ficclique | Fic Clique Rec Exchange 2024

Welcome to the home base for our 2024 Fic Rec Exchange! This post will house requests, recs, and treats. For full rules, information, timeline, and FAQ, check out our announcement post. To ask questions or request assistance, leave a comment on our help post.

We are currently in the POSTING PERIOD, which means signups are closed! Those who have signed up, you have until December 23rd to post your recs as a reply to your claim on this post. See below for formatting recommendations, though you have freedom to add or streamline as you'd prefer.

If you’d rather just give a treat (a one-off recommendation of any kind of fanwork) with no commitment, come back and join us from November 23rd to December 29th!

When posting a claim, please be sure to include

3-5 completed fics for the fandoms requested, if there were any (your recs can all be for the same fandom, or split up between the requests) + any wildcard recs you'd like to add
Links to the fics you are recommending
Content warnings for each fic, where relevant
Length and rating for each fic
Reccer notes: why are you recommending this fic? What made you think your recipient would like it?

The reccing period will remain open until 12/23 — if you know you're running late, please comment under your claim and let your recipient know when you'll have the recommendations ready by. All posting closes on 12/29, when this post becomes an archive and commenting will be disabled.

If you'd like to post a one-off treat, title your comment [TREAT] Name of Fandom, and post a recommendation under the thread for the request by 12/29. You can post a treat even if you did not sign up for the event.

Thanks so much for joining us and happy reccing! <3

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Name: Nic!

3-5 fandoms you are requesting recs for (optional): Any Fandom

Likes/dislikes: Happy rec exchange all! This year my request is mostly centered around stories (including non-fic fanworks!) that play with form in ways that break the mold. Give me all your first and second person fics, outsider POVs, non-linear storytelling, media and epistolary fics, creative podfics, unexpected starts or finishes to stories, explorations of themes that get explored through formal choices, etc. Really anything that made you go oh, sweet, I didn't realize you could do that with a fanwork. This includes fanworks for nontraditional fandoms like the ones you'll often see in the Yuletide exchange.

In addition to that request, I'm also always open to whatever your favorite stories are in any fandom! Bring on tropes, character studies, AUs of other media, fix-it fics, any and all of it as long as you're passionate. I am always looking for an unexpected slam dunk!!

My dislikes for this round will include kid fic (sorry!), fics over 150k, infidelity, and rigid AUs with assigned roles that serve as gender proxies (omegaverse, etc). I will gladly make an exception for that last point for trans characters <3 yay <3

DNW (Do Not Want): Eating disorders, harm coming to children, PWP, loss of a close family member

AO3 or any other social media you would like to share with your reccer (optional): my ao3 is also poppyseedheart and i have many bookmarks (also, honestly, feel free to see the examples in the first comment for some more likes! you can disregard the dnws, i just wanted to show a range)

Claimed!

Happy Rec Fest! I come bearing fun formats!

Fire the Canon by IceLynx

Scum Villain's Self-Saving System, Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu, 1,480 words

Brief Summary: Shen Yuan doesn't remember writing a 300k PIDW fix-it fic, but he must have, because it's been posted to his AO3 account. (He doesn't remember getting an AO3 account either.)

Note from the Reccer: I love any and all meta takes on this canon, which is itself a transmigration novel and parody of a genre of webnovels that hinges on the main character quite literally taking control of the narrative. This one takes place entirely in the comments section of an AO3 fic (a canon rewrite of the entire book the main character transmigrates into in SVSSS). This fic is iconic to me: so smart, very short but impactful. It may require a rundown of the canon characters depending on your osmosis level, absolutely feel free to hit me up.

Content Warnings: I don't think I have any.

bureaucratic nightmares (series) by 13th_blackbird & anthean

Star Wars, Thrawn/Eli Vanto, 4,434 words total

Brief Summary: Through a serious of messages, we see Thrawn use the Imperial bureaucracy to set in motion a series of events to 1) expose stuff happening on the Star Destroyer he runs that he wants dealt with and 2) get planetside for dates with supply officer Eli Vanto. [NB: This is a point of AU; in canon Eli's Thrawn's right hand man].

Note from the Reccer: This really uses the epistolary format to build out the whole complicated world of a Star Destroyer, mostly in quite funny ways. It's wild how few words it really comprises, and yet you get the sense of the system and a bunch of the people in it. And, of course, some Rube Goldbergian flirting. It's a lot of fun, and you really don't need to know anything about these characters - I have never read a single book with Eli Vanto in it; you can just think of Thrawn as blue Sherlock Holmes (military edition) and Vanto as his Watson, if it helps.

Content Warnings: I don't think I have any

the world and so much more by so_soso

Word of Honor, Gu Xiang/Cao Weining, 2,911 words

Brief Summary: In canon, Gu Xiang dies. In this fic, we see a kaleidoscope of possibilities for her instead, ranging from Republican era China to a space opera pastiche.

Note from the Reccer: You specifically mentioned second person POV in your request, and I thought of this lovely fic from Your Favorite Fandom (this is a joke, so as with any of these, if you want a primer on characters, please let me know). I have a lot of feelings about it, and also it's just really lyrical and lovely.

Content Warnings: I don't think there are any

And this is a bonus/off-chance one, since it does involve one of your dislikes, but it plays with format so well I am throwing it at you in case it would be your thing:

The Shadow Lyctors by AirgiodSLV

Jeff Satur's music videos/The Locked Tomb series, many relationships, 12k words

Brief Summary: This piece imagines an entire three-book trilogy of a Locked Tomb series if it was about the many characters played by Thai musician/actor Jeff Satur in his music videos. Befitting both canons, there is plenty of intrigue, necromancy, snark, and doomed love stories. It tells the story through fandom wiki articles about the principle characters, which you can explore in whatever order you please; they link to each other throughout.

Note from the Reccer: This concept sounds wack, but it really really isn't - the fandoms fit so naturally together. It's also, I hope, pretty digestible if you aren't familiar with Jeff Satur's work, though there's a primer here if you want one. I absolutely love how the story unfolds with the wiki format: you can't get a complete version of the story from any one article, but each one fills out more details and perspectives to make it a much fuller story. Also there's so much fun in the details, from the quotes to the trivia sections.

Content Warnings: From the author, "Complicated major character death, horror elements, self-harm for the purpose of powering necromancy, cruelty to undead skeleton constructs disguised as animals." (All pretty Locked Tomb-typical). I would add to these, since you mentioned it in your dislikes, that the Ghost and JS articles feature some infidelity - more for intrigue purposes, and the real betrayal is greater than that - but totally understandable if you do not want to tread there. You can also skip those articles if needed and get the gist of what happened with them without getting the infidelity part.

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