I'm sorry you're having a bad day, but really? With recs like this, you're lucky we're not all practicing Dark Magic under a Gibbous Moon when the Time is Right for the sole purpose of unsettling you, then waiting for the recs. Especially Face Value, which I loved. I'm feeling much better now, after a day which made me long for the life of a hermit.
"Thou shalt read only FF with happy endings when thou is already right on the verge of conducting new and dangerous experiments involving our telephone, lube, a small but powerful generator, and a portable vortex."
...I don't know what the outcome of that experiment would be, but damn it sounds interesting.