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It's Teeny, Tiny Fandom Week here at Epic Recs. And by Teeny, Tiny Fandom Week, we don't mean ER's usual definition of small fandom (which still includes The X-Files) or even the world's definition of small fandom (which includes Jeeves and Wooster), we mean *really* tiny fandoms. Ones where you can count the number of epic stories on one hand (or, in some cases, on one finger). Whee!
Before we get to the reccing, there's something I've been meaning to do for a while. First, I should explain that I have recently discovered that fanfiction.net is not completely awful. Yes, its interface sucks, and it's a memory hog, and its advertising is completely obnoxious, and the entire manga/anime section is an exercise in dashing raised expectations, but there *is* some good fic there, if you're just willing to look.
Fortunately for everyone, Raimond has managed to take care of most of the above problems with her fantastic program, Fanfiction Downloader. Just cut and paste the URL for the first chapter of the story you want to read and the program downloads all chapters of the fic and saves them as a plain HTML file with nothing but the story text. Simply brilliant. (Note, there are other sites supported aside from ff.net, but sadly their interfaces are so freaking bad I can't even figure out which stories I want to read on those archives, *sob*).
Why am I bringing this up now? I'll be reccing some fic from ff.net over the next few months and as some are very long, I'm not going to link to each chapter. Instead, I'll post the main URL to the story and note that it's located on ff.net. After that, it's up to you as to how you want to read it.
Now, on to the reccing!
Things to keep in mind:
-Recced stories can be any length, any fandom, and any pairing, as long as they fit the theme
-You don't need to write a review (unless you want to). All that you need to include are title, author, and link to the story (all parts if there are more than one).
That said, have at it!
Today's Topic: Teeny, Tiny Fandoms
Previous Topics:
Genres:
-Marriage of Convenience
-Harleqin AUs
-Homeless!fic
-Humor
-Fluff
-Crack!fic
-Holiday!fic
-Silly!fic
-Attempted Suicide
-Horror
-Amnesia
-Hurt/Comfort
Fandoms:
-Long Due South AUs
-Crime Procedurals (anyone posting Bones (Boothe/Bones) or Monk (Stottlemeyer/Disher) fic gets a rec in any fandom of their choice, even if I have to acquaint myself with the fandom first)
-Due South fic (F/V would be a bonus, as I haven't read any before)
-The Sentinel
-Highlander
-Smallville
-Monster Harry Potter Epics
-Vids
-Original Fiction
-Small Fandoms
Pairings:
-Epic McShep
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The problem is, of course, finding the good fics, especially in fandoms like HP where there's a lot of kids writing. I find that the only ways to search the site really are the C2s or favourites lists of people you've read & enjoyed stories from. Mostly, though, I just follow recs from off-site.
Anyway, I tend to get a bit enthusiastic when defending ff.net, so to the point:
Tiny fandom recs
I think I've given you the link to this before, but for the sake of anyone else reading the thread:
Air Force One: Give a Mouse a Cookie (http://users.frii.com/wanderer/fanfic/mouse.html) by Taliesin
I rather enjoyed it, even if I found the pairing rather unlikely.
Others:
The Princess Diaries: If You Want a Place in the History Books (http://tellitslant.livejournal.com/808966.html) by Kathryne
The Terminator: The Unwritten Future (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/17/theunwritten.html) by Pouncer
Wonderfalls: Jesus Complex (http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/46/jesuscomplex.html) by trascendenza
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Galactic Miscellany (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/2/thegalactic.html) by Rheanna
I'm not really sure *how* big this fandom is as I haven't really looked:
Joan of Arcadia: Goodnight, Moon (http://www.thechicagoloop.net/yahtzee/Otherfic/JoAGoodnightMoon.htm) by Yahtzee
Also, if crossovers where one fandom is tiny are included:
Bridget Jones' Diary x Alias:
Jack Bristow at the Edge of Reason (http://www.thechicagoloop.net/yahtzee/aliasfic/TheEdgeOfReason.htm) by Yahtzee
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy x Firefly: An Accurate Mind (http://www.altogetherelsewhere.net/multiverse/2007/anaccuratemind.html) by Mara Greengrass
Edited 2008-06-16 04:54 pm (UTC)
And, wow! Thanks for the recs!
You don't like email notifications etc?? Or do you mean the text thing? Personally, since I generally read online and have a big monitor, some archives can be really difficult for me to read, so one like ff.net with simple black on white works wonderfully for me.
Searching *at* ff.net for fics from big fandoms is pretty difficult, unless, like I said, you've identified someone you like who's got a favourites list or C2 which has the type of fics you enjoy on it.
You can also set up really specific RSS feeds on ff.net - not just the individual fandom, but the characters, fic lengths, etc too, which can be really useful for seeing things on your LJ friends page!
However, trust me, there are some brilliant fics there from big fandoms. Harry Potter especially has loads of great fics there. There does tend to be less slash there than elsewhere, probably due to the fact that so much slash is adults-only which is forbidden there, but there is *some* good slash on there, and lots of gen and het. I think I probably read more fics there than anywhere other than LJ, really.
Black on white is fine, but I prefer serifed fonts for longer stories. (Sp? I'm running on two hours of sleep here:)
What I do like about ff.net is that you can reduce search results (though that really is only useful for the smaller fandoms). Still, I much, much prefer Automated Archive's interface (and smaller fandoms do tend to have fewer ads, which I really appreciate).
I've heard there's good HP fic at ff.net, but I haven't figured out a good way to pick the wheat from the chaff. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
I *love* WIPs. I really like being able to make fics last a long time, and it's great when I see an email (or entry on my friends list) which lets me know there's a new chapter to read!
Of course I don't generally start reading WIPs that just have a chapter or two, unless they're written by an author I already love & know will update it, but I'm not really one to fret about whether a fic will be completed... I'll even read clearly abandoned fics if they're good enough.
HP fandom is, in my experience, the biggest fandom on the 'net. I've been a part of it for years, and am literally still constantly finding out there's sections of it I've never heard about before. It's massive, and so, with any archive (not just ff.net) I'd suggest that simply browsing it is a bad idea. There's simply too much to look through. Even the C2s and favourites lists tend to be too big to really work with!
Therefore, look for off-site recs, thematic lists, ficsearch comms, all that type of thing, and you'll find it far easier!
You can check out my own Harry Potter bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/Lanta/harry_potter). There's a *lot* of ff.net fics there.
I'll also do a quick pimp for my HP List of Lists (http://partial-eclipse.net/lists/) website, which tends to be the easiest way to find your way to the theme/pairing/character you want to read about.
I'm such a fast reader that I've actually gone through a lot of the major HP archives and read most of what they have. If a site allows for single page downloads (which a lot of the HP sites do, thank goodness), allows for searches for word count, and includes warnings in the search results, I've probably already cleaned it out:)
Ooo, recs! Thank you:)
Well, in that case be aware that some of the fics I've bookmarked aren't completed!
I suppose it's easier for you if you only read fics over a certain word length - greatly reduces the amount of fics you get in any searches! I still bet that there are a *lot* of HP archives you haven't found, though ;)
Enjoy reading the fics... let me know if you find anything you like!
I'm currently reading a HP fic that I am really loving, and consequently am planning to rec all over the place. Remembering that you asked for HP fics on ff.net, I thought I'd mention it here.
It is canon pairings, so het, which I don't know if you read. It's very plot-focused though, so if you can enjoy the books despite the pairings you can probably enjoy this story *shrug*. Up to you, but is well-written and very in-character.
It's epic - there's 276,125 words, and it seems the author has already begun posting a sequel! I'm only up to chapter 10 but they're long chapters, I've been reading for ages.
Backward With Purpose (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4101650/1/Backward_With_Purpose) by AlianneOfTortall
AU. Harry, Ron, and Ginny send themselves back in time to avoid the destruction of everything they hold dear, and the deaths of everyone they love.
How prominent is Ginny in the story? I'm not a fan of stories that bash Ginny, but I kind of prefer to avoid her all together, if I can help it.
That said, if you have any more HP recs, I'm all ears -- I've already gone through and downloaded every completed fic over 60,000 words that a) features Harry and Snape and b) had grammatically correct descriptions, but that really isn't the most practical way of finding fic. For HP, I generally read Draco/Harry and Snape/Harry, though I once read a Snape/Lockhart story and kind of liked it (I *know*) -- I've discovered that I kind of life fics that take a conceited ass and digs deep enough to find something worth writing about (I have a couple of Gaston-based fics to rec from Disney's Beauty and the Beast for this very reason:)
(Though, speaking of ff.net, even as you posted this I was going through all of my forty or so fandoms to see if anything had been completed recently. *sigh* I love fandom:)
Thanks!
Mmm... well, she's one of the three who goes back in time so she's naturally in it quite a bit (especially once the story reaches Harry's second year), but the main character is definitely Harry. She's well characterised: most portrayals of Ginny I've read are either Mary-Sues or bash her, and neither's the case here.
I think I've already given you the link to my bookmarks, with all my HP recs on there. Although I am currently working my way through a load of HP fics I recently found recs for, so my bookmarks are getting updated pretty regularly at the moment.
I don't read much H/D: I'm not a fan of Draco and only read a story with him in if it's a really interesting plot. I love Snape/Harry though, and I'm also fond of rare pairings - anything with Luna in, for instance :)
Ooo, updated bookmarks. That sounds promising:)
Thanks!
You'd like Ginny in this story ;) Of course the problem is that our views are affected by what we've read elsewhere, aren't they? I find that all the time.
IMO the major problem with Ginny is that in canon she's mostly seen through Harry's POV - firstly as a timid fangirl and best-friend's-sister, and later as a love interest and All Around Perfect Woman. He's a teenager, he's biased! But I sometimes enjoy reading fics that try to give her proper depth.
Yes, updated, and likely to be more so as I read through this stack of recs :)
Enjoy your reading:)
That's what I meant by the "seen through Harry's POV" thing ;) She wasn't all that well developed, and I think it is due to the POV. At first Harry barely notices her, then he gets infatuated with her; neither leads to giving us an unbiased perspective!
I think she can be an interesting character though. I mean she's got a lot of her brothers' traits in her, and she's got interesting backstory (especially the Chamber of Secrets).
Heh. And you don't even want to know what I think of the Weasley's as a whole (especially the twins, *shudder*). I'll just say that JKR appears to have a very 'boys will be boys' attitude while my thinking is more along the lines of 'boys will turn into entitled wife-beaters/criminals/sociopaths if you don't teach them that hurting people *is not funny*'.
Okay, clearly I should stop now:)
It's my second-favourite HP book ;) The first being Prisoner of Azkaban.
But I definitely have issues with books 4, 5 and 6. Especially book 5.
BTW while I think of it: if a fic in my bookmarks are tagged as both gen *and* het/slash, then it means that there's just a very mild, background pairing.
BTW I completely agree with you about AFF.net. I find it completely unusable. The search engine is rubbish, there's masses of badly-written fic (which doesn't even have ff.net's excuse of lots of kids writing since it's supposedly adults-only) and as far as I'm aware there isn't even a way of getting notified when a story you like is updated...
BTW, if you enable Adblocker (under Extras on FF.net's main page), you won't see ads on the site. You have to re-enable it every 2 or 3 days (I forget which), but it's worth it to browse ad-free.
Resurrection, Reconstruction, and Redemption (and its sequels Readjustment and Hostages to Fortune) by
I remember you have issues with death fics, and while I wouldn't classify this story as such, it does start with Steve dead because Marvel killed him off during Civil War. He's resurrected right in the beginning of Chapter 1, but Tony was left pretty broken by his death, so. I don't know how much you want to read about the aftermath of a character's death, even if he's dead in the story for less than 2000 words.
The only other epic Steve/Tony is The Roughest Day (It's about 44k words.), also by
I have absolutely no issue with character death if the character actually ends up being alive, so the first sounds very promising. And angst and cuddles are my favorite kinds of fic:)
Thanks for the recs!
Thanks!
Honestly though, after a few thousand fics, the sex scenes do tend to blend together...
as for little fandoms - here're A Strange Adventure with Mrs. Nakamura the Safety Consultant (http://community.livejournal.com/femgenficathon/50425.html?view=985081#t985081), incredibly good spirited away fic.
Also, 85 chapters of Snapish goodness? Is the story finished? If so, can I have a link?
Thanks for the rec!
(I did read 'Midnight on Weasley Watch', author's other story, and it was pretty much okay, so this one is probably safe as well).
Thanks again:)
also, there're full metal panic recs, (http://egelantier.livejournal.com/12347.html?nc=5) mushishi recs (http://egelantier.livejournal.com/22749.html) and latest yuletide recs (http://egelantier.livejournal.com/26779.html?nc=4) for you )
Thanks:)
Title: Shout! (http://community.livejournal.com/cognizably/858.html)
Author:
Pairing: Apollo Justice/Klavier Gavin
Rating: G
Word count: 1,473
Summary: You know you make me wanna...
Fandom: The Breakfast Club
Title: A Lobotomy and Some Tights (http://bifictionalbedlam.slashcity.net/shrift/lobotomy.html)
Author:
Pairing: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 20k
Summary: Of stalking by skinny math geeks, broken ceramic elephants, and Bender's specialty bongs.
Fandom: The Breakfast Club
Title: Higher Education (http://trickster.org/res/higher.html)
Author:
Pairing: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 82K
Summary: John Bender gets a life.
Sequel:
Title: Bare (http://trickster.org/res/bare.html)
Author:
Pairing: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 866
Summary: John lives for danger. A smutlet in the Higher Education universe.
Fandom: The Breakfast Club
Title: Teenage Wildlife (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/24/teenagewildlife.html)
Author:
Pairing: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Rating: R
Word Count: 1,800
Summary: Late-night searching, soul and otherwise.
Fandom: Hancock
Title: Flight (http://trickster.org/res/flight.html)
Author:
Pairing: John Hancock/Ray Embrey
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 1,765
Summary: You wanna know why superheroes don't have friends, Ray?
Fandom: The Matador
Title: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Wright (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/38/beingfor.html)
Author: Dorinda
Pairing: Danny Wright/Julian Noble
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 18,400
Summary: What happened during the rest of that night in Mexico? Oh, you know.drinking, shooting, fleeing, stealing, lying, sexing, smoking.business as usual.
Fandom: Labyrinth
Title: A Forfeit of Dreams (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/429100/1/) (Epilogue (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1516813/1/A_Forfeit_of_Dreams_Epilogue))
Author:
Pairing: Jareth/Sarah Williams
Rating: R
Word Count: 130,848 (Epilogue: 19,248 WDMC: 64,044)
Summary: If you had a second chance, would you take it? If you had a choice, would you do the right thing? And if you had a dream... what would you give to make it come true?
Reader's Notes: Online fans consider this to be the unofficial sequel to the movie and there is little wonder as to why. It's like she took the world created in the movie and showed you the other half that was hidden in the shadows. I suspect that What Dreams Must Come (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1535882/1/What_Dreams_Must_Come) (the sequel) will flip that world over once more to expose it's underbelly... if the story is ever continued.
Title: Longshot Bet (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/23/longshotbet.html)
Author:
Pairing: Haruko/Naota, Naoto/Ninamori
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 5,400
Summary: When a Vespa falls out of the sky, does it make a sound?
Thanks again!