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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If there’s one thing Hermione Granger is good at, it’s using magic to fix her problems. And this time, her problem is sex.
Luckily, she has the perfect solution: a locket enchanted with the Patented Daydream Charm. Whenever she opens it, she’ll find herself in Dreamland, where she can live out all her filthiest fantasies risk-free.
The magic is a bit tricky, though. For some reason, Malfoy keeps showing up there with her. Thank goodness it’s only an illusion—if that was really him, she would never live it down.
Meanwhile, Draco is determined to figure out who the fuck is cursing him to suffer through highly realistic, erotic hallucinations of his secret childhood crush. When he finds the culprit, there will be hell to pay.
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- Part 1 of Sin's Dreamland Collection
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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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Steve feels like he’s in some wild fever dream as he walks closer and says, “Hey, you all right?”
107 looks up. He looks even prettier up close, even (or especially, Steve’s mind supplies unhelpfully) with his cheeks flushed with the exercise and sweat beading on his forehead. He does look a little crazy, though.
“Huh,” 107 says, looks down Steve’s body, then up again. “I know we just met, but your dick looks like it’s getting strangled.”
Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
26 Aug 2026
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Silly and made me laugh out loud.
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ergo propter hoc by mortifyingideal
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
27 Aug 2019
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The survey had been Crawly’s idea. While he hadn’t originally planned on coming topside so soon in his demonic career, he really hadn’t trusted any of the others to get this one right. Neither had Lucifer, apparently, because according to Beelzebub (who passed the idea along, endlessly suited to being a middle-man despite not being a man of any description) it was Crawly’s job and Crawly’s job alone.
Get up there and find whoever’s causing trouble.
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what can't be fixed (isn't broken) by alcego for Z_ofroses
Fandoms: 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
01 Feb 2021
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"A-Xian," she says, and it's not quite so gentle this time. "Have you considered that maybe it's not the how that's getting in the way?"
He frowns into the pillow, suddenly aware of the fuzz itching against his lips. "What do you mean?"
"Maybe you're not ready yet," she says, and his heart squeezes. "Maybe it's like—when you were younger. When you'd—try," she says, stumbling around the thing they never talk about, the nights spent in hospital beds, the weeks and months spent in a room not his own, among strangers he was not allowed to know. "But you couldn't. Maybe it's like that."
Wei Ying shifts, curls into himself. "I want this," he says, and means it. "I do—I just." He stops, hesitates, re-routes. "What if getting married changes things?"
Wei Ying's been trying to propose to Lan Zhan for well over a year, but something always seems to get in the way. Coming to terms with what he wants from life and his relationship with Lan Zhan leads him to a very grounding realization.
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Interlude: The Story of Steve “Walking PR Nightmare” Rogers, and How For a Short While He Single-Handedly Destroyed the Emotional Health of Eva Laura Ortiz, His Now Ex-Publicist
(Throwback Thursday to that time in 2015 when I decided to just really lean into my incredibly self-indulgent headcanons about Steve Rogers, his politics, and kind of his whole deal. Occasionally people ask why this isn't on AO3 so here it is! Seven-ish years later. I aim to please. Eventually.)
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
08 Aug 2026
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I enjoy a good outsider POV, but also, the reason why the author says they wrote this piece is pretty much the exact same reason I love it. Self-indulgent headcanons ftw!
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In which Sergeant James Buchanan Barnes is tired, hungry and completely failing at not sticking it in the crazy. Also there’s a war going on or something.
aka world war threesome. Fear these queers.
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Bookmarked by LadyRaphael
01 Aug 2026
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This series is beautifully written. Funny, sexy, emotionally complex. (Also, the series is technically abandoned, but this is, I think, the only time that I’ve not been annoyed by getting to the end of something to find out that it never ended. The first two parts work well as one piece, with an emotionally-satisfying ending to that part of the series, and you can view parts three and four as bonus content. Heck, about half of it is even delivered as such.)