The Tag a Day Event begins today and will run through October 30th. Each day will feature fic recs for different scenarios in the canon universe, as well as alternate universes, based on a single central theme. This week’s posting schedule is:
Happy reading!
699 total fics recs have been posted in the 7 months since this blog’s creation. 84 of them were posted in the last 30 days. To view this month’s recs, please click here.
THIS MONTH’S BREAKDOWN*:
Total Followers: 1,045
By Chapters: 3 Chaptered Fics and 81 One-Shots
By Length: 71 fics Under 5K, 12 fics 5K – 10K, and 1 fics 10K – 25K
By Rating: 4 fics Not Rated, 56 fics rated General Audience, 22 fics rated Teen & Up, and 2 fics rated Mature
By Genre: 2 Alternate Dimension fics, 1 Canon Compliant fics, 66 Canon AU fics, 3 Crossover / Fusion fics, and 13 Human AU fics
By Point of View: 46 fics that feature Alec’s POV, 43 fics that feature Magnus’ POV, and 3 fics that feature an Outside POV
* – Note that some fics fall into more than one option per category
NEW AUTHORS:
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NEW FAVORITES:
If My Heart Was a House You’d Be Home by blushingalec
Secret Love Song by thisissirius
Waiting Game by bumblebeesknees
Your Heart is the Only Place That I Call Home by ohprongs
NEW SERIES:
Between the Two of Us – The Brooklyn Loft Chronicles series by Inrainbowz
Feel-Goods series by Louffox
There’s More Than One of Everything series by
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MISCELLANEOUS:
This month’s events included the Back to Hogwarts Event, the Birthday Event, and the Autumn in New York Event.
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The calendar above indicates this month’s events.
In order to ensure that diverse fic recs are being posted, the A Tag a Day Event will be held from Sunday, October 1st to Monday, October 30th. Each of these thirty days will be dedicated to a single theme that is listed on the Tags Index page. For more information, please click here.
Halloween is on Tuesday, October 31st. In celebration, fic recs will be posted that feature themes related to the holiday.
For more information about future events, please visit the Upcoming Events page.
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:
Human AU
Length:
5K – 10K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters:
Izzy Lightwood / Maia Roberts, Luke Garroway / Maryse Lightwood
Themes:
Summary:
or, the ‘i needed a date for my sister’s wedding and i asked you to go with me as a friend but everyone else thinks it’s real so we’re pretending we’re actually dating’ au
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:
Under 5K
Rating:
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Jace Wayland,
Maryse Lightwood
Secondary Pairings: None
Themes:
1×06,
Summary:
Symptoms: Elevated heart rate. Difficulty breathing. Tightening in his stomach. Anxiety. Light-headedness. Clammy palms.
Alec didn’t realise when he shared his strength with Magnus that it would have these weird side effects….
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: Under 5K
Rating: General Audience
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood
Secondary Pairings: None
Themes:
Established Relationship, Fluff,
Summary:
From the prompt: Confused hungover Alec in the morning be looking at his hand like… “Mags… Mags, wake up, did you propose when I was so drunk I don’t even remember?” And they decide that it will be a promise ring because hell, they actually both seem way too enthusiastic about the idea but they really probably shouldn’t be so serious after less than a year or so.
Magnus has loved dozens of people in his long life, spent decades with them. The way Alec is looking at him holds the kind of love that makes all that had come before fade in comparison. No one has ever loved him the way Alec does, as relentless as the ocean tides. No one ever will.
Magnus Bane in One Traveler, Long Stood by thenorthface
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Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
10K – 25K
Rating:
Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:
Ragnor Fell, Raphael Santiago,
Sebastian Verlac / Jonathan Morgenstern,
Izzy Lightwood / Simon Lewis
Themes:
2×18,
Summary:
Maia takes a deep breath, looking up to catch his gaze. Her face twitches, caught in a pre-emptive wince. “Alec’s getting married,” she says. “To a man this time. Khalid Elmasry of the Cairo Institute.”
“Oh,” Magnus says, careful to make sure his face is wiped of all expression. “I see.”
(Or: Everyone in the Shadow World thinks Alec Lightwood is getting married to the strong, handsome Shadowhunter visiting from Egypt… except for Alec.)
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: Under 5K
Rating:
Secondary Characters: Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings: None
Themes:
Domesticity, Established Relationship, Fluff,
Summary:
For this prompt: I love stories about Magnus being able to use a Seraph blade because his father is a fallen angel. This way Alec finds out about Magnus’s father and Magnus is afraid he will judge him for it. Maybe Jace sees it, too. There are barely any fics in which Jace is actually nice to Magnus 😛
Hope this fits! ❤
Magnus has always been in that nebulous role of a lover, where the definition is fluid and dynamic, a romantic connection between souls and bodies. A husband is something entirely different. The idea of being one is – it’s frightening. The idea of being wanted as one is humbling. It’s something Magnus has never considered, seen as something that could be possible in his future. But Magnus had never expected Alec – had never expected what it would mean to be loved by a shadowhunter who is a good man and a traditional one. Who loves Magnus not just between the tangled sheets of their bed, a perfect and untouchable pocket of time and space, but also in the difficult, complicated reality of the world outside the two of them that must be navigated. Magnus doesn’t expect how much he wants it.
Magnus Bane in Waiting Game by bumblebeesknees
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