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siderumincaelo

I love gen fics but I think they often get overlooked, so here are five FB gen fics worth reading:

Title: start small, grow tall
Author: weatheredlaw
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9233267
Characters: Newt Scamander, Jacob Kowalski
Pairings: None

Rating: Teen

Content Warnings: PTSD, Body Horror, implied violence

Other Tags: Post-World War I

Summary: It might take a hundred cups of tea, but Newt and Jacob are going to sort through this business of war, one day.
Notes: I promise this fic isn't quite as disturbing/depressing as the tags make it sound, and this fandom deserves more Newt-Jacob friendship fics.

Title: Dressing an Open Wound

Author: clockheartedcrocodile
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12488896

Characters: Percival Graves
Pairings: None

Rating: Explicit

Content Warnings: None

Other Tags: Touch-Starved, Loneliness, Angst, Masturbation, Dry Humping
Summary: "You don't need to be touched," he said quietly, very quietly. "Nobody needs sex to live. If you think otherwise you're a fool and a bleeding heart." / In which Percival Graves is alone.
Notes: It's weird for a fic to be both gen and explicit, but dear god the feelings in this.

Title: The Hog's Head Salon
Author: kyrilu
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/10994679
Characters: Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore, Credence Barebone, Gellert Grindelwald
Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (past, background)

Rating: Teen

Content Warnings: None

Other Tags: Crack, Humor, Family, Illegal Goat Experimentation, Manipulation, Post-Movie 1: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Summary: "For the love of Merlin, Albus, don't pick up men at my bar," Aberforth says. Or: the one where Albus sets up a literary salon at the Hog's Head. Obviously, he has ulterior motives.
Notes: Mostly funny and even silly, but it does manage to pack in some nice characterization.

Title: Four Times Someone Put Percival Graves to Bed and One Time Someone Took Him There
Author: Mari
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/8854522
Characters: Percival Graves, Queenie Goldstein, Credence Barebone, Tina Goldstein

Pairings: None

Rating: General Audiences

Content Warnings: None

Other Tags: Literal Sleeping Together, Co-workers, Workaholic Original Percival Graves
Summary: Written for a kinkmeme prompt. Workaholic Graves doesn't get enough sleep at night, so everyone does their best to make sure when he does doze off, he gets a decent nap.
Notes: Short and fluffy, with my favoritest of favorite tropes - sharing a bed.

Title: The Seer in the Tower
Author: meanwhiletimely
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16718097
Characters: Voldemort, Gellert Grindelwald

Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (past, background)

Rating: Ten

Content Warnings: None

Other Tags: Nurmengard, Canon Compliant
Summary: Gellert Grindelwald's first meeting with the Dark Lord who would eventually kill him was technically not with a Dark Lord at all—only a strange, hungry boy.
Notes: I'm not usually all that interested in villains, but the writing and characterization in this fic is phenomenal. Plus, CoG got me thinking about the similarities and differences between Grindelwald and Voldemort, which is something this fic really explores.

If you know of any great gen fics I've missed, please leave a comment!

binary_sunset

I've added some new tags for your convenience.

There are tags for fantastic beasts (fb: 1) and crimes of grindelwald (fb: cog). You can use those for fic/art that take place in that era or thoughts about those movies.

The ship tags have gotten a revamp as well! I tried to use ship names that I found on tumblr and most of them should be pretty self-explanatory. If there are more popular versions of any of these ship names (or I'm missing any you plan on posting about), feel free to shoot me a comment on this post. The only one that might be confusing is "snakestrange", which is Leta/Nagini. "Ship: gen" is used for fics that don't feature any ships.

Hopefully this will improve your community experience!

binary_sunset

Artist Naomi Lord's insta is full of the CUTEST little beasties! She sells stickers and prints on her etsy too!

( click for beasties )

binary_sunset

Hi everyone! I just realised I never properly introduced myself.

My name is Sunset. I use she/her or he/him pronouns. I'm 20 years old, and I made this community instead of working on my finals.

In all seriousness, though, I love Fantastic Beasts fandom. I've met two of my best internet friends because of it, and I was SUPER worried about the fate of all fannish content after tumblr banned NSFW content and set its under-developed bot loose. I actually knew about Dreamwidth wayyy back from my days writing in the Hetalia kink meme (at 13... whoops!) and I stumbled across the

fantasticbeasts_kinkmeme, which seems to be pretty quiet these days, but it's full of some neat (and usually very NSFW) prompts if you want to get some creative juices flowing.

I'm a fan fiction writer and long-time fangirl. You may know my from that one Fright Night inspired Vampire AU I did with almost-annette if you're a gradence fan. I've also written for gramander and newdence, and I ship basically everything. I find myself usually working in AUs and doing a lot of character work (and plenty of smut). I also like making moodboards and banners!

Uh... what else? In real life I'm a college student looking to get a degree in English, with a focus on writing. I've been in fandom for nearly a decade now, I'm a bit of a disaster, and I have a massive crush on Colin Farrell.

wanderingnork

Every time I write an introduction post anywhere for any reason, the only thing I can hear is Dante Basco's voice saying "hello, Zuko here."

So yeah.

Hello, wanderingnork here!

College student, political science major headed into a political science master's degree, art journaler, Pokemon Go player, three confirmed mental illnesses in a trenchcoat.

I'm better known as bluebeholder on AO3, and under that name I've posted...a lot of other stuff for this fandom. ("the accidental epic" is my big one, several hundred thousand words of suitcase-family fic - I hope it's okay that I'm not posting it as an official rec.) Mostly gradence but, let's be real, I am a terrible multishipper and if it's a possible pairing, I've written it. Thank you for the recs already here, I'm blushing so hard you don't even know...

Got a few FB fics on the plan for once finals are over (Oregon Trail AU, expanded to fit CoG; a snapshot about Credence & Nagini; a fic which will involve Nagini and Percival Graves, Original Flavor, going on the most poorly-thought-out road trip ever...) but for right now fic writing seems to be taking a backseat to the simply massive essays I need to work on for school.

And...I guess that's me. Hello again, and let me say I am REALLY happy and very thankful to be here!

EDIT: at the moment I don't seem to be able to tag posts as "introduction," so I'll fix that...soon?

Current Mood: thankful

siderumincaelo

As the title says, this is a list of fics about Crimes of Grindlewald that I enjoyed. The summeries/tags do contain mild spoilers; I tried to put it under a cut but couldn't get Dreamwidth to cooperate. (I'm very new here, so do let me know if I've broken any local customs.)

Title: strange creatures

Author: Utopiste

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16709938

Pairings: Leta Lestrange/Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange/Theseus Scamander

Rating: Teen and Up

Content Warnings: Canonical Character Death

Other Tags: Canon Compliant, Angst, just hurt no comfort, Leta Lestrange deserved better

Summary: Leta is fifteen and dramatic and thinks she is so in love with her best friend she could die. Leta Lestrange is nineteen and tries too had to make this other boy smile, feeling like a teenager with a crush on her friend’s older brother all over again. Leta is thirty and finds out the people you stumble upon in the most unfortunate circumstances can be among the best ones you ever met. Four times Leta Lestrange loved someone (and more than one time they loved her back).

Notes: I love Leta with all my heart, and this fic certainly does her justice, with beautiful prose.

Title: Limbs To Spare

Author: gnimmish

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16728825

Pairings: Tina Goldstein/Leta Lestrange/Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange/Theseus Scamander

Rating: Mature

Content Warnings: None

Other Tags: Polyamory, Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort, Cuddling & Snuggling

Summary: When Theseus is away, Leta stays with Newt and Tina. And, almost inevitably, she ends up in their bed.

Notes: I wouldn't have considered this ship except for this fic, but now I love it.

Title: A Merrier World

Author: bluebeholder

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16656382

Pairings: Tina Goldstein/Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange/Theseus Scamander, Queenie Goldstein/Jacob Kowalski

Rating: General Audiences

Content Warnings: Implied/Referenced Character Death, Canonical Character Death

Other Tags: Implied Nagini/Credence, Absent Queenie, Comfort Food, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Families of Choice, The Suitcase Family

Summary: In the aftermath of it all, Jacob makes dinner. Those who are left behind remember, and plan, and have a chance, even for a moment, to smile. Everything else can come after.

Notes: Everything I wanted from a post-movie fic.

Title: glass cage

Author: PotterheadAvengerDemigod

URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/16621901

Pairings: Leta Lestrange/Newt Scamander, Leta Lestrange/Theseus Scamander, Tina Goldstein/Newt Scamander

Rating: Not Rated

Content Warnings: Canonical Character Death

Other Tags: Romance, Unrequited Love, Falling In Love, Love Triangles, Angst, Leta's POV

Summary: Leta Lestrange is a fool. But this friendship wasn't something she would trade. Not for anything.

Notes: Gives Leta some nice backstory, and made me sad about her death all over again.

If you've got recs of your own, please share them!

binary_sunset

Just thought I would start populating this comm by listing out a few of my favourite Gradence fics. Here they are, in no particular order. If any of these authors have dreamwidths, I'd LOVE to link to their journals!

Edit: all the URL links are clickable, I think copy/pasting from AO3 brought the format with it and made them all black.

Title: Resurrection
Author: almost-annette
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9646631/chapters/21793868
Pairings: Graves/Credence
Rating: Mature
Content Warnings: Suicide, Period-typical homophobia
Other Tags: Non-magical AU, The Shining-inspired AU, slight daddy kink, anal sex, haunted hotels and plenty of spooky shit
Summary: Percy Graves, after a scandal ruined his career as a policeman, seeks employment at the Macusa Hotel - he's going to be the caretaker during the winter. Dreading a long and lonely stay in the infamous hotel, Percy is pleasantly surprised to discover that a young man named Credence will stay with him over the winter.
Everything could be fine, but why is Credence always freezing? Who exactly is the mysterious Manager he keeps talking about? And why does Percy keep seeing ghosts at every corner?
Fun fact, this was the fic that first got me into gradence, and now almost-annette and I talk nearly every day! So much can change in a year and a half.

Title: The Lighthouse Keeper
Author: gothyringwald
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12229965
Rating: Explicit
Content Warnings: Minor character death, period-typical homophobia, references to depression, implied/referenced abuse
Other Tags: Non-magical AU, 1920s AU, Slow burn, masturbation, first kiss, sharing body heat, emotional hurt/comfort
Summary: Recently disowned by his parents, Credence Barebone arrives on a remote Australian island with his aunt, Mary Lou, to help with upkeep of the island's lighthouse. Credence is adrift, marooned on this isolated island. He hopes that he might find a friend in the enigmatic lighthouse keeper, Mr Graves, but the reserved man initially rebuffs his offers of friendship. When unfortunate circumstances bring them together, Credence and Graves discover they have more in common than they originally suspected.
I'm not sure gothy writes for Fantastic Beasts very often anymore, but I just love this whole fic. It's gorgeously written and this Graves is one of my favourites! I'm a sucker for a scruffy Colin in a beanie, apparently.

Title: The Bathwater Nymph
Author: morwrach
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12039864
Rating: Explicit
Content Warnings:N/A
Other Tags: post-canon fix-it (post-FB1), mutual recovery struggles, fluff, a bit of angst, bathtub sex, nipple play, magical bath products, happy ending
Summary: Credence’s long hair hangs around his face, dripping pearls of froth. Constellations of tiny white flowers are caught in his dark curls. A sight for sore and lovelorn eyes – and yet unreal - like something out of a Greek myth.
Can be read as a standalone.
I love the whole series this is a part of, but this is my favourite instalment. In fact, I liked it so much, I made a moodboard for it. I'm just a sucker for Credence being happy and feeling himself, okay?

Title: autumn dusk at central park
Author: brawlite
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11263215
Rating: Explicit
Content Warnings: N/A
Other Tags: post-canon (post-FB1), first meetings, slow burn
Summary: After two years, Credence returns home to New York City.
This is another author who I don't think writes for FB anymore, but Brawls is SUCH a talented author, I couldn't let this fic go unrecognised.

Title: Like a Saturated Sunrise
Author:

writingramblr
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/12298677 (only available to registered AO3 users)
Rating: Explicit
Content Warnings: Underage
Other Tags: Modern AU, fluff and crack, crack treated seriously, summer romance, body hair, rimming, enthusiastic consent
Summary: “Credence… is everything alright?"
His jaw drops and a thousand replies flood his mind.
All he can do is stare and recall the tennis match from last Thursday.
Mr Graves had been in a white sweater, khaki shorts, and knee high socks with sneakers. He should have looked ridiculous, clad in simple ’Dad attire’ as Tina had snarked. But all Credence could think about is how handsome he is, how refined he always seems.
My weakness for bear!Graves is showing again, whoops. But seriously, this fic's plot is entertaining, slightly ridiculous, and weirdly sweet at times. And, naturally, Soz's smut is to die for.

Title: A Portrait of Two Gentlemen
Author:

wanderingnork
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14827986/chapters/34315824
Rating: General Audiences
Content Warnings: Period-typical racism, homophobia, sexism, etc.
Other Tags: Victorian/Gilded Era AU, Slow burn-ish, steampunk-adjacent
Summary: New York, 1885. The political aspirations of the Tammany Hall Democrat machine. Immigrants. Newsboy strikes. The birth of yellow journalism. Circus kings. The fledgling stars of Broadway. New industrial magic. The advent of the airship. Credence Barebone, the lost heir to a robber baron’s fortune, stumbling straight into the world of upper-class New York as he tries to claim his rightful place in society. Percival Graves, police superintendent for New York’s Finest, struggling to hold the rule of law together in a city staggering under the weight of corruption.
It’s said that, in New York, you can be a new man. Graves has never believed that, but looking at Credence he might just be able to believe.
Full disclosure: I did commission this, but I think Blue knocked it absolutely out of the park! She's also been a joy to work with throughout the entire process, so I hope y'all will give her hard work a chance!

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