#surprisingly long

Homestuck

i think i like you but it’s complicated by quibbs

a wonderful and wonderfully illustrated beta ot4 story what more do you need

adorn me with a lighter burden by thermodynamicActivity

centered around porrim, meenah, kankri, latula and mituna in highschool & college. addressing tons of issues with a nice dose of porrim/meenah

once more unto the breach by candidcantrix

a scourge sisters space opera where the game never happened. ships, helmsmen, alternian law and a healthy dose of imperial radch influences (although you don’t need to have read it)

terezi pyrope and the chamber of serkets (and other stories) by arjache

an 8888 word story about terezi and vriska having adventures influenced by all the best book series about magic. great on its own but the refrences are all funny

interrogating the text from the wrong perspective by vintar

a calliope/rose meta fic where they’re both bnfs in the complacency of the learned fandom

what your schoolfeeding never taught you about culling by azzandra

the quintensential (am i spelling that right) kankri fic

flotsam by faithbegetsfaith

a fic about the foundation of troll society and the condesce’s rise to power. i’ve never gotten so attached to ocs in a fic and i never will again. very long and very worth it. (don’t go to the askblog linked in it it’s full of spoilers)

the slowest spark is a breather by scrunch

cyberpunk AU with an oppresive government, hacktivists, AIs and callieroxy, scourge sisters and pale dirkroxy

the rest of what i’d recommend are almost all scourge fics and would make this list too long. maybe i’ll make a separate post one day but if you ever feel like reading that you can shoot me an ask (i do have some that are good but won’t recommend tho)

Dragon Age

i was gonna format this the same way but then i realized all but one thing i was gonna rec was by todisturbtheuniverse. i especially recommend their ‘tongues will wag’ verse (hawkebela), their amaranthine series (vellana/sigrun) and their bull’s chargers fics!

Old Kingdom

we learned by going where we had to go by raedbeard

mogget writes a kind of memoir after the events of abhorsen

if a tree falls in a forest... by ptolemia

a deaf necromancer and the birth of the paperwing

of bonds broken by beleriandings

what eventually happens to clariel in the north

border patrol by aspen

mogget and the disreputable dog take a walk (in death)

The 100

these are both clexa fics i’m sorry

they take their shots but we’re bulletproof by nightshifted

lexa trains clarke

this heart, fossilized and silent (once was tender and once was violent) by chrmdpoet

clarke and lexa meet again after mount weather

Life is Strange

we are the wild youth by dandybear

max never moves to seattle and things turn out differently

Legend of Korra

all the choirs in my head sing, no by sable_tiger

the fire ferrets play (badly) and asami makes no sense

you again? by dandybear

reincarnation is a funny thing. i recommend watching the avatar and the firelord before reading this and then talk to me about this because i’ve got a lot of ideas

breaking news by progman

kuvira takes power. people react.

honestly i recommend all their korra fics. balance interrupted also comes to mind

Doctor Who

you’re gonna need a certain amount of extended universe knowledge for these two. if time travelling lesbians and implied doctor/master sound like your thing i’m perfectly willing to link you to things or give you a crash course

those who walk in shadows by guardingdark and mylordshesacactus

after president romana opens the academy to alien students a foolhardy vinvocci decides to study gallifreyan and meets a very something time lady

loop on a thread by guardingdark and mylordshesacactus

and that sounds cheesy and ridiculous but that’s what it was and he made it happen through sheer force of will and determination, they rode their bikes from vegas to santa monica just because they thought it’d be a good experience

on easter i was at church with him, and he found a half-gallon of mint chip ice cream and stole it from our church's freezer because nobody would use it, and we sat down and ate it, and i asked him how the bike ride was and he told me it was fantastic, a lot of fun, he was glad he had the experience. and, like, i hate riding bikes? i'm bad at it and i have terrible balance and i made a joke about how i could never do it

and he just looked at me and said "who said you couldn't?"

i've told this story before, i know, but it's worth telling now, because before it had an ending, but now it doesn't, i've opened up the end

because i'm never going to ride my bike to california. that's not something i would ever want to do, that's not who i am, and even though after everything happened i considered going out and buying a bicycle to keep his memory going, at the end of the day, i wouldn't use it. and that's okay. because i'm not clay.

but my california, metaphorically speaking, is band au. i've been thinking about this for about a month now and i'm absolutely sure of it. this is something that matters to me, something i came up with on a whim halfway as a joke and then thought "i can make this real" just like clay made california real

and it's not halfway over but it's approaching 50k. fifty fucking thousand words. that's unlike anything i've ever done before. that's new. that's something i'm scared of and damn it i'm going to do this anyways because the fear of letting this opportunity go by is greater than the fear of doing it wrong.

Of course, the fact that very few others could take to the skies only made the whole experience better. The demoness had always preferred her own company to that of any others, even the quiet ones like Kanna, and being able to leave a majority of the riffraff on the ground was a welcome escape. Not to say that there weren't a few annoyances who could follow her even here. 

That really brought her to the only drawback; the ease at which she could be spotted while flying. Which meant that that demon would know that she had avoided this meeting and possibly take offence which, in turn, would only lead to painful encounters all over the place, judging by how much she'd been spotting him lately.

Instead of fighting it, she let their courses intersect like he had obviously guided the horse he was riding to do, raising a brow as she hovered next to the Lord.

A moment of silence passed as each sized the other up and waited for the other to speak first. Unfortunately, Kagura was expected back at her... home and couldn't afford to waste too much time.

"What is it?"

The spark of victory was muted in those golden eyes but his expression didn't change as he waited a beat more before answering, "You were recently near the halfling and his wench. This Sesshomaru would know where they are, Onna."

Narrowing her red eyes, Kagura debated for a split second over whether or not to tell him. She held no love for that wrenched group, but the information she had been sent to collect might be changed because of the telling. Naraku's wrath was never something she willingly faced.

Not telling would most certainly be worse if the poison green bleeding into his fingertips was anything to go by. (She was not giving in because it was him, no matter what that little voice in the back of her head claimed.)

"Down near the river, two kilometers south of here."

And then he was gone. No thanks was given, not even a nod, but she hadn't expected anything different. She let out a sigh of relief. Still in one piece, still on time, still flying. Still a good day then.

Turning to start her feather with a burst of speed from her fan, Kagura blinked. Upwind, Sesshomaru was turning back to face his destination.

Upwind.

'How had he known that...no.' It was impossible. But, the only reason to stop her would have been because he smelt his brother on the air, right? Unless... 

(Unless he wanted to see you. He looked back! Proof!) 

No, just a coincidence then.