“I wouldn’t dream of letting anyone else cook for gege.” Hua Cheng says simply, plucking up a pair of chopsticks, but holding them out to Xie Lian. Their fingers brush as Xie Lian takes the chopsticks and Xie Lian can’t make himself pull back right away, not when he catches the way Hua Cheng is watching him, with a kind of smile that makes him feel as if he’s burning up from the inside out.
Or:
When chef Hua Cheng invites his friend Xie Lian over to his restaurant and cooks him a ridiculous amount of delicious dishes, Xie Lian can't help but wonder how he got so lucky. His feelings get the better of him and wonders what would happen if he tells Hua Cheng how be feels?
i haven't read shit in ages because college is making me lose all my hair but
I WANNA RECOMMEND THIS FIC THAT I REALLY LIKE FROM LIKE
BACK WHEN I WAS BRAIN ROTTING MDZS 24/7
Let the Streetlights Guide You Home
by tellthemstories
Summary:
Wei Wuxian was the most infamous street racer of his generation. They still speak of him now, the stuff of legend: the reckless abandon, the hair pin turns, midnight races over dangerous tracks. His death, racing through the streets of Nightless City with his sister in the passenger seat, the moment when his luck finally ran out.
10 years later, Mo Xuanyu enters his first street race.
Relationships:
Lán Zhàn | Lán Wàngjī/Wèi Yīng | Wèi Wúxiàn
Additional Tags:
the underground street racing au no one asked for
UST
so much UST
references to drink drugs and underage driving
wwx’s a mess but what else is new?
Alternate Universe - Car Racing
Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
Street Racing
PLUS, AS A BONUS BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE MY LITTLE POOKIES:
[Podfic] Reading
by jellyfishfire
They put so much effort into this, including a whole playlist of a soundtrack. Like, whoa. I listen to this podfic for comfort because the way it's made just fucks. It really itches my little brain. jellyfishfire if you happen to see this, know at one point your podfics were my religion for the entirety of 2022, just ask my friends, i could not shut up about you.
Thank you!!! I plan to post many more, and I appreciate your kindness. ^_^ and your English is lovely!
I do know about this fic, I read it a long time ago and enjoyed it! I wanted to reread it but it's so long, so I found this really amazing podfic, and lets me get work done while I listen to this story! hahaha
this is the link if you are interested! she does pretty great voices and everything, though the whole series isn't recorded yet. I hope she will continue <3
💃🏼 Muny muny muny!!!💃🏼 (to the tune of Abba's Money Money Money) here u go 😚
🥰 a fic that gave you warm fuzzies let's GOOOO I'll do two kid fics that are essential reading
To Build a Family by @second-sister
My favorite wolfstar raises Harry, I think. And we get Neville too!!! The way childhood loss and grief are portrayed is gutting in its accuracy, but also healing in watching wolfstar lovingly navigate the complexity of parenting children who are not your biological offspring. I don't want to get too spicy on main but that last bit is v important to me.
And yes I listened via the podfic version ty as always @burningaurora
Away Childish Things by @letteredlettered and podfic by RattleandHum
A CLASSIC. I guess I have a real reparenting your inner child kink huh. Anyway. Required reading for Drarry and, again. Podfic. Need I say more.
RattleandHum is also currently podficcing SebastianL's The Man Who Lived which is a fab segue to...
✨️fic I wish I could read again for the first time
*inhales* WOLF,WOLFWOLF,WOLFWOLF,WOLFWOLF,WOLF
Wolf, Wolf by SebastianL was one of the first fics I ever read and it is a part of me, my DNA, my lil brain meats ya know? If you haven't read it please, please consider reading it. If the MCD scares you DM me we'll talk about it I am so sirius.
"Even though I have my own pillow on the right side of the bed
I find myself wanting to be sharing yours over on the left
The closeness is never quite enough
Just in case it wasn't obvious...I'm in love with you."
Elizabeth Riordan, “I’m In Love With You”
@witchnova221 wrote it, @kisahawklin is currently reading it, so I had no other choice but to draw it - inspired by the magnificent fc “Between The Lines”, which I will link on my second reblog because tumblr hates me and hates when I want to add links, apparently.
This was such a pleasure, and the fic is a delight. Bring tissues though, should you decide to read - the angst is, like - painful, but it has a happy ending,a nd it’s so so good.
Sharing some of my favorite 9-1-1 podfics (not by me 😂) for @loveryder and anyone else looking for some to check out. 🥰
These aren’t all of the ones out there or all of the ones I enjoy. Just a few faves for people looking for recs. 💃
Putting most of the post under a cut to spare your dashes!
Gen:
volver al punto de partida
Read By: @blackestglass & @mistbornhero
Written By: @extasiswings
Summary: "Eddie’s jaw ticks, shame curling in his stomach as she switches over to Spanish. It’s a deliberate shift, that much is obvious from the way she’s looking at him, and he knows what she wants so he tries.
And fails."
drop your will in the bucket before you kick it (pre-Buddie)
Read By: @blackestglass (w/sfx by @godoflaundrybaskets)
Written By: kow2
Summary: Six years ago, Buck would have no problem with dying in a wildfire. There was a certain breath of relief he’d get, lying in his bed and dreaming of the call, the time of death, the bell ringing at his funeral, the unfortunately comforting fact that somebody would have to attend his funeral in order to ring the bell. He figured it was just a way to come to terms with that fact that his rate of dying went up ten-fold with his new job.
Dr. Copeland called it a form of passive suicidal thoughts, and the scary part about hearing that term for the first time is that he wasn’t scared of the term at all when she said it. She went on for the whole hour-long session about it, and Buck didn’t really feel anything, more like he thought he should’ve been taking notes, expecting her to tell him there was going to be a quiz over this the next time they met.
The problem now is, that heroic, suicidal dream was six years ago, and Dr. Copeland was almost two years ago. The problem with dying this way now, is that he doesn’t feel like going out this way anymore. He doesn’t feel like going out at all.
Buddie:
i did, i did, i do
Read By: @mayonnaisetoffees
Written By: @hattalove
Summary: I didn’t know what it meant when you kissed me up against that counter, Buck wants to say. He wants to name every place that’s hurt to see for the past three years. Wants to remind Eddie of the way they used to be in bed together, quiet and all-consuming, the way their hands would curl together on Eddie’s stomach in their sleep. Wants to ask why Ana isn’t there anymore, why Eddie doesn’t tell him to get out when Buck’s spending the seventh consecutive night on his couch.
Buck wants, and wants, and wants.
Isn’t that the story of his life.
Tentacantata
Read By: crawfishing
Written By: @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels
Summary: Buck has a... kink. The kind of kink it's embarrassing to talk about. Eddie has some... special features. Features it's kind of weird to talk about. Surely those two facts aren't related.
Before the Night Fades
Read By: @burnthatbridge
Written By: @milenadaniels
Summary: “I have a bottle of champagne, four champagne flutes, one engagement ring to go into one of those champagne flutes, and a note to deliver it all to table 34 with dessert,” Tomas explains, wide-eyed, throwing his hand back to the prep station where said champagne is waiting on ice next to four flutes and a small ring box.
“Okay?”
“Okay so there’s two men and two women and I have no idea who’s getting proposed to. I’m not even 100% on who came with who."
Or, EddieAna and BuckTaylor double date and it ruins everyone's night.
Despite it all, Because of it all
Read By: @mayonnaisetoffees
Written By: @kitkatpancakestack
Summary: He puts the truck in park in front of Eddie’s childhood home. Christopher shifts in the back, already unbuckling his seatbelt. Eddie is frozen with his jaw set, eyes hard and unblinking as they bore holes through the windshield. Buck was here once before, after that relief trip to Texas, but he is under no illusions that this time will be similar. For one, he doesn’t have the buffer of other firefighters to hide behind. This isn’t a visit that will last a couple hours, and so the sugary, superficial niceties will eventually crumble when it’s mid-way through the week and he’s still hanging around. There is also the shadow of everything that has happened since the wildfires skulking behind them, waiting to be found out.
But, this is Eddie and Christopher, needing him to have it together, so he paints on a smile and squeezes Eddie's knee and slides out of the truck.
*
Eddie's dad gets sick. Buck goes with him and Christopher to El Paso.
from the ground up
Read By: @thatnerdemryn
Written By: @eddiesdiaz
Summary: If he’s honest, Eddie gets why Buck filed the lawsuit.
He does. He understands the hopelessness, the feeling you’re losing all control, like you’re sinking, drowning, desperate for a way out. He knows because it’s the same way he felt when he enlisted.
That doesn’t mean it hurts any less when Buck leaves him, though.
or the one in which, a couple of weeks after meeting each other, buck and eddie fell in love, broke up, and then forgot to fall out of it.
rainbows have nothing to hide
Read By: @burnthatbridge
Written By: @hattalove
Summary: “Glad to see someone is happy I’m here,” Buck yells into the house, and only gets the rustle of paper bags and a vague grunt in response. He leans down and whispers into Christopher’s ear: “Was he being a Kermit again?”
Christopher nods so hard that some of his hair ends up in Buck’s mouth.
“It’s so bad,” he whispers back. “You need to move in with us already.”
how is eddie diaz like kermit the frog? let buck and christopher count the ways.
I Didn't Know I Was Lonely 'Til I Saw Your Face
Read By: Matriaya
Written By: @hmslusitania
Summary: After the ladder truck and the blood clot and the tsunami, Bobby makes Buck go to therapy before he does something stupid (like sue the city). Buck's not totally comfortable being alone with a therapist, but fortunately he makes a friend and ally who's willing to help him out - Eddie Diaz from the 136 who's just been caught in an illegal fight club.
OR
Total strangers Buck and Eddie go to couple's therapy together to get out of the therapy requirements their captains have placed on them.
Madney & Buddie:
Goodwill is Sent in Snapshots (You Only Get the Full Picture on Return)
Read By: crawfishing
Written By: @letmetellyouaboutmyfeels
Summary: When both Evan Buckley and Chimney Han are dumped at the start of December, they decide to swap houses - with each other. A nice two weeks in a different location will be a great unconventional Christmas. Certainly not anything life changing.
Then Buck meets Chim's next-door-neighbor, and Chim meets Buck's apartment-crashing sister. (An audio recording, roughly two hours)
What I Know (podfic from Pride Month Twitter Love Stories series)
[ID: podfic cover with a gathering of tall trumpet-shaped purple and yellow flowers (photo by beautifulduckweed). Title is "What I Know" with credits as "By beautifulduckweed, read by jennisaisquoi, risa-say-quail, simon-says-quack, curlofacalyx, Gavilan, rhythmia, wilfriede0815, HowOldAreWe" /end ID]
Multivoice podfic! Organized/edited/executive produced by jennisaisquoi / @mama-phd!
Podfic: What I Know
Original fic: What I Know by @beautifulduckweed, also on twitter here: https://twitter.com/gleebags/status/1542743379309514752
Tagging other contributors with tumblrs: @takonxmz @gavilansblog @wilfriede
It's been an honor participating in it, the original twitter/AO3 story is absolutely wonderful/gutwrenching and as I mentioned in chat multiple chunks of this story are L I T E R A L L Y ME which is why I asked to read the section of the story I did (Hiiiii I'm the "bad at being Chinese" part). Once again showing how being specific about one's experiences (in this case about growing up queer and Chinese) is one way you can be incredibly relatable to others 💜
jennisaisquoi did an AMAZING job putting it together (listen to the music version if you can for EVEN MORE FEELS) and I love everyone in this bar. Have tissues ready, I was definitely emotionally compromised and tearing up for multiple parts of it, everyone is SO GOOD at their performances ahhhhh
🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤍🏳️🌈🌈😭🥰
(psst also check out the rest of jennisaisquoi's Pride Month Twitter Love podfic series on AO3 based on beautifulduckweed's Pride Month Twitter Love series from 2022!)
Posted January 2023. (Originally posted a couple of years back, but I accidentally deleted it when I went to update it with more fics)
A list of podfics I absolutely adore - in alfabetical order. As always, please read the tags and warnings before listening.
Title: All Life is Yours to Miss
Read by: originally reads
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 11h
Rating: Mature
Summary: Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go.
This one always makes me smile. It's very focused on Draco, and his journey to figuring out how to really live his life instead of just excist in it. Beautiful story that's beautifully read in a soothing voice.
Title: An Owl Named Romeo
Read by: fire_juggler
Authour: Rickey
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Draco breeds owls, Harry’s an Auror, and an owl named Romeo is going to bring them together.
This one has Auror!Harry and Owl breeder!Draco, and it’s a wonderfull mix of humour, mystery, angst and fluff. Romeo is an amazing owl, and fire_juggler reads the story wonderfully.
Title: Away Childish Things
Read by: RattleandHum (ThirdEye1234)
Authour: lettered
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Teen and Up
Summary: Harry gets de-aged. Malfoy has to help him.
Beautiful fic read so wonderfully it made me ache with all the feels.
Title: Blood Magic
Read by: houseofhebrideanblacks, Thestralsofspinnersend
Authours: houseofhebrideanblacks, Thestralsofspinnersend
Length:~ 33h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: A story of thestral magic, forest lore and recovery from all the things that haunt us.
This is a beautiful story of recovery, friendship, love and life. And in being a story about that it exlpores the darker sides of those same themes; illness, loneliness and death. The authours read the story themselves, giving different voices to Draco and Harry's POV. It's a beautiful listen.
Title: Blue Roses and Other Impossible Things
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: Cassiara
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: After Harry saved Draco from the Room of Requirement there was a moment when Draco gave Harry a look. Harry didn’t know what to make of it, and he had a war to fight so he ignored it. Now though, they’re back at Hogwarts sharing a dorm and Harry is obsessed with seeing that look again.
I wrote this fic, but I had to rec it here anyways because Sandstripe does such a wonderful reading of it. It's an 8th year fic with coming out and first times and a little angst.
Title: Burning day: A Tale of Rebirth
Read by: fire_juggler
Authour: tealeaf523
Length:~ 2.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Looking for a bit of solitude over his winter holiday, Harry Potter rents a home in Scotland, only to end up in the middle of adventure amongst the snow-blanketed hills. There is a local in Castle Valley who looks uncannily like his Hogwarts school rival, but he has no memory of meeting Harry in the past. However, Harry is determined to find out what happened to Draco Malfoy between his disappearance and finding his new identity as a charming unicorn trainer at the Scotland Unicorn Reservation for Lost Youths.
Unicorns and memory loss and falling in love? Sign me up! fire_juggler did a brilliant job bringing this to life.
Title: Chasing Shadows
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: manixzen
Length:~ 9.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: The murder of Lucius Malfoy seems impossible—no cause of death, no traces of spell-work, no potions in his system. The only leads Harry and his partner have are the trail of missing wizards the deeper they go. That and the help of the victim’s estranged son who now spends his time bartending at a queer-friendly Muggle pub. A case fic featuring a closeted Harry Potter, an out-and-proud, tattooed Draco Malfoy, and a murder mystery that seems to lead to more questions than answers.
This fic is so good! Harry has hidden being gay for years and years and his growth to live as who he is is beautifully interwoven with him and Draco falling in love and a thrilling crime plot.Also I just love Draco in this! He's grown so much and is so attentive and he makes the smut so steamy! The reading of it is so well done and just brings so much life to the fic!
Title: Foundations'Verse - Reparations, Foundations
Read by: 6shotsamericano
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~10h + 27.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Reparations: Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places. Foundations: When one door closes, another one opens – with a bit of a push. Life, love and complications.
This verse was one of my first ever Drarry fics, and the podfic of it was my first ever podfic experience. Both were major influences on the fact that I now love both Drarry and podfic. The fics are a masterpiece and 6shotsamericano reads them in such a wonderfull way that it's easy to immerse yourself in the story.
Title: Headlights in the Snow
Read by: magsmagicalnightmare
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 10h
Rating: Mature
Summary: What’s big and purple and smells like tea? Harry is about to find out. Advent fic 2016.
You can never go wrong with Saras_Girls christmas fics, and this is another great one! And it's so brilliantly read I felt like I was on the bus listening in on conversations. magsmagicalnightmare brought this fic so much life and personality and it's brilliant!
Title: Here's the Pencil, Make it Work
Read by: teas_me
Authour: ignatiustrout
Length:~ 5.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry thinks, "Why is Malfoy working in a coffee shop in muggle London?" is a much simpler question than, "Are you going to accept that auror offer and, if you don't, what will you do?"
This one has Harry discovering Draco in the muggle world, a building friendship, coming out and wonderful humour. I loved all the friendships in this story, and the way ignatiustrout voices them.
Title: If the Fates Allow
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~8h
Rating: Mature
Summary: What's that crackling in the walls? Harry has no clue at all. He'll eat some cake and drink some wine. Because he is completely FINE. -A story about life's disregard for our plans.
An advent story in podfic form?! I’ll be listening to this every single December.
Title: In Evidence of Magical Theory
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: bixgirl1
Length:~ 2.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: When a hex meant for Draco accidentally catches Harry as well, they're forced to learn to understand each other in ways they previously might have thought impossible. In which Harry and Draco can't fight, so they fall in love instead.
Wonderfull read of a wonderfull story! Accidental bonding and forced proximity in a Hogwarts 8th year story hits all the spots.
Title: Keep Holding On
Read by: Thunder_of_Dragons
Authour: gnarf, with art by MaesterChill.
Length: ~3.5h
Rating: Mature
Summary: After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry and Draco both fall into their own battles with their mental states. Draco is sent to Azkaban, and Harry turns to drinking, hoping to forget. Months later, Harry visits St Mungo’s new ward on the request of a friend, only to find Draco in a deep vegetative state. Not willing to give him up, Harry stays by his side, while simultaneously dealing with the Ministry's newest grand idea to make everything worse. Making new allies, and losing old ones along the way, will hopefully be worth it in the end.
This deals wonderfully with healing and building a bond, and it’s read really beautifully.
Title: Modern Love
Read by: lastontheboat
Authour: tackytiger
Length:~ 5.5 h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isn’t always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely there’s something more—something better—than a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is. And it really doesn’t seem fair that Draco Malfoy is back in Harry’s life, all of a sudden, and even though he’s wandless, and living with Muggles, and making his mother cry with his lifestyle choices, he’s happy. So what's he doing right, that Harry isn’t? Because things don’t really change, do they? And if Harry can’t be happy, he’ll settle for a good night’s sleep, some posh antiques, and the opportunity to find out what Malfoy has been up to for all these years. And that’s what starts it all.
I really enjoyed this one. The story is really engaging and full of emotion, and the reader conveys them perfectly.
Title: Newts
Read by: Lazulus
Authour: astolat
Length:~ 1.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: “I’m twenty-eight!” Harry said. “I’ve been an Auror for ten years! You want me to go back to Hogwarts now?"
Title: On a Clear Day
Read by: 6shotsamericano
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 5h
Rating: Mature
Summary: Draco Malfoy is waiting for his real life to begin, and it appears that he’s not the only one. Coffee, charity, and the wisdom of the elderly.
I've listened to this one too many times to count over the years. Humour, falling in love and learning to live.
Title: Open for repairs
Read by: RattleandHum (ThirdEye1234)
Authour: FeelsForBreakfast
Length:~ 3h
Rating: Mature
Summary: After the war, Draco works at a tv repair shop and Harry breaks things.Feat. sad boys in jumpers and more ABBA than is probably necessary.
I forgot how much I loved this fic, but the podfic made me fall in love all over again. I loved all the voices and the portrayal of the emotions.
Title: Running on air
Authour: eleventy7
Length:~ 8h
Rating: Teen and up
Summary: Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
This is a beautiful story and it's read just as beautifully.
Title: Secrets
Read by: Opalsong
Authour: Vorabiza (Biza)
Length:~ 44h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Beginning with Draco's unexpected arrival at the Dursleys, Harry's summer becomes filled with activity and many secrets. He generates several unexpected allies as he finds himself actively becoming the leader of the Light side. H/D post-HBP
This story is an intense alternate book 7, and Opalsong reads it so engagingly.
Title: Stately Homes of Wiltshire
Read by: Lazulus
Authour: waspabi
Length:~ 5.5h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Malfoy Manor has mould, dry rot and an infestation of unusually historical poltergeists. Harry Potter is on the case.
This fic is so lovely, both the story and the reading has made me laugh on several occations. It's a mystery with love and friendships and figuring out what you want from life.
Title: Temptation on the Warfront
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: alizarincrims0n
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Draco Malfoy is forced into hiding with the Golden Trio and dragged into their search for horcruxes. What ensues is a journey of redemption, unexpected friendships and an unwanted, turbulent romance with Harry Potter. Warnings for swearing, sexual content, and dark themes.
Title: The Boy Who Only Lived Twice
Read by: TheOneCalledEli
Authour: lettered
Length:~ 6h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Harry Potter is an Unspeakable. Draco Malfoy is the wizard who shagged him. Adventure! Intrigue! Secret identities, celebrities, spies! It's all right here, folks.
Drarry as secret spies is so much fun and excitement, and the slow falling in love and wanting but not knowing was just so perfect. And TheOneCalledEli reads it so brilliantly, it made me fall in love with this fic all over again!
Title: This Summer
Read by: RattleandHum
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 3.5
Rating: Teen
Summary: This is a summery romantic comedy featuring my favourite ensemble cast, in which Harry is confused, Draco is Draco, and Hermione attempts to eat all the things.
Costume parties and pining and all the good things! This fic is sweet and funny and listening to it made me smile.
Title: Turn
Read by: Queenie_Mab
Authour: Saras_Girl
Length:~ 37h
Rating: Mature
Summary: One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.
This story is a classic, and the reading of it fully lives up to the quality of the written fic; absolutely wonderfull! Another one I've listened to more times than I can count.
Title: (Un)wanted
Read by: aibidil
Authour: aibidil
Length:~4h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Ginny's pregnant, then she's not and Harry's single. Harry, again with no family, doesn't know what to do with this turn of events, or how to find a new life—post-war, post-Ginny, post-abortion—in which he belongs. He doesn't expect that life to include dancing to the Backstreet Boys with Hermione and Draco Malfoy. A story of finding belonging in the unexpected.
This one is so good. It's about being lonely and feeling unwanted, but finding family and learning to accept love when offered as well as loving oneself. I love Harry and Hermione's relationship in this. Actually, the women in general are awesome.
Title: What We Pretend We Can't See
Read by: FayJay
Authour: Gyzym
Length:~ 13h
Rating: Mature/Explicit
Summary: Seven years out from the war, Harry learns the hard truth of old history: it’s never quite as far behind you as you thought. (Auror Potter is summoned to a break-in at a rather eccentric little museum in the house he used to own.)
This is one of those fics where I can finish listening and just start it over again immediatly. It's got magical houses, house elf magic, friendships, humour, and I absolutely love how Draco and Harry are both written in this. FayJay gives amazing life to the charachters, and this one is just so wonderful.
Title: When Times are Dire
Read by: aibidil
Authour: aibidil
Length:~ 14h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: Magical Britain is screwed, and it's once again up to Harry to save it. This time, by marrying Draco Malfoy.
This fic is so interesting. It's fake relationship but done differently to anything else I've read. It's political in a way that rings true for so much that's going on in the world and it was lovely to see the characters I love fight for things I believe in!
Title: Who we are in the shadows
Read by: Sandstripe
Authour: Quicksilvermaid
Length:~ 7h
Rating: Explicit
Summary: What happens when you’re forced to become the very thing you despise? Ex-Auror Harry Potter, tossed out of the Ministry for something he had no control over, has been looking for a way back to his former life. When he comes across Draco Malfoy in the criminal underbelly of Wizarding London and in need of protection, Harry figures bringing him in to face the Ministry's justice is his ticket back to everything he's lost. But nothing is exactly as it seems. Not even Harry himself. And as he gets drawn further and further into Malfoy's world of honour and deception he finds himself questioning everything he thought he knew—about his childhood nemesis, the Ministry job he misses so much, and most of all, about himself. What happens when you’re forced to see that you were wrong?
This fic feels a little like a healing bruise. By which I mean that it hurts, a little – but in a good way. Sandstripe does a brilliant job of making all the emotions come across and I'll definetly be listening to this many times.
Podfic: COLD READ of Life Is (Not) A Hallmark Movie [SVSSS]
🎧Listen here 🎧
- Ongoing; Chapter 3/30 posted
- last updated: 2/18/24
*I will update the chapter count as I continue to post.
Rated T for teen audiences and up!
🍪🍚🥘🍚🍪🍚🥘🍪🍚🥘🍪🍚🥘
Summary:
Shen Yuan isn't lonely. He's just overseas in a new city, trying to muddle his way through a business degree, and dealing with the side effects of his stupid intestines trying to kill him. So, maybe he sometimes watches ASMR to cope with his too-quiet apartment. Maybe he has a little bit of a parasocial-relationship-thing going on with one particular cooking ASMR channel. It's 2016, who doesn't? The point is, he's content with his quiet life.
And then Shang Qinghua strong-arms him into watching one Hallmark Christmas movie, and it all goes to hell.
Or: Shen Yuan is a Hallmark movie protagonist, Luo Binghe is a Lifetime movie protagonist, and somehow they make it work.
One of my favorite things about fanfic is the existence of podfics. That said, I'm excited to share a few of my favorites with you! I tried to go for a wide range of fandoms so there should be something for everyone.
Works Alone read by kbirb pods (kbirb)
Batman, (gen), 20 mins, Crack, Batfam
When trying to pull the team together, Bruce’s ideas are dismissed, because he 'works alone'. He goes home to his kids to pout about it.
Straight On Till Morning read by reena_jenkins
DC Legends of Tomorrow, (Sara Lance/Mick Rory/Leonard Snart), 2-2.5 hrs, AU-Canon Divergence
Left alone in the Refuge, Mick and Sara decide they're going to be proactive about their fate. They end up becoming time pirates. Because of course they do.
The Haunting of Harrison Wells read by luvtheheaven (VioletEmerald)
The Flash, (gen), 2-2.5 hrs, AU-No Powers, AU-Ghost Story
Harrison Wells died in 1958. Almost sixty years later, Barry Allen meets a ghost in STAR Labs.
Not a Damsel in Distress read by nickelmountain
Supernatural, (gen), 10-20 min, Pre-Canon, Case Fic
Mary smiles and shrugs when her dad looks at her. Mermaids. She hates water-creatures. She hates killing things on family holidays.
“Mary can come with me,” David says grandly.
or, Mary and a cousin go hunting. The cousin is less than helpful.
With a Conquering Air read by AceOfTigers
The Witcher, (Geralt/Jaskier), 3-3.5 hrs, Accidental Warlord AU, Slow Burn
Jaskier arrives at Kaer Morhen knowing his family gave him up without a second thought, and absolutely sure that the dreaded Warlord of the North will value him even less than his own blood did. But the White Wolf and his pack are not what Jaskier expected...and if he's unreasonably lucky, Kaer Morhen might become far more of a home than Lettenhove ever was.
both have sharp teeth read by Shmaylor
Daredevil, (gen), 1.5-2 hrs, Angst, Black Widow!Karen
"And there are stories about wolves and girls. Girls in red. All alone in the woods. About to get eaten up. Wolves and girls."
-Black Widow, Nathan Edmondson
She is one of 28.
The story of the girl who would be Karen Page, through Russian winters and New York streets.
If They Haven't Learned Your Name read by quietnight
MCU, (Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes), 24 hrs, Buck Barnes World Revenge Tour, Humor
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.
This is an Illustration for the hilarious fic "The Captive" that will always be one of my all time favorites.
It's also on AO3 along with the wonderful podfic by @itstartedwithalex.
Art on AO3
Podfic on AO3
Fic on AO3
Author's summary: He had to face facts. They'd brought him here to the warlord's private quarters — he stole a frightened sidelong glance at the bed, half-visible through the open door — which meant... Oh god, he was a body slave.
Thanks @mific for giving us permission to do this, we had such fun doing this for your awesome fic.