Recent fic recs, please?

[nyanja14]

OK, since this community is apparently NOT dead (yay!) I was wondering if anyone has any fic recs--particularly NEW/(RELATIVELY) RECENT fics?

I read prolifically in the fandom circa roughly 2010-2013, exploring everything from AO3 and FF.Net to LJ and user-owned fic archives, so I'm already familiar with most of the classics. But since then, I haven't read as much. So I was wondering if anybody had fic they'd rec that has been written 2014-2018?

I greatly prefer Shindou/Touya, but I will happily read nearly any ship if it's good (or gen!) I like longfic over oneshots, but again--if it's good, I'll read it! WIPs are not entirely out of the question, though of course complete stories are preferred. NSFW is OK!

I generally don't like AU much-- I love canon divergence and "what if?" stuff, but settings/scenarios that are way different from the source material aren't really my speed. (However, if you have something truly excellent, like the most amazingly well-researched Heian period fic or a supremely in-character werewolf story, feel free to send it my way and I might check it out anyway.)

Feel free to rec your own fic! I love self-promotion!

Thanks in advance, everybody!

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[qem_chibati]

There's some good stuff in the last couple of blind go;s
https://tuulentupa.dreamwidth.org/984492.html
https://hikarunogo.dreamwidth.org/tag/blind_go


Otherwise this is some of the things I boomarked on Ao3 from 2014-2018
Secret Admirer (1032 words) by trixiechick
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Waya Yoshitaka, Isumi Shinichirou, Shindou Hikaru, Ogata Seiji, Kuwabara Honinbou
Additional Tags: go geeks being brats
Summary:

Waya finds something in his shoe

Pawns in a Game of Go (1287 words) by mmmdraco
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Tsutsui Kimihiro
Additional Tags: Assassins, Sociopath
Summary:

Tsutsui liked go. It was a nice contrast to the killing.

99 Problems (484 words) by aoigensou
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shindou Hikaru & Waya Yoshitaka
Characters: Waya Yoshitaka, Shindou Hikaru
Additional Tags: 5 Things
Summary:

Five reasons Waya Yoshitaka's life is hard.

Topping For Dummies: A Seme's Guide (2683 words) by Ver
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kaga Tetsuo/Tsutsui Kimihiro
Characters: Kaga Tetsuo, Tsutsui Kimihiro
Additional Tags: Top Tsutsui, Anal Sex
Summary:

There isn't much Kaga hasn't done in bed, but he finally decides to ask for one of them.

Welcome to the Club (1820 words) by Ver
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go, Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Shindou Hikaru, Natsume Takashi, Madara "Nyanko-sensei"
Additional Tags: Crossovers & Fandom Fusions, Alternate Universe, Series Spoilers
Summary:

Hikaru starts seeing strange things that he can't explain- you know, the usual. Why does everything have to happen to him? Then he meets someone, finally, who understands.

Machine Learning (5099 words) by karanguni
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Shindou Hikaru, Touya Akira
Summary:

The next day, Touya sat across the goban from the newly-reminted Juudan and said, numbly, 'Ogata-san, Shindou's going to university.'

Finding Love Among Them (1570 words) by BridgetMcKennitt
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shindou Hikaru/Touya Akira
Additional Tags: Codes & Ciphers, Declarations Of Love, Post-Canon, Canon - Anime, NPT Treat
Summary:

The formation of Go stones on the board wasn't just for winning a game.

No Longer Needed (100 words) by BridgetMcKennitt
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Mitani Yuuki
Additional Tags: NPT Treat, Drabble, Moving On, Friendship
Summary:

Every time Mitani looked at a Go stone, he thought about Hikaru and felt a flash of anger run through him.

Liquid Courage (1463 words) by aoigensou
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Shindou Hikaru/Waya Yoshitaka
Characters: Waya Yoshitaka, Shindou Hikaru
Additional Tags: Drunken Confessions
Summary:

Yoshitaka didn't know why Shindou had dragged him to a party where he didn't know anybody only to ditch him.

Absolute Beginners (5769 words) by Penguin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Isumi Shinichirou/Waya Yoshitaka
Characters: Isumi Shinichirou, Waya Yoshitaka
Additional Tags: Romance, Developing Relationship, First Time
Summary:

It all begins in China, where Le Ping haunts Isumi like an obnoxious Waya spirit, refusing to leave him alone.

Technique (3282 words) by tastewithouttalent
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: Shindou Hikaru/Touya Akira
Characters: Shindou Hikaru, Touya Akira
Additional Tags: Board Games, Established Relationship, Teasing, No Plot/Plotless, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Competition
Summary:

"'Hikaru.' A little bit tense, the name, drawing stern in his throat as he speaks. 'Are you playing a game on my back?'" Shindou and Touya play a game of blind Go with somewhat unusual technique.

Respect (2686 words) by tastewithouttalent
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: Isumi Shinichirou/Waya Yoshitaka
Characters: Isumi Shinichirou, Waya Yoshitaka
Additional Tags: Established Relationship, No Plot/Plotless, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Teasing, Light Dom/sub
Summary:

"'What’d you call me?' Waya blurts, dragging his mouth away from Isumi’s skin so he can blink shocked adrenaline down at the other’s features." Waya finds out he has a particular appreciation for Isumi being respectful.

Ochi's Red (1361 words) by yarinaosu
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go, Free!
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ochi Kousuke/Touya Akira
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Touya Akira, Shindou Hikaru, Ogata Seiji, Tachibana Makoto
Additional Tags: Fate, soulmate, Red String of Fate, Destiny
Summary:

Ochi Kousuke has always seen Touya Akira for what he really was: something to look at but not touch.

Dragons and Other Metaphors (3104 words) by esama
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Touya Akira, Shindou Hikaru, Touya Kouyou, Ogata Seiji, Waya Yoshitaka
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Random Hikago Event, preslash
Summary:

Shindo Hikaru was a monster and sometimes Akira could admit to himself that he was actually a little scared of him.

Five People Hikaru Kind of Told About Sai (And One He Actually Told) (4820 words) by flonnebonne
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Shindou Hikaru, Waya Yoshitaka, Fujisaki Akari, Tsutsui Kimihiro, Kaga Tetsuo, Shindou Heihachi, Touya Akira, Shindou Masao
Summary:

What it says on the tin. (I've always wanted to write that.)

And I wrote a couple of things in 2014 here.

[nyanja14]

Ah, so many!! Thanks! Crossovers aren't usually my thing, but that Natsume Yuujinchou one caught my eye... it makes sense!

[chagrined]

I haven't really read much Hikago fic since 2015 (I'm sure one of these days I'll go on a bender again, maybe with some recs from this post haha) but here are the bookmarks I have from 2014-15 that include AkiHika:

Ties that Bind, 7140 words, light bondage porn

Homeward Bound, Hikaru/various, 4583 words, first kisses

Not that Simple, idk the word count, AkiHika with both genderswapped & also Waya/Shindou

Charade, 1108 words, ok technically gen but AkiHika subtext (pretend dating)


And then I had two others that aren't AkiHika:

Being Good, 5104 words, Isumi/Ogata

Topping for Dummies: A Seme's Guide, 2683 words, Kaga/Tsutsui

You said you like long fics, here are long fics

[flonnebonne]

These are both super popular and currently unfinished, but I have every faith the authors will finish them.

Paper Cranes by spontaneite
Summary: Two years passed before Hikaru admitted, reluctantly, that possession by a spirit seemed to have long-lasting side effects which probably wouldn’t go away on their own.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/7762027/chapters/17700841

Caught in a Thousand Strings by Thai_Tea_Addict
Summary: Sai wakes up to find everything he'd gone through to be a dream. Longing for what he once had, Sai seeks out his student - only Shindou Hikaru isn't exactly what Sai had expected. (Read the tags/warnings)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/534170/chapters/948018

I can't find "Dice in a Game of War," another longfic I love...I think it's gone from the Internets :(

Re: You said you like long fics, here are long fics

[flonnebonne]

OH NO WAIT I found it. But it's actually from 2009, so maybe you've read it.

Dice, in a Game of War
Summary: Fantasy-detective fusion AU wherein Waya, a private investigator in the city of Ki, is hired by Touya Akira to track down the previously exiled Sai. A series of mysterious magical deaths coincides with Waya's new case, and he finds himself having to face his own path - as well as find out the truth before someone else gets hurt in the process.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/131801/chapters/187860

[troisroyaumes]

Because flonnebonne is too modest to rec her own fic...

The boy who never was (9556 words) by flonnebonne
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Touya Akira, Shindou Hikaru, Touya Akiko, Touya Kouyou, Ogata Seiji, Fujiwara no Sai, Ichikawa Harumi
Additional Tags: POV Second Person, so pretentious i'm sorry, Alternate Universe - Canon, weird stuff is happening
Summary:

Shindou Hikaru is the most (un)real person Akira (n)ever met.

The Big Slump (8020 words) by flonnebonne
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Hikaru no Go
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ochi Kousuke, Ochi's Grandfather, Waya Yoshitaka, Yashiro Kiyoharu, Kurata Atsushi
Summary:

"Your go is made of money." Ochi is in a slump and wants to figure out why.

Also laughing a bit at the description of 2010-2013 as the classics. That's at least the second or third fannish revival...there are fics dating all the way back to 1999. But it's wonderful to see the fandom still going strong, almost twenty years later.