human_veil | Entries tagged with *rec

I get asked a lot for Severus/Lucius/Narcissa recs, so I ended up making a little interactive rec page that's got all my favourites in one spot.

You can filter by ship (L/N, S/L, S/N, OT3, Gen, etc.), and there's even links to my ao3 bookmarks for each ship, so you can find more stuff beyond the rec page. Below is a screen cap of what the page looks like, but you can find the rec masterlist here. Enjoy! 🤍
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these two fics were so good i pretty much messaged everyone i know who likes procedural drama f/f with the links after reading them (for real, the way this author writes abbie sent me on an original l&o binge). soooooo god <3

Memory Extant (8k -- Olivia/Abbie, Olivia/Alex)
Torn between two ADAs, feelin’ like a fool…lovin’ both of you is breakin’ all the rules…

Where Stalking Is Heard An Encouraging Word (6k -- Olivia/Abbie, Olivia/Alex)
On arriving back in New York, Abbie learns that Olivia has moved on.

all my bookmarks for the author

svu recs (multiship)

If you go (You'll never come back) by omiceti
Characters: Alex/Olivia, Elliot.
Summary: Every weekend he asks, Deliver us from evil. God never seems to be listening.

Three Ways to Die Trying by snarkypants
Characters: Alex/Olivia, Elliot.
Summary:Three ways Alex and Olivia never see each other again, and how Elliot tries to help.
Excerpt: This won’t make the Times because she’s not dying in the line, which means Alex will come back bright-eyed and golden-haired and ask for Olivia and he’ll have to tell her. I’m sorry, Alex, but. There’s a lump in his throat thinking about it, and Alex won’t crumple because she’s too proud for that, but her shoulders will tense a little and her face will turn into a mask and Liv, Liv fucking owes him one.

Some Men, Some Men by snarkypants
Characters: Elliot/Olivia, Munch.
Summary: Whatever it takes to get through the holidays
Excerpt: When she’s annoyed with him she tells herself that he’ll get what he gets, and he’ll like it or he’ll leave. Ignoring the fact that he’ll leave anyway.

Hats by peggie sue
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: Oh, he's an idiot. And oh, how she loves it.
Excerpt: “I love you,” he’ll whisper, to which she will respond, “I have knocked a man unconscious with this book before.”

Melting by peggie sue
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: Response to "established Elliot/Olivia, snow" prompt.
Excerpt: She's indignant for no reason other than the fact that he makes her feel like every teenage girl she's ever rolled her eyes at. She should be in a mall somewhere in South Jersey snapping bubble gum in a crop top when it comes to him.

A Succession of Small Mistakes by annakovsky & sloanesomething
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: Elliot and Olivia go undercover and have trouble keeping it together. Set during "Risk".
Excerpt: Olivia raises an eyebrow. "My place or yours?" she says dryly, and Elliot blinks. Then he gets that smirk again and says, "Hotel. It's the middle of the day and I'm married."

Old Habits by scullyseviltwin
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: “I don’t know. I’m sorry. Maybe I shouldn’t have…brought it up. Maybe it should have gone on like it was, but.” He shrugs. “Who else do I call? At three in the morning, when I can’t fucking breathe because I miss you so much?”
Excerpt: Before, she’d felt as though it had been inescapable, a juggernaut bowling them over, regardless of their own desires. It’d been stupid, feckless, to think that neither of them had played an active role in what they’d morphed into. It was unfortunate when one person fell in love and the other didn’t; it was downright devastating when two people did and couldn’t do a damned thing about it.

One More for the Stars by scullyseviltwin
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: There’s something about him playing catch up with himself that makes her chuckle and when their gaze meets this time it’s more than a punch to the gut, it’s twelve years and every look they’ve ever shared.
Excerpt: Olivia has never not needed him and for the past few years she’s never not wanted him and that’s the worst part of loving someone that loves someone else-she just wants him to be good and whole, even if that means being apart from her.

Estimated Time of Arrival by scullyseviltwin
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: They're still finding their footing with this buddy thing, anyway. Baby steps. Post 12.2, Bullseye.
Excerpt: Olivia feels nearly like a normal human being, just one with a lot more sadness; it's as close to the balance as she's going to strike.

at the very least by scullyseviltwin
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: "I-" opens his mouth, closes it again, opens it to down the rest of his beer. "It's just hard to remember that this isn't… you know, for a long time, a long, long time I thought that this was it. You and me, that we'd… die at our desks."
Excerpt: "How about a drink though," he finds himself offering and wishes he could shove a fist down his throat and just stop everything struggling to worm its way out. How about a drink, how about ten drinks, how about he just drowns himself in them.

Painted by surreallis
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: Post-Shattered fic. Season 11. She and Elliot have traveled a strange road. Each year she realizes there are things he hasn’t told her. It’s hard not to feel resentful.
Excerpt: Eleven years and people still don’t believe they aren’t sleeping together. She no longer knows what to tell them. Physically they have never, but if mind-fucking is considered cheating, then they are soaked in sin and irrefutably damned.

Owned by surreallis
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: After a verbal fight, Olivia makes Elliot her bitch. Post-Shadow.
Excerpt: Often it feels like they’ve made a strange, unspoken trade, Olivia thinks. Sometimes when she sees Kathy, she wants to ask: Did I take him from you, or did you give him to me?

Meantime by surreallis
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: SVU, Elliot/Olivia, R, angst, UST.
Excerpt: “I want to sleep with you,” he says, quietly, as they sit in his car outside her apartment. / She pauses for a moment, not looking at him, fingers picking at the knee of her jeans. “I know.”

Comedown by hibbleton
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: Elliot has been missing, off the radar, for two hours. Olivia hasn't slept in thirty.
Excerpt: Every now and then, Olivia lies to herself. She should have learned by now that she never gets away with it.

Spades to Start by anr
Characters: Elliot/Olivia.
Summary: No problem.
Excerpt: Cragen congratulates them with eyes averted, his hands fisted on the top of the file. It's bittersweet praise, a hidden reprimand of, you promised me, underlining his words. She takes it without blinking, her fingers laced loosely behind her back, and thinks, no, no we didn't, not to you.

Ways to Make Someone Else Lonelier than You by Annakovsky
Characters: Elliot/Olivia, Olivia/Brian.
Summary: If Olivia hadn't broken up with Cassidy in "Closure."
Excerpt: "I just don't understand," he says to the floorboard, "how I'm your husband, but somehow I feel like I'm the affair."

misc. recs (ke, sw, vicious)

Oh, when you love it by for_autumn_i_am
Fandom: Star Wars
Characters:Wedge Antilles/Luke Skywalker, Hux/Kylo
Summary: Luke escaped to a distant island with his on-off boyfriend Wedge to recover from the traumas of his complicated past; but he cannot outrun his family. He’s made to babysit Kylo, who happens to be under house arrest, and his baby sister Rey. The events of Luke's late teenage years come to haunt him while he tries to reconcile with Kylo – and gets some unexpected help from Armitage Hux. Or: The Skywalker family seems fucked up beyond repair. They still try their best.

Excuses by lonelywalker
Fandom: Charlie Bartlett (2007)
Characters:Charlie Bartlett/Nathan Gardner
Summary: Charlie only ever has sex with Susan's father when it doesn't count.

a murder of birds by foxbones
Fandom: Killing Eve
Characters:Eve/Villanelle
Summary: A label is for a jar. Or a dress. Particularly the silk ones that zip up the back. A character study for Villanelle and a post-ep fic for 1x05.
Excerpt: “So don’t be a dick.” / She would never, if she is honest. She isn’t a disrespectful psychopath. She is just a psychopath.

it's no mystery by spheeris1
Fandom: Killing Eve
Characters:Eve/Villanelle
Summary: 'You weren't lying, in the end. You want to know everything.'
Excerpt: What you've given up. What you never had. She won't understand, her life lived unbound by anything and anyone. You were caged a long, long time ago, and just now have picked the lock. She's been roaming around forever now, too wild to be contained. / And she is wild, layers of snow where a soul should be and darkness running through her veins; she's a forest at night, unkempt and treacherous, easy to get lost in. You are lost in her, after all, aren't you?

tempt my trouble by Wemmabby
Fandom: Killing Eve
Characters:Eve/Villanelle
Summary: She doesn't know how to stop.
Excerpt: Other people would feel lucky, she reminds herself. Other people would be happy in this life, with this wonderful man, in this beautiful city. She ponders it more. It’s not that she’s unhappy. There is nothing wrong with Niko. There is nothing wrong with bustling London, or her secure job, or her comfortable life. / She begins to think there is something wrong with her.

looking for a way to break in by finalizer
Fandom: Villains Series - V. E. Schwab
Characters:Mitch/Vic
Summary: Ten things Mitch Turner learned about Victor Vale.
Excerpt: Deterrents became aphrodisiacs. Push became pull. Mitch couldn't tear away from the horrid creature he’d given his heart to.

look, i spent most of the year reliving my 2014-era fandom phases. what can i say?

Sherlock/Lestrade Recs

They're Gonna Be All Right by ImpishTubist
Summary: John tries to figure out just what Sherlock and Lestrade are to one another and realizes that not everything can be so neatly defined.
Excerpt: "That's – unfortunate to hear," Sherlock says finally, and John catches the words that ripple just beneath the surface, the ones that hang over them long after the others have faded away into nothingness. Thank God it wasn't you.

Intimacy by thinkpink20
Summary: Sherlock arranges a date with Lestrade (then stands him up).
Excerpt: And in truth he likes his peaceful, quiet mind. Lestrade is sure of who he is, worn down in places by the things he's seen and lived but essentially he's whole. Sherlock has grudging respect for that, because it's something he has never had. He sometimes sits with him in the quiet of the flat and tries to match the long, deep pull of Lestrade's breathing, just to try to catch some of his peace.

Boring by chasingriver
Summary: As far as Greg knew, nobody else ever got away with calling Sherlock a ‘berk’. For that matter, he was pretty sure no one else got to fuck him.
Excerpt: So you’ll just drop to your knees for anyone, huh? Suck them off like a cheap whore?” / “Not a cheap whore, no,” Sherlock said with a grin that dared Greg to do something about it.

Conspiracy By Default by themadlurker
Summary: Can't Sherlock go one week without getting himself arrested?
Excerpt: "Your brother is not actually a get-out-of-jail-free card, you do realize that, don't you?" Lestrade said without much hope of its making an impression. They'd been through this conversation far too many times already.

Jawline by thinkpink20
Summary: Lestrade has an awkward meeting with Mrs Hudson.

Roses in December by ImpishTubist
Summary: Sherlock and Lestrade have their first time together the night before Sherlock’s fall.
Excerpt: Because I need you. Sherlock doesn’t realize he’s spoken the last thought aloud until Lestrade gives him a rueful smile and says, “God help you.”

I'll Never Make it Alone by taylorpotato
Summary: Greg was the one constant in Sherlock's life up until The Fall. Now that Sherlock's back, they've tried to pick up where they left off. But things have changed. For both of them. After John's wedding, Sherlock goes to Greg's flat to drown his emotions in consensual pain. In the process, they discover how much they actually need each other. A story about two lonely people deciding that they'd rather be lonely together.
Excerpt: They’ve always been two broken pieces, trying to fit together through sheer force of will.

Gen Recs

I'll Tell You Secrets Best Forgotten by pt_tucker
Characters: Sherlock/John/Mary, Mycroft
Summary: Sherlock's relationship has been progressing nicely, and that's the good part. The memories that follow are the bad part. For the first time in years, Sherlock needs his big brother.
Excerpt: His brother leaked rage like a cracked reactor leaked radiation. There existed the possibility that if someone so much as raised their voice to Sherlock in the next few hours, Mycroft would find them and make them beg for death…before denying it. / Fill a glacier with fire and it floods. / Something like love warmed Sherlock’s insides.

Underneath All That by MisplacedLonelyHeartsAd
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft
Summary: This is a pair of stories about the relationship between the Holmes brothers, told in a series of vignettes from their pre-canon childhood through the end of season/series 3. They can be read independently, in any order. "Telling" is written from Mycroft's POV, "Without Remorse" from Sherlock's.

An unlikely association in seven fish by BoldAsBrass
Characters: Mycroft, John
Summary: Of course they haven’t met up every Friday for fish and chips.
Excerpt: “Chicken in a basket reminds me of nineteen seventy-six,” said Mycroft, “a year I have no desire to recollect.” / John wrinkled his brow. “Bit before my time. Hot summer? Hosepipe ban?” / “Arrival of my new baby brother,” said Mycroft.

The Laws of Chess by PostcardsfromTheoryland
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft
Summary: John assumes that Sherlock is playing chess by himself. Sherlock lets him think what he will - it's certainly better than admitting to the truth.
Excerpt: The first time this had happened, back at his place on Montague Street, he’d been insulted. The game he’d been playing with himself while high on cocaine had been reset, and White’s right side knight had been moved forward and to the left.

Gravity by ImpishTubist
Characters: Sherlock/Victor Trevor; Sherlock & John; Sherlock & Lestrade.
Summary: "I've never begged for mercy in my life," Sherlock lies. He has--exactly once--and has nothing to show for it.
Excerpt: For some minutes it is only Lestrade who speaks; the man's gravelly voice is distinctive, though his words are too muffled to make out. Trepidation sits, cold and heavy, in John's chest at the solemn tone that Lestrade adopts. In the silence that follows, it slides into his stomach. Sherlock has nothing to say to Lestrade's words, it would seem, and John can't remember the last time Sherlock was rendered speechless.
Rec: This is such a beautiful piece of writing. The emotions are raw and poignant and the characterisation is perfect.

Brother Dear by Lindentreeisle (Captainblue)
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft
Summary: A missing scene for Hounds, inspired by two phone conversations in S2. Speed-written, unbeta'd.

Reboot by NovaWasTaken1
Characters: Sherlock & Greg, Sherlock & John
Summary: "Yes, Lestrade," Sherlock said pleasantly into his phone, blinking to the darkness. "This address, please. It looks as if the murderer's next would-be victim got free and fought back. One injured, one dead." Sherlock sat alone, a dead body across from him, and cross-legged in a pool of his own blood.

nothing to declare by SarahT
Characters: Sherlock & Mycroft
Summary: In New York, you can be a new man.
Excerpt: “You’re being a rubbish big brother.”
“Yes,” he agreed, coolly. “Yes, I am.”
Sherlock frowned. “What?”
“You’ve been telling me that your whole life. I’ve come to agree. How do you like it?”

Backwards Epiphany (The Feast of Fools Remix) by Mad_Maudlin
Characters: Sherlock, various
Summary: Sherlock knows the birthdays of nearly everyone he's ever met.

Instinct by astheykissconsume
Characters: Sherlock, Mycroft
Summary: Mycroft is the brain behind the masterplans, the engineer behind the elaborate schemes. In many ways, he is the polar opposite to his younger brother. Where Sherlock is chaotic, Mycroft is systematic. Where Sherlock plunges into situations headfirst and careless of the consequences, Mycroft follows at a slower pace, always judging the possible outcomes as they present themselves. If Sherlock is the storm, then Mycroft is the calm before it.
Excerpt: It does not matter that this is not the correct policy. It does not matter that he himself could end up hurt. In that single moment, as the barrel of the gun levels towards his younger brother, Mycroft’s mind is wiped blank of intricate plans and careful considerations. The scheming and plotting is replaced by an instinct hard to overcome. SHERLOCK. DANGER. PROTECT.

Capitis Dolor by shyday
Characters: Mycroft, Anthea
Summary: She’d been quite a while in his employ before she learned to recognize the tiny signs. It had taken longer to understand that, by the time there were signs to notice, things were generally fast approaching the point of intolerable.

Sherlock/Mycroft Recs

Tremors of the Heart by taylorpotato
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: Since he returned from Serbia, Sherlock has been on the constant verge of a nervous breakdown. Mycroft is the only one that notices and tries to get him some help. It's a long road to anything resembling recovery. On the way, Sherlock realizes that the thing he really needed might have been right in front of him his whole life.
Excerpt: He’s sitting on a ratty mattress in one of his old drug dens. He’s left his usual slacks and blazer for a pair of baggy tracksuit bottoms and an oversized coat. It’s not so much a relapse as it is a white flag. He doesn’t see the point in keeping up appearances if nobody’s watching.

Based Upon That Evidence by pt_tucker
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: John finds out about the unusual relationship between the Holmes brothers. He doesn't take it well, as Mycroft's nose can attest.
Excerpt: “I love Sherlock. I have always loved Sherlock, though not as he would have preferred. I can assure you, you cannot possibly comprehend just how much my life revolves around my brother. If he had died of an overdose, I would have followed him soon after.”

Routine Maintenance by daasgrrl
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: It’s something of a cliché that sex makes people stupid, but in Sherlock’s personal experience the lack of it can be far more detrimental to the work. Genderswap!AU

In the Silence of the Night by wtfs (prettyvk)
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: After leaving the wedding, Sherlock goes to Mycroft.

Beautifully Broken Things by L_Morgan
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft, Sherlock & John
Summary: John realizes that Sherlock's not as asexual (nor as available) as he had always believed. Through a series of near misses and privacy invasions, he is forced to come to terms with own feelings for his flatmate, as well as to redefine what he really means when he says, "it's all fine."

Wage by yeaka
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: Mycroft would simply hand it over free of charge, but this is infinitely more fun.

holmes branch of physics (series) by paxlux
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Excerpt: “Once again, if you are going to kill me, I’d like to see the murder outline first so I can critique it,” Mycroft says. “It would be the murder of your life, your career. I wouldn’t want you to miss an important step. I know how you are.”

Our Echoes Roll from Soul to Soul by frozen_delight
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: Thirty-five years and there's never been any indication of - this.
Excerpt: Should he chide Sherlock for vanity, though? Isn't the constant attention, for lack of a better word, that he's devoted to Sherlock all his life nothing but the deluded vanity that attracted Pygmalion to his Galatea? This fascination with someone who at heart is nothing more than an echo of Mycroft himself, from the bespoke clothing and the refined fragrance of Christian Clive 1872 that he bought him to the mannerisms that he taught him to the furniture in his brother's mind palace that he arranged and furbished to his own taste and fancy? Where Sherlock deleted most of what his teachers at school tried to give him an understanding of, he's never deleted a single thing that Mycroft taught him, his mind an eternal reservoir of all that ever concerned the man behind the British Government.

Little Boy Blue by fuckityfardisgetinthetardis
Characters: Sherlock/Mycroft
Summary: Mycroft tries something new on his little brother.
Excerpt: Mycroft tutted. “As flattered as I am, little one, this obsession with me is a bit unhealthy, don’t you agree?”

Misc. & Multi-Pairing Recs

Love and War are the Same Thing [Series] by taylorpotato
Characters: Mycroft/Moriarty, Sherlock/Moriarty, Sherlock/Mycroft.

Not Hungry by orphan account
Characters: Sherlock/Irene, Sherlock/Greg
Summary: Sherlock notices something's changed in his feelings where Lestrade is concerned. Naturally, he blames Irene. (And people think he's not logical.)
Excerpt: “I felt something.”
“Well done. We'll have a party.” Irene purrs.

With Patience He Stands Waiting by emungere
Characters: Mycroft/Moriarty
Summary: Shortly after the Irene Adler business, Mycroft invites James Moriarty in for a chat. He sends four of his best, and he sends Anthea. That is as personal as his attention gets towards people in Moriarty's position.
Excerpt: "Do you still faint at the sight of blood, darling? Hm? Yes? Other people's or only yours?" / Mycroft revises his opinion of the man's intellect precipitously upward, and a cold feeling settles in his stomach. "Not for years," he says, evenly.

The Sad Divorced Bastards Club by out_there
Characters: Mycroft/Lestrade

Hussy by Mottlemoth
Characters: Mycroft/Lestrade
Summary: Sherlock deduces at a glance that his brother has somehow acquired himself a boyfriend. The identity of Mycroft's boyfriend doesn't go down very well.