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This list is a mix of recently posted or updated works both WIPs and complete; some from well-known authors, some from slightly less well-known ones.

Canonverse

Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad by @vadianna​
E – 15,400 – updated 2/14/17
This is a richly-detailed canonverse story; Ben travels the galaxy with his uncle at the behest of the Senate; they arrive on Tatooine where Ben meets Hux, CO of what Ben thinks at first is some sort of planetary militia.  Ben expects Hux to be impressed and pleased to meet him – naturally Hux disobliges and gives Ben a quick and dirty lesson on Outer Rim realities.  THEN Ben finds out who his grandfather really was.

Here At The End of All Things by sarencen, @ad-aphelion​
T – 1,000
Inspired by a beautiful artwork from littleststarfighter.  Short and bittersweet.  This author has a gift for imbuing a relatively small number of words with great emotional power.  Prepare for feels.

Blue Fires by @claricechiarasorcha​
E – 5,100
Kind of a follow-up to My Skin is Theirs (the Cadet Hux pictures fic) – it starts as some delightful uniform kink, Kylo having decided that the appearance of ‘Lt. Naberrie’ might be a fitting gift to Hux.  It then makes an even more delightful detour into lingerie, followed by some unexpected and unanticipated admissions and…feelings.

The Deck 12 Recreational Lounge by gundamoocow, @agent-nemesis​
E – 4,200
A ‘missed connections’ personals ad fic from a kyluxhardkinks prompt; extremely porny and very funny.  Escalating levels of exhibitionism, humiliation, and a pilot who doesn’t realize until it’s too late just who that hot redhead he’s hoping to hook up with is – not to mention his black-haired sex parter.

Do You Remember by @gefionne​
E – 9,300
A bracing trip into Classic Kylux territory.  Hux put an end to their brief affair of convenience (at least that’s what he thought of it as) weeks ago.  But Ren can’t forget about it, and is determined to make Hux admit there might have been something more – and that it should resume.  Perfectly detailed settings, moods, and characterization.

AUs

Fanboy by @helvel
E – 12,500 – updated 11/13/16
The TFA we know is a self-insert fan fic being written by Hux and Kylo, two Star Wars fanboys extraordinaire who are also co-workers at a local (kind of janky) Star Wars theme park.  They spend most of their time working on their massive collaborative fic (Kylo does the artwork, too) and having sex.  But that’s not a relationship, Hux thinks, horrified at the very idea once it occurs to him.

Oh, Is It Love? by substance black, @42dicks
T – 14,400 – updated 2/10/2017
Set in the 1970s.  Hux is a counselor-in-training at the summer camp Ben is forced to attend against his will (Han: “He’s sure hiding in his room! When’s the last time he even got outside? It’s not healthy!”).  Ben is awkward and angry, defiant and almost immediately unpopular with the other kids.  Hux is stiff standoffish; the other counselors and campers more or less respect him, but he’s not close to any of them.  How will this odd couple get together?  

Extreme Prejudice by florescentgrey, @yeats-infection
M – 5,300
Apocalypse Now AU.  Hux is called in to get into the jungle lair of renegade Col. Snoke; there he also finds stoned-out-of-his-mind photojournalist Ben.  This is a meditation on what war does to the people who fight it, especially the ones who find that it is the thing they are best at doing.  Whether you’ve seen the film or not, the atmosphere of it is very well invoked here, and is a great lens for viewing the familiar TFA characters from a different, but similar, angle.

Into the Garbage Chute by for_autumn_i_am, @longstoryshortikilledhim
E – 15,600
A Techienician Modern AU; they are vendors at a convention who meet first in line and then discover that their tables are next to one another.  Techie is the wild and experienced one, Matt the eager first-timer.  As with most Techienician fics, you can hardly believe that they will be able to overcome their various issues and figure out that they can and probably should get together.

Vertigo by Verbyna, @soundslikepenance
T – 2,900 – updated 1/28/17
This Hollywood AU reads like something by Joan Didion.  Hux is finally directing; the script is his baby.  Ren is the star.  It’s not easy for Hux, though.  (“But mostly, it’s Ren. Mostly, it’s telling Ren’s body and face what to do on a daily basis, then fielding calls from Snoke all night about his precious, untouchable protege. The height of Hux’s career is just a stepping stone for Ren, who only wants to fuck Hux to pass the time until he moves on to bigger things.”).  He’s using his own memories and feelings as coins given to Ren to fuel his acting and perhaps keep him  from getting completely unmanageable.  And now they’re over budget.  

The Roof of the Night by @kyluxtrashcompactor
E – 10,200 – updated 2/25/17
This picks up where All the Way to Your Door left off; this time, the focus is on Ben.  There are hints at many terrible things from his past, and he has severe PTSD and other issues to deal with.  The author has a remarkable insight into the thought processes and behavior patterns of a person struggling with these problems, and the writing is compassionate and incisive.  

Swipe Right for Slow Burn Regret by @jinxedambitions
E – 20,500 – updated 2/26/17
Modern AU where Hux is a workaholic high school science teacher whose friend Coach Phasma signs him up for Tinder, because the Great Drought needs to end.  He mistakenly matches up with Kylo, a tattoo artist, and several expertly written, hilariously awful sexual encounters follow.  

Bubblegum by @firstordershitposting
E – 12,600 – updated 2/19/17
Somehow I missed the amazing prequel of this, Cherry, until now. Kylo’s porn career as Lord Ten Inches progresses on, as does his romance (full of fetishy cosplay) with former virgin twink and PhD Hux, who invites Kylo to meet his parents over the Christmas holiday.  One suitcase of dildoes might not be enough, and Hux discovers that his parents use Kylo’s videos as marital aids.  There’s still another chapter to come.

The Mountebank by @kdazrael
E – 15,300
Kylo signs up for what he thinks is a paid medical study; Dr Hux is surprisingly good at giving prostate exams and massages.  And for what purpose is he keeping all of those semen samples?  During a one night stand (not with Hux), he comes to the realization that all is not right – and resolves to confront that charlatan the very next day.  The dialogue in this is off the charts.

Bad Things by @ellabesmirched
E – 78,200 – updated 2/22/17
A serial killer’s body count is growing, but Detective Ben Solo is on the job.  He meets Hux when  Hux’s business partner Snoke is the latest victim.  This fic showcases Ben the sort-of out-of-control mess and features an amazingly hot non-intercourse sex scene.  The dialogue in this fic is especially great and in-character.

Previous lists:

#1 – Completed works
#2 – WIPs (as of early January – some are now completed)
#3
#4 – Somewhat focused on works with smaller hit counts