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  1. oneweirdauthor Tue 21 Oct 2025 12:17AM UTC

    Omg, thank you so much for the offer!
    To be entirely honest this time around, I was looking for some good smut to read and this one checked all my boxes so I gave it a read!
    I would love to have some recommendations! I'm in the mood for some more long fics if you know any :D

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    1. GoldenEyesObsession Tue 21 Oct 2025 03:48AM UTC

      Gonna organize these by length for simplicity's sake, and gonna keep them mostly DabiShou since that's what you wanted to explore.

      Kisses are for Lovers - 6k oneshot. Dabi thinks fucking Shouto is getting one over on Enji, and wants to break him, only to realize Shouto was broken before he ever touched him. (https://archiveofourown.info/works/46021522)

      If you really like the darker vibes of Pictures, then you might enjoy Spite, Sex, and Other Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms (https://archiveofourown.info/works/33841921). Consensual, but not safe or sane is the game here.

      For more crossdressing, incesty smut, I recommend the Going to Hell but Enjoying the Ride series (https://archiveofourown.info/series/2351434). This is all "Shouto crossdressses and fucks with villains b/c it'd piss off his dad and ends up hooking up with Dabi). 18k of shorts that are in a contiguous world. It's nearly all pure self-indulgent smut 😂

      For soulmate vibes and a lot of trope play wound together with memories from other lives, Always Lovers (20k) is smut-tastic and does have a consistent throughline. I always feel like this one flies a little under the radar, but maybe the glimpses of other AUs within it is just my own self-indulgence.

      For straight a dubious consent marriage of convenience DabiShou (that becomes sex to lovers), If You Have Been Brutally Broken (https://archiveofourown.info/works/50578306) is going to be your go-to novel-length. 85k.

      Finally, if you're open to another unusual ship, you want a little more plot with the porn, Seeking a Soft Place to Land When I Fall (https://archiveofourown.info/works/60377662) is DabiHawksShouto, where Dabi and Hawks are sadists in need of a masochist, and make the poor decision to play with Shouto. Slow burn on the romance angle as they try not to get together despite their chemistry, but once they *do* get together, it's *smoking*, if I do say so myself 🤭. This is one of my favorite development of relationships I've written. This is the longest fic of the recs, and it's 116k.

      Take your picks of what sounds good to you, and I hope you enjoy what you find!

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      1. oneweirdauthor Tue 21 Oct 2025 04:36AM UTC

        Thank you so much for the recommendations! I'll definitely check these out

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