Recent fic recs 04-02-2026
Compiled from maybe the last 2-3 months.
I know the format is a little strange, this is because I am archiving the low effort posts I make on Mastodon. I've corrected the capitalisation of fandom names and bolded them to help with skimming.
I don't think you need knowledge of Heated Rivalry to appreciate this absolute monument to toxic twitter discourse and bad fandom behaviour
https://archiveofourown.org/works/76246531
Re: gen
A chunk of my ao3 bookmarks are gen but, I forget most fics after a few months so I find it hard to rec them
most recently I have to shout out the TGCF ling wen travel article https://archiveofourown.org/works/26719117
A fridge horror-y Jeeves and Wooster fic https://archiveofourown.org/works/123253
The Goblin Emperor rightfully has a lot of good gen fic, even diegetic historical source analysis https://archiveofourown.org/works/9622397 or recipes https://archiveofourown.org/works/5462516
This mostly pro wrestling fic author who I've been reading fandom blind, I think their writing is sexy
https://archiveofourown.org/users/ungefug/pseuds/ungefug
SVSSS fic: Sex farce about lqg becoming entangled in the horrors of yqy/sj
https://archiveofourown.org/works/63006016/chapters/167082178
I haven't read any of this author's fics but I love how they start every one with a preface about how they are just a translator and the fic was actually written by an evil wizard in the scottish highlands.
Like. In an old literature way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudotranslation
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70581866/chapters/183409801 (the first one)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/70589251/chapters/183430906 (the latest one with an even more involved backstory)