OFMD: bloom & wilt by redshift
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fancakeFandom: Our Flag Means Death
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed, Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: E
Length: 31,803 words
Creator Links: redshift
Theme: Unreliable narrator
Summary: Izzy has spent years at Edward's side. The occasional petal here and there, the intermittent rasp that makes itself a permanent home in the hollows of his throat, the cough that comes and goes; it's all worth it, to be the person Ed turns to. It's a price he pays willingly.
Now, though. Now, Izzy knows what love looks like on Edward Teach, and it is soft and sweet and open and nothing like what Izzy has ever been able to give. Izzy's place is at Edward's side, and it's killing him.
That's okay. He's always wanted to die for something that matters.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy has hanakaki disease, and I love how the author writes it likes it's an almost chronic illness. Izzy is an unreliable narrator in how he thinks about Ed and Stede and their motivations. We as the reader can tell by their actions that their intentions are not what Izzy probably thinks, but Izzy's thought's are very much coloured by the experience he is going through and he's not seeing things for how they truly are, and of course he refuses to talk to Ed about his feelings and what going on, which only makes everything worse.
One note, this is canon-divergent after season one.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Pairings/Characters: Izzy/Ed, Izzy/Ed/Stede
Rating: E
Length: 31,803 words
Creator Links: redshift
Theme: Unreliable narrator
Summary: Izzy has spent years at Edward's side. The occasional petal here and there, the intermittent rasp that makes itself a permanent home in the hollows of his throat, the cough that comes and goes; it's all worth it, to be the person Ed turns to. It's a price he pays willingly.
Now, though. Now, Izzy knows what love looks like on Edward Teach, and it is soft and sweet and open and nothing like what Izzy has ever been able to give. Izzy's place is at Edward's side, and it's killing him.
That's okay. He's always wanted to die for something that matters.
Reccer's Notes: Izzy has hanakaki disease, and I love how the author writes it likes it's an almost chronic illness. Izzy is an unreliable narrator in how he thinks about Ed and Stede and their motivations. We as the reader can tell by their actions that their intentions are not what Izzy probably thinks, but Izzy's thought's are very much coloured by the experience he is going through and he's not seeing things for how they truly are, and of course he refuses to talk to Ed about his feelings and what going on, which only makes everything worse.
One note, this is canon-divergent after season one.
Fanwork Links: AO3
Navy Seal Copypasta (Internet meme): Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical, by Copypasta Sings.
Jul. 4th, 2026 03:02 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Navy Seal Copypasta (Internet meme): Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical, by Copypasta Sings.
Pairings/Characters: Self-insert OC.
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 287 words; 3:52
Content Notes: Unreality, stalking threats, death threats, Critical Research Failure (U.S. military), Lyrical Dissonance, macho edgelordship, profanity. The archived original 4chan forum discussion under the OP link gets even nastier.
Creator Links: Copypasta Sings:![[youtube.com profile]](https://youtube.com/favicon.ico)
copypastasings7991; the OP, for obvious reasons, remains ultra-classified.
Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Filk, Music, Non-AO3 Works, Social Media
Reccer's Notes: This trash-talking ßadass Boast by a Master of Gorilla (sic) Warfare and Top Army Sniper of the Navy SEALs has inspired a zillion adaptations and memetic mutations; dramatic readings have tended to the most gravelly depths-of-the-scrotum basso the speaker can muster.
Copypasta Sings takes it in a diametrically opposite direction, setting the lyrics to a sensitive singer-songwriter acoustic ballad.
Fanwork Links: Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZMbs5PC64
Pairings/Characters: Self-insert OC.
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 287 words; 3:52
Content Notes: Unreality, stalking threats, death threats, Critical Research Failure (U.S. military), Lyrical Dissonance, macho edgelordship, profanity. The archived original 4chan forum discussion under the OP link gets even nastier.
Creator Links: Copypasta Sings:
Theme: Unreliable Narrator, Filk, Music, Non-AO3 Works, Social Media
Reccer's Notes: This trash-talking ßadass Boast by a Master of Gorilla (sic) Warfare and Top Army Sniper of the Navy SEALs has inspired a zillion adaptations and memetic mutations; dramatic readings have tended to the most gravelly depths-of-the-scrotum basso the speaker can muster.
Copypasta Sings takes it in a diametrically opposite direction, setting the lyrics to a sensitive singer-songwriter acoustic ballad.
Fanwork Links: Navy Seal Copypasta - The Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsZMbs5PC64
Batman: (you kept me like a secret) i kept you like an oath by gatheringwool
Jul. 3rd, 2026 04:44 pmsasheneskywalker posting in fancakeFandom: Batman - All Media Types
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd/Bruce Wayne
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,401 words
Creator Links:![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
gatheringwool
Theme: unreliable narrator
Summary: Jason always knew everyone would flip out when they found out about him and Bruce.
He just always assumed it would be more along the lines of Jason, you dirty whore you. Not whatever the hell this was.
Reccer's Notes: The best example of the "unreliable narrator" tag I've ever seen. Bruce's actions are unequivocally terrible, but because the fic is told from Jason's perspective and Jason genuinely doesn't believe there's anything wrong with their relationship you start questioning your own judgment too. Chilling. Absolutely amazing, but chilling.
Content Notes: discussion of past underage sex (adult with a child), rape/non-con, sexual abuse, incest
Fanwork Links: (you kept me like a secret) i kept you like an oath
Pairings/Characters: Jason Todd/Bruce Wayne
Rating: Mature
Length: 11,401 words
Creator Links:
Theme: unreliable narrator
Summary: Jason always knew everyone would flip out when they found out about him and Bruce.
He just always assumed it would be more along the lines of Jason, you dirty whore you. Not whatever the hell this was.
Reccer's Notes: The best example of the "unreliable narrator" tag I've ever seen. Bruce's actions are unequivocally terrible, but because the fic is told from Jason's perspective and Jason genuinely doesn't believe there's anything wrong with their relationship you start questioning your own judgment too. Chilling. Absolutely amazing, but chilling.
Content Notes: discussion of past underage sex (adult with a child), rape/non-con, sexual abuse, incest
Fanwork Links: (you kept me like a secret) i kept you like an oath
Round 188: Unreliable Narrator
Jul. 1st, 2026 09:17 amrunpunkrun posting in fancake
Our theme for July is unreliable narrator!
An unreliable narrator is one you just can't trust—or shouldn't—whether you know it or not. They may be lying (to the text or to themselves), purposely withholding information, or just not in a position to fully appreciate the situation they're in because of a limited perspective, such as with child, animal, or object narrators.
The tag for this round is: theme: unreliable narrator
If you're just joining us, be sure to check out our policy on content notes. Content notes aren't required, but they're nice to include in your recs, especially if a fanwork has untagged content that readers may wish to know about in advance. For this particular theme, consider including notes for things like gaslighting or unreality (like Tumblr's fake Martin Scorsese movie, Goncharov).
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Heated Rivalry: The same number of stars everywhere by Glittercity
Jul. 1st, 2026 07:07 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Rating: Gen
Length: 2917
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: glittercity on AO3
Themes: Just like canon, LGBTQ+ canon characters, Hurt/comfort, Humor, In vino veritas
Summary: “Ilya?” Shane said in that same dreamy, loopy voice as that morning. Ilya exhaled in a rush.
“Shane,” he said, and wanted to sag against the glass with relief. “What happened? Is something wrong?”
“Not! Any moooooooore.”
Ilya swallowed. Shane hadn’t gotten any quieter in the past seven hours.
“Why are you calling me? You need to be resting,” he said, and it sounded softer than he’d meant it to.
“I forgot to tell you something. Important.”
“You should not be telling me anything, you should be—”
“My cottage has really good water pressure,” Shane announced.
Ilya stared out the window while a small plane taxied past.
“What?”
——————
Shane's cottage has a lot of amenities, and he needs to tell Ilya about all of them.
Reccer's Notes: This is a lovely, funny fic giving us more of "loopy on the good drugs" Shane from canon, after he takes the hit on the ice and is briefly in the hospital. Shane high on pain meds is adorable and Glittercity gives us more, as Shane tries to impress on Ilya how wonderful his cottage is, in the hope of persuading him to visit. Short, sweet and a favourite.
Fanwork Links: The same number of stars everywhere, and there's a podfic by jennisaisquoi
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov
Rating: Gen
Length: 2917
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: glittercity on AO3
Themes: Just like canon, LGBTQ+ canon characters, Hurt/comfort, Humor, In vino veritas
Summary: “Ilya?” Shane said in that same dreamy, loopy voice as that morning. Ilya exhaled in a rush.
“Shane,” he said, and wanted to sag against the glass with relief. “What happened? Is something wrong?”
“Not! Any moooooooore.”
Ilya swallowed. Shane hadn’t gotten any quieter in the past seven hours.
“Why are you calling me? You need to be resting,” he said, and it sounded softer than he’d meant it to.
“I forgot to tell you something. Important.”
“You should not be telling me anything, you should be—”
“My cottage has really good water pressure,” Shane announced.
Ilya stared out the window while a small plane taxied past.
“What?”
——————
Shane's cottage has a lot of amenities, and he needs to tell Ilya about all of them.
Reccer's Notes: This is a lovely, funny fic giving us more of "loopy on the good drugs" Shane from canon, after he takes the hit on the ice and is briefly in the hospital. Shane high on pain meds is adorable and Glittercity gives us more, as Shane tries to impress on Ilya how wonderful his cottage is, in the hope of persuading him to visit. Short, sweet and a favourite.
Fanwork Links: The same number of stars everywhere, and there's a podfic by jennisaisquoi
Master Li and Number Ten Ox: Broken Silver Linings, by Gryphonrhi.
Jun. 30th, 2026 11:57 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Master Li and Number Ten Ox - Barry Hughart
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Master Li, Number Ten Ox
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 322
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply
Creator Links: (AO3)Gryphonrhi; (Dreamwidth) rhi; (Tumblr) ![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
gryphonrhi
Theme: Just Like Canon, Book Fandoms, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms
Summary: On the possible origin of a proverb…
Author’s Notes: For Sleeps With Coyotes.
Disclaimers: Barry Hughart wrote these wonderful characters. I'm only borrowing them briefly. No infringement intended, no moneys made. Written for Sleeps With Coyotes; she'd had a lousy day.
Rated: G.
…Master Li & Number Ten Ox are from The Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen, or, in omnibus (and illustrated by Kaja Foglio), The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. The omnibus is consistently on my 'top ten books' list, and I cannot recommend them highly enough, although finding them is a quest in and of itself.
Yes, there is a cloud dragon in Chinese myth. No, actually, I'm not sure they have silver scales.
Really. Go read the books. ;->
Reccer's Notes: This gorgeous illo-op of a vignette, written for the prompt “silver”, could easily serve as a prologue to one of Master Li and Number Ten Ox’s picaresque Wuxia detective adventures in an Ancient China That Never Was; Gryphonrhi nails the fairytale logic and Ox’s earnest and eloquent narrative voice.
Fanwork Links: Broken Silver Linings, byGryphonrhi for Sleeps With Coyotes: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62486
Pairings/Characters: Gen; Master Li, Number Ten Ox
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 322
Content Notes: No AO3 Warnings Apply
Creator Links: (AO3)
rhi; (Tumblr) Theme: Just Like Canon, Book Fandoms, Old Fandoms, Small Fandoms
Summary: On the possible origin of a proverb…
Author’s Notes: For Sleeps With Coyotes.
Disclaimers: Barry Hughart wrote these wonderful characters. I'm only borrowing them briefly. No infringement intended, no moneys made. Written for Sleeps With Coyotes; she'd had a lousy day.
Rated: G.
…Master Li & Number Ten Ox are from The Bridge of Birds, The Story of the Stone, and Eight Skilled Gentlemen, or, in omnibus (and illustrated by Kaja Foglio), The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox. The omnibus is consistently on my 'top ten books' list, and I cannot recommend them highly enough, although finding them is a quest in and of itself.
Yes, there is a cloud dragon in Chinese myth. No, actually, I'm not sure they have silver scales.
Really. Go read the books. ;->
Reccer's Notes: This gorgeous illo-op of a vignette, written for the prompt “silver”, could easily serve as a prologue to one of Master Li and Number Ten Ox’s picaresque Wuxia detective adventures in an Ancient China That Never Was; Gryphonrhi nails the fairytale logic and Ox’s earnest and eloquent narrative voice.
Fanwork Links: Broken Silver Linings, by
与羡书 (Letter to Xian) by 蓝忘机 (Lan Wangji); English translation by zenzenzense.
Jun. 30th, 2026 08:43 pmfull_metal_ox posting in fancakeFandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: Past (and future) Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 484 characters (Chinese); 563 words (English)
Content Notes: Major Character Death (canon, temporary), Angst, Epistolary, Poetry, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Mourning, Written in Chinese
Language: 中文-吴语 (original); English (translation)
Creator Links:
Lan Wangji: Unfortunately, their Baidu profile has gone 404.
zenzenzense: (AO3): zenzenzense(rebirth9981)
Theme: Just Like Canon, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Fandom Classics, Non-AO3 Works, Pining
Summary: Lan Wangji mourns his lost Wei Ying, in gentlemanly and poetic fashion.
Creator Notes:
Lan Wangji: (cut for length): ( Continue. )
zenzenzense: Translation (or butchering session as I would call it) of a certain fanfic... Lan WangJi writes a letter to Wei WuXian while drunk sometime in the thirteen years during which he's gone. The original Chinese version is highly poetic and uses a lot of difficult language; I tried to keep some of that in the translated version; not sure if it worked out or not. Only angst. No fluff. You have very much been warned...
Reccer's Notes: This 2016 Baidu fic by “Lan Wangji”(a Chinese ground-floor fan who got to claim a prime pseudonym!), translated into English by zenzenzense, is historically important as the origin of the Thirteen Years of Inquiry: a plausible trope that swiftly disseminated into not only the fandom but subsequent adaptations.
Fanwork Links:
Archive.today: https://archive.ph/Q2WZH
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221113075541/https://archive.ph/Q2WZH
English translation: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16172624
Pairings/Characters: Past (and future) Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 484 characters (Chinese); 563 words (English)
Content Notes: Major Character Death (canon, temporary), Angst, Epistolary, Poetry, Implied/Referenced Self-Harm, Mourning, Written in Chinese
Language: 中文-吴语 (original); English (translation)
Creator Links:
Lan Wangji: Unfortunately, their Baidu profile has gone 404.
zenzenzense: (AO3): zenzenzense(rebirth9981)
Theme: Just Like Canon, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Fandom Classics, Non-AO3 Works, Pining
Summary: Lan Wangji mourns his lost Wei Ying, in gentlemanly and poetic fashion.
Creator Notes:
Lan Wangji: (cut for length): ( Continue. )
zenzenzense: Translation (or butchering session as I would call it) of a certain fanfic... Lan WangJi writes a letter to Wei WuXian while drunk sometime in the thirteen years during which he's gone. The original Chinese version is highly poetic and uses a lot of difficult language; I tried to keep some of that in the translated version; not sure if it worked out or not. Only angst. No fluff. You have very much been warned...
Reccer's Notes: This 2016 Baidu fic by “Lan Wangji”(a Chinese ground-floor fan who got to claim a prime pseudonym!), translated into English by zenzenzense, is historically important as the origin of the Thirteen Years of Inquiry: a plausible trope that swiftly disseminated into not only the fandom but subsequent adaptations.
Fanwork Links:
Archive.today: https://archive.ph/Q2WZH
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20221113075541/https://archive.ph/Q2WZH
English translation: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16172624
Numb3rs: The Shrine Of Your Lies by Gryphonrhi
Jun. 30th, 2026 10:39 pmswingandswirl posting in fancakeFandom: Numb3rs
Pairings/Characters: Ian Edgerton, Numb3rs team
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Length: 2343 words
Creator Links: Ao3 profile
Theme: Just Like Canon
Summary: Sometimes, even a minute dose is too much.
Reccer's Notes: Rhi writes one of the best Ians out there. This fic feels like a case the team worked off-screen, and it's fun to see the bad guy get his.
Fanwork Links: The Shrine Of Your Lies
Pairings/Characters: Ian Edgerton, Numb3rs team
Rating: Teen and Up Audiences
Length: 2343 words
Creator Links: Ao3 profile
Theme: Just Like Canon
Summary: Sometimes, even a minute dose is too much.
Reccer's Notes: Rhi writes one of the best Ians out there. This fic feels like a case the team worked off-screen, and it's fun to see the bad guy get his.
Fanwork Links: The Shrine Of Your Lies
Heated Rivalry: last one to leave the bleachers every time by anon
Jun. 27th, 2026 11:23 pmmific posting in fancakeFandom: Heated Rivalry
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Yuna Hollander/David Hollander
Rating: Gen
Length: 4585
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: the anon of "Home Economics" on AO3
Themes: Just like canon, Family, Missing scene, Domestic, Canon LGBTQ+ characters
Summary: They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
Reccer's Notes: This is anon's take on what Ilya and David Hollander talked about when Shane was outside with his mother, in episode 6 (The Cottage). There's actually not much dialogue--it's from David's POV and is largely about him coming to terms with the revelations, wondering about Ilya, and musing about Shane across the years. Imagery about hockey--one of the few things David has in common with Ilya--is woven through the story which is a lovely meditation and character study. Very much worth reading.
Fanwork Links: last one to leave the bleachers every time, and SD Ryan recorded it as a podfic
Characters/Pairings: Shane Hollander/Ilya Rozanov, Yuna Hollander/David Hollander
Rating: Gen
Length: 4585
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings apply
Creator Links: the anon of "Home Economics" on AO3
Themes: Just like canon, Family, Missing scene, Domestic, Canon LGBTQ+ characters
Summary: They’d considered it—Shane being gay. It’d been an option. But Ilya Rozanov and the way Shane looks at him like he’s the love of his life has blindsided them. Blindsided both of them, and there’s almost nothing Yuna likes less than being blindsided.
She’s not mad, David wants to say. We’re so proud of you. We’re so happy for you. We just didn’t know.
Somehow we missed it, you falling in love.
or, what David Hollander and Ilya Rozanov talk about while Shane and Yuna are outside in episode six.
Reccer's Notes: This is anon's take on what Ilya and David Hollander talked about when Shane was outside with his mother, in episode 6 (The Cottage). There's actually not much dialogue--it's from David's POV and is largely about him coming to terms with the revelations, wondering about Ilya, and musing about Shane across the years. Imagery about hockey--one of the few things David has in common with Ilya--is woven through the story which is a lovely meditation and character study. Very much worth reading.
Fanwork Links: last one to leave the bleachers every time, and SD Ryan recorded it as a podfic
