Fic rec: Sacred in the ordinary, Teen Wolf
I don't want to take a shower and go to work, I want to stay home and read Sacred in the Ordinary by 
idyll the whole way through for the second time in eighteen hours.
(Futurefic, jossed-type AU, Derek/Stiles in what is currently a backgroundy kind of way).
So this diverges mostly after season 1 and is futurefic (set after college and grad school, actually) where the characters have mostly either gotten over or owned their teenage issues and formed complex relationships of mutual reliance and positive regard, which is apparently like candy to me now. And then they are negotiating complex adult lives with tact and compassion! Who even knew this would become my thing. Also notable: I love all stories that discuss werewolves as a largely invisible but resilient culture with its own norms and values. I like most stories involving diplomatic negotiation. I really enjoyed Stiles the Competent Adult who is so hardcore that most werewolves are a little scared of him. And of course the Pack-as-chosen-family thing is popular for a reason, and is really delightful here.
I will note that it is more delightful to me here because this is futurefic where all the characters have really chosen to be part of the same pack as adults, after acknowledging and working through very real problems - the "chosen" in "chosen family" is very much in operation here. It's weird to read in a high-school-show fandom at a time when my shipping preferences are tilting hard towards "I want to read about mature, settled relationships that seem like objectively good ideas given the parameters of the universe in which they operate". Honestly right now my bookmarks are mostly stories about Danny and Jackson being good friends. And this. And that Stiles/Isaac h/c epic that defies this classification probably.
idyll the whole way through for the second time in eighteen hours.
(Futurefic, jossed-type AU, Derek/Stiles in what is currently a backgroundy kind of way).
So this diverges mostly after season 1 and is futurefic (set after college and grad school, actually) where the characters have mostly either gotten over or owned their teenage issues and formed complex relationships of mutual reliance and positive regard, which is apparently like candy to me now. And then they are negotiating complex adult lives with tact and compassion! Who even knew this would become my thing. Also notable: I love all stories that discuss werewolves as a largely invisible but resilient culture with its own norms and values. I like most stories involving diplomatic negotiation. I really enjoyed Stiles the Competent Adult who is so hardcore that most werewolves are a little scared of him. And of course the Pack-as-chosen-family thing is popular for a reason, and is really delightful here.
I will note that it is more delightful to me here because this is futurefic where all the characters have really chosen to be part of the same pack as adults, after acknowledging and working through very real problems - the "chosen" in "chosen family" is very much in operation here. It's weird to read in a high-school-show fandom at a time when my shipping preferences are tilting hard towards "I want to read about mature, settled relationships that seem like objectively good ideas given the parameters of the universe in which they operate". Honestly right now my bookmarks are mostly stories about Danny and Jackson being good friends. And this. And that Stiles/Isaac h/c epic that defies this classification probably.