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So, I was writing a rec for a soulmate fic, and I wrote, “you know, I really like this fic because it messes with the whole soulmate idea. I don’t really like the soulmates trope too much, although there are a few fics I could recommend that also mess with the idea.”

About two hours later: Well, this is not a short list at all.

Also: I guess I do like soulmate fics?

Well, I guess it’s more that I like it when authors set up the world rules for a soulmate universe, then proceed to mess with it. Or they set up a world where having a soulmate is actually really super annoying in some way.

At any rate, I have a full rec list now.

Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out the best way to spoiler tag these. Most of them have a twist ending of some sort. Sorry.

Multi-fandom, subversive soulmate AU rec list:

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Title: all of our heroes fading

Author: futuredescending

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Warnings: long-term illness, temporary character death, sex (gay), suicidal ideation (ish?)

Other notes: hospitals

Length: 18k

Summary: The thing is, Shiro is intimately familiar with pain. It is as natural to him as breathing and blinking. It’s a part of him. It is him. It’s literally in his DNA.

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Title: what a good thing we lose

Author: artsy_alice

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: PG

Pairing: Keith/clone!Shiro,

Warnings: angst, break-up/divorce, unrequited love, depression

Other notes: post-canon, canon divergence, hurt/comfort, clones

Length: 12k

Summary: The safest thing to do, perhaps, is to let the clone die. Destroy the pod, if possible. They can't be sure what they'll wake up.

But Keith is here. That changed everything.

Keith had cared about Shiro - well, who he thought was Shiro, even after. Keith had cared about the clone back then, even knowing what he was, even knowing what he tried to do to their team, their family. Keith had told that clone that he-

It’s doesn’t matter, right now.

Keith is here, and Shiro's not going to make Keith watch him die another time.

So he says, "Wake him up."

Or: Shiro watches Keith and his clone Kuro together, and sees a glimpse of what could've been if he had made different choices.

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Well, it’s March, so here’s a collection of female PoV fics I’ve enjoyed recently. It’s far, far from an exhaustive list, and a bit scattershot, if I’m honest. I kept trying to cut it down to a reasonable length but it just kept getting longer.

Really my main criteria were: a) from a female character’s PoV and b) interesting. So now I’ve got a lovely collection of fics about mothers and sisters and aliens and warriors and royalty and survivors. Lots of survivors.

…apparently I’m bad with fluff fic, sorry.

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This is a short list of unbearably tense fics. Fic that kept me glued to my screen, made my heart race, and left me really, really worried about the health and/or mental wellness of the lead characters.

Click on my reviews for more detailed warnings if you need. Apparently murder mysteries tend to make me tense, so they are a little over-represented here.

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 03/11/19

Title: Complacent

Author: tagteamme

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Warnings: some BDSM themes, orgasm denial, explicit sex (gay)

Other notes: post-war, established relationship

Length: 18k

Summary: Keith sees the agitation in the way Shiro holds himself. He sees how Shiro's rigid, more reserved, how his anger flares a little more than normal and the sharp edge to his orders. Keith's pretty sure that if he looks in the mirror, he'll see some of the same irritation reflected back.

They both need to cut loose. Keith just needs to find a way.

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 03/11/19

Title: slowly dying to make it through

Author: sepia_cigarettes

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith, Allura/Lance, Kolivan/Krolia, Hunk/Pidge

Warnings: PTSD, panic attacks, references to eating disorders, suicidal ideation, explicit sex, background character death, grief/mourning

Other notes: hurt/comfort, hurt/recovery, post-war, ensemble, wedding, family, friends, alternating PoV, slow burn

Length: 46k

Summary:

But Shiro doesn’t bring the sun, because that’s Keith. Keith is the one who brings warmth, hidden in the gentleness of his eyes and the curve of his cheekbones. The slope of his smile sets Shiro on fire.
Shiro doesn’t do that. Shiro brings clouds and shadows and rain that’s so fucking cold it seeps into his bones every day and turns them to ice, and it feels like he’s always just one misstep away from shattering against the ground.
God, how he wants to shatter.

In which Shiro and Keith come home from the war and help each other rebuild. Picks up right after Season 7.

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 03/11/19

Title: to make a home

Author: desastrista

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Warnings: explicit sex, angst, depression

Other notes: post-war, post-canon, domesticity

Length: 12k

Summary:

"It began with a knock on the door. Keith regarded it with suspicion; a cabin in the desert didn't tend to get a lot of visitors.

He opened the door to see Shiro standing there, wearing a sad smile. 'Is it weird,' Shiro asked, 'to say I had hoped you wouldn't be here?'"

The war is over and Voltron has won. The paladins return home. But for Keith, coming home takes a little longer. Luckily Shiro is there to help.

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originally posted on Pillowfort on 02/18/19

Title: Quintessent Entanglement

Author: Tassos

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Allura/Hunk/Keith/Lance/Pidge/Shiro

Warnings: explicit sex, orgy

Other notes: dating, relationship study, trans character, everyone is bi, aged-up characters

Length: 30k

Summary:
After their first big battles against the Galra, the paladins have retreated to an abandoned planet to continue their training. Only it's not going well. They can't seem to recreate the bonds between themselves needed to form Voltron. When Allura makes an alternate suggestion for bonding, the paladins are skeptical and find themselves having to trust each other with more than they bargained for. But what they find might be the beginning of a six-way relationship they didn't know they needed.

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 02/10/19

I like doing themed rec lists, so here are some fics that integrate social media / news / multimedia in fun ways. I've rambled a bit before, but the sheer amount of work authors put into replicating social media sites never fails to astound me, and that attention to detail can really make a story just pop. They make the world of the fic feel lived in.

(Though lately I'm also a little sad over how they also rather specifically date fics. Alas for all the tumblr-centric fanfic...)

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 02/03/19

Title: from the threshold of the year to come

Author: Sol1056

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith, Lance/Pidge, Allura/Lotor

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), PTSD, discussion of power imbalances, brief discussion of alcoholism, sad drunk people, background parental death, physical disability,

Other notes: office affair, canon disabled character, adoptive family, impostor syndrome, slow burn, misunderstandings, delayed relationship

Length: 60k

Summary:

A new prosthesis, a new job, a new team... Shiro might've found a place he belongs, where he can settle down and get his life together. Too bad that's exactly when he meets the one person who'll turn it all upside-down again.

"This is Dr Shirogane," Allura tells the gathered teams. "He teaches physics at the university."
Shiro can feel his ears getting hot. He's wearing jeans and biker boots, for christ's sake. It's his day off. At least she keeps the introduction simple. If she goes into a recitation of his speciality, he's ready to diffuse the confusion with a joke about studying rocket science. It's one of the only benefits after so many sleepless nights writing his dissertation.

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Originally posted on pillowfort on 01/26/19

Title: As A Star, Forever Out of Reach

Author: Neyasochi

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Warnings: explicit sex (gay), possession/forced control, violence, warfare, character injury/disability, loss of a limb, classism, discussion of starvation, blood drinking

Other notes: AU, fantasy AU, royalty, slow burn, combat and warfare, so many pets

Length: 75k

Summary: The intensely devoted friendship between Prince Takashi and Keith, a lowborn rogue from the arid southern wastelands, was unexpected to say the least. It’s the stuff of street-plays and penny-novels— a commoner plucked from the grimey alleys to serve as the prince’s right-hand and confidant— and for a time, Keith even dares to believe that it will last. But the disappearance and presumed death of Prince Takashi while on an expedition to the borderlands brings everything he’d hoped for to ruin, and while the kingdom mourns its prince, Keith mourns the loss of his closest friend. Bereft, he sets out on a journey to the lost places along Arus’ borders, strung along by a distant call he cannot place.

Fate is kind enough to bring them back together, but not without first exacting a terrible toll on the prince: he is delivered into Keith’s arms with shattered memories and a cursed metal arm, his confidence shaken and his throne usurped, and the ill-boding news of the long-dormant Galra Empire’s imminent invasion. Keith is resolved to stay by his prince’s side this time, no matter the cost— even as their search for answers leads them to the very heart of enemy territory.

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Title: The Professional

Author: TruebornAlpha

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Shiro/Keith

Warnings: BDSM, consensual sex work, explicit sex (gay), outed to the media, angst

Other notes: AU, sex work, client/employee relationship, paparazzi, alternating PoV, romcom-ish

Length: 24k

Summary: Shiro is trapped in a life of expectations and responsibility. The black sheep of a prominent business empire, he struggles to come to terms with the tragedy that knocked his life off course. He starts looking for solace through unconventional means.

Keith is ready to offer his services for a price, and it doesn't hurt that Shiro looks so good on his knees.

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Originally crossposted to pillowfort on 12/11/18

Title: The Fourth Estate

Author: Chronolith

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing:Lance/Allura, Keith/James - more tbd

Warnings: violence, ptsd, racism/species-ism, racially-motivated violence and terrorism - more tbd

Other notes: post-war, social media, military - more tbd

Length: 90k, WIP

Summary: The Fourth Estate: a segment of society that wields the soft but momentous power of public opinion despite its lack of formal recognition within the political system.

Or, the first thing that rebuilds itself after Sendak's defeat is the press. With the press comes social media. You know what you get when you have social media? Fandom. You get fandom.

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Originally crossposted on tumblr and pillowfort on 11/09/18

Title: Like a Lion

Author: p0rth0s

Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Keith/Shiro

Warnings: PTSD, depression, explicit sex (gay)

Other notes: hurt/comfort, post-war

Length: 9k

Summary: “Where does it hurt?”

Keith doesn’t elaborate, and Shiro doesn’t ask him to. Just raises his prosthetic hand in a loose fist and lets it fall sluggishly on his own chest where he guesses his heart is hidden.

Two times. Here. It hurts here.

Keith doesn’t say anything. He doesn’t reach up to wipe the tears from his face. He props himself up on an elbow and leans down to first lay a dry kiss to Shiro's chest, and then lay his soft, heavy head. His ear pressed over Shiro’s plaintive heart where it slowly beats on through the night.

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Fic rec list - Stories that play with soulmate tropes
Fic rec - all of our heroes fading
Fic rec - what a good thing we lose
For March - a female character PoV rec list
A fic rec list - Incredibly tense fics
Fic rec - Complacent
Fic rec - slowly dying to make it through
Fic rec - to make a home
Fic rec - Quintessent Entanglement
A rec list - Social Media fics
Fic rec - from the threshold of the year to come
Fic rec - As A Star, Forever Out of Reach
Fic rec - The Professional
Fic rec - The Fourth Estate
Fic rec - Like a Lion

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