there are many many many good fics in this fandom that are currently updating(!!) that I would like to give shoutouts to so I am making a rec list of actively updating(!!) fics for everyone to go read and comment and encourage these authors. let’s go
Wayfinding by avouchichi (last update: June 16, 2026)
Historical AU. Arthur Kirkland is a peasant who works for a psychopath and lives next door to the most irksome neighbors imaginable: Francis, who insists on inserting himself into everyone's life, and the Beilschmidts, who seem to scrape by on volume, grit, and alcohol. Meanwhile, Alfred Jones is an up-and-coming member of the nobility, prepared to take on the world. But when Alfred's lineage is called into question, Arthur suddenly finds himself the guardian of an unknown teenage half-brother...and realizes perhaps this was the part of him that's been missing, all along.
A rose by any other name by BunnySoap (last update: June 10, 2026)
Prince Matthew is arranged to marry the elderly Czar of Russia. Alfred takes his place.
American Pie by TwilightCyclone (last update: April 5, 2026)
Amelia Jones is running a chess club after mysteriously withdrawing from the competitive chess scene seven years ago. Ivan Braginsky is a Russian immigrant who is intimately familiar with the Soviet Chess Machine that makes a chess club impossible to avoid.
The Botanist's Rose by perile (last update: June 14, 2026)
Arthur Kirkland is a botanist. A botanist with a peculiar rose bush. A peculiar rose bush with a curious bloom that one day bears something so unexplainable that Arthur thinks he must have finally, truthfully gone mad.
au vainqueur by 316_frogs (last update: June 17, 2026)
The Seven Years War ends differently. Instead of Matthew becoming British, Alfred becomes French. The learning curve for reality is steep.
Cold Blooded Country by LuciaHarkness12 (last update: May 19, 2026)
Lizard creatures have seized control of some of the world’s most powerful billionaires, and their plans for domination are already in motion. It's up to college student Alfred Kirkland, and biologist Ivan Braginsky, to rely on one another to stop their plans and make sure the country doesn't end up in total monster apocalypse.
Ribot's Law by Anonymous (last update: April 14, 2026)
It’s up to Matthew to make sure no one at the 1956 Winter Olympics finds out Alfred just gave himself retrograde amnesia with his latest stunt, and somehow hide the fact Alfred thinks and acts like it’s the year 1790. Above all else, Matthew has to make sure America’s current rival, the USSR, doesn’t uncover this fact.
I feel very very strongly that the way to get more long fics in fandom is to read long fics as they are updating and encourage the authors as they go and these are all fics that I am subbed to :) you guys have all been very kind to me so if you are looking for something new to read and see one on here you haven’t yet, please go spread that kindness to these people <333 and feel free to reblog with your own recs for active fics if I missed one of your faves
and also, don’t be afraid to comment on older completed fics, or fics that seem abandoned. it’s very likely that the author will still see it and it will make them very happy
