TOP 35 FAVE BOOKMARKS of 2024 (MULTIFANDOM)
LOL HI EVERYONE I'M ONLY A YEAR LATE WITH THIS ONE. I think I kept putting it off because I feel like no one wants it without any Johnlock fics.... but I want to post a 2025 list on Sunday (which has no Johnlock on it :() so I need to get this one posted.
So yeah, please forgive me, this list is multifandom, and if y'all are willing to give ANOTHER chaotic detective duo a chance, I think y'all will enjoy the year I started reading Disco Elysium fics and got gobbled up by the ship, LOL.
Happy New Year, everyone and please enjoy this bonus First List of the year <3
Non-Toxic by NinjaNina2 (M, 1,713 w., 1 Ch. || Post S4, Parentlock with Rosie, Established Relationship, Oneshot, Stubborn Sherlock, Worried John, Doctor John, Fluff and Humour, Misunderstandings) â Based on previous experiences, John has every right to be worried when gone for a medical conference, but what is the extent of damage This timeâŠ?!?
Tuesday, 3:27pm by pebbledashwall (G, 3,636 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TPL, Love Confessions, Pining, POV Lister, First Kiss, Fluff, Humour, Getting Together) â Lister has an epiphany three million and thirty-something years in the making.
A Little Hope Left by VoiidVagabond (T, 4,517 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TPL, POV Lister, Insecurity, Rimmers' Neuroses, Rimmer's H, Mild Hurt / Comfort, Forehead Kisses, Lister Loves Rimmer) â Rimmer digs up an old conduct manual and some unsettling thoughts surface. Lister can tell heâs getting in his own way and proceeds to get him out again.
Peachy by gallantrejoinder (G, 8,184 w., 1 Ch. || Post-TPL, Bisexual Lister, Internalized Homophobia, Trapped in a Closet, Fluff, Angst, Mental Health Issues, Touch Starvation, POV Lister) â Lister didn't have an evening trapped with Rimmer in a cupboard the approximate square footage of his own bunk on the cards for the night. If nothing else, it was gonna be a great opportunity to get on Rimmer's last nerve ... assuming he didn't get distracted. Part 1 of Friend Like Me
Deluded by gallantrejoinder (T, 20,702 w., 5 Ch. || Post-TPL, Internalized Homophobia, POV Rimmer, Mental Health Issues, Bed Sharing, Cognitive Dissonance, Fluff, Angst, Humour, Touch Starvation, Suicidal Thoughts, Happy Ending) â There is no way in hell that Lister is moving out just for the sake of his aching joints and bad back. He must be doing it to aggravate Rimmer. That's the only possible explanation. Part 2 of Friend Like Me
Moribund by sticks_and_souls (T, 2,884 w., 1 Ch. || LOKI SERIES || S2 Deleted Scene, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Time Slipping, First Kiss, Making Out, Kissing, Time Looping, Heavy Angst) â Everyone keeps talking about how in all the infinite replays that Loki did, he would have taken time to make out with Mobius. So I manifested a version of that (with just a wee sprinkling of angst).
personal space by a_cry_in_the_wilderness (M, 4,816 w., 1 Ch. || LOKI SERIES || Series 1, Mutual Pining, Touch-Starved Mobius, Alcohol, Sexual Tension, Virgin Mobius, Biting, Grinding, Attempted Sex, Flirting, Intimacy Exploration, Developing Relationship, Jealousym Falling in Love, Angst, Humour) â âAsgardians are known for handling their liquor,â Mobius says, taking a wobbling step forward as he barely handles his. When he trips over his feet, Loki is there, holding tight onto his arm. âIâm not even Asgardian,â Loki says, his voice soft. âWhatâs your excuse, Mobius?â âIt doesnât take much for me.â Mobius admits.
L is for Laudanum by phenanthrene_blue (T, 1,679 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Tribunal, Fever Dreaming/Fantasy, Drugs, Character Study, Pining Harry, Sober Harry, POV Second Person Harry) â It doesnât compute, somehow. Youâre overheating, almost, sitting here with Kim, and right now, Kimâs not judging you. Why isnât he judging you? You look like you slept in a rubbish bin last night. In your pocket, youâve got a whole fifteen reĂĄl, and youâve been sober for a whole one-hundred-and-nineteen hours (and you swear you arenât closely counting both of those things) - but maybe thatâs all irrelevant, because you donât even know how you got here. But you do. You do, Harry. How can you forget? How can you-
La Vie Continue by CaptainNautical (M, 2,228 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Harry, Flirting, Suicidal Thoughts, Grounding, Harry's Past, Dora is a Trigger, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Kim, Panic Attack) â A chance encounter with Deloris Dei in a cafe on Jamrockâs waterfront.
Aperture by PositivelyVexed (T, 3,983 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Harry, Pining Harry, Photography, Sobriety, Harry's Skills, Kissing, Worried Harry, Overthinking Harry) â YOU - Youâre vastly overthinking this. No one cares about badge photos or puts any thought into them. You stand against a wall and a bored clerk tells you to hold still and donât make that face, and you get it a week later. This doesnât matter to anyone. Except you. CONCEPTUALIZATION - Because itâs taken on Significance in your mind. Now it's a symbol of all you've lost. ELECTROCHEMISTRY - And it's not a bored clerk taking your picture. It's Kim.
The Aquarium Costs Extra by AughtPunk (G, 4,983 w., 1 Ch. || Aquarium Date, First Date, Pining, First Kiss, Fluff, POV Second Person Kim, Are They Dating / Oblivious Idiots, Oh-OH! Moment) â Harry Du Bois inviting you to an aquarium is not the weirdest thing heâs ever done. Itâs not even the weirdest thing heâs done that week. But there was something about the manner in which he asked you that made your brain prickle. He spoke so carefully, as if he was afraid that he would drop and break the words coming out of his mouth. And when you said yes--because of course you would, was there any doubt--his face lit up in a way you havenât seen since your last karaoke night together. (You do not enjoy karaoke nights. But Harry does. So you suffer.)
donât call me up (iâm already under) by twyres (E, 4,993 w., 2 Ch. || Post Canon, Gay Yearning, Pining Kim, Sorry Cop Harry, POV Kim, Light Dom/Sub Undertones, Messy Hand Job, Oral Sex) â Here and now, in the apartment, the cold air of early spring creeps in through a half-open window. Harry pulls a blue and white polka-dot shirt over his head and awkwardly tugs the shirtsleeves over his arms, the fabric whispering as he moves. Kim thinks about the shivering sound of reeds, rustling in the shallow water. He catches himself lingering on the shape of Harryâs calves, and makes himself look away. Part 2 of early spring, revachol west
if you stay i would even wait all night by wizardlover (T, 5,396 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, Game Style Writing, POV Second Person Harry, Motorcycles, Hurt / Comfort, Fluff, Implied / Referenced Self-Harm, Talk of Alcoholic Relapse, First Kiss) â PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] â The thing he was holding is a motorcycle helmet. Heâs wearing biking gloves, tooâbig and cushioned. Kim owns a *bike*. KIM KITSURAGI â âDetective, is there a reason youâre standing outside of my house at eleven P.M. on a Saturday?â
when he walks in, i am loved, i am loved by wizardlover (T, 5,494 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Game, POV Harry 2nd Person, Game-Style Script, Fluff, Vulnerability, Love Confessions, Bed Sharing, First Kiss) â Kim has a rough week. Harry helps, in his own way.
cops in the beerlight by fullborn (T, 6,096 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, Undercover for a Case, Bars, Yuletide, Arm Wrestling, Pining, Flirting, POV Harry, Humour) â Harry is sober and undercover and things are totally going to plan.
your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder by paisleycowboys (T, 6,394 w., 1 Ch. || Five and One, Kim POV, Pining Kim, Hurt / Comfort, First Kiss, Fluff) â Harry Du Bois is a tactile person. Kim is learning to be okay with it. Really, he's completely okay with it. Five times Harry touches Kim and the one time he doesn't have to.
A Weirder Life by SupposedToBeWriting (M, 6,504 w., 4 Ch. || Post-Canon, Slice of Life, POV Second Person Kim, Established Relationship, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Mild Injury, Bed Sharing) â Long after THE HANGED MAN, Harry and Kim have settled into comfortable domesticity. An examination of a singular day in Kim's life, partnered with one of the stranger people he's ever met (not that he would have it any other way).
Vignettes of the After by Upupanyway (T, 6,666 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Harry, Developing Relationship, Domesticity, Healing, Love Confession, Moving in Together) â Harry doesn't want to be alone anymore. He extends the offer to let Kim live with him while he gets settled in precinct 41.
Running Up That Hill by PositivelyVexed (T, 8,252 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Game, Sobriety, POV Harry Second Person, Pining Harry, Massage, Bisexual Awakening, Running) â PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - Ahead of you, Kim is stretching. The lean muscles of his bare shoulders shift as he bends down in a toe-touch before you start. His control over his body is unmatched. He straightens, adjusting his glasses, and starts running. PHYSICAL INSTRUMENT [Medium: Success] - Heâs been holding out on us. This is a man with a fine physique. ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Maybe this wasnât a mistake after all?
being alive by graveyardparade (M, 10,337 w., 1 Ch. || Kim / OMC, Emotional Infidelity, Break Up, Pining, Three and One, Kissing, POV Kim) â After giving up on true love, Kim finds it again in an unlikely place -- all he has to do is let it in.
Trying Not To Be Pieces by nbfutureboy (M, 10,543 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Game, Pre-Apocalypse, Developing Friendships, Recovery, Past Drug Use, Forgiveness, Redemption, Kim POV, Introspection, Love Confessions, Gratuitous French, Bilingual Characters) â Harry and Kim are many, many things. The most important one is that theyâre extremely compatible. The second-most is that they are anything but undeserving.
If You Close the Door, the Night Could Last Forever by PositivelyVexed (T, 11,806 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, Video Game Mechanics, Married for a Case, Undercover, Pining, Case Fic, Canon-Typical Homophobia, Haunted Hotel, Humour, POV Second Person Harry, Past Harry/Dora) â DRAMA [Godly: Success] - âYep. Thatâs us. Me and him. Weâre on our honeymoon.â KIM KITSURAGI - Kim coughs into his fist and inclines his head slightly. "That's right." He takes a moment to scan the hotel lobby. âWe don't broadcast the fact to everyone, you understand.âÂ
A Foothold by pilotfive (E, 13,340 w., 1 Ch. || POV Second Person Kim, Angst, Heavy Pining, Sad Harry, Sad Kim, Alcohol Abuse / Alcoholism, Suicide, Sexuality, Cop Procedural, Emotional Hurt / Comfort, Love Confessions) â Little by little he is becoming something in your rote routine, breaking it apart in a way you arenât quite prepared for. Youâre frustrated by it, by how quickly he had such a hold on you. Youâve never needed another soul in your life. Youâre beginning to need him.
a date by any other name by shegoesbyjoy (T, 13,571 w., 7 Ch. || Post-Canon, Five and One, POV Kim, Clueless Kim, Are They Dating?, Romantic Fluff, Light Angst, Pining Kim, Dom / Sub Undertones, Slow Burn, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Flustered Kim, Kim's Crush, First Kiss) â 5 times Harry thought he and Kim were on a date, and the 1 time Kim took him out on a date for real.
i'll put you in my suitcase, and come out barely bruised by 57sfinest (NR [T], 15,161 w., 1 Ch. || Post-Canon, Pre-Relationship, POV Second Person Harry, Light Pining, Tenderness, Dora Returns) â Dora comes back to see Harry well into his recovery and how it affects him.
love song of a jamrock disaster cop by twyres (M, 17,921 w., 5 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Harry, Pining Harry, Codependency, Introspection, Getting Together, Slow Burn, Sorry Cop Harry, Internalized Homophobia, Crying, Ableist Language, Bisexual Harry, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Canon-Typical Violence, Homoerotic Wound Care) â After the case of The Hanged Man, Harry tries to pick up the pieces. A character study and a loveletter to failure, to what comes after rock bottom. To trying again. Part 1 of early spring, revachol west
Shelter from the Storm by Thanatopsiturvy (M, 18,205 w., 5 Ch. || During Canon / Canon Compliant, Slice of Life, Alcoholism, Alcohol Withdrawal, Hanged Man Case, Time Skips, Vignette, Only One Bed, POV Second Person Harry, Pining Harry, Missing Scenes, Slow Burn) â Determined not to drink while on The Hanged Man Case, Harry struggles with alcohol withdrawals, and Kim can't help but notice. Story takes place during the canon of the game, but focuses on the quiet, in-between moments we never get to see play out.
Main and Perdition by satelliteaccident (E, 20,027 w., 5 Ch. || Post-Canon, PTSD, POV Second Person Harry, Protective Kim, Possessive Kim, Flirting, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Internalized Homophobia, Humour, Friends To Lovers, Ableist Language, Mutual Pining, Drug Use, Memory Loss, Suicidal Thoughts, Fluff, Angst, Flashbacks, Board Games, Self Harm, Self Deprecation, Blow Jobs, Tenderness, Bed Sharing) â Harry shows Kim around Jamrock, loses a fight with an ice-cream cone, and wins a fight with a couch. Or: Disaster Cop Has Big Feelings, Makes Questionable Choices, Gets Laid Anyway. Picks up where DE leaves off, more or less. Part 2 of Hard Spring Series
Two Rooms by phenanthrene_blue (M, 28,127 w., 7 Ch. || Post-Canon, Tribunal Aftermath 1 Year Later, Murder Mystery, Case Fic, Original Characters, World Building, Sober Harry, POV Second Person Harry, Character Study, Organized Crime, Suicide/Character Death, Slow Burn, Drug Addiction/Recovery, Pining Harry, Gentle Touching, Forehead Touches, Tactile Kim) â Your responses, of course, had been similarly pleasant and short. Truthfully, you donât know why Kim writes to you at all, after what a tool you were when you worked together in Martinaise. It was as if you, all by yourself, had written the guide on âHow to be the Biggest Conceivable Dick to Your Partnerâ. The summary: you had insulted, interrupted, and disobeyed him, taking advantage of every shred of Kimâs patience while you recovered from your attempt at thorough self-immolation. You whined endlessly about your personal troubles. You begged for money and drugs from random people. The coup de grace: you had, in addition to your zero tact, zero situational awareness, which, in the end, got Kim shot â along with yourself and six other people. You and Kim survived; the others werenât quite so lucky. (In all fairness, you, shaky and detoxing, were barely cognizant of the whole mess, and of whatever you and Kim had that might have approached friendship at points â but thatâs really no excuse). These days, itâs just hard to believe a full year had already passed.
Cleaning Out the Rooms by bitochondria (M, 29,219 w., 4 Ch. || Post-Game, Screenplay/Script Format, POV Harry Second Person, Inner Dialogue, Mental Health Issues, Amnesia, Suicidal Thoughts, References to Drugs, Implied/Referenced Alcoholism, Domestic Fluff, Sober Harry, Communist Harry, Art Cop Harry, Sorry Cop Harry) â Harry finds himself in the liminal space between Martinaise and actually having to be Harry Du Bois again. He needs to return to his apartment, and his job, and his life, but the prospect is terrifying; everything that was once him is everything he can't allow himself to be ever again. Kim helps him make the transition, and Harry pines wildly over him. They eat food and talk about the homo-sexual underground. Harry tries not to cry a lot. [TRANSLATIONS: äžæ-æźéèŻćèȘ || Đ ŃŃŃĐșĐžĐč]
Waterfront Blues by phenanthrene_blue (M, 36,622 w., 11 Ch. || POV Second Person Harry, Labour Unions, Poverty / Class Consciousness, Board Games, World Building, Domestic Silliness, They Were Roommates, Sober Harry, Feelings Realization, Living Together, Kim Whump, Harry Ogles Kim, Worried Harry, Harry Loves Kim) â Pryce laughs robustly. âSo weâve got some sort of a loveâŠpolygon, a union vote in five days, fourteen shots fired by Vicâs count, three stiffs, one destroyed firearms locker that weâll probably have to reimburse Delta Logistics for, a random betting slip, some necklace that cost a kingâs ransom, and a whole safe full of naughty notes.â ââŠYes.â Kim confirms, trying to hide a smile. âAn apt summary, really.â âYou know, I became a junior officer at nineteenââ The captain flourishes his hand toward Gottlieb, ââAh, Nix could tell you about those days. Iâve been a cop almost forty years, and this? This takes a whole bakery full of cakes, boys. What next, an escaped lion from the god damn zoo?â Pryceâs shrug is exaggerated; the lieutenant is mildly amused.
Shattered Glass and Walls by Fanfic_Alchemist (M, 40,069 w., 6 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Harry, Canon-Typical Violence, Canon-Typical Behaviour, Canon-Typical Racism, Getting Together, Fluff and Angst, Angst with Happy Ending, Sorry Cop Harry, Self-Esteem Issues, Gentle Kissing, Emotionally Repressed Kim, Insecurity, Sobriety, Relationship Discussion, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Mutual Pining, Touch-Starved Kim, Cooking, Heavy Pining, Panic Attacks, Healing, Feelings Realization, Internalized Homophobia, Introspection, Bisexual Harry, Harry's Skills, Harry Saves Kim) â The fic where Kim breaks his glasses and things get gay.
Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives by por_queeee (E, 56,203 w., 9 Ch. || POV Second Person Harry, Case Fic / Murder Mystery, Slow Burn, Getting Together, Heavy Mutual Pining, Past Alcohol Abuse, Past Drug Addiction, Emotional Love Making, Depression, Blow Jobs, Semi-Public Sex, Frottage, First Kiss / Time, Anal, Idiots in Love, Fluff and Angst, Attempted Car Sex, Car Chase, Bottom Kim, Turned On By Each Other, Speedfreak Kim) â How does a Tip Top TournĂ©e racer go missing from his MC with everyone watching? And what's happening, exactly, between you and the lieutenant. Part 3 of Disco Nighttiming
Nothing to Lose but Our Chains by Lepak (M, 60,922 w., 14 Ch. || Post-Canon, Case Fic, Slow Burn, Racism, Implied / Referenced Homophobia, Sexism, Introspection, POV Harry, Mutual Pining, Emotional Love Making, Understanding Kim, Sad Cop Harry, Loneliness, Inexperienced Harry, Self-Discovery, Kim is Gentle with Harry) â Summer in Revachol blooms like pond algae. Kim installs those helium headlights, and Harry re-finishes a 20-hour mind project. In eighteen days, they'll open the container. In eighteen days, theyâll push themselves and their work to the brink. Low on the horizon, a reckoning slavers, snarling and pulling on its leash. In eighteen days, the case will release it. Part 1 of Workers of the World, Unite!
The Catacomb Killer by SupposedToBeWriting (M, 117,815 w., 28 Ch. || Post-Canon, POV Second Person Alternating, Angst with Happy Ending, Romance / Slow Burn, Le Retour, Referenced Child Death, Referenced Addiction/Recovery, Introspection, Murder Mystery / Case Fic, Kim Whump, Car Accident, Worried Harry, Mutual Pining, First Kiss, Virgin Kim, Internal Love Confessions, Doubt, Self-Esteem Issues, BAMF Kim / Harry) â How do you investigate a case where the detective is the prime suspect? How do you investigate a case that may determine the future of Revachol? Immediately after the events in Martinaise, Harry and Kim are tasked to investigate the death of a child found in Le Royaume. What seems to be a cut-and-dry case quickly turns into something much deeper, both for the detectives' past - and their future.