I’m loathe to recommend Harry Potter these days, but someone else recced this au where Neville is the Boy Who Lived and Harry is on his way to becoming a teen sociopath. I’m only 1/3 through and having a hard time putting it down… https://archiveofourown.org/works/5103614/chapters/11740079
Cor et Cerebrum, batfam but no/minimal canon knowledge necessary, it’s brilliant outsider POV of an OC who starts as Bruce Wayne’s neurosurgeon and gets sucked in. Well-developed, attention to every detail of character relationships, deeply immersive!
Here I am reading and rec’ing MCU in the year 2025 but this fic diverges when Thor and Loki are children; Loki is disowned and delegitimized and sent to Heimdal to be fostered. Great character work, immersive world-building, no familiarity with canon req:
OMG I thought, "what an incredible idea," clicked and it's scioscribe! My friend from Justified fandom! Who is responsible for A BUNCH of the best fic I have ever written because she is an *inspiration* wowowow 🤯
Cor et Cerebrum seconded! Singeli told me to read this a few years ago and I have since reread it possibly twice. Contains one of the absolute best OCs I’ve ever encountered in fandom.
If you told me a couple years ago I would be here reccing Fast and Furious soulmark fic, I would have laughed in your face but this series…is a lot. So much.
Absolutely no knowledge of the movies required. It even starts off years before the first film and delves so deep into frankly fascinating soulmark world building the only thing that travels is the car racing (which you can skim if you need to) and Vin Diesel’s brooding stoicism.
Lots AND lots of angst and whump here but also so much comfort and *family* AND the author is actively posting the newest installment in the series RIGHT NOW. So there’s new fic to be had!
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(oh, it is Stargate)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/15
https://archiveofourown.org/works/16511147/chapters/38673128
https://archiveofourown.org/series/549964
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18482257/chapters/43793392
https://archiveofourown.org/works/10222295/chapters/22682429
Also 💜💜
Almost 800k words of excellent fantasy
https://archiveofourown.org/series/2317160