The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
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Ya,I would agree to this. Leave the published fiction alone but otherwise its free game.
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Fanfiction is generally reduced to "fanfic" when talking about them. This is further reduced to "fic" in the same conversation, because laziness. While it loses its previous descriptors that clarif that it's specifically about fanfiction, it still means fanfiction.
Further evidenced by the thread's presence in the "Fanfiction Discussion" forum, rather than its parent forum for general fiction.
Speaking of, though, The Last Angel really doesn't belong in the OP, unless @Ronan O'Brien can clarify on the thread rules or something.
I'll third the Victory at Ostagar rec. While I do have some issues with it (mainly how Leliana is written as utterly devoted to the chantry and willing to blab about stuff to them at the first opportunity. Come on, she was a Bard. A freaking spy/assassin. She's not going to be that blabbermouthed) it's a pretty damn good story overall. Long as fuck though, and I feel like it does drag a bit at points from what I remember.
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When I come to the fanfiction discussion board and click on a thread for the greatest fics of all time, I am looking for fanfiction. If people want a place to rec original fiction, they can make a "Best Original Web Stories of All Time" thread in the Fiction Discussion forum.
Anzer'ke
Anarchism Ho!
Oh how wonderful, a simultaneous assortment of patronising tokenism, spite, childish humour, and characters defined by 'term!'
Tried it, hated it, derecc for just so many reasons.
Seconding with my recc for 'The Last'. Just finished reading it on this recc.
The fact this is WW/Superman is likely to trigger some people, but aside from that it's honestly a very impressive lining up of various canon plotlines and PoVs in a way that tells a credible and impressive story. Despite treading a lot of ground already covered, the author does so in a way that makes things interesting. It's written in a way even someone with tangential knowledge of DC canon can grok it.
I was impressed both by how in-character everyone is and how realistic the characterization was- Superman's characterization in particular did an amazing job of making him more than a boy scout but still depicting his impressive devotion to his ideals, but everyone comes off as much more a person than a comic book character.
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I'm reccing
No Antidote
A young Pokemon trainer from Pallet obtains a starter and begins on his journey, but then suffers a tragic accident that leaves him with a fading mind and only weeks to live. What does this mean for Bulbasaur, his starter, and how far will Bulbasaur take their mutual promise to go as far as they can, no matter the obstacle?
No Antidote
A young Pokemon trainer from Pallet obtains a starter and begins on his journey, but then suffers a tragic accident that leaves him with a fading mind and only weeks to live. What does this mean for Bulbasaur, his starter, and how far will Bulbasaur take their mutual promise to go as far as they can, no matter the obstacle?
13th Bee
Worker
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Web-published original fiction that is both complete and of acceptable quality is rare enough that it might as well be listed here. It's not like it's going to drown out the fanfiction.
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Ah, finally rediscovered this:
Orchestrating the Silence » What happens when the last two people on Earth can't stand each other?
Evangelion, M, English, Drama & Romance, chapters: 16, words: 76k+, favs: 634, follows: 166, updated: Oct 31, 2008published: Mar 19, 2008, Shinji I., Asuka L. S.
I'm a massive fan of Evangelion. I've literally written academic papers about it, going into a great deal of character analysis. It was the first "fandom" I was a part of, and I've voraciously consumed all manner of its media - official and fan-based.
This, this here? This is pretty much what I expect would happen post-EoE. My head-canon, if you will. It keeps the characters in character, and it closely follows the tone of the series.
I'm not a fan of under-100k fics, because I find it hard for them to tell a meaningful story. A story, sure, but not one I'd find especially satisfying. There are a few exceptions to this, and this is one of the most prominent.
It's pretty much what it says on the tin. After Shinji and Asuka awake on the beach, what happens? How will their experiences of Instrumentality change how they perceive themselves and each other? Now, it says that the genres are Drama & Romance, but it's not going to come quickly or easily. This picks up at the end of EoE. Imagine the very last scene. Don't worry if you can't, the fic goes through it. Not very cuddly, right? Yeah, exactly.
Can't rec it enough.
Orchestrating the Silence » What happens when the last two people on Earth can't stand each other?
Evangelion, M, English, Drama & Romance, chapters: 16, words: 76k+, favs: 634, follows: 166, updated: Oct 31, 2008published: Mar 19, 2008, Shinji I., Asuka L. S.
I'm a massive fan of Evangelion. I've literally written academic papers about it, going into a great deal of character analysis. It was the first "fandom" I was a part of, and I've voraciously consumed all manner of its media - official and fan-based.
This, this here? This is pretty much what I expect would happen post-EoE. My head-canon, if you will. It keeps the characters in character, and it closely follows the tone of the series.
I'm not a fan of under-100k fics, because I find it hard for them to tell a meaningful story. A story, sure, but not one I'd find especially satisfying. There are a few exceptions to this, and this is one of the most prominent.
It's pretty much what it says on the tin. After Shinji and Asuka awake on the beach, what happens? How will their experiences of Instrumentality change how they perceive themselves and each other? Now, it says that the genres are Drama & Romance, but it's not going to come quickly or easily. This picks up at the end of EoE. Imagine the very last scene. Don't worry if you can't, the fic goes through it. Not very cuddly, right? Yeah, exactly.
Can't rec it enough.
There are actually 6 recs for this by now.
@Fenrys, @Lemniscate (original recomender), me and the three here.
It is, one of the few long fanfics that actually maintains its quality overall and does not particularly need you to know the source material.
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Chanson de Geste
By: LVDB (Author of the Eva fic A Throne of Bayonets)
Edmund's memoirs reveal a darker Narnia than the one Professor Lewis described...
Rated: Fiction T - English - Chapters: 26 - Words: 68,131 - Reviews: 133 - Favs: 143 - Follows: 83 - Updated: Sep 17, 2011 - Published: Dec 27, 2009 - id: 5615090
Summary doesn't quite do the story justice. It;s a completed fic, taking place several years into the reign of the four Pevensie kids over Narnia. It's a reconstruction of the world of Narnia, emphasizing that even a fantasy Medieval setting is still Medieval - with all the horrors that entails. At the same time, it has a deep character study of Edmund and Jadis (The White Witch). This is all wrapped into a great plot full of politics and scheming (Both divine and mortal) with some fantastic twists and clever tricks. I got through it all in one sitting and loved every second!
By: LVDB (Author of the Eva fic A Throne of Bayonets)
Edmund's memoirs reveal a darker Narnia than the one Professor Lewis described...
Rated: Fiction T - English - Chapters: 26 - Words: 68,131 - Reviews: 133 - Favs: 143 - Follows: 83 - Updated: Sep 17, 2011 - Published: Dec 27, 2009 - id: 5615090
Summary doesn't quite do the story justice. It;s a completed fic, taking place several years into the reign of the four Pevensie kids over Narnia. It's a reconstruction of the world of Narnia, emphasizing that even a fantasy Medieval setting is still Medieval - with all the horrors that entails. At the same time, it has a deep character study of Edmund and Jadis (The White Witch). This is all wrapped into a great plot full of politics and scheming (Both divine and mortal) with some fantastic twists and clever tricks. I got through it all in one sitting and loved every second!
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I'm not going to derec it, because derecing things you barely skimmed the first 2 chapters of is pretty harsh, but I'm not really a fan of the "turning a fairly light children's fantasy book into a gritty 'realistic' world" type thing.
But it might be well written, I really couldn't say.
Agreed, I think most fics definitely miss the mark on executing the concept. What this one gets right is that it works hard to tell its own (Well-written) story within a harsher version of the original setting. In similar stories the grittiness essentially is the plot. Here the darker story only serves as a framing device and ultimately the fic is about character interactions - which is does a great job handling.
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Three Families by James Golen, in the Avatarverse. It's got TONS of worldbuilding, seemingly logical character progression, loads of well-written OCs, and it's an epic-length (1m+ words) story. It's WAAY too long and has too many points of view and story arcs to give a short description, but it almost immediately goes off the rails and is set in an alternate avatarverse that seems to have a lot more different cultures than the comparatively bare-bones civilizations from the original series.
Inquisitor Carrow and the God Emperor-less Heathens by littlewhitecat, this is the first in a series that's a Harry Potter/40k crossover, the POD is that after Harry's first year when he's locked in his room the Weasley twins are caught trying to sneak out to get Harry, so as Harry's stuck in the room slowly starving with Hedwig he has a bit of accidental magic that sends him into the 41st millenium. A few months later (and about 3 centuries from Harry's POV) puritan Inquisitor Allessandor Darius Carrow, formerly of the Charnel Guard, gets sent through a warp portal by an eldar witch and lands near Hogwarts in October, where he's quickly recognized as Harry. Chaos and hilarity ensues. Series is notable for Trekkie!GEOM, fear of the wrath of English Heritage, and Carrow bringing hilarious grimdark wherever he goes.
EDIT: I have to note that the first story in the series wasn't that spectacular, it's how the following sequels add on to the story (we're currently on the 5th story in the series and still going) that makes this series great.
Delenda Est by Lord Silvere, one of the only fics I have read that is a decent peggy sue story (back to the 70's for Harry) and has a decent non-evil/insane Bellatrix, also the story that got me into the HP fandom. Basically starts off with an AU where the war against Voldemort goes badly and a 20ish Barry gets captured and later has Bellatrix Lestrange put in his cell for some unknown reason, and repeatedly taken out and tortured, leading to temporary lucid periods when in the cell where they talk occasionally. During one of these periods she tries to get Harry to kill her with a dark object pin of some sort that she'd gotten from her vault years ago and had kept for all this time, and manages to trick him into impaling her with it through the chest, inadvertently revealing that the pin is some sort of blood-powered time travel mcguffin that sends Harry (who's holding the pin) back to the Black family vault when Bellatrix was first picking up the pin. Story's also AU for having a more Machiavellian Bellatrix who's more concerned with obtaining power and influence than blood purity and isn't totally unfamiliar with the muggle world since her father Cygnus did shady business using magic to add extra floors to muggle buildings under instruction and renting out the magically added floors.
Inquisitor Carrow and the God Emperor-less Heathens by littlewhitecat, this is the first in a series that's a Harry Potter/40k crossover, the POD is that after Harry's first year when he's locked in his room the Weasley twins are caught trying to sneak out to get Harry, so as Harry's stuck in the room slowly starving with Hedwig he has a bit of accidental magic that sends him into the 41st millenium. A few months later (and about 3 centuries from Harry's POV) puritan Inquisitor Allessandor Darius Carrow, formerly of the Charnel Guard, gets sent through a warp portal by an eldar witch and lands near Hogwarts in October, where he's quickly recognized as Harry. Chaos and hilarity ensues. Series is notable for Trekkie!GEOM, fear of the wrath of English Heritage, and Carrow bringing hilarious grimdark wherever he goes.
EDIT: I have to note that the first story in the series wasn't that spectacular, it's how the following sequels add on to the story (we're currently on the 5th story in the series and still going) that makes this series great.
Delenda Est by Lord Silvere, one of the only fics I have read that is a decent peggy sue story (back to the 70's for Harry) and has a decent non-evil/insane Bellatrix, also the story that got me into the HP fandom. Basically starts off with an AU where the war against Voldemort goes badly and a 20ish Barry gets captured and later has Bellatrix Lestrange put in his cell for some unknown reason, and repeatedly taken out and tortured, leading to temporary lucid periods when in the cell where they talk occasionally. During one of these periods she tries to get Harry to kill her with a dark object pin of some sort that she'd gotten from her vault years ago and had kept for all this time, and manages to trick him into impaling her with it through the chest, inadvertently revealing that the pin is some sort of blood-powered time travel mcguffin that sends Harry (who's holding the pin) back to the Black family vault when Bellatrix was first picking up the pin. Story's also AU for having a more Machiavellian Bellatrix who's more concerned with obtaining power and influence than blood purity and isn't totally unfamiliar with the muggle world since her father Cygnus did shady business using magic to add extra floors to muggle buildings under instruction and renting out the magically added floors.
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Can't comment on, "Three Families," and while I won't derec it, I'm not solid enough on, "Delenda Est," to second you. I will, however, solidly derec, "Inquisitor Carrow." It's just...flat. The author seems to let the premise do most of the work without adding any of their own effort. I don't get invested at all. Not a terrible fic, but not a good one. Damned to mediocrity.
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I'll give a rec for Madhouse too, it's a great short fic that manages to sum up the motivations driving each faction forwards.
I'll also give another rec for Into the Storm by Blank101 and the rest of his trilogy, along with the entire series being very well written it also has one of the best portrayals of Palpatine I've ever seen.
EDIT: That should be enough votes for Madhouse to be on the list, seeing as there aren't any derecs for it.
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I'll second Delenda Est, it's my favourite Harry Potter fan fiction outside of Voice of the Nephilim fics and a surprisingly good Nightmare on Elm Street crossover who's name escapes me.
Can't comment on the other two as I've never read them.
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Seconding.
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Derecing.
Memetic 40k always annoys me, Harry being a special snowflake (Astartes Inquisitor!) always annoys me, and unfunny crack always annoys me.
It's just not very good.
FlyingWaffle
[Verified Pastry]
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I'm gonna second the rec for Inquisitor Carrow, this is the first 40k fic I read and remains one of my favorites. The author definitely gets better as the series goes, but even so the first one is still worth recommending.
I'm not going to derec Delenda Est, but from what I vaguely remember I didn't like it enough that I can recommend it either.
Blazinghand
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From the OP:
The title of this is spelled wrong. Instead, it should be "Mister Vimes'd Go Spare!" — there is no "d" at the end of Spare in the title.
The title of this is spelled wrong. Instead, it should be "Mister Vimes'd Go Spare!" — there is no "d" at the end of Spare in the title.
Fargo
By: Bavitz
[Post-Rebellion] In the frostbitten American Midwest, ragged Magical Girls vie for territory to survive the unforgiving landscape. One such girl is Sloan Redfearn, who wastes away in Fargo, North Dakota, nursing a grudge and watching her hopes slowly die. But when Kyubey approaches with a unique opportunity, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to topple gods.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure - Homura A., Mami T., Kyoko S. - Chapters: 43 - Words: 336,493 - Reviews: 324 - Favs: 215 - Follows: 163 - Updated: Apr 17, 2016 - Published: May 4, 2015 - Status: Complete - id: 11228999
Along with To The Stars it's pretty much the premier Madoka fanfic. I'd argue it's the best due to how tightly written it is - To The Stars has been meandering too much since Part 2 ended - but that's debatable. The best execution of a nearly all-OC cast I've ever seen, great action, and a fascinating plot make this one a must-read.
Latet Anguis In Herba and its sequels Shade to Shade, Falls the Shadow, and Beyond this Place
By: Slide
A collection of shorts covering the school years of a group of Slytherin students at Hogwarts. Voldemort might not be their primary concern, but that doesn't guarantee carefree times in the powerplays of the House of the ambitious and cunning.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 8 - Words: 51,700 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 49 - Follows: 17 - Updated: Sep 2, 2005 - Published: Jan 24, 2005 - Status: Complete - id: 2233473
An excellent but lesser known series of Harry Potter fanfics which follow a group of four Slytherin friends in the year above Harry. With a unique and compelling cast of OC characters, the story grounds itself very firmly in the world of the books while very much telling its own tale. It's a series that deserves a lot more recognition!
By: Bavitz
[Post-Rebellion] In the frostbitten American Midwest, ragged Magical Girls vie for territory to survive the unforgiving landscape. One such girl is Sloan Redfearn, who wastes away in Fargo, North Dakota, nursing a grudge and watching her hopes slowly die. But when Kyubey approaches with a unique opportunity, she becomes embroiled in a conspiracy that threatens to topple gods.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Adventure - Homura A., Mami T., Kyoko S. - Chapters: 43 - Words: 336,493 - Reviews: 324 - Favs: 215 - Follows: 163 - Updated: Apr 17, 2016 - Published: May 4, 2015 - Status: Complete - id: 11228999
Along with To The Stars it's pretty much the premier Madoka fanfic. I'd argue it's the best due to how tightly written it is - To The Stars has been meandering too much since Part 2 ended - but that's debatable. The best execution of a nearly all-OC cast I've ever seen, great action, and a fascinating plot make this one a must-read.
Latet Anguis In Herba and its sequels Shade to Shade, Falls the Shadow, and Beyond this Place
By: Slide
A collection of shorts covering the school years of a group of Slytherin students at Hogwarts. Voldemort might not be their primary concern, but that doesn't guarantee carefree times in the powerplays of the House of the ambitious and cunning.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 8 - Words: 51,700 - Reviews: 23 - Favs: 49 - Follows: 17 - Updated: Sep 2, 2005 - Published: Jan 24, 2005 - Status: Complete - id: 2233473
An excellent but lesser known series of Harry Potter fanfics which follow a group of four Slytherin friends in the year above Harry. With a unique and compelling cast of OC characters, the story grounds itself very firmly in the world of the books while very much telling its own tale. It's a series that deserves a lot more recognition!
einargs
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I'm going to go ahead and recommend A Green Sun Illuminates the Void as well. I'm a bit too tired to try and explain why I think it deserves to be on this list at the moment, but enough other people have recommended it that I don't feel obligated the way I might otherwise.
EDIT: Changed the link to point to the fanfiction.net version, since the SV version apparently isn't up to date.
EDIT 2: Nevermind! The problem was that I was linking to only the first thread of the fic, which meant that it seemed incomplete. I'll just leave the fanfiction.net link in and make a note that there are three threads on sufficient velocity for the fic.
EDIT: Changed the link to point to the fanfiction.net version, since the SV version apparently isn't up to date.
EDIT 2: Nevermind! The problem was that I was linking to only the first thread of the fic, which meant that it seemed incomplete. I'll just leave the fanfiction.net link in and make a note that there are three threads on sufficient velocity for the fic.
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oh my god I loved that fic, seconding so hard.