I'm new to sfh fandom, what fics should i read?? thanks :)
I’m always delighted to welcome new fans around here. I hope you’ve been having a good time so far!
To help with that, I made you a little list of fics. Since you didn’t specify any preferences (genres, characters, relationships, length, language, etc), I took the liberty to sort them out among my personal favorites. They are all in english, and most are published on AO3, but two are on Tumblr. I organized them in four categories: Post-Canon, Canon Divergence, AUs and Ongoing.
*There are more post-canon fics because that’s what’s most written about (everybody wants to know what happened to the main characters, after all). **The ongoing are suggestions in case you like to tag along as they are being written; I personally don’t like recommending stories that aren’t finished yet, since I can’t speak for all of it, but the ones I chose are really promising.
***Mind the tags and the authors' notes in all of these. Some may include themes you're not comfortable with (although nothing too absurd; I can't promise no murder or mental disorders, obviously, but they are all free of rape/non-con).
monsters call it love by finalizer
sybaritism by halftruth
kissing a shattered mirror by seosmoonjo (nnivanfields)
don't kill the messenger by mayday0329
costal by halftruth
Sweater Weather by memequeen1127
give me good sleep by halftruth
Gooey by memequeen1127
the very blood of you by halftruth
Infestation by @hwiyoungslesbiangf
Pyre by anthean
base instincts by halftruth
(untitled) by @hwiyoungslesbiangf
On the Seventh Day, We Rest by SLq
a pet name and a bracelet of teeth by seosmoonjo (nnivanfields)
They Live In The Dark by vivisextion
the strangers games by heiwajaeger
darlin' why don't you sleep at night? by mikrokosmopolitan
(+Bonus: if you have interest in Kihyuk's story (or his dynamic with Moonjo), you should totally check out from rocks to dust to bricks by sayayaya (leehwi)).
There are some stories (the more recent ones / some older that are long) that could probably have made the cut as well as these, but I have yet to get spare time to read. Nevertheless, this is a pretty good list for beginners. I tend to like the fics in which the characters are not (too) OOC, so you won't feel like there is a great distance between them and the original.
Alright, then. Have lots of fun, anon! And if you ever need anything else, feel free to knock at my door any time.
Bye <3
You know I’m right.
i cannot possibly start another piece but:
Bad and Crazy AU where instead of pushing him to do good, and being his conscience, Moonjo is trying to rile Jongwoo, who's a good-hearted albeit unhinged police man, up.
God aka John Gaius aka The Emperor calling Phyrra a bombshell, and then making a ‘your mom’ joke to Augustine is the highlight of my day
Realized I've never posted about the gothic romance mjjw au of my dreams that i wrote (essentially a Crimson Peak AU set in the 1890s~)
I had a lot of fun writing in this more poetic, Victorian English, and researching about traditional Korean culture. There'll probably be a third and final chapter, followed by an epilogue:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36173998/chapters/90172066
Okay so I just watched "Fright Night" (from 1985) and SOMEHOW Mr. Dandrige is giving me Seo Moonjo vibes??? Both are almost only around after dawn/at night, they have a love for long-sleeved tops (in dark colours), live in a weird house, and are very much queer (or well, queer-coded)????
Spot the difference
I saw 1:11 on 1/11 omg !!!!
Reblog for angel number good luck!!
the "goodbye anna" bit??? asasjkfjakfjdka this show is so hilarious
Hey, could you tell me a little about "Heart-shaped box" and "Overshot the target"? <3
Ofcc <33
So, "Overshot the target" is not about Strangers from Hell, but a trilogy called The Locked Tomb that's essentially just lesbian necromancers and sword women in space. So it's about Gideon and Harrowhark but a 1960s Summer Camp counselors AU in which they have the same enemies to lovers thing going on that they do in the novels but in a less fantastical setting.
Still not very fleshed out, but I want to make Gideon a muscular jock and Harrowhark a fencer (which is also them in canon but less fantastical xdd)
Probably won't be longer than a One-Shot (albeit a ~20k one xd)
"Heart-shaped box" however is a Strangers from Hell wip. It's a ghost-hunting au sort of?
In this AU Jongwoo moves to a countryside village to get away from his mom and girlfriend (who all live in Busan) bc said village is pretty close to a mysterious hotel that's sort of always been there and due to the surrounding landscape and its location being pretty isolated it's quite beloved by celebrities. But it's also supposedly haunted.
Now this is where another wip (the "herb doctor ghost" one) comes into play, bc I don't know how I want to connect the ideas. But essentially some centuries ago Moonjo was a really skilled doctor who worked a lot with herbs and could seemingly cure anything to the point that he had gotten a reputation. Namely that he was in kahoots with some demonic things, and that was he some sort of witch, which resulted in him being killed.
(I know that shamans or witches in historical Korea being killed was not that common, they were more likely just ostrasized or shunned according to brief research, but for the sake of this AU Moonjo was simply an outlier.)
So now, ~300 years later, Moonjo haunts the grounds on which he was killed, and the hotel that was built on top of them. And Jongwoo and new-found friends in the village decide to go on a little excursion to the hotel and see whether or not it's really haunted.
It might be too much for a one-shot, but maybe 2-3 long chapters like my Crimson Peak AU
lesbian | stem girlie | 21 | big fan of the locked tomb, roots of chaos, horror stuff, hozier
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