#mfl ask

[waltwhitmansbeard]

the person commenting about the fictional world map in your fanfiction is so fucking stupid but it's also such an hilarious comment considering who keyleth IS, like. i think even in AUs where she's not a druid, if there's someone who can ride anywhere that's her, like are you kidding bro. have you met this girlie

i don't want to call them stupid, but i do want to say that the comment made a presumption about me and what i do or do not know about the world of exandria that i didn't appreciate. i know that this person doesn't know i dm a campaign set in tal'dorei, that i've read the tal'dorei campaign guide cover to cover, that i put hours of research into my fics, that i already commented on the very thing they were pointing out, but all that is fine. what i'll never, ever understand is the gall that someone would have to *checks notes* fact-check fanfiction. i totally support everyone's right to spend their one wild and precious life however they wish, and if geographical liberties make you want to stop reading a fic, hey, go with god, my dude. but keep your opinions to yourself. i didn't bring my story to a publishing company and have a team of editors go over it. i work full-time and wrote almost 250 pages of mfl in my spare goddamn time (i mean, a lot of it was on the clock, but shush). it's an au. i don't care what i get right or wrong. i try to be canon-compliant where i can, sure, bc that's a challenge i enjoy, but at the end of the day, i made something for free that this person is reading for free and they can choose to walk away from at any time, for free. to put it simply, leave me the fuck alone.

[waltwhitmansbeard]

LMAOOOOOO this is vax rolling his nat 1 walk of shame

I'm like if a chivalrous knight kissed a fair maiden's hand and said "my lady, I fight for you" and then walked off and immediately tripped over his own armor and fell on the ground

[mrghostrat]

Hello!

I was wondering if anyone else was both a Good Omens and Jeeves & Wooster fan, and lo! I found your blog. Forgive me for the self-rec*, but maybe you'll enjoy my crossover fic? https://archiveofourown.org/works/60536929/chapters/154549918

*[imagine a garish sticker here] Laureate Of Good Omens AO3 Tag Of The Day for "Crowley: read me like one of your French Menus"

HELL YEAAAA im so happy to find another fan!!! thank you for the rec!

[housewifebuck]

I dont know if you want to read it, but this fic has the 118 reading fanfic written about Buddie

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44644621

Omg I only skimmed the first few paragraphs so far but Bobby calling tiktok tic-tac…..SCREAM

[autisticlancemcclain]

I just wanna say thank you for recommending single chapter fics cause don't get me wrong multi chapter fics are fine, but sometimes you just need that quick serotonin 🙏🏽

REAL sometimes long fics are the vibe but like. largely i’m here for that dopamine hit. some people vape some people do crack personally i obsess over blorbos lol

[waltwhitmansbeard]

SJDOFIEHWPDJFLWHDOWF NOT MEMES!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS!!!!!!!

@waltwhitmansbeard @ravendruid we talk behind your back (Lovingly<3) -sincerely, the MFL fanclub presidents

[dinodogs]

"When did fursuits get so expensive god damn"

Corporations are artificially jacking up prices of materials and products and claiming "economic inflation" in order to boost profits while keeping worker wages down.

Blame capitalism.

oh ye I'm fully aware of that, I have a few maker friends, I'm moreso talking about people selling suits second hand for wayyy more then they bought it for or poorly/cheaply made suits like lavafox for more then its worth.

I see people all the time trying to sell 6 year old Dont hug cacti, more fur less, made fur you, and elk craft suits that have visible damage for insanely high prices. Cause no matter how well you take care of a suit, it is going to degrade over time and a suit thats 6 years old is going to have a lot of wear and tear from use, and its worth is going to go down even if its from a popular maker

[pureanonofficial]

Henry Higgins (the rat bastard of all time) for the lyric game

Being Alive, Company - Stephen Sondheim

Someone to hold you too close Someone to hurt you too deep Someone to sit in your chair And ruin your sleep

Someone to need you too much Someone to know you too well Someone to pull you up short To put you through hell

Someone you have to let in Someone whose feelings you spare Someone who, like it or not Will want you to share A little a lot

Not a Day Goes By, Merrily We Roll Along - Stephen Sondheim

As the days go by, I keep thinking, "When does it end? Where's the day I'll have started forgetting?" But I just go on Thinking and sweating And cursing and crying And turning and reaching And waking and dying And no, Not a day goes by, Not a blessed day But you're still somehow part of my life And you won't go away.

We Do Not Belong Together, Sunday in the Park with George - Stephen Sondheim

What I feel? You know exactly how I feel. Why do you insist You must hear the words, When you know I cannot give you words? Not the ones you need. There's nothing to say. I cannot be what you want.

Finishing the Hat, Sunday in the Park with George - Stephen Sondheim

And when the woman that you wanted goes You can say to yourself, "Well, I give what I give" But the woman who won't wait for you knows That however you live There's a part of you always standing by

This is very long, and all Sondheim, but I won't apologize because Sondheim suits Higgins somehow. And fun fact, for the last one, I actually made an edit using those lyrics.

[waltwhitmansbeard]

okay now I need a million hcs about korrin and vaxs relationship 😭

HERE WE FUCKING GO

it definitely starts off a little rocky, not only bc vax *checks notes* married his only child in secret and irreversibly altered the future of his nation, but also bc it's hard to so dramatically shift your perception of someone from employee to son-in-law. but after the three of them spend some time together it is absolutely undeniable that keyleth comes to life when around vax, that she's bolder and happier and looser, and that's all he's ever wanted for her.

korrin goes to vax for getting the perspective of a commoner, bc obv until recently vax lived in town and paid rent like the rest of zephrah. and vax doesn't bullshit him, tells him exactly how the policies he enacts affect the people, and korrin appreciates the honesty.

korrin LOVES telling stories, and vax loves listening to them. korrin will tell him all about keyleth as a kid and what the nation was like when he was young. vax is happy to learn any and everything about his new home and his new family and comes home to pepper keyleth with questions.

somehow the two get into fencing, which, like, neither of them is particularly good at. vax is a dagger boy and korrin isn't very dexterous but it's like their male bonding activity, and keyleth is just happy they're stabbing each other for fun and not out of anger. vax is a fast learner, so he improves a lot faster than korrin does, but he'll lose on purpose bc it's more fun that way. they both have little cuts and nicks all over them bc they're dumb and they have so much fun doing it.

after like the third or fourth time he calls vax son, korrin notices that vax reacts to it, so asks if it's okay, and that's when vax tells him what a dick his dad was. korrin knows he's not a perfect dad but he could never imagine not loving his kid with every piece of himself. he casually asks if he should march on syngorn and it makes vax laugh.

[carolinanadeau]

something is so magical about holding an old Playbill. like this thing once sat there and watched the show! I want to absorb its memories!

[mysticalxmagical]

We at the mfl manage dangerous lees and help give them a better attitude and more. We also accept appointments if anyone wants to either help strengthen the positivity of a certain character or have a little laugh themselves.

-Mfl president

Ohhhh- that makes sense.. but what really counts as dangerous? Is it like, they're being a brat or something?-

[inevitably-johnlocked]

Hey Guys!

Another weekend without a fic list ready or any asks, so I took it upon myself collect some fics for a Spooky-Themed list that I will probably have never gotten an ask about anyway. Since I've a lot of Halloween lists, I thought I would try something different and put out some Horror and Thriller Themed fics! I went through my MFL list and tag-searched "horror" and "thrilller", so these fics are ones that the author has tagged as such, so I can't guarantee frights... but I hope that y'all will enjoy this list anyway! I haven't read any of these so please heed the tags!

AND if you have a fave horror or psychological thriller story you've written or want to recommend, PLEASE do in the notes or reblogs and I'll add them to this list!

Happy Spooky Season, everyone!

HORROR / THRILLER FICS (MFLs)

See also:

Halloween Fics (Oct 2018)

Halloween and Ghosts (updated Oct 31/21)

Halloween Fics 2023 (MFLs)

5FF: Spooky Saturday Edition (Oct 31/20)

Ghosts / Figments (Updated Oct 2023)

Within by songlin (T, 992 w., 1 Ch. || Horror) – Amazingly enough, John notices it first. It must be something to do with combat instincts, or paying attention to nagging feelings despite any amount of contradictory evidence, or just paranoia. Whatever it is, it boils down to this: something is wrong.

Little Slices of Death by Enterthetadpole (E, 994 w., 1 Ch. || Friends To Lovers, Horror, Humour, Happy Ending, Case Fic, Romance) – Sherlock Holmes gets involved in a case where the victims and crimes that are eerily similar to the works of a certain horror author stories. Will he solve the case before the people around him die around him?

I O U by MintoKitsune (T, 1,299 w., 1 Ch. || Horror / Drama, Kidnapping) – Moriarty kidnaps John and leaves Sherlock a little message... A short one shot about Jim being his mean ol' self. (FFNet)

These Hands of Yours by okapi (E, 2,700 w., 1 Ch. || ACD Canon || Supernatural Elements, Horror, Hands, Anal Fisting / Fingering, Halloween) – Holmes has casts made of his hands. Watson falls in love. So do the hands.

The Babadook by CatieBrie (T, 6,886 w., 1 Ch. || Babadook Fusion || Post-TRF, Horror, Demonic Possession, Violence, Halloween, Grief, Angst with Happy Ending) – “A children’s book,” John mutters as he flips it open. The pages are scrawled with beautiful charcoal lines and thick black ink. The cover, bright red, edges the open pages and something tugs at the back of John’s brain. It’s a familiar feeling, black and tarrish and thick in his thoughts. He shakes it off and picks the book up off his bed, turning so that he can sit on the edge and spread the book out across his knees. If it’s in a word or it’s in a look, you can’t get rid of the Babadook. He turns the page, ignoring the pressure building beneath his chest. There’s a closet on one page; paper doors meant to be opened by the reader flutter as John reads the text on the other page.

Black Cat by CatieBrie (E, 7,158 w., 1 Ch. || Psychological Horror, Supernatural Elements, Disturbing Themes, Body Horror, Sex, Major Consent Issues / Possible Rape, MCD, Intent Magic, Ambiguity) – He’s watching Sherlock crawl up his body, doesn’t have to see to know he has a blade tucked away somewhere, knows his body will react no matter what. “Do you know what this is, John?” Sherlock holds up a doll made of rudimentary cloth stuffed with god knows what. It’s wearing a crude rendition of John’s favorite striped shirt, denim pants and the hair is too fine and blonde-shocked-grey to be anything else but his. John tries to answer, has no voice, shakes his head. “It’s a poppet.” Sherlock explains, pushes the arms together and John’s limbs react, snapping to his sides and remaining there even as he tries desperately to struggle free.

The Spirit Child by VelvetMace (M, 7,287 w., 1 Ch. || Psychological Horror, Disturbing Themes, Horror, Gore) – A small wooden box filled with clay and feotus bones yields more than just clues to a violent murder. A Halloween Story. Read at your own risk -- and I do not say this lightly.

Leaves by DiscordantWords (NR, 7,513 w., 1 Ch. || Dreams and Nightmares, Dream Sharing, Halluciinations, Horror / Unsettling, Ambiguous/Open Ending) – It came on a Wednesday, with the post. 

Ruins of the Dark by philalethia (M, 8,205 w., 1 Ch. || Dark Sherlock AU ||  Post-TRF, Horror, Supernatural Elements, Blood and Gore, Suicidal Thoughts, Extremely Dubious Consent) – Three years after “The Reichenbach Fall,” Sherlock comes back. But he comes back wrong.

The Web by DiscordantWords (M, 8,421 w., 2 Ch. || Post-TRF, Horror, Spiders, Horrific Imagery, Spying, Mild Gore) – Moriarty is dead. That doesn't mean he isn't watching.

I Could Try by Arcwin (T, 9,583 w., 5 Ch. || Greek Mythology Crossover || Post-TRF, Orpheus and Eurydice Myth, POV John, Pining John, BAMF John, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Horror, Angst with Happy Ending) – John is grieving Sherlock's death post Reichenbach until one day, he sees the violin case, and something inside him tells him to pick it up. Crossover between BBC Sherlock and the Greek tragedy Orpehus and Eurydice, wherein Eurydice is killed for her beauty and taken to the Underworld. Orpheus, being the son of Apollo (the God of Music and Medicine) travels to the Underworld to convince (via playing his lyre) Hades and Persephone to let Eurydice go. Orpheus then must travel with Eurydice behind him, not looking back, until they exit to the land of the living.

Puzzlebox by  standbygo (E, 9,867 w., 5 Ch. || Hellraiser Fusion || True Love, Supernatural Elements, Psychological Horror, First Kiss, Post S2, Angst with Happy Ending) – A love story with horror. A horror story with a happy ending.

Apprehension by BashfulBunny (M, 14,339 w., 19 Ch. || Thriller, Romance, Kidnapping, Drug Use, Medical, Undercover, Road Trips, Hurt/Comfort, BAMD Captain John, Action/Adventure, Falling in Love, Angst with Happy Ending, Mercenary John, Fluff and Angst, Protective John/Sherlock) – John and Sherlock have never met and don’t know each other. For some reason John kidnaps Sherlock (maybe he thinks he’s working for good people, while in fact they are bad and lie to him; he’s got an order to kidnap Sherlock Holmes and deliver him to somebody. John himself isn’t a bad person though). John is protective. When he realises that he, in fact, has done a really bad thing (and was lied to, depending on the scenario), he saves Sherlock (from his employers perhaps) and wants to take him back where he’d taken him. But he won’t be able to get rid of Sherlock easily, or at all for that matter. Sherlock won’t go.

Scream! by johnwatso (E, 15,250 w., 8 Ch. || Scream Crossover || Post S4, Horror / Slasher, Friends to Lovers, Hurt/Comfort, Case Fic, Minor Character Death, Copycat Killer, Three Garridebs Moment) – An unknown number starts calling Sherlock and asking questions about horror movies. John is pretty sure it's a serial killer.

The Writing on the Wall by grannysknitting (M, 24,139 w., 11 Ch. || Pre-S2, Horror/Supernatural, Mild Gore) – Lestrade notices John behaving oddly at a crime scene. Unfortunately so does Mycroft. What is it about the people living at 221B? (FFNet)

Still of the Night by michi_thekiller (E, 30,762 w., 22 Ch. || 1950s Dark Vampire Greaser AU || Vampire Sherlock, Greaser Sherlock, Nerd John, Rape/Non-Con Elements, Period-Typical Homophobia, Horror, Seduction) – 1.) Curfew must be obeyed. 2.) Streets must be clear by sundown. 3.) If you find yourself out after curfew, seek shelter at the home of a friend, relative, or neighbor whom you know and trust. 4.) Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should any unknown persons be allowed into the home after curfew.

From a Well, Dark and Deep by Vulpesmellifera (M, 32,691 w., 18 Ch. || Post S4, Supernatural Elements, Horror / Mild Body Horror, Bed Sharing, Possession, Hand Holding, Whump, Hurt/Comfort, Friends to Lovers, Coming Out, Alternating POV, Nightmares, Caring John, Happy Ending) – Sherlock Holmes is desperately trying to reconcile his newfound memories and feelings within his transport—a transport that won’t quit with the nightmares and the strange, fiddly anxieties that crop up at the most inopportune moments. On the advice of his psychiatrist—not that he’s thrilled to be taking the man’s advice, but needs must—he's going to mark the anniversary of Eurus’ torments. That explains why he visits the well. What he finds at the well, though, is entirely unexpected. Meanwhile, John Watson has finally come to terms with something he’s ignored his entire life. He’s ready to share that something with Sherlock, except Sherlock isn’t acting himself. It's not the time for confessions, and John determines he must get to the bottom of his best friend's affliction before he can reveal anything. Part 3 of Vulpes' Halloween Johnlock

Slender: However Improbable by philalethia (M, 33,378 w., 5 Ch. || Slender Man AU || Post-TRF, Case Fic, Horror, Science Fiction, Supernatural Elements, Mild Gore) – Six months after The Fall, John is falling apart. Then a homeless woman is thrown from the roof of St. Bartholomew's; a tall, thin man in a black suit begins follow him; and John slowly realises that both he and Scotland Yard are very, very out of their depths.

Where The Ghosts Have Voices by HappyJuicyfruit (M, 37,691 w., 12 Ch. || Supernatural AU || Ghosts, Magical Realism, Light Horror, Fluff and Smut, John Can See Ghosts, John Whump, Emotional Manipulation, Dark Magic, Coma, Injury Recovery, Blow Jobs, Anal, Happy Ending, John’s Past, Mr Holmes, Powerful John, Holmes Brothers, Sherlock’s Past, Past Viclock, Drug Abuse, Hair Pulling) – John has lived his whole life as an outcast. It is only when he meets Sherlock, that be realizes being a freak might not be such a bad thing, and that the curse he has lived with his whole life may be a gift after all.

This Is Family by SaraStarchild (T, 39,840 w., 16 Ch. || Hereditary AU || Psychological Horror, Body Horror, Demonic Possession, POV Third Person Limited, Protective Mycroft, Cults, Mycroft Whump, Sherlock Whump, Major Character Death, Graphic Violence, Retelling) – When the Holmes family's secretive mother and matriarch, Ellen Holmes, passes away, the family she leaves behind – father Martin, sons Mycroft and Sherlock, and daughter Eurus – begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem to have inherited. This is, pretty much, a word-for-word retelling of the 2018 Ari Aster film, Hereditary. Part 1 of Sherlock Halloween Stories

Emergency by EmeraldUrAFreak (M, 40,353 w., 24 Ch. || Teenlock AU || Teen Romance, Drug Use, Angst, Hospitalized John, Broken John, John Whump, Absent Parents, Sherlock Fixing John, Insecure John, Younger John, Older Sherlock, Helping Each Other, Papa Lestrade, Case Fic, Alternating POV, Mild Gore, Horror, Non-Graphic Violence, Corpses) – Recovering drug addict Sherlock Holmes meets supposedly permanently hospital stuck John Watson. As they become friends- and maybe even more - they have ups and downs finding out each other’s pasts. Sherlock is shocked at how deep John's goes resulting in a case of new stakes. Fixing old relations and creating new ones that are hard to keep in this dreadful time. They never knew what was waiting around the corner.

The Straw Man Fallacy by Vulgarweed (E, 40,422 w., 8 Ch. || Wicker Man AU || Ritual Sex, Sacrifice, Mystery and Horror, Romance, Fuck or Die, Dubious Morality, Mildly Dubious Consent, Pagan Festivals, Public Sex, First Time, Case Fic, Virgin Sherlock, Scotland, Kilts) – Summerisle is not a welcoming place to visitors, but it shows its best face at May Day. For ulterior motives.

Curse of the Were-Tuna by WhoGroovesOn (E, 46,916 w., 9 Ch. || Were-Creature AU || Nudity, Aquariums, Fish, Body Horror, Curses, Cuddling, Romance, Transformations, Frottage, Anal, Fem! Moriaty/Moran, First Time) – John couldn’t help but feel as though the large tuna beyond the glass was staring at him, which was weird because it’s not like fish had eyelids, they always seemed to be staring at things.

Distortion by holmesian_love (NR, 51,585 w., 23 Ch. || Post S4, Faked Suicide / Suicide Attempt, Hurt/Comfort, Medical Examination, PTSD, Psychological Horror, Blood, Spiders, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Parentlock with Rosie, Angry John, Confusion) – John Watson is persuaded to move back into Baker Street with Rosie. The friendship -though delicate - is mending slowly after everything they've been through. That is, until strange events start happening to John which begin to disrupt the happy life they have been creating. Is there a medical explanation, or is something more sinister at play? Will they discover the cause before it tears them apart for good?

To Be Human by ohlooktheresabee (NR, 78,437 w., 13 Ch. || Post-THoB, Graphic Violence, Synesthesia, Case Fic, Serial Killers, Kidnapping, BAMF John, Sherlock is a Mess, Asexuality/Demisexuality, Torture, Protective John, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Medical Procedures, Queerplatonic Relationships, Asperger Syndrome, Thriller, Insecure Sherlock, Touching, Caring John, Affection, Hurt Sherlock, Touch Starvation) – There is a serial killer on the loose with a penchant for collecting the brains of his victims. Sherlock, John and Scotland Yard are on the case, but something about the chosen victims has Sherlock on edge. While they piece together the clues that will lead to the killer, John begins to realize that the way his best friend thinks may sometimes be more a hindrance than a help...

The Killing Principle by Vulpesmellifera (E, 104,593 w., 46 Ch. || American AU || Gay John, Serial Killer Mary, Bum Appreciation, Sherlock is William, Dating Difficulties, BAMF Sherlock, Slow Burn, Thriller, Confessions, Whump, Angst with Happy Ending, Minor Character Death) – John Watson served twice in AmeriCorps, married his high school sweetheart, and then entered med school. A sudden arrest and accusation of multiple murders ends his promising career, irrevocably altering his life's trajectory. Acquitted of his wife’s crimes, John spends the next ten years as the maligned ex-husband of convicted serial killer Mercy Mary. A job offer draws him out of hiding and back to Connecticut - the very state where the crimes were committed. He needs the money, and the job is a dream. Then he meets the brilliant William Vernet, and it seems like he has a second chance at life and love. But the past has a way of catching up.

Monsters in the Woods by ArwaMachine (E,114,760 w., 16 Ch. || 1980′s Summer Camp Horror AU || Character Death, Violence, Gore, Spooky Stuff, Blow Jobs, Anal, Hand Jobs, Kissing, Period-Typical Homophobia) – John isn’t particularly sure why he took the counsellor position at Camp Baker Stream, an American-style summer camp for rich kids. He isn’t fond of the wilderness, nor is he fond of kids. He also isn’t sure if he’s fond of his cabin-mate, a strange bloke named Sherlock Holmes who seems perpetually on edge and more than a bit of an arse. It certainly doesn’t help that apparently the camp has a sordid past—a series of gristly murders that took place eight years ago, perpetrated by one James Moriarty. Sherlock seems convinced that the events of the past are doomed to repeat, but that idea seems to fall in the realm of the impossible. That is, until camp counsellors start going missing… Inspired by every 80s slasher flick that is so bad it’s good, this fic merges summer camp horror tropes with the BBC Sherlock universe, adding a sprinkle of smut for good measure!

Welcome to Silent Hill by Cleo2010 (M, 130,227 w., 37 Ch. || Silent Hill Fusion || POV First Person Sherlock, Unrequited Love, Psychological Horror, Violence / Gore, Monsters, Nudity, Drug Use, Harm to Children, Cults, Distressing Imagery, Torture, Death) – John is missing. When Sherlock receives a text summoning him to Silent Hill he's intent on reclaiming his friend but the town has other ideas. Our detective must battle through a world shaped by his own troubled psyche as he uncovers the town's secrets, attempts to find John and hunt down Jim Moriarty. Part 1 of the Welcome to Silent Hill series

In the Deep, Where Dark Things Sleep by HardlyFair (M, 184,979 w., 26 Ch. || Scorpio Races AU || Graphic Violence, 1960′s, Slow Burn, Past Drug Use, Bed Sharing, Water Horses, Folklore, First Kiss/Time, Horror Elements, Vet!John, Protective John, Magical Realism, Horse Racing, Mutual Pining, Angst with Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort) – The closer time crawls to November, the more water horses the Scorpio Sea spits out. The colder Thisby becomes. Sherlock Holmes is an islander - completely surrounded by the water. John Watson, he knows, comes from the mainland and lives for the Races. On the first of November, Sherlock will race. The man holding steady by his side is someone he never expects. A Scorpio Races AU (Maggie Stiefvater), but no knowledge of the book needed.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Closure by S_IRIS (E, 28,718+ w., 12/45 Ch. || WiP || Alternate Universe || Viclock then Eventual Johnlock, Falling in Love, Horror, Case Fic, Adventure of the Gloria Scott Adaptation, Emotional / Psychological Abuse, Abusive Relationships, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Angst with Happy Ending, Slow Burn, Sherlock in Denial) – After a brush with death, Sherlock is convinced by Victor to recover in their country house and give their crumbling marriage one last chance. But the retreat turns into a nightmare when Sherlock starts to feel a malevolent presence in the house and finds no one believing him except the son of the missing groundskeeper.

The Things That Haunt Us by BRNZ (E, 92,993+ w., 18/? Ch. || Graphic Depictions of Violence, Dead People, Child Death, PTSD John, Psychological Horror, Nightmares, Bed Sharing, Heavy Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Developing Relationship, Childhood Trauma, Domestic Bliss, BAMF John, Friendship / Love, POV John, Pining John, Therapy) – What happens when a post war vet with PTSD takes up with a madman detective and they spend time investigating and solving some truly horrific crimes? How does the doctor who can kill with steady hand process all that additional trauma? How do we recognise that our past still haunts us, in ways we don't realise? When you are caught in a vicious cycle of needing the thrill of the chase, and having to deal with the fallout...what happens when you might need to choose between the two for your own sanity? The story of how two damaged men managed to find their way back to each other and begin to make a future together.

[waltwhitmansbeard]

AJDFLAPSJSLSNDKFKWJ CANNOT BELIEVE Y’ALL KEEP MAKING MEMES I CAN’T—

@crispysnake and I going over all the angsty feelings after the latest chapter of GOCMH.

[sitp-recs]

liv hi!!!! so. my mfl is 20 pages currently. that’s like. 400 fics. and most of them are from your recs! but i shan’t stop i am filled with endless drarry greed and i’ve come to ask you for more 🤲

since it’s summer, i’ve been really craving stories set by the seaside! tbh any body of water will do, lakes/oceans/waterfalls/muddy puddles in concrete?? let’s say water-centric!

if you or your followers have any recs for me i’d be sooo delighted ☀️🌊 sending love & my eternal thanks

Hi anon! Omg sounds like you’ve got a lot on your plate and I love that you’re looking for even more reads 😂 I miss the good old days, now I’m in the eternal “so much to read, so little time” loop :(

thank you for the great ask, I hope you enjoy these fics!

Beautiful Madness by @phdmama (E, 3k)

When Harry joins Draco and his friends on vacation in Grenada, fresh off of a year in America, he's a changed man, and Draco doesn't quite know how to react. React appropriately, that is.

On The Shore by @skeptiquewrites (T, 3k)

Draco takes up wild swimming. Harry joins him.

Sun Stroke by @peachpety (E, 4k)

Draco, Harry, and a handful of friends take a summer holiday at the beach. With the help of a sultry sea setting, encouraging friends, and a fisherman’s jumper, Harry and Draco's mutual attraction swells and things get hot on a salty summer night.

Sun, Sand and Sambuca by JulietsEmoPhase (E, 6k)

Holiday romance where Harry and Draco are best men for their respective stag dos, but still want to find time to sneak a moment for themselves. Muggle AU Drarry.

But no Man moved Me – till the Tide by @aibidil (E, 7k)

Harry bursts into Draco's office one morning and drags him away for an impromptu beach holiday. Draco knows something's happened, and wonders if Harry will open up to him. Featuring a Muggle bed and breakfast, wizards at the beach, Draco's house-elf who loves Harry, Muggle paperbacks, and the scary and exhilarating feeling of complete freedom and possibility.

Saltwater Stain by @the-starryknight (M, 9k)

Seven days stuck on a boat investigating a rogue ghost wouldn't be so bad if Harry didn't want Draco so much. Draco has his rules and Harry's content to follow them, but the air feels different away from the shore. Is it possible that the sea could offer Harry something impossible on land?

Maelstrom, the water told me by onbeinganangel (E, 11k)

Maelstrom (noun, /ˈmeɪl.strɒm/, from the Dutch maalstroom): 1. a large powerful whirlpool 2. a turbulent tidal current 3. an agitated and/or confusing situation or state of mind 4. a magical core disturbance occurring on an adult, not directly caused by trauma

the way you make me glow by softlystarstruck (M, 11k)

In a cottage next to the sea, love blossoms. Or perhaps it’s been there all along.

The Isle of Ogygia by @citrusses (E, 13k)

There is an island, far out in the sea.

Take My Hand by daisymondays (E, 13k)

Draco has long resigned himself to pining after Harry... that is until an invite on the annual Ministry holiday gives him a chance to change everything.

what the body wants is coolness by lastontheboat (T, 13k)

Draco and Harry have been seeing each other for months, and Harry decides the best way to tell their friends is to bring Draco to a group beach outing. Draco's given up enumerating all the ways this plan could go wrong.

The Oceans They Did Rise by disapparater (M, 18k)

Finding post-war life more difficult than he'd imagined, Harry travels halfway around the world to find some peace. He also finds Malfoy, art, adventure, the ocean, and himself. (Not necessarily in that order.)

The Isle of Discussion by @shealwaysreads (E, 22k)

Harry and Draco arrive at the shores of Loch Leven to record the magical history of the land. They’re friends now, but up there in the Highlands, amidst the trees and sky and that wild expanse of water their own past is more present than ever; a gap they still can’t bridge. Magic illuminates the truth, but it is Harry and Draco who have to speak it. Happily, it turns out that honesty is, in fact, the best policy.

What Shall Not Be Unearthed by @iero0 (E, 49k)

At the northernmost point of Shetland, surrounded by pointed cliffs, towers the Ootsta Lighthouse on a small isle in the middle of the open sea. Little does Harry know that he's not the only new lighthouse keeper. Draco Malfoy is as obnoxious as he always was, with his posh tone of voice and his luxury yacht jumpers. Harry tries his best to avoid the git—who knows what he's up to anyway?

Everybody Hates a Tourist by @wolfpants (E, 51k)

On a stag do in sunny Brighton with the Gryffindor lads, the last person Harry expects to run into is Draco Malfoy. After a glimpse of Malfoy’s Muggle life in Britain’s gay capital, Harry’s curiosity gets the better of him and he finds himself returning to the seaside again and again, drawn to the city, drawn to this new version of Malfoy that Harry barely recognises from school.

Naked by @bixgirl1 (E, 57k)

Harry and Draco are sent on an undercover assignment to catch a Dark wizard — which might not be so bad if it weren't at a Muggle nudist resort.

I Am Not Who I Became by mab_di (E, 93k)

Draco left England after the trials and has travelled the world meeting wizards and Muggles from different cultures and with vastly different relationships to magic, each other, and the natural world. Now he's a fisherman in Finland on commercial vessels. Harry has been struggling since the war and has become a recluse while trying to write his autobiography.

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It's so good

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42056943

Ohhhh yes!! Nie’s fic!!! That’s been on my mfl for a while I can’t wait to read it

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This is my outline for a Rizzles My Fair Lady AU, inspired by @miz-chase and her post about Rizzles Anastasia AUs. Of course, in this MFL AU, Jane Rizzoli is our Eliza Doolittle and Maura Isles is our Henry Higgins.

In early 1900s Boston, Maura Isles is an expert in dialects, accents, and etiquette. She moves into a new home with her friend and fellow expert Suzy Chang.

Maura and Suzy are best friends and amicable exes, so while walking in their neighborhood, Suzy buys Maura flowers from a pretty flower seller, who introduces herself as Jane. After they leave the flower stall, Maura laments to Suzy about the lack of etiquette and proper speech she sees in the public, including Jane (a scene standing in for the song Why Can’t the English?)

Jane and her family talk about how lovely it would be to have more financial security and be able to sit in a mansion and eat chocolates like they imagine Maura does. Jane’s mother puts in that it would be possible, if Jane put in more effort to be classy and feminine and marry a good man. Jane ignores this. (Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?)

Jane runs into her friend Korsak, who is also lamenting his financial situation but takes a more optimistic tack (With a Little Bit of Luck)

Jane is inspired to make her own luck- she’ll go to Maura and ask for her help to be a proper lady, so she can get a better job and help her family and Korsak. Maura offers Jane lessons on how to speak and conduct herself like a lady. Jane, desperate not to see her family on the streets, accepts.

Maura and Suzy make a bet, Maura wagering that she can make Jane a whole new woman in six months. Suzy has her doubts.

Jane moves in with Maura and Suzy, and lessons begin. Jane has a ball teasing Maura and giving her a hard time, intentionally messing up and goofing off. Jane loves making her annoyed and fantasizes about revenge for all Maura’s constant criticism- but she also loves making her laugh. (Just You Wait)

But when Maura gets truly frustrated and panicky that she won’t cooperate, Jane takes pity on her and does a perfect impression of a society lady (The Rain in Spain). Maura is so happy and proud that she takes Jane in her arms and waltzes her around the room, and Jane is addicted to the feeling of praise and to seeing Maura happy. All she wants is to feel that way again. To make Maura smile and hold her like that again. Dancing with Maura has Jane on cloud nine (I Could Have Danced All Night).

(I mean really, imagine it. “I only know when she began to dance with me, I could have danced, danced, danced all night.” Gay.)

Jane feels wrong, trying to change her personality like this. The world wants her to be feminine and soft, and she can pretend, but she’s always gonna be butch. And she’s always gonna be a brash Boston Italian.

Instead of Henry Higgins’ raging misogyny, Maura has to overcome her classism. As she spends more time with Jane, she learns to loosen up, try new things, and be less of a pedant about slang and other things she doesn’t understand.

She takes Jane to an awful society event (Ascot Gavotte), where Jane is still somewhat her uncouth self, but Maura’s fondness for Jane overcomes her frustration with her. At the event, Jane meets and hits it off with a man named Casey. We’ll be hardcore ignoring Casey’s On the Street Where You Live moment because Casey is boring (but the song is good, go listen to Jordan Donica sing it, treat your ears.)

Maura continues taking Jane to society events, becoming more and more jealous as men like Casey and others ask to dance with Jane. Her tutoring is working, but losing Jane is breaking her heart.

A local bigwig at an event mistakes Jane for an heiress, meaning her training worked. Maura buries her uncomfortable feelings for Jane behind a celebration with Suzy that she won the bet and now they’ll have backing to open a comportment school (You Did It). Jane overhears them celebrating and realizes she’s just a project to Maura, devastating her. Jane thinks Maura is ashamed of Jane’s true self.

As Jane is fleeing the event, Casey tries to confess his love for her, but she tells him she has no use for words and needs action (Show Me). It’s clear she’s really hoping Maura, not Casey, will show her that she cares about her. Jane wants what she overheard Maura saying to be a misunderstanding, but she can’t quite believe it.

Jane returns home to her family, quickly moving out of Maura’s house to protect her heart. She doesn’t feel at home at Maura’s anymore.

While Jane is at her family home, Korsak arrives and announces his intention to marry Kiki, and the Rizzolis scramble to get him ready for the big day and celebrate his bachelor party (Get Me to the Church On Time).

Maura laments what she lost and wonders why Jane ran from her. Suzy undertakes an investigation to find Jane and reunite them.

When Suzy brings Maura to Jane’s family home to see her, they have a fight, and Jane tells Maura she doesn’t need her, she’d rather be herself and be alone than put herself in a box for someone who’s ashamed of her (Without You). Jane has reverted to her true self and come to love all sides of that self in spite of Maura.

Maura goes home and laments how much she misses Jane (I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face). She listens to the audio recording she made of Jane’s first lesson with her and cringes at how mean she, Maura, sounds, criticizing everything Jane says. Maura writes Jane an apology letter saying she’s sorry, and that she truly loves every facet of Jane and should never have dreamed of trying to change her.

Maura sees a vision of Jane returning to her house and embraces her, and the two embark on a happy domestic life together- but it is ambiguous whether that happy life is real, or whether we’re only seeing Maura’s doomed fantasies play out, her chance with Jane gone forever. You choose whether you prefer a happy or sad ending.