• 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
  • it's coming to an end: kissing light quiets the bells. if they keep kissing, maybe L won't have to die.
  • no fighting fair: L does not cry. he is not someone who is capable of crying. they sleep together time after time, and he does not cry. or, maybe, once, quietly, he does. Like a person. like a human.
  • 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 i...

• 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.

• HAZBIN HOTEL
• alastor/vox
  • eyes don't lie: thirty years of routine, affection, and quiet intimacy come undone when vox and alastor realise they were never actually on the same page.
  • vicious delicious: alastor lets curiosity win. vincent is already fading into the man he’ll become, but tonight alastor is drunk enough to take the softness while it lasts.
  • look with your eyes, not with your hands...: the third time it happened, vox groaned and wrapped his hand around alastor’s maddeningly tiny waist. “i’m gonna cream my pants if you keep doing that.”
  • to herd the whole sky in my arms: (non-nsfw) in which vox uses his newfound hypnosis ability to make a fucking mess.
  • a waste of a sober mind: drunk alastor wants to know why vox won't make a move. it's because he's built like a ken doll, but that's not a problem fo...

• getou suguru/gojo satoru
  • meet judgement: satoru rescues a cursed wolf while on a mission. the cursed wolf follows him home. a week later the cursed wolf turns into a boy named suguru.
  • whenever you want me: it isn't often satoru gojo gets sick. so when it just so happens he does and it ruins their new year's plans, his boyfriend is there to cheer him up.
  • the curse of me, being different from yo...: what if satoru saw the signs in time? would things have turned out differently?
  • time held me green and dying: cursed while out on a mission, geto and gojo lose each other, falling through the darkness ten years into the future.
  • we've been cursed since the beginning: "so what happens to me if I don't behave?" satoru asks teasingly, "if this is a completely normal hostage situation." suguru hums, "i'm sure anything could happen to you if you cause me trouble. you are at my mercy, after all."

• NARUTO
• uchiha sasuke/uzumaki naruto
  • divinity, amnesty: sasuke listens when naruto goes on. and he does. he goes on, and on and on, but he catalogs every stupid little thing he says. for later. Just in case.
  • sleepless heat: sasuke can't get enough of the heat that pulses on naruto's stomach, right where the nine-tails seal sits etched into his skin.
  • accident, coincidence, pattern: the two times sasuke accidentally hinted at his breeding kink—and the one time naruto gave him exactly what he wanted.
  • 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 su...

• 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...

• tim drake/jason todd
  • the house always wins: jason raises his eyebrows. "so we like… spar? and you'll what, let me fuck you if i win?" "sure. if you win." tim smiles.
  • thermogenesis: “then what, pray tell, do you need me for, at ass o’clock in the morning?” but before jason could even pull the phone away from his ear, dick blurted out, “It’s tim.”
  • 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 ...

• 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
  • the fourth thing: draco and harry break a few HR rules.
  • 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.

• 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...

• CAPTAIN AMERICA
• steve rogers/james "bucky" barnes
  • at a moment's notice: at least putting it that way makes steve feel slightly less guilty about agreeing so quickly to help bucky acclimate to his newfound libido
  • 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 acc...

• 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...

• geralt of rivia/jaskier
  • i will not kiss you: after a contract hunting a mage goes awry, geralt finds himself cursed with sickness, bubbling beneath his skin like a plague. it’s easy enough not to touch anyone - not to pass it on - until he meets jaskier on the path.
  • 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.

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

• special fics
  • heliotrope: ("hikaru" | fake indou hikaru/tsujinaka yoshiki) when yoshiki escapes their small town – to college, to tokyo – hikaru follows. and things start to change for them both.
  • 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 i...

• 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

• shane hollander/ilya rozanov
  • i got a taste of the glamorous life: sometimes, simply being married to shane isn't enough. sometimes, olya wants him in ways he can't explain; caught and collared and safe beneath his hand.
  • i was raised out in the cold: five times ilya has to go home to russia, and one time he chooses to go home to shane.
  • nothing comes as easy as you: “fuck, you look stupid,” is the last thing shane says before he lifts his hips up, taking his weight off of ilya’s chest, and lowers himself down.
  • compatible: ilya’s blood has always run hotter than shane's.
  • helpless, tender, open: shane gets sick, and ilya still wants.
  • everywhere i go, my skin is crawling: the one where ilya calling shane by his first name sends him into heat.
  • to hold in loving attention: shane's oral fixation as a sort of character study.
  • baby, put some faith in me: shane's rut arrives. so does his bloodthi...

• INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022)
• armand/daniel molloy
  • call me your own: fledgling daniel's first and second feeding.
  • safe and stranded: in which daniel stays put - you know, like an idiot.
  • strange mutations: armand’s done it to him once before—gored him through the stomach, gutted him like a fish, snipped his gills off, and drained him right down to the fluttering valves of his heart.
  • come with me anyway: armand doesn't handle the divorce well. daniel finds him, two years after armand fled, and they try to work it out.
  • reprise: armand, daniel, and the monsters memory makes of us.
  • open up your skull, i'll be there: armand turns up in new york, and then he leaves. daniel's not having that.
  • wake up missing me: "yeah, congratulations," daniel says. "you tortured me and my dick liked it, and I...

• bakugou katsuki/izuku midoriya
  • this is the place: after a long week, a long month of back-to-back missions, of spending barely any downtime with his husband, katsuki wants two things. one: some good food, a hot shower, and a quick nap, in that order. two: take deku apart so thoroughly that he wears katsuki's affections on his skin like a brand for weeks after.
  • this bed is outerspace: now this just can't be real, he thinks as he frantically, nearly mind-numbingly tries to remember ever hearing someone say such a thing to him. love? love?
  • take it like a taker: katsuki really, really likes izuku's new haircut.
  • pushing it down: katsuki wakes up from a nightmare to a few missed texts from izuku.
  • go on and make it right: “you could just… you could um… you could kiss it better?” izuku offers. he tries to bat his eyelashes.

• 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 ...

• 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.