here are some fanfics i highly recommend to every single one of you and i'm gonna put suns because the star symbol isn't working for me so here are the sun ratings

☼ - you'd probably enjoy it if you ship it but meeh if you don't
☼☼ - if you're picky with the ship but if you kinda ship it/don't hate it then yeah read it
☼☼☼ - if you appreciate anything good you'd read it even if you hate the ship o k

yeah. this will have a variety of stuff, het!exo, girl!exo, ot3, and so on. also be aware that jongdae is my bias so i read a lot of stuff based around him, lol. click the title for the link.

how to pet: user's guide
by: drainbamage954
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: luhan/chen
genre/au: cat thing???
warnings: , (i think??), junmyeon
summary: Lu Han has never really been able to get along with cats. Until Junmyeon gets one and his life is turned into even more insanity that it already is.
notes: ok this is a very popular story but if you haven't read it you really need to?? i honestly recommend this author just in general. there is also: how to pet - throw the ball, which i never read but i assume it's good, it's the same universe but it's kris/chanyeol. yeh.

for the love of trees
by: drainbamage954
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chanyeol/d.o
genre/au: chanyeol is a tree idk much else to put
warnings: jongin is an asshat
summary: Chanyeol is a tree, which is slightly problematic concerning the area in which hugs are given. Which is why, to the depths of his bark, he wants to be human.
notes: i read the description to it and was immediately intrigued because treeyeol??? is a thing??? and i love it. it gave me such a disney vibe and i was smiling throughout the entire beginning and just.. ugh. i recommend this to the skies above. i'm a er for really unique things fight me.

maybe you'll let me borrow your heart
by: airplanewishes
rating: ☼☼
ship: baekhyun/chen
genre/au: romance, swimming ??
warnings: unrequited love i think that's it
summary: Jongdae wants to be inside Baekhyun's heart, even if Baekhyun might only want to get into Jongdae's pants.
notes: ok i read this for the first time when i was kinda falling out of baekchen and this did not revive my baekchen interest but it actually showed me that i don't like them anymore?? i like them very very much now (rip) but... yeah. this is a really cool story, and i really recommend airplanewishes stories. although i feel that for some you kinda have to like the ship to like the story, it's up to you, really.

becoming a gentleman™ starring oh sehun, directed by lu han
by: idk
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: luhan/sehun
genre/au: romance i guess
warnings: at the end (not required to read lol)
summary: After being accused of being a “spoiled brat” one too many times, Sehun decides to take manner lessons if only to ward off the offending comments. With the help of “The Modern Guide to Manners” and his boyfriend Luhan, Sehun goes on an epic journey equivalent to The Odyssey, if not, better, to master the art of good etiquette. Too bad the book is actually a satire.
notes: ok this was cute and hilarious and have i mentioned what hunhan trash i am?? no?? well... there you go. 

i can hear your heartbeat through your shirt
by: airplanewishes
rating: ☼☼
ship: chen/chanyeol
genre/au: college au i guess
warnings: unrequited love? maybe?
summary: Chanyeol's looking for something he doesn't know. Jongdae hands him a map and his heart as a compass.
notes: i remember reading this right before that one baekchen fic and yeah chenyeol is the reason why i stopped shipping baekchen, lol. but this is a good fic because you just kinda?? feel jongdae?? you know?? plus the ending made me clutch my heart so...

mirage
by: i don't know ;;
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chen/kai
genre/au: future!au, space!au
warnings: , baekhyun
summary: Jongin's supposed to be lucky--he's got free passage on the hottest cruise in the galaxy. But the engineer would rather spend his time listening to Chen, the vocaloid who captured hearts throughout the galaxy. His path crosses with Jongdae, a tiny enigma who promises his life will never be the same.
notes:  oK so i just read this last night and i've been getting really into kaichen these days (i'mdying) and this was really??? i dunno, it just... got to my heart. plus top!jongdae is never something i particularly enjoy buT i do enjoy bottom!jongin so it's good.

the other side of me
by: idk
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: baekhyun/chen
genre/au: hannah montana!au
warnings: chanyeol
summary: It’s the best of both worlds for Kim Jongdae, or as the world knows him, Chen, teen popstar and part-time heartbreaker. Jongdae has just one tiny problem: his best friend, Byun Baekhyun, high schooler and full-time #1 fan of Chen.
notes: hannah montana was my freaking chILDHOod so this is important. plus cute fan!baek and chanyeol as oliver completed me in every single way. although tbh i don't see jongdeok as jackson lmao.

underwater (but i'm breathing fine)
by: someone in minseokful
rating: ☼
ship: xiumin/chen
genre/au: college i think
warnings: fem!chen, lapslock
summary: things minseok knows: 1. kim jongdae is crazy. things minseok thinks may be true but isn’t sure: 1. minseok is out of his mind. (he only thought this after meeting kim jongdae.)
notes: I LOVE FEM!CHEN and xiuchen is still special to me ok. but i love how this is written. i love it. yes. 

(not so) friend
by: duckteuk
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: baekhyun/chen/chanyeol
genre/au: school i think
warnings: fem!chen
summary: Contrary to popular belief, Kim Jungyoon is not going out with Baekhyun and Chanyeol.
notes: remember when i said i love fem!chen?? remember when i said i love baekchen?? remember when i said i love chenyeol?? remember when i said i am gonna die?? i didn't say it?? when i will?? after i read this over?? and then i read the one thats coming after this

seeing you (being me)
by: lolistar73
rating: ☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼☼
ship: suho/chen and another just wAIT
genre/au: um idk brothrel!au? pwp definitely
warnings: Referenced ion, technical Self-Cest. Oral , , !Kink, Oppa!Kink,  
summary: Jongdae makes money off of people thinking they’re ing popular idol Chen. Word eventually gets around to Chen that people have been banging ‘him’. He decides to go pay himself a visit. 
notes: as a jongdae stan, i am happy with this. i also won't lie and say i skipped most of then suchen moments hA. i don't ship suchen but i really do ship chen/jongdae fCK ME UP MAN. just -- yes. bless lolistar.

white fox
by: asuka-flying
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: tao/kai
genre/au: idk comforting??
warnings: nothing really
summary: Zitao struggling to hold himself in time, and Jongin reluctantly becoming his anchor.
notes: i wanted a bit more elboration on the fear of time (chronophobia) and so i asked some people and someone fREAKING DELIVERED. i also have a soft spot for taokai help.

subtle the sun
by: s_coups
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: baekhyun/kyungsoo 
genre/au: soulmate!au
warnings: blindness, character death
summary: The most common name for the words that are inscripted on the inside of every human being's left wrist is "Soul Words".
notes: this ed me up man. i don't have much to say but i highly recommend this. just - reAD IT. 

hot for teacher
by: baeklights
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chen/chanyeol
genre/au: comforting, teacher!au
warnings: um idk
summary: Chanyeol is used to being the cool teacher. Granted, he doesn’t have a lot of competition when he’s the only teacher at the high school under 30. Only just, but still. 
notes: this is so freaking cuTE. 

enemies beware
by: wild_jinx
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chen/chanyeol
genre/au: vampire/wolf!au
warnings: apparently spoilers just highlight the next how manywords if you wanna see. war setting, minor character death, imprinting, knotting, , blood drinking, mention of guns, minor violence, A/B/O dynamics, humans as pets
summary: The war between wolves and vampires has raged on for centuries. Chanyeol, the Lead Alpha of his pack, has no idea what caused it, only that the vampires are his enemy... Until one night when he runs into a vampire that he can't seem to get out of his head.
notes: i'm not tooo big on werewold fics, to be completely honest, but this one was really cool. vampire prince jongdae? sign me tf up. plus . yeah.

drunk and
by: greytipped
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chen/chanyeol
genre/au: idk
warnings: highlight agAIN to see hate!, car accident, panic attack, slight agoraphobia
summary: Chanyeol has never forgiven Jongdae for Baekhyun's death eight years ago. Eight years later, they meet again; drunk and angry, they .
notes: this is actually way more than just ing, lol. it's really good, and you just kinda?? as a baekchen shipper i kinda?? wanna die inside?? and yeah. but otherwise it's really good and is really... deep? even though it seems just ing bUT ITS NOT. 

hybrid cafe
by: bookishvice
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: chen/kai
genre/au: hybrid!au, comic book artist!au
warnings: um i guess
summary: Jongdae is an old kitty hybrid who has given up hope in finding an owner and decided to be happy with his lot in life. Jongin is a manga artist who decides his lot in life could use a big change.
notes: this really hit me because at the time i was kinda facing the same sort of thing as jongin? if you read you'd know bUT it's a really good fic. the relationship between jongdae and jongin is both really sad and really cute, but... yeah. i like this one a lot.

mirror's edge
by: latchedwindows
rating: ☼☼☼
ship: baekhyun/chen
genre/au: doctor/parallel universe!au
warnings: kinda character death but not really idk, gore moment i guess
summary: Jongdae wakes up in a world not of his own and meets a Baekhyun not of his own, but his heart is still at home.
notes: ending with my fave ships, this one was really... cute? it reminded me of that chansoo fic though i forget the name. kinda like you meet your soulmate in an alternate universe and then whoops they gotta go back to their OWN soulmate which is you in the other universe and wow you're left alone. that's what the chansoo one is about and this one is kinda different but the same sort of idea. 

i hope you enjoyed, lol. there was a lot in here and i sAID that i read a lot of chen centric ones, particularly baekchen, chenyeol and kaichen. i've just starting getting into kaichen so thats why the count is low but just you wait.

also i am coming back as an author! hopefully! please go to my profile and it has some of my work in progresses as well as when i plan to release them, and more info upon them. pls go check. anyways! thanks for your company and i hope you read and enjoy these fics. love ya.