Fandom 5k Rec List

fandom5k produced a lot of really great fic this year! There were 141 fics in 119 fandoms, and (given the fest) all of them over 5k words. I was lucky enough to receive a WONDERFUL DS9 fic that felt so much like it could have been an episode, I loved it. Here is a list of my favorite fic, and I highly recommend you go browse the collection because there's a lot of great fic and much of it is in fandoms I don't read.


I received:
Voices from the Past (8648 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Benjamin Sisko, Ro Laren, Miles O'Brien, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Minor Character Death, implied lesbian relationship, Styled As an Episode, needlessly self-indulgent, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:

Ro Laren runs into a friend from before she joined Starfleet, and Benjamin Sisko suspects something in the wormhole may be trying to send him a message.

the body keeps score (5121 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi (TV), Star Wars Original Trilogy
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Leia Organa & Anakin Skywalker
Characters: Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi
Additional Tags: Reconciliation, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Jedi Culture & Tradition (Star Wars), Post-Battle of Endor (Star Wars), New Republic Era (Star Wars), Order 66, Jedi purge, Destruction of Alderaan (Star Wars), Anakin features heavily here, Aftermath of Torture, Grief/Mourning, a smidge of Jedi philosophy/tradition, POV Leia Organa, Obi-Wan Kenobi Lives, this is not a story about Anakin Skywalker, but Anakin features heavily
Summary:

With the fall of the Empire, a man thought long-dead is rescued from Vader's prison. Healing isn't as simple as surviving, though.

History Never Repeats (34769 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Obi-Wan Kenobi/Anakin Skywalker
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Loop, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Suicidal Ideation, Character Death, Obsession, Complicated Relationships, Developing Relationship, Non-Linear Narrative, Unreliable Narrator, Ambiguous/Open Ending
Summary:

There's no possible way to keep track of how long Obi-wan's lived, now. He lives, he dies, he lives again. He'll wake up somewhere in the past, the possibility of chance infuriatingly close but forever out of reach. Anakin always falls to Vader; the Republic always fails. The hows and whys of both are not set, Obi-wan's interference never changing anything for the better.

He quite dislikes the lives where they find themselves on Mustufar. The heat of it, the stench; Anakin's yellow eyes burning more than the lava ever could.

Sometimes, Obi-wan misses the sickly yellow of them as much as he does clear, sky blue.

Bones and Blood: A Jurassic Park Survivor's Story (10286 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Brennan/Alan Grant, Alan Grant & Ellie Sattler
Characters: Alan Grant (Jurassic Park), Billy Brennan, Ellie Sattler
Additional Tags: the mortifying ordeal of writing a celebrity memoir
Summary:

Billy was still staring at him. His face looked narrow and shadowed in the spotty kitchen lighting. Alan always thought about geometry when he looked at Billy: angles and rays and points and transversals. He was beautiful in the way that math was beautiful: like an equation that was beyond Alan's abilities, too complex for him to handle. But there, nonetheless. Holding all the secrets of the universe, if only Alan could figure out how to solve him.

To the Victor, the Spoils (6904 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Pietro Maximoff, Erik Lehnsherr, Charles Xavier
Additional Tags: Past Relationship(s), Parentage Reveal, Post-X-Men: Apocalypse (2016), Pietro Maximoff Goes by Peter, Politics, Road Trips, Complicated Relationships, Family Feels
Summary:

With Erik missing and the US government gearing up to offer a reward for the events in Egypt, Charles offers Peter a chance to find him and maybe, finally, tell him the truth. But with Erik largely sceptical of the offering and only a few days of driving between them and their destination, Peter doesn't know if he'll manage it - or if he even wants to.

The Green Lady (11879 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Duv Galeni/Delia Koudelka
Characters: Delia Koudelka, Duv Galeni, Original Female Character(s)
Additional Tags: Ghosts, Rituals, Bechdel Test Pass, Mystery
Summary:

The first time Delia saw the woman, it was after a party at the Residence and she assumed that the woman had gotten lost.

But then it turned out nobody else had seen her and she did not appear on the Residence security logs ....

trust in serum (15762 words) by Anonymous
Fandom: DCU (Comics)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Clark Kent
Additional Tags: Dick Grayson is Robin, Bruce Wayne is Bad at Communicating, Truth Serum, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Unreliable Narrator, Adoption, Dick Grayson Needs a Hug, Good Uncle Clark Kent, Miscommunication, Eventual Fluff, Kid Dick Grayson
Summary:

"I believe the serum is a mixture of chemicals that compels the target to be completely honest, even against their own will."
"You got hit with a truth serum?" Bruce winced as Dick's voice reached a high pitch. "Really?!"
"Yes, really."

 

[Batman and Robin don't keep secrets from each other. They can't, because how are they supposed to work together and fight crime with secrets between them? An incident involving truth serum puts this to the test.]