Curated Curios (with rec notes in the bookmarks)
All the gems I've found in my time digging through A03. Any length, any fandom, any genre, but no explicit fics. There will be warnings for sexual content.
Each bookmark will have notes abt what I like in the piece, warnings (if applicable), and sometimes a 'vibe'. AKA my description of the piece's tone/aesthetic. Don't be worried if it doesn't make sense!
There are also tags for length and feel. They are:
Short story(0-30k), novella (30k-50k), novel (50k-100K), and Epic (100k+)
Silly (humor/crack), Scary (horror), Soft (fluff), Sharp (angst), Smarp (light angst), and Smooth (narrative)
the last three of those are really badly defined and I'm not quite sure how to explain them. Smooth is, like, 'this is an engaging story' and Sharp is about the emotional impact?? You'll figure it out
Format fuckery is for epistolary fics/anything that plays with its medium
Romance is also tagged. I'm not sure why.
To skip to my faves, check out the 'must read' and 'something else' tags! These are the best of the best. There's about 15 of them, ranging in length, and I love all of them dearly.
Also, feel free to suggest your own additions! I'd love to read something new <3
(Open, Moderated)
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Cover of Knight by ErinPtah
Fandoms: Moon Knight (TV 2022), Doctor Strange (Movies), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), Hawkeye (TV 2021), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (TV), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Ms. Marvel (TV 2022), Iron Man (Movies), Deadpool (Movieverse), Thor (Movies), Eternals (Movie 2021), Captain Marvel (2019), She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (TV), Loki (TV 2021), Daredevil (TV), Black Panther (Marvel Movies)
27 Apr 2023
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Steven, Marc, and Jake have finally learned to be a mostly-functional system. Coordinating their home lives. Sharing the Fist of Khonshu powers to carry out missions around the world. They've even started doing team-ups with other superheroes!
...None of whom need to know personal details about their psych history, thank you very much.
A series of times when Avengers notice Moon Knight switching/dissociating/just plain talking to himself...and the growing collection of (inconsistent, mostly ad-libbed, increasingly complicated) cover stories they get for it.
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- Part 1 of Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe
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The staff at Gotham Cemetery are not paid enough to deal with this.
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Twilight on Owl Creek Bridge by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy
07 Dec 2021
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SUBJECT: Regarding Senate Guard Objectives For Today
This is a polite reminder to all guardsmen that patrol schedules for the Senate vote ratifying dictatorships are posted in the breakroom. I am also issuing a warning to linear time that days should follow sequentially and are not intended to repeat. Please cease repeating. I am getting a headache.
Additionally, I'd like to remind all guardsmen that it is illegal to harbor invisible women in the Senate. If you see a ghost claiming to be Leia Organa, please remove her from the premises. She will be making a scene.
Thank you for your cooperation in preserving the peace of the Republic, and all hail the Empire.
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Sokka (a.k.a the Silent Knight, a.k.a. the sharpest detective in Caldera City) has three cases weighing on his mind.
1.) Zuko, son of the mob boss Ozai, has gone missing under sinister circumstances.
2.) Lee, a teahouse waiter with the face of an angel, wears a scar of mysterious origins.
3.) The Blue Spirit, a lithe and enigmatic cat burglar, keeps stealing into the Fire Nation’s storehouses (not to mention Sokka’s dreams).Sokka sighs and takes a swig from his special bottle. It’s hard solving three completely unrelated mysteries at the same time...
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Hope, Etc. (Dickenson et al.) by yellow_caballero
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
10 Mar 2021
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"What therefore God hath joined together in human and daemon, let not man put asunder." (Mark 10:9)
Jonathan Sims, six months after the Unknowing, wakes to find himself without a daemon - without humanity, without a soul. It's a cursed half-life, but existence as a shell without a heart isn't so bad: between solving the mystery of a persistent illusion cast over his friends and some light pseudo-cannibalism, a life as a monster is better than no life at all. At least, it would be, if it wasn't for the fucking Owl.
Or: break free, Jon. You have nothing to lose anymore.
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If you can't procure your own illegal explosives, store-bought is fine.
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- Part 6 of snackfic
Bookmarked by Meepius147
15 Feb 2024
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Dumb as all sin.
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In which former Boatem has a totally normal one, trapped together, in the void, for three months. Definitely.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,761
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 247
- Kudos:
- 1,495
- Bookmarks:
- 364
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- 12,848
Bookmarked by Meepius147
09 Dec 2022
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Bee_4 writes some incredibly comsically horrifying shit, but it always sctratches that hyper-specific itch in the back of my brain for a lil' bit of whatever this is. It's also just, REALLY well written. I love when authors try to push past the limits of their medium and write things beyond description
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If At First You Don't Succeed, Find a Loophole by MalkyTop
Fandoms: モブサイコ100 | Mob Psycho 100
07 Mar 2023
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Reigen keeps dying; Serizawa keeps trying to save him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,157
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Comments:
- 1,028
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- 1,977
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- 426
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- 22,345
Bookmarked by Meepius147
22 Feb 2023
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TIME LOOP TIME LOOP TIME LOOP. AASHGHFHRAGJKHRED
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Blue-eyed matador by FlamingoQueen
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Captain America (Movies)
27 Jan 2024
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The asset is programmed not to strike a handler. Not to struggle no matter who is doing what to it. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to shy away when technicians approach torch-first to take it apart and put it back together in the name of science, research, progress. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to object to the mouth guard, the restraints, the chair. Not to beg or plead when it is left empty and hungry in its cryo tube. And it complies. The asset is programmed not to so much as consider harming an operator, the highest of all members of the organization. And...
And if the silent, liquid fury in the asset’s eyes is any indicator, the asset does not comply.
(Or: The one where the asset is thawed out during the Chitauri attack on New York, escapes, and goes hunting for revenge with the Avengers hot on the trail.)
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- Part 1 of Blue-Eyed Matador (the series)
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 582,590
- Chapters:
- 152/152
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 13,211
- Kudos:
- 4,139
- Bookmarks:
- 770
- Hits:
- 228,099
Bookmarked by Meepius147
12 Oct 2023
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The juxtaposition of INTENSELY GRAPHIC GORE JESUS CHRIST and fluff/ softness with the dog is so goals. Espec. the gore, the gore's great I love it. warning for rape/noncon elements being referenced HARDCORE this fic is not fucking around, there are many many references to it. All trigger tagged in the endnotes tho, so you should be fine even if you can't handle it!
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The 101 Kidnappings of Jonathan Sims (and Other Inconveniences) by beetlejoos
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
24 Feb 2023
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Martin Blackwood never applies for a job at the Magnus Institute. The universe seems determined that he meets Jonathan Sims anyway. But is it Fate, or something more sinister, that keeps bringing the two of them together?
Bookmarked by Meepius147
22 Jan 2023
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Literally this is straight up insane. Weirdest AU alive, and it STILL manages to hit a home run just by sheer strength of its writing and characters. As hilarious as it is terrifying. 10/10
