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i've been meaning to make a follow up to last year’s nicojack wrapped, but time kind of got away from me lmao. as another devs season has come to an end, i’m feeling sentimental about all of the incredible fics we've gotten to read over the past few months!! fandom is truly such a gift!!!

this list is by no means exhaustive because i am a notoriously slow reader and still have a bunch of fic waiting for me in my marked for later. in no particular order, these are some of my favourite fics from the past year-ish:

under skin by @apatasaursorority

When Jack walks Quinn out of the hospital Nico's got the car pulled up in the loading zone, engine running, ready to make a quick escape. Or, more likely, to politely explain to an employee that he'll only be waiting for a few more minutes, he promises, and he hopes he isn't breaking any rules.

Nico's not really a getaway driver kinda guy.

the road trip from hell!!! nico has a moustache and no one is having a good time!!!! emotionally distant reverse cowgirl!!!!!!!! truly such a beautiful work. this fic is very special to me!!!!!!!!!

honor amongst thieves by @wymgreenteam <3333333

Waking up to the news that the Weinberg has been stolen out of the Siegenthalers’ dining room is only the third worst thing to happen to Nico in the span of a few hours.

it doesn't count that i also recced this last year because chapter 3 was posted after my last reclist and it was 43k!! that is basically an entire extra fic. lhugh thousand words of a chapter!!! heist my very most beloved. greatest of all time, another greenteam banger, lil never ever misses etc etc etc. if you haven't given this one a read yet, i cannot recommend it enough. there is truly not nearly enough nico/jack/jonas out there

feeling my way back to you by @rnaissances

Jack’s mind, unbidden, goes I jerked off to your dorky Facebook pictures this summer. He shoves that thought into an oxygen-less back room and slams the door.

(Or, Jack and Nico break up. Jack’s doing fine, thanks for asking.)

exes to lovers!!! exes to lovers!! jack's characterization is sooo good in this he is such a little bitch. an instant favourite!!!

holocene by @catofthecanals289

“I think maybe you should sit this one out, baby,” Jack suggests quietly, rubbing Nico's back.

It’s a horrible thing to say.

Jack would lose it if Nico said it to him.

He did lose it.

Two years ago - his shoulder. Nico and everyone getting on his case for playing injured – it’d been unbearable and if this is how Nico had felt, Jack owes him an apology, he owes him so much, so fucking much, but he can’t think about that. Just Nico now. Nico being sick, and Nico not being better.

“You’re not supposed to call me baby here,” Nico says, like that’s an adequate answer, and he smiles again, a small, weakthing and Jack wants to kill him and kiss him and more than anything, for him to be okay.

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Or: Nico gets very sick and Jack stays by his side.

this one feels sooooo visceral. you know those fics that just like... transport you entirely out of your body and you forget you even exist while you're reading them?? this was one of those.

brutal destiny series by @alpineshift

God!Jack and defeated King!Nico embark on an adventure to bring their kingdom back to its former glory.

where do i even begin w this series? it's soo beautifully done. impeccable world building. nicojack fantasy au!! one of my favourite nicojack verses of all time <333

care and keeping of by @reallylilyreally

There's been a lot of words used to describe Jack Hughes over the years. He's been called exceptional, and overrated. Arrogant, calculated, talented, fast, fragile, emotional, cold, immature, intelligent, loyal, fickle. He's been called pretty much everything under the sun, really.

The word he uses to himself, mostly, though, is careful.

fuuck the writing in this one is sooo good. i wanted to reach through my screen and hug jacky about a million times throughout it

four legs and a tail by @apatasaursorority

As kids they all got the same warnings: that stretching the bond on purpose meant stretching their own humanity, weakening it and making it thin. Nico had prayed a lot before he decided to do it, had promised himself he would stop if he thought he was causing real harm.

Had Jack done the same? Did he care? It was impossible to tell as Nico watched him laugh with the boys during practice, his dæmon wrapped around his neck like a scarf.

daemons!!!! jack and his bitchy little furret!!!!!! the world building in this one is SUBLIME i want to crawl into this verse and sink my claws into it the way lois sinks her pointy little nails into nico's flesh tbh

yours, mine, ours (and hours) by @wymgreenteam

Jack Hughes | 22:19 hey can u help me w something Jack Hughes | 22:23 pls

Or: What Nico doesn’t expect is for the first words out of Jack’s mouth once the door is shut to be, “How do you make a girl come?”

MAGIC PUSSY FIC‼️‼️‼️‼️ beautiful perfect amazing!!!!! canonical pillow princess jhugh 🙂‍↕️

i keep thinking about winner's room as a glue/chemy thing, like the beer locker room cellies. 1st star coming back to the locker room and everyone's whistling hollering clapping who's it gonna be, he picks his prize and everyone loses their shit, and they dap up and laugh all the way to the room

pushing more and playing harder for the satisfaction of being wanted/the privilege of wanting!! ferda, team rituals, team bonding, inadvertent hierarchy of winner's room picks!! the mutual egos and thrill of winning/being the winner's room pick!! dares are more fun when everyone's in on it, egging each other on, raising the stakes!!!

consider this long list of scenarios kay @boxykay and mel @nyangle helped me brainstorm (more below the cut):

superstar who gets the most stars. he's made his rounds through the whole team and has given at least 4 guys gay revelations from his elite stroke game

captain who has become defacto nomination for new players because he's always a good time and he eases them into the team dynamics

designated picks. the guy who the locker room has collectively agreed gives the best head

off-limits pick. no one picks him. the last person who did, never got the keycard to the room again

goalie who picks his backup

1st star of the playoff clincher picking the injured or scratched teammate desperate to be part of the win

rookie/call up who has a phenomenal debut game and now has no clue what the team dynamics are. chooses the designated pick and the whole room cheers. chooses the off-limits pick and the locker room goes dead silent