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*camps out in the comments excited for moar recs*

I've posted some longer fic and canon recs recently: Story Recs for a Long Haul + round 2

And for those who like WIP fics, I'm continuing to really enjoy all 3 of these: 3 WIP Fic Recs with Excellent Identity P0rn. (Star Wars; BnHA; Teen Wolf / Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Fans of the Untamed may want to check out Stulti's Ao3 bookmarks and rec posts - she's been on a months-long reading spree & has exquisite taste.

ETA: I would also like to make a plug for certain kinds of horror as cathartic and perversely relaxing right now? In a kind of 'wow, eldritch horror is even worse than our current RL global pandemic situation; yes, pandemic is awful, but it's also eventually solvable' kind of way. See

rachelmanija's post 'On Horror'.

Sometimes we want to hear that everything will be fine. But sometimes the only way anything can ever be fine is if we admit that everything isn’t fine right now. Horror tells us that everything isn’t fine, and we should start listening to the people who’ve been saying so all along. And if we are those people, it tells us what we most need to hear: “I believe you.”

My current fannish obsession of choice for horror is The Magnus Archives;

rydra_wong has a great rec post for the canon.