#and Im not sorting through them all

[oh-no-its-bird]

Fanfic Recs?

LETS GO I'VE BEEN WANTING AN EXCUSE TO DO ONE OF THESE! Official Bird approved fanfic rec list lets go !!

Grabbing fistfuls from things tagged as my favorite, I have some more but take just these for now

don't trust them, brother (oh, but look at me now) by SilverUtahraptor

Izuna opens his eyes to find himself in an abandoned street littered with bodies bearing the uchiwa on their back. He shouldn't have eyes at all. He should be dying. [Uchiha Izuna time-travels to the canon era... to land right at the tail end of the Uchiha Massacre.]

61k words, Izuna/Kakashi (eventually)

This fic. THIS FIC. This was one of my first introductions to Izuna as a fleshed out character and shit man, it's great. If I could pick any one fic to magically make complete, it'd probably be this fic.

My Brother's Wife by Wisia

An AU where Izuna and Tobirama marries for peace, and there is the tradition of marrying your brother's wife if your brother dies.

16k words, Izuna/Tobirama, Madara/Tobirama

SO fun SO many layers to it, I had so much fucking fun with this series. I love complex emotions I love layers to motivations and feelings!!!

F.U.B.A.R. by Messier_47

They made Tobirama the Senju Clan Head. ...omg they made Tobirama the Senju Clan Head. *** This is the story where Tobirama is made Clan Head, fucks shit up. We find out more about what goes on between the clans during the Warring Clan Era, shit still gets fucked up. Power dynamics change, history as you know it will be erased, and you got another thing coming if you think that Senju-fucking-Tobirama will stand back now that he's given center stage. It all goes F.U.B.A.R. from here on out.

338k words, madara/tobirama

THE TOBIRAMA DOES POLITICS FIC OF ALL TIME. THIS FIC IS SO FUCKING GOOD IT'S REDICULOUS. YOU WILL READ THIS FIC AND ASSUME YOU ARE ON THE SAME / A SIMILAR PAGE AS TOBIRAMA AND THAT YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON BUT YOU DO NOT. THERE ARE PLOTS WITHIN PLOTS THAT EVEN YOU AS THE READER WILL MISS UNTIL IT'S SPELLED OUT TO U. AMAZING. INCREDIBLE. Tobirama is SO fucking fun to watch do shit in this, everyone is so compelling as characters, it's such a fun read that I've recommended it to friends who dont even know naruto. 10/10, definitely in the running for one of THE fics most ever. What a ride, man

Homemade Dynamite by Mixelation

“I mean,” Deidara growls, “you’re you from the future.” “Of course I am,” Itachi says, like Deidara is a bit slow. “And I’m me from the future,” Deidara continues, feeling a bit hysterical. Whatever Itachi did with the chakra nexus on the forbidden island, it ended with both of them traveling through time. “What the F––,” Deidara yells, and then tries to punch Itachi in the face again. OR: Deidara unwillingly signs up for Itachi's personal time-travel fix-it fic.

85k words, Itachi/Deidara

This fic is just straight up fucking incredible, it's so funny and so dramatic and so compelling and so fun. It got me onboard the Itachi/Deidara ship train so hard and I got so mad afterwords when I couldn't find other fics similar to it. This fic is just so, so good. Itachi and Deidara are both fucking maniacs and they have such incredible chemistry together. Honestly, every character introduced just has the most incredible, fun characterizations. I was never bored for a single moment this fic. HIGHLY recommend

By the Punch Bowl by Mixelation

“Are you single?” Gaara asks. He’s not sure how he’s meant to do this. “Oh, I see,” the man says after a pause. “I’ve read about this. You’re asking me out, and I should answer based on my interest rather than my actual relationship status.” Good, he’s making this easy, Gaara thinks. OR: Gaara asks Sai out.

2k words, Gaara/Sai

Comedy gold unlike any other, this is just a straight up good, silly time

denizens of the sands of time by CherShare

Happy accidents were less rare than they used to be, even if they still had a trend of making things worse before they got better. Gaara would take what he could get.

42k words, Gaara/Tobirama/Izuna

I LOVE THIS FIC ITS SO GOOD!! Gaara has such an interesting dynamic and chemistry with both Tobirama and Izuna, and the world around them is absolutely delightful. I'm such a big fan of Izuna's characterization in this specifically, and Shukaku is also such a highlight. The most crackship ot3 ever, it got me so on board

honey honey honey by latecambrian

“You’re a fucking idiot,” Kankuro hisses. “Literally a dumbass. Stay awake, I’m serious.” “You’re really hot, I noticed it before but I pretended I didn’t,” Kiba tells him seriously, head leaning back against the pillows. He frowns. “Don’t tell my mom I said that. It’s disrespectful.” the only thing really poisonous in the shinobi world is that emotional intimacy only comes out after life-threatening injuries

4.7k words, Kiba/Kankuro

This fic changed my life. I didn't really know much ab Kiba or Kanuro as characters before reading this, and wasn't too invested in what I did know. But like. This fic. This fic got me onboard the train so fucking hard. Fuck. Fuck. I've read this fic like 8 times now, it's just straight fun, so fucking funny and so fucking cute. It made me fall in love with Kiba/Kankuro and sent me spiraling for a week straight ab them

and so the moon wept by OHai_Here

Hatake Kakashi is fourteen, high off the grief of losing every single person important to him and his life in shambles. Kakashi wakes up. He’s on the ground, pushing himself up on an elbow, it’s shaking, shaking and there’s a cry of, “Kakashi!” that’s too too familiar and too too painful. Ah, this dream again. Just like every time he’s seen it both awake and asleep, he does what he always tries to. He pushes Obito away from him, as it always should have been and - Pain. OR: Kakashi finds himself in Obito's place; a stone coffin. There is no miraculous rescue, he's no Uchiha after all, and the only one he can rely on is himself.

102k words, obito/kakashi, sakumo/orochimaru

THIS FIC IS SO FUCKING GOOD AND MAKES ME SO FUCKING MAD. 10/10 FIC ON SO MANY LEVELS, THE BUILD UP TO KAKASHI COMING HOME WAS IMPECCABLE, BY THE TIME HE FINALLY GETS THERE I WAS LEGIT SHAKING. The multiple POV's feed into every craving I've ever had to know what's going on in the minds around Kakashi. And like. The ending. The ending. Listen all I'll say is after the final chapter I saw Ohai getting sent threats in their inbox and like. deserved. incredible ending, I felt like I was gonna throw up (positive)

Asymptotes by Anxiety_Pickle

Kakashi witnesses the destruction of the Uchiha clan and in the ashes of what once was remembers his responsibility to himself, and to Obito. “I’m not considered an Uchiha,” He reasons, “But I am… Obito’s next of kin, and therefore I have a responsibility to his family.” The Hokage takes a long drag of his pipe. The smoke diffuses around the room and hangs in the air in poisonous circles, before he resigns himself to the fact. “You’re sure you want to take the responsibility?” “Yes, sir.” "Then I won't stop you." He replies. "As of tomorrow, you have permission to move Sasuke from the compound at your disgression." Kakashi thanks him and leaves before he can second guess his decision.

27k words

Kakashi adopts Sasuke and eventually defects from the village w him to sound. This fic made me feel things I did not know I could, I was bouncing off the fucking walls over it, fuck. Great read, can't recommend enough for anyone who likes Kakashi & Sasuke

gossip girl by latecambrian

sasuke has been gone too long and needs to catch up on the tea, so he kidnaps the person least likely to beg him to come back “Suigetsu, enough,” Sasuke glares at ‘Suigetsu’ behind him. “I don’t think I’ll need to use genjutsu, though. My questions are simple.” “I’m seriously not gonna talk,” Shikamaru tells him. “So just get your brain torture over with.” “Is Kakashi-sensei gay?” Sasuke asks bluntly. It’s quiet for a blissful second. Even Shikamaru’s brain stops.

6.5k words, sasuke/naruto, kakashi/gai

Pure crack and fucking beautiful, I t

The Orphan Games by Anxiety_Pickle

“Naruto is not my friend.” He says, disgusted. “I don’t have friends. They’re… acquaintances. I have nothing to say to them.” He pauses. “Did you get in a fight?” These problems that Itachi is making up in his head are way too normal. “No. They banned me from participating in the orphan games. We’re not speaking.” Everyone stops, intrigued. Even Hidan. Mouthful of tinsel and all. Itachi says delicately, “the what?”

5k words, sasuke/naruto

I know I said gossip girl was pure crack and fucking beautiful but shit man this one is just as good. Absolutely fucking hysterical, I can NOT keep a straight face when I read this, it's just insane-- it's part of a series and the one before this is just as good too. Probably in the running for one of my favorite Akatsuki fics ever, everyone is so fucking charming and so fucking insane

Plasticity by Mixelation

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes the immortal leader of a cult tries to summon the god of death and gets you instead. ‘Not dying’ just got a lot more complicated than ‘follow chemlab safety instructions.’ A tongue-in-cheek, Akatsuki-centric SI/OC.

185k words

I'm not usually one for SI/OC fics, but guys. Guys. Guys. Holy shit you guys. This fic. This fic is something. It is SOMETHING. Tori has enchanted me. Her slow but steady descent into absolute morally reprehensible insanity has stolen my heart and mind. This fic, from start to finish, is nothing but pure entertainment of the highest degree. Every character written is so fucking fun, and I do truly think it's possibly my straight up favorite Akatsuki fic overall. They are so well written and so fun to watch. There are portions of this fic that feels like the worlds most fucked up funniest office comedy gone wrong. I love it. I can not get enough.

Also: Orochimaru.

[puppetslooselystrung]

little comic i made bc i found out abt the fact that molting is a thing.. bugs are so cool

[deoidesign]

One of my first digital pieces (2010) versus one of my recent ones (2024)

We all start somewhere!

[gh0sdae]

Silco is the perfect villain because even though he's the big bad king pin with enough power to keep an entire city under his thumb, he's making faces like fucking this half the time

[nandermoenthusiast]

im just imagining nandermo in a very enclosed space like for some reason they gotta be chest to chest pushed up against a wall and its awkward for a moment but then nandors eyes are just boring into guillermos and guillermo has that uncertain but unwavering stare too, and is this what is gonna take for them to kiss?

[normalbroadcast]

i am such a big fan of when there's a radio in a podcast and the radio is sentient in some way. like yesss that is a Character!!!

it is maybe adjacent to my love of fictional AIs? but somehow distinct. possibly it's that these are a little more fantastical/cryptic in origin rather than like. purpose-built. also probably something about what radio specifically represents in terms of connections between people across space. idk

[randomminty]

Yeahlow

[triptychofvoids]

Uh oh, one of your organs has mysteriously vanished! How screwed are you? Spin the wheel to find out! https://wheelofnames.com/7fm-aan

(i’m not a bot btw, i’m an actual anon 💀 /srs)

this is one of the few things on this wheel that wont kill or severely disable me immediately, still not ideal but all things considered this is one of the better options here heh itll be fine i have spares-

[telesodalite]

I love the idea that, whenever a Cybertronian space-faring vessel lands or docks within a predominantly non-Cybertronian space station or port, that it's required that they either confirm or deny whether their vessel is sentient or not before being permitted to land.

1. For proper accommodation and clarification, along with the chance for communication between the vessel and crews working the station/port.

2. Because there has been... incidents... incidents that have led to the requirement of the above reasons.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

...

[rayquaza-champion]

have some random swsh hcs (mostly hop & leon):

hop was born a few months after leon became champion. aka 10 year age gap

lee lived 70% in postwick and 30% in wyndon from ages 10-12, then 50/50 from ages 13-14, then 90/10 from 14-15, then 100% wyndon except for random holidays + 2-day vacations

so lee did raise hop in person from ages 0-5 but after that it was mostly over the phone and occasional visits where lee had to kind of try to cram all the parenting he could in a very short amount of time while also being the fun older brother + champion. thankfully, when he starts living in wyndon full-time is when the protag moved to postwick, so hop wasn't alone

as the above implies yes i think both rose and leon's parents + grandparents were kinda fucked up. in very different ways

rose is fucked up in the "puts outcomes/the big picture/the future over individuals/the present." how malicious about this i think he was varies. it's fun to imagine a meaner rose and the consequences of that on the people around him, but i think canon implies that he was just farsighted instead of uncaring of the immediate effects of his actions

speaking of rose he definitely has a weird relationship with the concept of success and comparison and conflict (created by his childhood and fueled by his relation with peony). and he definitely projects those weird relationships onto everything around him and has no one to check him on that because he's surrounded by yes-men and children. and he sees real genuine problems but tries to do everything to fix it himself. and that fucks everything up even more when it would have been fine if he had just asked for help or even just told people what was happening (he was literally right about the eventual energy crisis, all he had to do was tell ANYONE ELSE outside of his inner circle and he wouldn't have "had" to do All That)

leon's parents + grandparents are fucked up in the "we have a golden child and forgot that our other child might actually need attention too" way. the mum is the least egregious example of this but she's still very much not perfect. i think they expect hop to be like leon, except they forget to take into account that hop is much younger and isn't going to act like or have the same needs as a teenager/adult when he's a toddler/pre-teen. they treat hop like they would treat leon, but the one thing they don't forget is that leon is champion and he's not. so hop doesn't get the developmentally appropriate attention and care he needs while constantly being reminded that leon is better than him. because kids are smart and they can see how you treat them vs how you treat other people, and he sees how much more praise leon gets which is only highlighted by the fact that there's almost nothing else different about how they're treated. and they're definitely not being malicious here but they've got a glaring blind spot and it's really fucked with hop and how he thinks of himself and just the world in general. you are only Good and Worthy if you Are leon + leon is champion = i have to be champion so i can be Good and Worthy

big theme here is that literally no one in this story is evil. a lot of them do really fucked up things that are inexcusable but are explainable and everyone is trying their best. sometimes that best just isn't enough/could have been enough if someone had checked them

anyways protag (who i will be calling viktor because that's what i named my guy) moves to postwick at age 5 and he and hop are the same age and it's a Tiny Town so of course they immediately are best friends for life. mostly through hop's effort because that boy is the biggest extrovert there is and basically kidnaps people he wants to be friends with. & vik grows up hearing about leon constantly but literally never meets him until the game starts. cause he visits extremely sporadically and is advised by his mother to stay home the few times he's there so the brothers can properly catch up. they see each other in the distance but they never actually interact. vik sees how hop's entire world becomes just leon when he's here and he also sees how it's the same for all the other adults. vik sees how hop is treated in comparison to leon and he sees how little leon ever comes by and he isn't blinded by the lights the same way they are. he still watches leon's matches because hop got him into the habit and he likes how happy leon makes hop but he sees what's wrong here. i think the protag would probably have a much clearer view of what's happening because they can kind of look at it all from an almost outside perspective + doubly so if they aren't aren't big on celebrities

rose/the league fucked spikemuth over so hard. league wants to move the entire town and everyone in it to then be gentrified in whatever new place they end up for the purpose of making more money (cause successful gym = $$$) and getting rid of the "ugly" parts of galar (also to make more money cause tourism). and when piers refuses they're left to rot. no fucking wonder he never shows up to official shit

another example of rose-fucked-up-ness is of course oleana and bede. comes out of the woodwork to save them at their lowest and turns them into loyal unquestioning followers while he's willing to toss them aside in an instant if(WHEN) they do something to taint his perfect image. he sees himself in them and gives them things to do and will still throw them away like trash (wonder what that implies). it's been a while so i don't remember exactly how it goes but oleana is still in the dlc post-game looking for rose. she makes me so sad i need to see her healed and shooting a picture of rose in the forehead with a gun

[naamahdarling]

Augh

[dazzoot]

hello!!!!!!! I have a content warning OC:

Kat! you can read about him below the cut :)

Kat is someone who's always been big on horror content. A solitary spööktuber who mainly descends into the Old World not only to record content and make a decent profit, but to research and document the entities they encounter! Recording and posting videos is what helps him with funding his shenanigans, making research much easier with the right supplies.

Keeps all of their findings documented in their notebook and transfers it onto their PC once they return home, posting his finished pages on a website he made on his own : )

He doesn't have every creature documented yet, but he's working toward it... Slowly. His favorite is probably Whiskey (aka the whisk-thing that revs like a car and charges at you). He thinks it's funny, how clumsy it is

He does, however, hate Knifo with a burning passion. Being stabbed is NOT a pleasant feeling, and the little shit is always jumping them

Obsessed with using the soundboard. He finds it really funny. Scared of stun/shock sticks though, never purchases them unless he really needs to.

[toastysol]

Endlessly fascinated by how often the mysterious "beyond the blackwall" is talked about as though it was discovered by humans rather than made. Like some foreign jungle filled with venomous snakes and bugs and big cats etc. Instead of like a massive server. That is another question I have. How is the old net (beyond the blackwall) structured? I assumed it must have been a lot like our internet today, where every website is hosted on different servers, but the way it's talked about is strange if that were the case. Almost like the whole thing was hosted on one large server and everyone else's servers merely tapped into it. Communed with it.

It is a wilderness, the space between stars, some incomprehensible depth filled with man-created minds. It's like it's some extra plane of existence, like the hells of faerûn where devils and demons find portals into our world. But in reality it's like. Some server somewhere. Right? But if it were, wouldn't NetWatch just track down the server(s) and shut it down, effectively destroying any dangerous rogue AIs caught inside? Idk maybe I don't know anything about how the internet works but everytime anyone in the game says anything about it, it always raises so many more questions than answers.

[saltlickmp3]

mulder doll before i cut the hair into his actual style (jacket not pictured i think i need to try it again) & an x file

[itskaist]

Vibrating over that crossed out handler. Does Ortega remind him of his Farm handler or was his handler another person that was deeply important to him?

Cross-out? What cross-out? ;)

Haha, good spot! Referencing some easter eggs over here. And thank you for asking! <33

Again, got long. I simply cannot shut up about My Favourite Fucked Up Guy.

Yeahhhh, so. Josiah is very emotionally un-self-aware. Emotions, patterns of behaviour, cycles of abuse, he wasn't ever taught any of this. Even after he escaped, his priority was survival, his priority was not getting caught again; learning how to hide; learning how to function like a human being on a very 'make money, buy stuff, eat, make decisions, talk to people' level. And he's still very much stuck in this survival mode. This intense of a trauma will do that to you. Especially if he never talked about it to anybody, there never was anybody who would take him by the hand and say 'hey, what happened to you? that's not normal. that was fucked up and no one should have ever behaved towards you like that.' So to him, the Farm is the baseline Normal, and anything new he learns gets added on top of that. Even with his time as Sidestep, and then returning as a villain, foundations might have been shaken but not yet cracked.

With all this in mind, the patterns of life at the Farm are very much burned deeply into him. They are the earliest foundations of his reality, what he studied and replicated as he came into his own personhood. That includes patterns of relationships. Since he was a cuckoo, I don't think he was able to socialize much with other Regenes; especially adding the still-kind-of-uncertain Sidestep's special status there. Doubly so because of the cuckoo's education in blending in with human culture, I imagine that extra efforts would be extended that they do not internalize those lessons and try to replicate them in the Farm's social context. Isolating them more than others. Being trained by handlers and having to rely solely on them. Remember your place as only Tool, not Person.

And so that, that is Josiah's most formative relationship. In the psychodynamic branch of psychology, there is what's fancily called 'object relations theory' or more precisely, the theory of relationship to the Object. 'Object' specifically being the Mother, and how the relationship to one's mother (or any other primary caretaker) in the earliest days and years of life, and the type of attachment style developed towards her, will determine or at least heavily influence any future attachment styles to all other people in one's life. Whoof! That's a lot of fancy words to simply say that you replicate in your life what you've learned the earliest, and the earlier you learned something the harder it is to change later; because everything that you built atop it would have to be disrupted as well - and that, you know, is what builds up your entire identity as a person.

So. Josiah's earliest relationships, really the only relationships that he had, were with handlers. And that duology is what is very much burned into his brain. There is Person, and there is Tool. Master and slave. The one being provided for, and the one providing. Even after he escaped, all of his later relationships would follow this pattern to some extent, almost always with him falling back into the role of the Tool. Be useful, be needed, prove your worth, provide. If you're needed, you can't be rejected. If you provide, you will be rewarded (with affection, resources, safety). Not anything that would be in any way conscious, mind you. That was simply the only thing he knew. He latched onto the Rangers because that was the easiest group that he could offer something of himself to. He latched onto Ortega because he was the leader, and he dealt out assignments, and judged worth. So it was a priority to be judged by him, accepted by him. Even as they got closer as friends and then question-mark-something-more, Josiah was still very much stuck in the mode of providing, and unfortunately, that was also what held him back from commiting, from trying. Because he didn't believe that in that sort of a relationship, he would be able to provide much of anything at all. And Ortega would be disappointed, and grow bored with him, and their friendship would suffer from it too, and as such his position among the Rangers, and--

…Yeahhh. In his role as the villain, this time, Josiah positions himself as the Person. As the Master. He's the one giving out orders and making decisions now. And it is so empowering, and so thrilling, and-- if he ever realized that he is becoming a handler himself, he would shut down. Just like he does when he realizes that he's hurt the Puppet same as Shroud had hurt her, that he hadn't left his learned Regene patterns at all.

Whoof. Yeah. A lot, a lot of learning still ahead of him. A lot of terrifying realizations, a lot of having to question the reality you took for granted and a restructuring of identity. I'm curious who he will be on the other side of that.