As kinima is the crying rarepair of my heart, I couldn't not make a rec list for wonderful kinima contributions to SASO. These are those fics.
Title:PTSD Recovery also feat. Midousuji Creator(s):uwu_anon Rating: M Major Tags: abuse, trauma & recovery themes Why is this work awesome?: I thought it would be wise to read this at three am. Don't be me. Make sure you're ready. This fic packs an incredible amount of emotion and understanding into an incredibly small space, seriously examining the emotional repercussions of Midousuji's treatment of Imaizumi through the lens that is Kinjou's viewpoint. It is everything I have ever wanted out of kinima — careful support, sympathy, love — and I want everyone who remotely cares about either of these characters to read it.
Title:Minimalism Creator(s):swiftling Rating: G Major Tags: None Why is this work awesome?: Kite has a beautiful way with language. Her prose is perfectly crisp and incredibly precise in a way that makes everything she writes a joy to read. It's also the perfect framing for this story — quiet moments between Imaizumi and Kinjou after Imaizumi has graduated from Sohoku, and has come to live with Kinjou while attending Yonan University. It's quiet, understated, calming, and a really rewarding read for how it captures that particular mood.
Title:Anixety Coping Creator(s):elucidatedlucy Rating: T Major Tags: referenced emotional manipulation, nonbinary character Why is this work awesome?: What I like best about this fic is how well it captures Imaizumi's irrational feelings of paranoia. It's another story addressing how Imaizumi deals with their own brain after Midousuji's emotional manipulation, and it conveys the claustrophobic feeling inside their head uncannily well. The prose itself feels uncomfortable, before sliding into a rhythm that's easier to inhabit while still retaining some of that claustrophobic feeling, during the portion where Imaizumi and Kinjou have their back and forth. Very interesting execution, very nice comfort toward the end.
(Most fills don't have official titles so most of the titles as I list them are really just a descriptive phrase to get across the general idea of the fic.)
FILL: TEAM FUKUTOMI JUICHI/KINJOU SHINGO
Title: PTSD Recovery also feat. Midousuji
Creator(s):
Rating: M
Major Tags: abuse, trauma & recovery themes
Why is this work awesome?: I thought it would be wise to read this at three am. Don't be me. Make sure you're ready. This fic packs an incredible amount of emotion and understanding into an incredibly small space, seriously examining the emotional repercussions of Midousuji's treatment of Imaizumi through the lens that is Kinjou's viewpoint. It is everything I have ever wanted out of kinima — careful support, sympathy, love — and I want everyone who remotely cares about either of these characters to read it.
Title: Minimalism
Creator(s):
Rating: G
Major Tags: None
Why is this work awesome?: Kite has a beautiful way with language. Her prose is perfectly crisp and incredibly precise in a way that makes everything she writes a joy to read. It's also the perfect framing for this story — quiet moments between Imaizumi and Kinjou after Imaizumi has graduated from Sohoku, and has come to live with Kinjou while attending Yonan University. It's quiet, understated, calming, and a really rewarding read for how it captures that particular mood.
Title: Anixety Coping
Creator(s):
Rating: T
Major Tags: referenced emotional manipulation, nonbinary character
Why is this work awesome?: What I like best about this fic is how well it captures Imaizumi's irrational feelings of paranoia. It's another story addressing how Imaizumi deals with their own brain after Midousuji's emotional manipulation, and it conveys the claustrophobic feeling inside their head uncannily well. The prose itself feels uncomfortable, before sliding into a rhythm that's easier to inhabit while still retaining some of that claustrophobic feeling, during the portion where Imaizumi and Kinjou have their back and forth. Very interesting execution, very nice comfort toward the end.
(Most fills don't have official titles so most of the titles as I list them are really just a descriptive phrase to get across the general idea of the fic.)