Could you tell us more? I have seen this before, but the description didn't do anything for me and solidly written is just the minimum I expect. The author name is the only thing that makes me have a slight interest in it.
The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
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Could you tell us more? I have seen this before, but the description didn't do anything for me and solidly written is just the minimum I expect. The author name is the only thing that makes me have a slight interest in it.
- Location
- Somewhere near L1... I think
The Harry in it is powerful but uses skill more than ridiculously powerful spells to win. Dumbledore is well intentioned, but takes a step back when he realizes that getting involved might make things worse. Voldemort is more active once his plans get derailed. And Andromeda Black is a badass.
I will say that the depiction of Harry's spells was pretty good. For all the versatility that Harry Potter style magic offers a lot of the time the magic itself in battles is a bit...boring. Chilord here describes the way that Harry is using his magic to pull of those stunts.
I think the story started better than it eventually got, and it does seem a bit full of the characteristic of most of chilords protagonists but this is probably the strongest fic he's done for quite a while. Despite the flaws, I think it does deserve to be on this list, so consider this a second from me.
I think the story started better than it eventually got, and it does seem a bit full of the characteristic of most of chilords protagonists but this is probably the strongest fic he's done for quite a while. Despite the flaws, I think it does deserve to be on this list, so consider this a second from me.
- Location
- Australia
It has a semi-decent plot but characters are just so one-dimensional. Derec for me.
- Location
- US of A
…insane, flippant Harry who has no compunctions killing people? Chapter one is not filling me with confidence. The amount of time spent revelling in Harry's fighting capabilities and too-cool-for-rules attitude is hinting that this fic was probably not written with what I value in mind. From what I see it's not that bad, but with those characters I wouldn't call it good. Probably good if you're reading for original fight scenes and don't care about characters?
Tao
Skirmisher
- Location
- Australia
I find it enjoyable, but Derec because I don't consider it good enough for the list.
- Location
- In the depts of despair.
Same for me, its a small guilty pleasure to read, but no more.
lin4t
The Sheep that Yawns at Reality
- Location
- Australia
Eh, read it. It was decent but not awe worthy. I did like it enough, a nice story for a few hours but not to the level of certain other stories that stand above the rest.
The author is pretty good at making the fights seems interesting but it was to short to give any of the characters any deep and meaningful dimension or actual change besides Bellatrix and even that was a bit shallow. I mean it was hinted she managed to finally couple with Harry but that was a pretty bad timeskip for something so random. That and there were a couple of cliques that while not horrible weren't amazingly executed.
Honestly, I would have to derec it for me though it is still better than a lot of other stuff suggested here.
- Location
- Denial
MOD!Harry Potter (A guilty pleasure of mine, so i'm already biased for it) does his MOD thing and gets reborn into the trek universe under special circumstances. It reads like a Star Trek episode, and has borg and q and crazy grandmother shenanigans.
Code:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10850909/1/Where-No-Wizard-has-Gone-Before
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Dragonskyt
Ashen one, hearest thou my voice, still?
- Location
- Kiln of the First Flame
Funny...
For some reason clicking your link gives me a privacy error, whereas manually looking up the title allows me to find it through google.
Huh.
- Location
- Denial
Ah, my bad. I removed the m. from the url, but forgot to change the https to http when i was changing the link to the not mobile version.
Edit:
I fixed it, but goddamn do I hate this fucking editor on mobile. It changed my url twice to some other shit and the only way to force it to not to was to use a code tag. Heaven only knows why a url tag is allowed to be automatically changed, even when I explicitly put something else there.
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- Location
- Temecula, CA
So I haven't seen this one posted here yet....
The Pureblood Pretense by Murkybluematter at fanfiction.net
Harriett Potter dreams of going to Hogwarts, but in an AU where the school only accepts purebloods, the only way to reach her goal is to switch places with her pureblood cousin - the only problem? Her cousin is a boy. Alanna the Lioness take on HP.
This is an absolutely amazing retelling of the Harry Potter series - no need to know anything about Alanna the Lioness too. Beautifully written characters, deception, politics, and a brilliant expansion on Rowling's already awesome world. Each book covers a year at Hogwarts, and the author is currently on 4th year. The updates are a bit slow, but well worth the wait.
Fanfic: The Pureblood Pretense Ch 1, Harry Potter | FanFiction
The Pureblood Pretense by Murkybluematter at fanfiction.net
Harriett Potter dreams of going to Hogwarts, but in an AU where the school only accepts purebloods, the only way to reach her goal is to switch places with her pureblood cousin - the only problem? Her cousin is a boy. Alanna the Lioness take on HP.
This is an absolutely amazing retelling of the Harry Potter series - no need to know anything about Alanna the Lioness too. Beautifully written characters, deception, politics, and a brilliant expansion on Rowling's already awesome world. Each book covers a year at Hogwarts, and the author is currently on 4th year. The updates are a bit slow, but well worth the wait.
Fanfic: The Pureblood Pretense Ch 1, Harry Potter | FanFiction
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Blazinghand
O cursèd spite
- Location
- California
This story and the two following it (Serpentine Subterfuge and Amibguous Artifice) are complete, but the fourth in the series, the Futile Facade, is in progress. Not sure how this counts for completeness requirement.
- Location
- Massholistan
Considering there's a few stories with incomplete sequels (Way of the Apartment Manager for one) in the OP, I think it's fine.
Genesys
(Discrete Mokona)
- Location
- California
So far, it's been if a fic is complete, it's fine, even if there are sequels.
I really liked the first one but I haven't read the latter ones because I lost interest around the third book.
Can you rec part of a series.
NHO
Dumb is a state of existence
- Location
- ᓚᘏᗢ
I must recommend Of Love and Bunnies
Cracky fic of Power Rangers franchise. Contains no bunnies.
Tragicomic, but very nice look at professional deformation of Rangers, of weird people dealing with weird in their civilian lives.
Cracky fic of Power Rangers franchise. Contains no bunnies.
Tragicomic, but very nice look at professional deformation of Rangers, of weird people dealing with weird in their civilian lives.
- Location
- oregon, usa
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Sort of. You can definitely recommend a first part of a series. Specifically recommending a later part while the preceding bits are not rec worthy is a fair bit more suspect, but that mostly depends on whether you can read an individual story without having to read a preceding portion to understand what is going on.
CV12Hornet
Riter.
- Location
- Tacoma, Washington
So, I've got a new rec to make:
Basically, if you like Ranma fanfic at all you should go read this.
I just reread it recently, and I found myself wondering why I hadn't done so earlier. I could not stop reading, and it was very much a repeated gut-punch to the feels. And every time, my desire to see a happy ending to the story just kept growing, which makes the payoff at the end all the sweeter.
Basically, if you like Ranma fanfic at all you should go read this.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I liked this series, but that's all. It's a solid work, good world-building, character development, etc. but it lacked staying power for me. I can't really point to anything about it and say 'wow'.
- Location
- London
I too derrec this. Most stories aren't meant for us to try to make sense of a drug addict's or crazy person's mind. They're to tell us of a wonderful tale, and this one is telling me to stop reading the next chapter.
Also the author put Brian on a bus. An Undersider story without all the living Undersiders as a group of friends is so off-putting. Just saying.
Then I'll second the rec for Pureblood Pretense
The later books in the series weren't bad but I don't think there rec worthy.
- Location
- United Kingdom
But it wasn't an Undersider story? The author just had Lisa and Taylor, and I think WoG said they just removed Coil entirely.
Personally I didn't find the PoV jarring, and it was just, nice to read.
Glassmaker has my rec.
azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
- Pronouns
- He/They
From the top of the first post, in a spoiler labeled "semi-important A/N":
I'm confused why you're calling this an Undersider story when not only does the group not exist, but the reason the group formed doesn't exist.
- Location
- London
Oh nvm then. I mistook it for that one where Taylor gets fire powers and wears her enemies clothes. Guess this is different.