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Probably as a way of escaping recent events, I find myself really interested in Teen Wolf recs, probably Derek/Stiles, but I'll take anything that is decently plot-heavy, has some angst, and ideally doesn't require knowledge of later seasons' canon. I don't know either, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
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and now i need to curl up with some Sterek :)
So I just looked at a typical best of list and...
A lot of the most popular ones tend to be total AUs and weirdly domestic (like DILF, Cupboard Love, and a glutton of choose any profession AUs). There are great porn AUs and stripper AUs and rentboy AUs (Sell Your Body to the Night, Don't Worry Baby). For quirky AUs I really like kellifer_fic.
A lot of post Season 1 stuff is very pack-heavy, mostly, all the kids move on to college (headlong I'm falling), all the kids come back to Bacon Hills (Sacred in the Ordinary), etc.
And then there's the werewolf heavy stuff, like wolf-societies with great dystopias (humans are slaves/wolves are slaves, etc) Alpha Spikes on the list fits.
I have a soft spot for alternate universes, so I love Misfire, Play it Again, and those are the ones off the top of my head, because I've listened to the podfics too many times :)
And there are some amazing he can't get out of wolf shape that I have a weird thing for, so if that might be interesting, there's Wolf in the House, Random Craigslist, Importance of.
There's so much wolf stuff, sometimes ABO, often pre-ABO (and the tags don't distinguish regular Teen Wolf alphas and ABO alphas :) I can dig through if that's your thing...
And those two end up a lot on lists for a good reason: Hide of a Life of War and California Werewolf in New York.
(Everything I've recced has been podficced, if that's your thing. I listen TW more than I read, and someone liked it enough to spent hours on it, so that's already a rec...)
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Hide of a Life War, too is very good (like Cathexys, I am always tempted to put an additional 'of' in there, but the title lacks the second one; why? Who knows. Is it a quote? No idea).
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Most of the fics have entertaining plots. I used tags for warnings, story length, and pairings. Hopefully that helps!
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1. Hagalaz by TheHatterTheory. I have reread this dozens of times, it feels like. AU from the end of Season 2, this builds an entire world from the scraps and fragments of canon - it is arguably one of the most inventive fics I've read in terms of world-building, history, magical theory, characterisation. It goes deep as well as long.
2. Taking Leave by Coyotl. This is absolutely bravura storytelling, let me tell you, and from an outsider's point of view it is arguably the most specifically American fic I've ever read in this fandom (in the way, way back when candle_beck was still writing, America ran through every turn of phrase). That's probably not the most helpful recommendation, but it is so beautifully done, and so unexpected. I'm not entirely sure it's all the way successful, ultimately - it stretches too far away from its roots - but it is an extraordinary read.
3. Pack Wars by miss_aphelion. This starts off a little bit crack'ish - Derek 'kidnaps' Stiles to teach Scott a lesson - and then becomes something else entirely. This is such good storytelling, and despite the drama I ended up laughing aloud at some bits. I'd also recommend The Beacon Hills Mysteries by miss_aphelion, because these too are excellent, and very different, examples of storytelling. I remember that with both of these recs I wanted six seasons and a movie.
4. From Deep Roots by Anefi. This is still technically a WIP, I'll say up front, but it is being updated, and there's almost 90k of fic before you get to the current end. That 90k of fic is very well worthwhile.
5. You can't go wrong with any of Grimm's Teen Wolf fics. Long, plotty, interesting, every one.
There are more where these came from, but these are off the top of my head. If you need more when you're done with these, hit me up!
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Anyway it occurs to me that I should also recommend Rats' Alley, by auburn. I really liked her other TW fic, Raised by Wolves, a crossover with Criminal Minds, which does inventive and rational things with canon but could have used a beta. It really situates the action in a real, physical world, too - it has a tremendous sense of place, for me, that is absent in a lot of fiction, and I think that's one of the reasons I loved it. Of course, it also does a reordering of canon in a way that makes it hang together more naturally than the seat-of-pants writing that the actual show devolved into.
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