August 2025 Fanfic Recs

I didn't manage a ton of reading, original or fanfic, this month, in between a trip to visit my sister at the beginning of the month and a bout of illness later. The Agatha Christie of the month, since she continues to be the persistent theme of my reading in original fic this year, was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, which I know I read as a teenager but could remember nothing about, to the point that it was like reading it for the first time again.

I also did a bit of rereading, including Rowhome (Word of Honor, Ye Baiyi/Xie Wang, 47k, explicit), which I originally recced back in August 2021, poked around the Jaime/Sansa tag as part of one of my periodic attempts to get more into Game of Thrones fic (I never made it past the 4th book of ASOIAF or the 4th season of the show, but I am envious of the quantity of canon divergence in the fandom), and found a hot bottom!Minho fic among the new fics posted for Summer of SHINee 2025:( Read more... )