This is, from what I've heard, actually remotely plausible. The last name is pretty out there, but the first name is apparently actually pretty accurate.
Out of curiosity, if you are still reading pony fics, have you looked at Starscribe's stories? They tend to be pretty good. One of my favorites is Frames of War, which is one of the only MLP/Warframe crossovers I've seen.
... I feel like this fic is missing something.
I do so like Alya losing her mind over a post-reveal Adrien and Marinette. I've reviewed a few examples over on AO3. And, like, this isn't a standout example of that subgenre, but it hits all the right notes, and doesn't go too hard on the salt-induced bashing. It does have one of the better "Alya calls out Lila" scenes I've seen so far. Toss on a decent Akuma fight, and I certainly don't regret reading this.
Quite the riveting story, that. Thanks for sharing
Look, this is a great fic. A real humanity coming together kind of deal to support Mark Watney. But let's be real, we're here for the first chapter, where an 80-year-old Bill Nye has to be restrained from throttling a Fox News anchor.
I've seen a few fics use the idea of Midoriya being an All Might RPF writer. I don't think they're nearly as funny as this fic, which is greatly enhanced by the author making his own memes. I was fucking howling throughout, with the Sports Festival chapter in particular getting a loud "Oh no!" followed by demented cackling from me.
While Cynthia and Dawn's "barren fields of fucks" energy is great, I just don't have enough context to enjoy this.
I'll always appreciate a fic that has the class get a clue about Lila on their own, and I'm curious to see where this was going. But my god, the technical errors. The wrong words and misspellings and tense mixups. It's too much!
On balance, while I didn't mind reading it, this doesn't really do anything new or interesting with the Standard Lila Salt Fic formula, up to and including the big speech at the end. Pass.
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Fair, though as someone who DOES have the needed context, it is quite hilarious. But you do need that background knowledge from Legends: Arceus to really enjoy it all.
It's restricted, so I believe you need an account to go to it.
Yeah, it worked for me because I'm logged in to AO3.
The same goes for me. I read it during my Martian Fanfiction reading spree after I finally managed to watch the entire movie. Though it wasn't my favorite Maritan fanfiction it still managed to be an interesting story overall.
I'd be curious to know which one was your favorite. I haven't read much Martian fic, but the book and movie are both great.
Hmmm... There are a couple of fics that have Watney not alone in being left behind either an OC Seventh Member of the Ares III crew or one of the canon crew members. Mostly either Commander Lewis or Beth Johanssen. Then there is the fic which follows everything from the point of view of Mindy Park as she follows Mark's journey across Mars. However, now I cannot find it for there are more than a few different stories with a similar premise, but this one actually had Mindy talking to Mark somehow and I believe she is also sent along with Ares IV or something like that.
This is some good shit.
While still in the early stages, what's written is encouraging. The rough nature of the first chapter clears up over the next two, the purple prose lessens while still retaining that Frieren tone, and I'll applaud the author for dropping Frieren in Ecuador rather than Brockton. I'm interested to see where this goes.
Like Verloren, this is still in the early stages. Also like Verloren, this gets points from me for doing something new and interesting. And that thing is the common throughline that by Westerosi standards Victoria is shockingly lacking in manners and decorum. You can already see it slowly souring Renly's opinion of her, and it's the reason Cersei dismisses her. Be interested to see if that trend continues.
This makes me think of the Spacebattles Fic "Fate/Oracle" by Turniphater. Which did something interesting by making the mechanism for the reaction be an in-universe phenomenon with history that inherently disrupts the events of FSN.
Yeah, it's not a work that I've ever thought of as having a lot of fic, which makes it quite interesting when I come across some.
This, I think, goes back to the genesis of the format in the '90s, as Mystery Science Theater 3000 fanfic called "MSTings." The premise of MST3K as a TV show is that a guy and two robots are trapped in space and forced to watch bad movies, which they then make jokes about. The premise of a MSTing was that the guy and two robots trapped in space are forced to read bad fanfic, which they then make jokes about. The commentators can't interact with the story, because it's already written. They're not characters from that story's setting, so they don't have any personal investment in it, besides the pain that its badness is inflicting on them. They're just detached observers cracking jokes. But then people took the format of MSTing and made "sporkings" and other similar kinds of reaction fic using other characters besides the MST3K crew, including characters from the universe of the story being mocked, and it didn't necessarily translate, because they don't have a reason to be trapped in a room and forced to consume media, or the detachment to just crack jokes about it.
And then there were the Protector of the Plot Continuum, who had their OCs literally go in to the bad fics, murder any bad OCs, and neuralyze the canon characters MIB style to return the story to the canon plot.
I've only vaguely heard of it, but I suppose that probably precipitated a shift in the genre from commentary to being more directly involved.
The group got big enough to have it's own wiki if you can believe that, with explanations of their jargon, notable sporkings, and character pages for their OCs
Can't keep the tenses straight. Garbage.Cheating Death™
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All Aizawa ever wanted in his life was peace and quiet. And cats… and coffee… and his very loud, very bright yellow, adorable husband… well, he couldn't have everything. But what he doesn't get is sleep. Why? Probably because he has to take care of 5 new problem children who just got tossed out of a portal. Not to mention, they all look like they got the shit beat out of them. What's with that?
Or
The Hex Squad/Trauma Children get blasted through the portal at the end of King's Tide and are stuck in the My Hero Universe. They all have to find ways to cope and save their friends and family back on the Boiling Isles, but first- FUN TRAUMATIC HERO STUFF!
Can't keep the tenses straight. Trash.
One bit of behavior I despise is people just not listening when they tell you to stop. And it's one thing if an antagonist is doing it, that's just the author making me hate them, in which case good job. It's quite another when you erstwhile friends are doing it and the narrative refuses to punish the action.
Can't keep the tenses straight. Rubbish.
The fic lost me around chapter 4. The writing is just not up to the task of delivering on the premise. There are a frightful number of dropped sentences, and the fic meanders into scenes that could be red herrings but at the time just feel violations of Conservation of Detail.
Yeah, this needs a beta. Badly. Close your quotes with punctuation, people, periods may be wrong most of the time but they look better than nothing.
Part 2 of the Shadowsverse is mostly its own self-contained story, doing little to advance the plot threads set up in Shadows Over Nerima. That's not to say it's a bad story, mind. Little is not nothing: the story does advance the arcs of Ranma, Akane, and the broader plot of Ra's' machinations. Just not much. The focus is on Nabiki and Roy's developing relationship, and the brief scuffle with Hugo Strange.
School Daze's big draw is that it's actually drawing from the Ranmaverse side of things, rather than being mostly a DC fic with Ranma characters. So far it's not gotten very deep, but from the sound of the summary Ukyo will be making an appearance and in-fic Kodachi is already making a move, though thankfully on Nightwing rather than Ranma.
Yes, this is in Shadowsverse continuity, our two French heroes are mentioned during Looking for Trouble. It's also a breath of fresh fucking air: it's a DC crossover that's not some stupid as fuck adoption fic or shipfic, and it's one set early enough to avoid the Lila salt. Both things that, judging from Jeremy Harper's author's note on Chapter 5, are very deliberate.
I'm bundling these together as Shadowsverse one-shots set after School Daze. Finally, some actual damn plot movement. Finally, some interaction with the wider DCU. And Akane's Robin costume sounds neat.
For eight chapters, Heated Storm is an interesting take on the impacts of Nabiki being Ranma's fiance instead of Akane. Nabiki is more levelheaded than her younger sister, less prone to jumping to conclusions, and overall brings a welcome level of maturity to the relationship, even if she is still herself. One nice change is Tatewaki Kuno - Nabiki shows off Ranma's curse in front of him early on, which between that and a few victories leads to a major toning down of his obsessive interest in Akane and complete scuppering of his obsessive interest in the Pig-Tailed Girl, something that greatly reduces how insufferable he is. In fact, the initial fight with Ryoga does much to rehabilitate his role, giving him a job as a combat commentator that his flower language fits well. With the fic also short-circuiting the P-chan subplot before it could go anywhere, the fic looks to be setting itself up to doing something different.
