Hello campers! Reminder that I will be doing this every Saturday when there are recs. This week’s post is brought to you by a lovely reader who sent in the following:
I would like to nominate the amazing Got My Number verse by the amazingly talented Ashley!! it’s one of my favourite ever series of fics and it really truly has everything:
Got My Number is a Branjie fic that takes place after Brooke has started uni. She’s on a night out with her friends from home but bumps into her ex Vanessa and all the old feelings and memories come to the surface. Ashley manages the transitions between telling the story of the night they met and contrasting it with the night they’re facing each other again SO AMAZINGLY WELL. she tells this story with so much heart and humour and I’m love the way she’s fleshed out the entire universe by dropping little details of their friendships with the other girls- I’m a sucker for good friendship details and this universe is full of them!!
Second in the series is Girl On Fire, it’s a Ninex one shot that’s so completely adorable and full of happiness that it makes my heart MELT with every re-read. It’s a modern-day Cinderella story- Nina and Monet bump into each other on a night out and can’t stop thinking about the other ever since, and what follows is an absolutely genius plot that I just have so much love for. Throw in more details about the friendship group, some near-misses and a little bit of Momo sub-plot and it’s another absolute fave. In fact I’m about to go re-read it now.
Finally we have the third installment, If We Walk Down This Road (We’ll Be Lovers For Sure). It’s a Scyvie from the same universe with an adorable enemies to lovers to enemies to lovers again plot line that will absolutely put you THROUGH it (wait for the bit in the smoking area…..that’s all I’ll say). Ashley put SO much thought and work and effort into this fic and it so truly shows. She fleshes out Yvie’s character so much, and while she struggles with her feelings for Scarlet she’s also struggling with her uni applications, being under appreciated and undervalued and trying to get her head around the fact that she perhaps always will be that way. And there’s yet MORE detail and amazing lines that I could’ve absolutely WEPT reading. Also we have Priyanka, Heidi and Jaida as Yvie’s work friends and Lemon as Scarlet’s little sister. NEED I SAY MORE.
overall it’s so so clear that Ashley has put so much love and care into all of these fics. her worldbuilding is so on point, everything fits together so perfectly and all of these fics just have so much heart. the detail she’s put into all of these makes my heart sing and there’s so so many fun easter eggs to spot in each one!! most of all though it’s the way she gets us to feel everything each character goes through, the way she illustrates every side of the story and the way every character has such a fully carved-out background.
if ur a fan of any of these pairings then these are must-reads, and truly are gems for anyone who loves s11/10! i’ve written so much about my love for these bc i’m so passionate about these fics getting the love and attention they DESERVE!!!!! so pls read and enjoy. xo
Note from V: These are all now linked with the series tag “got my number.” Click here for a link to all fics in order of posting.
