antifragile | 2025-02-10

i bring more

blue exorcist

deposition - bluewindfall | okumura yukio

What he thought he could swallow down has begun to burn him from inside.

blue's characterization of yukio is always so heartbreakingly poignant. this is beautifully written as always, so vivid and quietly moving, every edge of yukio illustrated here all raw. few writers in this fandom capture the feeling of depression especially for yukio and bluewindfall just understands and writes it wonderfully.

DC (misc comics)

broken glass - laufire | cass cain/rose wilson

For the prompt: "DC comics, cassandra cain/rose wilson, in the empty mirror, i run and run to you / run away for me."

i left the above prompt on

threesentenceficathon and by GOD did

queenslayerbee deliver with this one!!!!! i love their take on rose and the setting of them sharing a team, how cass still sees rose for who she used to be and is still haunted by (her relationship with) steph and rose digs into that. rose is all sharp edges and brushes up against cass until she bristles and i just LOVE how that dynamic is captured here.

GNZ48 / girls planet 999

双面偶像 - endstheory | liang jiao & liang qiao

Canon Divergence — No GNZ48, rivals and best friends AND sisters

being a twin is hard enough i cannot imagine being pitted against my sister by an audience of strangers and made to essentially fight each other for relevance and a career. this fic digs into that messy ass dynamic sooo so well, all the internally bitter conflict of it and the obliqueness of sisterhood in this context.

LOONA

for the sin of swallowing the sun - Marenke | olivia hye

When Olivia Hye falls, she does it with the smell of kerosene and the feeling of flames.

i fucking LOVE loona-verse character studies & explorations and this being about hyeju is even better because I FUCKING LOVE LOONA-VERSE HYEJU. the biblical imagery and references here fit perfectly with the source material which also loved to pull from the bible, and the author's prose around it is just so stunning and vivid.

kamen rider gotchard

The Hunt Goes On - linky | atropos & clotho & lachesis

The Abyssalis Sisters ambush an Alchemy research lab.

SICKOS.JPG. I LOVE IT WHEN THE SISTERS ARE EVIL AND RUTHLESS!!!!!!! linky writes violence so well i love how gritty this is!!!!!

Homunculus Hatemail Game - linky | atropos & clotho & lachesis (& rinne)

Atropos enjoys the fruits of her anon hate to Rinne.

this is THE funniest shit ever my god i know atropos is fucking unbearable and awful on social media. i just know if she ever had a minor issue with twitter she'd go and tell elon musk to KYS

my hero academia

can any loved field be a churchyard? - seabirdie | himiko/uraraka

CAN YOU—CAN YOU DISAPPEAR?
YEAH, Ochaco says. I CAN DO THAT.
For the bulldozed house. For the ripped-out yard. For the mourning doves that won’t come back to the swamp, not this time.

Himiko and Ochaco, three times.

fun fact about me i was really into my hero academia back in middle school until i kinda grew out of it. but i was insane about togachako in 2018 before it was cool to be insane about togachako and so seeing togachako fic written by my friend seabirds made me feel just as giddy as middle school me did from the few togachako works she came across. this is GUTWRENCHING and BITTERSWEET -- such a beautiful twist on their relationship through a role-swap.

oshi no ko

and autumn comes when you’re not yet done - mokurowo | arima kana (kana/aqua, kana/akane, kana/taiki)

Kana is a fickle-minded creature, her mother’s always said.

also written by a friend! oshi no ko is something i still have yet to finish (last read the manga like... a year or two ago, oops) but i always had a soft spot for kana and especially loved how much this friend loves kana. this is a set of vignettes about kana and her relationship with others, including aqua and akane, and it so wonderfully captures kana's personality and how it intersects and often pushes against others.

2025-02-10