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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Someone had to inform Light's family. What remained of it.
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5 Times the Raptors Tried to Kill Miriam, and 1 Time They Didn’t by tardigradetardis
Fandoms: Jurassic Park (Movies)
12 Nov 2015
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Miriam thought the job working for InGen sounded perfect. Tropical island, good pay, first dibs on publications… At least, she thought so until she found out that she was the only behaviorist on staff. Once the eggs hatched, it became all she could do to keep up–with the dinosaurs, the science, and her health.
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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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Looping Back to the Beginning by Feneris
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
07 Aug 2018
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Where Class 1-A finds itself in a time loop centered around their first year at UA. After getting over the usual angst, they decide that the best way to grow as heroes is by antagonizing dangerous villains for fun and amusement.
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If They Haven't Learned Your Name by silentwalrus
Fandoms: Captain America - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe
16 Apr 2018
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Steve gets out of the hospital in two days, but just barely. “I’m fine,” he tells Sam, Nurse Eunjung and the phalanx of doctors assigned to make sure Captain America didn’t bleed out and die and get bad PR all over their nice clean hospital. “I have an advanced healing factor. It’s fine. See? I’m standing.”
“That is not standing,” Sam tells him.
“You’re bending the IV stand,” Nurse Eunjung adds pointedly. “Let go and sit down, they don’t grow on trees.”
aka Steve and Bucky's Global Honeymoon Revenge World Tour.Podfic of this story available by the incredible quietnight!
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- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 237,623
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 4,836
- Kudos:
- 9,609
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- 3,231
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- 312,642
Bookmarked by Meepius147
08 Jan 2024
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Incredibly smooth-- it captivates from the get-go, resulting in a light read with a huge payoff. The Characters have strong presences, and feel like themselves. Written by the author of 'Snipers solve 99% of all problems', and is exactly as good. It's funny, cathartic, and just all around great!
It's also FUCKING HILARIOUS.
Feels like the beginning of the wii sports resort minigame 'island flyover,' when the plane's taking off and it's super smooth.
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He doesn't know who to blame anymore, who's at fault at the root of everything. It's Dad. It's Mom. It's Mary, and it's John. It's Dean, at the end of the day. What do the roots matter when the tree is on fire?
"I don't want to be the Dean you wanted me to be," Dean tells her quietly.
Mary swallows. "Don't worry, you're not."
"What's he like? That Dean."
"Just like you."
"Then what's the difference?"
"He never lost his mom."
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,920
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 173
- Kudos:
- 3,053
- Bookmarks:
- 419
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- 16,670
Bookmarked by Meepius147
29 Nov 2023
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MARY CHARACTERIZATION FOR THE WINNN
Fave line: "Makeup can't make you do that," Mary tells him, like it's a secret. "I would know."
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Margin for Error by Nightsrk
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
23 Aug 2022
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If you asked Hoshi, anyone foolish enough to talk about their secret plans for world domination in a crowded restaurant deserved to be overheard.
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- Part 3 of Margin for Error 'verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 349,683
- Chapters:
- 66/66
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 1,381
- Kudos:
- 1,219
- Bookmarks:
- 429
- Hits:
- 62,328
Bookmarked by Meepius147
31 Oct 2022
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Hoshi (the oc) fits really well into the existing world of JJK. The characters are on point, as is the writing!
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The staff at Gotham Cemetery are not paid enough to deal with this.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 7,594
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 19
- Comments:
- 461
- Kudos:
- 9,328
- Bookmarks:
- 2,103
- Hits:
- 42,959
Bookmarked by Meepius147
27 Apr 2023
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God I LOVE original characters, well-written women, and canon-divergent AUS. And this has all three!
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Ill-Gotten Gains by ghostmaybite
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
16 Feb 2026
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When his father and Tomura start planning the USJ attack, Izuku makes a plan of his own. It’s simple, only four steps:
1. Steal Eraserhead’s quirk
2. Use it to kill All for One
3. Give Erasure back, hopefully
4. Go to jail, probablyHe’s prepared for the plan to fail at any time, but surprisingly, it’s not until step 4 that things fall through.
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- Part 1 of THE HONOR OF THIEVES
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 341,989
- Chapters:
- 54/?
- Collections:
- 92
- Comments:
- 7,635
- Kudos:
- 26,075
- Bookmarks:
- 8,132
- Hits:
- 1,069,118
Bookmarked by Meepius147
22 Oct 2022
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.Very much a 'things get worse before they get better' type fic, and we're currently a good way through the 'getting better' bit. Izuku's relationships with Tomura/AFO are really well-written and nuanced, and there's a bunch of little details and motifs that give it extra punch. If you're a fan of the Trolley problem give it a read!
Currently updating.
also they have memes. on every chapter. in the notes. I cannot describe how much this has improved my viewing experience