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linkjames24 said:
Oh nvm then. I mistook it for that one where Taylor gets fire powers and wears her enemies clothes. Guess this is different.
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While I don't have an issue with dereccing something after a single chapter, I think judging the chapter for events that happen in future chapters of a different fic entirely suggests the derec was made in haste.

Edit: Apparently I still can't read or type. That's not what happened, and I'm going to crawl back into a hole and die of embarrassment.

Basically, which fic? Are you actually dereccing Glassmaker, or are you thinking of Burn Up, written by the same author?
 
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Inkling said:
While I don't have an issue with dereccing something after a single chapter, I think judging the chapter for events that happen in future chapters of a different fic entirely suggests the derec was made in haste.

Edit: Apparently I still can't read. That's not what happened.

Basically, which fic are you actually dereccing Glassmaker, or are you thinking of Burn Up, written by the same author?
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Oh yeah! I mistook one for the other. The author's quite talented, but I just didn't like the crazy perspective and shafting Brian and Aisha in Burn Up. Haven't read Glassmaker so I don't know about that.
 
I'm going to thank @Fernandel for this one:

The List by inkvoices reviews
There are three secrets in the Slytherin Common Room: the rug, the footstool and the List.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,404 - Reviews: 42 - Favs: 90 - Follows: 8 - Published: May 30, 2007 - Complete
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"...it's a sad little one-shot, really. There's nothing very complicated about it, though it does tackle something that a lot of Harry Potter fanfic in general picks up on: the Slytherins and the way they're represented. Here, they're portrayed as just as much the victims of the conflict within the Wizarding World as everybody else is, and it's actually quite powerful."
 
Vyslanté said:
I'm going to thank @Fernandel for this one:

The List by inkvoices reviews
There are three secrets in the Slytherin Common Room: the rug, the footstool and the List.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,404 - Reviews: 42 - Favs: 90 - Follows: 8 - Published: May 30, 2007 - Complete
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"...it's a sad little one-shot, really. There's nothing very complicated about it, though it does tackle something that a lot of Harry Potter fanfic in general picks up on: the Slytherins and the way they're represented. Here, they're portrayed as just as much the victims of the conflict within the Wizarding World as everybody else is, and it's actually quite powerful."
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Seconding "The List"

Edit: Thirding:ninja:
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buli-buli said:
It wasn't bad, so I won't derec it. But it was just so-so.
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It being so-so is a reason to derec it, so let me help you out

Vyslanté said:
I'm going to thank @Fernandel for this one:

The List by inkvoices reviews
There are three secrets in the Slytherin Common Room: the rug, the footstool and the List.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,404 - Reviews: 42 - Favs: 90 - Follows: 8 - Published: May 30, 2007 - Complete
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"...it's a sad little one-shot, really. There's nothing very complicated about it, though it does tackle something that a lot of Harry Potter fanfic in general picks up on: the Slytherins and the way they're represented. Here, they're portrayed as just as much the victims of the conflict within the Wizarding World as everybody else is, and it's actually quite powerful."
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Derecced
 
Excellent. It is now balanced between four recs and four so-so's XD.

It's not the best and while entertaining to some does not deserve being called best damn fics.
 
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't one of the best I've read. It may belong on a general list, but not on this one. Dereccing it.
 
kitsune9 said:
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.
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Huh, I actually thought the second in the series was the best. It's where you start really seeing the outsider perspectives on Harry and the distinctive characters get a chance to shine.

Anyway, this series has too much entirely made up magic for me to give it a whole-hearted recommendation. My eyes glaze over whenever it starts on first and second cores or the intricacies of mental landscapes. Despite that and the fact that Harry seems way OP, I found the series very engaging, just not enough to say it's one of the best fics.
 
GoldenFalls said:
Huh, I actually thought the second in the series was the best. It's where you start really seeing the outsider perspectives on Harry and the distinctive characters get a chance to shine.

Anyway, this series has too much entirely made up magic for me to give it a whole-hearted recommendation. My eyes glaze over whenever it starts on first and second cores or the intricacies of mental landscapes. Despite that and the fact that Harry seems way OP, I found the series very engaging, just not enough to say it's one of the best fics.
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I think it draws some of the way magic works from the Lioness series, did you ever read the Tortall books? I read them years ago but their kind of blurry
 
kitsune9 said:
I think it draws some of the way magic works from the Lioness series, did you ever read the Tortall books? I read them years ago but their kind of blurry
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I also read them too long ago to remember clearly, but I highly doubt the magic is very related to Tortall's system. True, Tortall mages have cores and expend magical energy, but that's also a very common trope in Harry Potter fanfiction and The Pureblood Pretense has a ton of other hallmarks of HP fanon like innately light/neutral/dark magic and mindscapes related to occlumency, which aren't found in the Tortall verse.
 
Leber said:
Alexandra Quick and the Thorn Circle and its sequels Alexandra Quick and the Lands Below, Alexandra Quick and the Deathly Regiment, and Alexandra Quick and the Stars Above
By: Inverarity
The war against Voldemort never reached America, but all is not well there. When 11-year-old Alexandra Quick learns she is a witch, she is plunged into a world of prejudices, intrigue, and danger. Who wants Alexandra dead, and why?
Rated: Fiction K+ - English - Fantasy/Adventure - OC - Chapters: 29 - Words: 165,657 - Reviews: 570 - Favs: 794 - Follows: 296 - Updated: Dec 24, 2007 - Published: Dec 24, 2007 - Status: Complete - id: 3964606

What I'd consider to be the Magical America series, with worldbuilding that puts the crap JK wrote for Fantastic Beasts to shame. Like seriously, the worldbuilding in this fic is absurdly good. It focuses on a a cast of OCs attending a magical school in North America, which has its own burgeoning social and political problems. The OCs are a unique and interesting group of people that really give the series an "American" feel, capturing how vast and diverse it truly is.

One thing I think this fic executes very well is the "unsympathetic" anti-heroine female protagonist - a female protagonist who is extremely flawed but still deep down is a good person. While the male "unsympathetic" anti-hero protagonist is relatively accepted and common in media, to the point of being more popular than the standard male hero archetype, the anti-heroine is comparably rare. So I think it's commendable that the fic goes through with the concept and does a great job with it, focusing in on Alexandra's deep flaws while still acknowledging her capacity for heroism and good.
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I'll second this recc, it was very solid all around and was highly original. I enjoyed it a lot.

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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!
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Also reccing Fargo. Best finished madoka fic easily, and one of the best fics I've ever read.
 
CV12Hornet said:
So, I've got a new rec to make:


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.
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I remember trying to read that and I just couldn't. No specific reason why, I just got a general malaise as I read, I can barely even remember the story start. I wanted to read it, and still do, but a specific lack of interest due to the vague sell and start kept me from digging in.
Sell it to me.
 
GoldenFalls said:
I also read them too long ago to remember clearly, but I highly doubt the magic is very related to Tortall's system. True, Tortall mages have cores and expend magical energy, but that's also a very common trope in Harry Potter fanfiction and The Pureblood Pretense has a ton of other hallmarks of HP fanon like innately light/neutral/dark magic and mindscapes related to occlumency, which aren't found in the Tortall verse.
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ah well i'd have to reread it to argue more; I know the magic colors was pulled from Tortall. Allana's was violet? No clue about the rest of it though so your probably right.
 
Yeah, "The List" just leaves me cold.

It's like the point they're ham-fistedly trying to make is "no matter how evil, someone still loved them (generally also evil bastards not unlike them)."

And, well, yes. That is not an untrue statement. It's also neither pithy nor profound. It still doesn't bring me to have ay sympathy for characters who voluntarily join a movement dedicated to the murder of others slightly unlike them. Or ones who attack the cops and get killed for their troubles, because of their participation in said group. Etc. etc. etc.

It's like saying, "Even Hitler had a mom!" Yes, this is true, and were she a worthwhile human being, she'd've been pretty damned ashamed of the misshapen fruit of her loins.

There are plenty of authors who have written much better stories about divisions among Slytherin, where some of them are not as evil as all of them, or where ambition comes in many forms, and cunning can be more than just puppy-stomping evil.

This one simply isn't one of them. As an example:
The fourth, Graham Pritchard, shouldn't have been written there. He shouldn't have been home that weekend. The Hogwarts' hospital wing was perfectly capable of looking after a student with the measles, contagious though they may be, but Mrs Pritchard was rather old fashioned and Mr Pritchard had made valuable donations to the school in the past, so Graham went home just in time to see a bunch of Death Eaters interrogate his father.

There was too much blood on the floor for it to have been a simple murder.

That is a cheap bit that's trying to make us feel sympathy for the character that we know nothing about simply because he was sick, and then got killed by the bad guys. Except the bad guys have a habit of killing their own, and this author already tarred the entire Slytherin house with the Racist Paintbrush Of Evvuuuuulz.

The rug is an enormous green and silver masterpiece, one of many that cover the cold stone floor and make the room look inviting. However, this one is believed to have been commissioned by Salazar himself. Two life-size snakes have been painstakingly embroidered in the shape of the initials SS in one corner. And it is said to eat Muggleborns.

This current generation of students have never seen the rug in action, but then having a mudblood inside their common room would be unthinkable, even if it was to test out the rumours. Still, a Mudblood Eating Rug is something to be proud of.
(Emphasis mine, of course.)

I mean, I'm sorry, but I think I must have left my sympathy in my other pants.

Next to my dick.

Edited for formatting.
 
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