Kemayo
A Certain Cheerful Tone Of Voice
- Location
- Missouri
I'm reccing this as well. It does really well at catching the tone of both and telling a story that fits.
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The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
- Thread starter Phearo
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Renewal
Boring Person #5883781345
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- He/Him
Seconding this. Plays up the worldbuilding of Avatar and shifts the focus from bland Jake Sully to a much more diverse ensemble.
Anzer'ke
Anarchism Ho!
Derec. Has huge potential but has huge OOC problems and all of Vathara's normal issues.
Yeah, HaLO is an amazing concept and story, unfortunately marred first by being a rough draft and then by being edited more as a writing exercise than as a story. Refactored really lost a lot of the magic.
- Location
- oregon, usa
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- He/Him
Thread search is your friend. Thrower of the Dart is not a new rec. For simplicity I'll quote what I said already:
There is more, and Vathara is a popular topic, so take a look and see what all has been said using the thread search function. Just remember to leave ancient arguments in the grave where they belong, if at all possible.
Nottheunmaker
Altman be praised
- Location
- USG Ishimura
I don't remember if I said it, but I remember thinking it, so I'm retracting my possible de-rec to recommend Anderson Quest. I just reread it over the weekend and could not keep away from it for more than a few hours. A fantastic ride that everyone should read.
I'm going to second Anderson Quest. That was a glorious read. Both hilarious and tear-jerking.
I would like to to nominate a story for consideration, namely Of Love and Bunnies by Crazygirl47. Quite frankly this is one of the funniest fanfics that I have ever ready. The one complaint would have to be the ending was a bit rushed, but I still love this story.
Edit: Summary: Set just after Dino Thunder. When Angel Grove announces another Power Rangers Day, Tommy takes the Dino Rangers to Angel Grove for a reunion with the original team… including Kimberly. TommyKim, JasonTrini, KiraTrent. UPDATE: Complete.
Edit: Summary: Set just after Dino Thunder. When Angel Grove announces another Power Rangers Day, Tommy takes the Dino Rangers to Angel Grove for a reunion with the original team… including Kimberly. TommyKim, JasonTrini, KiraTrent. UPDATE: Complete.
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Usually a good idea to include a summary.
My mistake I will edit the the summary into my original post. Thank you for letting me know.
- Location
- Caracas
De rec.
Vixen tail certainly came up with an interesting idea here, but the execution is fairly flawed, I recall reading a couple of chapters and dropping it fairly quickly. Its marred by the usual VT problems, a strong start but it quickly loses all power and peters out.
Given her past writings (and I repeat I didn't read it 'til the end) I'm sure it has the same much competency problem her naruto fics have. Specially her Naruto cross with Canon Naruto verse.
RoboRenee
Trans of gender
- Location
- FFXIV, probably
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Derec. It's... like potato chips, I think is the best way to put it.
Enjoyable, but there's no meat there and boy howdy is there a lot of it. Everybody is just sort of zany because zany.
- Location
- Canada
I've got some finished BNHA fics to recommend.
Hero Class Civil Warfare by RogueDruid
Heroes lead by Bakugo.
Villains lead by Midoriya.
Seven days prep time.
Three days for Izuku Midoriya to show why they should be glad he's not a real villain.
Taking place before the final exam, class 1A and 1B are combined for a multi-day heroic/villain scenario. This is an excellently entertaining story with Mastermind Midoriya, rule-lawyering, munchkining of Quirks and combinations, and a great progression of action and intrigue. Has two sequels, one of which is also complete.
Intersection has the students/teachers from the Civil War story transported to canon BNHA, so its student body versus student body and a showcase of just how many changes have resulted from the Civil War.
Hold Your Breath by ElpisLumina
A crossover with Kimetsu no Yaiba. The Demon Slayers won. Muzan was killed. But Nezuko remained a demon. Outliving her friends and family, Nezuko remains detached from the world, until she offers to babysit her neighbour Midoriya Izuku. A "Izuku trained as a Demon Slayer" fic, it also features descendants of the Demon Slayer Corps in modern times and a Tomura who wasn't taken by All For One, so the League of Villains has a different leader.
journey to the past by aloneintherain
Izuku is five years old the first time he's saved by heroes. He's an instant fan of the woman in pink with her cheerful smile and the man with his ice powers and fine-boned features, even if they both refuse to tell him their names.
For most of his life, Izuku has been the centre of villain attacks, but he has never been injured. Every time, he's saved by bright, unknown heroes—heroes who smile at Izuku, and ruffle his hair or ply him with hugs, and seem mesmerised by how small he is.
Heroes that the rest of the world doesn't believe exists.
(Time-travelling Class 1-A AU)
Really good experience reading this. Seeing little Midoriya meeting all his grown-up classmates (and then meeting them again as teenagers) was very cute and well done. Time travel doesn't change too much from canon, just little things here and there. Has a few plot twists that don't alter too much and only improve upon the story when they are revealed.
Hero Class Civil Warfare by RogueDruid
Heroes lead by Bakugo.
Villains lead by Midoriya.
Seven days prep time.
Three days for Izuku Midoriya to show why they should be glad he's not a real villain.
Taking place before the final exam, class 1A and 1B are combined for a multi-day heroic/villain scenario. This is an excellently entertaining story with Mastermind Midoriya, rule-lawyering, munchkining of Quirks and combinations, and a great progression of action and intrigue. Has two sequels, one of which is also complete.
Intersection has the students/teachers from the Civil War story transported to canon BNHA, so its student body versus student body and a showcase of just how many changes have resulted from the Civil War.
Hold Your Breath by ElpisLumina
A crossover with Kimetsu no Yaiba. The Demon Slayers won. Muzan was killed. But Nezuko remained a demon. Outliving her friends and family, Nezuko remains detached from the world, until she offers to babysit her neighbour Midoriya Izuku. A "Izuku trained as a Demon Slayer" fic, it also features descendants of the Demon Slayer Corps in modern times and a Tomura who wasn't taken by All For One, so the League of Villains has a different leader.
journey to the past by aloneintherain
Izuku is five years old the first time he's saved by heroes. He's an instant fan of the woman in pink with her cheerful smile and the man with his ice powers and fine-boned features, even if they both refuse to tell him their names.
For most of his life, Izuku has been the centre of villain attacks, but he has never been injured. Every time, he's saved by bright, unknown heroes—heroes who smile at Izuku, and ruffle his hair or ply him with hugs, and seem mesmerised by how small he is.
Heroes that the rest of the world doesn't believe exists.
(Time-travelling Class 1-A AU)
Really good experience reading this. Seeing little Midoriya meeting all his grown-up classmates (and then meeting them again as teenagers) was very cute and well done. Time travel doesn't change too much from canon, just little things here and there. Has a few plot twists that don't alter too much and only improve upon the story when they are revealed.
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- He/Him
So... Uh I don't really have any other fics to recommend that are complete so I'll just ask what was everyone's review on Ruby Quest a page or two ago.
I'm asking because all the things I recommended were ignored...
I'm asking because all the things I recommended were ignored...
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- Location
- oregon, usa
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You want a reveiw, yeah? Have a derec, for your trouble. I had to click through multiple pages of bare bones, minimalist descriptions of turning on a light. And the art was pretty poor to boot. The art is passable, at best, and the prose is just plain bad.
- Location
- Pittsburgh PA
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- He/Him
Personally have to derec these two due to just how out of character Izuku and a good number of other characters are throughout the whole thing.
Liked it but it really didn't feel like a 10/10 more like a 8.5 a good fic but not one od the best.
Will add on to the recs for this one however
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- Location
- Caracas
Hero class warfare gets a sad de rec from me.
Izuku is pushed onto a bad situation here, for this simulation he's the leader of the villains and needs to turn his formidable knowledge about Quirks as well his eye at analyzing them to well, villany. This runs counter to his dream of being a Hero.
This in paper is wonderful material to force character growth and exploration, Izuku slides onto a role not unlike OFA's and in fact, some of his tactics are taken straight out of OFA's playbook. Good right? He's taking it seriously? That's what I want?
Yes and no, I think the fic could have benefited perhaps with a chapter or two focusing on Izuku accepting this is the hand destiny dealt him and having his friends encourage him to not take it to heart. The other issue this fic has, is that it has Izuku honestly employing tactics he'd find reprehensible, in particular, brainwashing a person on the "Hero team" days before, so they'd "defect" to the "villains side" and its something the big bad wolf of BNHA absolutely do if given the chance.
Izuku would not do that and it cheapens a bit the conflict in my opinion, the rest of the idea is well thought, Izuku's talents when he's given a decent enough shot of confidence turn him onto a formidable foe and that's a good thing, it shines a spot light on his talents. But the execution is sadly lacking in many aspects.
A pass, a couple more chapters dealing with Izuku overcoming his issues and everything else and this could easily be one of the best damn fics, because I can honestly tell a lot of care and thought went onto this. Have the kids run this exercise to become familiar with the kinds of tactics villains would use, force the other group to think out of the box, test their ability to cooperate, if needed, sow the seeds of undercover agents for the future.
But yeah, as it is, de rec.
- Location
- Canada
Fair points. I think (I really need to reread it) that it references a few times in-fic that Izuku studied more "theatrical" villains and adopts a method acting style both for himself and the other villains to really capture what attitude they'd need to completely win the exercise, hence the OOC actions by the villain team. There's also a part in Chp. 26 where Midoriya worries if he's gone too far with his personality shift and wonders if he should use a "failsafe" he'd prepared specifically for if he went too far.
As for the brainwashing, that was more reinforcing what was there than actually causing something.
Setsuna was so pissed off at Bakugou's attitude that she wanted to specifically show him up by ensuring the villains victory and then switching teams after they had been finalized (which was against the rules). Izuku had her as a mole on the heroes side feeding them information. But if she had realized there was a rule against her switching sides, then she could easily act as a counter-mole instead. So Shinsou's subliminal command was mostly "don't read the rules" more than "betray the heroes."
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- Location
- Europe
I love the idea of fic recs with discussion, so I thought I'd try with this, which is definitely one of the best fics I've ever read:
an irrevocable condition by layers of silence. (MCU; Bucky Barnes)
In its most basic form, the fic is this:
Bucky Barnes, after escaping from HYDRA in The Winter Soldier, hides out in Bucharest. It's outsider POV, and it's amazing.
The summary on AO3 is part of the first paragraph, and immediately tells you if you're gonna love it or not:
an irrevocable condition by layers of silence. (MCU; Bucky Barnes)
In its most basic form, the fic is this:
Bucky Barnes, after escaping from HYDRA in The Winter Soldier, hides out in Bucharest. It's outsider POV, and it's amazing.
The summary on AO3 is part of the first paragraph, and immediately tells you if you're gonna love it or not:
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- He/Him
Well I mean it is a quest... The art is a acquired taste, you might like "Roommates memoirs of a hairless ape" better.
Renewal
Boring Person #5883781345
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A tentative second. On the one hand, I adore it and it's top notch slice of life, and my favorite MCU fics are those that go between the lines, since individual MCU films are rather disparate and a little disjointed from each other. On the other, it's not very Marvel-y; you could easily chop off the last chunk of the fic and the handful of references beforehand, and you might never realize this is actually a story about Bucky Barnes. I'd consider it a best damn fic, but I can easily see why others would not.
- Location
- Hell
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I know some people aren't goong to be cool with how Izuku is portrayed in Hero Class Civil Warfare, but I honestly don't think the thing with the brainwashing was that serious? And personally I don't have a problem with people changing characters a bit to fit their AU. The story works better that way.
Setsuna is doing it all on her own, Shinso just basically tells her to not check if she's actually allowed to defect. She wants to herself, they're not forcing it on her. Yeah it's a little amoral but not to the point where it makes me feel like the fic doesn't make sense from a character perspective.
I will rec Hero Class Civil Warfare. It's a solid read and uses a lot of characters that you just don't get to see often enough, and employs much more teamwork than canon does, which I really like.
I will derec Intersection, the sequel. It just feels too crack-ey in comparison to the original, and didn't hold my interest that much.
While Hold Your Breath was very enjoyable for me, I will be dereccing it. @Elpis is good at dialogue and character interactions, but the descriptive writing isn't that great and the fight scenes are probably the weakest element of the fic. Worth the read, a well executed fusion, but not exactly one of the best fics ever written.
Haven't read the last one.
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RoboRenee
Trans of gender
- Location
- FFXIV, probably
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Derec on Hero Class Civil Warfare. It's fun at times, but the deeper in you go the more it feels like the hero team is seriously jobbing. They barely seem to learn or adapt or innovate past the occasional initial problem that is either easily outthought or already planned for from my recollection. Yeah, Bakugo's an asshole but he's not an idiot - and when your whole story is about Izuku outthinking people there dang well needs to be a point where it looks like somebody might actually outthink him, and that's never on the table.
Plus like all of the teacher segments boil down to "Izuku-sempai is soooo coooool! SQUEEE!" and it's like, hey, story, leave the cheerleading to the readers.
Plus like all of the teacher segments boil down to "Izuku-sempai is soooo coooool! SQUEEE!" and it's like, hey, story, leave the cheerleading to the readers.
- Location
- Hell
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Actually, changing from a rec to a derec. I haven't read it for a while and was more focused on the other complaints that I didn't remember that I got annoyed at how the Heroes acted like dumbfucks a fair amount of the time, and rarely actually won engagements. Things don't always go off without a hitch, but most of the time they do and sometimes when they don't seem to it's revealed that actually it was all part of the plan. Nobody ever really outsmarts Izuku and that's a problem that leads to it being more stompy than I like. I do still enjoy the fic a good deal, especially because (as I said) it features a lot of characters that don't get enough screentime, but it does have enough problems that I think it's not worth the list. The thing with the teachers can get over the top, yeah, but I think if you had a more balanced back and forth of the teams outplaying one another and the teachers complimenting the strategy of both sides it'd feel more natural and less wanky. It's not the wankiest thing ever, but there are points where it does get there. Thanks for reminding me.
Elpis
Ostensibly Hope
- Location
- Berlin
Imma gonna derec that chief because calling anything I write the best anything besides maybe 'best thing Elpis has ever finished' is probably the greatest mistake of anyone's reading career.
(I'm glad you enjoyed it, however. If I had taken more time with it, I might be happier with it, but I'm still pretty damn happy with how far I got after starting an finishing a fic in 50 days)
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- Yes
That isn't (quite) a reason for me to rec it(aspecially as I just heard about it now and haven't read it yet), but generally if the author doesn't feel like that there's no chance of it being worth adding to the list.