These Are a Few

My mental health is a bit of a mess at the moment, so I need something cheering to do tonight. I've decided to share some recs based on the favorite story elements that I posted in my recent thread on that topic at ci5hq.

I asked about people's favorite and least favorite themes/tropes/story elements in Professionals fic. This was my own response:

I like hurt/comfort, believed-dead plots, amnesia, melodrama generally, undercover as gay, arcs about overcoming internalized homophobia, fics with backstory, dæmon fic, and sci-fi AUs, especially if the characters retain analogous jobs and backgrounds.

I don't like rape fics, years-long separations, permanent disability, fics with open endings, or AUs that give the Lads totally different lives or histories. That said, I think I have examples of all of those things except the last in my collection of favorite Pros fics.

In this post, I'm going to name my favorite examples (as far as I can remember) of each of these elements, including the elements I don't usually like. I'm going to cover both of my major fandoms: The Professionals and The Man from U.N.C.L.E..

(Recs like this inevitably include minor spoilers. I've enclosed the more spoilery of them in spoiler tags, however.)

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