fic rec saturday ? - february 2024 recap

[superache]

This is a bit late considering we're already halfway into march, but I've been busy mea culpa. But not too culpa.

Here's what I read and loved during the month of February:

As always, read the tags por favor, ymmv!

brighter than the dawn (the burning sea) by rowenabane

• NCT, Ten/Kun
• me and the group chat rewatched pac rim this month. which sent me spiraling. bad.
• Loving a thing so much it kills you. Loving someone who believes this so much it hurts.

and miles to go before i sleep by yuchi

• NCT, Mark/Lucas
• Multimodal storytelling save me. Save me multimodal storytelling.
• Epistolary fiction stocks just rose.
• In which humanity endures, no matter the cost. Love endures.

we lost faith (in the arms of love) by stepquietly

• Jennifer's Body, Jennifer/Needy
• Never shutting up about this fic.
• Sci-fi body horror. Another pac rim au and I'm unapologetic about it.
• Jennifer drifts with a kaiju and comes back wrong.

The Depth of the Curve by sinchun

• Omega X, Hwichan/Yechan, Junghoon/Yechan
• Everything I love about canon compliant omegaverse. Great fusion of omegaverse tropes with a k-idol industry critique aftertaste.
• If you only read one fic from this list, this would be a good one to choose. 

the last flame of my life by zimriya

• TVXQ, Yunho/Changmin
• Am I technically cheating because this is a series? Well, yes. Do I care? Not really.
• This was good! Really good! I can't say I'm a TVXQ stan, but I love the meshing here of kpop fandom history and omegaverse. If the word count is too daunting, the first part of this series is a masterclass on telling a story through time. It spans decades i think? 
• I love when fanfic creates revisionist history for storytelling purposes. Big proponent of this.
• Devoured the whole thing in about a day and a half. More canon compliant omegaverse please.

ask me where my home is by toomoon (jjjat3am)

• Bad and Crazy, K/Ryu Su Yeol
• Asking me to not read fic for any piece of media I so much as glance at is like asking a fish to breath on dry land.
• Selfcest! Fun!

the impossible by bimmyou

• Top Gun, Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw/Jake "Hangman" Seresin
• The full feelings nasty when it comes to grief, trauma, and coming out. Amazing stuff.
• I love Top Gun. Send tweet.

You're Everything A Big Bad Wolf Could Want by Aglio_Saggezza

• Tokyo Ghoul, Rize/Kaneki Ken
• Rize if she decided to indulge Kaneki rather than kill him. Predator/Prey, but make it femdom.

TL;DR by squirrelspur

• NCT, Jaehyun/Yuta
• Token straight boy, not straight boy Jeong Jaehyun strikes again. 
• A tale as old as time, but still fun to read :)

prove me wrong by indefinitelyforever

• Jujutsu Kaisen, Geto Suguru/Gojo Satoru
• Possessive satosugu at their most horny and most teenage. I love when they get to just be high schoolers and this is great.

where the stars do not take sides by WitchofEndor

• Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka/Zuko
• Now, I did not see the Netflix reboot, but ATLA's resurgence into the cultural conscience did make me want to read all the zukka fic I never consumed the first time bc ao3 didn't exist yet.
• Yes, a love story but a story about sibling dynamics and not just dealing with trauma but creating adaptations and understanding too. Loved.

See you next month! :)