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Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Captain America, The Avengers
Characters/Pairings: Natasha Romanov/Maria Hill, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers, James 'Bucky' Barnes/Steve Rogers/Sam Wilson, Nick Fury, Phil Coulsen, various MCU characters
Rating: Mature
Length: 04:21:03 (41,322 words)
Content Notes: Graphic depictions of violence, abuse of children by the Red Room, recollection of past pet death
Creator Links: Quietnight on the Audiofic Archive, Quietnight on AO3, notcaycepollard on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Families of choice, Time travel, Fix-it

Summary: The fall is longer than Natasha expects.

It’s tears cold on her face, teeth bitten all the way through her lip and the taste of copper in her mouth; she’s falling and falling and then, bracing for impact—she wakes up.

Reccer's Notes: This is one of my favourite podfics by one of my favourite podficcers, and it's a tour de force. It's a long story by notcaycepollard that puts right Natasha's death with the soul stone - instead of dying she's sent back in time to the moment in her Red Room training she most regrets, and from that moment lives her life anew and, with her knowledge of the first time around, is able to fix the worst, most tragic disasters and losses of canon. It starts with Natasha rescuing her sister trainee black widows from the Red Room, plus Bucky the Winter Soldier who's there as well. There's a lovely, slow-burn relationship with Maria Hill in the story, but the key relationships for Natasha are with her sisters, aged from a four-year-old to teenagers when they escape, and the podfic's centre is the found family they create. The fix-it aspects are enormously satisfying and Quietnight's reading is, as ever, nuanced and fluent, beautifully performed - including all the Russian names and words, and a pleasure to listen to. An epic story and a wonderful podfic, stirring and heartwarming, and infinitely better than canon.

Fanwork Links: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) on the Audiofic Archive, and on AO3
(the fic is the first in a series of three stories)

tafadhali posting in

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periru3 and I have posted the first two vids in our ongoing vid album Jagged Little Slayer, a mashup of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Alanis Morissette:

Title: All I Really Want
Character/Pairing: Buffy-centric, minor Buffy/Angel, Buffy/Faith, Buffy/Spike
Summary: Here, can you handle this?
Notes: Premiered at VidUKon 2025.

AO3 | DW | Tumblr

Title: Hand in My Pocket
Character/Pairing: Scoobies gen
Summary: Everything's gonna be quite alright.

AO3 | DW | Tumblr

garryowen posting in

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Fandom: Star Trek AOS (Reboot)
Pairings/Characters: Nyota Uhura
Rating: G
Length: 1866 words
Creator Links:

danahid
Theme: Female relationships

Summary:

I took the stars from my eyes and then I made a map.

There are rules of diplomacy that you have been trained to follow. There are realities that you have been educated to expect. You are poised and dedicated and intelligent and professional, and there are horrors in the universe that you don’t want your sisters to know. There are false maps to terrible places that you don’t want your sisters to follow. You know that you can’t protect them from everything, but this you can protect them from for a little while longer.

Reccer's Notes: I am partial to stories that explore why people join Starfleet, and this is an excellent example. While the story talks about Uhura's motivations, it also explores her relationship with her younger sisters. She is both inspiration and protector to them, and she's very aware of her role.

This story takes on both the promise and sacrifice of going beyond traditional roles. Yes, Uhura accomplishes so much, but those accomplishments come at a cost, a cost she doesn't want her sisters to know about because she wants them to find their own way.

Danahid's writing is always exact and meticulous and beautiful, and this story is no exception. There's so much in these 1800 words, including a beautiful ending.

Fanwork Links: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters

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mific posting in

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard
Categories: M/M
Words: 3161
Warnings: no AO3-type warnings apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: unfortunately no longer accessible
Link: Everything You Could Imagine on Wayback
Why This Must Be Read: This is an episode tag to Home, the one with the sentient mist. After they get back to Atlantis Rodney asks John what was going on with his weird dead friends party, and John thinks about, but doesn't fess up to, a missing scene in which he found Rodney waiting for him in the bathroom at the bachelor pad. Eventually, Rodney shares his own mist-induced fantasies, and all's well. It's a fun might-have-been missing scene for the episode. There's great characterization, and it's hot and cleverly written.

( snippet of fic )

mific posting in

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Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: Gen. Teyla Emmagan & Sam Carter, Evan Lorne
Rating: Teen
Length: 8824
Content Notes: canon-typical violence, minor character death
Creator Links: Rachel500 on AO3, ArwenLune on AO3, ArwenLune on Audiofic Archive
Themes: Female relationships, Action/adventure, Friendship, Women being awesome

Summary: When a diplomatic mission is interrupted by the Wraith, Sam and Teyla wrestle their personal demons to work together and find a way back to Atlantis.

Reccer's Notes:
This is set soon after Sam Carter comes to Atlantis to replace Elizabeth, and both she and Teyla initially grapple with her new role. Teyla, unlike John and Rodney, had no prior knowledge of Sam Carter and can't help missing Elizabeth and not fully trusting Carter. Then a mission goes badly wrong and they're thrown together, and have to find a way through their feelings as they deal with the dangerous situation. It's a gripping read with interesting character explorations and a satisfying ending. There's also a podfic version, excellently read by ArwenLune.

Fanwork Links: Walk Beside Me on AO3
And the Podfic, read by ArwenLune

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fics/fanart/fanvids/fancrafts/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

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Fandom: Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Fixing a Flat (Norman Rockwell illustration)
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Hilda; three Norman Rockwell characters, two female and one male.
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 2,356
Content Notes: No Archive Warnings Apply, women solving their own problems
Creator Tags: magazine illustrations, Norman Rockwell - Freeform, Fluff, Plot
Creator Links: (AO3)

moon_custafer; (DeviantArt)

mooncustafer; (Dreamwidth)

moon_custafer; (Instagram)

mooncustafer; (LiveJournal)

moon_custafer; (Tumblr)

mooncustafer
Theme: Female Relationships, Crossovers/Fusions, Female Friendship, Gen, Heists & Capers, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms, Stranded

Summary: Hilda’s fishing trip is struck by rain and then by two new acquaintances in need of assistance.

Author’s Notes: For moonlight69.

I needed to introduce a few additional characters to Hilda’s mainly single-panel world, so I did a mash-up with Norman Rockwell’s “Fixing a Flat.” Think of it as the Illustrationverse.

Reccer's Notes: A rec posted in honor of the U.S. Full Strawberry Moon, for reasons that will be apparent in the fic.

Moon Custafer constructs a story from several Hilda panels (plus a special guest Norman Rockwell work), in which Duane Bryers’ zaftig hillbilly wood nymph comes to the aid of two travelers stranded in the boondocks—a predicament complicated by a less friendly local. (A temporary problem-solving alliance (particularly against a common enemy) can count as a relationship, right?)

Hilda as portrayed in Bryers’ artworks seems to embrace solitude, and the scant fanfic I’ve seen doesn’t tend to show her interacting face-to-face with much of anyone but her animal friends and the odd Authorial Proxy; it’s fun to watch her socializing, and to see her given family, friends, enemies, and a history. (As well as actual clothing that she presumably wears now and then to pick up her crackers, trashy novels, and repurposable-as-clothing floursacks.)

Fanwork Links: Fixing a Flat by

moon_custafer for

moonlight69, for Yuletide 2018.

goddess47 posting in

stargateficrec

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: none
Categories: gen, episode related
Warnings: none
Word Count: 1601
Author on DW:

darkshade (empty journal)
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: Always Left Behind

Author's Summary:

Returning home after leaving his grandfather with the giant aliens, Daniel is fine.

Why This Must Be Read:

This is a Daniel-centric fic, primarily dealing with the SG-1 episode "The Crystal Skull" where Nick stays with the aliens.

Daniel is 'fine' -- for a certain value of fine. It takes Jack to assure Daniel that he won't always be left behind.

( snippet of fic )

nuh_s posting in

stargateficrec

Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Teal'c
Characters: Daniel Jackson, Teal'c
Pairings: Daniel Jackson and Teal'c Friendship
Categories: Gen, Hurt/Comfort, Episode Related
Warnings: Memory issues
Author's Journal:

aurora_novarum
Author's Website: Aurora_Novarum's Ao3
Link: V is for Victory

Why This Must Be Read: Set in Episode: s07e02 Homecoming, this fic is a somber missing scene between a newly-returned Daniel and Teal'c. I love the way their friendship is shown and how accepting Teal'c is of whoever Daniel may be now, regardless of if he regains his memories, regardless of if he is exactly the same. It's a quiet moment and beautifully done.

( snippet of fic )

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Fandom: Trails of Cold Steel
Pairings/Characters:
Laura S. Arseid/Duvalie, Ines/Ennea, Victor S. Arseid/McBurn
appearances by other assorted Cold Steel characters and hints of other ships Rating: M
Length: 22442 words
Creator Links: Rosie_Rues
Theme:
Grief/Mourning, Dreamsharing, Recovery, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, changing roles in life, loss of limb
Summary: With the Great Twilight over, Duvalie follows Laura home to Legram. She's not entirely sure why she's here, or when she's going to leave, but she can't bring herself to regret her choice.

Meanwhile, Victor's dreaming of the only man in the universe still willing to offer him a challenge...

Reccer's Notes: While I have read this fic several times, the most recent was some time ago, I always remember it as being roughly half of one ship and half of another- I note this here because one of those ships is M/M. In my rereading, I see the balance is more 2/3 to 1/3, with the bulk of it being the theme-compliant Laura/Duvalie, who begins as something of a lost and reluctant guest in Laura's home in the wake of the loss of the woman who saved her. The emotional metamorphosis of Duvalie's canonical hostility towards Laura- already very much blunted as the story opens, turn to friendship and later towards attraction is an absolute treasure. There are many smaller moments of many relationships of varying sorts between her and otter female characters throughout the story, some of which absolutely beg for stories of their own.

The M/M ships is Victor/McBurn, and they are a prominent part of the story- really a story occurring in parallel, but separately- until it suddenly isn't. While I don't want to dwell on them in this post as they are not germane to the theme, it bears mentioning that they are there in case they would turn anyone off from reading. But I will say that their development is quite astounding, a sword master who has lost an arm, a god who has lost his world and any connection to it and what they become to each other.

This fic deals with grief in many forms, over many different kinds of loss, from loss of friends, comrades in arms, loss of a limb, loss of connection to oneself and an entire world. It's all very sensitively written, and even the absolutely fantastical loss of a god from another dimension with his entire world somehow becomes much less fantastical than one might expect.

There are also themes of many different changes in life that come with time passing and with dealing with these griefs. Oh, and the very cracky-sounding, but utterly sincerely dealt with coping with the shock of learning that your father is banging the demon god from another dimension. (that needs to be a tag, ok)

This is just one of my favorite ever fics, by one of my favorite authors.
Fanwork Links: https://archiveofourown.org/works/45897169

brightknightie posting in

fkficfest

FK Fic Fest 2025

fkficfest | FKFicFest A03 Collection

Index list. Here's the linked, alphabetical list of all stories posted in the FKFicFest 2025 game. You can use the DW tags or AO3 sidebar to help find the story that you'll most enjoy!

( 2025 Index List )

Three cheers! The 2025 FKFicFest game is now officially closed. Three cheers for all our writers, beta-readers, and readers! Hooray! Yay, Forever Knight! Yay, us!

Posting elsewhere. Please do share the story that you wrote for this game everywhere you like. Where appropriate, please mention fkficfest to help fellow fans find us. Folks who read your story might like to read those by others, too!

Endless, forever... Please continue reading and replying to the fest stories! This year's, and all 16 astonishing years so far! Please also keep writing, reading, and replying to new FK fanfiction all year round, whenever the mood strikes. We're a small, sleepy fandom at this end of history. But we're here! We're still inspired by our favorite vampire homicide cop, and his friends, enemies, lovers, coworkers, car...

When's the next game here? For now, we're on hiatus. Whether 2026 brings our 17^th round will depend on your interest. Stay tuned! ♥

mific posting in

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Fandom: Taskmaster (series 16)
Characters/Pairings: Sue Perkins/Susan Wokoma
Rating: Gen
Length: 00:02:06
Content Notes: no archive warnings apply, and there are no video-specific warnings.
Creator Links: thingswithwings on AO3
Themes: Female relationships, Friendship, Team, Humor

Summary: If you're lost, you can look, and you will find me.

Reccer's Notes: This is gorgeous and hilarious as the Sues stumble about carrying out the endless ridiculous tasks, laughing, triumphant, and always there for each other.

Fanwork Links: Team of Sue

mific posting in

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Shows: SGA
Rec Category: John Sheppard/Rodney McKay
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Teyla Emmagan, Carson Beckett, Evan Lorne
Categories: M/M
Words: 3273
Warnings: none apply
Author on DW: n/a
Author's Website: Mandysbitch on Wayback
Link: Camera Obscura on Wayback
Why This Must Be Read: it's Earth Christmastime, but on Atlantis it's mid-summer and the Australians have organized a barbeque. This is one of Mandysbitch's sweeter stories in which the boys get tipsy and end up in bed. It's hot and steamy, a nice slice-of-life, and soft-centered. Lovely writing, and a feelgood ending.

( snippet of fic )

brightknightie posting in

fkficfest

Title: “Worth the Risk”
Author:

Calliope24
Beta-reader: LittleBlackaPony
Length: 10,340 words
Rating/Warnings: General audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Secrets strain the bonds of friendship between Nick, Schanke, and Natalie.”

“Worth the Risk”

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Title: Because I Promised You
Fandom: Arcane
Music: Dawn, The Front by Talos
Summary: Two sides of the same coin. Inextricably bound.
Notes: Premiered at

vidukon_cardiff

DW | AO3 | Tumblr | Bluesky | Youtube

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recthething

Every Thursday, we have a community post, just like this one, where you can drop a rec or five in the comments.

This works great if you only have one rec and don't want to make a whole post for it, or if you don't have a DW account, or if you're shy. ;)

(But don't forget: you can deffo make posts of your own seven days a week. ;D!)

So what cool fanart/fanvids/fics/fancrafts/podfics/other kinds of fanworks have we discovered this week? Drop it in the comments below. Anon comment is enabled.

BTW, AI fanworks are not eligible for reccing at recthething. If you aware that a fanwork is AI-generated, please do not rec it here.

brightknightie posting in

fkficfest

Title: “The Lamentable Tale of Boomer and Chartreuse”
Author:

LittleBlackaPony
Length: 2,145 words
Rating/Warnings: General audiences. No archive warnings apply.
Summary: “Lacroix's credit card has been stolen. This can only bode badly for the perpetrators...but how?”

“The Lamentable Tale of Boomer and Chartreuse”

goddess47 posting in

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Show: SG-1

Rec Category: Jack O'Neill
Characters:Pairings: clone!Jack/clone!Sam
Categories: het, clones, fluff
Warnings: none
Word Count: 7735
Author on DW:

ami_ven
Author's Website: AO3 Profile
Link: Clone!Verse - The Complete(ish) Collection

Author's Summary:

The (probably) complete works in my Clone!Verse series, all in one convenient location.

Why This Must Be Read:

I couldn't resist rec'ing this form of Jack O'Neill. It's clone!Jack with a clone!Sam together, starting in high school and going through adulthood. There's even a fun crossover with Warehouse 13 in the middle.

The entire series of ficlets are fluffy and happy. A perfect read when you need a reason to smile and laugh.

I'm going to put my hopes into that 'ish' part of complete-ish because we all need new reasons to smile.

( snippet of fic )

brightknightie posting in

fkficfest

Title: “What Remains To Be Done”
Author:

Dlyt
Length: 2,211 words
Rating/Warnings: Teen and up audiences. Creator chose not to use archive warnings.
Summary: “Loose ends need to be tied up at the end of the third-season episode 'Ashes to Ashes.'”

“What Remains To Be Done”

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mific in fancake - MCU: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) - podfic by Quietnight
tafadhali in vidding - Two New Vids (BtVS)
garryowen in fancake - Star Trek AOS: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters by Danahid
fred_mouse in meta_warehouse - Tumblr Grab bag
mific in stargateficrec - Everything You Could Imagine (by rivier) (Explicit)
mific in fancake - SGA: Walk Beside Me by Rachel500
glitteryv in recthething - Community Recs Post!
full_metal_ox in fancake - Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Norman Rockwell: Fixing a Flat, by moon_custafer.
goddess47 in stargateficrec - Always Left Behind, by DarkShade (G)
nuh_s in stargateficrec - V is for Victory, by Aurora_Novarum (G)
eratoschild in fancake - Trails of Cold Steel: Moon Door IV: Beyond
brightknightie in fkficfest - The 2025 Closing Ceremonies Post: "I'm about to ask you to believe something that's unbelievable."
mific in fancake - Taskmaster: Team of Sue by thingswithwings
mific in stargateficrec - Camera Obscura (by Mandysbitch) (Explicit)
brightknightie in fkficfest - “Worth the Risk” by Calliope24 (G, gen)
meivocis in vidding - Vid: Arcane || Because I Promised You [Jayce & Viktor]
glitteryv in recthething - Community Recs Post!
brightknightie in fkficfest - “The Lamentable Tale of Boomer and Chartreuse” by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified category)
goddess47 in stargateficrec - Clone!Verse - The Complete(ish) Collection, by ami-ven (G)
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MCU: when i die i’ll sacrifice (more than enough for the afterlife) - podfic by Quietnight

Two New Vids (BtVS)

Star Trek AOS: How to Write Letters Home to Your Sisters by Danahid

Tumblr Grab bag

Everything You Could Imagine (by rivier) (Explicit)

SGA: Walk Beside Me by Rachel500

Community Recs Post!

Hilda the Plus-size Pinup; Norman Rockwell: Fixing a Flat, by moon_custafer.

Always Left Behind, by DarkShade (G)

V is for Victory, by Aurora_Novarum (G)

Trails of Cold Steel: Moon Door IV: Beyond

The 2025 Closing Ceremonies Post: "I'm about to ask you to believe something that's unbelievable."

Taskmaster: Team of Sue by thingswithwings

Camera Obscura (by Mandysbitch) (Explicit)

“Worth the Risk” by Calliope24 (G, gen)

Vid: Arcane || Because I Promised You [Jayce & Viktor]

Community Recs Post!

“The Lamentable Tale of Boomer and Chartreuse” by LittleBlackaPony (G, unspecified category)

Clone!Verse - The Complete(ish) Collection, by ami-ven (G)

“What Remains To Be Done” by Dlyt (T, gen)

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