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It's been a while since I've done any kind of recs list post, so I thought I'd have a go at this. Instead of trying to pick just 10 fics as my favourites (Difficulty level: Impossible!), I decided to base it on which fics seem most overlooked, so I chose fics from my bookmarks that had under 500 kudos

Fandoms included: ATLA, SVSSS, MDZS, Watership Down, Star Wars, Good Omens, Untitled Goose Game
All are complete, with a variety of ratings & themes (ranging from chill G to E with archive warnings)

Title: Gabriel & the Great Goose of Terror
Fandoms: Good Omens, Untitled Goose Game
Pairings: None
Rating: G
Wordcount: 4,363
Description: A strange package arrives in Heaven. An unnamed angel opens it and finds it empty. Not having the imagination to see what this implies the angel miracles the box away and continues with their daily duties, blissfully unaware that the horror that had originally been hiding in the box has already been unleashed.

Title: The Story of El-ahrairah & the Rabbits of Cloud Recesses
Fandoms: Watership Down, MDZS
Pairing: Tagged as Wangxian but it's background
Rating: G
Wordcount: 1,702
Description: The Black Rabbit of Inle and El-ahrairah are both very disappointed in the warren of Cloud Recesses, though for very different reasons.

Title: This Bed of Love
Fandom: MDZS
Pairing: Wangxian
Rating: E
Wordcount: 4,513
Description: Wei Wuxian sucks a string of hickies around the base of his throat, a perverse necklace that matches the one Wei Wuxian wears. Lan Wangji can’t help the way the corner of his lips curl at the giggle his husband gives when he draws back to look, happy that they are both enjoying themselves.
Day 1 – Coming Untouched

Title: The Element of Change
Fandoms: ATLA
Pairings: Urzai, Ozai & his family
Rating: T (the MCD is for canon character death)
Wordcount: 6,862
Description: A think piece on if Ozai had been born a waterbender and how that would change his relationships with his family and, ultimately, his life.

Title: Gratuitous
Fandoms: ATLA
Pairing: Ozai/prison guards
Rating: E (the pairing + rating should tell you all you need to know regarding warnings)
Wordcount: 7,757
Description: In another version of events, perhaps, someone comes to his aid. Someone saves him, and he does not have to face degradation again, and again, and again. This is not that story.

Title: About the Acquired Blindness
Fandoms: SVSSS
Pairing: Moshang
Rating: T
Wordcount: 891
Description: Shang Qinghua isn't sure if he wants to know if his eye sockets are empty or not.
If yes, then it is irreversible.
How will he do his job then?

Title: I've Connected the Two Dots
Fandoms: SVSSS
Pairing: None
Rating: T (CNTW)
Wordcount: 1,242
Description: Airplane has a problem.
However, as the Peak Lord of An Ding, he has a lot of practice dealing with problems.

Title: Twilight Sleep, Waking Nightmares
Fandoms: SVSSS
Pairing: Moshang
Rating: M
Wordcount: 6,111
Description: An alliance of young cultivators are looking for Xin Mo, and want Mobei-jun to tell them where and how to get it. It goes pretty badly for them, starting with the fact that their demon bindings and truth potions work.
How do you torture a demon enough to make them shut up?

Title: Amongst the Crystals
Fandoms: SVSSS
Pairing: Moshang
Rating: G
Wordcount: 5,482
Description: Early one morning, Shang Qinghua is awoken by Mobei-Jun and taken somewhere. He doesn't know why, but he figures his King has a good reason. Never could Shang Qinghua predict what lay in wait for him.

Title: The Warm Embrace of Long, Sharp Teeth
Fandoms: Star Wars
Pairing: Reylo
Rating: E
Wordcount: 18,847
Description: There are stories on Jakku that every child knows. Younglings who wander off into the cold, barren night and never come back. Ever-shifting monsters, too terrible for the mind to hold.
Stay close to the fire, my darling, stay close.
Rey knew these stories, too. She just didn't realize she was in one.

thispatternismine: (atla - firelord zuko)
Zhaozai Palooza Zhaozai Palooza is an event dedicated to Ozai & Zhao, but doesn't require them to necessarily be paired with each other - just that at least one of them has to be a central character. I've done a mix of Hakozai, Urzai, & Zhaozai.

An Evening's Escape

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Urzai

Prompt: Festival

Words: 2,111

Description: Ozai slips away from a party to enjoy the festivities going on outside the palace & encounters a masked woman.

Extract:

“You’re a firebender, yes?” she asked, a thumb absently stroking over his hand, warm from his inner fire. Then went on, not waiting for an answer. “Dancing is like sparring, but you’re not trying to win.”

“Then what’s the point?”

She sighed, but there was a small smile on her lips. “Not everything is a competition, you know.”

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Warmth

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Hakozai

Prompt: Hair/Headpiece

Words: 3,447

Description: Ozai gets sent to the Southern Water Tribe to help rebuild. It's cold & he hates it & nothing is going to change his mind.

Extract:

“Interesting haircut,” someone commented. “Long hair, but some short bits on the top. You couldn’t make up your mind?”

Ozai just snarled wordlessly and turned away. The man should know as well as anyone what the shorter strands meant, that Ozai had had no input into his haircut.

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I Like Myself (Most of the Time)

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: None

Prompt: Pride/Humility

Words: 100

Description: Ozai's life, separated into four parts.

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Like A Shadow

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Zhaozai

Prompt: Haunted

Words: 635

Description: Zhao was always around, even when he wasn't there.

Extract:

It felt as if Zhao was always around the palace whenever his ship was in port. More specifically, he was always wherever in the palace Ozai was, or was going to be.

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A Different Reality

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Urzai, Ozai & Zuko, Ozai & Azula, Ursa & Zuko, Ursa & Azula

Prompt: Role-Reversal

Words: 1,892

Description: What if... Ozai was the kind, understanding parent & Ursa was the ambitious, cruel one?

Extract:

“Ozai, you know you cannot keep ignoring Azula’s obvious talents, or letting Zuko slack off.”

He sighed, doing his best not to be frustrated with her. He understood that Ursa’s determination that both her children be excellent firebenders, whatever the cost, was likely down to fear. As a non-bender and the granddaughter of a traitor, married to the secondborn son, her status in the family was precarious at best. Their need to prove to Azulon that they were worthy was something they had in common, but for her it was a chance to restore the honour of her entire family.

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Detective Sokka & the Mystery of the Hickey

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Hakozai

Prompts: Caught in the Act, Post-War

Words: 1,983

Description: Sokka is grudgingly accepting of the fact that the Loser Lord is living in his village in order to repay his debt to society or whatever it was that Zuko had said, but is horrified when he returns after some time away & sees a hickey on the man's neck. Who would betray the tribe in such a way? Looks like a mystery for Expert Detective Sokka!

(Can be read as a sequel to Warmth, but it’s not necessary to have read that.)

Extract:

Still, he thought later, as he helped a bunch of the tribesmen (and one Loser Lord) put up a wall, all that jerkbending really built up those muscles. Might as well put them to use.

Then he scratched at his collarbone, pushing his coat away from his neck slightly and…

Wait. Was that a hickey?!

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Dreams of the Future

Fandom: Avatar: The Last Airbender

Relationships: Urzai

Prompt: Family

Words: 531

Description: Ursa has some news for her husband.

Extract:

“What do you think it will be?” he asked.

She laughed and swatted him, playfully. “A baby, silly.”

He rolled his eyes. “You know what I mean.”

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thispatternismine: (mcu - la vida loki)

Fandom: MCU

Relationship(s): Lokane

Summary: Jane Foster was having a perfectly normal day, until she got pulled back into the Asgardian family drama she thought she'd gotten clear of & found herself stranded on an alien planet with her ex's brother. All in all, she can't complain.

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