#macdennis fic rec

[what-r-you-looking-at-dicknose]

Reminder that Mac says he needs to go back to Costco in the gang inflates, and Costco requires a membership to shop, so Mac and Dennis have a Costco membership together canon??

I want to see them shopping at Costco together.

Lots of Dennis saying "put that back, we don't need it."

Mac trying to convince Dennis to buy anything that's labeled as a health/protein food or drink.

He 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 persuades Dennis in an instance, and such other shenanigans.

I'm sorry you guys they are really rotting my brain this week.

[gaydennisreynolds]

I think about this fic snippet all the time. That IS what macdennis is about, at it's core: the inevitability.

hopeless and homeless and lost in the daze, oopshidaisy

[vicvinegarandhughhoney]

Heyo!!!

Hope you're doing okay in this post sunny era 😭

I was wondering if you as a macdennis writer could recommend underrated MacDennis fics?? And tell us about your future fics if you plan on any!

Oooh okay!!! So, im a huge sucker for den sickfics so most of these will be related lol, but here are a few I ADOREEEEE

in general for macden sickfics look no further than glennjaminhow and pollencoveredman

as for future macden fics, I'm working on

. A DTAMHD fic which is v much macden

. A MacDen sickfic

and I'm always up for if anyone has requests!!

ALSO... this one isn't a macden fic so to speak but it is genuinely my favourite sunny fic ever so...

[jeyuwuso]

Any fellow Mac bitches have bottom!Mac fic recs? And/or sub!Mac? So many of them aren’t tagged

[nightcrawlerzincorporated]

what r ur favorite macden fics

I'm sorry I took so long! I was trying to remember every single fic I've liked, which of course I failed at, so I decided to make a page for fic recs that I can update as I find/remember more! Hope you and everyone else who asks for fic recs enjoys!

[kennysaysthings]

There was a fanfic I read that described Dennis being “in a real bad way” and I’ve never been able to shake that phrase from my head so to whoever wrote that it is quite literally the best thing I’ve ever heard and yes Mandy was exactly how I’d imagine her

(I’ll repost with it if I can find it again I think I bookmarked it)

[macdenism]

BleedingAlive on ao3 is so goddamn talented we are so blessed they write macdennis and the iasip gang twisted found family GOD

[curlyhairedbooklover]

Just rewatched ‘everyone browns out’ (bc of the podcast withdrawals) and now I NEED to see macdennis doing some kinky cop role-play where Mac is arresting Dennis and pushing him up against the wall and handcuffing him etc etc 

[emberphantom]

hey I loved your sunny recs post I’ve read them all and NEED MORE I was wondering if u had an updated one or any more recent recs bc that one was from 2020 👉👈 (your taste is impeccable and no worries if not I have a lot to go on)

Oh jeez hi anon 😅

Okay I'm assuming you also came across this post of mine that's basically a part 2 of my pinned? And my bookmarks too. But just in case here you go 😎

But impeccable taste you say? Now I can't let you down.

I'm not gonna lie to you -- I feel like the MacDen fics sorta dried up a little after 2020 and then I kinda fell off reading and checking the tag bc Sunnyblr was kinda dead, and then I kinda moved on from MacDennis taking over my entire brain so I am fully not caught up with very recent works at all. But if you're in the market for some Call of Duty fic recs...😏 I'm kidding. Unless...

But I have a few recs from the same author that I didn't have on my list originally that def should have been. Also they just posted a few fics recently (this year!) which is how they kinda popped back up on my radar:

the empty space where your body's been by quixoti Mac wonders when it got so fucked up between them, how Dennis can look at him with such pure desire and still want to go out there to meet other people, and when Dennis meets his eyes in the mirror Mac knows, down to his soul, that Dennis is thinking the same damn thing.

mine (always will be) by quixoti Mac wants to reach over there and slap Dennis so hard he forgets himself, forgets his empty apologies, forgets everything but Mac. But he knows that once this gets going it'll be impossible to stop. Better to wait for the safety of the apartment, their own little world to destroy as they please.

Also this absolutely vintage (if 2014 can be considered vintage) gem that should have been on my other two lists:

each the other's world entire by quixoti Mac and Dennis survive each other. Mac and Dennis will always survive each other.

If anyone else has been knee deep in the Sunny/MacDennis tag as of late and wants to throw some recs out there, please send 'em my way!

[r0nnietherat]

well if you're going to do a cowboy au maybe you should look into solar erythema<3

I LIKE THE WAY YOU THINK

[gaydennisreynolds]

confession time i luv my feminization of dennis reynolds in my macdennis fics idk why it gets my insides going is it coz im a lesbian there ain't nearly enough of good fics w this trope out there do u understand me pls

ubhhhh anon I'm mildly concerned that you're inside my brain I was just thinking about this as I went to sleep last night

feminization isn't usually a big thing for me (bc I am only interested in women typically) but when it's Dennis it REALLY fucking does it for me too. I reread pearl by kafkian but there needs to be more. Needs To Be. Anon let's get everyone on board so they write a million feminized Dennis fics let's change the world

[kod-lyoko]

Something Close to Extraordinary on ao3 is sooo good

[macdennislibrary]

guardians of a rare thing by yennefers (Rating: Explicit | Chapters: 14/14 | Words: 100,612 Setting: Season 12 | POV: Dennis | Other Tropes: Mutual Pining, Codependency | Warnings: Internalized Homophobia, Mental Health Issues, Brief Depictions of Violence, (with additional warnings in chapter notes)

Sometimes Mac will kiss him to calm him down. It’s a no strings attached kind of thing, until it isn’t.

[hungiehipo]

My top 8 favorite Macdennis fanfiction

So I've officially run through all the macdennis fics available (if I'm being honest there ARE definitely some that I did not finish for various reasons such as high school AUs that felt a little weird to read in my mid twenties). It took 8 months. Probably will do as suggested and just start rereading. Something very comforting about reading the same plot run through over and over and over lol.

I do not claim to have amazing or superior taste, but these ones all stood out to me as being exceptionally unique, interesting, or well characterized out of the thousands of stories on A03.

Also if you want recs/want to give me recs my inbox is super open :) I crave to talk to the people

42,679 words- complete

Dennis lives groundhog day/is stuck in a time loop repeating the same day over and over.

73,131 words- Finished and has a part 2

Starts end of season 12/ Dennis' double life. Dennis turns into a vampire basically and its really good.

42,309 words- TRAGICALLY ABANDONED

2017 Mac and Dennis are sent through a time portal to 2005 where they meet their younger selves. Mac and young Dennis are separated from Dennis and young Mac. Something happens and Mac/ old Dennis are sent back to the future while Mac/young Dennis are stuck in the past. So good until abruptly ending with no resolution sadly.

27,325 words- COMPLETE!

Macs dad dies. Him and Dennis go on a road trip to Mexico to spread his ashes.

33,224 words- Complete!

Dennis gets a heart rate monitor watch and the gang tries to help him lower his blood pressure. Post season 16.

51,228 words- IN PROGRESS

This one is being actively updated but I love it so I included it. Dennis agrees to date Mac for one day to get it out of his system so he can finally move on.

12,609 words- Finished!

Heaters broken and they are forced to share a sleeping bag. Similar to only one bed trope but better!!!

63,955 words- NOT COMPLETE, supposedly not abandoned but also has not been updated in over a year.

Mac has amnesia back to when he was in the closet and Dennis pretends to be his husband when he wakes up.

[sillygayrants]

Actual JUSTICE for macdennis in “the janitor always mops twice” because WHAT WAS THAT. Please someone give me fic recs im going crazy. Ive only found like one piece of fanart too what the FUCK.

[glenflower]

Macdennis Fic Rec List by wordcount

1K - 10K

Mac and Dennis Fool Around - morphosyntactic [1k]

“If you’re struggling to find a good guy to get down with, I could let you blow me.”

Mac tenses. Is he seriously hearing this? Has he had too many beers, passed out and slipped into some alternate universe, half nightmare, half… something else? “What?”

“I’d be willing to let you,” Dennis says. Mac twists on the couch to look away from the TV and at Dennis. Dennis’ face is neutral, but as Mac stares, he raises an eyebrow. “Out of the goodness of my heart, or whatever.”

afterflow - yennefers [2k]

He finds him licking his wounds under the bleachers.

Mac’s flicking a lighter under a scrawny little scrap of a cigarette and he’s doing it way too fast. He’s slicked his hair back like a John Wayne wannabe and he has blood crusted on his bottom lip - everyone saw the punch up, Dennis included. Bradley Morgan punching Ronnie the Rat in the jaw for tipping off the school office; it’s yesterday’s news and it happened this morning.

“You need some help with that?”

“Fuck off,” Mac mutters. Dennis take the lighter anyway.

pink and blue - yennefers [4k]

“It was by the dumpster,” Mac says. He sounds scandalised. “It’s been shitting it down with rain all day, bro. C’mon. I’ll take it back tomorrow.”

The cat stares at Dennis, wrapped up tight in the duster. It blinks at him, looking thoroughly unimpressed, and then it sneezes. It’s the tiniest, most pathetic hiss of a sound he’s ever heard.

“Jesus Christ,” Dennis mutters. He moves out of the way, letting Mac step inside, and then he slams the front door with significantly more force than necessary.

stormy weather - yennefers [4k]

“You piss her off?”

“I didn’t do anything,” Mac snaps, because he didn’t, him and his mom are doing fine, thank you. “She - she’s been really busy today, probably, so she just -“

“She didn’t answer the door,” Dennis says.

It’s not a question. Mac scuffs the toe of one battered sneaker on the ground.

“She’s busy, man.”

One second passes. Two, three. Then:

“Get in the car.”

Nuts - glennjaminhow [4k]

The doctors discharge Mac around 8:30, after a hellish 18 hours of hospitalization. He’s prescribed two EpiPens for the nut allergies, along with extra strength Benadryl and an inhaler for the leftover side effects of anaphylaxis. Dennis elects himself in charge of the EpiPens, which Mac is okay with in his exhausted state. There’s no way he can trust Mac to hold onto something so vital, so crucial to his safety. Mac never worries about himself; he’s always more concerned with Dennis. That’s not gonna fly here. No, Dennis will oversee the EpiPens, just like how Mac oversees Dennis’ eating schedule.

sell me on that thing you do - kafkian [5K]

Post-Gang Chokes. Dennis gets what he wants.

you say it’s gone, though it never is - yennefers [4k]

It's New Year's Eve. Dennis, not for the first time, has made some regrettable choices.

decalogue - sinnabear

"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned." Mac vs. the Ten Commandments.

objects in motions - sinnabar [5k]

Sometimes Dee thinks the reason she and Mac have never gotten along is that they’re just too much the same; both of them caught up in Dennis’s orbit, thriving on whatever attention he deems fit to bestow on them.

jamais vu - yennefers [6k]

“I just think we’re spending too much time together,” Mac blurts out.

The silence that follows is so complete, Dennis can hear the blood rushing in his ears.

—

Mac and Dennis break up. Again.

Mac and Dennis Plan a Wedding - mxingno [5k]

“Jesus Christ, Charlie, this isn’t about banging -- it’s about two men, who have been living together for years anyway, taking advantage of government handouts while winning an argument. Don’t cheapen this, okay?”

Moonlight - andchaos [6k]

Instead of fighting, when Dennis came home stressed while they lived in the suburbs, he and Mac would go for a relaxing swim to calm down.

where there is hatered (let me sow love) [6k]

Dennis figures out he needs to spice up his and Mac's routine movie night blow jobs.

our love’s the only thing that could matter - oppshidaisy [6k]

From a distance, Mac smelled like an alpha.

(Or: Dennis has never gotten the appeal of alphas. He tries something else.)

domesticity and other cults - lagaudiere [6k]

Or, Mac and Dennis move to the suburbs.

hey man i love you (but no fucking way) - andchaos [7k]

Dennis will always come back home to Mac, even when neither of them think so. For better or worse, the same wretched parts of them are magnetized together, and no amount of fighting or running away will change it.

What happens after Dennis leaves.

the day you move (i’m probably gonna explode) - sinnabar [7k]

He could maybe get addicted to this, if he let himself. Or: five times Mac and Dennis toed the line between friends and lovers, and one time they crossed it for good.

not gay - anastea [7k]

fellas is it "gay" to marry your best bro. asking for a friend

The Gang Stalks Mac - LamentableComedy [8k]

The gang think Mac is dating someone in secret so they follow him to try to figure out who.

Shortest Day, Longest Night - Crisp_Winter_Fox [9k]

Mac and Dennis sleep together the night before Dennis leaves to spend Christmas in North Dakota.

Mac expects Dennis to keep in touch while he's away. He doesn't, leaving Mac to worry about what it all meant.

A Fountain of Gardens/A Well of Living Waters and Streams - BleedingAlive [9k]

Many years ago, when they were seventeen and eighteen, Dennis told a lie. He’s told a lot of lies, actually, but this one stuck.

(Or, The Song of Solomon, except, Macdennis, in which Dennis has been in L--- with Mac for a lifetime)

further than either of us wanted - oopshidaisy [9k]

“This is just one man wanting to bang another man, and that other man charitably capitulating for the good of the friendship. Nothing more.”

(Or: Dennis comes up with a way to fix Mac's feelings for him. Mac reluctantly agrees.)

10K - 30K

Love You So Bad - usuallysunny [11k]

It's the summer of '93 and Mac's only sure of three things: Charlie will be his best friend forever, Project Badass is going to take over the world and no-one makes him feel quite like Dennis Reynolds does.

Complex - sidnihoudini [12k]

Dennis scratches at his chest. Water bugs. “No offense, man, but then how do you know about them?”

“Oh, Mac told me.” Charlie threads the hose back into his tiny tool belt. “He’s got some sources about these kinds of things.”

Which is great for Charlie, but doesn’t really work for Dennis.

“I’m not talking to Mac right now,” he says diplomatically.

communication breakdown - bleakmidwinter [12k]

During quarantine, Mac catches Dennis branching out in his pornography intake─watching gay porn and shamelessly jerking off to it. They come to a mutually beneficial arrangement that'll help them both get through lockdown without falling victim to overbearing sexual frustration. No strings attached, right?

never gonna fall for (modern love) - rcg [13k]

Dennis chose North Dakota which means changing diapers, meal prepping, working on the weekends, and not having sex with his best friend. While Mac and Dennis rekindle old feelings and fights over the phone every night, Dennis thinks about all that could've been for the first time.

each the other’s world entire - quixoti [13k]

Mac and Dennis survive each other. Mac and Dennis will always survive each other.

respite - andchaos [14k]

Mac comes up to visit Dennis at college junior year, alone for once. Their boys' day turns into a night out — one that Dennis would probably classify as a date, if they were anyone else.

But maybe, privately, he still thinks of it as their first.

Underneath - andchaos

5 times Dennis bottoms + 1 time Mac is desperate for it.

For the server. You fuel the holy-water-needed section of my brain.

i think i’m feeling it now - lohoron [15k]

“Are you satisfied with this?”

Mac blinks, eyes flickering between their thighs nearly touching and Dennis’s face. “Satisfied with what, dude?”

Dennis grins like he's doing something malicious and Mac gasps when he feels Dennis’s hand on his knee. Okay. Behave yourself.

“This. Us.”

It clears up nothing but somehow Mac knows exactly what he's asking. He gulps. Shrugs. His eyebrows are arched down, brown eyes wide and full of stupid hope. “Sometimes,” he settles on, because he figures the truth is too much of a mouthful.

Dennis Does CBT on Mac - trill_gutterbug [17k]

Dennis leaned toward Mac, lowering his voice. "I see what you're saying. You want to put the responsibility of your sexual self determination in my hands. You want to relinquish the burden of free will to me."

Mac squinted. "Yes? Er, I think so."

-

Dennis (graciously, selflessly, heroically) helps Mac overcome an addiction.

always summer - yennefers [17k]

The things Mac and Dennis do when they're alone, from 1994 to 2019.

Smooth Criminal - andchaos [17k]

Dennis really, really wants to pick up the hot guy who keeps coming into the bar every weekend. Somehow the words keep getting fumbled on the way out of his mouth. He's trying, he swears.

Mac and Dennis Move Forward - kaivevo - [17k]

“It’s like this,” Mac explained. “Dennis has been kinda sad lately, you know? It’s… he has this thing, he calls it his God Hole, and he’s trying to use this kid to fill it up. But he’s way more dumber than I thought because he already tried that, and it didn’t work. And it’s so annoying because he still doesn’t realize that the person who’s gonna fill his hole is right in front of him.” He gestured to himself, just in case his point wasn’t clear. Charlie’s face lit up in realization.

“Ohhh, okay, that’s what this is about,” he said. “You want to fill Dennis’s hole.”

Mac coughed. “No, that’s— that’s not what I meant, don’t say it like that.”

30k+

mutual assured destruction - headbangingSappho [30k]

He wants to wrap himself around Mac like a python buries its prey in its inescapable, deadly embrace. With his chest against Mac’s back and his face against his nape, he wants to press closer and closer until he can sink his claws into his very bones and seep his poison into his veins and Mac can never, ever walk away from him without tearing himself apart in the process. He wants to stay like this until they both die.

Mac lets out a pleased, half-asleep hum and lovingly puts his own hands on Dennis’ fists that are grasping the front of his old T-shirt so vehemently they’re almost shaking.

if i ruin this (i can live with it) - wekeepeachotherhuman [31k]

“Dennis,” Dr. Eddy says, still writing, still smiling. “I want you to take some work home with you from this session.” She finally looks up at him and nods encouragingly. Dennis can’t help the way his eyes roll all the way back into his head.

“Great,” he mutters.

“I want you to track your impulses,” she says. “I want you to track your impulses and I want you to put the intention behind that impulse in one of two categories.”

She stands, goes to her desk. She opens a drawer and pulls out a second notebook. She opens it to the first page and begins to write in it. Then, she comes to Dennis, stops right in front of him and presents the journal to him, still opened.

She’s drawn a table. A question looms at the top of the page: What is my intention with this action? And there are only two columns. One labeled growth and the other: stagnation.

—

Dennis decides that there should be a third column: destruction.

your soul is changing - kafkian [41k]

Dennis comes back.

circle the drain - bleakmidwinter [42k]

Dennis experiences the same day over and over. A peculier, yet totally unoriginal day. When it becomes apparent he isn't having Final Destination style visions, he must figure out how to break the curse.

these things get louder - kafkian [58k]

Mac hatches a secret plan to repair his and Dennis’s friendship. Dennis is pretty sure he knows what the root of the problem is, though, and he isn’t going to let up until Mac admits to it.

Set after Season 11.

Mac and Dennis Get a New Apartment - pavonine [59k]

After Dee's landlord threatens to kick them out for squatting, Mac and Dennis get a place of their own and it's all downhill from there. Dennis tries to keep himself together. Life's got other plans.

Set a few months after the end of Season 10.

the way we look to us all - endquestionmark [63k]

Dennis Reynolds is forty-four years old, and it doesn’t get any better from here.

an impossible view - kafkian [65k]

‘You’re what?’ Dennis asks blankly.

‘I’m moving out,’ Mac explains. The same three words he said a second ago, and they don’t make any more sense in that order than they did the first time. ‘I was just – I was thinking about what you said, about wanting – uh. Wanting me to move out. And it kind of made sense, so. I guess I’m doing it.’

‘How did it make sense?’ Dennis asks.

---

After the events of Season 13, Mac moves out. Dennis handles it really well, obviously.

like real people do - notreallywriting [66k]

“I just want to be normal, Mac. Is that too much to ask for?”

“I don't know, Den. Maybe it is.”

-

or: mac and dennis get worse before they get better

Bloom - andchaos [68k]

Dennis owns a flower shop. Mac's trying to grow a garden.

guardians of a rare thing - yennefers [101k]

Sometimes Mac will kiss him to calm him down. It’s a no strings attached kind of thing, until it isn’t.