ship fics:

For nocorro, there really isn't much. That's why I said I've come so fucking close to writing that ikran au; because I am deeply obsessed with the nocorro parts of it. I adore that au and the ghost neteyam one honestly best of all, but the ghost Neteyam one there is slightly more content for. BUT ANYWAYS;

Upon looking up my list for this I was furious to discover one of the three well written little nocorro one shots has been deleted, so beef begun with CherryApollo (jk queen I need more of them. Actually, a03 user CherryApollo; I know ur reading these posts, or else you wouldn't have tagged that fic nocorro, huh? You said "tumblr has it's claws in me so here's some nocorro" I SEE YOU, I KNOW UR HERE. THERE'S LIKE THREE OF US USING THAT TAG, AND IT'S MOSTLY JUST ME ALONE IN THE VOID. You listen to me. I liked that fucking fic, I had it bookmarked. Give it back to me. But seriously big fan of ur work).

The two remaining fruit themed CherryApollo nocorro oneshots better be your first stop just in case this sociopath decides to take more from me, Take a Bite of the Orange (p sure I was the commenter that took offense mentioned in the notes) and Follow Me Down to the Peach Tree, which did make me want to end it all. Both under 1000 words and worth a quick read.

There is also the ghost of Guilt by thatshowthemafiaworks @undercoverpan who has written us a ghost Spider au which has never failed to make me cry each chapter. The prose is not as flawless as the other recs here, but it packs some emotional weight the others don't. I also can't even fathom where it's going as it all seems entirely hopeless which is why it makes me cry.

The only other nocorro fic I even think is worth a mention is Crop Circles by our bestie @spicymiilk. It's not done and we haven't reached any nocorro yet, but know it's coming and it's good. I get my sticky little fingers in each good Avatar fic writer and I puppeteer the content I want, just look at whats happening here.

For locorro (still a small as hell ship), we can afford to be slightly more picky and I shall give you the best of the best.

Personally I would start with the locorro bible, Bitter by Icandigelvis @oppa86oppa . All of us locorro stans have said this, but this fic started our interest in the ship for most and it caused the cultural revolution of our Spider ship community. This fic still months later lives with me 24/7, and it really is one of THE fics I've ever read of all time. It went righttt into my collection of fics to show to my MFA prof who told me to stop reading fanfiction lol, like seconds after I finished it. Then I put it in the grad school jealousy collection because it's that well formatted.

The Restless Child series by @spicymiilk is a full length novel that will take you a bit lol. I am biased as I do beta it but it's real good. I keep not anticipating turns I should anticipate, but maybe we can convince Andrei to simply let us live for a sec because the fact that it's been like two weeks in universe hit me yesterday while editing and I wanted to fall off an ikran (👀).

There is also, NATURALLY, The Thunder Answered Back by @spicymiilk. This fic crawled up my butt what I can I say. You all got to read my massive post about it, hope u enjoyed that. I was walking back from work today, listening to Back to You by Louis Tomlinson ft Bebe Rexha, in 91 degree heat and it started to thunder and simply pour rain and I was like "I am lIVING The Thunder Answered Back vibes rn, holy fuck." You know it's good writing in general when it gives you a specific vibe. Tbh, that song is that fics vibes, perhaps locorro vibes in general.

I'm only gonna rec one spiri fic for a few reasons. One, because there is a criminal lack of content for them, and two, that fic is worlds above any other spiri fics. I think it's a great starter fic for getting into Spider ships and for getting into spiri in general, just because of how detailed and in depth the world is, my god. It's basically Spider and Kiri pov switches from their childhood up until wayyy past Way of Water and until the end of all conflict with humans. Like any good canon continuation, I disagree with and I agree with a ton of @milesocorro 's interpretation. I don't particularly enjoy the way the conflict concludes, but I really adore the way Quaritch is handled. I said this before to the author, but it's my favorite Quaritch confrontation I've read yet. I have a review up for it while it was still coming out, and I said there I was obsessed with Spider's tsurak and I still fucking am. That's my fav Spider iknimaya sequence too!! Anyways, that's my repeated pitch for Please be kind, please be gentle with me .

[im-still-watching-anime]

i apparently do in fact have favorite fic actually and now every time i write i am acutely aware of this and have to mourn not being able to live up to my own standards

[midnightg0dd3ss]

Writing the next (and probably last) chapter of Narcissus on my phone because my laptop is packed for my flight, and I don't want to turn it on.

[ladyantiheroine]

Maybe this already exists, but I wish there was an app/website that will read my fanfics to me like audiobooks.

[spocks-kaathyra]

ur old friend from spy middle school breaks into the super secret bunker where u live (metaphor for breaking through the emotional walls of ur isolation) to bring u fruit from his garden (metaphor for showing u the rewards of loving and being loved) and lose to u at kotra (metaphor for how success within the fucked up system u live in is inversely correlated to happiness). wyd

[puppywritesthings]

Title: Mirror Feelings

Shoot. I still need to answer these. Now that I see the fake fic title is coming around again, I shall.

Plot time: Jan has fallen in love with her reflection. It could be true. Her confidence has tended to lean towards narcissim at times. It's not all that true though. There's another woman who shows up in her reflection whenever she looks into the antique mirror in her attic. There's an issue though.

This woman can't really speak and Jan has no idea how to free her.

[narcissuswritings]

KafCae Christmas fic!

[bandtrees]

rereading tttaac at 3 am