Makoyi's Fanfic Recs and Other Stuff

Title: Sympathy for the Devil
Author: KouriArashi
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: AU
Pairing: Peter/Stiles, Melissa/Rafael, Scott/Allison, Melissa/Sheriff Stilinski
Length: Long (72,522 words)
Warnings: Underage relationship (Stiles is underage and his relationship with Peter becomes sexual), Child and Spousal abuse (Mr. McCall on his family)

Author's Summary:
Stiles gets a job as a hospital orderly and finds himself becoming strangely attached to the catatonic man on the long-term care ward, and finds out that there's a lot more to Peter Hale than there seems...

Review:
Don't ignore the warnings! There's serious content in this fic that you should choose wisely whether you want to read. There were times I wanted to stop reading it for each of those warnings, but KouriArashi is a fantastic writer. And I did like this story. It's wonderfully plotty, which I always prefer in my ship fics. Also, Stiles is clever and capable and stories where Stiles helps Peter out pre-canon, while Peter is still catatonic and this story has all of that. Without spoiling, the ending was something of a relief as how problematic the situations of both warnings are does get addressed.

Sympathy for the Devil (on AO3)

Title: The Sundering Kiss
Author: trilliath
Fandom: Teen Wolf, almost kind of a Lost Girl fusion
Genre: Total AU - Stiles is a magical creature, gateway fic
Pairing: Derek/Stiles
Length: Long (92,466 words)
Warning: contains rapes and other violence (Stiles is a rapist-killing vigilante)

Author's Summary:
Stiles is a young adult incubus who has made his way to New York City. After his first makeout session ended in death, he left Beacon Hills to try and understand what he was and protect the people he cared about. But being his father's son, in name if not by birth, he's never been able to accept the idea of killing innocent humans to feed himself. So in order to survive and keep his morals both, he travels across the country feeding on sexual predators.

Derek is a NYC werewolf cop, who dedicates his life to protecting and serving both the human and fae communities - protecting them from each other if necessary. When a string of succubus or incubus kills starts hitting his city, and Derek runs into Stiles at a crime scene, Derek wants to find a way to help this neophyte fae survive under the radar before someone else puts him down.
Too bad Stiles seems to run away whenever Derek gets near him.

Warnings: As a vigilante incubus, Stiles spends a lot of time around rapists and doing rapey things to them with his mojo. The warning is for this, not for rape between Stiles and Derek.

Review:
This fic isn't listed as a Lost Girl fusion (regrettably substituting male characters for what were fantastic female characters), but it clearly owes enough to that series that I'm listing it as one - no characters or situations from Lost Girl are included, but the worlds are very similar. Other than that, this is a pretty decent total AU Teen Wolf fic.  If you're only a Teen Wolf fan and haven't encountered Lost Girl yet, consider this a great gateway fic to the verse! Note the warnings before deciding to read!

The Sundering Kiss (on AO3)

Title: The First Fold Of A New Paper
Author: gala_apples
Fandom: Teen Wolf, Emelan
Genre: Crossover
Pairing: Boyd/Erica/Isaac, Stiles/Derek
Length: Short (2,954 words)

Author's Summary:
It’s been ten years since the last person in Emelan was murdered by unmagic. Ten years, and there’s his dad, smeared with it. Isaac can’t say it killed him, the broken neck seems more to blame, but the unmagic is a twist the Provost Guard might find difficult. It figures that even in death his father is impossible.

Review:
Just a short scene fitting the Teen Wolf characters into the Emelan universe. Isaac-centric. It's nothing complicated, but I liked the care and detail making the fusion work, and I liked that it briefly touched on class issues and privilege.

The First Fold of a New Paper (on AO3)

Title: Imagine Me and You
Author: eebee
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: Romance, Soulmates, AU
Pairing: Stiles/Derek, Laura/OMC, Lydia/Jackson, Scott/Kira, past Stiles/Erica
Length: Medium (50,356 words)

Author's Summary:
Everybody always says that if/when you meet your soulmate, you'll just know. That everything will be sunshine and daisies, and behold a light shall shineth down from heaven. That's pretty much always how it goes in those movies. They see each other across a crowded ballroom, courtroom, bump into each other reaching for the same loaf of organic oatmeal flax bread at Whole Foods.
The media lies, people! That totally didn't happen!
or,
Soulmates Stiles and Derek meet, but don't notice their fledgling soulmate bond.

Review:
Cute missed connection fic involving soulbonds, told partially through Stiles' blog posts. Takes place post canon, in an AU where Laura killed Peter and left town again without realizing any bite victims had survived. Includes Nurse!Derek, magic!Stiles, and some nice world-building around the AU and new pack (back)story.

Imagine Me and You (on AO3)

Title: Home is wherever I'm with you
Author: theaeblackthorn
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: AU - pre-canon, kid!Stiles, Alive!Laura, Family Fic/Families of Choice
Pairing: Laura/OMC, Laura/OFC, Derek/Stiles (later)
Length: Long (74,855 words)

Author's Summary:
When Sheriff Stilinski is killed in a liquor store robbery gone wrong, Stiles ends up in a foster home. He lasts about three months before he realises this is seriously not going to work out and he runs away.
Derek and Laura Hale have just lost their whole family in the fire, they've no idea what to do or where to go, or when someone is going to come back and finish the job. Laura decides to get out of Beacon Hills as quickly as she can, she just didn't expect they'd be taking someone extra with them.
Or, the one where four walls do not make a home.
AU where Stiles is an orphan and runs away with Derek and Laura.

Review:
This fic is just lovely. It's a great family/pack fic where Laura raises kid!Stiles pre-canon. If you're familiar with Supernatural and the kind of lives that Sam and Dean had growing up, this fic has some common elements there, with the living out of motels, with fake ids and jobs that don't pay enough, and being on the move all the time. Just replace the hunting with fear of being hunted. But it's also lighter/more positive than SPN, with the family being a big source of love and support and strength for its members. I really like this one and hope the author gets around to posting the last chapter so I can see how it wraps up the ending.

Home is wherever I'm with you (on AO3)

Title: Pulling you away from the demons of your past...
Author: Syllirium , Syllirium
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: art , digital painting

Author's Summary:
This might hurt... To bear so much burden inside...
Sometimes you have to let go... just to stay alive...

An entry for the "This Might Hurt" Teen Wolf Season 3 Contest

Review:
This artist's whole gallery is filled with amazing digital paintings in several big fandoms, but this one is one of my favorites. I like the use of color and the way the piece depicts so much about Derek's character and emotional state.

Pulling you away from the demons of your past... (on dA) (on tumblr)

Title: Cover for "Wolf Whistle"
Author: Lienwyn
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: Cover art, digital painting

Author's Summary:
This is a cover I drew for the awesome fanfic series Wolf Whistle by the awesome and oh so lovely Ashinan
(a Teen Wolf fanfic, in case you want to know, and this here is Stiles Stilinski - the awesomest of them all)

I honestly wasn't supposed to do this - it was just a random sketch that slowly but surely grew into this - but I like it a lot now that it's done.
And yeah, it's slightly similar to that other cover I drew a while back but SHUSH! They're both pretty!

Review:
I love the use of color and transparency in this cover to create the right magical horror atmosphere. The composition is also strong. For the sake of remembering the fic it goes with, I wish she'd added some of the rune papers into the background, but that's a minor thing and the work as it is is very good and also well matched to the story it represents.

Cover for "Wolf Whistle" (on dA)

Title: What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Author: grimm
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: AU, Werewolves Are Known/Magic Is Known
Pairing: Stiles/Derek
Length: Long (118,749 words)

Author's Summary:
There's something weird about Beacon Hills that Stiles can't quite put his finger on. The way everyone in town knows his name the day he arrives. The way they insist the melancholic howling that echoes through the forest every night is just a dog. The way his dad denies getting a dog, even though Stiles comes home to find one sprawled across his bed, some big black thing whose eyes gleam red in the right light. The way that massive oak tree out in the woods vibrates under his touch, pulsing with sickly life.
There's something weird going on in this town, and Stiles is determined to get to the bottom of it.

Review:
A little bit Werewolves are Known, plus a little Laura Lives, plus Derek is stuck as a wolf, plus Stiles is the only one in town who doesn't know what's going on... Stiles is only visiting his father, the town sheriff, and he gets a summer job at the library working for Laura Hale, and slowly he notices that weird things happen here but no one else seems to think its a big deal so he has to figure it out himself.  As Teen Wolf fics go, this one is fairly light in tone (though there is angsty and a lot of sadness associated with the Hale Fire still).  I like this fic as an example of the everyday magic type of Urban fantasy - Beacon Hills as a whole supernatural town/enclave headed  by the Hale Pack makes for a good premise.

What I Did On My Summer Vacation (on AO3)
podfic by lunchee

Title: Is This A Raid
Author: entanglednow
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: pack/friendship/family, humor
Length: Short (5,889 words)

Author's Summary:
"Oh my God, Scott put soy in the cart, he put fake meat in the cart, he's trying to kill us all."

Review:
Doesn't the summary make you want to read this fic? It's got that lovely Teen Wolf humor and warm and fuzzy pack feels. It's a real feel good fic.

Is This A Raid? (on AO3)
Podfic by knight_tracer

Title: Domestic Bliss and Other Nonsense
Author: moonstalker24 , moonstalker24 
Fandom: Teen Wolf
Genre: Future-fic, Asexual Romance, Fluff
Pairing: Peter Hale/Stiles Stilinski
Length: Short (8,899 words)

Author's Summary:
"So, I think we should get married."

Peter chokes, fumbles for a second, then manages to set his mug of tea down on the coffee table. He turns to look at Stiles, who is sprawled over the end of the couch, flipping through an old book.

"What?" Peter asks.

Stiles turns bright amber eyes on the stunned werewolf. "We should get married."

“Why?”

“So all the books can be in one place.”

Review:
OMG this fic is adorable - pretty much the best ace ship fic I've found in a long time. Unlike a lot of Stiles/Peter, it's not creepy in the least - it's set up well in the future (Peter and Stiles are both college professors by this time) and Peter has a bit of a demented sense of humor but isn't insane/homicidal/feral so no worries there. The first dozen paragraphs or so, don't get freaked out by what sounds like the start of seriously cheesy bad!fic - just trust that this is going to work out to a good fic because it really, really does. It just throws you in to an established future where Stiles and Peter have been the pack's Research Team for so long that they've dealt with the canon issues, become friends, etc. There's the ace shipping in this fic, plus the Stiles and Peter pranking their less observant packmates - it's just a really sweet fic. I think the best part though is how wonderfully the author has shown the feelings between Peter and Stiles - I wish more fic writers would show the feelings between romantic partners more like this even in non-ace ship fics.

Domestic Bliss and Other Nonsense (on AO3)