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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.
The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
- Thread starter Phearo
- Start date
- Discussion
- Location
- Canada
To be fair, the reason that the heroes were doing so poorly (besides Izuku's plans) was that
Setsuna was giving the villains all of the heroes plans, schedules, placements, strategies, etc. It's so much easier to out-maneuver a team when you know everything that a member of the team would know. Which is why the heroes biggest "win" (the attack on their tower base) didn't occur until Setsuna was eliminated. Also, Izuku knows Bakugou. He knows how he thinks and how he acts. And when you know the opposing leader as intimately as Izuku does it is an incredibly boon for predicting him. Same doesn't apply to Bakugou because Izuku is literally acting as someone else.
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doge
shadow cable management
- Location
- California!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Per epilogue, the intel didn't seem to matter.
Overall going to derec, mainly because it felt too dramatic for the stakes.
- Location
- Europe
That's a pretty good point! I guess I just loved the excellence of the outsider POV and also making the whole "Bucky Barnes hides out in Bucharest" more realistic for me.
Liquid Ink
Contains Sleep Deprived Rambling
I agree with every criticism brought up so far, so as I didn't properly confirmed my derec for Hero Class Civil Warfare last time, here it is.
Also, my previous post on the fic, for further whatevers:
All in all, I think it's an over-hyped bashfic/wankfic with a story and pacing that can only really be compared to a damp squib.
Also, my previous post on the fic, for further whatevers:
All in all, I think it's an over-hyped bashfic/wankfic with a story and pacing that can only really be compared to a damp squib.
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- Canada
One more rec that recently was completed.
If Life Gives You Lemons by Baked the Author
A Worm/Portal crossover. Taylor triggers in the Locker as a Tinker, and the device she builds to escape hurls her across dimensions to land in a ruined facility with a box labelled Aperture.
Glados, Wheatley, and the Personality Cores, are very heavily AU due to altered backstories and so are OOC to their canon versions in this fic. Features Taylor struggling quite severely against the environment she's been thrown into, impressing Aperture with her Tinkering of their technology, and a general working around of AI restrictions. No curb-stomping here, Taylor struggles and fights for every accomplishment, and I greatly enjoyed the alternate history for the Portal characters (the explanation for which is rational and worked well for me). For deeper information on the AU elements, check out the Spacebattles thread.
If Life Gives You Lemons by Baked the Author
A Worm/Portal crossover. Taylor triggers in the Locker as a Tinker, and the device she builds to escape hurls her across dimensions to land in a ruined facility with a box labelled Aperture.
Glados, Wheatley, and the Personality Cores, are very heavily AU due to altered backstories and so are OOC to their canon versions in this fic. Features Taylor struggling quite severely against the environment she's been thrown into, impressing Aperture with her Tinkering of their technology, and a general working around of AI restrictions. No curb-stomping here, Taylor struggles and fights for every accomplishment, and I greatly enjoyed the alternate history for the Portal characters (the explanation for which is rational and worked well for me). For deeper information on the AU elements, check out the Spacebattles thread.
- Location
- Caracas
This is a fair point and I am not sure if the in story reason is solid enough for the tale to get away with it. Bakugo quite simply sucks as a tactician and his lone wolf tendencies hurt him, which is I guess the idea of having opposites in the story, but I'm of the opinion that it kinda got handled in a less than optimal manner. At the very least Bakugo should have an inkling of what Izuku is up to having known him for almost a decade. I think that the fic could work better with anyone else as a leader, and forcing Bakugo to work with them.
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SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
Nah, artist's opinion as to the quality of things they produce is often completely meaningless. Plenty of creators favorite works aren't their best or don't understand why something they produced is so good.
I'm not sure he would, though. He'd definitely be bad at taking advantage of his team mates' abilities, but when it comes to things like seeing through the enemy, Bakugo isn't bad at all. He was able to quickly figure out Tokoyami's weakness, for example.
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- Caracas
Right, let me reword it.
In the context of being a team leader and/or General, as in having multiple people under his command; Bakugo's lone wolf nature as well ultra competitive tendencies backfire as he likely prefers working alone (I believe this was how he portrayed in the manga, its been like a year since I last checked it, so correct me if I am wrong in this regard), and not with a team. This in turn causes him to ignore other people's talents in favor of going off on his own in order to attain the victory by himself.
In that regard he sucks as a tactician because the job he has is that of a leader, a good general is capable of employing the talents of his soldiers. Sun Tzu states as much in the Art of War. He's stopped being "Bakugo" and he's now "Bakugo, leader of the hero team", which invests him with responsibilities.
My critique is that Bakugo is not a team player (unless circumstances are dire enough to force his hand) and thus, I feel the fic was wrong in setting up Bakugo as the leader of the team.
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
Fair. I'm not sure he'd even remember half his team's abilities to start with. Although, placed in a situation where that habit bites him, I genuinely think Bakugo could adapt and start paying attention to them. He does in canon. That he doesn't after a few losses in the fic just shows that they're writing unrealistically static characters.
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- Caracas
Yeah, that's one of those downsides.
If the intention of the author had been to make Bakguo undergo character development by placing him on a role he's really bad at, it would have been fantastic.
I'm reading Hold you breath atm, so once I'm done I'll throw my hat onto the ring (I know its not going to get a rec on the list, but eh)
Wobulator
Within 1 AU of you!
- Location
- Mars
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I'm going to have to derec this.
It's a good fic, don't get me wrong- but it's an awful Portal fic. It makes up a truly ridiculous amount of stuff about.... everything, basically, on the Portal side of things, and its only warning is "sane!Glados"
Funnily enough canon had something similar to this in a bare bones way. It was a four v four battle between class A and class B to capture the opponents team in a small city type of environment. Class B's strategy relied on Bakugo being enough of a lone wolf and glory seeker that they could attack his teammates and capitalize on his being himself. Bakugo then proceed to work with his team both saving some of his team and being saved by them in this fight and pulled off a quick sub 5 min fight 4-0 decisive victory. Tho this also happens after character development so while he can get to the point of being a great leader and team player it also needs to happen after the world collectively forces him do either grow up or fail as it were.
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- Yes
Sure, my point is that basically only authors who don't think their work is "the best ever" have a chance of writing something that is that good.
SolipsistSerpent
Endlessly Devouring
The thing is, the fic's set-up: a multiple round exercise where not being a team player makes him lose the first few rounds, that's exactly the type of situation that would push him to grow that way, because he is being forced to grow up or fail and apparently he doesn't change anyway in this one.
- Location
- Caracas
@Elpis I finished reading your fanfic.
In a fandom filled with the most random things, you can ever imagine your fanfic stands out for being coherent, good, and for the most part well thought out.
I was at first unsure if the Nezuko as an immortal would work, but you managed to pull the idea remarkably well as well fuse the two settings in a believable manner. I liked also very much how Izuku met most of the cast of KnY one at the time and his interactions with them, not to mention what you did with Chizome turning him from a terrible villain, to an anti hero and thus less boring.
The interactions between Izuku and Momo as well the butterflies that arose from the fusion are fairly interesting and it must be commended, on a fandom where deviating from canon rails is so rare that it might not as well be a thing that you came up with original arcs and idea is commendable beyond praise.
The idea that Izuku has to struggle with his preferred breath style not being suitable to him is also good, as it gives him as sense of challenge to overcome yet it also shows his youth and inexperience in being stubborn to use it.
I do have a few problems and one of them is that your fanfic perhaps runs head first onto the biggest cliché the BNHA/MHA has: Izuku's dad is a villain or part of the antagonists. That's a large issue for me because I haven't seen it well executed and your fanfic kinda runs onto that problem, he's a descendant of the family that was cursed by Muzan and he's kinda of a black sheep in retrospective... the problem is he comes as shallow and out of nowhere, some extra time setting him up could've made wonders.
In a similar note I don't quite buy AFO implanting himself with Muzan's cells (or that entire subplot, I would figured that the slayers would've gone ahead and well, burnt anything that remained of muzan simply because his remnants could be used to generate new demons, which is what happened).
Death seeker Nezuko was a nice touch and it even adds a nice layer of friction to her and Izuku's interactions which provide another source of growth for the characters.
Personally, I think this is so far the best BNHA fanfic I've read out of all the ones I have laid my eyes upon.
In a fandom filled with the most random things, you can ever imagine your fanfic stands out for being coherent, good, and for the most part well thought out.
I was at first unsure if the Nezuko as an immortal would work, but you managed to pull the idea remarkably well as well fuse the two settings in a believable manner. I liked also very much how Izuku met most of the cast of KnY one at the time and his interactions with them, not to mention what you did with Chizome turning him from a terrible villain, to an anti hero and thus less boring.
The interactions between Izuku and Momo as well the butterflies that arose from the fusion are fairly interesting and it must be commended, on a fandom where deviating from canon rails is so rare that it might not as well be a thing that you came up with original arcs and idea is commendable beyond praise.
The idea that Izuku has to struggle with his preferred breath style not being suitable to him is also good, as it gives him as sense of challenge to overcome yet it also shows his youth and inexperience in being stubborn to use it.
I do have a few problems and one of them is that your fanfic perhaps runs head first onto the biggest cliché the BNHA/MHA has: Izuku's dad is a villain or part of the antagonists. That's a large issue for me because I haven't seen it well executed and your fanfic kinda runs onto that problem, he's a descendant of the family that was cursed by Muzan and he's kinda of a black sheep in retrospective... the problem is he comes as shallow and out of nowhere, some extra time setting him up could've made wonders.
In a similar note I don't quite buy AFO implanting himself with Muzan's cells (or that entire subplot, I would figured that the slayers would've gone ahead and well, burnt anything that remained of muzan simply because his remnants could be used to generate new demons, which is what happened).
Death seeker Nezuko was a nice touch and it even adds a nice layer of friction to her and Izuku's interactions which provide another source of growth for the characters.
Personally, I think this is so far the best BNHA fanfic I've read out of all the ones I have laid my eyes upon.
Firedon
Lazy Sleepy Cat
- Location
- Germany
Derec on these two, the further into the series you go the harder it seemed to mash the "Izuku's so amazeballs" button, iirc. I did enjoy the first one from what I remember, but not enough to want it on this list.
This one on the other hand I do recommened.
CV12Hornet
Riter.
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington
Journey to the Past is good, but to my mind it doesn't have that extra oomph needed to push it into the ranks of "best ever". I'm not going to derec it, but just thought I should put my opinion out.
- Location
- oregon, usa
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- He/Him
Ok. I hope you appreciate the irony here, but I only read any of Ruby Quest because you lamented being ignored, so I having gone to the trouble of saying multiple times "best in category 'x' is not an tenable position as it leads unavoidably to escaping all criticism and by extension voiding the value of having Derecs at all" I am feeling somewhat ignored.
I am not judging Ruby Quest on the merits of it being a quest on whatever site it originated. I am not even judging it on the merits of it being a quest in general. I am judging it as a piece of fiction in general and in that regard you have done nothing to dispute my points. Hell, in calling the art "a acquired taste" you admit that the art is "passable, at best" from an average perspective.
All that written, my vote is far from final. I have, in fact, been overruled by majority opinion before.
The last thing that I will say is that I highly recommend reading this entire thread. You were not the only person to be ignored, and a lot of people ignored the 'it must be complete' requirement. A number of other stories also got shot down, although the fact that they got recommended at all means that some people thought that those works really were the best. And if nothing else, there is the certainty of getting to read about other people getting their recommendations torn apart in review, my recommendations included.
I was going through my fanfic reading history, and I came across this gem.
I would like to rec "Lantern Prime". It is a very neat blending of Transformers and Green Lantern lore, showcasing Optimus Prime's journey as *SPOILERS* the first Green Lantern. It features several well-choreographed fights, as well as some very impressive moments. It ends up wrapping up right at the point when Hal and the other Earth GL's story begins.
I would like to rec "Lantern Prime". It is a very neat blending of Transformers and Green Lantern lore, showcasing Optimus Prime's journey as *SPOILERS* the first Green Lantern. It features several well-choreographed fights, as well as some very impressive moments. It ends up wrapping up right at the point when Hal and the other Earth GL's story begins.
Anzer'ke
Anarchism Ho!
Luna Is A Harsh Mistress
You know the story, Princess Luna goes dark side and rebels against her sister. Finally being banished to the Moon with the power of the Elements of Harmony.
Only, this rebellion had armies involved and what was left of Nightmare Moon's was sent into exile along with her. Thousands of ponies who happen to have needs their princess does not. Like food, and water, and air.
Cue a race against time and a fight against the last word in hostile environments. A fight that won't end anytime soon.
You know the story, Princess Luna goes dark side and rebels against her sister. Finally being banished to the Moon with the power of the Elements of Harmony.
Only, this rebellion had armies involved and what was left of Nightmare Moon's was sent into exile along with her. Thousands of ponies who happen to have needs their princess does not. Like food, and water, and air.
Cue a race against time and a fight against the last word in hostile environments. A fight that won't end anytime soon.
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- Yes
That definitely sounds like a story worth reading, thanks for the rec, I'm off to read it.
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- He/Him
Well it was not even de recced I don't think, still you should give"Roommates memoirs of a hairless ape" a shot its in my eyes easy to get into and like.
egoo
Totally Not Creating Problems Where None Existed
- Location
- Russia
Have to second de-rec'ing this fic.
It is decent, but the amount of AU is pretty staggering for portal-part.
And sure, it isn't like it was ever developed in-depth in the games (curse you Vaaaaaalve! You and your hatred of the number 3!), but it just feels like the setting isn't what it is advertised as.
If I want to read Sci-Fi with Benevolent AIs I have a fair share of choices.
If I want to read Worm stuff I have a fair share of choices.
But this stuff only truly feels Portal-esque in the "Eldritch Birb" segments, and even then it's kinda over the top in how it goes about things.
How it went with the ending also kinda displeased me, but that's just personal preference there.
It feels like the Worm-characters present at the final chapters are too compliant and helpful compared to their canon selves, with paper-thin justification to do so.
- Location
- oregon, usa
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It was derecced:
If you want anything for that other story, then provide a summary and hyperlink. If the story is not worth that minimal amount of effort, then it cannot have been very good. And given how your previous rec went for me, I am inclined to let that initial opinion* of mine stand, unless at least another person or two back it.
*based on the minimal effort not given