Best Explicit Canon Compliant Fanfics
The 25 most-loved explicit canon compliant fanfics on AO3, ranked by kudos. These stories deepen rather than replace canon, and readers love returning to the source afterward unable to unsee what the fic filled in.
Top 25 Explicit Canon Compliant Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with canon compliant and rated Explicit.
Choices
by MesserMoon
People make mistakes, but they also make choices. It’s important to James, that difference. He does his best not to confuse the two.
beneath six layers of silk
by darkredloveknot (enheduane)
While exorcising a haunting, Lan Wangji gets cursed with a brand of honesty, and is forced to speak his every thought out loud.
#janegate
by deadmemewalking
zuko nation @yaoionice tell me why the rozanov leaks have me sobbing into my pillow … god i see what you have done for othersoh captain my captain @jimothykirk Replying to @yaoionice RIGHT like i think love might be real dani @danisqueerbar Replying to @jimothykirk we found love in a hopeless place
Meet Me In Dreamland
by sinflower81
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 h
better whip me if i misbehave
by evilrussianprincess
“Shane…” “Who the fuck do you think you’re calling Shane?” “Sweetheart,” Ilya corrects, tilting his head down against Shane’s grip on his hair to try to catch his lips. “Please.” “I can do everything she can,” Shane says. “But you’ve been a bit too naughty today. I’m tying you up first.” “Oh, no,” I
No Glory
by ObsidianPen
The Dark Lord divines what Harry Potter is in the Forbidden Forest, and revelations lead to incomprehensible consequences. Lord Voldemort has won... and the dystopia is damning.A tale of a fallen hero, dark desires, and a Dark Lord's obsession with something he has lost and finds himself unwillingly
The Seventh Sense
by MissDisoriental
It’s been over a year after the Fall and most people know Will’s in a relationship. They just don’t know exactly with who…A sequel to ‘The Shape of Me Will Always Be You’, but can be read as a standalone.Translation in 中文, Русский and EspañolFan videos available here and hereFan art master post avai
Winter Song
by proantagonist
The set of Yuuri’s mouth softened into a private smile as Victor squeezed his knee beneath the table. His hands were bare, free from the gloves he so often wore when they were together on the rink, and the heat of his palm burned straight through the denim of Yuuri’s jeans. He slipped his own hand b
Tactical Surrender
by destinies
“It was foolish of you to come here,” he says. “You won’t escape this time.” Rey looks at him, at the Stormtroopers, at the combat walkers. She gives the illusion of thinking it over, and then says, “You’re right." She presents her wrists to him. “I surrender myself to the authority of the First Ord
Lee Minho is the guru your heart needs
by sparklining
Stray Kids OT8 sliding into happy polyamory, as documented by their chat logs. minnieinnie: so this is the hyung chatminnieinnie: what do you guys normally talk about in here?binbinbin: grown up stuffthreecats: what ramen brand tastes the bestchanniehyungie: grown up stuffchanniehyungie: minho pleas
should have known better
by wo_osan
“Who do you think the shipper fans would assume tops between the two of us?”What.No, seriously. What the fuck.Wooyoung is so shocked by the question that he wonders if maybe he’d heard him wrong. Surely San wouldn’t have just asked him-“The fuck kind of question is that?” he says. or: wooyoung reall
As soft, as wide as air
by BlackKnightSatellite
After surviving the fall, Will finds he has far fewer hesitations about joining Hannibal than he would have guessed. Character death, but not Will or Hannibal.
the floating world
by vividlyy
Tomioka Giyuu has spent the last two months undercover in the city of Kyoto to investigate suspected demon activity. When his status updates suddenly stop, Sanemi is sent to the same city to check on him. His own investigating leads him to the city's red light district, where he finally finds Giyuu—
all that glitters (is not gold)
by indomitablelove
Alex Claremont-Diaz has it all. His mom won the election, he’s got the perfect boyfriend. He gets to love Henry out loud. Everything is great. Perfect.Except for the itch under his skin every time he goes outside, and the tightness in his chest when he goes online, and the fact that he can’t fucking
Familiar Gravity
by cmere
“Yeah,” Alex breathes, and he pulls back to look Henry in the eyes. “I’ve been fantasizing about you fucking me in this chair for, like, weeks. Every time you sit down here with your stupid book.” Henry likes it when Alex speaks Spanish and Alex has a request.
Warm steel and cold hands
by Fan_Seller
Hajime believes there are truly very few things in life that can surprise him anymore. As usual, Komaeda is one of them. Or: Nagito locks himself in a cage, and Hajime finds out he has some deep, forgotten kinks. He is as determined to try and ignore them as he is to help Komaeda. With an internally
homeland
by scarletaire
| Complete. |Cardan’s eyes flash open. “Why?” he repeats, and Jude feels the power shift between them. “Don’t you remember, wife?” he croons. “It was the Undersea that stole you away from me.” And Jude has only enough time to think, danger, before he lunges at her. or: Cardan and Jude work on remov
How to Disappear Completely
by peachstatic
Mike Wheeler is thirty years old, three years married, and incredibly unhappy. After an unexpected AOL Instant Messenger group chat with the Party, Mike reconnects with Will after several years and realizes that maybe his life doesn't have to be so bad. Or: A 2000s epistolary fic in which Mike falls
Strawberry Wine
by fahrenheit7
Angel sipped his wine, cheeks beginning to flush. “I mean…” he trailed off, running his thumb through the condensation that covered the glass. His gaze flicked to Aki for only a moment before continuing. “It’s safe through cloth, right?”Aki’s cheeks burned a bright, cherry red and he finished his dr
crosscurrent
by vividlyy
Sanemi doesn’t know how he got here.Actually, no. He does. Logically, Sanemi can retrace all the steps it took for him to arrive at this particular place at this particular time: the Swordsmith’s village, bathing in their famous hot springs, with Tomioka Giyuu as his sole company.
no other version of me i would rather be tonight
by wardo_wedidit
"Patrick does so much for him. He feels slightly choked up just thinking about it. The taxes and spreadsheets and dinners he cooks and the coffees he makes him in the mornings. All the times David’s fallen asleep on his lap while they were watching baseball and Patrick’s pulled a blanket over him. H
And your love is three times better
by Lolistar92
“When were you going to tell me I am a housewife?” Kuroo demands, hands slamming down on their kitchen table. {Or Kuroo comes to the dawning realization that all his boyfriends are rich.}
Survivor's Guilt
by LaughingSenselessly
“There’s no one else to live for anymore.” Clarke utters those words without too much emotion. They’ve had time over the years to reflect on all the people ripped away from their lives. It’s no longer a fierce, stabbing pain, just a kind of endless ache that surges and subsides with every breath the
I Want Your Psycho
by toomuchplor
Eames would gladly welcome comparisons to other dashing bearded men, but Eames rarely gets what he wants when it comes to Arthur.
being with you makes the flame burn good
by innoguilty
“You let people watch?”"Not really." Angel smirks, his tone slightly defiant, “are you asking because you want to?” Aki and Angel get closer after the incident with the Bomb Devil.
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About This List
This list of 25explicit Canon Compliant fanfics spans 3,363,160 total words. Kudos range from 2,999 on the newest entries to 52,441 on the most established. Nearly all (80%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Explicit (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Canon Compliant · Post-Canon · Established Relationship · Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot · Humor.
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