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Shameless self-rec
Date: 2024-01-10 08:32 pm (UTC)Author: me!
Fandom: Astro
Characters/ship: Lee Dongmin/Moon Bin, plus background ships Kim Myungjun/Park Jinwoo and Park Minhyuk/Yoon Sanha, also Moon Sua (this was written before Billlie's debut and I'm still on the fence about whether to even tag the fandom since it's just her)
Rating: AO3-T
Word count: ~63,000, 10/10 chapters
Content warnings: implied/referenced bullying, implied/referenced homophobia
Summary: Bin is an unpaired Sentinel because he's faceblind (and red-green colorblind). He enjoys being on his school's dance team and hanging out with Sanha and Minhyuk, who are a paired Sentinel and Guide team in official government training. His life is upended when Lee Dongmin transfers to their school, Lee Dongmin who's very smart and polite - and is an ugly squid.
Why I recced this: A high school AU + a Sentinel/Guide AU; it was the first long S/G AU in the fandom (at least on AO3; the first S/G fic was also written by me but was much shorter and passed by with barely a blip). Given Bin's truly prodigious sense of smell, writing him as a Sentinel had to be done at least once.
A Seventeen Final Fantasy VI AU rec!
Date: 2024-01-11 03:54 am (UTC)Author/artist:
Fandom: Seventeen
Characters/ship: Jeonghan/Joshua/Seungcheol
Rating: M
Word Count: 65,653
Content warnings: see work tags (no major content warnings otherwise)
Summary:
Reason for reccing: This is a Final Fantasy VI AU that does an excellent job taking the plot of the video game and crafting a textured and meaningful story from it! I had the pleasure of reading along with this fic as my friend was writing it and I am so impressed with how it turned out. If you like adventure stories with great worldbuilding and enjoyable ensemble dynamics, plus a Yoon Jeonghan-centric take on a fantasy story, you should definitely read this one!
txt ot5 canon comp omegaverse
Date: 2024-01-13 10:26 am (UTC)Author: untilitbreaks
Fandom: TXT
Characters/ship: Taehyun/Everyone, Everyone/Everyone
Rating: E
Word count: 87,805
Chapters: 3/3
Content warnings: None, but do read the tags
Summary:
Days before their comeback, Taehyun and Kai present as alphas. Tension grows—breaking the pack apart, and pushing them closer together.
Reason for reccing: i'm relatively new to enjoying omegaverse (meaning i'm kind of picky, maybe even pretentious, about certain things) - and i also prefer fics under 50k - but this is EVERYTHING to me! i read it over 3 days and obsessed over it every second i wasn't reading. if you're looking for carefully crafted txt dynamics and a compelling depiction of the idol industry with omegaverse, i don't think you'll be disappointed. i cried multiple times.
Re: txt ot5 canon comp omegaverse
Date: 2024-01-17 08:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-13 01:01 pm (UTC)Author/artist: sneakiest
Fandom: NCT 127, NCT, NCT Dream, WayV
Characters/ship: Johnny/Mark, Jaehyun/Yuta
Rating: E
Content warnings: Nothing that I can think of. The JohnMark fics are tamer then the Yuta/Jaehyun ones, which deal with a lot of anxiety, family pressure, vaguely disordered eating, serious injury and disability
Word Count: 193,460 (for the entire series)
Recommendation: This is a five-fic series, six if you count the sequel to Round Each Other Up, which is the spin off series about Jaehyun and Yuta. The final fic in the series is incomplete, but the rest of the fics are complete, and with the exception to hello stranger (the previously mentioned Round Each Other Up sequel) each fic is a complete work unto itself.
The series follows Mark as he attends college and forms a relationship with his hot TA, Johnny, and then pivots over to Johnny's roommate, Jaehyun. It's a classic romance series, and I love seeing this friend group grow, expand and learn about each other.
no subject
Date: 2024-01-14 05:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-01-16 03:58 pm (UTC)This fic literally lured me to WayV
Date: 2024-01-17 08:51 pm (UTC)Speaking Cat (28931 words) by aceaceaceace
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: NCT (Band)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ten Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul/Qian Kun
Characters: Qian Kun, Ten Chittaphon Leechaiyapornkul, Leon | WayV Ensemble's Cat, Louis | WayV Ensemble's Cat, WayV Ensemble
Additional Tags: Canon Universe, idolverse, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Future Fic, Disbandment, Non-Linear Narrative, Breaking Up & Making Up, Second Chances
Summary:
“Kun ge, are you sure you don’t want to talk to Ten?”
“Why would I want to talk to him?”
“He used to be your—”
“It doesn’t matter what he used to be. Now, he’s just the asshole who broke up WayV and stole my cats.”