I think Fanlore has good documentation for those who didn't live through all of her shenanigans: [link]
Book: Afraid I might be needing a preacher. Mal: That's good. You lie there and be ironical.
'Safe'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
shrift - Feb 13, 2016 6:01:31 pm PST #9807 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
SailAweigh - Feb 22, 2016 12:49:46 pm PST #9808 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
A Small War. They've chased each other across battlefields, across borders, across decades. Peggy/Dottie (Agent Carter). Hawt.
Sophia Brooks - Feb 23, 2016 6:01:34 pm PST #9809 of 10434
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Which is more mind-blowing- An AU Crossover Fic of Rainbow Rowell's Carry On and Harry Potter, or one of Carry On and Cassandra Clare? The first is like Inception and the second makes me sad.
Juliebird - Feb 29, 2016 3:30:46 pm PST #9810 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
So there's this section, “Surrounding the building was a perfectly-manicured lawn punctuated trees and tastefully-cut bushes surrounding its perimeter”,
Which, this is petty, but, to whose taste? There's formal, there's naturalistic, but what is a tastefully hedged shrub? Who's taste? What year? /gardener disassociation.
Consuela - Mar 13, 2016 2:01:52 pm PDT #9811 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So LTLJ is posting a Leverage/Stargate crossover, set in the Retrograde universe. Is those words mean anything to you, you will squeak with as much happiness as I just did.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2016 2:25:04 pm PDT #9812 of 10434
brillig
Retrograde is back ????
Typo Boy - Mar 13, 2016 10:30:42 pm PDT #9813 of 10434
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
On a lighter note - a Beatrice-centric Divine comedy fan fiction. (A light X-over with AS You Like It. Dante's Beatrice is also the Beatrice from "As You Like It" and makes journey's through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise comparable to Dante's . This passage from her journey through hell is one of the best in the Fic:
On that farther shore, they set off through a cemetery full of burning crypts. People kept popping out of them and arguing with each other over heresies. Several times Penthesilea held Beatrice back from getting involved. Penthesilea said, "The Trojan war was over love and honour and wealth, and it lasted over ten years."Beatrice gripped her hands and her lips and didn't argue with all the people who were wrong.
Dana - Apr 01, 2016 12:48:39 pm PDT #9814 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
You know, sometimes if you're very good, and very patient, and wait a good ten years after the source canon ends, astolat will come along and start writing in a fandom you enjoy. (Harry/Draco, at the moment.)
chrismg - Apr 01, 2016 1:20:07 pm PDT #9815 of 10434
"...and then Legolas and the Hulk destroy the entire Greek army." - Penny Arcade
Dana, I've been enjoying those too, although they're...trope-y, I guess...enough that I'd wondered if they were older fics reposted to AO3. I like them a lot for the skill and the worldbuilding, even though I don't ship canon!Harry/canon!Draco. Reading the one with the gate to the land of the dead, I was half convinced Harry would get through and find Hermione had taken over.
Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 01, 2016 3:38:19 pm PDT #9816 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't think shipping the pairing is needed to get into her fics. I'm sure not a Wincest fan, but found her SPN stories very enjoyable regardless.
She did lose me for a while with the underage American Idol RPF though. shudder