Best Epic Coming Out Fanfics
Coming Out fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 10 Epic Coming Out Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with coming out and falls in the over 100,000 words range.
frequently, secretly fond of each other.
by milominderbinder
Shrugging one shoulder far more casually than he possibly feels, Ilya says, “I like both. Is secret, okay?” “Okay,” Hollander says, voice cracking. He doesn’t say anything else. The air’s so heavy around them that it feels like being in the middle of a scrum, the weight and heat of all those bodies
Mental
by orphan_account
Harry has had quite enough of sharing his mind with someone else, thankyouverymuch. A miscast Legilimecy spell says otherwise.(Fic from 2010 FF archive being uploaded here.)AND FOR THE LAST FUCKING TIME, STOP REPOSTING THIS ON WATTPAD. I DO NOT WANT IT ON WATTPAD. YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO POST
(the first time) he kissed a boy
by buzzcut__season
Reki is insecure about his lack of kissing experience. Langa just wants to help him feel like he's good enough, even if teaching Reki to kiss means breaking his own heart. (yet another practice kissing au)
Written on the Heart
by who_la_hoop
Harry doesn’t mind that so many Slytherins from his year have returned to finish their NEWTs, really he doesn’t. It’s just – do they have to be so friendly? He’s not prejudiced, really he’s not. It’s just – they’ve got to be up to something, right? Unnerved by the attention he’s attracting from ever
Change Your Win Conditions
by Vee (Vera_DragonMuse)
Sometimes life came at you with a clenched fist and Ilya had never figured out how to duck. So here he was, twenty-eight years old, single, dealing with the fallout from injuries given to him by the game he loved, and the second youngest assistant coach in the league to one of the worst teams. Stabi
The Syntax of Things
by Arrisha
A short-lived series of private lessons took place after Christmas in Harry Potter's fifth school year, during which Severus Snape attempted to teach Harry the skill of Occlumency. The lessons were ultimately cancelled when Harry was caught prying into Snape's memories, discovering the strangest thi
It All Started with a Jacket
by An_Ordinary_Writer
Amity stole Luz's jacket and learns something new in the process. Originally a one-shot but now will have more chapters because people kept asking for more chapters. Turns out, peer pressure does work.Based on Drabbles_Of_Writing's Beta AU: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1943572Ahora en español:
Going Down
by concannonfodder
The Roses never lose their fortune, and David never moves to Schitt's Creek. He's facing down the prospect of spending New Year's Eve alone, when fate traps him in an elevator with a certain Canadian tourist.
A Fair Return
by thingswithwings
and there are some like us,just walking, making our feet move ahead of us,a little bored, a little lost, a little angry,walking as though we were really going somewhere,walking as if there was something to see at Adelaide or maybe on King,something that will give a fair return for this use of shoe-l
Waiting for August to End
by dandelions_and_snapdragons
Hop hasn't spoken to his brother for almost two years. He hasn't spoken to his best friend for even longer, and then they show up with no warning when they should be halfway across the world. - Galarian law states that anyone who is 22 years of age and older can request to terminate their contract t
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About Coming Out
A character tells the people in their life who they are — their identity, their orientation, their relationship — and the story lives in the telling and its aftermath. These fics span the full range from joyful acceptance to painful rejection to quiet, anticlimactic relief.
For many readers this trope is personal, offering rehearsals of conversations they have had or hope to have, with beloved characters proving that the story continues afterward.
Common scenarios: A teen practicing the words in the mirror for weeks before dinner, or a superhero coming out at a press conference because subtlety was never their strength.
About This List
This list of 10epic Coming Out fanfics spans 1,686,859 total words. Kudos range from 103 on the newest entries to 45,340 on the most established. 70% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (5 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Coming Out · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Mutual Pining · Slow Build · Fluff.
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