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#DecRecs so fun fact despite having almost 3x more guardian fics bookmarked than any other fandom apparently none of them are passing my could plausibly be appreciated by someone unfamiliar with canon test. so instead i'm reccing one of the classic 'please join us in having feelings about these boys' vids:

Augustine by Bonibaru
Fandom: Guardian (2018)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan
Additional tags: exquisite pining
Summary:

Shen Wei finds something to believe in.

#DecRecs: I mentioned the other day looking forward to the day when fics set on twitter could be recced as charmingly vintage period pieces so! time to test that by finding out if we've all been off LJ for long enough for that to count as charmingly vintage! this fic was written in 2011 for the kinkme-merlin comm. It's an AU where the characters of BBC Merlin are in the Starz Camelot fandom and is both a loving tribute to internet friendships/romance and a by my memory (admittedly not necessarily reliable, satsuma was a tiny fandom baby in 2011) pretty accurate representation of what LJ fandom was like at the time. Absolutely no knowledge of BBC Merlin necessary

Pairing Pendragon/Merlin (~24,500 words) by Anon
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: BBC Merlin (2008-2012)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Arthur/Merlin
Additional tags: metatextuality, secret identities, fans & fandom
Summary:

Arthur is a BNF and Merlin is his prized beta

Also to make up for missing yesterday if you want a lighter (tho no less earnest) fic, try the Dwarf Queen. political marriages! relationships based on mutual respect! some highly plausible worldbuilding on how dwarvish relationships traditionally work and what they'd consider romantic

The Dwarf Queen (10689 words) by SassySnowperson
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carrot Ironfoundersson/Cheery Littlebottom
Additional Tags: Marriage Proposal, Marriage of Convenience, Politics, Dwarf Culture & Customs, Dwarf Gender Concepts, Friends to Lovers
Summary:

Carrot is named King. Of the Dwarfs.

He doesn't want to be king. His nomination is really just a nasty case of Ambition and Politics on the part of some upstart dwarfs. Still, he needs to be very careful how he handles this. Accepting the throne means war. Rejecting...probably also means war.

Help comes from an unexpected source when Cheery Littlebottom offers up a unique proposal. If these ambitious dwarfs want a king, then maybe they should be forced to accept a queen, as well.

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"No, I've beat around the bush enough, I'm just going to come out and say it. You should accept the coronation, and at the same time announce that you are happy to announce a political union with the Coal Hills Mine, and you are marrying the daughter of their respected engineer, Jolly Littlebottom. Which is, um, me."

Carrot ran through that plan a few times, before he was confident he got the relevant details. "Marry…you?"

#DecRecs: one of the fun thinks about the discworld books is that
pterry would make jokes about some fantasy cliche, follow it to its logical conclusion & somehow end up doing four or five genuinely interesting social commentaries along the way. eg he decided dwarves only had one gender, dwarf, and it was just the humans applying human binary gender standards to them that lead to the assumption of all dwarves being male. which then raises the question of, well, what happens to dwarves conceptualizations of gender when they move out out of the mines & into the cities where there's people doing gender everywhere? Thus, the phenomena in the disc of dwarves deciding they're female dwarves actually, and then having to figure out what the hell that actually means. Modern Love decides to just keep going with that, through a series of OC vignettes

Modern Love (2906 words) by Penknife
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Discworld
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Original Character/Original Character
Additional Tags: Community: lgbtfest, Gender Issues, Queer Themes, Transgender, Podfic Available
Summary:

It's amazing how the world rarely gets less complicated.

#Ao3TagOfTheDay This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender

#DecRecs another Star Trek fic, though a different branch of the franchise! Lunch takes two characters we know very little about in the AOS universe & fleshes them out in a nice exploration of the difficulties of cross-cultural friendships. can pretty easily be read as generic space college scifi, if you're so inclined

Lunch and Other Obscenities (9717 words) by Rheanna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Star Trek AOS
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Galia & Uhura, Spock/Uhura
Additional Tags: Humor, Female Friendship, Female Protagonist, Character of Color, culture clash, Wordcount: 5.000-10.000, Women Being Awesome
Summary:

Nyota liked her roommate just fine until she met her.