- Location
- Somewhere in the eastern hemisphere.
I'll second this rec too, not sure if the brutal deconstruction of SIs is intentional but it's pretty amazing standalone anyways.
The Best Damn Fics You've Ever Read.
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Wobulator
Within 1 AU of you!
- Location
- Mars
- Pronouns
- She/Her
There's a couple of setting-similar fics(the one I linked, A Lion in Winter), but thematically, I haven't found anything.
- Location
- Over the hill and far away
Yeah, I really love that one.
It does have an epilogue, and it could bear editing, but it's one of the very few on this list that can make me tear up, even a little.
I don't know if it's truly finished or not, but if it is I'd recommend it for the list, and if it's not, I'd recommend it for the reading.
If you find anything else like it, let us know.
Lealope
Not yet invincible
- Pronouns
- She/Her
In Memoriam just finished. Go read it.
- Location
- The Beach
Seconding.
In Memoriam is a To Aru/Raildex AU that rebuilt the setting from the ground up to dial back some of the insanity of the novels and make the setting overall far more cohesive, while still tying everything together in a package that still feels like the best parts of series.
Covers the Index and Level-Upper story arcs. Sequels plan on covering subsequent arcs.
Fell in love with the story when new-and-improved-but-totally-the-same-old Index was introduced and it just got better from there. Easily the best Raildex story I've found and totally reccing it.
Yes, definitely recommended. Here's the summary and info for anyone that's interested:
In Memoriam
By: Shockz
AU/Rewrite. In a city where science has made the impossible mundane, a young man meets a very strange girl, who speaks to him of things yet stranger. Meanwhile, four friends stumble into a conspiracy that threatens to overturn everything they thought they knew about their home.
Rated: Fiction T - English - Sci-Fi/Fantasy - Chapters: 20 - Words: 86,746 - Reviews: 172 - Favs: 413 - Follows: 427 - Updated: 1h ago - Published: Jun 30, 2013 - Status: Complete - id: 9442823
Hope and Silence in the Hive (40K) by Nighzmarquls
With enough tries anything is possible...
Without giving too many spoilers, the story follows a newly born warp predator unaligned to the Chaos Gods. As the title suggests, the daemon is rather...unusual. Let's just say daemons don't have to align with the Dark Gods to bring about their own brand of insanity, such as having a tea party with a Genestealer Patriarch.
This is not crack, I shit you not.
This is surprisingly the best integration of noblebright elements into a Warhammer story. I leave it to the readers to see how well that plays out, and I hope you all also find it a compelling bit of hope in this grimderp setting.
With enough tries anything is possible...
Without giving too many spoilers, the story follows a newly born warp predator unaligned to the Chaos Gods. As the title suggests, the daemon is rather...unusual. Let's just say daemons don't have to align with the Dark Gods to bring about their own brand of insanity, such as having a tea party with a Genestealer Patriarch.
This is not crack, I shit you not.
This is surprisingly the best integration of noblebright elements into a Warhammer story. I leave it to the readers to see how well that plays out, and I hope you all also find it a compelling bit of hope in this grimderp setting.
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- Location
- Hell
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I love that story to death, but the thing needs a lot of editing before it gets on this list. A sad derecc from me, just cause it sometimes makes my eyes bleed.Hope and Silence in the Hive (40K) by Nighzmarquls
With enough tries anything is possible...
Without giving too many spoilers, the story follows a warp predator unaligned to the Chaos Gods. As the title suggests, the daemon is rather...unusual. Let's just say daemons don't have to align with the Dark Gods to bring about their own brand of insanity, such as having a tea party with a Genestealer Patriarch.
This is not crack, I shit you not.
This is surprisingly the best integration of noblebright elements into a Warhammer story. I leave it to the readers to see how well that plays out, and I hope you all also find it a compelling bit of hope in this grimderp setting.
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Fourthing
Fair enough. That's what I get for reccing something I was hesitant with.
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Madou Sutegobana
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- Location
- Twin Realms Mandala
tgojeff
(Verified Pinwheel)
- Location
- Los Angeles
Throwing in another rec for The Best Night Ever MLP fic.
I will add that it is probably the most tightly written loop fic I've seen beyond the actual Groundhog Day. It's not too long and doesn't meander much.
Also as a heads up the 'sequel' should not be read. It's long, not funny (Not that it's advertised as a comedy, but it's predecessor was), and not related to the first book much.
I will add that it is probably the most tightly written loop fic I've seen beyond the actual Groundhog Day. It's not too long and doesn't meander much.
Also as a heads up the 'sequel' should not be read. It's long, not funny (Not that it's advertised as a comedy, but it's predecessor was), and not related to the first book much.
NemiTheNen
Perpetual Phone Poster
Solitaire by Sand3
Loki's guilt manifested imaginary enemies that could literally stab him to death. This has implications.
A fic about the Agent of Asgard, about the sin which cannot be forgiven, about memory and guilt. About stories. Stories like Loki are just lies made truth; and the various incarnations there of.
This is a story about Verity Williams. But really, it's about Loki.
Character death, of a sort.
Loki's guilt manifested imaginary enemies that could literally stab him to death. This has implications.
A fic about the Agent of Asgard, about the sin which cannot be forgiven, about memory and guilt. About stories. Stories like Loki are just lies made truth; and the various incarnations there of.
This is a story about Verity Williams. But really, it's about Loki.
Character death, of a sort.
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- Location
- Tennessee
I wish I could rec In Memoriam. I really like it, but I just got thrown super hard due to the ending arc. The premise is "Let's make a more internally-consistent and logical rewrite of the setting" and then
happens. I will admit to have not gotten super far into the setting (watched first season of Index, vaguely aware of plot points in Index 2 and Railgun), but nothing I remember prepared me for that and just left me feeling like it went completely against the premise of the fic.
This isn't a Derec though, because I can see the potential for others to love it to death, and it's very likely my lack of awareness of the setting contributed to my reception of it. Also, because I possess restraint.
I am going to derec Moratorium, though. I get that children like that could theoretically exist, but Disbelief cannot be sufficiently Suspended here. The premise is female Harry Potter decides that being a good kid won't pay off, but the execution is female child with savant-level intellect and no drawbacks with only social exposure to an abusive foster family begins immediately manipulating everyone around her and socially outplaying adults on day 1 of being away from said abusive foster family and on day 1 of brand new magic-is-real school.
There's being clever, and then there's this. Tom Riddle was notable for being a scarily intelligent kid and being a social powerhouse once he came into his own, but it took time for him to adjust in a transition from a really terrible life in an orphanage to a new and unknown-to-him society of many wonders where his closest peers revile him.
I'll probably still read it, but a great story, let alone a best story, this does not make.
Recs for both Whom the Princesses Would Destroy (need only peripheral knowledge of the setting to enjoy since the setting doesn't deal with political crises management) and #standbylegion.
Suddenly!Akira
This isn't a Derec though, because I can see the potential for others to love it to death, and it's very likely my lack of awareness of the setting contributed to my reception of it. Also, because I possess restraint.
I am going to derec Moratorium, though. I get that children like that could theoretically exist, but Disbelief cannot be sufficiently Suspended here. The premise is female Harry Potter decides that being a good kid won't pay off, but the execution is female child with savant-level intellect and no drawbacks with only social exposure to an abusive foster family begins immediately manipulating everyone around her and socially outplaying adults on day 1 of being away from said abusive foster family and on day 1 of brand new magic-is-real school.
There's being clever, and then there's this. Tom Riddle was notable for being a scarily intelligent kid and being a social powerhouse once he came into his own, but it took time for him to adjust in a transition from a really terrible life in an orphanage to a new and unknown-to-him society of many wonders where his closest peers revile him.
I'll probably still read it, but a great story, let alone a best story, this does not make.
Recs for both Whom the Princesses Would Destroy (need only peripheral knowledge of the setting to enjoy since the setting doesn't deal with political crises management) and #standbylegion.
The heck are you talking about?
If you're talking about
the creepy monster baby that formed from Kiyama's IPD network
- Location
- The Beach
What spacemonkey37 said, it's straight from the Railgun manga and the show:
It's called an AIM Burst
I understand what you mean though when you say it comes out of left field. It was the same way in the novels/manga/show and was meant for foreshadowing that there was more going on in the background (because it does become relevant in later arcs). In Memoriam corresponds to those beginning arcs.
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- Tennessee
That is what I was talking about, yes.
Since it's canon I decided to check a wiki and the underlying reasoning is... not very satisfying for me, but it's apparently not a one-off thing either. I guess I can see why the author kept it in.
Shockz
You might see it coming...but it'll be too late.
- Location
- At least a mile high
- Pronouns
- no
...well, I'm certainly not going to use "but that was in canon" as a defense, not after all the time I've spent making angry pterodactyl screeches at people using that exact reasoning to criticize my writing, and not when I had accessibility to non-ToAru-fans as a specific goal. All I can say is that it was intended to come off as just as weird and disturbing and outside-context to the characters as it is to an (unsuspecting) reader, and that it will hopefully make more sense once some of the setting mechanics get explained in more detail. Thank you for the critique!
PhantomFractions
I can (not) type fast enough
- Location
- Australia
Levi's by Ketita is one of the best damn fics I've ever read.
Short, sharp, and to the point - nothing is in this oneshot that does not need to be in it. The events are driven by the P.O.V. character's neuroses and everything that follows feels natural and unforced (which can be a rarity at times in comedic fics). No spelling or grammar mistakes that I can see and written in a style of voice (for lack of a better word) that I quite enjoy.
I come back and re-read this every so often and despite knowing exactly how it goes it still gets a laugh out of me every single time. Perfect from start to finish.
Short, sharp, and to the point - nothing is in this oneshot that does not need to be in it. The events are driven by the P.O.V. character's neuroses and everything that follows feels natural and unforced (which can be a rarity at times in comedic fics). No spelling or grammar mistakes that I can see and written in a style of voice (for lack of a better word) that I quite enjoy.
I come back and re-read this every so often and despite knowing exactly how it goes it still gets a laugh out of me every single time. Perfect from start to finish.
- Location
- Tennessee
At this point, it's more of a critique of canon than anything.
If there is something I can offer, then it's that, after looking back, the reaction to the flying psychic baby seems... kinda like they accept it too fast, I guess?
Not going to go for spoilers here because it turns out its canon, but the rough sequence of events are:
Weird flying baby appears
Railgun: Woah, creepy baby, why is it there?
Kuroko: I dunno
Railgun: How do we handle it?
Kuroko: I don't think anyone knows the answer to that question
Psychic baby screams
Railgun: Ouch, how do we fight it?
Kuroko: I think it's a construct made of IPD
Railgun: Let's get Touma!
This goes completely against my expectations, which would be something along the lines of "I'm sorry, but what even the fuck?" "I think it's made of IPD." "Yeah, that sounds like bullshit because nothing I know about IPD makes that make sense, but you know what? Sure, whatever, how do we kill the terrifying psychic monster fetus?"
Maybe Misaka and Kuroko just aren't the best characters to align with what my expectations would be. My impression of Misaka is that she's someone that can roll with the punches, and she keeps her eye on the goal. Kuroko is a professional that only lapses into being non-professional when the situation allows for it. So, from a characterization perspective, it's written well enough, but from my perspective as a reader I'm still left going "but what???"
I don't know if maybe some dialogue about IPD or a theorized resonance or something else between other characters earlier in the story would have prepped me as a reader better, so when this moment comes I'm like "Oh shit, that makes sense as a thing that can happen in this universe." Maybe that was there and I missed it because I thought it was unimportant worldbuilding, not sure.
I don't know how canon handled setting up readers' expectations (or if it even handles it at all). A lot of this is on me for not knowing the source material, but there might be improvements to be made by doing a better job of setting expectations for people who aren't familiar with the stations of canon.
Then again I may not be a member of the target audience, I may have missed something, and/or I'm just some shmuck on the Internet and there's no reason to cater to my issues when everyone else seems to love it just fine (I love it, too, but that last section is just so bizarre for me, even if it's canon).
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- my house
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/6892672/1/Haigeki
A really interesting take on the usual fuku fic, the plot is interesting, magic system fun and characterization solid.
Throwing my rec behind best night ever and In Memorium as wrll
A really interesting take on the usual fuku fic, the plot is interesting, magic system fun and characterization solid.
Throwing my rec behind best night ever and In Memorium as wrll
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RoboRenee
Trans of gender
- Location
- FFXIV, probably
- Pronouns
- She/Her
The characterization is consistent internally but really has little in common with source material (a common Ranma problem, I admit). Tone is really far gone as well, and 'fun' is certainly not a word I'd associate with any of the events in the story. Derec.
Chloe Sullivan
Subdefective
- Location
- 1630 Revello Drive, Sunnydale CA
The ranma fandom could get kinda toxic in the day. *nods*
Then again it was also a refuge for people who were transgender.
Oh, i also derec by the way. This is from the guy who did 7 village stomp, and a quick glance tells me he's not gotten any better.
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I don't expect it to pass muster, given its polarizing nature, but I'll second this nomination.