LadyRaphael’s Favorite Stories
Works I recommend reading. (There might be some overlap between works and bookmarks, if I haven’t yet noticed that an author approved inclusion of their work in my collection and therefore haven’t yet updated my bookmarks, but in general they are mutually exclusive. In other words, check out both!)
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For years Chris has ignored the fact that his best friend’s boyfriend is exactly his type. He’s not planning to stop now.
Stiles and Peter have a completely different plan.
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Hark The Herald Angels by WyvernQuill
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
14 Feb 2024
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“You’re here on-” Aziraphale lowered his voice, though not his outraged high pitch, leading to the sort of tone that gave nearby bats a headache, but required Crowley to lean in quite closely. “Demon business?”
“I’m a demon. By definition, all my business is demon business.” Crowley smiled quite infuriatingly, though also handsomely, which just made it worse. “But also, yeah. Destroy all the good in the world. Erode humanity’s faith in the Almighty. Sow a bit of dissent and treachery and blasphemy and…” Crowley tried to think of more nouns. “...stuff.”
“Here!? At a monastery?”
Crowley shrugged. “Go big or go home.”
(Written for the Good Omens Minisode Minibang, with lovely art by wortvermis!)
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Jungkook is a Jeon—the only witching family alive that carries Shadow Magic blood. Feared for their ominous powers, Jungkook grew up isolated from the rest of the witching community, so much so that they don't even know the youngest Jeon exists. Jungkook’s always felt like an outsider—even at his human public schools he’d been picked on for his goth style and creepy paintings.
He doesn’t expect the loneliness to just go away when he gets to college, but he packs up and leaves with hopes that focusing on his art will help him find something he’s missing.
He certainly doesn’t expect Park Jimin, in hot pink booty shorts and Gucci sliders, to knock on his door at 3am with a rice cooker and eyes like chocolate galaxies.
(He also doesn’t expect for Jimin to be a witch, or for him to have five very handsome covenmates.)
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Honest Angel by Twilightcitysky
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
15 May 2023
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“That’s why you decided to drive a scooter to the Downs? You wanted to break laws?”
“I planned to trespass, too,” Aziraphale said conspiratorially. “Mr. Haverford’s estate has a lovely view of the ocean.”
Crowley burst out laughing. He couldn’t help it. But Aziraphale blushed and looked twitchy. “I suppose it would seem funny to you,” he muttered.
“It’s just… angel, you like being the good one.” He ought to, he’d lorded it over Crowley often enough.
“I can do unexpected things.” Aziraphale turned to face him. His expression was a strange mix of contemplation and terror: a first-time parachute jumper looking out the open door of the plane.
“I know that, but you don’t–”
“And I can go fast,” Aziraphale said. His eyes dropped to Crowley’s lips.
Crowley’s stomach swooped. “Angel–”
“I can break rules,” Aziraphale whispered. “Especially the ones that don’t make sense anymore.”
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Harry Potter gets sorted into Slytherin, and this—quite unfortunately—forces Severus Snape to confront his own issues.
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- Part 52 of Q Event Fics 2022
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Stiles and Derek sitting in a tree, M-A-R-R-I-E-D.
Wait, what?
Or: Stiles thought he and Derek were finally getting to be bros, and then Deaton had to go and ruin everything with his stupid spell.
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- 54,259
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- 20/20
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
16 Nov 2025
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A lot of silly fun — and I love Stiles’s voice.
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No Dawn, No Day by xiaq
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
25 Jun 2025
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“I will not apologize for speaking the truth,” the child says. “However, I regret if that truth has offended you.”
“Jesus Christ, kid,” Jim mutters.
“I am not offended,” Spock responds, as blandly as he is able. “I was remiss in casting such hasty judgment upon your guardian.”
”Father,” she corrects.
”Your father,” he agrees.
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An academy AU + Tarsus aftermath fic in which James T. Kirk ends up accidentally parentally bonded to an orphaned Vulcan child. When the father/daughter duo enroll in Star Fleet, hijinks ensue (mostly at the expense of Spock’s previously immaculate but quickly deteriorating self-control).
Winner of the 2025 Philon Award for a novel-length fic (!!!)
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- English
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- 33/33
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
16 Nov 2025
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Well-written. Painful because of some of the content, but also healing. I liked the structure as well, alternating flashback scenes from Jim’s perspective and present-time scenes from Spock’s perspective.
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The Bond by WhatIfImaMermaid
Fandoms: Star Trek: Alternate Original Series (Movies), Star Trek
06 Aug 2017
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He slips in love with Spock inconspicuously, during an uneventful afternoon, on an unnamed planet destined to become little more than a Greek letter and a Roman numeral on Starfleet’s chart of the Beta Cygni system.
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-Spock gets amnesia.
-Spock is convinced that he and Jim are a thing.
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Keep the Key Within Reach by SpiritsFlame
Fandoms: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee
26 Apr 2018
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SON OF PARLIAMENTARY OFFICIAL CAUGHT IN SORDID SEX SCANDAL, CLICK FOR VIDEO, is a headline that Monty could have done without. He could do without the sidelong looks, the way his Mother can hardly speak to him, the way his best friend and secret love of his life has been avoiding him. He could do without the fact that every time he goes out now, every time he tries to move past this, he can't get over the fear that this, too, will be caught on film. If only there were someone he trusted; absolutely, to the bones trusted, who would be willing to have sex with him. No strings attached, of course.
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
04 Nov 2025
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Deeply emotional.
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I Would I Might Forget That I Am I by susiecarter for justanotherray
Fandoms: DC Extended Universe, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Justice League (2017)
02 Aug 2018
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Clark Kent woke up, ate breakfast, went to work—the same way he did every day. Ordinary.
Except for the part where Superman hadn't been seen in at least a week and nobody knew why, Lois was acting kind of weird, and Bruce Wayne was insisting that Clark was the only reporter he'd allow to run a feature on the crashed alien ship in the park, since Wayne Enterprises had been granted control of the site. And the way Clark felt every time Wayne looked at him a little too long definitely wasn't helping.
But it was fine. Clark was normal, there was nothing wrong with him, and everything was fine.
- Language:
- English
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- 24,181
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
30 Oct 2025
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Well-written. An interesting glimpse into one reason why someone might have developed some internalized homophobia.