rutobuka2:

A comfortable silence fell between them as Thorin combed out a few of the longer strands of Bilbo’s hair and began to braid them neatly. The texture was so different from his own, finer and sleeker even without the help of oils. Where his own hair kinked and curled in different places along the strand, Bilbo’s curved, though admittedly each in different direction from its neighbouring lock. Braiding hair like this took a little more planning, or else the braid itself would twist. After a few moments he opened the little clasp on the bead he’d forged and clamped it around the bottom of the braid, snapping it closed. 

@yubiwamonogatari requested me to draw this lovely scene from their most recent Azhâr chapter as their patreon reward! 

you should all go read Azhâr, it’s the greatest slow burn in the 21st century!!!🌟

I crave like wildfire post WS recovery fics. Especially anything dealing with how epically fucked up Hydra was, but without diving into the bottom of the Hydra Trash Party dumpster. If you can also point me to any Sam helping them figure their shit out, or Sam/Steve/Bucky fics, my aching brain would thank you.

stucky-ficrecs:

Here you go: have roughly 1.5 million words of our favorite Bucky recovery fics. Fandom is the best! These are all great:

The Choice Is Not A Word A Bullet Knows series (explicit, 340K) and the Now And At The Hour Of Our Death series (explicit, 106K) by bomberqueen17. The Choice
series includes Sam/Steve/Bucky and Sam/Steve/Bucky/Natasha. Some installments are WIPs.

The Your Blue-Eyed Boys series (especially part 2) (teen/mature, 123K) and its two offshoots, (Even If I Could) Make a Deal with God (316K, ratings vary) and Settle in and Find Your Home (teen, 17K), by Feather (lalaietha)

The Building From the Ground Up series by EmilianaDarling (ratings vary, 67K)

Rate of Recidivism
by alcibiades
(explicit, 93K)  

My Dear
by vulcansmirk
(explicit, 30K)

Lay Back, Lay Back
by Ultrageekatlarge (teen, 11K)

Hard Wired
by arsenicarcher (Arsenic) (explicit, 31K)

Parallel Constructions
by freshbakedlady (teen, 14K)

Lilies with Full Hands by refusals
(not rated, 102K)

We Deserve Better
by stephrc79 (explicit, 7K)

Hard to Say
by betty days (sadrobots) (mature, 17K)

The It’s Not Linear series by chaya  (explicit, 137K)

Ain’t No Grave (Can Keep My Body Down)
by spitandvinegar (mature, 75K)

The Infinite Coffee and Protection Detail series by owlet (teen/mature, 114K)

  

If you want to make it 2 million, try these AO3 tags to find more: trauma recovery, recovery, torture, and post-recovery Bucky Barnes. (And see our previous reblog on how to filter out phrases from your AO3 searches.)

damalur:

Hawke/Varric recs, round two:

When in Orzammar… by Anonymous (A+++ SO GOOD)
Walk of Shame
by Anonymous
Rejection: A Few More Points by Anonymous
Lessons in Love by Anonymous
Keeping Secrets by Anonymous
Parental License by Anonymous
Truth Be Told by Anonymous (ALSO A+)
The Worst Part of Hero Parents Is Homework by Anonymous

And some mixes:

Storyteller by remus
The Queasy Crow Flies at Midnight by eowynstwin

(More recs here!)

Dragon Age | A Reel for Fools

damalur:

Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Wordcount: 6k
Relationships: Female Hawke/Varric Tethras
Characters: Marian Hawke, Varric Tethras, Isabela, Cassandra Pentaghast, The Iron Bull
Additional Tags: Fake/Pretend Relationship, Pining
Summary: They swallow down a sweet venom and call it entertainment.

@saint-leona, here is your very long overdue Fandom Trumps Hate fic! This ended up deviating wildly from your original request for fake dating fic, but it does still have Hawke and Varric pretending to be married in front of Cassandra, and I hope that is close enough to satisfy. Thanks again for the donation! (And for the great prompts.) (And for your patience!)

Dragon Age | A Reel for Fools

aquilea-of-the-lonely-mountain:

Bagginshield Summer Surprise – Fic rec

Many fics
and art works have already been posted, so I thought it would be a good time
for the fic rec! Some haven’t been posted yet, though, and I’d ask those who
haven’t published their works yet to post soon (but don’t stress yourself
either, my dears 😉 I’ll keep the rec up to date and add all new works!

I already
like to thank all the participants, I enjoyed organizing this event very much,
and your contributions are really great!!!

I think fireflies never looked more beautiful.

Memories of fireflies by @zathuraroy5

You would not believe your eyes if ten million fireflies by @prussia-notgermanyabittotheleft

Sleeping under the open sky was a good idea
indeed.

Under the summer sky by @serenbach86

The breaking of spring by @vtforpedro

Do you always make your fruit punch that strong?

Erebor’s
seventh annual (un)official drinking contes
t by @illupocattivo

Punch drunk courage by @emsiecat

Cascade by @rutobuka2

How did you manage to catch a cold in the midst
of summer?

Of faeries and summer colds by @hildyj

Upon this grave the sun did set by @texasdreamer01

Summer festival … That means dancing as well, I
imagine.

Summer paradise by @tea-blitz

Dawns y Galon by @ladylaran

I swear, if you splash me with water one more
time …!

A splash of healing by @mandysimo13

Art by @ahiddenkitty

You’re overheated, let me take care of you.

Seafood and sunburns by @paranoidfridge

I know that strawberry cupcakes would be
delicious, but it’s WAY too hot to bake now.

Strawberries by @bofursunboundbraids

You have never eaten ice cream before?

Of ice cream and summer days by @badskippy

Art by @mjoyart

A rainy summer day sounds like a perfect excuse
to stay in bed all day long, don’t you agree?

Well met on a rainy day by @katajainen

Art by @shipsicle

You can also have a look at the Bagginshield Summer Surprise Collection on AO3!

Mass Effect/Shakarian fic rec: So I just read this Garrus/Fem Shep fic called “Variations on a Theme, with Tank and Gunfire” which has a premise that Shep gets stuck in a Mass Effect 1 through Mass Effect 3 time loop and is trying to figure out how to get rid of the Reapers in a way that doesn’t just send her back to the beginning again and BOY WAS IT EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED

Because here’s the thing, I so have that headcanon in the back of my mind every time I play one of Bioware’s games where there’s a more set main character like Hawke or Shepard. (Less so with the games where you can customize your main character so it could conceivably be an “alternate timeline” where someone else was the Warden or the Inquisitor.) But I just have this thread of heartache in those play-throughs where I sort of imagine the Shep or Hawke having deja vu, or trying to get things right this time, or just desperately sad because the time loop means you get to meet all these people again but sometimes that means you have to watch them die again. 

So anyway, a fic that explores the heartache Shep goes through living through the trilogy plotline over and over just jives really well with how replaying the game feels for me and my headcanons so I’m reccing this fic and looking for some others :3

HASA_Archivist – Works | Archive of Our Own

Fic Rec: The Henneth Annun Archive

So back in the Before Times when Lord of the Rings was one of the most active online fandoms (2001-2004ish) one of the gold standards of fic was the Henneth Annun Archive. It was one of the best curated lists of fic with a focus on a high standard of writing quality and attention to lore for fics about Tolkien’s world. Seen as a refuge for Tolkien book fans after the influx of new fic from writers who had only seen the movie, it hosted a really great collection of the very finest works, until it was shut down recently due to costs. Nowadays, fans have AO3 for archiving, but some enterprising fans of Henneth Annun have been good enough to migrate those fics over to AO3 before they were lost. They are now listed under the above link.

I highly recommend the Henneth Annun archive fics for quality LotR/Silmarillion Gen fics, and just high quality fics in general. While these days the emphasis tends to rest on shipping-heavy fics, that was not really the case in the LotR fandom (at least not to the same extent, I’d argue) so you cand a lot of really high quality gen fics here too. 

HASA_Archivist – Works
|
Archive of Our Own

do you have any links to any bagginshield fan fics? CAUSE I DIDNT SHIP THEM AND NOW I DO SOOOOOO HARD

bead-bead:

ledamemangociana:

SCREAMS SO HARD i don’t really always get asked for bagginshield fics omggggggggg and yayyyyyyyyyyy more bagginshield pawns of pain shippers yasssssssss

lemme start by getting my own fics out of the way coz i’m vain and also coz one of them was written with a friend and i super love it in a vain way

  • On The Edge – Bilbo and Thorin talk and have feelings but they’re not quite “there” yet; Unrated.
  • If Tonight Is The Last Night – Modern AU, Thorin is a hitman, Bilbo was once his secret informer; E for smut and language.
  • Go Fetch – Sequel to “If Tonight…”; E, WIP
  • Midday, Interrupted – In which all of Hobbiton almost always knows when King Thorin has come to visit his Hobbit love because of things, but it still doesn’t stop someone from knocking at Bag End’s door at a rather inopportune moment; M for smut. (THIS IS THE CO-WRITTEN ONE.)

AND NOW RECS FOR EVERYBODY ELSE’S MORE BRILLIANT FICS

  • King, Come At Red Morning – Sleeping Beauty AU; in which Bilbo awakens a fairytale; M, Complete.
  • Love-In-Idleness – Modern AU, in which new talent Bilbo and respected but old-fashioned Thorin are thrown together and unwittingly fall in love off-stage while doing Shakespeare; T, WIP 
  • Undress Me – Modern AU, Bella (Bilbo) Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield are cast by their mutual friend in a video experiment and get more than they bargain for; M, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • To Share In Your Perils – Time-travel AU (of sorts), Thorin’s been given a second chance, and he’s determined to get it right this time, thankfully Bilbo’s being surprisingly more cooperative; E for smut.
  • Hush – Erebor AU, Bilbo wakens in the middle of the night only to find he’s not the only one awake; G for cuteness omg
  • Till Durin Wakes Again From Sleep – Reincarnation AU, in which Thorin wakes up alone and wonders about Bilbo; G, canonical character death, ambiguously happy ending
  • Take From Me My Lace – Modern AU; Bilba (Bilbo) is a famous lingerie model which has a lot less personal perks than it sounds; E, WIP, het!bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Prayers To Broken Stone – Dragon Sickness AU, in which Bilbo must save Thorin from himself; T, WIP
  • Restless Move – Erebor AU; in which Thorin and his wife-consort Bilba (Bilbo) explore new ways to, er, move; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Nothing Gold Can Stay – Modern AU; Bilbo is hired to become the tutor to the nephews of King Thorin, which turns out to not be as simple as it sounds; T, Complete (probably my fave bagginshield fic to date tbh)
  • Love Makes Monsters Of Us All – Smaugless AU, where Thorin’s gold sickness reaches a pinnacle that it may never come down from; M, some major warnings (dubcon/noncon, implied horrible deaths, somnophilia, etc.), dark!Thorin
  • Bless Your Soles – In which Bilbo has bare feet and Thorin never expected to react to them the way he’s reacting to them now; E for smut
  • Feast – Erebor AU, in which Bilba (Bilbo) is pregnant and has needs, Thorin, neeeeeds; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • Almost – In which Thorin is overthinking things, and Bilbo turns out to be the buffer he needs (as usual); G
  • Sansukh – Reincarnation AU (kind of but not really), in which Thorin can only watch from the sidelines as the history of Middle-Earth moves on without him (with bonus Gigolas!); T, WIP
  • Stay – because Bagginses never not keep promises made, or Dammit Thorin You Were Stubborn When I Didn’t Need You To Be Why Can’t You Be Stubborn NOW Curse You And Your Grimy Steel-Toed Boots; G
  • A Day In the Life of The Royal Pugs of Erebor – Pugs Under the Mountain AU, and it’s exactly what it says on the tin; G
  • The Road Delivered Us Home – Thorin Lives AU, but Bilbo has returned to the Shire and has rebuilt his life around his nephew and Absolutely Does Not Think About Thorin Or Being With Thorin Or Needing Thorin At All Ever Again No Sirree Bob Not At All; M, Complete
  • Perennial – Little Bilba (Bilbo) Baggins helps nurse a wounded Dwarf back to health and makes him promise he’ll marry her when she’s grown, but oh look at that she’s all grown up, what now?; T, WIP, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • To Kiss A Stranger – in which a video experiment sees Bilbo/Bilba and Thorin meeting randomly to make-out for cameras; TWO versions – T for het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo version, M for male slash version
  • Dinner At Eight – Thorin and Bilbo end dinner with a bang (winkwonk wordplay); E for smut, also Bottom!Thorin
  • Bed, Breakfast and Blood – Vampire AU, in which well-meaning Bilbo buys a gorgeous mansion that just happens to come complete with a broody vampire; unrated, WIP
  • And So To Bed – In which Thorin suggestively suggests a suggestion about Bella (Bilbo) going to bed; E, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo
  • She Walks In Beauty – Thorin is a very srs bznz Architect who gives almost a little too much of himself to his family, friends and work, but then Bella (Bilbo); M, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo 
  • The Vicar of Erebor – Modern AU, where Miss Bilbo only came to Laketown to head a parish, dash it all; M, WIP, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo
  • You Can Leave Your Shirt On – Erebor AU, Thorin has been away and has missed his Hobbit; E, Bottom!Thorin
  • Touch My Mouth And Hold My Tongue – in which Bilbo and Thorin finally do the do, and Bilbo is a boss about it; E for smut, Bottom!Thorin
  • In The Morning and Amazing – Bilbo and Thorin got some sleep at Beorn’s, so we know what that means; E for smut
  • Only Her Sonorous Jewels – Thorin is King, but where is Bella (Bilbo)?; E, plus major warnings (somnophilia, dubcon/noncon), dark!Thorin, het!Bagginshield/fem!Bilbo

those are just some of my faves, if i keep going this post will be too damn long omg but i literally have like 36 pages of AO3 history (WEAK, I KNOW) and i only got up to 15 or sth with this one coz i still have to work, so HEY maybe in future i can rec you some more 😀

(PS – had to bold the het!bagginshield/fem!bilbo thing coz it’s a bit unpopular/not very much liked in the fandom, had to make sure that other people looking at the recs will know not to click on the fem!bilbo fics)

Bless my socks, Mango, thanks for the recs! @
ledamemangociana
❤ ❤ ❤

This must be a pretty old list if “Prayers” is listed as a WIP lol but there’s a lot of great fics on here so don’t mind if I share!

Last Twilight – ewonice – The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]

Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth – J. R. R. Tolkien
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Leaflock & Original Female Character
Characters: Finglas | Leaflock, Treebeard | Fangorn, Galadriel | Artanis, Skinbark | Fladrif, Ents | Enyd
Additional Tags: Original Character(s), Fluffy, Elf Culture & Customs, Gap of Rohan, Misty Mountains, Valinor, Grey Havens, Fangorn Forest, Entwash, Handmaidens, Tree shepherds, Tree-ish, Fourth Age, Elvish, Eldarin, Quenya, Sindarin, Middle Earth, Tree-friend, Caras Galadhon, Lindon (Tolkien), Sea-longing, Undying Lands, Entwives, Age of Men, Original verse, Music, Filk, Song Lyrics, Laurelindórenan, Lóthlorien, Aman (Tolkien), Old Forest (Tolkien), Teleri (Tolkien) – Freeform, Lindar (Tolkien), Third Age, Second Age, Sea of Belegaer, Emotional, Elven Lore, Emo
Series: Part 1 of Last Elf
Summary:

Teluial, last elf on Middle-earth, whom Lady Galadriel tasked with learning the language and culture of the Ents so as to keep their memory alive in Valinor, wakes one morning to find her Ent charge, Leaflock, going tree-ish. When she learns the Sea-longing is upon her, Teluial must sing farewell to her Enyd friends, which she does in Entish using an instrument she made with wood from the forest floor. Leaflock goes into deep slumber, and Teluial leaves Fangorn Forest, embarking on her journey through the Gap of Rohan to the Grey Havens, where she will meet the ship Galadriel has sent for her.

Hey guys you should check out this story from my badass writing friend from the writing workshop I attended earlier this summer! She’s a professional grade writer dabbling in fanfic, I think you’ll enjoy!

Last Twilight – ewonice – The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien [Archive of Our Own]