Gonna start by recommending some of my favorites from friends.
Fics in question:
- Deer's Den https://archiveofourown.org/works/53559172/chapters/135572530
- She Conducts This Rapture url=https://archiveofourown.org/works/51729880
- Other Guys Can Feed You Lines url=https://archiveofourown.org/works/56410864
- Thorny Passion - https://archiveofourown.org/works/60538231
- Pruning One Last Rose https://archiveofourown.org/works/51488386
- Radio_Deer has always been a dear friend and source of collaborative inspiration for over a decade; his work is always top par. I've been reading his magnum opus The Deer's Den which is a Hazbin Hotel Borrower AU with deeply researched settings of the 1920s. Beautifully written and lovely getting to read alongside him. Ty, friend <3
- Second up is GettingMetaphysical's She Conducts This Rapture.[/url] Another excellent read which not only breaks but redefines beauty standards through Slay the Princess's Damsel. I'm not usually one for a lot of spicy reads, but this here is some top-tier, fully autonomous pure erotica. One of my first reads of this kind and always itching for more in this series.
- I know a lot of people know Aspooky for Fury of a Shattered Mirror, but I actually want to highlight The STP McDonald's fic for a quick, breezy, absolutely hilarious read. It really takes into account the absurdity of many of that world's elements when coming to the existence of other people, and how they would logistically react. This one's definitely in my head rent free, as it should be.
- Gonna add on that Vickysaurus's take on the Princesses and the alternative routes is always lovely, but I've seen few Thorn takes rival the emotion of her miniseries of the Sleeping Mound. I'm partial to the spicy secondary piece, but both have excellent representations of intimate relations post-trauma and the conflict therein, as well as grief and tender polyamory.
First four authors are ones which I have idea swapped and we have worked closely alongside to workshop (I have no direct connection to Deer's Den so much as the author, but that friendship is long-lived & historically literary collaborative). I'm going to offer up one more from someone who I'm not as close to but definitely spoke to me.
Pruning One Last Rose is delightfully tragic. It's an excellent, cannon-compliant character study of STP's Thorn revolving around the question of "what if the possession can happen again in later chapters?" and MerryDreaming absolutely KILLS IT. Heavy angst; painful payoff. All the emotional care and necessity needed to make it hit. I've read this one several months before and it still sticks with me today.
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