Curated Curios (with rec notes in the bookmarks)
All the gems I've found in my time digging through A03. Any length, any fandom, any genre, but no explicit fics. There will be warnings for sexual content.
Each bookmark will have notes abt what I like in the piece, warnings (if applicable), and sometimes a 'vibe'. AKA my description of the piece's tone/aesthetic. Don't be worried if it doesn't make sense!
There are also tags for length and feel. They are:
Short story(0-30k), novella (30k-50k), novel (50k-100K), and Epic (100k+)
Silly (humor/crack), Scary (horror), Soft (fluff), Sharp (angst), Smarp (light angst), and Smooth (narrative)
the last three of those are really badly defined and I'm not quite sure how to explain them. Smooth is, like, 'this is an engaging story' and Sharp is about the emotional impact?? You'll figure it out
Format fuckery is for epistolary fics/anything that plays with its medium
Romance is also tagged. I'm not sure why.
To skip to my faves, check out the 'must read' and 'something else' tags! These are the best of the best. There's about 15 of them, ranging in length, and I love all of them dearly.
Also, feel free to suggest your own additions! I'd love to read something new <3
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At Sokka’s behest, the Gaang skips rescuing Zuko during the Siege at the North Pole. Instead they leave him, unconscious, buried in the snow.
In completely unrelated news, Sokka’s haunted by a ghost now.
(If you'd like more details before deciding to read this story, look here for spoilers.)
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Someone had to inform Light's family. What remained of it.
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He fell into a deep bow, smiling the whole while. “I’m the ringmaster, of course.”
“Is that skin— Is it yours?” Old wood groaned as the Archivist shifted his weight. “Originally.”
“It is!” the ringmaster said as he swooped back upright. “Nikola decided I wore it well, so she let me keep it. Why do you ask?”
The Archivist gave him another once-over. “You just… you look familiar. Like someone I know.”
On relearning, reconnecting, and redefining.
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- Part 1 of Come What May
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Despite the fever and the barely-healed burn scar, the boy’s fast. June avoids his blade, but still he jams his limbs into her, desperate to scratch and kick and bite off her hand…
(Just like a baby shirshu, spitting poison from behind the bars of its cage. The comparison shouldn't be so endearing.)
Or: the AU where Zuko flees the palace after his Agni Kai, running right into Nyla and June.
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- Part 1 of Two Drama Queens Loose on a Shirshu
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(The end is never the end. There's too much blood on too many hands and too many unhappy endings. Six years is a long wait for a grieving mother and a damning curse. It's time for more desperate measures. Perhaps resourcing one of the counselors - as she had watched so many do before - will prove benign. Looks like it's time to save the sole survivor.)
Dylan wakes up in a blind panic, kicking out and falling backward off of the log bench he's sitting on. Maybe it's a bit dramatic, but in his defense, he was just being pinned down in the kitchen, about to get his throat torn out by a goddamn werewolf. Sue him for startling.
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- Part 1 of take me back & back again
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So You Need To Get Into A.Z. Fell & Co.; Now What? (A Guide For Unfortunate Bookworms) by c4llistrad
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
21 Jul 2019
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London’s antique enthusiasts and rare lit nerds alike know that if you’re looking for a specific vintage or antique book, you have a good chance of ending up in A.Z. Fell & Co. as a last resort. And if you’ve ever been in (or are currently in) this predicament, you know how much of an absolute nightmare it is trying to even get in the door. Luckily, this handy guide, the fruit of a months-long collaborative effort to create the perfect formula for gaming the A.Z. Fell system, will tell you everything you need to know, complete with a comprehensive breakdown of what, exactly, the opening hours are. Compiled by pageknight and inky of the Rare Antique Forums.
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
07 Dec 2022
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A support fic to a fic i'm probably abt to bookmark. the good shit
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How I Survived My Summer Vacation, by Tamika Flynn, Age 12 3/4 by thingswithwings
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
06 Aug 2013
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The first book on Tamika Flynn's Summer Reading Program Sticker Chart is Lord of the Flies.
She doesn't really like it.
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
04 Apr 2023
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OOOH it's a good one boys.
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The A.Z. Fell and Co. Conspiracy by WritesEveryBlueMoon
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
12 Nov 2020
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brokenbibliophile
Okay everybody, we already know that A.Z. Fell and Co is a difficult place to visit (to put it mildly) and that the owner is a tad eccentric. However, I was digging through some old records of 1900s Gentleman’s clubs and I swear I've found a picture of Mr Fell (Soho's resident book hoarder)theBooksteer
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A bunch of wacky strangers theorize about our favourite immortals' personal lives.
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- Part 1 of That Odd London Bookshop
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
07 Dec 2022
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watch me fall down a social media fic rabbit jole in real time
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Apollo and Athena notice something is off with Edgeworth during a trial and decide to ask him about it. Unfortunately, they get a bit more than they bargained for. It's never fun to realize your boss and his biggest rival have a bit of a thing for each other.
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- Part 1 of Nobody Can Just Say What They Mean
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- English
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- 82,173
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- 6/6
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- 867
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
15 Mar 2023
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HOLY SHIT it's 'you ever been in love' by Hechima!!!! This is LITERALLY the first fanfiction I ever read. EVER. In my life. And then I clicked the fandom tag, saw one (1) explicit work, and then immediately closed Ao3... ah, good times.
anyways this is the good shit. It's funny as all fuck, and it has the most bomb-ass character interactions. Hechima's the GOAT.
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A 14.13 Lebanon rewrite. When Dean uses a wish-granting pearl to try and kill the archangel Michael before he can escape the cage in Dean's head, they instead wind up with a newly-resurrected John Winchester.
It's been more than a decade since John died, and a lot has changed: Mary is alive, Sam and Dean have what passes for a proper home in the Men of Letters Bunker, and they're living with angels. John doesn't know angels are real, he doesn't know about the fragile new relationship between Dean and Castiel, and most of all, he doesn't know that Dean said yes to Michael, or that Dean's plan to defeat Michael would send him to a fate worse than death.
Now Dean must contend with both his father asking questions he can't answer, and his loved ones learning about the darker truths of his childhood, all while constantly battling the archangel trapped inside him. But Dean coming to terms with his history may be the difference between this being the beginning of a journey—or the end.
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- Part 2 of a triptych of dean/cas
- Part 3 of the greatest works, liz edition
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- English
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- 109,629
- Chapters:
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Bookmarked by Meepius147
14 Aug 2024
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AGH bro it's so good. The way John is handled is literally the best anyone's ever done it, and the choices of who to give POV slots are genuinely INSPIRED. This fic digs its fingers into all the best characterization spots for each character too, it's soooo good. A must read for supernatural fans.