#spit_kitten

I read very little fanfic this year but I was lucky to discover some awesome fics (and authors) and I wanted to shout out about them.

a better happier st sebastian by halsinator (fandom: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Ship: Childermass/Segundus)

All their works are fantastic but this in particular stayed with me for the absolutely pitch-perfect yearning.

sturm und drang by spit_kitten (Original Work)

Historical m/m romance. The author's other romance novellas are great too. Definitely worth a read.

I'm dating the least inquisitive man in Ottawa by GlitterCity (fandom: Game Changers. Ship: Troy/Harris, but also Shane/Ilya)

Hello i love love love oh charlie harper we love you get up, too! If any people reading this haven't read this romance novella originally published in Shousetsu Bang*Bang, drop EVERYTHING and go read it now--truly one of my favorite romance novellas of all time. Masterful character study, deeply deeply funny, so tender and hot, and an unflinching dissection of what it means to have a brain that, Chidi Anagonye-style, perpetually makes fork-stuck-in-garbage-disposal noises. spit_kitten is one of my favorite authors on AO3; at some point I need to dip my toes into tennis RPF, which is what she's mostly writing these days. (Kinda hilarious to me that I've shoved aside tennis, a game I played for years and actually know how to watch, for ice hockey, a game I knew nothing about until four months ago.)