purveyor of davekat est. 2012

➙ KARKAT: Embarrass Yourself Utterly by Cephied_Variable | Dave♠Karkat | T | 1,125

Preretcon midgame fic. Karkat pesters Dave and whatever goal he may or may have had is outshined by the topic of Dave’s ass.

➙ Only God Knows Where We Stuck by roachpatrol | Dave♠/♥Karkat♥Terezi | E | 4,148

Postgame fic. One year after the game, the twelve trolls and four humans have built a pretty nice home in the veil, and they are pretty much used to the sex-pollen effect of each other’s alien pheromones. When the matriorb hatches, Terezi and Karkat come to celebrate with Dave where he has been abandoned up a tree.

➙ Take You Wonder By Wonder by roachpatrol | Sollux♥Dave♠Karkat♢Sollux | E | 5,822

Postgame fic. Spat out on Alternia, Dave doesn’t quite have the hang of being a troll yet, but he’s found an ally in not-quite-fitting-into-society in Sollux. In fact, he might like Sollux a whole lot - which seems to require the Moirail Inquisition from Karkat, whose smug evil glee ends up sweeping Dave along into an eye-opening experience.

➙ Lousy Stupid Goddamned Pretty Troll Boy by mercurialMalcontent | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 7,967

Preretcon everyone-on-the-meteorfic. From the very moment he set eyes on Karkat, Dave has been blown away by how someone that annoying could be that attractive. John's movie night presents the perfect opportunity to pull some smooth moves and try to score.

➙ Be the One by Taimat | Dave♥Karkat | E | 3,400

PWP. Karkat is the filling in a Dave sandwich.

➙ Shameless Dave/Karkat Porn by Asuka Kureru | Dave♠Karkat | E | 2,345

PWP. Dave learns a lot about Karkat while they have desperate messy sex, not that they do much talking.

➙ Ashen Quadrant Affair by VastDerp | Dave♠/♧Karkat♧Sollux | E | 4,401

Postgame fic. Now living on earth, Dave and Karkat's interactions are more like excuses to set themselves on fire, and Sollux is slowly choking on the ash.

➙ Picturesque by Terminality | Dave♥Karkat | E | 1,168

PWP. Dave has a good old time eating Karkat out. Karkat enjoys it too, despite his complaining.

➙ Cape Wrath by elwing_alcyone | Dave♠Karkat | G | 1,830

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave (well, really everyone who has to listen to Dave) suffers Karkat's new, bizarre and yep-totally-absolutely random cape touching obsession.

➙ Disaster Management by makingtriangles | Dave♥Karkat | E | 3,244

Humanstuck AU. A slice of a sweaty, sandpaper summer with two people who aren't quite on the same wavelength yet - Dave and Karkat have a shitty apartment and shitty fights and really, really good sex.

➙ Fruity Rumpus Asshole Factory, Concupiscent Frustration Edition by makingtriangles | Dave←♥/♠⤙Karkat, Karkat♥/♠Karkat | E | 12,639 ⚠⚠

Preretcon meteorfic. Karkat spirals down the weird depths of transtimeline bulletin board self-cest, treading the line between self-abuse and self-help, while also trying to deal with a burgeoning crush on someone who actually isn't himself, and growing up in general.

➙ Looks just like the sun by messageredacted | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 12,231

Preretcon meteorfic. The thorny relationship between the knights is tested when they are trapped in a dream bubble together, and must rely on each other to survive deadly forces such as lava, blizzards, zombies, and teenage hormones.

➙ Adventures In Silicone by Edoro | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 2,571

PWP. Karkat has taken upon himself to conduct some research on human mating behaviour, and luckily for him Dave is willing to get his dick out and put it on to show him how it's done.

➙ Growing Pains by Miko  | Dave♠Karkat | E | 14,232

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave is given some cryptic advice to go look for the obnoxious Karkat, and finds him in the bowels of the meteor in the middle of his harrowing adult moult. Dave can't exactly leave him like that, can he?

➙ Gluttony by ShevatheGun | Dave♠Karkat (+Dave♥John +John♢Karkat) | E | 4,847

PWP. Dave loves eating nook so much he'll suffer the ornery troll that comes with it (or that's how he's selling this totally-not-cuddly-pitch romance).

➙ Joyride by Asuka Kureru | Dave♠/♧Karkat♠/♧John♥Dave | T | 7,183

Wild West AU. Karkat the ranch hand finds himself clinging to the insufferable (and attractive) saloon boy's back in a daring horse chase when his own horse takes off suddenly... with the preacher's son along for the ride. By the end of the day he learns some not-quite-textbook methods of auspisticism.

➙ 30th-Century Night by Asuka Kureru | Dave♥Karkat | E | 12,912

Humanstuck (post-scratch Earth) AU. Karkat is a homeless teen who gets a 'lucky break' when some rich asshole rescues him from a dumpster and offers him a place to stay for a night. He isn't about to just hand this guy his trust, but he has some reasons to let him try to earn it (these reasons are mostly pizza).

➙ Reoccurring Dreams by Leticheecopae | Dave♥Karkat♥Alpha!Dave | E | 6,792

Preretcon meteorfic. Karkat has a series of sexy dream bubble encounters with a dead older Dave, which leads to a very sexy threesome during which any questions Karkat may have had about the tangibility of his dream bubble self get thoroughly answered.

➙ Hands-On Learning by Asuka Kureru | Dave♥/♠/♧Karkat(♧Jade) | E | 4,457

Postgame fic. Everyone is now living as gods on an eden-like planet in the new universe, and Karkat is having issues figuring out his new hybrid-species anatomy. He takes his rage to Dave, only to find that he is having a very similar problem.

➙ Let's All Play Spades by pinkstarpirate | Dave♠Karkat | E | 6,012

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave isn't sure what to think about Karkat's pitch feelings for him. Luckily he's got clever girls around him to help him sort his own feelings out (and luckily Karkat can do some really interesting things with his bulge).

➙ i eat boys up, you'd better run by callunavulgari | Dave♥Karkat♥Terezi | E | 4,576

Postgame fic. Now that everyone lives on earth, they can do fun things like play in the snow together. Karkat follows Dave and Terezi when they take a break to go make out inside John's house, which turns into a very satisfying experience for all three of them.

➙ Plant a Flag, Plant a Tree by Asuka Kureru | Dave♠Karkat | E | 2,926

PWP. Karkat loses a bet with Dave and has to suffer a penalty game. It turns out his kismesis wants to use the opportunity to explore something kind of taboo for trolls.

➙ Off the Handle by pressforward | Dave♠/♥Karkat | M | 23,623 ⚠⚠

Urban sci-fi AU. Dave is a freerunner with a small internet following, and one night one of his meetup posts is answered by a hemoanonymous troll who has some skills of his own.

➙ Pitch Imperfect by argyle_avatar | Dave♠Karkat | E | 2,289

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave and Karkat do dirty things in a broom closet and trash talk the entire time.

➙ Wherein our resident ornery troll spends about a bilunar perigee doing almost nothing but examine the specifics of his relationship with our favorite coolkid (the krabby 2 dope remix) by khrysopos | Dave♥Karkat | M | 11,443

Postgame fic. With all four humans now settled into life on the meteor, Karkat realises, to his horror, that he is having actual squishy gross feelings for his unfairly-hot-random-hookup-something-guy Dave. Luckily, he has a gauntlet of good friends (and future assholes) to run to help him break out of his stress cycle and face the source of his anxiety.

➙ hey there bright-eyed mister melancholy by attentionmerrymakers | Dave♥Karkat | T | 2,338

Preretcon meteorfic. Things with Rose and Terezi are weird and strained, respectively, and Dave is hitting surreal levels of lonely. He might not be the only one, though.

➙ Storytime with Karkat by GreenBird | Dave♥Karkat | E | 4,054

Preretcon meteorfic. So far Dave has been enjoying listening to Karkat read that Alternian romance novel to him mainly for the glorious awfulness, but when heaving chests and swollen trollhoods make their real debut he finds himself appreciating Karkat's rendition quite a lot less ironically than he expected.

➙ File It Down, Polish It Up by Introsquirrel | Dave♥Karkat | M | 20,713

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave finds himself attending a good old sleepover in Kanaya's room. Rose brings the stereotypical party games, Karkat brings the manicure set, and Dave brings the miasma of obnoxious teenage hormones.

➙ A Switch by applejuice_motherfucker | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 7,068

Preretcon meteorfic. Karkat is feeling lonely and shitty and self-loathing, and decides to work it off on the one person he hates more than himself. The steamy pitch fling on the kitchen table doesn't quite turn out the way he was expecting, though. The victory will go to the one that knows how to yield, indeed.

➙ A Series of Coincidental Mishaps by zippkat | Dave♥Karkat | E | 30,216

No game AU. In a world where trolls and humans co-exist, Dave meets a very cute troll in a club where he is a DJ and takes him home for a one night stand. Or it would be, if their lives didn't keep crossing in strange ways.

➙ Suddenly Rumblespheres by sumomomochi | Dave♥Karkat | E | 4,445

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave and Karkat get it on for the first time, and Dave makes some very fun discoveries.

➙ jizzard by fuckener | Dave♥Karkat | M | 2,362

PWP. Dave and Karkat attempt to cyber. It ends well, no thanks to Dave.

➙ a lively mating jig by Azzandra | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 20,211

Sci-fi AU. When Tavros' moirail comes to visit him on the multicultural planet of Traverse, Karkat is roped into helping them get some time alone from her mammalian littermate who has tagged along. They don't even share a common language, so Karkat has his work cut out for him.

➙ The Jerk-Off by CleverChimaera | Dave♠/♥Karkat | T | 8,107 ⚠⚠

Preretcon meteorfic. Karkat gets caught having a private hissy fit over the dick ouija page, which turns into a physical altercation that goes even more pear-shaped than the first one did.

➙ Improvidence by biodigitaljazz | Dave♠/♥Karkat | M | 178,836

Preretcon meteorfic and postgame fic. In a story that spans the entire three year journey and aftermath, Karkat and Dave navigate the messy tangle of relationships in their tiny group.

➙ Expressive by Lacertae | Dave♥Karkat | E | 7,439

PWP. Karkat and Dave, who are still in the early stages of exploring each other, find something else to enjoy when Dave admits he wants to try having fingers inside him.

➙ Complications by anonymous | Dave♥Karkat | M | 10,881

PWP. Karkat's romantic nature meets Dave's irreverence as two people with zero actual sex education even about their own species fumble and stop-start through xenological exploration.

➙ The Frontier Is Everywhere by callunavulgari | Dave♠/♥Karkat | M | 6,347

Postapoc zombie AU. When Karkat's group joins up with four humans with a bus, surviving gets a little bit easier.

➙ Karkat: be the romantic. by Laylah | Dave♥Karkat | E | 5,289

PWP. On an Alternian-Earth mashup, Dave and Karkat are sappy dorks who work jobs and share an apartment and make good use of their giant tub.

➙ never enough by saffronHeliotrope | Dave♥Karkat♥Jade | E | 5,823

PWP. Jade has just got her Ph.D and is ready to be spoiled by her boyfriends.

➙ Bubble Baths and Bonding Time by Bloodsbane | pre-Dave♥Karkat | T | 10,270

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave is ecstatic when he and Karkat find a bath hidden away in the facility, and when he finds out Karkat's never had one he decides they should rectify that.

➙ Timaios under the weather by Budinca | Dave&Karkat (+John♥Karkat +Dave♥Jade) | M | 37,202 ⚠⚠

Urban sci-fi AU. "In a world in which human and troll societies have been forced to intermingle, the last, ultimate breaking point is steadily approaching. Whether it is the exploding ecto-factories, the recklessly dispatched militia, the plague spreading through the land, or the fact that the government seems unscrupulously set on retrieving a stolen AI unit, all signs point to something bigger. If only there was someone clear-headed enough to see them." In this ensemble piece, Dave and Karkat have been underground agent partners for half a decade and it is awesome.

➙ At Least One Universe by Circadienne | Dave♥Karkat | E | 2,722

Preretcon meteorfic. While in a dream bubble, Karkat encounters a doomed Dave with prior experience in Vantas romancing and a whole lot of happy chill going on that is exactly what Karkat needs.

➙ The Sexy Friend Threesome Trap by pinkstarpirate | Dave♥Karkat♥John | E | 10,784

Postgame fic. On an Alternian-Earth mashup world, everyone is celebrating John's birthday at a bar. Drunk and happy, Dave ends up going back to John's apartment with him and Karkat.

➙ Cooking With Karkat by ybrows | Dave♥Karkat | M | 9,343 ⚠⚠

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave has ended up in charge of family dinner each night, and one day Karkat asks him for some lessons.

➙ an exercise in precision junk-flexing by Laylah | Dave♥Karkat♥Terezi | E | 3,023

PWP. When Terezi also finishes her subadult moult, Dave finds out exactly how much he likes having two really big lovers.

➙ catch me, keep me by CurlicueCal | Dave♠/♥Karkat | T | 15,636

Sci-fi AU. Dave drops by his brother's spaceship for a small favour before jetting off on an important errand. He gets waylaid by several people (and an AI), though, not helped by his compulsion to harass the Pale Companion on board, Karkat.

➙ i can keep rhythm with no metronome by negativecosine | Dave♠/♥Karkat +Dave♢Rose | E | 22,365

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave and Karkat have switched species, and at first Dave has a lot of fun with his new body and the things he can show Karkat about HIS new body, even though Karkat seems to have a pitch-cruel streak for him and frustration to vent. But, the ride gets bumpy as it becomes clear exactly how badly Karkat is dealing with the change, and also oh yeah trolls have scary murderbug brains. Luckily he sort of already had a moirail to help him pull his head out of his brand-new nook.

➙ Lost In Your Eyes by complexQuanta | Dave♠Karkat +John♢Karkat +Dave♥John | M | 50,038 ⚠⚠

Preretcon everyone-on-the-meteor fic. Dave is the last gay guy in the universe, and with everyone else busy with important universe stuff and his long-time crush John wrapped up in a sudden and intense pale relationship with Karkat (what's up with that anyway?), he's nearly resigned himself to his lonely fate when John finds out about something Dave was cursed with by his Denizen: magical hypno-eyes (except not that, because he's not a Pokemon thank you) and asks, what if Dave could hypnotise him to be in love with him?

➙ By the Letter (of the law) by Asuka Kureru | Dave♥Karkat | E | 10,582

Fantasy AU. In the name of peace between the kingdom of Derse and Prospit, knights Karkat and Dave undergo an arranged marriage.

➙ None the Wiser by NoBrandHero | Dave♠/♥/♢Karkat | T | 2,900

No game trollstuck AU. Karkat despises Dave from the moment he meets him: the asshole uses hemoanonymity for cool points, and especially infuriatingly uses bright red for 'irony'... or so he says.

➙ The Sun in the Sky Says to Open Your Eyes by colorfulCheshire | Dave♥Karkat | T | 2,194

Preretcon dream bubble fic. Karkat's ghost is lost in nightmares, but he can't remember how he died.

➙ A Xenological Exploration of Music and Language by BlackEyedSusan (contact me for file) | Dave♥Karkat | E | 27,607

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave, while trying to seduce Karkat, realises he is actually being sincere as fuck in his attempt to learn more about Alternian language and culture.

➙ the wagon of the weekend by uumiho | Dave♥Karkat♥Terezi | M | 10,778 ⚠⚠

Humanstuck AU. Karkat is a grad student instructor at Houston University, which is why when he wakes up after a night of partying with a (smart, gorgeous, infectiously confident, also trans) student, it would probably be unethical for him to take advantage of the fact that he has her number. Especially since she is friends with a particularly annoying member of the LGBTQ club he is the supervisor of.

➙ how loud your heart gets by saffronHeliotrope | Dave♥Karkat♥Jade | E | 3,378

PWP. Jade, Dave and Karkat roleplay a scene where the two rulers of earth meet an Alternate Imperial Concubine for negotiations. Hint: the Crown Prince of the Eastern Hemisphere and the Lord Protector of the moons of Jupiter does not come out on top.

➙ Two Characters Encounter Alternate Versions of Themselves Doing Things and Then Proceed to Build up Amounts of UST Before Getting Over Themselves and Getting Their Acts Together. by Lispet | Dave♠/♥Karkat | E | 23,888

Preretcon meteorfic. Wandering through a dream bubble, Karkat and Dave accidentally see a pair of their doomed selves getting intimate, which drives knives into soft, insecure places for both of them.

➙ Ambigram by sumomomochi | Dave♥Karkat | E | 4,046

Humanstuck AU. Dave is head over heels for his childhood best friend, and they are for real: he refuses to let their relationship end up like most high school ones. (That doesn't mean he's above sneaking in the window at 2am with illicit designs.)

➙ Fifty Shades Of Pale by PlayTheRain | Dave♢Karkat +everyone♢everyone | E | 96,514 ⚠⚠

Preretcon everyone-on-the-meteor AU. Something has to be done about Vriska, who obviously desperately needs a good papping. The conversations (and voyeurism) surrounding the issue snowball into many and varied pale hijinks and interspecies experimentation.

➙ Dave: Chart the alien landscape by CurlicueCal | Dave♥Karkat♥Terezi | E | 3,862

PWP. Dave, Karkat and Terezi have their first time together, and troll vs human boob properties are thoroughly examined.

➙ Laali by BlackEyedSusan (contact me for file) | Dave♥/♢Karkat | T | 3,803

Preretcon meteorfic. So sometimes Dave gets boners when a pile gets particularly intense. Maybe that's actually something they should jam about.

➙ Crash Standing by Asuka Kureru | Davesprite♥Karkat | M | 128,712

Postgame fic. Sburb is over and the reward is the beta kid's home and guardians back nearly exactly as they were, plus the four alpha kids and all the living trolls - and Davesprite, now going by Byrd, who is now missing an arm instead of a wing (also missing those). He isn't coping especially well.

➙ Tuesdays by InsominiacArrest | Dave♥Karkat | E | 20,296

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave and Karkat find that hanging out actually is a lot of fun. The sexual tension doesn't last long, because why prevent yourself from having silly sappy weird sweet dehydrating sex when you can be doing that?

➙ Never Look Back (and catch 'em all!) by Everlind | Dave♥Karkat♥John | T | 44,362 ⚠

Pokemon AU. When they were thirteen, Karkat and John used to battle sometimes. Two years later they meet again by chance in a Pokemon Center, and he ends up tagging along with John and his childhood friend Dave on their journey to become Pokemon Champions. Featuring illegal levels of fluff.

➙ Pale Science by mtjester | Dave♢Karkat | T | 3,757

PGO meteorfic. Sincerity is not exactly something Dave Strider has a lot of practice with, which is probably why he suggested this experiment ‘ironically’ in the first place, but he knows he has to try if he wants this for real (and yeah, surprise surprise, he does).

➙ that boy is a bottom (bottom) ((bottom)) by affiler | Dave♥Karkat♥Terezi | E | 1,923 ⚠

Humanstuck AU. Karkat and Terezi walk Dave through his first anal experience.

➙ Come On Up To The House by tweedymcgee | Dave♥Karkat | M | 2,201

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave unthinkingly touches Karkat's horns while they're having bro time, and the thing about Dave Strider is it that when he finds himself in a hole he is physically incapable of not digging himself deeper.

➙ The City of Rust by InsominiacArrest | Dave♥Karkat | E | 29,889 ⚠

Sci-fi/fantasy AU. Dave is a God-tier who uses his powers to help protect the city on this jungle planet from a deadly creeping blight known as the Rust. Karkat is a janitor at Derse-Prospit Inc., the company that contract out the God-tiers, and his life changes dramatically when he is visited by a version of Dave from the future with a message.

➙ Dave looks good in red by orochisInebriation | Dave♥Karkat | E | 4,519

PGO meteorfic. Karkat enjoys the vulnerability he can show and find with Dave.

➙ Human Love Confessions by autoeuphoric | Dave♥Karkat | T | 712

PGO lategame fic. Dave and Karkat take a little moment on the lilypad to say what needs to be said before the final battle.

➙ Put the Lonesome on the Shelf by autoeuphoric | Dave♥Karkat | M | 2,161

PGO meteorfic. Dave and Karkat talk about what they want for life after the game.

➙ netflix and chill by krotenkonig | Dave♥Karkat | T | 997

PGO meteorfic. Bro time turns into a fumbling sweet first kiss.

➙ Smooth Operators by cthchewy | Dave♥Karkat | T | 3,897 ⚠

Preretcon meteorfic. Karkat and Dave attempt dating. Of course they are both masters of romance, so nothing about it is awkward at all ever.

➙ Summer's Out of Reach by reinkist | Dave♥Karkat | M | 19,974

Humanstuck AU. Karkat is stuck in a small town holding onto the memories of his days in a band. One evening, a kid with a synth machine and a loop pedal named Dave plays at his bar, and after his shift, Karkat offers him a place to stay while he's in town. They share tiny moments and big dreams and healthy sex and Dave's confidence and freshness might be the spark Karkat needs to see it's not too late to look for happiness.

➙ Your Interpersonal, Intergalactic Relationship: A Beginner's Guide by sharkskin | Dave♥Karkat | T | 8,387

PGO meteorfic. Step by step, how Dave started to learn himself out and fell in love.

➙ Equilateral by Everlind | Dave♥Karkat♥John | M | 5,175 ⚠

Humanstuck AU. After a night that tipped their friendship into scary new territory, Karkat had been willing to pretend it never happened if it would salvage their team. Luckily for him and Dave, John isn't quite as self-sacrificing. Features extremely lovely threeway makeouts.

➙ Completely Fucking Repulsive by TalkingAnimals | Dave♥Karkat | T | 1,497

PGO meteorfic. Karkat is sick of the insultingly wide berth Dave always gives him when they hang.

➙ No One Can See You Falling by catstuff | Dave(♥?)/♠/♧Karkat♧Kanaya | T | 9,040

Preretcon meteorfic. Dave is reeling after a kiss with Karkat that hadn’t gone the way he’d expected. He doesn’t want anything to do with pitch romance, and doesn’t want their friendship to get twisted into creepy uncomfortable bullshit. Karkat is stuck in a self-hate loop, Rose is all too interested - and Kanaya probably doesn’t really like them like that, but they sure can’t fix this on their own.

➙ Paging Dr. Vantas to the alien experimentation bay by reinkist | Dave♥Karkat | E | 3,488

PGO meteorfic. Karkat wants to examine Dave's body with a scientific eye, and discovers that the treatment really does it for Dave.

➙ The Land of Blood and Childhood Trauma by sburbaninte | Dave♢/♥Karkat | T | 8,282

PGO meteorfic. Karkat is injured in a dream bubble, so Dave patches him up. Being in a memory of Dave's childhood home clues Karkat into some things about Dave's past.

➙ (Not A) Colossal Waste of Space by osteoChronologist | Dave♥Karkat | T | 7,942 ⚠

PGO meteorfic. When PTSD Dave didn't know he had is triggered by something relatively small, Karkat is the one to help him through it. It makes it a little easier to be there for the other people who need him.

➙ Prictionary by sburbaninte | Dave♥Karkat | E | 4,961

PGO meteorfic. Karkat and Dave try to draw diagrams of their species' junk.

➙ Dave: survive three years on this rock by MadSeason | Dave♥Karkat | T | 22,556 ⚠

PGO meteorfic. Dave is realising that growing up involves peeling yourself back layer through layer, and he doesn't like everything he is finding. With a little help he fumbles his way through his issues and PTSD, and tries to learn how to be a good brother and friend.

➙ Midnight on the Demon Patrol by Asuka Kureru | Dave♥Karkat | E | 221,394 ⚠

Urban fantasy AU.Dave is a Detective Summoner - it's his job to make contracts with demons to help protect the city from the demons coming through to the mortal plane. Reluctant to let his sister put herself through the danger of being the first to experimentally summon a corporeal demon, Dave ends up contracted with his very own in-the-flesh Knight of Blood. With gang wars and secret pasts and imbalances in the fabric of reality, he'd already have a lot on his plate without the creeping toll that owning an unhappy sentient being is taking on his spirit.

➙ Starstruck by phooykazooi | Dave&(♥?)Karkat | NR | 24,699 ⚠

Midgame fic, Star Trek AU. Post-creating the green sun and blowing up their universes, Dave wakes up floating in the void of a different universe with the a troll dying beside him.

➙ Rapture by Illmerica | Dave♥Karkat | G | 13,797 ⚠

Postgame fic. When the team beats the game, they step through the door into a new world and John, Jade, Rose and Dave find themselves alone with all the pre-scratch trolls.

➙ Pro-Tip: Don't Panic by autoeuphoric | Dave♥Karkat | E | 11,778

PGO meteorfic. The meteor-ride-hitcher's guide to flailing your way through interspecies romance while fielding human gay sex crises and the indignities of being eight.

➙ Painkillers by shruglay | Dave♥Karkat | T | 36,174

PGO meteorfic. An illustrated fan adventure detailing how the meteor kids sorted themselves out (more or less) in the new timeline.

➙ Don't Tap On The Glass by sburbanite | Dave♢/♥Karkat | M | 30,511

PGO meteorfic. Wandering the halls after an extremely ill-advised drunken one night stand with his best friend, Dave breaks a minion-birthing machine and ends up infected with something that is turning him into a troll.

➙ Throwing Off Sparks by sburbanite | Dave♠/♥Karkat | M | 15,988

PGO meteorfic. A first kiss gone weird sours their friendship, and it annoys Dave enough that he's interested in trying out blackrom with Karkat. It seems to map so neatly to what he's used to from his relationship with Bro, and therefore it should be easy, right?

➙ Don't Forget the Sun by Weevilo707 | Dave(♥/♢?)Karkat | T | 142,123 ⚠

No game AU. Just when Karkat has accepted his fate as a mutant, his friends hatch a desperate plan using their assorted talents to get him off planet and somewhere far from the Alternian empire. (Dave should have seen this coming, he does live in the desert in Texas. Now there’s a stressed, cranky, unintelligible alien in his closet - he guesses he’ll just go with the flow. He just wishes it wasn’t so sad.)

➙ tank time by uumiho | Dave♠/♥Karkat | T | 28,452  ⚠

Humanstuck AU. Dave needs to get Rose a new cat to end the silent treatment (and thus his social life). The employee at the local pet store who takes his job very, very seriously is not going to make it easy for him.

➙ Unsexy Underwater Frottage and Soulful Dream Cockwarming by uumiho | Dave♥Karkat | M | 3,535

Humanstuck AU. Karkat and Dave try to get intimate despite the depressing reality of their living situations.

➙ illume by uumiho | Dave(♥?)Karkat +Dave♥Rose +Dave♥Jade | T | 16,503 ⚠

Fantasy AU. Rose is a princess with secret, deadly magical powers isolated and repressed due to the bad coping strategies forced on her by an asshole parental figure. Dave is a quirky attention starved foot-in-mouth-disease (adopted) younger sibling. There are trolls. ITs froZEN OKAY ITS FROZEN - on a slow burn, with deeper darkness in the cracks.

➙ Within, Without by reinkist | Vriska←(♠?)⤙Karkat♢/♠/♥/♧Dave | M | 78,311

PGO meteorfic. Dave is not okay - PTSD is sucking him inside himself, and he is trapped between feeling awful over fucking up everything with everyone and feeling resentful that they are bothering him in the first place. He finds a kindred insomniac in Karkat, though, and their slowly growing bond might be exactly what Dave needs to start working his way out of himself.

➙ Missing Links by LostOzian | Dave♥Karkat | T | 137,837 ⚠

PGO meteorfic. Dave and Karkat encounter the ghost of a Beforan ancestor in a dream bubble, which leads them and the rest of the meteor crew on a quest to unravel what happened to their alternate selves.

➙ Astronomy in Reverse by PunkZucchini and sharkskin | Dave♥Karkat | T | 14,189 ⚠

No game AU. An illustrated fic in which Dave finally gets to meet his long-time alien pen pal Karkat when he comes to earth on exchange.

➙ Love in the time of Juggalos by sburbanite | Dave♥Karkat | M | 75,897 ⚠

Post-scratch earth fic. Alpha!Dave is doing his best to wage his media war on the Condesce, but something feels missing from his life until he gets ticketed by a grumpy meter-maid.

➙ Stop crying so loud, Strider by TalkingAnimals | pre-Dave♥Karkat | T | 3,046

PGO meteorfic. Karkat's day is interrupted when Dave has the nerve to make Karkat listen to him crying. Karkat is of course a master at handling his own discomfort with subtlety and forethought, so it's not like it's going to get awkward.

➙ We Could Be Wonderful Together by Sachete | Dave♥Karkat | E | 8,521 ⚠

Humanstuck AU. Dave and Karkat are best friends and housemates who find themselves thinking about the investment of their own relationship in a whole new way when Rose and Kanaya announce their engagement.

➙ Of Heaven and Earth by Weevilo707 | Dave♥Karkat | T | 138,065 ⚠

Urban fantasy humanstuck AU. Dave is one of the youngest members of his family’s monster hunting organisation. Nobody knows where the monsters come from, but since they kill people for food, they are probably better off exterminated. Karkat might agree - he sure as hell doesn’t want to kill people, but he might not have a choice, despite the asshole sword guy on his tail. Luckily he has a knack for collecting terrifyingly powerful friends.

➙ Be My Boyfriend (I'll Pay You) by Volo | Dave♥Karkat | E | 55,189 ⚠

Humanstuck AU. Karkat is a struggling actor who accepts a job offer from (the unbelievable obnoxious) famous director Dave Strider - to pose as his fake boyfriend for publicity. This sort of setup never ever goes wrong, right? The weird recurring dreams aren’t helping.

➙ Parasomnia by paradoxmachine | Dave(♥?)Karkat | M | 37,089 ⚠

PGO meteorfic. In his dreams, Dave lives textured and layered worlds of his fears and his fantasies. The nature of paradox space means they aren't particularly private, though.

➙ Davekat Drabbles by Rikudera | Dave♥Karkat Dave♢Karkat Dave♠Karkat Dave♥Jade♥Karkat | NR | 2,995 ⚠

Various drabbles including Kingdom Hearts AU, Katekyou Hitman Reborn! AU, no game AU, preretcon meteorfic, preretcon lategame fic, PGO lategame fic, and various quadrants. The common theme is that they are all well written and entertaining.