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Fic Recs #2
No life story this time around! I didn't read a lot of new fic so I went back to some of my bookmarks. I guess this month's theme is sadomasochism and angels.
mira qué fácil by hiljainen
E, Rape/Non-Con, M/M
Better Call Saul (TV), Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca/Ignacio "Nacho" Varga
Written for Rare Kink Buffet 2025 and read fandom-blind.
An established and very abusive relationship, internalized homophobia and nonconsensual somnophilia – told first from the rapist's POV and then the victim's. The contrast of both perspectives, subtly showing the ways in which the rapist does and doesn't understand the victim, how that which he frames as kindness is really the worst violation, and the fraught tenderness of it all makes this an especially sickening read.
Sumner Nights by daemoninwhite
T, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Gen
Original Work
I've had my eyes on the "Angel Carcass Fallen From the Sky & Scientists Studying It" relationship/prompt that kept cropping up in various exchanges for a while. I don't know if the first ever nominator was aware of it, but the subject of the angel carcass has been fascinating to me ever since I read the short story "The General Zapped an Angel" by Howard Fast – which I only came across because one impressive cover influenced Neon Genesis Evangelion, and here we are already knee-deep in the whole aesthetic of angels as alien biology from the horrors of biblically accurate angels to the eeriely geometric entities [noise warning] in Neon Genesis Evangelion. And are you aware of Sea Angels (Gymnosomata)?
This fic taps into that subject and delivers on all fronts. The story slowly unfolding via emails, DMs and scientific reports – forcing us to always view it from a distance, much like the darkness veiling the rubber monster in the movies, works really well for the horror. And this fic being written for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
highadrenalineexchange is especially impressive.
Mark On You by wheatfromchaff
E, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
All Elite Wrestling, Maxwell Jacob Friedman/CM Punk
After his injury, CM Punk is afraid of pain, which makes his return to the ring rather difficult. He seeks to fix this issue by getting former opponent, obsessed nemesis and one-night stand MJF to hurt him sexually. This fic might be the source of my obsession with dom drops, and as I reread it now I realize that it might have contributed to my liking for guys having their sexual awakenings while watching wrestling.
I think this could probably be read fandom blind, but you could also watch this little documentary of sorts about their feud. Be warned: it got a lot of people into wrestling.
Brand New Hook To Hang Your Hat by lobac
E, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
World Wrestling Entertainment, CM Punk/Dave Batista
Watch a young CM Punk (most annoying man alive) incessantly flirt his way into topping Batista (the biggest man you've ever seen). Hot and funny, and honestly just top-notch vixen behaviour from Punk. Some of the flirting and the sex in this also ties into wrestling and the physicality of it in some way, which I appreciate a lot in wrestling fic. And I do love a femme top.
anything you like by Pornabus_Sockerton
M, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, M/M
The Terror (TV 2018), John Irving/Thomas Jopson
A short gift I received for the 2025 Bulletproof exchange featuring my pet dynamic Dominant Masochist/Repressed Sadist. Jopson being the masochist to lead a doubly repressed Irving astray is not something I had in mind before but it's a pairing I adore now. Besides this fic somehow pulling off a miracle, making Jopson both boss his boss around and also suffer beautifully (two things he's really good at), I do also like the idea of Irving's sexual repression being grounded in the very valid concern: not wanting to hurt people.
Elsewhere Anchises by wreathed
T, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
The Terror (TV 2018), Francis Crozier/Edward Little
The previous rec reminded me of this fic, which I apparently read four years ago, and which did a lot for my appreciation of incredibly horny kink fic that is still superficially totally safe for work. After the events of the show, which both of survived in this AU, but not without physical and mental scars, Edward Little comes to seek punishment and absolution from Crozier who has taken up priest robes. He receives a much welcome hand on his throat. Did I mention I adore masochists?
mira qué fácil by hiljainen
E, Rape/Non-Con, M/M
Better Call Saul (TV), Eduardo "Lalo" Salamanca/Ignacio "Nacho" Varga
Written for Rare Kink Buffet 2025 and read fandom-blind.
An established and very abusive relationship, internalized homophobia and nonconsensual somnophilia – told first from the rapist's POV and then the victim's. The contrast of both perspectives, subtly showing the ways in which the rapist does and doesn't understand the victim, how that which he frames as kindness is really the worst violation, and the fraught tenderness of it all makes this an especially sickening read.
Sumner Nights by daemoninwhite
T, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Gen
Original Work
I've had my eyes on the "Angel Carcass Fallen From the Sky & Scientists Studying It" relationship/prompt that kept cropping up in various exchanges for a while. I don't know if the first ever nominator was aware of it, but the subject of the angel carcass has been fascinating to me ever since I read the short story "The General Zapped an Angel" by Howard Fast – which I only came across because one impressive cover influenced Neon Genesis Evangelion, and here we are already knee-deep in the whole aesthetic of angels as alien biology from the horrors of biblically accurate angels to the eeriely geometric entities [noise warning] in Neon Genesis Evangelion. And are you aware of Sea Angels (Gymnosomata)?
This fic taps into that subject and delivers on all fronts. The story slowly unfolding via emails, DMs and scientific reports – forcing us to always view it from a distance, much like the darkness veiling the rubber monster in the movies, works really well for the horror. And this fic being written for
highadrenalineexchange is especially impressive.Mark On You by wheatfromchaff
E, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
All Elite Wrestling, Maxwell Jacob Friedman/CM Punk
After his injury, CM Punk is afraid of pain, which makes his return to the ring rather difficult. He seeks to fix this issue by getting former opponent, obsessed nemesis and one-night stand MJF to hurt him sexually. This fic might be the source of my obsession with dom drops, and as I reread it now I realize that it might have contributed to my liking for guys having their sexual awakenings while watching wrestling.
I think this could probably be read fandom blind, but you could also watch this little documentary of sorts about their feud. Be warned: it got a lot of people into wrestling.
Brand New Hook To Hang Your Hat by lobac
E, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
World Wrestling Entertainment, CM Punk/Dave Batista
Watch a young CM Punk (most annoying man alive) incessantly flirt his way into topping Batista (the biggest man you've ever seen). Hot and funny, and honestly just top-notch vixen behaviour from Punk. Some of the flirting and the sex in this also ties into wrestling and the physicality of it in some way, which I appreciate a lot in wrestling fic. And I do love a femme top.
anything you like by Pornabus_Sockerton
M, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, M/M
The Terror (TV 2018), John Irving/Thomas Jopson
A short gift I received for the 2025 Bulletproof exchange featuring my pet dynamic Dominant Masochist/Repressed Sadist. Jopson being the masochist to lead a doubly repressed Irving astray is not something I had in mind before but it's a pairing I adore now. Besides this fic somehow pulling off a miracle, making Jopson both boss his boss around and also suffer beautifully (two things he's really good at), I do also like the idea of Irving's sexual repression being grounded in the very valid concern: not wanting to hurt people.
Elsewhere Anchises by wreathed
T, No Archive Warnings Apply, M/M
The Terror (TV 2018), Francis Crozier/Edward Little
The previous rec reminded me of this fic, which I apparently read four years ago, and which did a lot for my appreciation of incredibly horny kink fic that is still superficially totally safe for work. After the events of the show, which both of survived in this AU, but not without physical and mental scars, Edward Little comes to seek punishment and absolution from Crozier who has taken up priest robes. He receives a much welcome hand on his throat. Did I mention I adore masochists?