all right sit down folks its bean's fic rec time:

there's no particular order but there's certain fics that pop out my mind for these so i'll list em:

fic that brought me onto a new ship:

windhover by muckraker (grendelity): https://archiveofourown.org/works/219233 

i stumbled across this while looking for some quality writing in code geass. my main ship is still suzalulu but this sold me on ginosuza........... the writing is gorgeous

it felt like a really raw look inside suzaku's very lonely, self-hating psyche and it has a very wistful, honest cadence to the rhythm? not sure how to phrase it but dear god i couldnt shut up about this fic LOL

a cathartic fic:

but you gotta get up once more by simkjrs: https://archiveofourown.org/works/7392847/chapters/16792135

this is the fic i thought was a joke at first. but no. no. it was anything but. it explores deku's trauma and his really messy dynamic with bakugou. i don't think ive come across--

a fic that depicts what its like to grow up with a childhood ""friend"" who bullied u then u kinda make up a little bit but the baggage is there and it's explored so HUMANLY. its not a bkdk fic btw, and i just, /holds midoriya's hand

a fic you still remember many years later:

anterograde tomorrow by changdictator

so. so this fic. man. a friend who was rly into exo in high school told me i should read this fic and i was like, but its real ppl fic. anyway i read it cos apparently it was "life-changing".

it was.

i just remember going into shock at how raw and SAD and genuine and tragic it was? damn. the writing was sheer poetry and im glad i got to experience that at least once in my life.

a fic you've reread several times & a fic you found at the right time:

what you need to hear about the ghost in your heart by softintelligence: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2323136/chapters/5115944

i read this fic every once in a while. it depicts loss and grief in such a raw way, i dont have words.

the first time i read this i just lay in my bed ugly crying. i was rly fcking depressed at the time and it just connected in such a real way and i just dont know what else to say. i feel like even if you never knew yowapedal or these characters, this could stand alone as a book.

a fic that made you feel seen:

scar tissue around your heart by bimmyou: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2478980 

misawa fic. except it's more about miyuki's emotional constipation and it kinda hit too close home i was like, ok dont project onto this fic, dont do it LOL

a fic that made you laugh out loud:

LAUNCHING MERRILY DOWN THE PATH OF SIN AGAIN
by perennials: https://archiveofourown.org/works/22437565 

i stumbled across this fic searching for atsuhina content. my god. the writing is humor personified. i actually adore the writing style, it feels like--

-- an organized chaos of emotions. im shit with words but the spacing/timing/delivery of certain words, sentences, and even situations, made me bark out an ugly laugh here and there. god bless. im drawing something for this too.

a fic with a line or two you've memorized by heart:

The Trajectory of Laughter by PKSamurai: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2525621/chapters/5612657

its not so much a line, but, cicadas. i dont think ill ever recover from this fic lmao

a fic that led you to make friends with the author:

Getting Rivalzoned (And Learning to Live With It) by oogenesis: https://archiveofourown.org/works/5457866/chapters/12617171

actually this wasn't the exact fic, but funny story-- i read this one from a friend's rec, then i moved onto various fandoms as i do

when i finished zexal, i went looking for fics, and when i finished in11, i also went looking for fics. long story short, i kept coming across good writing that sounded similar, and then i was like, huh. the name looks familiar. LO AND BEHOLD LMAO its the same author--

--for the first ygo fic i read..... but also the funny thing is, was it.... zexal? or in11? i was looking for ppl to gush about my then hyperfixation, befriended claire, found out claire = oogenesis so here we are

im gonna continue this thread later LOL)