Homestuck Fic Recs: Tentacles
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cest_whatTonight is All of the Posts Night, sorry. Next themed set of recs! This one is tentacles.
... yes. God, I am so weirdly charmed by this fandom's tentacle habit. Some of these are tragic and some are hot and wrong and some are hilarious and some are really darling. A lot of them are Rose.
Say, Lady, the Tentacles Ain't Half Bad by kayliemalinza (Jade/Rose)
(1,700 words, mature.) Jade is following an intriguing new smell on the battleship, when she finds Davesprite attempting to fight off a terrifying grimdark lady with tentacles. This is very much dogtier Jade, she's doggy and godpowered and super inappropriate, and this is just ... it's weird and disturbing and full of body horror and it is so fucking delightful. I couldn't keep the delighted grin off my face, I wanted to roll around and gnaw on it like Jade. Ummmmmmmmm. God.
Dear Penthiive by Anonymous (Feferi/Sollux)
(3,800 words, explicit.) Sollux doesn't know what he did to deserve this, but he's really hoping he doesn't do anything to fuck it up. This is kind of darling xeno porn, complete with Sollux's insecurities and Feferi's determination.
Learning Each Other (Got a Lot to Learn) bycypher (John/Karkat)
(1,800 words, explicit.) Funny and rather sweet xeno aphrodisiac first time tentacle PWP. File this one under things I read three times before realising that I had better bookmark them.
knryip by vulturer (Aradia/Kanaya/Rose/Terezi)
(1,400 words, teen.) Rose has been having strange nightmares lately. This fic does some excellent things, in a very disconnected way. I loved Rose's voice in her journal, and the cryptic clues there, and I loved the last line, and I really like the creepy joyful mood in the sex scene, but it's more like a little present of ephemera than it is a story. Reccing it for the things it does well.
Note for non-Homestuck fans: the Rose/Dave pairing is technically sibling incest.
Until the Latter Fire Shall Heat the Deep by gogollescent & Quixotic (Rose/Dave)
(3,000 words, teen.) Rose was fascinated by the dark gods in the doomed timeline too. This gets a little opaque in places, but it's a powerful, only marginally bleak little story with a great Dave & Rose dynamic. Some of the imagery gave me shivers.
Land of Clockwork and Grimdark Broads by kayliemalinza (Rose/Dave)
(1,500 words, teen.) The grimdark thing is old news, Dave's barely even terrified anymore; the tentacles, though, those are something different. (Another one set in the doomed timeline.) Ugh, I just. Love them both so much. This is sad in a way that it almost doesn't let you notice because it's so busy being hot/wrong/hilarious. But, yeah, tragic.
There Are More Things by gatty (Rose/Dave)
(9,800 words, mature.) Five years after SBURB, Rose is living in the ruins of her mother's home, and the horrorterrors are like a whisper of bad reception she can just reach. Or: Dave Strider stages an intervention. This is almost completely lacking in context: I don't understand where Jade and John are, I don't know what happened to the trolls, and I especially don't know what happened with Kanaya. But it's viscerally beautiful(/horrible), and believable as the Derse twins, so fucked up, five years down the line. I ached for them, and I kind of loved this and where it ended up.
in which dave is ultimately at a loss for metaphors by corpseparty (Rose/Dave)
(1,900 words, explicit.) The one with Rose, Dave and a purple tentacle sex machine: for science. Hot and deftly characterised; I really like Rose's voice in this. It's also the least angsty Rose/Dave fic in this list by far, which is why I put it last.
... yes. God, I am so weirdly charmed by this fandom's tentacle habit. Some of these are tragic and some are hot and wrong and some are hilarious and some are really darling. A lot of them are Rose.
Say, Lady, the Tentacles Ain't Half Bad by kayliemalinza (Jade/Rose)
(1,700 words, mature.) Jade is following an intriguing new smell on the battleship, when she finds Davesprite attempting to fight off a terrifying grimdark lady with tentacles. This is very much dogtier Jade, she's doggy and godpowered and super inappropriate, and this is just ... it's weird and disturbing and full of body horror and it is so fucking delightful. I couldn't keep the delighted grin off my face, I wanted to roll around and gnaw on it like Jade. Ummmmmmmmm. God.
Dear Penthiive by Anonymous (Feferi/Sollux)
(3,800 words, explicit.) Sollux doesn't know what he did to deserve this, but he's really hoping he doesn't do anything to fuck it up. This is kind of darling xeno porn, complete with Sollux's insecurities and Feferi's determination.
Learning Each Other (Got a Lot to Learn) by
cypher (John/Karkat)(1,800 words, explicit.) Funny and rather sweet xeno aphrodisiac first time tentacle PWP. File this one under things I read three times before realising that I had better bookmark them.
knryip by vulturer (Aradia/Kanaya/Rose/Terezi)
(1,400 words, teen.) Rose has been having strange nightmares lately. This fic does some excellent things, in a very disconnected way. I loved Rose's voice in her journal, and the cryptic clues there, and I loved the last line, and I really like the creepy joyful mood in the sex scene, but it's more like a little present of ephemera than it is a story. Reccing it for the things it does well.
Note for non-Homestuck fans: the Rose/Dave pairing is technically sibling incest.
Until the Latter Fire Shall Heat the Deep by gogollescent & Quixotic (Rose/Dave)
(3,000 words, teen.) Rose was fascinated by the dark gods in the doomed timeline too. This gets a little opaque in places, but it's a powerful, only marginally bleak little story with a great Dave & Rose dynamic. Some of the imagery gave me shivers.
Land of Clockwork and Grimdark Broads by kayliemalinza (Rose/Dave)
(1,500 words, teen.) The grimdark thing is old news, Dave's barely even terrified anymore; the tentacles, though, those are something different. (Another one set in the doomed timeline.) Ugh, I just. Love them both so much. This is sad in a way that it almost doesn't let you notice because it's so busy being hot/wrong/hilarious. But, yeah, tragic.
There Are More Things by gatty (Rose/Dave)
(9,800 words, mature.) Five years after SBURB, Rose is living in the ruins of her mother's home, and the horrorterrors are like a whisper of bad reception she can just reach. Or: Dave Strider stages an intervention. This is almost completely lacking in context: I don't understand where Jade and John are, I don't know what happened to the trolls, and I especially don't know what happened with Kanaya. But it's viscerally beautiful(/horrible), and believable as the Derse twins, so fucked up, five years down the line. I ached for them, and I kind of loved this and where it ended up.
in which dave is ultimately at a loss for metaphors by corpseparty (Rose/Dave)
(1,900 words, explicit.) The one with Rose, Dave and a purple tentacle sex machine: for science. Hot and deftly characterised; I really like Rose's voice in this. It's also the least angsty Rose/Dave fic in this list by far, which is why I put it last.
