AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-11-02 07:27 pm

change curve

Posted by artreactor

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To be in love in general is to accept that your sanity has betrayed you. You can lose a lot in life, after all. Your life, your mind, your– dubiously intact– innocence. The worst kind of loss though is the acceptance that you are not special. You, like everyone else in this terrible, mortifying love story, are a loser. Nothing more, nothing less.

Kaoru spends a year becoming something entirely beneath him: a teenager with a crush.

Words: 14723, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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pronker ([personal profile] pronker) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-11-02 09:02 am

Dark Shadows: Blood Levy by Susan Rains/Carey Kasdot

Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Roger Collins, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Elliot Stokes, Julia Hoffman, David Collins, Hallie Stokes, Maggie Evans, Willie Loomis 

Rating: T

Length: 102,807

Creator Links: SusanRains | Archive of Our Own

Theme: Mystery & Suspense
 
Summary: Four strangers converge on Collinsport. But maybe one of them is coming home.
The vicious killing of two young boys has Barnabas convinced that a vampire preys upon Collinsport. His suspects are four newcomers: three strangers, and an enemy from his own past, long believed dead.

Reccer's Notes: Though it may be read separately without much fuss, this fic follows Lunatic Yarn, recc'd a few days ago. Blood Levy details the goings on of the ever-put-upon Collins family as they struggle to maintain their reputation while wringing a little love and enjoyment out of ~Life. It's a fine mystery using all the familiar TV show performers, the main ones in their regular roles, while various supporting performers Author has envisioned as original characters. Beginning with sudden action, continuing in an eerie atmosphere, well, could we expect anything else?
 
Fanwork Links:
Blood Levy (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 3 - Chapter 1 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]
AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-11-02 04:39 am
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kingstoken ([personal profile] kingstoken) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-11-01 08:47 pm

Sherlock Holmes: Bad Dog by Unpainted Canvas

Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (tagged both books and Granada)
Pairings/Characters: Holmes/Watson
Rating: T
Length: 11,539 words
Creator Links: Unpainted Canvas (RatTale)
Theme: mystery & suspense, casefic

Summary: During a hard case Holmes and Watson part ways after an argument, and now Holmes suddenly has more to worry about than missing children.

Reccer's Notes: After they have a terrible row, Watson is kidnapped by bad guys to prevent Holmes from pursuing a case.  The entire story is from Holmes POV, and there is a lot of worry and tension as Holmes tries to solve the disappearance of his friend.  It's a good casefic, as well as the circumstances leading to realization of feelings by Holmes.

Fanwork Links: AO3
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Punk ([personal profile] runpunkrun) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-11-01 09:49 am

Round 180: Mystery & Suspense

Moody photograph of the ocean from an outlook. In the foreground, two dirty hands claw their way up over the edge toward the viewer. Text: Mystery & Suspense, at Fancake.
Spooky season's not over yet because our theme for November is mystery & suspense!

The tag for this round is: theme: mystery & suspense

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.

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AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-28 09:39 am

Only Ever Gently

Posted by CheeseToastiesPlease

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Kyoya had always hated being woken up. Everyone knows this.
But Kaoru is the only one who Kyoya seems to be ok with, whether he acknowledges it or not.
A snapshot of a year they spend growing closer by being the only ones on the country.

Words: 7635, Chapters: 3/3, Language: English

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-28 12:04 am

Double Take, Triple Take

Posted by dessert_spoon_drawer

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Sometimes, change can throw you off when you least expect it to. Other times, it happens right under your nose.

Kyoya has spent his whole life being nothing but consistent, but after he notices Kaoru is growing his hair out, it piques his interest. As Kaoru’s appearance changes, spanning from his Ouran Academy graduation to his new university life, so does Kyoya’s approach towards consistency…and how he feels about Kaoru.

Words: 7204, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-27 07:55 pm

Maybe Tomorrow

Posted by CinnaBunni

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All Kaoru really wants to do was be able to ask Kyoya out, before Kyoya had to go back stateside. But after learning that Kyoya planned on leaving sooner than intended, Kaoru realizes that he needed to have started his plan like, yesterday. But it's fine, because he's got Noir to help him out and keep him company. And Hikaru too, he supposed, but his help is really quite unwanted.

Words: 7419, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

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pronker ([personal profile] pronker) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-10-31 10:51 pm

Dark Shadows: The Lunatic Yarn by Susan Rains/Carey Kasdot

Fandom: Dark Shadows

Pairings/Characters: Barnabas Collins, Julia Hoffman, Elliot Stokes, David Collins, Elizabeth Collins, Roger Collins, Angelique Bouchard Collins, Harry Johnson, Willie Loomis, Maggie Evans

Rating: T

Length: 37,304

Creator Linksarchiveofourown.org/users/SusanRains/pseuds/Carey%20Kasdot

Theme: Uncommon settings

Summary: A dumbwaiter system found in the house unleashes a baffling illness which turns pleasant friends into infatuated screwballs. Meanwhile, games with the dumbwaiter bring Hallie and David nights of terror. With the addition of an afghan that roams the house at will and a houseguest no one wants, Collinwood hits the height of mayhem.

Reccer's Notes: You'd be pretty hard put to discover a stranger, more unsettling setting than a dumbwaiter in which an intrepid soul or two ventures to travel. Add to this Halloween rec the inimitable spookiness of the great estate of Collinwood and you've discovered a delightful read with stellar characterizations and the usual undercurrent of Things Unseen in the fandom.

Fanwork Links: The Lunatic Yarn (Dark Shadows 1971) Book 2 - Carey Kasdot (SusanRains) - Dark Shadows (1966) [Archive of Our Own]
AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-11-01 04:43 am
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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-10-31 06:22 pm

Mo Dao Zu Shi, Chen Qing Ling: medium blues, by darkterrible; art by Mojoflower.

Fandom: Mo Dao Zu Shi
Pairings/Characters: M/M; Lan Wangji/Wei Wuxian; Wei Wuxian, Lan Wangji, Lan Sizhui, Jiang Yanli, Jiang Cheng, Jin Ling, Wen Qing, and others.
Rating: Explicit
Length: 193,252
Content Notes: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, animal death, body horror, bullying, conspiracy, domestic violence, Scenery Porn, Scenery Gorn, Smut
Creator Tags: Horror, Spooky, Opposites Attract, Fluff and Angst, Gore, Ghosts, Necromancy
Creator Links: (AO3) [archiveofourown.org profile] darkterrible; (Threads) tucsonodd; (Twitter) [twitter.com profile] darkterrible666

Theme: Uncommon Settings, Casefic, Canon LGBTQ+ Characters, Cops & Crime, Fandom Classics, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery & Suspense, Novel-Length Fic, Psychic Powers, Uncommon Settings, Urban Fantasy, Worldbuilding

Summary: Wei Wuxian can see the dead. Weird happenings ensue.



Author’s Notes: I really struggled with putting this back up again (sorry I know I'm a flake) I have a love/hate relationship with it. But here it is.

This is a repost (it's all over the internet in various formats and languages) but it is mine.

I wrote this a looong time ago, before I really had a GREAT understanding of the naming conventions used in the untamed. Some of it might be incorrect.


Reccer's Notes:: Although November’s Mystery & Suspense theme would apply, I’m using Uncommon Settings to shoehorn in this beloved modern-with-magic paranoir fic in time for Halloween; the intrigue-haunted waterfront city of Lotus, patterned after Venice, is very much a character in its own right. (Note that, despite the geographical inspiration, nobody seems to have been whitewashed.)

medium blues has a history as cryptic and elusive as its subject matter: for various reasons (including having been targeted in the fandom’s 2020 cyberbullying scandal) the author—along with this fic—has periodically vanished and resurfaced under a succession of pseudonyms.

Here are the author’s original summary and tags:

Continue. )

Fanwork Links: medium blues, by [archiveofourown.org profile] darkterrible.

(Wayback Machine): https://web.archive.org/web/20220625040644/https://archiveofourown.org/works/39589791?view_adult=true&view_full_work=true

(Archive.today): https://archive.ph/cJARF

Frontispiece by [tumblr.com profile] mojoflower, from her review on [tumblr.com profile] wangxianficrecs: https://wangxianficrecs.tumblr.com/post/643044937390325760/medium-blues-by-darkandterrible-e
AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-27 10:37 pm

Pumpkin Blossoms

Posted by lolzilla

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The Ootori Group has made an astounding medical breakthrough and proven the existence of soulmates as well as found a way to identify them (for a fee of course). When Kyoya gets personally invested he enlists Kaoru’s help with the top secret project, but Kaoru isn’t sure this is a secret he wanted in on.

Words: 8704, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-27 09:56 pm

down bad (for treats)

Posted by pilindiel

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But the most surprising part about Kaoru's visits are how strangely Kyoya acts. Whereas Kyoya is more than happy to let others take over a discussion, conversations with Kaoru are almost like a sparring match, a tete-a-tete that brings a subtle smile to her owner’s lips she rarely, if ever, sees with anyone else.

Surely, with how observant, how knowing, how intelligent Kyoya is, he must see these differences himself?

...On Noir’s six-month adoption anniversary, she starts to suspect her owner may be a bit of an idiot.

Words: 4800, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-27 08:46 pm

Saturn's Dissipating Rings

Posted by hattiecursed_sigh

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Kaoru loses his brother, then his sanity, then his lover.

KyoKao Big Bang '25, with lovely artwork from Hana at the end of chapter 2.
Thank you so much for the art, and thank you to Tony and Danielle for organising yet another great event.

Words: 6139, Chapters: 3/3, Language: English

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mific ([personal profile] mific) wrote in [community profile] fancake2025-11-01 01:29 am

due South: Academic Punk by thehoyden

Fandom: due South
Characters/Pairings: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski, Diefenbaker, Victoria Metcalfe, original characters
Rating: Explicit
Length: 19,093
Content Notes: no AO3 warnings
Creator Links: thehoyden on AO3, luzula on the Audiofic Archive
Themes: Uncommon settings, Friends to lovers, First time, Working together, Complete AU: academia

Summary: "What the hell is this, an Austen novel?"

Reccer's Notes: Complete AUs are unusual in due South, and this is that rarity, a dS AU set in academia. Fraser is a new professor, looked down on by his colleagues as he's from the University of Guelph, and only Ray Kowalski, a punky, nonconformist professor, befriends him. They both have offices on the unpopular top floor (Fraser as he's bottom of the pecking order, and Ray as he likes to get away from the rest of the department), which helps kickstart their friendship. The story is about the highs and lows of academic life and there are some great sections showing Ray's unconventional teaching style which the students love, and Fraser's more traditional, but solid, approach. There's academic politics and also drama with the return of Victoria, Fraser's ex and his academic rival. It's about character development, and about Fraser and Ray's friendship which blossoms gradually into much, much more. The fic's beautifully written, and an extremely good read - highly recommended.

Fanwork Links: Academic Punk on AO3, and the excellent podfic by luzula is here

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-30 01:19 am
AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-28 05:50 pm

To Love So Softly

Posted by misha0mosha

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Ayata Nakamura - Haninozuka Mitsukuni's 'secret' fiancée - had finally convinced his parents that yes, Ouran was a good idea. After all, he was engaged to Mitsukuni, a boy he hadn't seen since they were toddlers. It would be good for them to meet again and perhaps grow closer, even if that meant disrupting the entire flow of the Host Club and everything everyone thought they knew about 'Honey Senpai'.

--

In which an omega becomes a host of the infamous Host Club with some not-so-secret intentions.

Words: 2069, Chapters: 2/?, Language: English

AO3 works tagged 'Ouran High School Host Club - All Media Types' ([syndicated profile] ao3_ouran_feed) wrote2025-10-28 08:01 am

Wait I've been isekai'd into Ouran High school Host Club

Posted by CosmicCottoncandy28

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(Y/n) was just your typical young adult woman she had a low paying cashiers job she was almost 30 and still lived with her parents in a cramped apartment , and she was a huge Weeb with her one of her favorite Animes being
Ouran Highschool Host Club which she has seen multiple times overall she had a normal life but one day when she was walking to work (Y/n) gets hit by a Truck and is Transported to the world of Ouran Highschool Host club.

Words: 1422, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English