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
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Despite the fever and the barely-healed burn scar, the boy’s fast. June avoids his blade, but still he jams his limbs into her, desperate to scratch and kick and bite off her hand…
(Just like a baby shirshu, spitting poison from behind the bars of its cage. The comparison shouldn't be so endearing.)
Or: the AU where Zuko flees the palace after his Agni Kai, running right into Nyla and June.
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- Part 1 of Two Drama Queens Loose on a Shirshu
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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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(The end is never the end. There's too much blood on too many hands and too many unhappy endings. Six years is a long wait for a grieving mother and a damning curse. It's time for more desperate measures. Perhaps resourcing one of the counselors - as she had watched so many do before - will prove benign. Looks like it's time to save the sole survivor.)
Dylan wakes up in a blind panic, kicking out and falling backward off of the log bench he's sitting on. Maybe it's a bit dramatic, but in his defense, he was just being pinned down in the kitchen, about to get his throat torn out by a goddamn werewolf. Sue him for startling.
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- Part 1 of take me back & back again
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caught between the dark and the dreaming by Raayide
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
26 Jan 2024
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Marcus holds the goblet up, still stinking with klauthgrass, and ponders them, clutched in the wretched claws of his undead monsters. "Well," he says, and smiles. "If you will not willingly drink it, I have a manner of encouragement."
And then he raises his dagger, pricks his own wrist until scarlet pools over his pale skin, and lets blood drip into the goblet.
Before he can help it, Astarion stiffens.
Astarion has spent two hundred years with truth as a bitter enemy. Fitting, then, that his choice to say it is taken from him.
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Tim
Things get creepier the closer they are in proximity to “The Archivist” these days. It’s just a fact of life now.Cass
“The Archivist”??Tim
Apparently it’s a thing. He introduces himself as “Jonathan Sims, the Archivist”Cass
That’s…. Weird??
It’s not just me, right?
That’s weird?Tim
Like I said.The events of The Reverb in These Holy Halls look a little different from the outside.
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- Part 2 of Reverb
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Whatever he had predicted might happen, Jon wasn't expecting to survive upon demolishing the Panopticon. He certainly wasn't expecting to be rescued.
Instead, he wakes up in an alternative universe where he's never been the Archivist, and Martin Blackwood doesn't exist.
Martin Blackwood wakes up somewhere else entirely.
Written as part of the RQBB 2020 Challenge, with art by the fantastic Aspen! (@asortofloficharm)
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- English
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- 49,758
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
25 Dec 2022
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Dude this is. like so incredibly good and so incredibly sad. Fic that makes you stare unblinking at your bedroom ceiling
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Humans are the intergalactic boogeyman. With their poison-drinking, hysterical strength, obscene bone density, and ability to ignore pain, it's not hard to see why. Of course, that also makes them the ideal captives for fighting rings.
Virgil is one of these. Of course, he'd never fight willingly, but the immense desire to not die tends to loosen one's morals. Murderous non-sapient alien predators don't really give him a choice, after all. However, he has more than enough morals to put his foot down when a very much sapient and harmless opponent is thrown into his ring.
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- English
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- 17,163
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- 8/?
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
29 Nov 2022
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Read it, enjoyed it. Then I relized it was an AU fanfic for the vine guy, which was vERY SURPRISING. It's good tho
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The Way of Conquest by pagination
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
26 Jun 2025
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All Din wanted to do was find the Child a sorcerer teacher, pick up a job or two, and follow his Creed.
Three out of three is good, right? Right?
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- Part 1 of The Way of Conquest
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 81,474
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 91
- Comments:
- 5,246
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- 18,745
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- 7,089
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
10 May 2023
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I find this series a bit hard to follow at times due to a general unfamiliarity with star-wars canon, but i also find it FUCKING HILARIOUS dear god.
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So You Need To Get Into A.Z. Fell & Co.; Now What? (A Guide For Unfortunate Bookworms) by c4llistrad
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
21 Jul 2019
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London’s antique enthusiasts and rare lit nerds alike know that if you’re looking for a specific vintage or antique book, you have a good chance of ending up in A.Z. Fell & Co. as a last resort. And if you’ve ever been in (or are currently in) this predicament, you know how much of an absolute nightmare it is trying to even get in the door. Luckily, this handy guide, the fruit of a months-long collaborative effort to create the perfect formula for gaming the A.Z. Fell system, will tell you everything you need to know, complete with a comprehensive breakdown of what, exactly, the opening hours are. Compiled by pageknight and inky of the Rare Antique Forums.
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- English
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
07 Dec 2022
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A support fic to a fic i'm probably abt to bookmark. the good shit
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If Thy Left Hand Offend Thee by Anonymous
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
12 Jun 2018
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... cut it off.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,798
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 1
- Comments:
- 6
- Kudos:
- 94
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- 15
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- 1,661
Bookmarked by Meepius147
15 Mar 2024
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i think "I know what love is" is possibly THE most fucked up thing to say while taking a knife to your fucking shoulder but I am HERE for it!!! I love gore!!