Mayo's Ultimate Top Fic Recs
The top of the top when it comes to my fic recs. The fics that fundamentally changed me. The fics that left me thinking about them for days. The fics that made me who I am today.
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We Should Just Kiss (Like Real People Do) by Oonionchiver
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
25 Jul 2022
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‘Please?’
Eddie stops him again, this time by holding his face. Steve feels Eddie’s thumb moving over his cheek, he feels the cool metal of his rings. He feels everything except what he needs.
‘I’ve never loved anything the way I love you, Steve Harrington,’ Eddie says, dark brown eyes moving between Steve’s own. ‘This isn’t the moment, sweetheart.’
It’s not a rejection, but it’s not a kiss. Steve quietly cries, insides cut up on the broken shards of his stupid little heart and Eddie holds him, he holds him all night until they fall asleep together.
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Bookmarked by Ceewelsh
01 Aug 2022
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This is the fic that I yelled about in discord until other people read it. This is the fic that has to be experienced to be understood. My brain in a fork and this fic is the garbage disposal ding ding ding ding ding. This is learning to love in a time of trauma and learning what that means in a time of peace. It's healing and hurting and pain and pleasure. It's snow day and star shine and being a safe space for each other and the wider family. It's about the trauma that came before and healing by becoming what you needed. It's grief and it's growth.
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There is no such thing as a guarantee when it comes to war.
The outcome's known. Why try?
Return your rusty sword to battered sheath,
bow your head and bend your stubborn knee. Why
take the field when you cannot win the war?
But Harry -- he went down to Agincourt.
--Harry Takes the Field by bratfarrar (AO3 link here.)
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Bookmarked by Ceewelsh
16 May 2021
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THE most hopeful fic I've ever read. S7!Dean is transported back to 5x04 End!Verse. The series starts out as bleak as The End is, and seperis does not gloss over the grief, but becomes one of the funniest, most heartfelt, most hopeful things I've ever read. Yes, it's the end of the world, yes, they'll probably lose, but fuck it they're gonna fight and you, the reader, will believe in hope and humanity again.
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The first time she meets him, he's nothing more than an almost-missed appointment.
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Dean is silent for a long, tense moment, then he gruffly says, "It's not for banishing the angels. It's to summon them. So, it doesn't—it's not to get rid of 'em, but to draw 'em in."
Mitzi can't help but glance up at him at that. His voice is so heavy with so much unexplained pain, and she doesn't understand why, or what angels have to do with it. She knows religion can impact people. She's very aware that it can get complicated, and that it can be a huge source of pain for someone, but Dean sounds grievously wronged, somehow, as if it's a truly personal thing.
She pushes through, focusing back on her job, clearing her throat before murmuring, "Well, I guess we all want angels to visit us sometimes."
"Just the one," Dean mumbles.
"Your guardian angel?" Mitzi asks.
Dean breathes out, "Something like that. As close to one as an angel will ever get."
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- Part 1 of Decorations and Dedication
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Bookmarked by Ceewelsh
02 Oct 2021
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THEEE outsider!POV. I laughed I cried I pictured it all so clearly.
Dean tells Mitzi his story and she thinks it's all pretend but he's using it to work through some stuff. The moment that changes has stuck with me so clearly ever since I first read this. -
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After the Empty, Cas has to spend some time alone. Orpheus tries to convince Eurydice over the phone that it’s okay to turn around now.
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Bookmarked by Ceewelsh
28 Dec 2021
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This hurts. This hurts in so many different ways across the length of the fic. It's beautiful.
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"This time, do it right. This time Eddie won’t bleed out in his arms, in anyone’s arms. This time, Steve will do it right."
— or, steve relives the day they try to kill vecna over and over, and eddie just can't seem to stop dying. steve finds this totally unacceptable.
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Bookmarked by Ceewelsh
08 Aug 2022
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Maybe the real timeloop was the
friends we made along the wayamount of times this rolled around my head. Em told me to read it so she had someone to go insane with and INSANE I DID GO.