Fanfiction Recommendations
Below, you’ll find links to my favorite stories. This list certainly isn’t exhaustive, but I’ll try to keep it as up to date as I can. Check out the hyperlinks for descriptions of the stories. Enjoy! We have some amazingly talented authors in our fandom!
Authors
These are authors who have written multiple stories that I enjoy immensely. Their work is consistently of the highest quality. I recommend you check out every story that each of these authors has ever written, but here are a few particular stories with which to start from them:
* “Bésame”
* “Headcanon Fluff: Belly Edition”
* (I’ve Never Reached and Answer) I’m Only Given Clues (M)
* “I Had the Blues But I Shook Them Loose”
* In Echoes, There Are Other Words I’ve Said (M)
* “The Website with the Missing E”
(I’ve Got to Admit) It’s Getting Better Triology (M):
* “Senses”
* “Ours”
* “Words”
* “Tattoo”
* “Text”
* “Filing”
I recommend every story Tess has ever written. Start with these select few and move out from there:
* “Coins”
* “Lorca”
* “White”
* “Pulse”
* “I Watched You Sleeping (Quietly in My Bed)”
* “Everyone Wants Something (I’m Wanted by Everyone But You)”
* “Is She Trouble (Like I’m Trouble)” (M)
* “Hope I Start Talkin’ Crazy Before You Understand Me”
* “I’m One Step Away from Crashing to My Knees”
* “Four Times Brittany Inadvertently Breaks Santana (And One Time She Doesn’t)”
* “Five Times Santana Forgot to Hide Her Love for Brittany (And One Time She Couldn’t)”
* “The Mess That You Left When You Went Away”
* “Dark”
* “Five Times Brittany Picked Santana Up”
* “A Little Less Than Sixteen Candles”
* “In Another World, I Have Loved You”
* “Firsts”
* “Quiet Things (That No One Ever Knows)”
* “If You’ll Let Me, Here’s What I’ll Do”
* “Pavlov’s Daughter (I Turn My Thoughts Off Too, But the Only Thing I Hear Is You)”
* Zen and the Art of Relationship Maintenance (M)
2.“Thaw”
3. “Inclusion”
* I’m Calling on You to be My Lifeline
* I’ll Try Not to Sing Out of Key
* “The Brittana Poetry Project”
* “I Fell in Love Again (All Things Go, All Things Go)”
* “Automated External Defibrillator”
One-Shots
These are some of the standalone Brittana stories I most adore. All of them are well-written, well-paced, and beautifully constructed:
* “You Feel Just Like the Sun” by smc_27
* “There’s a Gold Ring and I Want You” by lynnearlington (M)
* “We’ll Float on All Right” by collidingkiss
* “The World Forgetting, by the World Forgot” by glittertorn
* “Second Star to the Right” by meteoritecrater
* “Like a Handprint on My Heart” by starbuck-river
* “Hold on to Our Light” by botherd
* “The Lord and His Lady” by Lulu
* “Once, Maybe Twice” by frychicken (M)
* “Dreams, Rainbows, and the Idiots Who Chase Them” by dealanexmachina
* “This Game We Spectate” by somethingsdont (M)
* “Lights Will Guide You Home” by Siannon
* Untitled (“I’d Marry the Shit Out of You”) by lynnearlington
* “Let My Love Open the Door” by lynnearlington
* “Running Out of Time” by ProfessorSpork
* “Puck Ships Brittana” by Shamelesshussy (M)
* “That Flying Feeling” by Samantha
* “What the Water Gave Me” by Savannah
* “To the Beat of Our Noisy Heart” by bluecrush
* “The Opposite of Adults” by Lulu
* “It Keeps the Nargles Away” by Roch
Multichapter Stories
These are some of my favorite multichapter stories, some of them completed, some of them still in progress:
* The Sun’ll Still Shine but the Night is on My Mind by rockinrye
* Must Be Felt by FrogsRcool (M)
* A Secret History of Sleepovers by Shamelesshussy
* Taking the Long Way by Lily (M)
* If You Could Only See What I See by FrogsRcool (M)
* Dunder Mifflin, Lima Branch by Lulu
Sugar from the Future Stories
So I have this obsession with the Sugar from the Future headcanon; you may have noticed. These are some of my favorite Sugar stories. Read them; love them:
“Where We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads” by Hannah
You’re the Apple of My Eye by skyfuls
The All That We Left Behind Series by Roch
“All I Want for Christmas” by Nessie
“If Love Were a Game, I’d Be Playing for Keeps” by TurningTrees
The Brittana U Christmas Project
So Kelly came up with this awesome idea for the faculty at Brittana U to write stories treating Brittana’s first Christmas together as girlfriends. My colleagues produced some amazing work that is amongst my favorite Brittana fiction out there:
DEC. 19TH: “Frosty” by Hannah
DEC. 20TH: “If the Fates Allow” by Muriel and “Let Your Heart Be Light” by Lily
DEC. 21ST: “Room at the Inn” by kairos27
DEC. 22ND: “Holly and Bright” by Samantha
DEC. 23RD: “Christmas Wrapping” by the Good Reverend
DEC. 24TH: “First Christmas” by Kelly and JJ
DEC. 29TH: “If Only in My Dreams” by Roch
DEC. 31ST: “Midnight” by Jeune and Tess
Birthday Fic
So once upon a time my birthday is the day after Naya Rivera’s—no joke—and many of my lovely friends wrote me stories in celebration of both my special day and our brilliant Captain’s. All of these stories are superlative and it’s my pleasure to recommend them to the fandom:
* “Painting Your Roses Red” by Tess
* “Untitled (Santana Sleeps and Brittany Dreams)” by Samantha
* “Untitled (They’ll Be in Love Forever)” by Roch
I would also like to mention that my dear friend kairos27 posted a preview of Chapter Seven of her amazing story The Curse of Sea and Land, which you’ll find above in my multichapter fic recs section, in honor of my birthday, as well.
