Giant Homestuck Rec list!!! 2/2
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opalsongTitle: dave striders journal alternatively titled why do i listen to my sister alternatively titled how do i hold all these feels alternatively titled god dammit
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/286775?view_adult=true
Author: radicalnothing
Pairings: John/Dave
Rating: R
Summary: "and you never guessed/the one you loved best/to draw always drew/pictures of you/undressed." A fairly plotless accumulation of pornographic pennings, courtesy of one Dave Strider.
Recommendation: Dave accidentally sends John his Journal, John reads it in order to prank him. Turns out the journal is filled with Dave’s fantasies about John. This begins as hilarious and takes a turn into steamy.
Title: Dave: Be the Matador
Link: http://homestuckpodfic.tumblr.com/post/19360434739/dave-be-the-matador
Author: slipstreamborne
Pairings: Dave/Tavros
Rating: nc-17
Summary: “Dave, um.” You haven’t seen Tavros this thunderstruck in a while. He points at you with one long, clawed finger. “What are you wearing?”
“Oh this?” You tilt your head so that the light catches on your shades, the corners of your mouth quirked in the faintest of grins. “You can thank Egbert for pointing out the irony in our failing to ironically incorporate a literal interpretation of your preferred IM handle into our sex lives. Though we might have to sit him down and have a talk about the appropriateness of buying lingerie for another dude’s dude, if you know what I mean.”
Performer: valmora
Recommendation: A bit of role-play that gets really steamy. SO HOT. Normally I’m fine listening to high rated things in public, no problem. Listening to this fic, suddenly when things get going I was like “whelp!” and was kinda uncomfortable in my public setting. And that, that is the HIGHEST praise I can give a porny podfic.
Title: Me and My Army
Link: http://homestuckpodfic.tumblr.com/post/19479035213/me-and-my-army-by-elementalsight
Author: Elementalsight
Pairings: John<>Feferi
Rating: G
Summary: (It’s funny, he thinks, how he can set up a whole windy barrier around a house almost an hour away from civilization and they still try to get inside when they think the Empress is visiting. Of course, the worst are the tabloids convinced they’re having an illicit interspecies romance and desperate for any photo they can take. Last week’s Enquirer had a cover story featuring an image of John screaming as tiny sea troll babies burst from his stomach. The tagline had read HUMANS TO HOST ALIEN OFFSPRING and John hadn’t even bothered to turn to page 2. Funny how the truth would have worried humanity more; it was such a good idea he’d talked Feferi out of telling them everything right away.)
Performer: Specspectacle
Recommendation: This podfic is great. I’d never thought about John and Feferi as pale before but this fic really makes me believe that they have the potential to be amazing together. I haven’t read the text of this and I’m not sure I want to. Specspectacle does such a wonderful job of communicating John and Feferi that I don’t need my own interpretation.
Title: if music be the food of love
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/192684
Author: urbanAnchorite
Pairings: Terezi/Dave
Rating: G
Summary: Feed a cold, starve a fever, and in the case of an ennui-filled Terezi Pyrope just quadruple caloric intake.
Recommendation: This is an exploration of depression. The mood of the piece is so dreamy, punctuated by vivid descriptions of food that never fail to make me hungry. Shinji S.’s reading does a great job of conveying just the right mood.
Podfic: http://homestuckpodfic.tumblr.com/post/25722905599/if-food-be-the-music-of-love
Performer: Shinji S
Title: Glad You Came
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/451842/chapters/774968
Author: Edoro
Pairings: Dave/Gamzee, Gamzee/Tavros
Rating: nc-17
Summary: “Bro?” you ask, reaching up to rap on his forehead with your knuckles. Somehow your hand just tangles itself all up in his fine-ass hair and you sort of yank and turn and then two of you are kissing. It’s sloppy and hot and awkward, the angle all wrong and neither one of you used to each other at all, but when he gets your lip between his dull choppers and bites until you’ll bruise it’s just about motherfucking perfect.
Recommendation: Dream bubbles are the explanation for the weirdest crap. In this fic Tavros is still a kid while Gamzee and Dave are grown up (?? Teenagers at least :D no actual ages are mentioned I believe). Gamzee goes into heat and Tavros (his matesprit) is unable to help. Dave is persuaded to help. This is super hot. Gamzee is desperate and can’t quite finish. Troll parts and Human parts don’t
precisely fit together (something that will never stop being my favourite thing) so they have to get creative.
Title: Rise and Shine [PODFIC]
Link: http://roachpatrol.tumblr.com/post/30781413138/rise-and-shine-roachpatrol
Author: roachpatrol
Pairings: Vriska/Rose
Rating:nc-17
Summary: “I’m probably not going to like you, and you’re definitely not going to like me,” she says, all in an urgent rush, “but circumstances being what they are I do believe we need each other.”
She holds up a piece of paper: your ad, printed out. One room8 needed, ASAP!!!!!!!!
(Alternatively: Rose Lalonde, Vriska Serket, and the bodies left in their wake.)
Performer: cryocumulus
Recommendation: This is a fic that I wouldn’t have touched in a million years but for the podfic. I’m not a fan of Vriska and am “meh” to Rose in fanfiction. But roachpatrol and cryocumulus convinced me that together, killing people, they are exactly what I want. (I’m not sure what that says about me…) This is another Trolls and Humans live together without explaination universe. It is also Serial Killer AU. It is so delightfully evil (I want to say terrible or bad-for-you but both give off the wrong impression) that it makes me shiver.
Title: Trollstuck
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/388875/chapters/637503
Author: Elizabeth Culmer
Pairings: Rose/Eridan/Feferi (ashen), Sollux<>Aradia, Terezi<>Dave, Nepeta<>Karkat, Karkat/Jade (black)
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: Wherein the four beta!kids are and always were trolls on Alternia, Sgrub/Sburb does not exist, and Troll Jade Harley is on a quest to keep her friend Aradia from dying. Things will almost certainly get more complicated, but that's a good place to start.
Recommendation: Written like Homestuck was originally (on reader suggestions) this fic is well plotted and detailed. Takes a look at what might have happened if the game had never existed and the humans were trolls. Very neat, cool world-building, and very much in the style of the original.
Title: Stitch Two Together
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/538225
Author: Socchan
Pairings: Rose/Kanaya
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: In which Rose inadvertently starts the first inter-dimensional chapter of Stitch and Bitch, and courts Kanaya through crafts.
Recommendation: Rose accidentally starts a stich-and-bitch. She teaches all the trolls to knit. Except Tavros. Who already knows how to crochet. And manages to make a project with which to woo Kanaya too. So awesome. As a crocheter myself this is one of the best things ever. (Tavros is my boy!!!)
Title: KARKAT VANTAS’S GUIDE TO SAFE SEX WITH ALIENS
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/341890
Author: mercurialMalcontent
Pairings: none explicitly stated
Rating: R
Summary: IT HAS RECENTLY COME TO MY ATTENTION THAT INTERSPECIES RELATIONS ARE RAPIDLY DEVOLVING INTO SLOPPY MAKEOUTS THAT THREATEN TO BECOME DISGUSTINGLY MORE INTIMATE. IN AN EFFORT TO KEEP YOU IDIOTS FROM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT OVER WEIRD XENOBIOLOGY AND EMBARRASSING EVERYONE IN THE WORST WAYS POSSIBLE, I HAVE COMPILED THIS GUIDE, WHICH SHOULD BE SHORT ENOUGH THAT EVEN THOSE OF YOU WITH THE ATTENTION SPANS OF SMALL INSECTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO READ IT ALL IN ONE SITTING.
Podfic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/511266
Performer: Opalsong
Recommendation: Karkat’s memo to the group about how to get it on (or not get it on accidentally) with the other species. Written as a memo. Yes, that means it is entirely in capslock. Which will never not be funny. The podfic I made of this is actually my favourite podfic of mine. I’ve listened to it a bunch of times. It is nice and short and SO HILARIOUS. Also, did you know how hard it is to podfic something entirely in capslock? Or how fun :D
Title: A Gentleman and a Lady
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/249953
Author: DoctorV
Pairings: Dave/Terezi
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: He wears the denim skirt because it's stiff enough at the waist to hide a lack of hips and pulls tight enough on the back when he bends over that his ass looks fantastic.
Podfic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/509888
Performer: Opalsong
Recommendation: Incidental crossdressing fic. Yes. As in, Dave and Terezi both dress opposite to their gender whenever they feel like it for whatever reason. I love the message this sends, the casual hints of D/s in their relationship and really everything about this. I love this enough to have made a podfic of it :D
Act 6
Title: In Which Karkat Vantas and Jane Crocker Marathon the First Season of Sherlock
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/393961
Author: bramblePatch
Pairings: gen
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: Even the human fandom has recognized that it's a love story. Karkat's just disgusted that we've got them in the wrong quadrant.
Recommendation: I thought this was super hilarious when I hadn’t seen more than five minutes of Sherlock. Now that I’ve seen it is even better. I totally agree with Karkat by the way. Basically, Jane just wants to watch her thrilling mystery and Karkat is the shipping mater.
Title: the family you choose series
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/26125
Author: Asuka Kureru
Pairings: Gamzee<>Karkat, Dave/Terezi, Davesprite/Karkat, Terezi/Gamzee
Rating: R
Summary: There are certain expectations in troll society about taking in a freeloader with no place to go, as Dad Egbert finds out when he offers to host two of his son's stranded friends post-game.
Podfic: http://archiveofourown.org/works/503545/chapters/884886
Performer: Opalsong
Recommendation: The first fic in this series is one of my favourite Homestuck fics. It has a super, super hearwrendingly beautiful pale scene at the beginning and then it flips to Dadbert POV and it gets hilarious, and then back to poignant. The sequals are in turn hilarious and heartwarming. Asuka Kureru is currently writing an amazing fic in the series centering around Davesprite (who is human and missing an arm instead of a wing). This is the best. I podficced the first story in the series and it was one of the first things I podficced in the fandom.
Title: Petstuck Series
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/17587
Author: Laylah
Pairings: John/Equius, Karkat<>Gamzee, Gamzee/Tavros, Condence/Dualscar, Condence/Betty Crocker, terezi/Sollux/Karkat
Rating: G-nc-17 depending on the story
Summary: Little gray aliens aren't people, no matter how well they fake it.
They can be domesticated, though. Might as well keep them around, right?
Recommendation: Petstuck is a thing in Homestuck fandom. Trolls as pets (like a dog or cat… or Siberian tiger). This series has some good explorations of concent and ownership. Bro and Dave foster lots of trolls. Sollux is the cutest. I’m making no sense here I know. There is more being added, however, the series can be read as complete as it is so no worries for people who avoid WiPs. Do be aware that the first story can be fairly triggery for issues of concent. I’m generally triggery for that and liked in anyway but just so you know.
Title: Midlife Crisis Series
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/27940
Author: DevilishKurumi
Pairings: Sollux/Dave/Dirk
Rating: nc-17
Summary: Sollux Captor has just relocated to Houston for a dead-end job and all he wants is to drink and wallow in his thirty years of shitty luck. Instead, he gets tag-teamed by a pair of blond twins who really, really want to take him home.
Recommendation: This is one of the hottest fics (series) I have ever read. I don’t even know why. Humanstuck. This is the fic that got me into Sollux fic. I don’t know why I clicked on it but I’m so, so glad I did ;)
Title: Fifth Iteration
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/563270?view_full_work=true
Author: universe_c
Pairings: Gamzee/Tavros, Gamzee<>Karkat, Aradia<>Tavros, Sollux/Aradia/Feferi, Sollux/Karkat, John/Karkat/Terezi/Dave, Jane/Roxy/Eridan/Equius, Cronus/Kankri, Jake/Dirk, Rose/Kanaya
Rating: nc-17
Summary: A year after Tavros Nitram comes back to life as a weird alien, he accidentally knocks up his favorite clown. He's not sure if he's okay with that and it doesn't really help that his friends are all up in his business. Of course, when there are only thirty some-odd people in the whole world, everyone is always up in everyone's business. There is simply no other business to be up in.
A fic about a village at the beginning of a universe.
Recommendation: A post-Sburb, hybrid species, alone in a new universe, polyamourus, heat cycle, mpreg (kinda? No one is actually physically male anymore), egglaying, worldbuilding extravaganza, story about family. GUYS… NO REALLY YOU GUYS THIS STORY!! This is SO AWESOME. Seriously. Because you’d think this was pure pornographic crack but it’s NOT. (it is still REALLY HOT though) This story is about worldbuilding and family and being alone in the universe and trying to find your place and creating a society and basically it is not what I was expecting at all but it was 1000% better.
Title: Overthinking It
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/509943
Author: mercurialMalcontent
Pairings: Karkat/Kankri
Rating: nc-17
Summary: It just figures that when Karkat finally finds that special someone he hates more than he hates himself, that person turns out to be the guy who's essentially his clone, but fifty million times more annoying.
Recommendation: If you want to see Kankri get his cummupence in a way that is TOTALLY HOT this is the fic for you
Title: The Troll War Series
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/15751
Author: Outside_Context_Problem
Pairings: Many Many Pairings
Rating: not rated by the author but I’m calling it R for war related activities
Summary: A peaceful Earth, five major powers united in global governance. An International Space Service, exploring the stars for new homes and signs of life.
An ever-expanding Alternia, convinced of its own supremacy, willing to tolerate no threats, willing to acknowledge no others.
A species with a history drowning in its own blood, in turning on itself, in destroying anything that seems other, in taking any excuse for a war.
(That last one was humanity. Trolls are about to find out they've made a big fucking mistake.)
Recommendation: This is a War!AU. The first story is on a relatively small scale but it grows. Exponentially every story. Seriously by the current updates this story is HUGE. The world described here is amazing! So epic and sweeping and intricate. This is long. Looooong. But worth it I believe. (and also possibly less au than originally thought?)
Title: Rise Up (series)
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/series/23663
Author: Ryo Hoshi
Pairings: Karkat<>Gamzee, others (I haven’t read the latest updates and apparently there are more)
Rating: R-nc-17
Summary: A century ago, humanity won a long guerrilla war against aliens who came and conquered the Earth, claiming they came in peace to win humanity's trust and cooperation in being made their playthings & wiping out most of civilization until it was possible to start rebuilding. Nearly two decades ago, a red ship bearing a forklike insignia arrived, and the alien aboard said that she was the Imperial Condense, and her people came in peace. Humanity won't be fooled again.
Recommendation: Technically a crossover with the Tripods series, no actual Tripods knowledge is needed (though I’m sure it enhances the experience). I know because all that I know about the tripods series comes from the wiki entry. This is a war!AU. And not a pretty one. This is gritty to say the least. The link will take you to the series page. READ THE WARNINGS for the fics. There is torture and rape and all kinds of unpleasantness. However, there is hope and perseverance. And sometimes that hope in super rough times is exactly the kind of cathartic experience I need.
Title: Dirk: Take Charge
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/335213
Author: Laylah
Pairing: Dirk/Equius
Rating: nc-17
Summary: You're going to leave the toybox in the closet tonight, because you are fairly certain that you can ruin him six ways to Sunday without even a pair of fuzzy handcuffs to back you up, and you really don't want to give the poor guy an aneurysm or something. Humanstuck, aged-up characters, dom/sub, ssc, being STRONG is sexy, porn battle,
Podfic: http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1531977.html
Reader: Rhea314
Recommendation: Humanstuck. Dirk/Equius BDSM porn. With talk of boundries. So hot. Really that’s the highest recommendation I have. SO HOT. GO READ (or listen! Rhea314’s reading of this is amazing. Her Equius just. Just. When he breaks he is gorgeous.)
Title: King of Spades
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/407021
Author: Laylah
Pairing: Dirk/Equius
Rating: nc-17
Summary: ==> Dirk: fuck the Man.
Podfic: http://amplificathon.livejournal.com/1535605.html
Reader: Rhea314
Recommendation: SO HOT. This is a trollstuck au (every is a troll) and also, Nepeta, Equius, and Dirk are in the military. Dirk and Equius see spades fly. So. Hot. (the podfic is amazing, listen to it guys it is awesome. I love rhea314’s Equius. Just. Guh. All the love)
Title: Unwanted Free Ugly Troll
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/477092/chapters/827980
Author: coldhope
Pairings: gen (so far?)
Rating: Pg-13
Summary: The first time you pass by the troll in the box you kind of try not to see it.
It's gross as fuck when people do this. You guess maybe it's better than driving them out into the country and dumping them to make it on their own, or those stories you've heard about people dumping unwanted wrigglers in sacks into rivers--those you try not to think about because fuck, that is not okay on any level but it's not like you can do shit about it.
Recommendation: SO CUTE!!!! RUN, DO NOT WALK TO READ THIS. Seriously, this is the cutest thing ever. Dave finds bb!troll!Karkat in a box and takes him home. This leads to shenanigans and pre-teen!troll!Sollux and starting a Troll-Rights group. This is a petstuck fic meaning that in this universe trolls are (for whatever reason) not considered people. They are pets (like a dog or cat… well more like a parrot or tiger or something exotic but still). This is the best. DO not be afraid of the WiP status, it updates all the time.
Title: groove thing
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/364335
Author: Laylah
Pairings: Bro/Eridan
Rating: nc-17
Summary: Your afterlife groove thing is being visited by an underage crossdressing alien.
Okay.
Recommendation: Bro and Eridan meet in a dream bubble and have sex. Hot
Title: Battlefield Terra
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/365950/chapters/594493
Author: Asuka Kureru
Pairings: John/Karkat, Karkat<>Gamzee
Rating: R
Summary: John is one of eight mech pilots heroically protecting Earth from an alien invasion. Pretty easy on the moral choices. See evil monster from space, kill evil monster from space.
Only then he actually meets one of them face to face.
Recommendation: This is the GIANT MECH AU. In which the Humans and Trolls are at Space!war and the Trolls have Evangelion-style mechs and the Humans have Gundam-style mechs. Karkat gets captured by humans. The culture exploration in this is amazing!
Title: Battlefield Terra Prequel - The One Where Bro And Noir Hatefuck
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/474702
Author: Asuka Kureru
Pairings: Bro/Jack Noir
Rating: nc-17
Summary: Bro makes a show of snorting, of relaxing his stance. His heart is still in his throat. His kids, his kids, someone almost took his kids. Someone did, and the only reason they didn't get away with it has nothing to do with him, nothing, and everything with that rabid weasel who won't. Step. Off. His balls.
--
Pretty much as the title says.
Recommendation: This is a prequel timestamp to the previous fic. This is the first fic that I read that I believed the romance was Black. This convinced me that, while not healthy for humans mostly, black romance is a thing that could happen and explained how it could work in a way that wasn’t based on rivalry (or on rape but that is another matter ENTIRELY). Very rough. Quite hot.
Title: Four by Four
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/515119/chapters/909079
Author: Elizabeth Culmer
Pairings: John/Jade/Rose/Dave
Rating: G
Summary: Wherein the beta kids have an agreement to form a sedoretu once they're old enough, as told in a series of standalone pesterlogs. Part 1 - Dave, Rose, Jade, and John meet in a chat room on Jade's thirteenth birthday to talk about nothing in particular. Part 2 - The kids attempt to explain moiety to the trolls mid-game, which goes about as smoothly as you'd expect.
Recommendation: This is a fusion with the sedoretu trope. Trope? I think it is one. Anyway it’s an alternative marriage system. It requires four people. This is a look at the game (*coughkarkat’sshippingcough*) if the kids already figured out that they could get married. Delightful and funny J
Title: The Land of Dragons and Dungeons
Link: http://archiveofourown.org/works/420086/chapters/700061
Author: celynBrum
Pairings: Karkat<>Gamzee (if that is even a type of romance that exists), Roxy<>Dirk, Sollux<>Aradia
Rating: R
Summary: The halls of the Gods are empty, echoing with unheard prayers.
The forces of corruption and decay are growing in power. Soon they shall sweep across the world like an unholy plague.
From the deep caverns beneath the majestic Dragonshard Mountains, across the mighty Greenweald Forest, to the fair city of Porthaven on the storm-wracked coast, there are fourteen people with the mark of a divine ruler on their skin. They do not know it, but they and only they can save the world from apocalypse and ruin.
So naturally, they're going to spend as long as possible arsing about slaying monsters and looting ancient temples. 'Cos, you know, adventurers.
Recommendation: This is an AMAZING piece of work. The author is running this like a DnD campaign which is amazing. All the characters (players) are created using pathfinder (with some extras to Homestuckify it) and all battles and encounters are done with rolls. The technique and perseverance in this is amazing. The author also uses every single reader suggestion – it is reader based. It is amazing. All of the technical stuff is at the bottom of the chapter, easily skippable if you don’t can but also readily available if you do care. This fic has made me so much more interested in the game mechanics of DnD (and I’ve been in a steady group for over 2 years). The actual fic side of this is also great. Imagine all the currently alive Homestuck characters as DnD characters. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Amazing right? (And maybe not as AU as you think…)
Music
Link: http://tindeck.com/users/cantabileGato
Recommendation: This singer covers many popular songs as Karkat. I love this. Homestuck fanmusic is super amazing. This Karkat voice is my headcanon Karkat voice.
Extra Rec’s
Anything by Asuka Kureru, Miko, Elizabeth Culmer,
Anything on my extra:podficced! And extra:topodfic tags on Pinboard
Anything I have podficced (though I think most of them are on here anyway)
There. All there. Hopefully. Note that this list will likely be out of datre by tomorrow because I'll read something else awesome. I did try and get something for everyone on there. Mostly.