Fanfic Recommendations Thread

AndrewJTalon

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From HP, I'd rec Victoria Potter by Taure, a relatively recent fic. He does one of the best jobs I've seen of capturing the spirit of the setting, where the magical world actually feels... magical.
Magically talented, Slytherin fem!Harry. Years 1-3 of Victoria Potter's adventures at Hogwarts, with a strong focus on magic, friendship, and boarding school life. Mostly canonical world but avoids rehash of canon plotlines. No bashing, no kid politicians, no 11-year-old romances. First Year complete as of chapter 12.

I'll also rec Walk on the Moon, by SixPerfections. It's also on FF.net. It manages to do the near-impossible, by being a good Naruto SI fic. Here's the FF.net summary:
A girl reborn into the world of ninja wants to escape the cycle of violence. Power is the only thing that brings freedom in the ninja world and she will have freedom... at any cost. However breaking the bonds she forms won't be as simple as she imagines. AU SI.

SixPerfections would also be a great addition to our CRW section, if anyone happens to know her. She ended up on QQ due to the mods on SB and SV deciding that it would be easier to ban her fic than clean up the creepy comments one particular story arc was attracting.
 

PsihoKekec

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Is TTS considered fanfiction? In short, Emperor can communicate again. He is not amused.


BattleTech:
Davion & Davion (Deceased) - John Davion gets haunted by ghost of his descendant (and magnificent bastard) Hanse Davion. Together they try to save the Star League and prevent the Succession Wars. I linked the last page of the thread because it has links to PDFs of the story. SB version gave birth to Bushido magic hands meme.

Missadventures of Darius Davion 1,2,3 4- Flashman style stories set from 3.SW to to the end of preClan era

This was easier on the tabletop - SI fic, a guy gets transported to 3025 New Avalon, when NAIS HPG experiment goes wrong

Clover Spear - Hanse Davion survives heart attack and KSD gets electroshock treatment early enough. Clans are thus in trouble, but CC and WoB seize the opportunity. Also posted here.

Federated Suns reborn - Jackson Davion uses his brain and his spine when KSD tries to take over the FS and throws her in brig, until Victor returns. A FS wank, but still readable.

3049: Disaster strikes - Clan invasion finds an Inner Sphere which is much harder nut to crack

Warhammer:
All guardsmen party - WH40K RPG adventures of guardsmen who were conscripted into Inquisiton. Hillarity and mayhem aplenty

Robutian Heresy - an alternate universe where traitor legions remained loyal and vice versa. Great writing and some excellent art.

Horus wins - Horus kills the Emperor, but loyalists are far from finished. On hiatus right now as author focuses Federated Suns reborn

Alternate History:
The consequence of an errant shell - lucky hit on Togo's flagship during battle of the Yellow sea and Nicky dying early, dramatically change Russian history. Story only thread.

Rudolf will reign - ROB replaces crown prince of Austro Hungary and his wife with two totally not random people

The Goering slaying - Noir story set in alternate history

Random:
Cobra Commander dialogues - Cobra Commander in Atlas Shrugged. He is disgusted.

The last angel - 2000 years after unknow cataclysm took their homeworld the broken remnants of humanity are part of an interstellar empire, their history and culture gone. Crew of training cruiser finds a massive derilict starship and begins exploring it.

All the little lost boys and girls - a crew of mercenaries and researchers finds secret station, long thought to be a myth. But some secrets are better left undiscovered. Same author as The last angel.
 

AndrewJTalon

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Life Starts at Sixteen

By: Another Reader

Twelve year olds do not make good state agents, let alone assassins. Follow a more mature Naruto and gang as they deal with the harsh reality of what being a ninja means. Well, for given values of maturity, Naruto is involved after all.


There are a lot of Naruto fics that try to rewrite things to be a bit more serious. The difference is, they weren't this well written or considered. Definitely recommended.
 
Dreaming of Sunshine by Silver Queen

Life as a ninja. It starts with confusion and terror and doesn't get any better from there. OC Self-insert. No pairings.

Amazingly well done Naruto OC SI. With plenty of recursive fanfiction written about it.


Black Sky by Umei no Mai

When you're a Black, you're a Black and nobody gets to hold all the cards except you. Not a Dark Lord with a grudge, not a Headmaster with a prophecy and certainly not the world's most influential Mafia Family... Dorea is as much a Black as a Potter and she is not about to let anybody walk over her! A Fem!Harry story. Slow Build.

First half is a very different female Harry Potter. Where it does a lot.
Then is crosses over with Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Where it really gets going.
You do not need to know anything about either series. It is well explained.


Hear the Silence by EmptySurface

"When did you start to remember?" He asked next, relaxing further in his seat, which Kyo found calming.
Kyo wakes up in a strange place, not sure what year it is or what is going on or if anything she remembers is actually reliable. So she just does what she's always done; live her life. It soon enough becomes more about survival than anything else.
In which another lease on life is a bit more complicated than Kyo had at first anticipated.

An OC SI who is amazing. Be ready to cry at very well written emotional story arcs.

Worm by Wildbow

Girl gets superpowers in a violent and depressing world.

Not a fanfiction. Just the inspiration to Hundreds of fanfictions. Many of them good or great.
 

Big Steve

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Tomyris' "Swords of the Motherworld" is a brilliant epic crossing Star Wars with Mass effect, and I'm happy it's being re-posted here. It starts pre-Mass Effect 2 with a squadron of Imperial ships, post-Endor (I believe, or just pre-Endor), getting stranded in the ME Milky Way, and it only gets better from there.

Also, it has Tali a lot, and Tali's always great!:D
 

CarlManvers2019

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Random:
Cobra Commander dialogues - Cobra Commander in Atlas Shrugged. He is disgusted.

So wait, are the “Looters” still a bunch of crazy champagne socialists that are both businessmen and politicians and the rest of the planet went communist? Or are they actually really reasonable people who aren’t making economic policies with accidental domino effects

Worm by Wildbow

Girl gets superpowers in a violent and depressing world.

Not a fanfiction. Just the inspiration to Hundreds of fanfictions. Many of them good or great.

Speaking of Worm, here’s my rec


Honestly, I like Eidolon as a Worm Fanfic MC due to his strange mix of “I really really really want to be a hero and actually be useful” and the whole “I am part of an organization that’s done horrible shit and let horrible shit occur for the greater good or long run” followed up with possible redemption

In this fic David/Eidolon finds himself in Dresden Files where he saves Amanda Carpenter from the Fomor and eventually ends up murdering more Fomor before deciding, with encouragement from The Carpenters+Uriel, to be a hero again

Guy has a LOT of angst, to do with his past before Cauldron and what he found out to do with the Endbringers, it’s this guilt alongside his desire to be a hero that makes him try being even more moral than before and less tolerant of “Necessary evils of Organised Crime”

Amanda Carpenter gets a crush on David/Eidolon, a guy who is pretty much nearly maybe 28-30 years her senior. He’s older than Charity by two years.

Because the girls of that family, starting with Charity and Molly, fall for their rescuers

David is squicked the fuck out and does NOT reciprocate one bit.

Honestly. is it wrong that I want to see him shatter her hopes of a crush just as he kept telling her to stop trying to join the PRT?
 

AndrewJTalon

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Meet the Skywalkers

By: frodogenic

Set in the same AU as Lord Vader's Limpet and Driving Lord Vader. Newly returned from the Unknown Regions with Darth Vader, Admiral Piett doesn't expect much of a welcome from the New Republic. And not in a million lifetimes would he have predicted that their very first guest would be Luke Skywalker. After all, Vader is still his mortal enemy...right?


The most delightful Star Wars AU I've ever read.
 

CarlManvers2019

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Basic Summary: The Commonwealth of Man are manipulating/sponsoring/uplifting the nations of the Planetos by choosing the young leaders they decide will be best for taking over the Planetos before working with the Commonwealth. They're not outright conquering it to attract attention from other factions.

Also, let's just say their interference is changing things for the better, more-or-less. Robb Stark gets new forces/vassals who are in a way also from Northern Westeros.
 

AndrewJTalon

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How to Win Friends, Influence People

By: sparrowette

And Start Your Very Own Secret Ninja Organization. Three months into Naruto's training trip Jiraiya must leave him behind to go to check on a situation in Iwa, leaving Naruto to his own devices. Naruto thinks everything he did makes perfect sense, Kiri thinks he is a cult leader and Tsunade thinks she doesn't get paid enough to deal with this. 100 drabbles format.


Easily among my favorite fanfics ever, let alone Naruto fics.
 
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Steve's nUF that he is posting here now is of course, an excellent execution of a very improbably conceit. I got hooked rather quickly, so give it a read!
 

CarlManvers2019

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A snip of a Worm/ToAru Fusion, where Kamijou Touma against all odds has fought and killed the first two Endbringers in-spite of outside of a power-nullifying arm was only human(if very durable)and now goes off to hit the Simurgh

A being capable of seeing the past and future, copying the Tinker-Powersets of other Parahumans and Macrotelekinesis against



Seems like rather unfair odds
 

CarlManvers2019

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Big Steve

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Y'know, I could've moved it...

Also, would this thread work as well for simply stating fanfics you've read that are your favorites, or should "favorite fanfic" threads be separate from rec threads?
 

wowow2264

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I really enjoyed I've always wanted to own the galaxy. and its continuation
May The Invisible Hand Be With You both are rather good and the combined length is what I consider a decently long story. The PC is described by DR. Snark as "Our PC is someone who trolls everyone and has stolen planets." DR. Snark is the latest writer who sadly last updated back in late February but told everyone via a friend 2 months ago that the next update will happen "soon" I think its going to be a while (at least an another month) but now is a great time to read and catch up to what happened. What basically happens is we start as a someone just starting a gang using CK2 mechanics and become a galaxy spanning humanitarian operation and PMC.
 

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