#captive prince rec

[laur-the-cat-prince]

more sketches inspired by this fic. T-T

#cs pacat #captive prince #capri #baby laurent #damen x laurent #laurent of vere #prince laurent #damen of akielos #lamen #auguste of vere #auguste #Auguste wears fruity little hats #fic rec

[zumurruds]

hello! out of curiosity do you have a capri fic recommendation list?

here’s a quick list off the top of my head:

all this and heaven too by spinawren

sanguinary poultice, love charm by lapin

and ask no leave of thee by covertius

be a god (and hold me by a charm) by forthelongesttime

lines on palms trilogy by fahye

beautiful boy trilogy by kybelles

a pattern torn by semiflos

the wager by eglanterias

hver blomst en stjerne by brigittt

check out all the work by these authors 💗

#captive prince #fic rec #lamen

[captaindamianos]

I would love a new rec list if you’re offering! 👀🙏🏿😊

Hello!! I'm so incredibly sorry it took me more than a month instead of the day or ten I joked about in my tags. I wasn't feeling too great and I also lost my motivation to participate in the fandom in any way. So it was hard for me to focus on this task.

But I really want to thank you so much for encouraging me! This turned out to be a good way to appreciate other people participating in the fandom and thank them for the work they shared with us.

In the spirit of things though I'm going to make this the most self-indulgent list I can come up with, so this will probably include a few wips, but I'm going to mention that because I know people don't like wips (can't relate haha I've met cool people that way and I love when authors get chatty in the comments).

It's in no particular order! Just whatever came to mind or what I found in the depths of my bookmarks. Let's get started 💪

Canis Major by Lapin

Point of Opposition by forthelongesttime

lovesick by forthelongesttime

Favourite by RockingRobing

Sexual Intercourse by antivillain

The Stand-in Wedding Planner and the Obstinate Baker by penstrikesmidnight

even in another time by phlegmatic

white wine in the sun by phlegmatic (WIP)

Lord, You Keep Me Crawling by princessofpatras (WIP)

come uncover me series by sweetricebuns

i got the t-top cherry blue (now i'm looking at you) by sweetricebuns

too hot to handle series by sweetricebuns

Wildflowers by Shigure_Natsu

A (Precious) Moment In Time by CoffeeDragon87

Lemongrass & Peony by starsxabove

The Garden by DisraeliGears

we kiss and then by residue (please check out all of the authors works as well👌)

Feasts From Heaven by ahdriking

Brute by ahdriking

From Your Mouth by Holly_Golightly I hope there's something in there for everyone, always heed the warnings and ratings. I deliberately left out a lot of fanfics that are already popular, because chances are people have already read them. But I had to add some, because they're very dear to me personally like EIAT and Brute. And I featured a few I've read in the past few months to a year or two. Maybe you missed them, maybe you recently joined and filtered for kudos or hits. But definitely give them a chance, there's so many gems out there. It's once again just a really really small list and definitely doesn't include everything I liked or would recommend, but I have to stop somewhere. If there's specific tropes or things you're looking for, let me know, I can try to make themed lists as well, if it's something I read myself. Hopefully in a shorter time frame next time.

#captive prince #lamen #fic rec #laurent of vere #damianos of akielos #damen of akielos #the list felt a lot longer while working on it #but I also don't want to clog people's dashboards #thank you so much again for sending the ask #it ended up being a lot of fun and i found some fics i need to reread 👀 #the format is all messed up NO #i considered adding comments like last time but i wasn't sure how that was received #but i could still add that

[wimbledon2008]

many books may try to be captive prince but there's only one c.s. pacat

#often imitated but NEVER duplicated #finished a truly abominable capri ripoff last night that i forced myself to read because i paid $6 for it on amazon dot fart noise dot com #the plot was deranged but promising and there were moments of intelligence but it was so poorly written i wanted to off myself #in the hands of a better writer (c.s. pacat) it really could've been something #alas #reading bad fantasy or romance or m/m will only make you appreciate the brilliance and talent and EFFORT of good authors even more #cat you will A L W A Y S be famous #this is why i should only take goodreads recs from kj charles #captive prince #c.s. pacat

[oh23]

does the capri fandom have any insanely good fics like the holy trinity or smth ?

#capri #captive prince #fic rec #please #ao3

[austenwazright]

Can we like just stop for a minute and talk about how brave and fearless CS Pacat really is?? Like everyone here knows how the system works, books are written to sell, and for that the main goal is to please the readers, that's where tropes get in, you already know what you want so you go for it like going to a specific shelf in a supermarket, but CS is like just writing the stories she wants and fuck it. Like, with captive prince (as in the first book) she made us hate Laurent, he wasn't just mean or spoiled he was cruel and I know people who dropped it cause of that (their loss) but it's still not something you do, you don't build up one of you main characters to be hated for like 300 pages, and she did the same with dark rise (spoilers!) killing all the stewards, going the unexpected way, making Will the reincarnation of evil, no one who started to read it just by the synopsis, specially if they didn't know her, expected that and like two of my friends who read said they didn't like. But anyways, in a world where books are a product she keeps giving us authentic stories

#books #book recs #cs pacat #captive prince #laurent of vere #damianos of akielos #will kempen #dark heir #dark rise

[tajmutthall]

my absolute favorite Captive prince fanfictions.

I had hoped that simply marking "rec" for the ones I really liked would narrow it down for myself and others. But after doing that for a while, I am approaching 500 stories and I don't really want that many in my "absolute favoritest" list. So I am slowly going back through them and adding the ones that really stick with me to this collection , Taj MuttHall Capri favorite fanfiction. Enjoy!

(and let me know if there are stories I should check out that aren't on either of my lists.)

#captive prince #damen captive prince #laurent captive prince #laurent x damen #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #damen x laurent #lamen #favorite captive prince #my capri recs #captive prince recs #captive prince fanfic #intriguing stories or great writing or good sex or usually at least two of the above #taj original #taj mutthall #my post

[words-writ-in-starlight]

Hello, I came across your Kencyrath rec post and I am tentatively intruiged. That said I wanted to ask about a trigger before I dive in. Suicide is pretty strong trigger for me. I can handle it if it's mentioned, but detailed descriptions of the act or a lot of time spent in a suicidal character's head/thoughts dealing with suicidal ideation would not be. Is this an issue in the Chronicles of Kencyrath, and if it is, do you have a different recommendation?

Okay SO.

The Kencyrath exist in a honor/shame society, in which going against the code of honor (lying, breaking your word, etc) is considered a sin that can only be forgiven through an honorable death. Sometimes this takes the form of going into battle without the intention to come back, generally without armor, but it also takes the form of ritualized suicide with a specific kind of knife. I would call it a very specific kind of suicidal ideation, in which it doesn’t come so much from a depressive headspace as it does from a kind of rigidly religious one. There isn’t a ton of time spent in the heads of characters actively pursuing ritual suicide, nor what I would call traditional depressive suicidality, but it IS a very present element of the society, including people freely making choices with the understanding that they will be expected to take their own life afterward, or people being forced to take their own life as an alternative to being dishonored. Think samurai rules or Imperial Chinese rules and you’ll be in the right ballpark. Ultimately I can’t know the inside of your brain, but if onscreen suicide discussion or aftermath is a concern, I might table this series until you feel more ready for it.

In terms of alternative recommendations, buckle up, I have a list based on what part of the Kencyrath pitch you were into. These recommendations are made with the assumption that all the OTHER content warnings for the Kencyrath are not a problem, but I’ll note any really major ones and include a broad rating according to AO3 rules. Anything with an asterisk by it heavily features the big Chivalric Devotion vibes of the main Kencyrath dynamics. I read a lot of that.

Sprawling politics:

The Unbroken* (drafted soldier impresses daughter of the empress, they try to stop a war, full of double-crossing schemes and gallant ladies, cw colonialism, M for violence, sex, and extremely real colonialism)

The Captive Prince* (dethroned prince is sold into slavery under his mortal enemy, definitional enemies-to-lovers content, cw sexual assault, E for a very sexually relaxed culture in a bad way)

A Taste of Gold and Iron* (unambitious prince gets tangled up in a currency fraud scheme and gets a shiny new bodyguard, E for a very sexually relaxed culture in a good way)

October Daye series (starts out classic urban fantasy, rapidly becomes Blood Magic and Politics The Series, for those committed to a long series, T for violence)

Pulp fantasy adventure vibes:

Hero and the Crown/The Blue Sword* (classic sword and sorcery fantasy, for DnD lovers and people who read Horse Girl Books as kids, General Audiences)

Silver Under Nightfall* (vampire couple teams up with vampire hunter to cure a magical plague, the polyamorous murder romance you need in your life, cw coercive assault and body horror, E for gore and numerous threesomes)

Heaven Official’s Blessing***** (translated Chinese novel, very old fallen god returns to Heaven and Does His Best, for those committed to a LONG book, currently on volume 8, T for violence)

Witch King (body hopping demon tries to solve his own murder with his found family in tow, perfect standalone book, T for violence)

Spicy magic systems:

The City We Became/The World We Made (sentient cities and extra dimensional invaders, for everyone who read a lot of Avengers In NYC fic back in 2012, cw racism and survival sex work, M for sex)

Gideon the Ninth/The Locked Tomb series***** (everyone knows about this series, it’s the one with the lesbian space necromancers, cw for just the craziest flavors of abuse, M for violence and cannibalism I guess, also fits the below category)

The Gilded Ones* (what if all the misogynists who said women were demons were absolutely correct, and it was fucking rad, cw for SO much sexism and also religious indoctrination, T for violence)

A Soul to Keep* et al (okay oKAY LOOK THIS IS MONSTERFUCKER CONTENT BUT I RECOMMEND IT, local cursed woman gets forced to marry a demon, they argue a lot and the sex scenes are REAL bizarre, cw kidnapping and the second book deals with a character coming out of a severe depression, HARD E for monsterfucking, obviously)

Interpersonal relationships that are just SO fucked up:

A Dowry of Blood (a letter from Dracula’s first wife to the man himself, cw domestic abuse, M for adult themes and sex)

Remnants of Filth/Yuwu* (translated Chinese novel, loyal general becomes the jailer for his traitorous ex-lover, cw slavery and discussion of sexual assault, E for sex)

The Salt Grows Heavy (homicidal Little Mermaid and plague doctor wander through an apocalypse together, actually read everything Cassandra Khaw has ever touched, the absolute pinnacle of horror, cw all her stuff for really creative violence and body horror, M for violence and gore)

Anyway if you have any other book recommendation questions and/or you read any of these and enjoy them, hit me up, recommending books to people is genuinely one of my great joys in life.

#Kencyrath #book rec #chronicles of the Kencyrath #hooooo boy howdy let’s get into these tags huh #the unbroken #the captive prince #a taste of gold and iron #October daye #the blue sword #silver under nightfall #heaven official’s blessing #tgcf #witch king #the city we became #the locked tomb #Gideon the ninth #the gilded ones #a soul to keep #a dowry of blood #remnants of filth #Yuwu #the salt grows heavy #cassandra khaw #listen i fucking L O V E recommending books #i AM the person who will ask what you like about your favorite books and recommend five things off the top of my head #i flatter myself I’m quite good at it #oh the other cassandra khaw book i recommend is hammers on bone #which is about an elder god working a day job as a private investigator #and has the vibe of a magnus archives Meat Episode(TM) #but that one doesn’t really fit the kencyrath tone except a couple niche scenes in the master’s house and jame’s nightmares

[colgatebluemintygel]

eeeek thanks for all the fic recs!!! you're the best!! just finished a fic called Hurling Crowbirds at Mockingbars by Wrapped Up if u want something cute to read!! also captive prince is such a good series eek if you also wanna give recs from there please do! but only if u wanna!

my mothy friend i am so sorry that this reply is so very late 🤒 i have been so terrible with catching up on all the sweet messages i received while i was hermiting 😭

hurling crowbirds !! @wrapped-up truly never ever ever ever misses <3 even just thinking about the neck kissing scene is making me twirl my hair 🤭 i'm just always in awe of the way she writes her characters;; like with remus, all the subtle details that are lent to his characterisation and mannerisms always make him feel so incredibly human. and sirius, who always has me laughing and tearing up all at once <3

CAPTIVE PRINCE FIC RECS ... say no more :o))) i have been subjecting @pancakehouse and @maybebabyplease to my recs for months and now i get to unleash them on YOU

lines on palms (series) by fahye - this is an absolute classic and one that i re-read yearly <3 laurent is sooo.... i love him..

sanguinary poultice, love charm by lapin - i am a slut for a good auguste lives canon divergence longfic and this is my favvv that i've read in a long time <3

in the absence of a king by itallends - this fic made me go from crying laughing to crying crying in 10 mins flat. this laurent is so......just sooooo <33 (don't be deterred by the chap count ;; it's been left at a satisfying spot)

hand in unloveable hand by thickenmyblood - i actually don't even know what to say about this other than that it is a masterclass in character writing and made me sob 😃

scorching the hillside, our manic rhapsody by grumposaur - GAHHHH........ giggling and twirling my hair 🤭 i genuinely go bananas for an auguste lives au and this is absolutely no exception ❕ when laurent says ATTEND ME .... 👆 funny how it was written for my beloved em by my beloved maddy and is also my dream fic 🤭 it's almost like we're all soulmates.....

that's all for now, but i cycle back to capri fic at least once a year so... if you’d ever like more recs :-))) you know who to call !! hairflip

#pigeon post #fic recs #captive prince

[prodigalxprince]

‘When you make love to me like that, I can’t think.’

‘Don’t think,’ said Damen.

‘Don’t,’ said Laurent, ‘toy with me. I have not the means to— defend against this.’

‘I don’t toy with you.’

— King’s Rising, C.S. Pacat

#captive prince #captive prince trilogy #captiveprince #damon x laurent #damen x laurent #love quotes #romance #mm romance #romance recs #procreate #drawing #procreate art #art #art study #a study in Laurent #sketch #love #love qotd #gay romance

[fangirlforthewin]

LGTBQ+ Protagonist Book Recommendations

Mostly young adult, but they're still good and highly recommended. These are all mostly fantasy because that's all I read, so I hope you like fairies, and prince/princesses, and pirates!

Please feel to add your favorite recs to the list!

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

Captive Prince by C.S Pacat

Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adriene Tooley

Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan

Huntress by Malinda Lo

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Colthurst

Breaking Legacies by Zoe Reed

A Song of Silver and Gold by Melissa Karibian

#book recommendations #book rec list #reading recommendations #reading list #books with gay protagonists #lgtbqia+ #lgtbq characters #madeline miller #the song of achilles #Carry On #rainbow rowell #Rainbow Rowell #Captive Prince #c.s pacat #iron widow #xiran jay zhao #Adriene Tooley #Sweet & Bitter Magic #Girls of Paper and Fire #Natasha Ngan #malinda lo #Huntress #Of Fire and Stars #Audrey Colthurst #Zoe Reed #breaking legacies #A Song of Silver and Gold #Melissa Karibian

[laur-the-cat-prince]

send me Capri fic recs please 👑👑

i need art inspiration

#captive prince #capri #laurent of vere #damen x laurent #lamen #damen of akielos #cs pacat #fic rec

[curseofbucky]

the amount in which i think about damen and laurent should really probably be concerning! i need MORE content and i don't know where to start fic wise (this IS a cry for help ao3 truthers please rise up)

#captive prince #damen x laurent #laurent of vere #damen captive prince #damen of akielos #damianos of akielos #please someone send me fic recs for them i miss them....

[captaindamianos]

Hi! Can you recommend some good Captive Prince fics? I just finished the series and I loved Laurent so much

Hi anon!! Welcome to the fandom 🤗

I've considered doing a fic rec post for a long time so this is a perfect opportunity for me. Please forgive me for the delay. It was Eurovision week when you sent this and it was (and still is) incredibly distracting for me.

Here are some of my favorites, I'm going to offer a variety of things, because I absolutely love AUs, all variations of them, but I know that's not everyone's cup of tea and immediately after finishing the series people tend to like canon and canon-divergent the most, so I'll try to focus on those:

Canon Divergence:

Ransomed Prince by Turtletotem

I started reading this fic back when I still was in the fandom and I absolutely loved it. When I rejoined in 2021, the last few chapters got posted and I've reread it like 10 times already. Please heed the warnings but I just really enjoy the development of their relationship in this fanfic.

Winged Cupid Painted Blind by Kittendiamore

A lot of scheming from Laurent, which is always a good time in my book. It's been a bit since I've read it, but I always enjoyed it.

No Rush by blacktofade

One of my favorite things are Auguste lives AUs were they meet under different circumstances. This is one of my absolute favorites of those and I've read it again and again.

When the sun is on again by thickenmyblood

I've read this story once and it absolutely destroyed me. I was not okay for a few days haha. It's still one of the most amazing things I've ever read. So I would still recommend it, but be careful.

An Arranged Marriage by Josselin

The slow build of this one, I absolutely love rereading it every few months.

Bright as lightning by blacktofade

Another arranged marriage AU haha. Please trust me on this, this is such a good story.

sanguinary poultice, love charm by Lapin

God this is so good, nothing really to say besides do yourself a favor and read it.

How To Not Court A Veretian Prince by Entity_Sylvir

It's been a while with this one as well but I know it was one of my favorites.

Canon Compliant:

The Consummation by Josselin

I have to admit it's been a while since I've read this one. But I know that I really enjoyed it, and it's a very real depiction on how this could go and how the unification will likely have its hurdles.

Wicked Game by onekingdomonce

An anmesia fic, that I've read at least twice. It's painful, but it's worth it. I can recommend everything by that author that is Damen/Laurent. I've not really read any of the other pairings, because i don't multiship Damen and Laurent.

Alternative Universe:

four sevens and a ten by fahye

I know people tend to recommend Fahye's everything (their ´Lines On Palms' series and their tumblr ficlets (link 1 link 2) in particular). But I've grown up absolutely adoring the Swan princess movie, so this one sticks out to me personally. It's a lot darker than the movie, and it has it's very own narrative and development. But god do I love and recommend it.

The Veretian Flytrap by Just_Another_Day

Technically this feels very very canon divergent to me, but since the whole story is Omegaverse I'm putting it here. I know a lot of people don't enjoy Omegaverse fanfics, which is totally valid. But this fanfiction is one of my favorites in this fandom of all time. The world building, the character development, the culmination of it all. I adore it, I reread it every few months and I can't recommend it enough.

A Touch of Heavenly Light by forthelongesttime

I would recommend reading everything by this author. I am absolutely in love with their writing. I like how realistic they write and how they don't shy away from facing ugly things as well. This story in particular is dark and I urge you to check the warnings. It's not for everyone, which is why I recommend checking out their entire list of fics. But if the warnings don't scare you, please check it out!

Alternative Universe - Modern:

between the motion and the act by fahye

And to be contrary once more, I'm also recommending another one of fahye's AUs haha. I really liked this show, and I think it's an amazing fit for a modern AU for Damen & Laurent. Fahye just has an absolute talent for putting them into alternate universes and make them believable to me.

Fear not the thorns by relenafanel

Back then written by one of my favorite Stucky writers, I still absolutely adored it when I reread it in 2021. I definetely recommend checking it out if modern AUs are your thing.

A few authors I'd like to recommend in general:

idratherhaveyou (lots of different AUs, all of them a pleasure to read)

PenguinMerchant (again a lot of different AUs and settings. The worldbuilding is immaculate and always leaves me in awe. All of those AUs also fit them so well.)

Holly_Golightly (one of my favorite unfinished wips in this fandom, I'm still holding out hope haha but everything else they've written was absolutely amazing as well. Very spicey usually. Can't recommend them enough.)

elesary (Can you tell I love AUs yet?? Some are canon compliant or canon divergent, but I especially adore their modern AUs.)

ahdriking (another one of my favorite wips - hardest of hearts - and also just a lot of really spicey stuff, but god, so good.)

#captive prince #fic recs #good god i failed so hard at recommending canon compliant or canon divergence #i will try again but i think i need to reread a lot #this doesn't even cover the tiniest bit #i think i need to do more and put them into categories #i tried to focus on longer fics for this

[wimbledon2008]

could've read prince's gambit in the amount of time i've spent scouring reddit and goodreads for something that will make me feel as alive as prince's gambit did

#i finished a strange and stubborn endurance and it was remarkably boring #the characters just weren't mean enough. or at all #pacat really set the bar FAR too high #i fear i'll be chasing the high of captive prince for the rest of my life :/ #that being said if any of you have recs i'm open to them #captive prince

[ghaniblue]

Hand in unlovable hand by thickenmyhand (Damen/Laurent, Nicaise, E, 430k)

Damen and Laurent break up. Nicaise brings them back together.

Featuring: getting back together, Damen & Laurent parenting Nicaise, past CSA, toxic masculinity, therapy, pining, modern AU, ensemble cast

I accidentally started reading a 400k+ Captive Prince fic. I'm on chapter 7 and need someone to scream with about this fic. This Damen is... idk, I can't decide between a sadly disappointed headshake and trying to wring his obtuse neck. But I'm so invested in his (slow omg sooo painfully slow) emotional growth and his relationship with his not-son Nicaise and his painful not-divorce from Laurent.

I did not plan to spend my Easter weekend reading Lamen fic, but here I am. I cannot stop.

#lamen #capri fanfic #capri recs #lamen recs #captive prince #laurent of vere #damen of akielos #nicaise #damen x laurent #laurent x damen #lamen fanfic #acari recs