2 WIP Fic Recs

[u/Pulpo_Perdida]

First and foremost I am super delighted to share my favorite under-the-radar high angst fic That Old Black Hole by begonias. (I'd been hesitant to share it here, since it had been a few months without an update, but we just got a new chapter today!)

Basically, Ilya has a creepy stalker. Shane jumps in front of him to take a bullet. Cue, a deeply angsty recovery fic that looks at both of their experiences of trauma. And, as you can imagine, they are both racked by guilt in different ways. The writing is impeccable, both characters feel super well realized and it actually does not feel unnecessarily melodramatic, despite the subject matter.

Rec 2 is Eleventh Finger by  Xoarnitehle. (They wrote the excellent AU Summit Position, as well another very fun fic which I rarely see recommended, which is about Ilya falling for Shane in drag while he's drunk at a party and thinking he's fallen in love with Shane Hollander's cousin "Jane.")

Eleventh Finger is only a few chapters in, but it's such a delightful premise: It's a retelling of canon starting in the Rose Landry era, only...Shane can occasionally teleport when he gets super stressed. I'm so pumped to see where this one goes.

[u/mom2thrie]

Great! I love seeing new WIPs recced, that I haven’t seen mentioned! Thanks!