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5 SVSSS fic recs
the youngest wound-dresser, by lonelyghosts
➤ an svsss fic set in the original PIDW, about Ning Yingying
➤ and holy shit this fic is so good, so everything I didn't even know to hope for from a fic about pidw nyy, I am all emotions?!
➤ the complexity of nyy's relationships with sqq and lbh, the mix of love and hate, the way she doesn't feel able to do anything but to witness and to go along with how things are
➤ and seeing the awful things that happen through her eyes.....it's so powerful and bleak and believable
➤ I adore this fic, I'm just absolutely blown away by it
➤ 9k words
Missed Opportunity, by acernor
➤ an SVSSS fic where Liu Qingge meets a demonic Liu Qingge. Tianlang-jun is unhelpful.
➤ very fun and funny, I love Liu Qingge's opinions on his demonic alternate self - and what you can gather about what demon Liu Qingge thinks about this human version of himself!
➤ also the brief glimpse of alternate sqq is glorious and I want to know more
➤ 1k words in length
Poll: would you read the peerless cucumber transmigration romance? by envyenvy
➤ an outside pov svsss fic consisting of a chat between pidw friends in a discord specifically for discussing Peerless Cucumber
➤ Peerless Cucumber has reappeared after being absent from the internet for a year, and he wants to commission art of himself and his husband in sqq x lbh cosplay
➤ cue the chat going wild
➤ it's SO FUNNY and so much fun, I love this fic both in premise and execution, chef's kiss
➤ 2.4k words
Give you Anything, by acernor
➤ svsss fic, pre-canon/canon divergence maybe? in which original sqq hears a rumour that yqy is going to ascend, and he'll do anything to keep that from happening
➤ it's SO them <3 all tangled up in each other, terribly possessive, unable to communicate like normal people, I love them
➤ content notes: dubcon, babytrapping attempt
➤ 2k words
Predictably, Peerless Cucumber Has Opinions About The Economic Worldbuilding of Proud Immortal Demon Way, by el_em_en_oh_pee
➤ endless abyss era svsss fic
➤ sqq writing angry notes to sqh about his worldbuilding, sqh accusing sqq of pulling his pigtails to get his attention
➤ god I love these emotionally constipated nerds <3
➤ 1k words
1 tgcf fic rec
Giving Me a Chance, by tiny_sobek
➤ sweet tgcf fic about yin yu doing preteen quan yizhen's hair
➤ qyz full of many emotions but not good at figuring out what they are
➤ or at figuring out what yy might be thinking
➤ <1k words
1 nif fic rec
Good Company, by Triss_Hawkeye
➤ ahh what a lovely sweet little nirvana in fire ficlet about Jingrui and Yujin's friendship!! I love them
➤ 400 words exactly, two double drabbles
1 dungeon meshi fic rec
In the Palm of His Hand, by acernor
➤ dungeon meshi kabru/mithrun sex pollen fic
➤ which, as the author has tagged, can easily be read as asexual character x2
➤ GENIUS tbh!! I love kabru's pov, and I love how much the sex pollen is just another thing to deal with, another thing to assess and excel at
➤ and mithrun omg yepppp that's him
➤ 1k words
1 professionally published short story rec
The Font of Liberty, by Elizabeth Porter Birdsall
➤ as one would expect from the venue, this short story is about historical lesbians!
➤ specifically, historical lesbians working in a parisian printshop in 1830 (2 years before Les Mis is set, if that's relevant for you)
➤ ahhhh I love all the different women in this story, their relationships with each other and their work and their beliefs
➤ and the main character a provincial girl who's finding a place for herself and coming to understand the world of revolutionary paris she's found herself in!
➤ I also love how real and grounded the printshop work is that they all do
➤ it was great from start to finish <3
➤ and yes the author is a friend but I'm not biased at all!!
➤ 5k words in length
➤ available as written text and as podcast; I have been told that the podcast version is excellent too.
1 random website rec
I love Ian's Shoelace Site. one of those classic old-school personal websites put together by someone who is the kind of obsessive nerd to exhaustively detail everything you could need to know about a niche topic!
if you want to investigate the different functionalities that can be achieved with lacing methods for shoelaces, this is the page on the site to start with.
