The Dark Shepard by dildarium [Unrated - Teen/Mature]

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Subject: The Dark Shepard by dildarium [Unrated - Teen/Mature]
Fandom: Rise of the Guardians
Pairing: N/a
Length: in the ballpark of 1,000-2,000 (no wordcount included)
Author's LJ: widowing_powder
Author Website: Tumblr

Why this must be read:

Trigger Warning: depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts

This is a human!Jack AU where Jack is deep in depression because instead of saving his sister Emma, she fell through the lake and died. Most of this work is Jack's introspection about his own emotions. There's some reference to other people in Jack's life (Piki and Proto), and these are AFAIK dildarium's OCs from hir other works (I haven't read much else by this author though) OCs from this AU, which I think is shared across a few people on Tumblr? (The author is correcting my errors with this in the comments...) This work is really dark, but really powerful, especially for such a short work - if you can make it past the trigger warnings, and you like feels, this is going to give you a lot of bang for your buck time.

Part of why I included this work is not just its awesomeness on its own, but also to represent the vibrant Tumblr community which I am not fully plugged into myself - I don't fully "get" Tumblr I have to admit. However, I follow Tumblr just enough to know there's a lot of RotG stuff going on there, lots of fan art, role plays, and AO3 authors metaing about their process. There's less of actual works on Tumblr, but there are some. If you're into Tumblr, you can probably find this stuff more easily than me, but try searching on RotG as well as the nickname of your favorite pairing (such as Blackice or Bennefrost).

If you're planning to read this work though, don't ignore those trigger tags. This is probably the darkest work I'm going to rec, and I put in those TWs for a reason. Author dildarium doesn't rate this work, but I rate it as either Teen or Mature due to potential triggers.

The Dark Shepard by dildarium [Unrated - Teen/Mature]

Comments

[widowing-powder.livejournal.com]

Eyyyyyyy, yo! Dildarium/widowingpowder here.... Just a quick heads up, these characters are not my OCs! They're incarnations of characters that occur within the AU that this fandom deals with. The fandom, for those who are curious, is tagged with NDU or nightmare dork university. They can also drop me a line at dildarium.tumblr.com or message me from here if they have any questions about getting into it or finding it.

Thank you for the lovely rec, though. It really made me smile to think that you thought it was powerful enough to recommend. c:

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh awesome, I actually get to put the LJ account of one of my recc'd authors on now. :)

So if I'm getting this right, NDU is a shared AU for RotG on Tumblr? (See, told you I have a lot to learn still about Tumblr...)

[widowing-powder.livejournal.com]

It's all good!

Yes, NDU is a shared AU, though there are many sub-lets of the AU that go on inside of the fandom. They all get tagged with NDU, though, so just searching for that should yield results. c:

(Sorry it took so long replying!)