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Carraville Rec List !

See below, self-explanatory!! I'm sure I missed some bangers, so feel free to reblog and add more, or comment. I pulled all these straight off my AO3 bookmarks list. They are ALL COMPLETE, so I didn't add any WIPSs! Please note I separated "older/classic" recs from the amazing fountain of NEW works we've been blessed with in the past 3-4 months or so. Note: IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER!

Enjoy you little dancers!!

⚽️❤️ MY CLASSIC CARRAVILLE PICKS ❤️⚽️

Lockjaw by anonymous - Workplace blowjob fic that grows into a much deeper story. Sexy-with-feels MNF era Carraville. Amazing ‘show don’t tell’ characterization, top top dialogue.  Gary hiding past trauma and Jamie finding out. A crime this is anonymous, I want to read more from this author!! 

the ghosts of you and me by @blindbatalex - ahhhmazingly written, MNF-era Carraville. Uses ‘snowed in’ trope to delve greater depths of a break up; old wounds, things unspoken, beautiful writing and a really pulled-back tone that aches. 

the ocean and the coast by @carraville - Valencia!Gary. Jamie POV. Jamie pining. Lovely poetic style. “I have a separate plate for you.” <3 <3 <3 

In Your Boots by @thesecretdetectivecollection- funny, sweet, MNF-era. SO CUTE Gary jumping to conclusions and panicking over Jamie leaving. Lots of Jamie-scenery descriptions of pretty eyes and "absurd cheekbones" and "Jamie's reliable heart" <3 

keep your silver, give me that gold by @blindbatalex - MNF-era Carraville. Jamie decides to box Rio Ferdinand. Gary has SERIOUS RESERVATIONS about his beefy colleague (just colleague, no feelings, cough cough) putting himself in harms way for a stupid charity wager. Thing come to a head in a good way. Lots of verbal eye candy Carra. <3 

Loss / loss / win by milleseptcent guuuuh the SCALE! The FEELS! Soulmates Carraville. Takes place from playing days to MNF-era. Gary and Carra, both without soul marks, fuck around in a casual relationship... for about twenty years. The ending is SO SWEET!

Anything That Isn’t This by @kloppend the sleeping death apocalypse fic, read if you want to ruin yourself for two or three days but ALSO the beauty of the writing is 100% worth the devastation, one of the finest written pieces in the fandom imho. HAUNTING, gorgeous, aching, amazing. 

Play the Whistle by @zevons - Referee!AU Carraville!! What more do you need to know?! Gary and Jamie’s football dreams never came true, so they do the next best thing. Lovely Jamie&Stevie friendship. Enemies to lovers. So much snippy banter before they realize they are actually besties who want to smootch. FEEL GOOD but with tons of depth as well. 

amunt by @carraville short, punchy, poetic = classic redandgold! Valencia!Gary, pining!Jamie. Also incredible that this was written only two weeks into Gary’s appointment, BEFORE the Barcelona loss, before things unravelled, so it’s an amazing time-capsule into the fandom in late 2015 (when they didn’t know if Gary would ever come back!) 

Through fresh eyes by @aramblingjay - Jamie comes to MNF. Gary deals. Truly top-notch writing, amazing language, deft characterization. It never overindulges while remaining poignant throughout. Can be read as pre-Carraville or platonic-soulmates type friendship. It’s tagged as incomplete but it is finished. Essential reading, a classic!

Advantages of Playing Away by @zevons MNF-era testimonial blowjob in Old Trafford dressing room Carraville!! Sooo sweet, soooo hot, dialogue is sharp and funny. Just perfect <3 

Remedial Exercises in Teamwork by @zevons - more saltstreets!!! HOGWARTS AU, both of them are Gryffindor beaters (so in character for them), both obsessed with quidditch. Background!gerlonso. Implied Professor Pep/Mou !!! Detention!flirting!! I mean!!! Sir Alex the owl!!! Checks all the boxes, nostalgic, sweet, enemies to boyfriends. <3 

⚽️❤️RECENT AMAZING 2023/2024 CARRAVILLE WE ARE BLESSED WITH ❤️⚽️

Tasting Syrup on My Tongue by @heyyjulien - PLAYERS ERA!!! Jamie and Gary have a casual relationship that gets put to the test after Jamie’s injured in a derby game. Great banter-to-feels ratio, you will want to put Julien’s sweet Jamie in your pocket and give their Gary a big hug. Great romantic closing scene where they negotiate the implications of Jamie’s injury scare. Also SCHOLESY!! <3

It’s just not what’s done by @player1064 truly a Carraville writer that ‘burst onto the scene’ as fast and furious as Micah Richards! My fave of theirs. A truly hysterical premise on the surface that they plumb deep to turn up real emotion. I love the time-jump style. Wonderful David&Gary friendship, as well as all of the Co92 rallying around Gary. Covers all eras up until today, with a January 2024 Carraville in Courcheval scene!! <3 

Package Deal (It’s Valentine’s Day, ye dimwit) by @kloppinthekop My fave of their “Holiday Husbands” series. So cute and sweet and the love scene is sooooo (SOOO) hot and poignant !! Jamie taking care of Gary in every way on Valentine’s Day. Domestic feels. 

Love You More by @effervescentdragon outstanding emotional excavation, Jamie POV Carraville. Uses a slightly disorienting (in a good way) jump around style that isn’t time stamped, but if you know your Carraville, you get your footing in a sentence or two. It’s a bookended journey between ‘fuck you too’ (visceral hatred) to ‘fuck you too’ (affectionate). 

Gary Neville is Still a Red, Just a Different Shade by @fanficburner - your ultimate ABO Carraville! This isn’t for the faint-of-heart, angst abounds, I would not call this a romance! But a great character piece. Gary gets unwillingly bonded with Jamie, while still in love with Beckham. The standout part of this fic is the world-building and social implications of what an ABO society might actually look like; separate Omega changing rooms, registration offices for Omega registration, the harsh realities of an owned class of people.

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Gary Neville is a REF

So inspired by this. Working on a WIP, another which may it see the light of day someday. An AU where Gary gets kicked out the the United youth academy and becomes a referee instead. Carra has his Liverpool career.

[[Absolutely inspired by this marvelous fic here as well, where both of them became refs instead of footballers, please give it love: PLAY THE WHISTLE by saltstreets ]] credit: @zevons

Snippet of my WIP here.....

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“It’s a fuckin’ shambles, Gaz.”

Gary should’ve known better than to answer his phone. It’s a beautiful day for football. Which has fuck all to do with Gary. Gary’s on holiday. At home maybe, but it still counts. He’d even had a lie-in ‘til nearly half seven.

He doesn’t, won’t, can’t hold back a weary sigh, soul-deep. He’s got a headache already. Worse, he already knows he won’t say no in the end.

Still.

“I can’t fuckin’ do it, Stuart. I’m on holiday.”

“What, in fuckin’ Bury?”

“How d’you know I’m still in Bury? Maybe I’m in Ibiza!”

“Fuck you are, you boring cunt. You’ve probably been in the back garden, tellin’ the daisies which way to grow.”

“Fuck off.” They both laugh, it’s fucking true innit.

“Fuck me.” He can’t do it. He will do it.

“Already got me lad on the way, son. He’ll scoop you up, you’ll be on the pitch in thirty. Lovely day for it.”

“They’ll not go for it, Stu.” For fucking obvious reasons. “Raffa won’t, anyways.”

“Already had it out with ‘em, you mong, ‘course I have. Sir Alex and Raffa are well up for it. Talked you up, didn’t I? No one I’d trust to do the job right. Sterling lad, absolutely professional he is, our Gary Neville, no one else for it.”

“No one else stupid enough to take it on, you mean.”

“Right you are, son!”

Stuart laughs some more at Gary’s pain. It’s a thing they do. “It don’t hurt you’re a short taxi ride away, either.”

“This is mad, this is.” Gary shakes his head. “If the scousers even let me off the pitch in one piece, I’m gonna get absolutely killed by the fans, no matter the result. Both sides, probably.”

“Yeah. But you’ll be golden in my books, Nev, don’t you worry about that.”

Gary feels a bit sick. “This is me fucked, you understand that, right?”

“Listen,” Stuart actually sounds worryingly sincere. “I wouldn’t ask it if we didn’t need you, Gaz. Really. I know it’s unorthodox, but I’ve made everything absolutely crystal with the managers. The press is being made aware. It’s the wrong time of year for a re-play, innit. Everyone wants to play today. I’ll protect you, lad, I swear it. It’ll be alright.”

He can see it now: Ex-Academy Player Officiates Derby Match, Ripped to Pieces By Former Teammates and Blood-Thirsty Scousers Alike!!

Gary tries to grasp at anything to make the situation better in his mind. “It’ll be Keane and Gerrard to captain, I assume?”

There’s a suspicious pause. Stuart sounds mildly apologetic. 

“Err, well. Gerrard’s out today, actually, knee’s acting up again. It’ll be Carragher in his place.”

Oh, well, fuck Gary Neville then. Just fuck him all day long.

“Oh, well, that’s more good news then, Stuart. The only moderately sane man in Liverpool is out on injury, in his stead an Actual Fucking Lunatic.” He is absolutely insane is Carragher. “Between him and Keane, it’s gonna be sunshine and fucking daisies. I can’t wait to be spoken to with nothing but dignity and respect for ninety minutes.”

Suddenly, Gary hears the desperate honks of a car horn idling impatiently just outside the kitchen window. Stuart must hear it over the phone, he sounds absolutely elated to ring off.

“That’ll be our Dave, then. Off you go, Gaz, that’s a good lad! Don’t forget your whistle, you’re gonna need it today, sure!”

Christ.

It’s gonna be a fuckin’ shambles.

[stovepiperat]

terror camp ‘22 day 2: an informal reclist

Well, it’s been like a month (stuff came up) but Terror Camp was still SOME GOOD SHIT and honestly I’m not even a little bit done thinking about it yet. Here’s part two of: two (variably) related recs (that weren’t previously mentioned in the server, to the best of my knowledge!) for every TC22 panel. Just because! (Part one is here, if you missed it.) Please click through to AO3 to see full individual taglists, warnings etc. and please let me know if I need to fix anything, as always!

(You can still get in contact with the mods at terror.camp to get access to recordings and Discord! While it’s now closed to participation for another year, it’s still a good place to find all the resources discussed.)

Imagining the Northwest Passage

This panel posited that perception is an important aspect of imperial control of a thing. This post, while vaguely themed, is about one million percent less serious than any of the legitimately thrilling and insightful academic & theory work floated at camp, so, with my jester’s apologies, here is the connection I draw: two works about the power of naming a thing, one of which also involves a penguin. I won’t say which.

awaken ancient feelings by wildcard_47 (Fitzier, 11k)

animal spirits by attheborder (Crozier & Jopson, 5k)

Interesting and Pathetic Relics: The Franklin Expedition and British Museums

Something Rich and Strange by hangingfire (Goodsir-centric, 18k)

I am a simple man. I see the phrase “garden of forking paths” and I go so apeshit. (Is every museum not in its way that sort of garden?) Anyway, even if you do not share that inclination, this fic is both interesting and pathetic (in the root sense of being rich with pathos) and reflects on museums and evidences.

Blood on the Concrete by pointyshades (Hickeytozer, 22k)

What’s a museum but a heist waiting to happen? (Heck, a colonizers’ museum swollen with stolen artifacts, as so many of the British ones are, is a heist that already happened!)

“This is what you tell them”: Presenting what remains of the Franklin Expedition

cutting steps in the roof of the world

by

TheGoodDoctor

 (Fitzier, 4.5k)

Post-canon, on legacy, and self-determination with the devastating handicap and antagonism of Britishness. So sweet, excellent Sophia, which seemed apropos to me.

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/unwellnessweek

Because this is my made-up reclist and I can do what I want, I’m going to rec the whole of Unwellness Week, a super fun fest that produced a lot of thought-provoking and terrific fic. We’re literally presenting what remains of the Franklin Expedition, every day, mostly on Twitter, in ever more inventive manners!

The Summer of Doug: Douglas Mawson, the Construction of Society, and the Most Underrated Antarctic Expedition Ever!

Since this one’s a little harder to directly seek in Terror fic, I have honored Mertz and Ninnis’s choice of reading material with loose inspiration. (Hey, I said that it was all very loosely related. This is still true.)

contact light by threelions (Fitzier, 3k)

The Hound of the Baskervilles is, I agree, a capital novel, masterfully unfolding a character-driven and atmospherically spooky mystery. This fic is also those, and it’s sci-fi, and epistolary with an artfully crafted Crozier voice.

stiff by TomBowline (Goodsir/Hickey, 3k)

Vanity Fair is a colorful satire of Victorian social roles and the ways in which they get their hooks in each other, with a side of unromantic romance and deconstructing the artistic convention of the hero-protagonist. Just like this fic, which has the excellent logline “lonely rich spinster/handsome scheming servant but they’re both huge bitches.” Is this an admission that Hickey is like Becky Sharp, to me? Maybe a little bit.

(Bonus: I would be remiss not to link the one work in the Mertz/Ninnis tag for Their panel, so let the reclist be not technically a Terror reclist for a moment:

come rain or come shine by saltstreets (Mertz/Ninnis, 2k)

Mertz and Ninnis do not make it to those holidays. Read it and weep. Do I say that too often? Well, make the fandom stop writing such considerately heart-wrenching fics.)

Let’s Talk about Grief, Baby – The Terror, Tragic Fandom, and Anticipatory Mourning in the Age of Climate Grief

Fun fact: I live captioned this one, which is hard to do when you’re dry sobbing a little bit like everyone else attending the talk! I think I already plugged the recordings in this post but I’m going to do that again. Anyway, have some fics about trying to mourn something of terrifying scale! Trying to sleep against the howling of a ghost inhumanly old, and unable to take the final step and completely die! (They both happened to be modern horror series crossovers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

C L O S E by Mothfinder_General (SCP Foundation crossover, Little, 4k) experience, and its decay by attheborder (TMA crossover, Fitzier, 4k)

Next Door to the Promised Land: The Franklin Expedition and National Belonging from Richler to Rogers

I’ve already recced a lot, obliquely or not, about British nationalism, so let’s interpret this theme a little differently and have some tunes. 

Terror & Erebus: This 2006 ambient album themed after the Franklin Expedition is also available to listen on Spotify, and it’s great music to write fic and coldly morb to. Also, consider this post yet another appeal to AMC or whoever is stopping DK from doing it to RELEASE THE TERROR (2018) SCORE, PLEASE, I’M BEGGING YOU, I’LL PAY MONEY! IF YOU MADE A VINYL, I’D BUY A VINYL EVEN THOUGH I DON’T HAVE A RECORD PLAYER! PLEASE!

CHANGGWI: A great song by Ahn Ye-Eun and a chillingly atmospheric vid to go with it from polarsirens. Also, I mean, it’s about Britishness red in tooth and claw!

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❤️ Viana é Amor ❤️ #mostbeautifulcity #streetphotography #saltstreet #Friends #owercity #senhoradaagonia2019 #ilovemyhuawei (em Viana do Castelo, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1Y8lmsg2XMjmyI5BOyr-o3P2tnpDjdk-RZU0U0/?igshid=1vq9ps2enj7bn

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Veggies Assemble! Check out the Salt Street and Fierce & Noble pairing evening (link in bio), and if you're not a carnivore Leon will cater to your needs with a panko breaded aubergine with mozzarella and marinara! 🎉🌟🌿 #saltstreet #fierceandnoble #pairing #beer #veggie #vegetarian #bristolveggie #aubergine #mozzarella #marinara #delicious #meatless #happytummy #localbrewery #bristolbrew #bristolcraftbeer #bristollove #pairingevening (at The Robin Hood) https://www.instagram.com/p/By-0UZHhA56/?igshid=15ahaya2j4ukd

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as thin of substance as the air by saltstreets / @zevons (little/jopson)

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Widojest Smut: a fic rec

Please keep reading below the cut for our smut rec. (You can find our other widojest fic recs here!) 

Obviously, all of the following fics are sexually explicit and rated E on ao3. Please see all tags and warnings before reading!

you said yes as i said please by NefariousMoss

The slapping fic with soft dom!Jester.

— and he's staring back up at her, and there's a beat, while his left cheek slowly blooms scarlet where her hand made contact a moment ago —

"...Huh," says Jester.

Rated E, 3k, oneshot. All your fave light kink. Part 2 of and although i was burning, you're the only light series. Part 1 was included in our Widojest Starter Kit.

Worship Like a Dog At The Shrine of Your Thighs by @smokeandjollyranchers

Perfectly stated in Smoke’s summary/prompt: “smut, tails, getting caught."

… His fingers manage to grab the tip of her tail as it passes his other shoulder. “You’re a little Menace.”

Rated E, 3k, oneshot. Good ol’ tail play.

but satisfaction brought it back by @flammablehat

Caleb and Jester swap bodies for a few days and Jester wants to try some things out while she has the chance. Masturbation, but not ...

“What does your body like?” “Oh, I don’t know. Silence. Sleep.” “Caleb,” she whines.

Rated E, 2k, oneshot. “Post episode 69 canon au.” nice. Some m9 shenanigans included. The author also includes a link to their commentary in the notes that’s a fun addition! 

there's nothing to do here, all just lie and complain by MarsBar2019

A quarantine fic where Caleb and Jester are isolating together … and there’s only one bed. Friends to lovers slow burn – Dare we say, Porn With Plot.

It’s funny, she thought, how you can grow up watching all kinds of private things happen between people, and tell stories that make sailors blush - but something like sleeping in bed with someone feels like a big deal.

Rated E, 40k, 7 chaps, complete. Great read for a isolation day-in.

What I Lost In You by Barkour

Hot, desperate, poetic smut at the end of the world.

Here, now, instead, on the eve of fuck all, Jester put her foot on his stomach and pushed him back so she could wiggle out of her skirts …

Rated E, 3k, oneshot. Speculative future fic.

Serve me the sky tonight by @zevons/saltstreets

Jester wants to learn more about sex, from Caleb. Friendship sex that is both Humorous and Hot! 

“So we should have sex!”

Caleb rubbed his forehead with an expression of long suffering. “That’s quite a leap you’re making there, Jester.”

Rated E, 5k, oneshot. Brief Fjord mention. Set around ep62. Developing relationship.

---------- Hope you enjoy! If you have any category/theme suggestions for future recs, or any fic recs you’d like to contribute, please send us a message. We also track the #widojest tag and reblog any fics and fic recs posted there. 

[zevons]

What’s this? Me posting a fic for an event on the actual day it’s supposed to be posted? Will wonders never cease? Anyways, enjoy some slightly morbid ghost!Jopson/Little for the prompt “haunted”!

Rated T, ~4k words, (canonical) major character death, ghosts, canon-typical Edward Little Not Having The Unrestrained Summer Fun He Was Hoping For

[zipegs]

i’ve been toying around with the idea of posting a fic rec list for a while, and finally decided that if i do, it might be nice to focus on newer and/or underrated fics in the fandom! some of my absolute favorites are on this list, and i highly suggest checking them out (and leaving the lovely authors some comments and kudos!)

this got pretty long, but it’s organized alphabetically by ship name (including gen) and then by length inside each ship!

blanky/little

Trysails by saltstreets  /  2k, t

“I know I can’t do much,” Blanky said, “but you can always talk to me. If you’re so inclined.”

A (very late!) offering for Tender Tuesday, "a friend in need".

okay!!!!!! okay!!!!! hear me out on this one!! this fic is wonderful. i’m a sucker for fics dealing with edward’s suffering during the worst of crozier’s captaincy, and this one is so good. blanky is so wonderful in this; i feel like his tender, kind side frequently gets overlooked in favor of his bigger, bolder attributes, and this fic truly delivers on everything i’ve been missing! it’s really gentle and sweet and i urge you to give it a read!!!!

bridglar

in the low lamplight by stelleri  /  338, g

It’s endless freezing rain outside, but the house is comfortably warm.

short and sweet! a really lovely little slice-of-life modern au

state of grace by aes3plex  /  860, m

He doesn’t mean to see it. He never does.

bridglar may be the most featured pairing, but this is told from irving’s pov and also contains irving/little and references to hickey/gibson. really sad, conflicted little peek into irving’s mind (and some nice, soft bridglar as well!)

passer iagoensis by greenery  /  3k, g

Night falls on the Beagle and Henry Peglar has just finished reading his very first novel.

Set in 1832.

this piece is so good!! it has some really beautiful (sad) foreshadowing of the franklin expedition, and is just... so soft, with some wonderful romantic tension!! and it’s funny! darwin and fitzroy are wonderful in this, and i’m always here for fic that deals with peglar learning to read (which this does!!!).

cracroft/crozier

the beggar’s opera by pyotr  /  990, e

for all of his usual anger and surliness it was almost fun to fluster francis, to rile him where he could not retaliate. sophia had spent all her life under the thumb of some man or another; she loved francis in part because she always had the upper hand.

sophia is my queen and that’s all i’ll say about that. seriously though, this piece is just... *chef’s kiss*

fitzconte

A Cheetah Never Changes His Spots by onstraysod  /  1.2k, m

Being the particular friend of James Fitzjames has its drawbacks, as Henry Le Vesconte learns during the expedition's first carnivale. But it also has its advantages, as Henry learns once the carnivale is over.

Written for Day 1 (A Special Disguise) of the 12 Days of Carnivale.

on beechey island, fitzjames reveals clio’s cheetah to the men. or... something like it! this piece is really a blast; fitzjames is in rare form, francis is glaring form the sidelines, and le vesconte is an absolute champ. and the ending is wonderfully witty and racy!

fitzier

wake me up, wake me up my darling by norvegiae  /  1.4k, g  /  mcd

James Fitzjames feels like a new man.

The old James Fitzjames lies on the cot in front of him, cradled by the man he wishes he could have had more time with.

set during 1.09, this fic is a really poignant, heartwrenching piece in which james comes to terms with the reality of his death, and of his life, as he watches francis grieve. very sad, and wonderfully written!

what the stars give us by WetSammyWinchester  /  1.7k, t  /  implied death

"They may know space, James, but you know what it means to truly fly."

70s scifi (space program!!!) au. really great translation of the terror; the mood in this is so good!!! and the little flashbacks are fantastic. it’s pretty sad, but it hurts in a good way.

fitzrossier

Take Your Turn, Take A Ride by courfairyac  /  7.5k, e

Francis agrees to accompany his friend to a masquerade, and stumbles onto something quite unexpected.

In short: Festivities! Voyeurism! James in a dress!

listen... fitzrossier is my new weakness, and this is a really fun, hot, canon-universe (pre-expedition) au.

gen

salvation by scribomania  /  250, t

The Concordia brings them survival, but not salvation.

featuring hodgson and little, and jopson. for a survival au, this little piece hurts!!! it’s so short, but it packs a punch. really, really good.

but no one remembers yet by disastermovie  / 885, t

“From the mutilated state of many of the corpses and the contents of the kettles, it is evident that our wretched countrymen had been driven to the last resource—cannibalism—as a means of prolonging existence.”

—excerpt from Dr. John Rae’s report on the fate of the Franklin Expedition to the Secretary of the Admiralty (written from Repulse Bay on July 29, 1854)

sad little epilogue concerning sophia and lady jane dealing with their grief

the weary world rejoices by disastermovie  /  1.3k, t

Fitzjames goes to his first Christmas party after the survivors are rescued. It doesn't go well.

this!!!! fic!!! i can’t even do it justice, it’s just so good. the slow build of james’s panic, the caroling and gaiety as a backdrop... it’s just so painful in the best way. i’m incoherent; pls just read it,

la belle dame sans merci by drowninglovers  /  1.7k, g

Nobody is quite sure who the first one to start making her clothing is, but one day she scampers over the shoulders of the ABs as they line up for lunch wearing a tiny shirt to match her pants. It’s nothing special, no fancy detail, navy blue like most everything else they wear. Whoever made it must have cared a great deal, to make sure it fit her perfectly.

this is incredibly fun!!! just some good, wholesome fic about boys dressing up their favorite lady. 10000/10 would recommend.

Come Here, Fellow Servant by whipstitch  /  1.9k, t

The sea is dangerous, but so too is the open sky. And in that case, Cornelius determines, a friend is an unexpected boon.

okay, i made a rule that i wasn’t going to include wips on this rec list,  but i had to put this guy on here. it could be read as a stand-alone, actually, which is what i used to convince myself to include it. peglar realizes that hickey has no fucking idea what he’s doing, and tries to help him, kind, caring sweetheart that he is. this is a really, really nice little piece—i love everything about it.

lie alone by greenery  /  2k, g

He turns the page. And maybe this is it. Maybe writing a letter to young Tom Hartnell is reason enough to leave the berth.

really nice oneshot featuring two good boys (hodgson & hartnell) and their wholesome status as pen pals

the crooked kind by darrenjolras  /  2.3k, m  /  non-consensual voyeurism

“You and I, Jopson,” Hickey says, and Jopson startles at those words alone, turns an affronted gaze his way. Hickey bathes in the glacial blue of it. Like being thrown overboard. “You and I aren’t so different, you know.”

Based on that Hickey/Jopson scene. You know the one.

the terror bingo fill: court martial

not totally gen, but also not really hickey/jopson? twisted, but very much in character; hickey is his delightful self in this, and his verbal sparring with jopson is very well done and quite fun to read!

gibson/hickey

Touch Her Not Scornfully by skazka  /  2k, e

Stolen moments down below.

this fic is just... really fucking good!!! it’s a fantastic look at the very early days of gibson & hickey’s relationship, and an intriguing little venture into billy’s head.

goodsir/mcdonald

And That is How it Starts by Intrepid_Inkweaver  /  1.2k, g

It starts with a handshake and a warm smile at their introduction at Greenhithe.

a really sweet, lovely canon-divergent piece. written in 2nd person pov. these two are just such a good, wholesome pairing and this fic really does them justice!!

hartving

let loss reveal it by disastermovie  /  1.6k, t  /  mcd

Tom could never quite see himself taking a wife.

this shit fucking hurts!!!!!!! it’s a beautiful glimpse at irving & hartnell’s relationship, told through hartnell’s introspection, and is written really, really well. also did i mention that it fucking hurts???

Lookout Blues by ClockworkCourier  /  2.1k, g

John and Tom Hartnell talk about the future while they wait on a new shipment.

hello??? 1920s au??????? the world-building is so tangible in this, even in such a relatively short piece. it’s a really lovely little conversation between the brothers, and i absolutely loved their little discussion of irving.

we’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet by drowninglovers  /  6.3k, g

If this is to be the last time they interact (and it likely will), Tom wants it to be memorable.

survival au survival au!! tartnell runs into irving at john’s grave, and convinces him to stay with his family until new year’s. it’s kind of bittersweet, with some really great flashbacks (and discussions of said scenes!), and oh man is it soft!! just! really beautiful and tender, and the ending is just so cute!!!!!

hodgson/hickey

the chaos moves by itself by bluebacchus  /  1.3k, e  /  violence, mcd

Hodgson's mind cracks and the heavens flow in.

(Written for Day 7 of Halloween TerrorFest: A disquieting metamorphosis and posted separately because I don't want to taint my main post with borderline vore)

fair warning... this fic is fucked up, but in the best possible way! the religious imagery!!!! the philosophy!!!! just!! god.

hodgson/little

Allegro, B Flat Major by whalersandsailors  /  5.3k, g

George is freshly moved from his childhood home, ready to tackle the school year and his newfound independence all at once.

Too bad he's lonely, miserable, and homesick.

He turns to music when adulthood becomes unbearable, and when someone knocks at his door and leaves an anonymous note, George discovers another music lover not too far away.

have i mentioned i love george hodgson? because i love george hodgson. this fic is a beautiful modern au featuring our own georgie playing his way through his feelings (literally). the buildup to the reveal of george’s secret admirer is wonderful, and had me rooting for them from the start! really sweet, stunning fic for a pairing i’d never considered before!

joplittle

get out of the wind by Cicadaemon  /  1.6k, e

Edward Little is smitten with a certain bartender.

modern au. really lovely, wholesome, and happy; just what these boys deserve!

The Thylacine by Gigi_Sinclair  / 1.7k, t 

"Thylacines. That's what Sophia called them, all those years ago in Van Diemen's Land. Dogs with tiger stripes, cats with pouches. They stretch their jaws at him, as Francis struggles to sit. The movement makes his head spin. He pushes the discomfort aside. He has no time to entertain it; he must escape."

also features cracroft/crozier. this is a really clever, funny piece set during francis’s withdrawal; poor francis is a bit muddled in the throes of his fever, and gets caught up in a memory from van diemen’s land. i absolutely loved little and jopson’s reactions in this, and especially jopson and crozier’s conversation the next morning.

Prelude in D Major by scribomania  /  2.7k, t

Hodgson is very fond of the musical apparatus in Terror's great cabin; Edward is not.

For the Terror Bingo square "denial".

i’m a big big lover of terror lieutenant nonsense, and this fic absolutely delivers! just absolutely delightful.

When the Lights Go On Again by Gigi_Sinclair  /  4.1k, t

"Edward Little's ancestors were Naval officers, almost to a man. Nevertheless, from a young age, Edward's eyes turned to the sky rather than the sea.

He longed to fly, as high and as frequently as possible. In the Royal Air Force, he got his wish. He was happy there, thriving, rising in the ranks apace and doing what he always wanted to do. Then came the first of September, 1939."

wwii au. edward is a squadron leader in the royal air force, and jopson is a corporal working for group captain crozier. i’m weak for wwi and wwii aus to begin with, and this one is done beautifully. while it doesn’t hand-wave the trauma and heartbreak of war, it doesn’t hit you over the head with it either, and the result is a really soft, bittersweet, hopeful piece.

lozer

a lily for my love by whalersandsailors  /  3.7k, m

Solomon never thought that soul-signs were real, and the stories he heard about them made soulmates sound more like a prison sentence than any fairy tale romance. It is not until he finds a soul-sign on the skin of a very dear friend that he realizes their importance, as well as their undoing.

this piece is!!! beautiful!!! very poignant, and really had me feeling for solomon. i love what’s been done with the soulmark conceit—it’s not just a simple “we have soulmarks, we’re soulmates!!!’ au (which i’ll admit to enjoying too), but a really thoughtful take on the trope. the slow way tozer puzzles everything out is wonderful, and i love the glimpses we get into several of his friendships & relationships. 

morfin/weekes

to help you remember by whalersandsailors  /  1.2k, g

An anniversary, during which Weekes presents Morfin with a gift, and Morfin struggles to remember why.

do you ever just get clotheslined by a pairing you’d never even considered before? because that’s what this fic did to me

[ao3feed-shadowgast]

put down your hands

by saltstreets

"We know you, Essek," says Jester, and that might be the last straw. He has to force himself not to shudder when Caleb reaches out to touch his face.

Words: 1650, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: Gen, M/M

Characters: Essek Thelyss, Caleb Widogast

Relationships: Essek Thelyss & Caleb Widogast, Essek Thelyss/Caleb Widogast

Additional Tags: Pre-Slash, Pre-Relationship, Episode Tag, Emotional Honesty!

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/23029600

[ao3feed-beaujester]

The More Things

by saltstreets

The first night in their new home, Beau and Jester have a chat. (A tiny little missing scene from episode 62.)

Words: 961, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/F

Characters: Beauregard (Critical Role), Jester Lavorre

Relationships: Beauregard/Jester Lavorre

Additional Tags: Missing Scene, Episode Tag, Episode 62

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/18783358

[ao3feed-widofjord]

by saltstreets

He is underwater, that much is instantly obvious. He looks up and sees nothing, no surface or light or any indication that the depths do not simply go on forever is all directions.

Words: 1957, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Fjord (Critical Role), Caleb Widogast, Uk'otoa (Critical Role)

Relationships: Fjord/Caleb Widogast

Additional Tags: Episode Tag, Missing Scene, Campaign 2 (Critical Role), Pre-Relationship

[itsadrizzit]

Fanfic meme: 6, 8 and 15, please.

6. fic you’d recommend to someone new in the fandom?

Hmmmmm this is a good question. It’s weird in football rpf because it depends on the teams you support, etc. So I guess I’m not totally sure. If it was someone who was a Spurs fan like I am I would definitely point them towards @ericdier-and-chill or @howsareeasy or possibly ourseparatedcities since I generally like what I read.

I think for RMCF fic I would say @pob-lwc-caixa is doing great stuff and @guti has some fics that are fun.

Yeah wow, this is really pairing/team specific so IDK that there is THAT ONE FIC that I would recommend. I have been reading some of the things that saltstreets does and really like the style of them and they have some pretty accessible (if older) pairings.

8. google docs, microsoft word, or other?

Google docs and other, at least these days. Generally, I write in Google docs because it means I have access to the fic on my laptop or my tablet or my phone or a different computer, so it’s nice because I can work on it on the bus or wherever I happen to be.

With the AU, since it is long, I’m working on things in my writing software, WriteWay, since that’s good for storyboarding and planning and making revision notes and character notes and keeping a folder of research and reference stuff and it also tracks your daily progress for you.

The actual writing I do these days is on a site called 750words.com I don’t know why I like writing in there, it’s just a blank screen where you type and it keeps track of how many words you’ve written and the target is 750, but honestly you can write as many as you want. It’s nice because it tracks your word count and some other basic metrics, etc. and it saves all the words for the month so I can go back to individual days and copy/paste what I wrote into Google docs and WriteWay. It’s helping me write, so that’s what I’m using.

15. what’s a fic that made you ship something you previously did not?

This...is easy. I already talked about the others earlier, but...

Truth or Dare by Dollylux. This fic. I swear.

So okay, I have had feelings about Iker Casillas for a long time (it’s a David Beckham problem) and when he had that terrible World Cup in 2014 I had an ENORMOUS UNWANTED FEELS RESURGENCE and was like I need some fic where Iker is not sad and instead is happy and loved and snuggled.

This fic is not that fic. Or, well, it is sometimes that fic, but not always.

But we’re not here to talk about Iker Casillas. I admit I have ZERO IDEA where the Iker/Cesc thing came from and I’m not hugely into it (although in that fic it definitely works and it made me look at it differently and say...hmmmm. okay.) No. We are here to talk about how I spent YEARS OF MY LIFE actively trying not to have positive feelings about Sergio Ramos OR Fernando Torres and then I read this 120k fic full of FEELINGS AND NONSENSE in like 2 days and all of a sudden I’m over here like cool, I guess I ship Iker with EVERYTHING and have feelings about Sergio Ramos and Fernando Torres that are not negative now. Thanks for that.

I didn’t want them nor did I ask for them, but now they are here and I cannot shake them no matter how hard I try.

THANKS! I’m over here making confessions today,

(Ask me things! It’s past my bedtime but I will get to them ASAP)

[ao3feed-football]

5 times Aaron crashed in on Gareth and Theo and 1 time he got invited

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2HlBQd2

by saltstreets

Exactly what it says on the tin.

Words: 1542, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 4 of WIP AMNESTY

Fandoms: Football RPF

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Gareth Bale, Aaron Ramsey, Theo Walcott

Relationships: Gareth Bale/Theo Walcott, Gareth Bale/Aaron Ramsey/Theo Walcott

Additional Tags: 5+1 Things

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/2HlBQd2

[robinhoodbristol-blog]

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[footballprompts]

September Masterlist

set me free by mm_nani Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang/Marco Reus 2k, rated Explicit, kink prompt (held down) ‘I need to feel you.’ Marco whispers and Auba doesn’t understand

chasing shadows by neyvenger (jjjat3am) Samuel Umtiti/Ousmane Dembele 1k, rated Gen, photo prompt There really is no good way of asking a 20-year-old if he's afraid of thunder. So Sam doesn't even try.

Home by Anfield_rose Gerlonso 700 words, rated Gen, word prompt Xabi realises what it means to belong, to find a place to call home

in this story we belong to ourselves by redandgold for saltstreets  Gerlonso 6k, rated Teen, word prompt Stevie isn't lonely. He's waiting for something. Something to happen.

rivals in bed by blindbatalex Carraville 3k, rated Teen, trope prompt That is simply not something retired players with creases on their faces that deepen by day do. Old men don’t share beds just because it’s a bit nippy. Jamie doesn’t relent though. “But Becks isn’t here is he? And you are freezing. You are freezing when there is no reason for you to be freezing.” He is a stubborn son of a bitch--maybe even enough to match Gary--always was. “I won’t go running to your United friends or Stevie in the morning if that’s what you are worried about,” Jamie continues. “I have a reputation to uphold too, you know.'”

The Storm by pique Sergio Agüero/Joe Hart 700 words, rated Gen, photo prompt The news doesn't sink in straight away. He knows he should have seen it coming. All the signs were there.

turn you inside out and lick you like a crisp packet by radicalvodkaaunt Mesut Özil/Sergio Ramos 5k, rated Explicit, photo prompt, kink prompt Because somehow Mesut has never experienced a thunderstorm, and he reacts to that information in the only way he deems fit.

all i ever wanted was a life in your shape by brampersandon Alessandro Del Piero/Paulo Dybala 9k, rated Explicit, word, kink and photo prompt He doesn't want to say anything yet, Paulo will understand soon enough — how taking the ten gives you over to the club, to everyone else who's ever walked this same path — but it's undeniable, the way the buzzing in his blood finally quiets when he's near Paulo. Like years of longing for something as formless as a number, a history, a feeling finally manifests in him. Like he can quell it, for once, and feel whole.

Something Just Like This by lunasenzanotte  Iker Casillas/Sergio Ramos 1.6k, rated Explicit, kink prompt Sergio has a kinky fantasy. Iker decides to make it come true for him.

An addition from the August prompt set:

busco un resto de mi sol by 2davidbeckham3 Raul Gonzalez, character study 1.4k, rated Gen, picture prompt How to Live Without a Heart: Step One.