#most recent bookmarks

[beemosketches]

hello!! I very recently got into tobiizu and I adore your drawings! I just got the fantasy zine last week and was so happy to see those precious boys! For this tobiizu newbie looking to explore the fandom a little more, do you have any favorite fics or authors? And do you know if there are any tobiizu events going on this year?

Hello, thank you and welcome! 💕

(gosh, I haven't posted the fantasy zine art yet)

I am admittedly really out of touch on the latest tobiizu on AO3. But I CAN shamelessly plug the blogs of writers whose work I enjoyed over the years. List includes but definitely is not limited to:

@good-grievance (who wrote the poem that went with my art in the zine! my personal favorite of theirs is Solemates, but they write an incredibly wide range of AUs. Just go see.)

@silverutahraptor (Thanks (I still hate you) - the funniest bitey-est sassiest Izuna. Definitely check out all of their Izuna writings)

@denialcity (For Adoration Grow, read in tumblr on BROWSER so that the chronological ordering works properly; this one has moments so memorable I HAD to draw some of them)

@writhingbeneathyou (Footprints in the Snow - difficult to choose ONE from WBY's work. Go see the rest.)

@hashiramashonkers (can't seem to shut my eyes - another case of I can't possibly pick. just click, read, and click again and read more)

@domoz (So It Grows is in very recent memory from a gift exchange and I adore it very much)

@silver-studios (Gravity of Tempered Grace, incredible time travel fix-it, go read it immediately if you haven't already)

Consider this a starting point? Check out their other stuff, too. Feed them comments along the way!

[bluejayblueskies]

Do you have JayVik fics you'd recommend? 💙

i do!! i'll include a general link to my jayvik bookmarks first, for a broader list of fics i've enjoyed

and then for specific fics! under a cut as this got long

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Four Million Miles from Here | LiteralWho | E, complete

Viktor asks: “What is it, Jayce?” Briefly, Viktor expects he will receive an answer. Jayce looks at his wrist, then at him; but he smiles, weakly, and shakes his head. “It’s nothing.” He now knows it is safe to say so. He pushes to his feet and touches Viktor’s shoulder. “Let’s go inside.” In these moments, Viktor cannot refuse him. He follows Jayce, watches him retreat into the bedroom. Jayce wished for his partner back, but something else came with him. It cannot be seen, but it can be felt: the round, repellant force between two magnets. Too much has been revealed. Too little is known. This imbalance has manifested itself into a barrier, into a tangle, yet it is too tightly wound to be safely unraveled. It sits between them like a ghost; this entity, this unspoken thing. . The rune swallows them up, and abandons them in an unfamiliar land. Is this not what they wanted? With naught but the clothes on their backs, they are left to wander. To wonder.

one of my favorite post-canon fics! it's got a really excellent ambiguous quality to it, and the prose is gorgeous

Capgras | wifidelis (@wi-fidelis) | M, in progress

Jayce and Viktor are hurled out of the anomaly and dropped into the field where it all began. While it seems like the opportunity for a fresh start, Jayce's health rapidly begins to decline. In a desperate bid to save his partner, Viktor makes a series of shocking discoveries about Jayce's body and mental state... leading Viktor to believe that *his* Jayce is not what emerged from the Arcane with him. Jayce, struggling with the effects of the Arcane on his mental state, also begins to wonder if he is himself anymore.

another favorite post-canon fic! so few post-canon fics have a focus on jayce whump, and this fic is a tasty and excellent example of it

it’s hard being (at) the bottom. | lambchopsandmashedpotatoes | E, complete

Down in the chasm, an iridescent creature disassembles Jayce so that he can put himself back together in the morning. It keeps them both sane, in a way. Or; Jayce is losing his mind. Viktor is happy to hold it for him.

this is a porn-with-some-plot missing-scene from jayce's time in the fissure. fics from this time period never fail to make me chomp, as they're always a good source of whump and angst, and i like the combination in this one of "slow descent to madness" and eroticism

I've Been Thinking of All the Little Things That You've Been Missing | FourOddApples | E, complete

“Just a note. If someone is in love with you and you don’t want them, the kind fucking thing to do is to let them go.” -- Or: Viktor takes a chance that Jayce doesn’t know what to do with. Things are different after that, and slowly but surely Jayce begins to second-guess his response.

i love a good "character A thinks character B doesn't reciprocate and withdraws accordingly," and this has a splash of that, a splash of bi-awakening jayce, and a splash of excellent smut

healing and treating | weatheredlaw (@weatheredlaw) | E, complete

Jayce and Viktor are some of Piltover’s most brilliant physicians. They’re also divorced and it’s everyone’s problem.

this is a series of two fics in an AU where jayce and viktor are, as it says above, physicians who work in the same hospital who are divorced. it's got some nice disabled jayce in addition to, of course, disabled viktor, and the exes-to-lovers arc is satisfying

Monuments | begaydocrimes10001 (@canyounotexistelias) | T, complete

Friends make friends stuff all the time, and Jayce did break Viktor's cane. It'd be a nice thing to do. A cane, plus some cool tools, and Jayce will be able to know he's a good friend. He likes this plan. (Or, Jayce makes a new cane for Viktor. He then makes some more stuff. It spirals from there very, very quickly.)

this is one of the more lighthearted fics on this list, and i like it because i'm a big fan of wife guy jayce talis showering his beloved with gifts and accidentally saving the world at the same time

advanced practical physics (the laws of attraction apply) | Sinister_Queer | E, complete

Jayce has five months left until he finishes his undergraduate degree. Five months until he could start his real life, until he could start doing what he wanted. The only thing standing in his way is one group project and the partner he'd slept with two nights ago. (Jayce and Viktor have a one night stand, then end up as group project buddies.)

there's a lot of university AUs out there, and this is my favorite one. i'm always a bit shaky about misunderstandings in fics, but i enjoyed this one--poor jayce is trying his best with the information he has on hand 😂

disjunction | Nanashi07 | M, complete

Six years after he and Viktor part ways on antagonistic terms, Jayce wakes up in the Machine Herald’s medical clinic. . Jayce desperately wants to rub at his forehead, but the binding at his wrist stops him. He settles for squeezing his eyes shut. “Why?” he asks. Viktor is silent for barely a moment. He says, tonelessly, “I assumed this was preferable to dying.”

i've read a few of this genre of post-s1 fic that diverge from s2, and i'm a big fan of this one. i really like how our perspective of what's happening changes as jayce finds out more information, and i am forever besotted with viktor's little robot helpers

High Hawk Season | JeanLuciferGohard | T, complete

Three weeks, and the south-facing side of his apartment is still missing, and they won’t even let him sleep there with a tarp tacked over it, because the ‘structure of the building was compromised’ and it’s ‘not fit for habitation’, as if student housing, even student housing on the Kiramann’s dime, ever had any claim on habitability in the fucking first place. “I've been sleeping at the lab, Viktor.” (which he probably would’ve done anyway, but it’s matter of principle–it’s–okay, it’s fundamental question of free will and fair housing practices and not having to live with his mother, who publicly called him a lunatic) Sometimes, you are a genius, and a sizable explosion knocks out most of your living space, and you end up living with your research partner, and it's only weird if you make it weird.

this fic is recced by everyone and god, but for good reason. i adore the characterization of viktor in here, and if you're looking for something that doesn't go super hard on the jayvik romance, this will scratch that itch

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i have a few more recs, separate from the others as they contain topics that are more likely to squick people. feel free to take or leave these as you desire!

a new promise | disembarks (@dis-embarks) | T, complete

CW: Major Character Death

“Did you do it?” he asks it like he doesn’t truly want to know. Jayce cannot lie to him. “Yes,” he murmurs. “It’s gone.” I killed it. And you. . Jayce destroys the Hexcore.

this fic made me cry, and thus i am recommending it to you and everyone i know 😂 i'm obsessed especially with the themes of regret and impermanence in this

The Glorious Epilogue | saltslimes (@saltslimes) | E, complete

CW: Mpreg, body horror (these two tags are related)

The rune spits Jayce out on hard rock. It’s dry and dusty under his hands and when he blinks awake, face-down, clothing soaked, alive against all odds, he actually can’t draw a breath. A drop of water hits his face. And then another. It’s raining, and he doesn’t know where he is, but he’s back in the fissure, he’s certain of it. A cruel ending for a wasted life. Jayce Talis, the Man of Progress, who thought at every turn he had the right idea, and failed in every way that ever mattered. - Thrown across the continent, but painfully alive, Jayce struggles to keep Viktor from falling into mental ruin, and himself from keeling over. He can still hold a hammer, so he does what he's always done: cling to hope, however foolish it may be.

this is another favorite post-canon fic. i love the little town jayce and viktor end up in, and i love how both of them struggle to adapt in their own ways. the pregnancy aspect is related to the effects of the very end of s2, where jayce and viktor are together in the arcane, and i think it's fun and also a little bit horrifying (positive)

a bird flies into a mirror | zbz | M, complete

CW: Rape/Non-Con

Viktor struggles to recover from a violent sexual assault. Jayce refuses to let him fight alone.

this fic is a tough read emotionally, but i think it's worth it. it really leans into the class politics at play in piltover, as well as being a well-done bit of viktor whump. as an additional warning, the first chapter has some explicit on-screen rape that is interrupted partway through.

[deanofsam]

and lo i tell you this: god hath blest us by giving us ao3 user Goshen (applecrumbledore)

[mothmage]

🦇 fic rec time! link me to one of your favorite vc fics + tell me why you enjoyed it!

oh my god this is so hard!!! i havent been in the fandom that long AND there are a ton of fics I want to read but havent yet either for time or bc i havent gotten that far in the series (ive only read through TVA rn bc i just dont have any time 🤧). and picking just ONE is crazy and i can’t do it 😭 that said, here are some of my favorites!!

Physical (You’re So) by @butchybats is one of those fics I can’t look directly in the eye bc it’s just so hnnnngggg

Handspun Strings by @aunteat is one I’ve been thinking about nonstop since I read it, such a good dive into Armand and Nicki’s relationship

Swipe Right by @desertfangs is probably my favorite modern AU, the characters feel so true to themselves and the dynamics are just as weird as they should be ❤️

idolatry in ivory by @lovevamp is another that makes me feral. i love a monstrous vampire and i think pandora should be allowed to eat pussy and break some bones, what can i say

The Language of Flowers by @hekateinhell rewrote my brain i think. daniel/armand/lestat is such a good dynamic here!! why arent we all tattooing and piercing lestat 😐🤧

[all-or-nothing-baby]

Me, a fanfic writer: *radio dj voice* And this is a very special shout out to all those wonderful, wonderful folks out there who leave bookmark tags on stories that say utterly insane things like, 'Fics That Actually Give Me Mental Illness' ...You know who you are and, goddammit, for your deranged love of fandom, I salute you! Now, next up in Completely Unhinged Things That Fanfic Readers Say—

[idlestories]

highest ao3 compliment i can give is bookmarking before the fic is complete like i already know i will be returning for multiple rereads and i am seated

[heatwa-ves]

looking at my bookmarks and hm this is a sign that there's something wrong with me maybe

[rosalind-hawkins]

having a "minor" crisis of self-confidence in my writing

it's just one of those days

really hope it goes away because i want to just write and enjoy it, and not care about views, kudos, and comments, but i do, and i don't want to—

[carry-on-my-wayward-hobbit]

I feel like we need to talk more about the les amis-marauders pipeline

[aenslem]

aslkjdlasjf THIS GD SHOW, argh. i just finished season one, which i thought was a good idea, you know, finish the season before taking a break. *facepalms* i have those annoying things to do again (stupid household chores, every gd day you gotta do things), so it'll be a few hours before i can watch more, but i should be able to watch at least one or two more episodes today, so HOPEFULLY things will be a bit more resolved by tonight x'D

you were so right, there is so much happening, and i think EVERYONE on that gd ship needs a few years vacation after all this x'D

"married divorced remarried and divorced again and still having feelings for each other" asljdalksjda that is so correct, they are just that x'D

it's so fun, they're like "i don't trust him" pretty much all the time, and then Rush is like "so i had a dream" and Young is like "ok, i'll call General O'Neill" and they keep relying on each other so much right now, it's great, and Young risking the whole gd ship to save Rush, after having tried to kill him, what, twice already? amazing ❤

ah, yes, fanfiction ❤ it's so good at casting light on things from different angles, i love that, seeing characters and their motivations from all kinds of different point of views. though, you gif makers do that too and i love it, it's so great to look at different gif makers in the same fandoms and see how you focus different things.

right now i'm pretty exclusively reading McShep fics, but we'll see how that looks once i'm done with sgu x'D if you have any recs, please feel free to share!

btw, i've been trying to remember why i followed you from the start, and i'm pretty sure it's Star Trek, and specifically Spones, which, ALL MY LOVE! but i also want to mention how much i love following someone who gifs a lot of women, i love having more women on my dash! i never finished OUaT back in the days, but all your Regina and Swan Queen gifs are making me want to, and your Michelle Gomez gifs, waah, i do not want to watch CAoS! 😭 but you are kicking me in the butt about finishing Doctor Who too with your gifs of her (i sadly miss most of them though since i have it blacklisted for spoilers), i had no idea she was in it but man did that make me want to watch it when i found out!

okay, sorry that this got so long, even when i'm trying to keep things brief i end up being very wordy. so many things to say!

anyway, i'm gonna go do the things now, the sooner i get them done the sooner i can watch more sgu =D oh, wait, no, you posted something from 1x18 last night! i didn't look at it since i hadn't watched it yet, so i'm gonna go do that first! =D ❤

/Rodney anon

Oh don't be sorry , you can get wordy in my inbox whenever you like :3

You're fast! but why am I surprised, I finished 7 seasons of OUaT in a month lmao.

Well, imagine how it was for those who were watching sgu when it was actually airing, they did not have a chance to go and watch s2 right after s1, and you can :D so other things are not as bad as break between seasons of the show, but yeah, there's always things to do, sucks

askjhdaksjhd 'i just had a very interesting dream' scene is so good, and it so much better when you take it out of context lmao

well, they have to work together, they don't have a choice. you know how things were when he left rush on that planet, eli is smart, and eli was also right

but eli is still not good enough to do all the work, so no matter how much they don't trust each other, they have to work things out and work together and then finally going towards trust and comradery

well, at least they will try lmao

SPONES!!!!!!! SPOOOONEES! they are everything to me!!!!!

well, if you finish ouat and start caos... I am so sorry in advance lmao

I am not sure I can even explain what mess of the shows are those two, I have similar feelings towards both shows, I love the cast, I love some characters, I love women there, I hate the writers :D

Michelle is stunning in caos, there's also Miranda Otto, and they are like my moms, I love them, this show is worth watching just to look at them, but there's also... the rest of the show and plot asjkhdakjdh

same goes for ouat tbh, some characters are great and actors are doing such a good job and then there's whatever was happening in the show, but it;s still fun if you don't take it all seriously.

you will facepalm a lot and you will have an urge to rip your hair out sometimes, but if you try caos, I will give you two good reasons for it

that's it, think about it

okay, but you definitely need to watch doctor who, WATCH DOCTOR WHO!

[starrynyxa]

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[troutfur]

Someone should take my CK2 access away from me, or else I may end up eternally making completely implausible alternate histories and going on power trips over breaking up the realms of digital vassal lords instead of using my free days on more productive stuff like cat fanfiction.

[diathadevil]

Bisco is like me fr fr I can’t read kanji without its furigana equivalent.

[loxare]

People on AO3 keep commenting asking if I'm dead like aksjjdkd why??? Why would you do that????? If you want to know if I'm dead there's ways you can find out? I bookmark fics, I've posted links to my tumblr, either of those will show that I'm definitely still alive. Just because answering comments gives me anxiety doesn't mean I'm dead

[feltwrong]

Chapters: 6/6 Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thor (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Loki & Nebula (Marvel), Gamora & Nebula (Marvel), Loki & Thor (Marvel) Characters: Loki (Marvel), Gamora (Marvel), Nebula (Marvel), Peter Quill, Thor (Marvel) Additional Tags: Loki (Marvel)-centric, Loki (Marvel) Has Issues, Loki (Marvel) Needs a Hug, Nebula Centric, Protective Gamora (Marvel), Minor Gamora/Peter Quill, Basically all my feels about Loki and Nebula's friendship, Post-Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Loki (Marvel) Feels, 5+1 Things Summary:

After the events of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, and Thor Ragnarok, the Guardians team up with the Asgardians aboard the Statesman in the efforts of locating and defeating Thanos. In the process, Gamora observes an unexpected friendship taking birth.

[kingbyx]

Despite having been writing on ao3 for a year now, I have just discovered that I can see what people write while bookmarking my fics and they are GREAT. Goofy Highlights include:

‘Macaque loves Wukong but won’t admit It’

‘Ow’

‘GRRAGAAAAGGGGGHGG’

‘Emo monkie :(‘

‘aaaaaaaaaaa’

‘AAAAAAAAAA’

‘TANG USING CIRCLET ON MK BEFORE GTA 6????’

‘HUSABNDS!’

‘No :(‘

‘Ikaskjikadassadkjilsa no, please no’

‘Silly little pookster’

‘Gourmet meal’

‘This is reader cruelty’