I'll second that one.
White Hats: Shallan (Stormlight Archives) and Wayne (Alloy of Law) meet up to discuss hats and their relation to identity. Short and fun.
The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
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I'll second that one.
White Hats: Shallan (Stormlight Archives) and Wayne (Alloy of Law) meet up to discuss hats and their relation to identity. Short and fun.
Madou Sutegobana
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- Location
- Twin Realms Mandala
I'm thirding a Professor and a Student.
Laeril
Hoping for best, preparing for worst
- Location
- Utah
- Pronouns
- She/Her
To Fly Like a Moron
A one and done crossover between the MCU (as it was pre- Iron Man 3) and MST3K episode riffing subject The Pumaman. Yes, really.
A one and done crossover between the MCU (as it was pre- Iron Man 3) and MST3K episode riffing subject The Pumaman. Yes, really.
- Location
- L3 X-18999
Same. Only started reading Dresden because of Strange Friends.
Though I still like Strange Friends more than any of the Dresden books...
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Thirding this rec. I really love how this fic ties everything together.
- Location
- In the depts of despair.
Is a fun parody but not funny or punny or having enough of a plot to be considered one of the best fics ever.
Derecc.
Vyslanté
The self is a prison
- Location
- European Union
Wholeheartedly fourthed.
- Location
- Vietnam
Seconded, hats are magic.
I think the OP goes through the thread periodically whenever he has time and adds fics to the list.
- Location
- Tennessee
Generally the attitude is to wait a little while to give time for more eyes to be put on the work. Don't want to have a fic recc'd, thirded before the day is up, put it up there, and then over the course of a week get a bunch of derecs and then have to take it down.
For example, I'm still working on Davion & Davion myself, and I'm leaning far more toward derec than rec, though I'll probably settle with neither as I'm not sure I can justify my criticisms as anything other than personal stylistic preference. It's also possible that the people who insta-rec'd it are people who have followed it along while it was being written and forgot what the beginning is like (though also possible they didn't and think that the end is worth it, or otherwise wouldn't agree with my criticism). I'll post more about that when I finish.
- Location
- oregon, usa
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Things are tallied every couple of months, and the list is updated.
I would say that going back and reading the entire thread is likely to be pretty informative, and not just on procedural things (although there is a bit of that, and debate thereon). There are a fair few recs that got totally ignored or shot down that might be worth reading, or at least checking out. More that were excellent, but incomplete are also recced (and consequently ignored) in there.
At the very least, the informational posts are worth a read.
- Location
- BC, Canada
I would like to recommend Lady of Blood by Racke
The author's summary is: There are no such things as happy endings. But there are ends to nightmares.
This is a horror story set in a Familiar of Zero/Bloodborne crossover. The story follows Louise in the aftermath of the summoning a Hunter and looks at the effect that the Old Blood could have on Tristain.
The story is 12k words and only one chapter so I am struggling to write a good summary without spoiling anything.
The author's summary is: There are no such things as happy endings. But there are ends to nightmares.
This is a horror story set in a Familiar of Zero/Bloodborne crossover. The story follows Louise in the aftermath of the summoning a Hunter and looks at the effect that the Old Blood could have on Tristain.
The story is 12k words and only one chapter so I am struggling to write a good summary without spoiling anything.
- Location
- Nowhere
- Pronouns
- She/her
Rec.
It's crazy good, but saying anything more would be going into spoliers.
In general, Racke is really good at one-shots, definitely a rec from me.
Zelinko
Ordinary Magician
- Location
- Forest of Magic
Transformations is I literally got no idea where and when to place it and if it's the seemingly yearly not tied to anything at all (I'd IMO place it with Three Gifts and Chain reaction.
Hiroshima Investigation Trip's a stand alone story with more about Alice, Momiji and Sanae and is a pretty solid story
But with A New World. This is one of those By one category I can very much second the recommendation (The tales from a new world one shot can be summed up as one good story, one utterly forgettable story and the worst story put up by the author) as it's a very high quality Touhou work.
But the problem is that it often needs other stories to better make it fit together which can be viewed as a derecommendation as well, due to IMO the best damn fics you've ever read having a low bar of entry to enjoy it.
And I'm not talking the Mari-Ali-Patch-Koa grouping. It's things like Utsuho's godhood and Orin being her shrine maiden would seem really "Wait, what?" about it. Which ties to the shorts Godhood and Cats and Crows to better understand it. which would have me take points away as it REALLY requires you to have solid Touhou knowledge to get what's going on especially with the Lunarians and the Moon.
It's also a story that's kinda had some headaches from Touhou always adding more games and factions. You have to remember when it was written in terms of events later on. When Book 1 was put up the newest game was Fairy Wars (TH12.8) and it was a good year before Ten Desires (TH13) would be announced. Book 3 was already well underway before Ten Desires came out and the Taoists that arrived with it. It's an issue that these "THE ENTIRE OF GENSOKYO IS INVOLVED" plots show as being very dated very fast. A reader now not knowing when it was published would most definitely question why Junko's not in her happy place with open season on the Moonies.
TL;DR: If you're a Touhou fan it'd be a recommendation. If you're not... I'm really not sure if I could recommend it for you.
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- Location
- Cajun City
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11611816/1/Covenant-Red by Adam Kadmon
A more creative eva fic that a good counter to other eva fic that has the same tiresome set up over and over again. It has a lead character (kensuke) who always get trash in eva fic by other writers who is for once written in a more positive and charming way.
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2918280/1/I-Knew-Him-When by Adam Kadmon
This take place after EOE but unlike other fics that take place after EOE whit violent soy boy and his violent roommate hooking up due the writers ignoring their toxic relationship, this is about how everyone is dealing whit living in a dark unstable world cause by third impact. Shinji has to deal whit the fall out of his actions in EOE and in the story. The lead character is mana.
A more creative eva fic that a good counter to other eva fic that has the same tiresome set up over and over again. It has a lead character (kensuke) who always get trash in eva fic by other writers who is for once written in a more positive and charming way.
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2918280/1/I-Knew-Him-When by Adam Kadmon
This take place after EOE but unlike other fics that take place after EOE whit violent soy boy and his violent roommate hooking up due the writers ignoring their toxic relationship, this is about how everyone is dealing whit living in a dark unstable world cause by third impact. Shinji has to deal whit the fall out of his actions in EOE and in the story. The lead character is mana.
- Location
- United Kingdom
Just finished reading it, this gets my rec as well.
- Location
- oregon, usa
- Pronouns
- He/Him
While you may have failed with the spelling in your rec, it would appear that the stories themselves are in possession of solid grammar.*
Covenant Red, is alright, from a chapter in, but deviates wildly from NGE standard set up. And has a non standard main character. Either situation on its own would be interesting, but in concert they give me concerns. I will at least keep reading this one.
I Knew Him When is incomplete (the author makes mention of a separate chapter of epilogue), or at the least it is marked as such, and was last updated in 2007, so this one is something that should get more careful consideration.
*if you fix the spelling I will edit that first sentence out
Firedon
Lazy Sleepy Cat
- Location
- Germany
Hm, yeah. Recced.
LeDiz is pretty good at making the characters feel like people, giving you a nice look at different relationships and how/why they act the way they do.
In fact, the fic was so nice that I immediately went on to read the other twelve fics in that series (unconnected from each other).
Genesys
(Discrete Mokona)
- Location
- California
Not even getting into whether it's good, it's not finished and therefore not qualified.
Abao
Le Halpful One
- Location
- Theocracy of Derpism
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FriedIce
The Authentic Fake
- Location
- Hyperreality
De-rec. I've gotten halfway through it and it's just boring. Literally nothing happens for eighty thousand words. Character studies are interesting, cool even, over 10k words. When you've read through 80k and absolutely nothing has happened it loses the right to call itself one of the best damned fics of all time.
RoboRenee
Trans of gender
- Location
- FFXIV, probably
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'll reluctantly second that derec. I liked the idea, a lot, but a lot of the execution was just kind of weird and slow. Especially the bits that hinged on past canon while ignoring past canon.
Like, for example, it's a major thread throughout the fic that what happened at the Kalos final is this big mystery and Ash is maybe kind of traumatized and woobie-like.
Only it was being broadcasted live to all of Kalos at the very least, and we know this because we see Team Rocket doing it and we see various Kalos side characters watching the coverage live. Apparently Pokemon is a dystopia where the Pokemon League can casually silence an entire nation and wipe events from history. Either that or the writer just wanted sad secret woobie.
- Location
- Tennessee
Finished Davion & Davion (Deceased). I mentioned previously that I was aiming more toward de-rec than rec, but after finishing it the opposite is true. I'm going to abstain from going one way or the other because there do seem to be some big issues, and the earlier third or half could use some work.
The biggest issue that popped up for me is that the writing is just so... barebones. It's anemic. At certain points I was actually on the lookout for sentences that contributed to building a scene that didn't directly inform the proceeding bits of dialogue or character interaction, and those were few and far between. In general, the beginning of the fic read like "infodump, dialogue, avoid saying the word 'said', infodump, dialogue, rinse-repeat".
This is a particular issue for me, because the most familiarity I have with the setting is the wonderful Heir of the Bruce quest on SB, but that doesn't really equip me for a firm grasp of the wartime setting. This fic reads almost more like a piece of RL fiction, where a lot of detail gets cut out because the intended audience is assumed to know what everything looks/sounds/feels like. It might work for some people, especially if they're familiar with the setting, but I expected a whole lot more from a science fiction tale.
The end result is a writing style that feels very efficient but lacks anything to provide getting immersed. I was actually so put off by it, and found it so strikingly noticeable, that I suspected the author of having aphantasia, as people who do typically rely far more heavily on dialogue and hard information in their writing rather than descriptors as they lack the ability to mentally visualize scenes. The stories I prefer allow me to get immersed in the world that's written about, allow me to visualize the scenes being described, but I wasn't able to do any of that with this story.
And yet, I still found myself greatly enjoying the latter half of this fic. I believe it was some combination of improved skill (surprising, given the fic was written over the course of 5 or so months unless there were backlogs) and me just accepting it as if it were a piece of WW2 alt-history or something where I wouldn't give it the same scrutiny as I would for general fiction.
Aside from some unfortunately constant misspellings/word usage errors, and what I consider personal misgivings about style, the writing is very competent and I'm not surprised others would find this as one of the best fics they've ever read.
As much as I ended up liking it toward the end, I have too many misgivings about the beginning to hand it a rec. If there was a slight style adjustment, and some liberal application of editing, I could definitely see my issues with it resolved, though.
The biggest issue that popped up for me is that the writing is just so... barebones. It's anemic. At certain points I was actually on the lookout for sentences that contributed to building a scene that didn't directly inform the proceeding bits of dialogue or character interaction, and those were few and far between. In general, the beginning of the fic read like "infodump, dialogue, avoid saying the word 'said', infodump, dialogue, rinse-repeat".
This is a particular issue for me, because the most familiarity I have with the setting is the wonderful Heir of the Bruce quest on SB, but that doesn't really equip me for a firm grasp of the wartime setting. This fic reads almost more like a piece of RL fiction, where a lot of detail gets cut out because the intended audience is assumed to know what everything looks/sounds/feels like. It might work for some people, especially if they're familiar with the setting, but I expected a whole lot more from a science fiction tale.
The end result is a writing style that feels very efficient but lacks anything to provide getting immersed. I was actually so put off by it, and found it so strikingly noticeable, that I suspected the author of having aphantasia, as people who do typically rely far more heavily on dialogue and hard information in their writing rather than descriptors as they lack the ability to mentally visualize scenes. The stories I prefer allow me to get immersed in the world that's written about, allow me to visualize the scenes being described, but I wasn't able to do any of that with this story.
And yet, I still found myself greatly enjoying the latter half of this fic. I believe it was some combination of improved skill (surprising, given the fic was written over the course of 5 or so months unless there were backlogs) and me just accepting it as if it were a piece of WW2 alt-history or something where I wouldn't give it the same scrutiny as I would for general fiction.
Aside from some unfortunately constant misspellings/word usage errors, and what I consider personal misgivings about style, the writing is very competent and I'm not surprised others would find this as one of the best fics they've ever read.
As much as I ended up liking it toward the end, I have too many misgivings about the beginning to hand it a rec. If there was a slight style adjustment, and some liberal application of editing, I could definitely see my issues with it resolved, though.
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