#rfh recs

[raccoonfallsharder]

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these are the folks who have written or drawn something (specifically within the rocket raccoon fan community) that either murdered me, resurrected me, or both.

(i am always open to recs so if you wanna link me to your fave i will be so happy to check them out)

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The All of You (ao3) i fuckin love this story so hard. i love the OC. i love the writing. i love the set up. i reread this probably every month or so and pine for more. it's so fuckin good. @lazarel-3000 is a double-threat (at least) who is also on my recced artist list, which means (obviously) they are a recced creator as well.

Butterfly Caught (tumblr) ☕︎ Butterfly Caught (ao3) [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025] this is my (current) favorite story by @shylyobscene, whose work you will find listed here three times - both of her current fics and as an overall creator because she's just one to watch. i suspect everything coming out of her blog is gonna be good shit. the writing is lovely, the relationship-building is believable, rocket is amazingly-characterized and layered, reader is super-interesting and relatable, and everything is hot. 10/10 can't wait for more and would also wait forever.

Casino Royale (ao3) this fic by @hibatasblog (see also: Entanglement, below) is so fucking delightful. petra quill is so hot i want to date her myself, and the tension between her and rocket is through the roof. loving the angst, loving the little ways that heartbreak seeps through every new paragraph, loving the mystery of trying to figure out what happened to petra and rocket to set them on their separate paths and now bring them back together. always waiting anxiously for the next chapter.

Entanglement (ao3) this fic by @hibatasblog has me rationing my consumption in a way i have not done in a long time. i'm like "i only read one chapter a week to pace myself, as a little treat for surviving another seven days." beautiful writing and intricate storytelling, the metaphors and analogies are so good i almost wish i was back in undergrad writing a thesis on it. (recently added to my "creators" list because honestly, everything they've put out since 2023 has been flawless).

Experiment: The Ravager Code (ao3) ☕︎ Experiment: The Ravager Code (tumblr) check out author @guardian-angel12 for character art and more ♡ girl gets scooped, experimented on by the high evolutionary, saved by ravagers, and finds her family. what more could you ask for? featuring a fantastic, fascinating OC and i am in love (i do need to catch up, though). the writing is beautiful, the emotional elements are so moving, ugh i love it.

Friends (tumblr) @nyxivy is making their way through the rocketober 2023 prompts and the first fic of the series is. so drool-worthy. i've probably read it fifty times since it came out. short and so hot i could die (much like rocket himself), and somehow incredibly sweet in just the span of a few paragraphs? i will continue coming back to this fic and look forward to more from them at every chance i get.

Get Up (tumblr) @caesarhamato22 is another person on my recced creator list because trying to find just one fic to call my "favorite" is a challenge (obviously i was unsuccessful because there are two on this list). anyway this is lovely and fluffy. i die.

Heatwaves (tumblr) oh my lord. this was written a while ago i never officially added it to the list and i should've. @mytheoristavenue writes a very sultry, steamy oneshot about you helping rocket fix the ship's climate control. i melt into my chair everytime i reread this one (which is often). so much of this lives rent-free in my head but THIS changed the course of my fantasies: Finally, he placed a paw against your cheek and whispered in close: "You're burnin' up, baby."

If Only For Tonight (tumblr) ☕︎ If Only For Tonight (ao3) [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025] another stunner by @shylyobscene. fast-burn, incredibly sexy, superb characterization and even better dirty talk. you will burn up in almost every chapter and yet - there is a plot and it does not suffer. both smut and story serve to really build our understanding of rocket, reader, their relationship and the world/universe around them. plus it takes place circa endgame and if there's one thing i hate, it's how endgame treated the guardians. i'm so looking forward to seeing how this amazinf author treats that.

last (friday) night (ao3) nsfw. trying to pick a "favorite" of @aliasrocket's work is like trying to choose a favorite incarnation of rocket (i cannot). guess who is also on my recced creators list.

more than seven (tumblr)second @caesarhamato22 fic on this list and another recced creator. this one is one of my favorite comfort fics (i mean it's still sexy as hell) that i come back to very often. like it's just so wonderful and sweet and perfect and atmospheric and vibes

Professor R Raccoon or How Rocket Got His Groove Back (ao3) [NEW ADDITION 2024] nsfw. the third @hibatasblog fic on this list. this author doesn't miss. ever imagine rocket raccoon wearing his dad-glasses in a perfect slice-of-life au smut fic? by which i mean wouldn’t it be nice if someone could just fuck rocket’s brains out till his glasses fall off and he doesn’t even have to worry about blowing up living planets or killing mad titans? enter petra quill once again. this is hot, highly-communicative smut complete with both consent & shredded silk stockings, and rocket just feeling good.

stars. (tumblr) ☕︎ stars. (ao3) sexual tension & some of the loveliest atmospheric writing i've ever consumed. another @aliasrocket fic that lives in my head.

THE ONE WHERE HE SAVES HER (tumblr) [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025] this one is my favorite, but @sweetaliencheeks has a whole series of these, so if you like this one you should definitely check out the rest! i don't know how i managed to miss this for so long since it was posted in 2023, but it's fucking glorious. rocket is so perfectly characterized here and the whole thing just melts my heart. would read 5k more times. feels comics-based to me?, no smut but adult/suggestive themes and cw for implied sexual slavery. an ending that makes my heart sing in all the best ways.

untitled drabble/oneshot (tumblr). @hyperjorts probably never meant for their random drabble (which they mistakenly tagged as a shitpost) to live rent-free in my head for months on end but here we are. you can skip (or not skip) the original ask they were reblogging and just focus on this wonderful little bit of fiction that SCREAMS "universe-killer rocket" to me. (and then has me sweating & panting at the end)

A Very Basic Instinct (tumblr) ☕︎ A Very Basic Instinct (ao3) nsfw. when i tell you this fic did things to me. it is probably one of the fics i reread most. like, all the time jkjk only semiregularly. check out the author @elegant-fleuret for other equally brainrot-inducing smut (also mentioned in my recced creators).

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@angyc0rtoons the way they draw rocket is just. the most perfect embodiment of chaos. i WISH i could draw such animated expressions so fluidly and perfectly. and their color-choices make me want to cry in the best way. it's like i actually believe in the future again. make my brain go brrrr. (this one makes all my dopamine receptors light up) (also i will go to the grave grateful and sobbing over the time they illustrated my dumb hashtags)

@bathmob i wish. i could draw rocket. like this. the vibes are so good. the style. is perfect. i thank the universe whenever i see new art from them.

@glow-autumz is absolutely going to be a published comic artist some day and i will buy anything she works on ever. literally everything she creates has a story behind it, which i love. like, not only are her illustrations gorgeous (and like…often very hot) but every single one is (at least) a single-panel narrative. plus her OC is also cool as hell and i love her interpretations of rocket.

@happylittleshrub is a genius of the highest order. love watching all the different ways they render rocket, and i would sacrifice my LIFE for their baby rocket (raised by groot). protect them and their little rockets at all costs

@lazarel-3000 creates the most toe-curlingly delicious art i've seen in a long time. i am seduced by pretty much everything they create. even their rough drafts have me panting. (i also have a crush on their OC and as a bi-lady i look at their art and am often like oh shit this is a fuckin feast). as mentioned before, this artist is also the author of one of my favorite fics and is a recommended creator in general.

@projectanimation7 is an amazing artist in general but i am specifically posting to share this little snuggled-up rocket and groot. glorious, magical, cuddly. 10/10.

@rogertaylorswift i honestly don't know how this artist was not already on my rec list??? a staple and a god in the rocket fancommunity tbh. i can't pick one piece of theirs that i love more than the others. their album covers are beautiful, their meme redraws are hysterical, their one-frame comics are deeply-moving and lovely, and their longer comic arcs never fail to make me weep.

@uglly-rodent posts always make me want to pinch the babby raccoom's cheeks and/or cry.

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@aliasrocket writes such beautiful things it is impossible to pick a favorite (i got two of their fics in the fic section and it was difficult to narrow it down that far and even now, i'm not certain). their tumblr has the added advantage of a ton of drabbles, every single one of which is perfection.

@caesarhamato22 read everything. like everything. great smut but i am a sucker for the slice of life shit and it's so fuckin good here. i just wanna be a nail tech on knowhere/locked in a closet with rocket/have him steal my t-shirt/whatever. it's like all my most domestic desires got turned into little fanfiction dreams. so much wish fulfillment i could die

@elegant-fleuret has great fanfiction (more than just the one on my fic list - i just felt like i had to narrow it down and A Very Basic Instinct literally gives me a a fresh hit of dopamine every time i reread it, which is a lot). plus also art. double-threat.

@hibatasblog how have i not had hibata on here sooner? i mean, i know i had a bunch of their fics, but they continue to create amazing new things (and i can't put every single fic on here or it would be way too long). i just worked on the #kisskissBANGBANG challenge with them and every piece they posted was so lovely and amazing. they create steamy, meaningful, emotionally-charged fics that typically star rocket x petra fics (genderbent/fluid peter quill), sometimes with rocket x blackjack o'hare, petra x blackjack, and my personal favorite throuple ever: rocket x petra x blackjack. also occassionally they'll share some of their art, which is a gift to humanity. [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025]

@lazarel-3000 look. look. i cannot say this enough. please go check them out they are hope in a hopeless place. some of the sexiest art + one of my very favorite fanfictions + one of my very favorite OCs have come out of this flawless individual. (full disclosure they also did some nsfw art of my OC jolie and rocket that has me crying and dying and hyperventilating on a daily basis)

@love-for-faeries-go-burrrr has another one of my favorite OCs and i am always hungry for their little storylines whenever they post.

@mcsquared789 is working on a rewrite of the whole mcu, including stories of the parts we've never seen (widowmaker, for instance, is the history that the black widow movie references). it is a massive undertaking and an incredible project and while i've only read the smallest fraction of it so far, it was excellent and i hope to eventually get through the whole thing. [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025

@mrwolfhare is one of my favorite sources of gotg food-for-thought. just some of the most thoughtful explorations of the details of both the mcu and comic canon, excellent headcanons, beautiful screenshot sets, and really solid art. the drawtober art and ficlets have been highlights in my days this month and i'm told there may be a rad fanfiction on the horizon so keep your eyes on this! (rad fanfiction is here now! read Subject 880HR on ao3)

@raccoon-coded just. A+ gotg content, both original and reblogs. most recently i find myself coming back again and again to their review of various gotg novels (and adding a few to my tbr pile).

@shylyobscene is a fucken powerhouse of spicy rocket x reader content, with excellent characterizations and relationship-development, and engaging readers who are relatable and also interesting. i will keep my eye on everything that comes out of this blog. [NEW ADDITION ~ 2025]

[raccoonfallsharder]

i don’t know how i missed this but i love it with my whole heart

THE ONE WHERE HE SAVES HER

“Hello, I was told that you had booked this room” I peeked into the bedroom and greeted my guest with the sweetest voice I could fake. It was as dirty and desolate as every other room in the hotel. The red carpet was stained, the bedding was discoloured and the walls marked and scratched with many untold stories. Everything in there seemed to be setting me up for yet another terrible evening. But something felt off nonetheless. It didn’t smell as usual, it smelled more of what seemed to be gunpowder than it did of cheap candles and liquor.

“Yeah, no shit” a gruff voice mumbled from the other side of the space, making me stop dead on my tracks and wonder if I really should step inside to greet him at all “Who are you?”

“I’m your hostess” I shrugged with as much confidence as I could, keeping a cheery voice and gripping the keys tightly between my fingers as the door shut behind me. I saw my guest in front of the big window on the wall opposite from where I was standing. Face deep into some strange material I couldn’t figure out just yet.

“Is that what you’re calling them these days?” he snickered, never taking his eyes off of whatever it was that he was fidgeting with at the base of the tripod. I let out a heavy sigh before throwing my key onto the small kitchenette counter to my right and let myself crumble onto the bed that sat right in the middle of the room. The rough red velvet prickled the back of my thighs and arms.

“I guess…” I sighed, rolling over to my side so I could look at him, making sure that my cleavage was sitting just right “Why the sudden change from your usual?”

“My usual?” he scoffed. He was indeed a regular costumer, especially at the bar downstairs. I’d seen him a couple times drinking there by himself and scaring away every hostess that tried to approach him. I had always been good with the most difficult guests, so I naturally couldn’t have passed on the opportunity to spend an evening with such an infamous one. All my colleagues had refused to take the job but I knew of him, I could never forget a face. Let alone one like his. He scoffed “Are ya drunk?”

“Although it would definitely make your company a lot more pleasant, I’m not allowed to drink on the job. You seem to be though.” pointing a lazy finger at him, I watched as he slowly lowered his ears and bared his teeth.

“Listen here, lady. I ain’t here for ya, I’m working.” he was right in my face, angrily glancing between me and the guns and materials scattered on the carpet. As if I couldn’t see them. I shrugged.

“I figured as much” I took a cigarette out of my packet and it rolled between my fingers as I searched for a lighter among all the funny stuff in the drawer of the bedside table “I’m working too, you know” I sparked it up and took a drag, before blowing some circles towards the ceiling “And I don’t wanna be with you either.”

“Good, then leave” I chuckled dryly, smoke scratching my throat before I slid off the bed to sit beside him.

“Wish I could, buddy, but they’re watching me” I whispered in a mocking way, wiggling my fingers in front of his face “I’m stuck here” I picked up a spare scrap of metal from the floor and examined it “Now can we just pretend that we’re going at it? Otherwise they’ll fire me” the glare he shot at me made me quickly put the small orange piece back where it was “Let’s say… Five minutes?” I flicked his ear with a grin, which made it slightly flutter and caused him to scratch it.

“Very funny, make it an hour” he kept his eyes on his stuff, I’m not even sure that he had ever even glanced at me for anything other than to threaten me when I picked up his spare part. But his voice had gone up to a cockier demeanour, which made me silently sigh in relief at the slightly less tense atmosphere.

“Sure” I put my cigarette out on the ashtray by the window, right next to where he was sitting, and carefully made sure that my arm lightly brushed against his side. As it made its way back towards my lap I couldn’t help but let my curiosity take over again, and picked up a small gun that I promptly aimed at him, trying as well as I could to focus on the middle of his face. I made a small laser like noise and set it back down before he could say anything.

“Never thought I’d say this, but you might actually be useful” he picked up the small weapon and forcefully handed it back to me “That dirty mug could have someone in here”

“Never wanted anything more than to be an accessory in a murder” I pursed my lips and stared at him, eager for an explanation as to how and why I could ever be useful to him in any way.

“None of this would actually kill him, just knock him out” another click, and the whole thing was nearly set “I hope…” he spoke under his breath and rolled his eyes at the worried expression on my face “Hold this.” before I could protest, I was holding yet another weapon.

“And then what?” I examined carefully every single line of both objects as he kept shuffling stuff around.

“My partner will pick him up and trade him to the Nova Corps for units” I nodded as I set all the dangerous crap back on the floor. Didn’t want to have anything to do with him, or the whole mission, or the possible murder.

“That doesn’t sound very clean” I said leaning my back against the bed.

“It ain’t, it’s just business” his answer was as short and sharp as he was. But he seemed sure of what he was about to do.

“How can you be sure that you’ll get your units?”

“I got this” my eyes widened before a grimace took over my whole face as he took something out of a big black bag.

“Is that a leg?” I gasped, hands going up to cover my mouth.

“His leg” this guy was actually walking around carrying a real prosthetic leg in his bag, and was totally calm and laughing about it.

“Right… To be fair, I’d trade my leg for units” I chuckled “I’d rather be free with one leg” took me a second to realise that he had turned around and was now staring at my face, clearly confused by what I had just mentioned “What? You thought I was here by choice? I’m a prisoner. We all got bounties on our heads, you just wouldn’t know because they’re probably too low to be on your radar” I scoffed, not failing to notice how my tone suddenly got more defensive.

“I see… How did a hummie end up here?” and in that moment, he looked at me. Really, looked at me. He was now fully facing me, still kneeling on the floor, ears slightly flat and big brown eyes locked in mine. I had to catch my breath. It was hard to figure if I was intimidated or flustered.

“I escaped my original master, but things got tough real quick. So really a string of bad choices, I guess. Money, glamour, an easy way out, you know? I thought it was gonna be like Pretty Woman, that someday someone would show up with money to buy me diamonds and a nice dress to take me out for dinner in” I knew he certainly wasn’t going to understand the reference, but it was the only way for me to talk about it without shedding a single tear “But instead of getting the love and the fancy suite of Richard Gere, I’m stuck in here with this” I tried to lighten the mood by gesturing towards him with a smirk. But I was uncomfortable, and embarrassed, and terrified. Altogether lonely and totally surprised that he had suddenly taken a genuine interest in me.

“Watch it” I had to check twice to be sure that it was a smile that I had seen on his face. He had now stopped fidgeting and was holding a small box between his hands.

“How did you end up here?” I asked out of politeness, I already knew what the answer was.

“Units, obviously. Always get the shitty side of the plan though. Probably because if those ugly mugs caught me, I’d get thrown in prison, too” he stood up to check on his stuff again, closing one eye to see if the aim was accurate.

“Yeah, I’m pretty sure you would”

“I never wanted to end up like this, lady. It wasn’t my choice, ya know? They just broke me” and so did his voice before he cleared his throat. I felt a sharp pang of guilt in my chest and my stomach dropped slightly.

“Would you like a drink? I’m here to work after all” I tried yet again to lift our spirits. Standing up on my wobbly high heels, I strutted towards the mini fridge under the desk.

“I’ll have one if ya have one” I shook my head before bending over to grab a bottle “Come on, aren’t you supposed to attend to everything your clients demand?”

“Fine, I’ll have one if you tell me more about yourself” with my hand in a bag full of ice, I looked at him over my shoulder.

“There ain’t nothing to say about me” he mumbled.

“I’m sure there’s plenty. Please? I’m not allowed to tell anyone. I mean, who would I even tell? This is the longest chat I’ve had with someone in probably years” I put the lid back on the bottle and threw it in the trash before walking back towards him.

“Really? How come you ain’t got friends? Very surprising giving your pretty face and pleasant personality” I rolled my eyes, there was no way I was going to give him the satisfaction of knowing that I was pleased with his musing.

“You’re so funny” I paused, realising that I didn’t even know his name. But maybe it was better that way, so I just began walking back towards the window. My feet were killing me and I could feel my dress getting into places where it clearly shouldn’t be.

“I know, your friend in room 282 tells me all the time” with a terrible wink, he set up the last piece.

“Of course they do” I sat back down on the floor and handed him his glass “Sir”

“Thanks”

“Why bounty hunting?” I leaned back on my hands and crossed my legs at the ankles.

“I'll tell ya something I've learned over the years, you can save the galaxy and take units” he took a long sip and looked outside through the small water droplets that slid through the glass “You can save millions of people by killing a few bad ones and still win”

“Didn’t expect you to be a good guy” I took a sip of my own glass, and shuddered at the foreign feeling “Who broke you?”

“Don’t know exactly. My home planet was a lunatic asylum, most of my memories have been blacked out” a snort escaped my lips and made him snap his head towards me, a smile plastered on his face. A real one that I didn’t have to squint to see “That makes you laugh?”

“You’re a fucking mess. I get why you don’t really get along with people” I took another swig.

“Eh, who cares?” he shrugged, eyes locked in the bottom of his almost empty glass “I don’t really care about people, I spend most of time shooting them anyway”

“Fair point…” a few seconds went by before I craned my neck to look past him and his imposing arsenal to look at the street down below “Has he come out yet?”

“Nah. Probably in there with some ugly skank” he scoffed before finishing his drink.

“Anything against ugly skanks?” I asked in fake offense. He chuckled.

“Only against those who can’t keep their drinks coming” he shook his glass in front of my face, the nearly melted ice cubes tinkering against one another. I stretched out to reach for the mini fridge to grab another bottle that I promptly opened and served “You forgot one glass” he said nodding towards the glass in my hand.

“I’m not drinking anymore. If they come get me in the morning and notice that there’s alcohol in my system, you won’t be seeing me again” I drank the last drop and rolled my glass under the bed, thinking that I’d pick it up in the morning.

“As tempting as that sounds, ya won’t have to worry about tomorrow” in that moment, my heart tightened and tears quickly threatened to spill from my eyes.

“Are you going to kill me?” a choked, weak whisper coming out of a tight throat. Through the impending fear, I found myself wondering if death wouldn’t be a better outcome than whatever awaited me in that place. And there was also a slight relief for being a victim instead of an accomplice or a witness in the murder he was possibly about to commit.

“What? No? What is wrong with you, woman?” he stood up in a hurry, positioning himself behind the rifle that stood on the tripod.

“Wouldn’t be the first time” I began picking at my nails, my body instantly relaxing when it realised that he wasn’t actually about to shoot me.

“That’s terrible” his voice rumbled lowly in his chest as he focused hard on the man on the other side of the sidewalk below, several meters away from us. And then he pulled the trigger. A strident beep noise echoed through the room and then screaming on the street. That was all there was.

“That was quick. And that’s not the kind of thing you wanna hear around here” as I began to tidy up my hair, he stuffed all of his things back into the black bag. Leaving behind only the leg and a card under the bed.

“Right, quit fooling around, we need to go” as he dismantled all the contraptions he had spent hours setting up, I sat there in confusion.

“Excuse me?”

“Put your coat on, grab that bottle and fix your lipstick. We’re leaving” he slung his bag over his shoulder and behind his back, fumbling through his pockets to find a smaller gun.

“What?” with a tug on my hand, he started to guide me towards the door.

“Call me Prichard Clear, because I’m busting ya out of here”

So this one has been on my drafts for a little while, finally inspired enough to finish it. It’s long, I know, but I liked this idea (and I still don’t know how to add a “keep reading” thingy, sorry). Got a few other fics ready to be posted including a couple of requests that I’m very excited to share with you! I hope you’re over the emotional damaging experience that was GOTG3 and that you’re all being your amazing sexy selves 🤍

Love you all

[raccoonfallsharder]

you all know i can't say enough nice things about @hibatasblog's Entanglement but my babe is writing a supplemental fic right now (happier/smuttier vibes to balance the current darkness of entanglement) and i HIGHLY recommend

Give In, You're Mine All Mine

is a glimpse into the behind-the-scenes of Petra Quill's eventual relationship with BlackJack O'Hare and, if you've been paying attention, there are implications from hibata's kiss kiss bang bang challenges that rocket/jack/petra may be an eventual throuple....

anyway, give in is just so playful and fun and i highly recommend it if you just want some cute relationship-building with lots of absolute filth on the side (or absolute filth with cute relationship-building on the side) ♡♡♡

also petra always has the best outfits and i kinda wanna draw her in her club getup

[raccoonfallsharder]

Hiiii hello ^.^ I did a thing again. I wanted to post a new chapter today but AO3 is down so I worked on this book cover. I tried to be all thematic and stuff and might've gone crazy with the markers. It looks better from further away haha. Maybe squint when you look at it?

i cannot wait to get back to reading more FLIGHT RISK !!!

the writing is so beautiful, and the oc is so sweet and relatable to me (and frankly, with the exception of rocket, i rarely read animal/anthro main characters).

honestly this book cover is rad as hell and i really need to get through the let me love your ocs queue (i am dragging my feet on the last two. not because they're not awesome but because i just haven't been drawing a lot this summer, either) 'cause i kinda wanna try my hand at drawing k'wirra. (and petra in her clubbing outfit from chapter one of give in)...

[raccoonfallsharder]

Hey girl hey~ guess who? It's me of course and uh yeah remember how we talked about K'wirra and art of her? I kind of sort of made some? I used a mouse and canva which are probably not the most professional tools, but I think I made it work. I dunno if editing photos really counts as art, but I hope you like it. I've been making book covers with just bird pictures til now. I have a few of them ready for the next couple chapters or so, and this particular book cover will not be public for a while(except for right here in this post) so yeah! I also added the current and previous book covers as part of chapter 1 on AO3 if you're curious about them. :) I put so much work into them for FFNET and Wattpad that I just want to put them somewhere lol. Anyway, here it is, the first actual art of K'wirra, not including pictures of birds with filters over them haha. Let me know what you think~ ^^

oh my god. this is delightful. i need to get back to reading as soon as possible (and i will be sure to look at the other covers too!). she's so beautiful and regal, and i'm going to enjoy having this new visual of her when i imagine her doing all her clever avian things, like tying her weapons to her torso and building nests. god i love her so much. thank you so much for sharing this!

for those of you who haven't read @penguinpasta's flight risk yet, it's so good. i don't read a lot of animalian OCs but k'wirra is so precious and relatable, and the writing is so, so delicious. thoughtful, scrumptious, angsty, flawless, with A+ characterization. i don't think i've updated my recommended works since i started reading this gem, but it will be added the next time i do so.

[raccoonfallsharder]

me reading this, nodding sagely: yes this is exactly how this would go down

absolute perfection in the form of a cute lil headcanon from one of my fave authors PLEASE check their stuff out

“it was nice, you fuck!”

I’m not sure if this is a fact or not, but I read on tiktok that apparently your brain shows you seven minutes of your life when you’re dying and those seven minutes are supposed to be the best parts of your life.

So I thought of what if Rocket sent this to you as a text message, thinking it would be sweet, but he didn’t really take in the “dying” part of it 😭

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Rocket: “Apparently when you die, your brain shows you 7 minutes of the best moments of your life. You would be my 7 minutes.”

And about 15 minutes later, he got a face call from you and he picked up and you were sobbing. “What is wrong with you? Why would you say something like that?” Obviously crying because it was so sweet yet so sad.

Rocket laughed a bit, “it was supposed to be nice!”

You replied, crying harder, “it was nice, you fuck! Very nice! Now look what you did!”

“I didn’t mean to make you cry! I wanted to be sweet.”

“By talking about you dying?!”

“I don’t know! Just in case—“

“In case of what? Because if you think—“

“Nothing, nothing, I’m exaggerating!”

“If you think you’re not coming back here, Rocket…”

“Listen, the only reason I wouldn’t come back on time would be because I was getting you flowers on the way home. I ain’t leaving, baby. Okay?”

-

Thank you tiktok for this beautiful yet heartwrenching idea :)

[raccoonfallsharder]

ever imagine rocket raccoon wearing his dad-glasses in a perfect slice-of-life au smut fic? by which i mean wouldn’t it be nice if someone could just fuck rocket’s brains out till his glasses fall off and he doesn’t even have to worry about blowing up living planets or killing mad titans?

enter petra quill once again

(this is my advertisement for @hibatasblog’s amazing fic, Professor R Raccoon or How Rocket Got His Groove Back. hot, highly-communicative smut complete with both consent & shredded silk stockings, and rocket just feeling good)

be 18+ and all that friends

and please leave comments & kudos because this writer more than deserves them ♡

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Entanglement chapter 5 is up!

i ran to read it.

if anyone is not reading this yet && you just wanna pick up baby rocket the minute he leaves counterearth and take care of him and love him this is the fucken fic for you

also that one line of rocket’s internal dialogue here (you know the one) got me like ‧⁺( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ ·̫ ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )

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Hey! I've got a random question for ya~

Are there any particular works or artists that inspire your own writing?

And do you have any book recommendations? 📚

oh my god i love this question so much (,,> ᴗ <,,) ♡♡♡

honestly? my prose style aspires to someday (i could never) emulate the writings of mary oliver and ee cummings, gordon henry jr, jonathan safran foer, markus zusak, alice hoffman, and their ilk. i think in different ways, they've all mastered the art of making you FEEL something that words should not be capable of making you feel - experiences that truly defy description, but somehow, you read their words and recognize the emotion anyway, in all its depth and color.

i'm working on a oneshot (starfall) that is based almost entirely around (and will include) one of my fave passages from everything is illuminated, by jonathan safran foer:

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.

i first read this book in.... i don't know.... 2013, maybe? i've held onto it like a prayer ever since, ugh. i won't flood this already-lengthy response with quotes but there are so many others (i used to literally just keep a journal full of passages and quotes like this, because they made me feel so much.)

additionally - particularly for the novelists i mentioned - there is a sense that every person who touches the story is important to it. every character has their own rich history. they are never just a side character. i'd love for my characters to feel as whole, and as well-known, as important, as well-loved.

and like. i know i am mostly known for raccoon-based fluff and smut. so sometimes i feel an EXTRA layer of imposter-syndrome lol, trying to make all my silly stories sound like art. then i try to remind myself that a lot of ee cummings' gorgeous and most-glowing poems are actually fuckin filthy lol (it helps a little)

as for specific book recommendations... i don't know. "recommendations" feels like such a loaded word lol. i certainly would not recommend all the books that i enjoy - and i like to know what a person is looking for when i recommend, so i can try to tailor my recs to what they're looking for. but here's a... list? and more pressingly - do you have any recommendations for me? (my tbr pile is massive but i am always welcoming more reads! ♡♡♡)

slow-moving lyrical prose with a sense of mysticism/magic realism in the storytelling? the light people, i am the messenger, the book thief, practical magic, sea change (sm wheeler).

ya female-led fantasy action-adventures with fascinating main characters and worldbuilding? graceling, fire (cashore), daughter of smoke and bone (series).

female-led pseudo-historical high fantasy? anything by juliet marillier, including foxmask, dreamer's pool, and daughter of the forest.

smutty reverse-harem trash-romances? anything by kyra alessy, especially when she writes neurodivergent heroines. marie mackay also won me over to omegaverse stuff with sweetheart and her poisonverse worldbuilding and sometimes-unhinged heroines. (i mean and the smut and angst of course.)

historical coziness? anne of green gables.

horror? the call (o'guilin - cw for body horror).

scifi? the fold (clines), annihilation.

comics? strong female protagonist (a brennan lee mulligan superhero story), harrow county (folk horror), something is killing the children (fantasy horror), wicked + divine (fantasy/modern mythology), saga (scifi?).

i'll add that i think almost all of these have het romantic subplots (sea change is an exception and is overtly queer. it's been a while since i read wicked + divine but i feel confident there was queerness there too - and no matter what the anne of green gables series canon is, i ship anne shirley + diana barry). which is unfortunate for many reasons, including the fact that while i tend to write rocket x f! smut, i am not straight myself. i would particularly be grateful for more fxf romance in my life ♡♡

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my friend introduced me to the dear hunter recently and I think their song red hands really fits rocket, what with his inferiority complex and refusal to belief anyone loves him + the guilt he always has for lusting after anyone, u should give it a listen (also all their songs are really good i think my favorite is the church and the dime)

sorry this took me so long to respond to. i kept seeing it when I couldn’t find the time to listen. now that i have, i’m ruined lol. the vibes .｡༅:♬*˚♩⁺‧͙

i’m pretty sure this song is part of a larger narrative?? but on its own i am absolutely in love. it’s absolutely fitting for our guy rocket. so deeply melancholy and bitter and regretful i could actually tear up, oof. the angst

also i LOVE the progressive/post-rock genre so like thanks for introducing me to my new obsession???

hope the semester’s treating you well, little fox. break is coming soon ♡

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New chapter of The Ravager Code updated! I forgot to make a post about it but I’m gonna do that from now on 🤦🏽‍♀️😅

YEEEAHHHHHH

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from your fic writer asks reblog, 4. 13, 15

YAY thank you nonnie ♡♡ these are such good picks because I love to gas up other writers. I'm honestly so thankful for the fanfiction community as a whole and for the rocket♡community in particular.

you all know i'm too fuckin wordy so i've cut this for your sanity

4. Are there any other fic writers you admire? If so, who and why?

So I feel like a lot of the fic writers I currently admire are in this circle.

@aliasrocket has the ability to blend absolute crudeness with this undercurrent of yearning that is peak Rocket, and literally everything I've read by them is like...too hot. I also think they're a goddamn pillar of the community

@elegant-fleuret writes a perfect Rocket. if i didn't know better i'd think he got stuck at her place for like the first six months of quarantine and now she knows exactly how his brain works whether she likes it or not (either way i benefit because the writing is so good and hot). her writing is also so CLEAN (not like - i mean it's filthy as hell but i don't think i've ever seen a typo or an error and it's always so polished and i??? always?? have a misplaced punctuation mark or a bad autocorrect SOMEWHERE)

@evolvingchaoswitch writes with incredible vulnerability and (again) everything is so fuckin sexy.

i could go on??

One of the fic writers outside of this community (she writes mostly hellcheer for Stranger Things) is @staceymcgillicuddy and in addition to writing just the smoothest content I've ever read (seriously, every word goes down easy), she's like...so consistent. I'm so impressed by her ability to write and share REGULARLY.

13. Favorite fic from another author?

Choosing is so, so, so hard.

i think my very favorite from this fandom (so far) is probably A Very Basic Instinct by @elegant-fleuret. you've all absolutely read this because it's like - such a perfect bite of rocketsmut. and i mean if you haven't then leave this post immediately and go read it stat. ugh

I love last (friday) night by @aliasrocket/(subject) 89P13 . it's just such a good beginning. there's heat, humor, angst. love it.

i also love and need more of @lazarel-3000's The All of You. the oc Juno is so interesting and I really want to dig into her backstory and learn everything about her, and i cannot WAIT to see how things unfold between her and my best raccoon boy

outside of the erocketa community I read a lot of hellcheer (stranger things) and some other fandoms. currently topping the list of faves is a very smutty oneshot called throw your jacket on the floor and a very sexy little fic called In a Sentimental Mood. oh and i wanna be your sin, i wanna be your preacher. and PURE bubblegum fluff i have reread like 27 times because it's just so cute: Poprocks.

15. Your guilty writing pleasure?

what is a guilty writing pleasure? is that like - something i do while writing that i feel like i shouldn't (like stay up writing on my phone till 3am when I gotta wake up at 6am, or forgetting to drink water? because i assure you neither of those are pleasures) or something i write about that i feel like i shouldn't?

look life is too short to have guilty pleasures. i embrace my pleasures wholeheartedly. if anyone tries to make you feel guilty for indulging in a pleasure that harms no-one, set yourself free of them.

my adoration for writing (and reading) light d/s rocketsmut with a big ol' dash of praise-kink is probably the thing i am most selective about sharing with other people but it's less about guilt and more about, like, not needing to subject everyone to my kinks + also not knowing who might be a repressed judgy weirdo.

okay i came back to this after thinking about it more, because i didn't want to feel like i was copping out on you. the only thing that i'm a little self-conscious about sometimes is how much of myself i put into OCs. so, a little personal: the first five visits of sweatshirt girl was 100000% about me dealing with like, the very traumatic loss of my first (very young) kitten to a deadly disease that wasn't responding to medication + my second (very young) kitten developing major health issues all in the course of the preceding 10 months. jolie's got a lot of hang-ups that make up my core personality and once i get around to writing Other Duties As Assigned, that OC will also get a nice little dollop of my 2023 work-related trauma. yo it's been a rough fuckin year and what better way to work that out than through erocketa amirite. just some healthy mutual consolation & absolute filth shared with a sad raccoon

(and therapy. i'm also in therapy. and medicated. both are great and you should try them if you're thinking about it and have the means)

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AMAZING. i was actively grinning throughout this entire story. exactly the vibes i needed

Zoomies

A Fic by SquadOfCats

Tags: Heist, Humor, Hijinks & Shenanigans, Secret Hobby, World Travel, Implied/Referenced Drug Use, Explicit Language

Rating: Teen

Word Count: 10,169

Characters: Bucky Barnes, Rocket, Alpine, Sam Wilson

Summary: “Listen, a few times a year, a talking, sentient alien raccoon breaks into my house, steals my arm, and makes me play hide and seek with him all around the world. That's funny. That's objectively fuckin’ hilarious. The day I can't laugh about that is the day you should put me back in a cryo tube, ‘cause something snapped and I'm the Winter Soldier again.”

Bucky shares a weird hobby with an unexpected friend.

Bucky Barnes Bingo @buckybarnesbingo : Secret Hobby

AO3 Favorite Tags Bingo @ao3tagbingo : Heist

Hi, I am about to chew all of my skin off worrying about this election, so to distract myself I wrote this deeply silly little fic. In which Bucky and Rocket are besties, having hooligan adventures together. Featuring funny snark and friendship feelings.

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Hi! Hope you’re doing well 🩶 Thought you might like to know I’ve (finally) got some more of The Ravager Code out on Ao3. Absolutely no obligation to read it just thought you might like to know. Anyways, have a great day. 😊

i WOULD like to know that!! thank you ♡♡♡ i will definitely go read as soon as i get the chance (maybe this weekend???)

thank you, angel!

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I just had to tell you that I’m a brand new fan of your content. I very randomly and sudenly found myself obsessed with Rocket Raccoon (in 2925?? No idea where the feral love came from but I’ve stopped asking questions.) So, naturally, I had to go poke around A03 to see what sort of Rocket/Reader I could find and ??? Hello??? I found YOU, this incredible and talented writer with a library full of content!!!

Anyway, I’m obsessed with your work and I am excited to indulge myself in all of it. Your writing is phenomenal! I’ve notated so many sections as things that have stuck out to me and it’s become very inspiring!! ❤️

i didn't respond to this for a while because it was such a SWEET spot of sunshine in my inbox bb. first of all, welcome to the fandom, we are mostly all very weird and nice here lol (and even though the fandom has slowed down since 2023, it does continue to draw in new people all the time, so your sudden feral love is not unheard-of!). i'm so glad and grateful that you like my work and that it has meant something to you, and that certain sections have resonated with you to the point that you've notated them or been inspired by them. that's so incredibly meaningful for me, and i'm honored by it. i'm making an assumption here but based on this ask, i'm thinking you may be a writer too? if so, i want you to know that your work is important. putting your voice and your story out into the world is such a generous, kind, and courageous thing to do, and i hope your readers are as loving and encouraging to you as you have been to me. thank you. you are as sweet as ripe summer raspberries and honey.

oh! i also want to gently point you in the direction of my recommended works page (i gotta update it for 2025 still) and my #rfh recs tag, because while i do write too much and flood out the ao3 tags sometimes, there are some amazing other creators in the fandom and i would be remiss if i did not point them out. (and this is only a few of them, to be honest - heavily weighted toward the olden-days of this fandom. i honestly can't keep up with all the amazing new creators we've got!)

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....*turns on notifications*

geeezus fuck. i am so overheated right now.

. ݁₊ ⊹ Butterfly Caught . ݁₊ ⊹

Rocket Raccoon/Reader

post GOTG 3 | f!reader, she/her, no y/n | 2nd person | hurt/comfort | eventual smut

—

Rocket knows he doesn’t really deserve you. He wonders if you knew how often he thought of how your pretty, soft skin would look covered up in bruises—and if it would make you leave.

“I could hurt you, you know,” he admits. As if that makes it any better.

The next few moments are something out of his filthiest frickin’ fantasies: you looking up at him, cheeks rosy, drowsily pressing a kiss against his fingertips. You drag his hand lower, placing it on the base of your neck.

“It’s okay,” you sigh, eyes lidded. “I want you to hurt me.”

—

Or, Rocket—newly minted captain of the guardians—sustains injury and begrudgingly lets a nurse treat his wounds. You get under his skin, despite his best attempts to stay away.

—

Chapter 1

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