Top 25 General Audience Pining Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Every fic on this list is tagged with pining and rated General Audiences.
A Dandelion By Any Other Name
by TabbyCat33098
Jaskier is throwing up flowers and refuses to tell Geralt who has afflicted him so. As Geralt grapples with Jaskier's impending death, he comes to terms with a few things himself. //“Who’s the unlucky woman?” Geralt asks, stepping into the firelight. Jaskier starts, dandelions spilling from his ha
scramble
by IHadHimOnTheRopes (CarterReid)
The words on his skin were his everything. After everything he'd seen, done and been through, they were a reminder that Bruce Wayne still existed. That somewhere there was a person who would love him despite the coldness in his chest and the scars that roped their way across his skin. A reminder tha
Goodnight, Tadashi
by Magefeathers
Tsukishima buys a body pillow, and calls it Tadashi. Kuroo has an absolute field day with this information.
Pink Nails and Baggy Tees
by Fudgyokra
"I bet you're the only one he's ever truly happy around. 'Cause, maybe, you're the one that makes him that happy." Craig really didn't want to think about why that thought made his heart so jumpy.
Never a Cross Word
by 3tuxedocats
Elizabeth tours Pemberley with the Gardiners a year early, while the Darcys are away at Ramsgate. She is intrigued by the housekeeper's glowing praise of a man who is highly respected by his servants and tenants, and a doting guardian to his much younger sister, not to mention so handsome in his por
Andromeda
by aruallz
After lying to his family about his love life, Percy needs someone to fill in as his fake boyfriend for Christmas break. Jason is prepared to spend yet another holiday alone with his cat, watching depressing movies and counting the days until he can go back to university. When Percy offers him a dea
out of focus, eye to eye
by markofalover
“You know…are you still in the market?”Loki raises his eyebrows. “Oh, for the, uh,” he sets his hands out in a wild gesture that he hopes somehow makes the mark, because he doesn’t know what an ATV even is—“Oh, no, no,” Mobius says. He’s smiling, now, for some reason Loki can’t quite understand, eye
Something To Talk About
by mara_cas
When Eiji Okumura, star athlete of the pole vaulting team and well-known sweetheart, begins to hang out with Ash Lynx, lonely high school student with a bad reputation; it makes people talk. As the two of them navigate between silly teenagers’ shenanigans and deeper hardships, will they find in each
because it's you
by sleepy_macchi
Looking at Tsukasa like this, close as they are with the wind blowing at their backs, Rui wonders if there would ever come a day where he wouldn’t find Tsukasa to be the most interesting boy in the world – a day where he would get tired of the star’s brightness and deem him as nothing more than a bu
the people we want to be
by mikharlow
They find themselves back on the rooftop, hearts heavy with emotion needing to be shared.
Somewhere only we know
by fableowilba_booksandanime
Class E goes out for a star gazing trip, and Karma finds out that there is more than one kind of star. (And he also learns that heat and Nagisa are a really bad combination.)
Upon the Removal of a Finish Line
by ASongofSixpence
And it's sad because what John doesn’t know is this:It was never a suicide note. It was a love letter.
You Were Already Home
by Anonymous
It was 3am when Jeongguk began to hear Yoongi snore. It was 3:01am when he realized what was happening. And it was 3:02am when he checked his wrist and saw nothing there. Not again he thinks.
the only woman in the world
by raskolnikovam
Five hours post-proposal, Fitzwilliam Darcy is doing exactly what any rational, deeply insulted, and profoundly heartbroken gentleman would do at three o'clock in the morning: writing a dramatic essay in his journal, meticulously dismantling Elizabeth's cutting rejection. If she wishes to speak in h
Ratchet is NOT jealous. (ok, maybe he is a little bit...)
by Janayuga
Ratchet never believed in love at first sight. Then he met Orion Pax.Stellar cycles later, Orion is still the kind-hearted archivist Ratchet fell in love with- only now every conversation begins and ends with one name: Megatronus. - Or Orion's friends watch him get into a toxic relationship and see
Legacies, legacies
by nopemightier
We’re not heroes. The words form around his tongue like seafoam collecting on the shore, but they’re gone long before he can bring himself to say them out loud. Rengoku, in every sense of the definition, is a hero.
Sick to my stomach (can't look away)
by underfallingstars
Three times that Finn thinks he has an issue with Poe being with a man, and the one he doesn't
Gajeel's Yearning
by gajevy
Slept like garbage last night. Kept jolting awake reaching for a warm little body that simply wasn't there. Kept catching himself standing outside Fairy Hills at two in the morning like some idiot, staring up at her dark window before remembering she was gone and slinking back home to lie awake and
Frozen Horseback
by Psyga315
Anna and Elsa go on a horseback ride through Arendelle, where Anna allowed herself to surrender to her feelings and rest on Elsa's back.
Teensy Levy
by gajevy
"You know," Laxus said, lifting his drink, "for a guy who only needs one person, you sure get worked up over a girl you claim is nothin'." Gajeel opened his mouth then closed it. His face went a little bit red. Where was Panther Lily to get him out of this situation?! "...Shut up."
trick of the light
by Anonymous
Rainbow Quartz dances. Garnet asks a question.
Llama Hair
by Lord_Pretzel
Pacifica holds onto a sweater, and a feeling
[Podfic] I've Done This Dance Before
by sisi_rambles
Unrequited is a well-worn coat fit perfectly to Gurathin’s measurements.
Am I Dreaming
by BatChester23
Renee can remember most of her life, her childhood is a bit fudgy but once she hit her teens she got an almost perfect recall of her life. Now she wouldn't be able to compare it to Andrew's eidetic memory but she could give him a run for his money. With that it's a strange thing for Renee to wake up
Please Don't Cry, O' Sacred Beast
by SerpentFever
Kim has been acting strange, and Jacqueline isn't sure why. Ever since they started Miss Naigus's CPR course, she's been acting.... flighty. Snippier. Flipping on a dime between angry and sweet.The most concerning thing, though, is that underneath all that, she almost seems like she's putting on a m
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About This List
This list of 25general audience Pining fanfics spans 261,529 total words. Kudos range from 2 on the newest entries to 15,932 on the most established. Nearly all (92%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is General Audiences (25 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Pining · Mutual Pining · Fluff · Friends to Lovers · Unrequited Love.
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