• jayce talis/viktor
  • all up in your mind: viktor presses his fingers into jayce’s skull.
  • a monster of your making: jayce's tastes have always tended towards the fantastical. viktor is more than happy to indulge him.
  • out of the black: old mage viktor sees jayce in his terrible horrible no-good very-bad pit era and can't resist trying to help.
  • death is in the details: jayce fails to kill viktor. he wakes up in the commune, ready to try again. unfortunately for the world, viktor has other plans.
  • i know that look, dear: jayce has a bad week. viktor makes him feel better.
  • cup rune over: after a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the king of piltover will take a bride from zaun. viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
  • fumbling prayer: “tenderizing your meal?” he drawls at...

• L/light yagami
  • i'm not done yet: L gets sick on a rainy day.
  • lobotomize me: light knew L's mind was sharp, brilliant even, he was the greatest detective in the world, after all. he just wanted to crack open that brain of his.
  • covetous: l takes light to a work party. light finds a new game to play with him.
  • not according to plan: light will do anything to win this game against him and get what he wants.
  • two bodies: light comes down with a poorly timed rut, and, with no one but each other, light and l find the things left unsaid become impossible to ignore.
  • triumph of the sheep: l's heat hits him unexpectedly, but, chained together and trapped in a hotel room, l and light find a way to make use of their time.
  • must be like the genesis of rhythm: light frowned some more. “don’t you get bored, sometimes?” l considered this...

• HANNIBAL
• hannibal lector/will graham
  • entangled: will suffers from touch deprivation. hannibal finds out and decides to help.
  • sweetly golden: his body rejecting another’s alpha’s mark, his claim, no matter how minor, how accidental it was.
  • you will fall to your knees and pray: there are very few things will does not tolerate when it comes to having hannibal as his mate.
  • never in the house: “you killed a man in our kitchen, hannibal. killed him. in our kitchen,” will repeats again, each word clipped crisp. “our. kitchen.”
  • violent appetites: long before wll even stepped through the front door of hannibal’s home, he knew that this invitation to dinner was not just an invitation to dinner.
  • vorspiel: after the fall, will tries to deal with the repercussions of living.

• eddie kaspbrak/richie tozier
  • eddie kaspbrak, office uncle extraordina...: (non-nsfw) eddie's coworker finally convinces him to bring his elusive spouse to an office party. it goes about as well as you might expect, which is to say spectacularly.
  • the courtship of eddie kaspbrak, executi...: (non-nsfw) two weeks into her new job as Executive Assistant to the world's most anal-retentive, pent-up ball of pure fury, lucy thought she was coming to grips with her boss's particular brand of crazy.
  • good in me: “damn, eds,” richie says, looking closer at the tear. “ass so fat you busted a seam.”
  • drives me wild: "i cannot fucking stand you," eddie's voice is hushed, low and dangerous.
  • keep my arms the rest of the night: this thing between eddie and richie is kind of new and kind of old, and they'll figure it out eventually.
  • an itch you just can't scratch: eddie's got a pretty bad case of beard bu...

• bakugou katsuki/izuku midoriya
  • your heart got teeth: the big bad wolf came out to play and izuku is going to ride his dick if it's the last thing he does.
  • unwind a tense spine: bad days, terrible days, and an evening's certainty that they are, truly, madly, deeply, loved.
  • birthday gifts and courting gifts: izuku has never been very good at keeping secrets.
  • everything's coming up katsuki: “i don’t care if you don’t care,” katsuki manages. “i wanna suck on your tongue,” deku says.
  • catalyze: “be quiet and lay back,” deku snaps. “i’m going to sit on your stupid face.”
  • juno: katsuki doesn't like other omegas courting his alpha, even they're not together yet.
  • promises kept: after barely surviving the war, katsuki swears to do right by izuku. no matter wha...

• dean winchester/castiel
  • radiance: "you do want that. you acted out for attention. for my attention."
  • that shipwreck of your heart: as dean is thrown into the world of the krushnic mafia, he finds himself getting closer than ever to castiel krushnic himself.
  • love, sex magic: the last thing dean wants to do is fuck this up. and hey, consent is sexy.
  • when i reach for you: “i’m a busy guy. deals to make, souls to collect. you know how it is," dean says. cas works in investment banking. he does not, in fact, know how it is.
  • psalm 40:2: dean meets an angel who says he's from the future. it all gets a lot more complicated from there.
  • and you can use my skin: (non-nsfw) cas comes back. dean can’t stop touching him.
  • handlebars for tender touch: (non-nsfw) dean can’t meet cas’s eyes, so he watches his clasped hands on the ...

• geralt of rivia/jaskier
  • home is nowhere, therefore you: "true love's kiss. there's—ah—there's nothing to it." and he bends, the utter imbecile, and kisses geralt full on the mouth.
  • come softly darling i love you so much: geralt, beneath him, looking up at him with his black eyes glistening and his teeth bared like he wants to sink them into his throat.
  • out of season: something sets off geralt's rut out of season. eskel is left to explain to geralt's very human bard exactly what a rut is, and why it's a very bad idea to try and fuck their way out of it.
  • watch a while longer: "hmm, why? more bandits and monsters than when i left?" "no," geralt says. "jaskier's in heat."
  • fever song: on the road to kaer morhen, jaskier takes ill.
  • wrapped around your finger: "come here," geralt tells him. he nods at...

• tim drake/jason todd
  • listen: "i don't wanna hurt you," jason murmurs. "not again and not like this."
  • who needs sleep: tim’s halfway to sleep when he feels the weight of the mattress shift.
  • in every melody and in every little scar...: tim’s brand of assholery is a little bit of the cold shoulder. his other brand of assholery is a little bit of making jason beg.
  • safe with me: the first time tim and jason have sex, tim thinks: this is it. finally. turns out it’s only the beginning.
  • save a horse, ride a jason: tim raises an eyebrow. "you have a broken arm." jason's mouth stretches into a languid grin. "you can ride me, cowboy."
  • get stuffed: leaning down, jason asks in his ear, “is this okay?”
  • not the hurricane: it had been a shit day. a shit day. tim was tired. as he limped back into their apartment, he really hoped jason would be t...

• shinazugawa sanemi/tomioka giyuu
  • summit: when the water hashira goes missing in the secluded snowy mountains, the wind hashira is tasked with locating him and exterminating the demon he was hunting.
  • surface tension: what would have happened if tanjirou didn’t interrupt sanemi and giyuu’s fight.
  • one year: (non-nsfw)"i invited muichiro to live with me," tomioka says, "and he accepted. so i wanted to-" "why the fuck would you do that?' sanemi blurts, more confusion coating his voice than anger now.
  • if i stayed: sanemi knows they aren’t really together, even if they like to play pretend sometimes. maybe one night, giyuu will stay.
  • hatsu arashi: he has to tell him, if only so that giyuu knows how much he means to sanemi, how vital and precious his existence is.
  • crosscurrent: logically, sanemi can retrace all the ste...

• harry potter/draco malfoy
  • magic number 19: a 28-year-old harry wakes up alone in malfoy manor, 1999.
  • ready, able: malfoy has a problem, harry wants to help.
  • soft: “what do you want?” draco asks again. “i dunno,” potter says for the second time, smirking.
  • two truths: an hour after this, they'll be married.
  • then comes a mist and a weeping rain: it always rains for draco malfoy. metaphorically. and literally.
  • from love, obviously: draco malfoy comes up with a plan, drinks a lot of tea, and fails to fix a clock.
  • alive is a color you don't own: they say that the savior came back from the forbidden forest completely unscathed. and draco? well, draco thought otherwise.
  • a light for another's dark: every touch leaves a memory. for unspeakable draco malfoy, this is literal.
  • fervor: draco hates being woken up in the middle ...

• getou suguru/gojo satoru
  • kiss a kitty: “i can’t come.” he announces, much louder than he needs to. “unless i’m thinking about you.”
  • the same sweet shock: “your opening gambit at 7-fucking-AM was ‘say I’ve gotten into anal play lately, why do I leak cum before I cum?’” suguru says with a glare.
  • in the dark where he laid: suguru geto is a false prophet. complications arise when a con goes wrong and suguru catches the attention of the gods – including all six eyes of the patron he claims to worship.
  • writing's on the wall: after eleven years without a heat, satoru gojo is ready to get fucked, bred, and mated (in that order). can’t really do that when suguru’s out of town.
  • the blow behind the bruises: suguru gets hit by a truth-telling curse of sorts. satoru tries to reap the benefits, to mixed results.

• NARUTO
• uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto
  • if the sun and the moon should doubt: “don’t start something you can’t finish.” sasuke huffs, haughty.
  • complete vulnerability and trust: more than ten years later, he's still obsessed with sasuke, and probably always will be.
  • physicality: naruto supposed it was inevitable, what with the desperate way sasuke tended to suppress everything.
  • your name, and what that really means: lying in the hospital after the war sasuke realizes what has been missing. luckily naruto always understands him wordlessly, and climbs into the hospital bed with him.
  • i can see the stars all the way from her...: “who the fuck else am i going to ask?” sasuke looks away, catches himself, and makes himself look back. "obviously it’s you.it’s always gonna be you.”
  • today is ours, it always has been: sasuke belatedly realizes they haven’t ...

• mikey sano/ryuuguuji ken | draken
  • hard candy: how ironic that such a small omega that smells like a damn lollipop could pack such a punch– or kick, for that matter.
  • every melody wasted: draken is fresh out of the hospital, but it’s mikey who needs some healing.
  • we did enough: (non-nsfw)there’s no getting away from mikey’s gravity, and he’s okay with that.
  • negative kilter: “do those tactics work for you in a real fight?” draken teases, using his own weight to pin mikey down.
  • as long as you can: “you my bitch, ken-chin?”
  • hold my own: it’s rare that draken finds himself tired before mikey.
• haitani ran/haitani rindou
  • born to be yours: rindou knows that his friends like to joke about him being oblivious, but he thinks he’s really outdone himself this time...

• 19 DAYS
• he tian/mo guan shan
  • knee high, stage fright: (non-nsfw) no matter how hard he may try, guan shan can't hide all his problems.
  • need the deep end: five times he tian's dick is smacked, in increasing order of intentionality/kinkiness.
  • submission is a gift: (non-nsfw) little mo spends the night.
  • allergy season: (non-nsfw) “you know, they say that sneezing a lot means you’re on someone’s mind.”
  • beings: ‘no, guan shan, that’s—this isn’t yours. did you think that’s what this was?’
  • vulnerability: he tian and guan shan try something new.
• zhan zheng xi/jian yi
  • i'll keep you safe: an unexpected heat presents itself as the perfect opportunity for zheng xi to realize the things he’s been avoiding.

• denji/hayakawa aki
  • stressed: aki’s standing, eyes following the curve of denji’s neck, the messy tuffs of his hair, the movement of those stupid lips. aki’s definitely fucked.
  • responsibilties: aki's nothing if not responsible. denji knows it too. the mess gets messier.
  • mirrors: denji needs help. aki helps him. it’s a mess.
  • cause you said forever: the world might end tomorrow, and aki's kissing him like he knows for certain that it will.
  • smash, boom, pow: denji can't sleep. aki sleeps a little too deeply.
  • dwindling mercurial high: aki had known bringing an alpha mutt into his home would prove to be a terrible idea.
  • natural selection: aki and denji are stuck together, in more ways than one.
  • the road to hell: aki takes a cue from makima in denji-mana...

• THE SECRET HISTORY
• richard papen/henry winter
  • everything and nothing always haunts me: henry was having one of those bad headaches and had called richard. richard was just happy to be there.
  • prelude to ecstasy: the only times henry and richard were alone in a room. of course richard wanted Henry's attention.
  • epilogue: in essence, henry lived.
  • thousand times i've fallen: henry finds richard at just the right time. what right means for the two of them, neither know.
  • the self is not so weightless: the two times richard helps henry unwind, and the time henry returns the favour (and they unearth their feelings along the way).
  • auto-da-fé: in which richard is left alone with his mind and unconscious henry for a few days.
• richard papen/francis abernathy

• INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
• lestat de lioncourt/louis de pointe du lac
  • you are the moon that breaks at night: following their reunion, louis gives lestat everything he needs.
  • furnace: louis takes care of lestat, then lestat takes care of him.
  • inertia: lestat plays hard to get. louis plays along.
  • someone buy me roses: lestat's frown deepens. “my god, louis!” he says. “i am not some petty voyeur. my motives are noble. my heart is unselfish. frankly this is an act of chivalry. please take off your pants.”
  • that's the kind of love: lestat and louis find common ground.
  • do wrong right: during episode four, lestat and louis experience a dry spell as a result of claudia sleeping in their room, and then they don't.
  • the landscape after cruelty: in the aftermath of the reunion, louis ta...

• CAPTAIN AMERICA
• steve rogers/james "bucky" barnes
  • falling back on forever: bucky falls from the train in 1945. steve jumps right after him. the winter Soldier and the midnight patriot are the world's most feared duo, serving HYDRA and leaving a trail of bodies a mile wide behind them. But then they remember.
  • the blind leading: steve is specifically told not to fraternize with the independently contracted winter soldier.
  • lethe: "do it," he goads. "do it or come back home with me and let me help you. but you gotta do it now, buck, because I can't take another moment of this hell."
  • accidentally on purpose: after bucky drunkenly kisses steve by accident, it just seems to keep on happening, until it's not so much by accident anymore.
  • despite the threatening sky and shudderi...: “those are pins,” steve realized. “...

• steve harrington/billy hargrove
  • drip: "leave the door unlocked." nothing from steve but a few hitching breaths. "harrington," billy hisses, "you hear me about the door?"
  • animal in the flesh: when steve finds billy, he is a little less human than before, and a little bit more like an animal.
  • hot like a fever, make you a believer: fresh from the breakup with nancy, steve doesn't go home. instead, he decides to drink his pain away, find a distraction from dwelling on it, and to get back his crown.
  • only thing i'll ever do: “stay there,” billy says tersely. “stay there and shut up.”
  • in your heart, i find my home: it’s been over a month he’s been living with harrington, three since he’s been back and four since he died.
  • made monstrous: season 3 starts when the fight at byers house ends, fresh bruises and all, no brea...

• HAZBIN HOTEL
• valentino/vox/velvette
  • oh please have mercy: val gets so overstimulated by his own prehensile dick that his demonic form comes out.
  • silken sparks: being the youngest overlord in hell, velvette is fond of technology. vox is her favorite toy.
  • uh oh, the tv is buffering!: in which vox's people find him in the aftermath of his musical breakdown.
• valentino/vox
  • it never worked before: valentino doesn’t think vox’s mind control works on him at all. vox tests that theory.
  • i'm selfish, i'm obscene: valentino likes to party. vox doesn't. he isn't bothered in the slightest. he isn't.
• alastor/angel dust

fics that are particularly special to me, in order of most recently read.

• special fics
  • in the dark where he laid: (getou suguru/gojo satoru) suguru geto is a false prophet. complications arise when a con goes wrong and suguru catches the attention of the gods – including all six eyes of the patron he claims to worship.
  • je ne m'y soumets pas: (harry potter/voldemort | tom riddle) this is voldemort’s story. and some enemies can’t be conquered… only changed.
  • time speaks: (l/yagami light) in his first life, l died in the arms of his greatest enemy. in his brief second one, he died alone. and in his third, too-long life, l died anticipating finally getting even with the man who'd won their game one too many times.
  • answer me: (midoriya izuku/shigaraki tomura) "i hate that your little friends keep interrupt...