rec me happy fic?

[ratcreature]

Have you read any feel-good stories recently? Normally I tend towards angsty with happy endings in my reading, but I am in need of completely fluffy escapism. So for the purpose of this inquiry I mean stories with happy endings in which the characters don't suffer too much before either, but preferably something with some sort of plot, not PWPs or h/c fluff or the like, e.g. genres like romantic comedies, or caper stories or humor or such, where something happens, but it is not that extreme in tension, angst or drama (if that makes sense). As a complicating factor, the plot shouldn't depend on some stupid misunderstanding between the characters, or ineptitude either (those sometimes hit my embarrassment squick).

So have you read any recent, tragedy free stories lately? XMFC would be particularly nice, but I'd take White Collar, Sherlock, Star Trek Reboot, SGA, Merlin...

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[petra]

Not fanfiction, and not remotely recent, but when I cannot stand tension, I turn to the oeuvre of PG Wodehouse. Bertie Wooster (of the books including the name Jeeves in the title) tends to be generally incompetent, but not in ways that offend my embarrassment squick, as his main beliefs -- that he is a good friend and a good man -- are always true, if not quite in the ways he seems to think.

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I never read these, because it didn't occur to me that they'd be my thing. (I admit that previously I mostly looked at it from a kink perspective, and the trope of the servant secretly managing an incompetent master is not what I go for in service kink, but it might work for low tension humor for me.)