recommend browsing #ffrmc2024 - a month-long Terror fic rec event last year. Lots of suggestions, all excellent; 3 I'd pick out for extra-special notice are bsky.app/profile/meep..., bsky.app/profile/meep..., and bsky.app/profile/meep...
#FFRMC2024 (very late) DAY 31: best of my bookmarks
The fact I ship these two is entirely @oligocene.bsky.social 's fault and I need to re-read the sacred texts immediately
archiveofourown.org/works/467246...
Day 31 #ffrmc2024, best of my bookmarks: "best" is not a zero-sum game, and here it's "under-the-radar stunner I would have missed otherwise": That Which Ism by birdwif https://buff.ly/3DK4hUG . Historically accurate Malcolm / Irving. Real pain can be so apparently innocent.
#ffrmc2024 Day 31: Best of My Bookmarks
With Somebody Who Loves Me by hauntinghouses
Irving/Jopson - 2,188 Words - Rated G
Sending us all off with good cheer into the new year!
archiveofourown.org/works/53460328
And we made it! Time to rec the best of your bookmarks, the cream of the crop, the most sea-worthy of all your faves. Happy reccing and happy new year to all! #ffrmc2024
#FFRMC2024 DAY 30: show this at my funeral
Tommyfic of all time TO ME the final chapter is what will certainly put me down
archiveofourown.org/works/467285...
Day 30 #ffrmc2024, Show this at my funeral: vigilantejam's Exercise Just Some Control series https://buff.ly/3ZiOSBQ . The nastiest CdV and the joint bleakest Stanley in the business* - if I'm buried with it, there's a good chance they dug the grave
*cf. day 21, Psychic Damage
#ffrmc2024 Day 30: Show this at my Funeral
the groundskeeper’s almanac by shortcrust
Irving/Tozer - 17,170 Words - Rated M
A comforting pastoral post-canon fix-it to salve any hardship. Genuinely would rec to even the IRL's once I'm gone; so good!!
archiveofourown.org/works/34778122
#FFRMC2024 DAY 29: worthy all-nighter
Then again @jopson.bsky.social lovingly messing up my sleep schedule
archiveofourown.org/works/548109...
And a bonus for #ffrmc2024 d. 29 in every sense: Time for You and Time for Me by anactoriatalksback. Modern UK high finance AU, so James and Francis are both awful till they realise the system is even worse - at least 2/3 can be redeemed. Laser eye for the quagmire of class https://buff.ly/3ZYWz0m .
Day 29 #ffrmc2024, Worthy all-nighter: Modern Love series by ktfairy & Veeringview https://buff.ly/4fxvt6A . If we're talking richly realised Tozers, this is up there with Bear Mode (day 28) - novelistic in how 100% recognisable he is but also 100% natural in his 80s setting. Truly memorable.
Day 26 #ffrmc2024, Criminally underrated: Sympathy, by @glimpsesofcalm.bsky.social https://buff.ly/40a92zV . If you read a Glimpses fic you know it will be three things: short, quietly painful, and excellent. This (Mary Ann Stanley wastes away horribly) is all three. And boy is it two
#ffrmc2024 Day 29: Worthy All-Nighter
let’s play mercy by @billiebudd.bsky.social
Little/Tozer - 20,200 Words - Rated E
You're up? They're up, playing drinking games to dodge the mutual pining in this modern roommates AU. Ah these two sweet idiots!
archiveofourown.org/works/339972...
Day 28 #ffrmc2024, Tragically abandoned wip: Bear Mode (series), by Poose https://buff.ly/4gQOhig The triumph of the existing instalments matches and is matched by the tragedy of the last missing one or two. Don't let the lack of resolution deter you - one of the most richly realised Sols out there
#ffrmc2024 Day 28: Tragically Abandoned WIP
There is Power in a Union by neversaydie
Bridgens/Peglar/Irving - 6,743 Words - Rated E
Do you like Bookshop AU's? Ever seen Pride (2014) or know why LGSM? I have a Lot of feelings about these 2 chapters
archiveofourown.org/works/33371611
Day 27 #ffrmc2024, Read at your own risk: Regarding The Turd, by unequalled grossout specialsit bilgewater01 https://buff.ly/3VWx8eR . This is what it says on the can (🥁). What if Billy Gibson was vague about the 💩because it did things for him?
#ffrmc2024 Day 27: Read at Your Own Risk
the gabled window by whalersandsailors
Jopson/Little, Armitage/Tozer - 20,305 Words - Rated T
For the full experience follow my questionable example and skim/ignore the tags! Ow!! This is a recommendation post!!!
archiveofourown.org/works/33125236
#FFRMC2024 DAY 26: criminally underrated
hickeygibson make it to hawaii and I'm ashamed I haven't recced any fics about them all month
archiveofourown.org/works/19046656
#ffrmc2024 Day 26: Criminally Underrated (2/2)
A lover sings by Veeringview
Armitage/Tozer, Armitage/Strong - 36,890 Words - Rated E
'70's football AU; character growth, vibrant world, tender connections, humor; toss this on your TBR and come yell with me later!
archiveofourown.org/works/54401956
#ffrmc2024 Day 26: Criminally Underrated (1/2)
or ever eagle flew by nopickls
Hodgson/Irving/Little - 4,008 Words - Rated T
Lts as astronauts mid-disaster; contemplative and dire and open-ended; compelling like gravity
archiveofourown.org/works/39100362
#FFRMC2024 DAY 25: single chapter banger
Magnus pov fic my beloved
archiveofourown.org/works/48243184
Some fics deserve waaaay more attention. Are you in the Bad Place? Are you the only one who Sees? Justice must be served. Order must be restored. Help us shower that underrated fic with more love! #ffrmc2024
Day 25 #ffrmc2024, Single chapter banger: I'll be two steps on the water, by eternalbrook. A firm favourite and the best (only?) redemptive arc for Irving & Gibson I know. Warts-and-all but also truly touching.
#ffrmc2024 Day 25: Single Chapter Banger (3/3)
Some Things Stay Sweet Forever by lieutenant_iceberg
Crozier/Fitzjames - 9,710 Words - Rated E
Wrestling AU so sweet and detailed it got even an outsider like me cheering along
archiveofourown.org/works/47467987
#ffrmc2024 Day 25: Single Chapter Banger (2/3)
diode, kerosene by simplyirenic
Gen - 8,297 Words - Rated G
Sentient ships!!!!! Great concept great execution need I say more
archiveofourown.org/works/377258...
