Fanfic Friday 8/28//2020

[shy_magpie]

Well its Friday, I actually managed to read something worth recommending and I have enough brainspace to post in DW. So lets do this thing: I am just sharing my bookmark from AO3 under the cut and as always please share what you've been reading in the comments!

Across The Waves (26247 words) by oscarlovesthesea
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Rusty Quill Gaming (Podcast)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Zolf Smith/Oscar Wilde, Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan & Zolf Smith, Azu & Zolf Smith, Celiquillithon "Cel" Sidebottom & Zolf Smith, implied/referenced Carter/Barnes, implied/referenced Cel/Earhart, also whatever it is with Azu and Hamid is there
Characters: Zolf Smith, Oscar Wilde, Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan, Azu (Rusty Quill Gaming), Celiquillithon "Cel" Sidebottom, Howard Carter (Rusty Quill Gaming), Commander Barnes (Rusty Quill Gaming), Amelia Earhart (Rusty Quill Gaming), Marie Curie (Rusty Quill Gaming), Original Characters
Additional Tags: Slow Burn, Getting Together, Road Trips, or well the dungeonpunk version of that, lots of softness, References to Depression, (all the cws that go with these characters being traumatised, but nothing too heavy), super mild blood and violence, set post campaign, in the best possible version of events where everyone survives, like everything is unrealistically fine, took a lot of wild liberties with canon here folks, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, extremely wacky pathfinder mechanics, wilde is cool and powerful you can't change my mind, i tried to say hot zolf rights but i'm a lesbian so i'm not sure how that went
Summary:

“I don’t know who I am without my work, anymore," Wilde exhales, "and I don’t – I don’t know how to find out. We saved the world, and so much of it I’ve never seen as myself, just as whatever purpose I was fulfilling there.” Zolf can feel him breathe deeply next to him. He’s staring into the distance, brow furrowed.
“You could do that now,” he suggests, and he isn’t sure why he says it, or what he’s trying to achieve by it. “Travel, I mean. See the world, or whatever.”
“Yes, I could,” Wilde says slowly. Then he adds, like the words are spilling out of him, “You could come with me, if you wanted.”
Zolf breathes in, as slow as he can. He’d known, from the moment they’d started talking, that this is where they might end up, and still the proposal takes him by surprise.
“You don’t have to,” Wilde is saying over the drumming in Zolf’s chest, “but you said you didn’t know what to do, so…”
“I’d like that,” he blurts out, taking himself by surprise with the certainty of it. “I think I’d like that.”
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A story about traveling, and healing, and finding a home.

Bookmarker's Notes:

Quite simply one of the best Zolf/Wilde fics I've read. Zolf's asexuality directly on the page but its not a barrier and handled so well I would have thought it was Own Voices if it weren't for the author note thanking their sensitivity reader. All the characters feel very rounded and very how I see them in canon, even though the camera is focused squarely on Zolf & Oscar.