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pencilofawesomeness · 3 years

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Fics I Absolutely Adore and Would Recommend to Anyone

I’ve been meaning to do this for a long, long time, because I love reading fanworks and they deserve a lot of love and I love sharing things that I love.

Obviously this isn’t everything, and if it’s not on this list that doesn’t mean I don’t love it, it just means I forgot at this moment. I will be adding to the list and I remember things or come across it again. (Trying to sort through my bookmarks and subscriptions is like trying to catch a fish bare-handed.) I’m also gonna shy away from the one-shots, even though I adore fun one-shots, just for the sake of organization. The list would be super long otherwise, and those are best sorted by fandom. Here... Here are just some brilliant works I want to rant about.

Disclaimer: I say “recommend” because I would recommend these works, any time any place, but do keep in mind the story’s rating and tags and stuff. Not everything is kid-friendly.

There is absolutely no hierarchy to the list below. They are added as I add.

Fairy Dance of Death

by Catsy ( @fairydanceofdeath )

Fandom: Sword Art Online Word Count: 660,282 Status: ongoing

「AU reboot of the entire SAO storyline, beginning from the premise that Kayaba Akihiko was obsessed with magic and Norse Mythology rather than swords and pure melee. As a result, he created the Death Game of Alfheim Online rather than the floating castle of Aincrad—a world in which player-killing is not a crime, and the nine player races are in competition with each other to reach the top of the World Tree. Multi-POV epic following the stories of multiple canon characters throughout the game.」

If Catsy wrote the SAO light novels and anime, SAO would be among the legendary series. Fairy Dance of Death has this amazingly simple premise of making Alfheim Online, the video game from the original series’ less-than-stellar second part, the game that the main cast becomes trapped in. However, it’s so much more. They took the characters and made them characters, and everyone gets ample spotlight—even background characters that normally wouldn’t receive a second thought. It’s masterful work, and to boot, there is a lovely frame of in-game mystery and player conflict. The organization is phenomenal and I aspire to world-build the way they did. Not to mention that stakes are so much higher and this series has ripped my heart to shreds more than once.

It has also brought me great joy, and even when I was in the dumps and didn’t want to read anything, a FDOD update made me pick up my phone and read when I otherwise wouldn’t have. It has a really special place in my heart. It updates once in a blue moon, but that’s okay.

Even if you have never seen a single piece of Sword Art Online, Fairy Dance of Death is still a great read. In fact, it’s the Better Version of SAO, if we’re all being honest, so I would especially recommend it if you hadn’t seen the original. Or if you have. The characters are given so much love and detail, to the point where Fairy Dance of Death’s characterizations are More Canon to me than Kawahara Reki’s work. It is just a beautiful piece of fiction, and it makes you question the depravity of man on levels that SAO shied away from.

Poisoned Dreams

by StrangeDiamond

Fandom: Genshin Impact Word Count: 82,852 Status: Complete, with a complete sequel and more to come

「 Every night now, Diluc dreams of death. Usually Kaeya's. In between these nightmares his life is falling apart. It doesn't take Kaeya long to realize that this is something much more insidious than simple bad dreams. His brother's life and sanity are on the line and there is nothing Kaeya won't do to save him. Bonus chapter added.」

In a growing fandom from a new game, StrangeDiamond swooped in and characterized these bad boys so well I think it’s canon. It really breathes life into the video game lore, and it’s an A+ depiction of awkward sibling re-bonding post-Terrible-Happenings. Poisoned Dreams can be read alone with a basic understanding of Genshin storybuilding, but StrangeDiamond has an entire group of fics and oneshots set in the same headcanon, and they integrate them really well and subtly together. Not to mention that the narrative style is really clever with making you question what is real and what is dream (a big point in this story) and the inner voices of the point-of-view characters are very compelling.

One Word to Change the World

by AgentMalkere

Fandom: Fairy Tail Collective Word Count: 43,988 (30 parts) Status: probably never coming back

「 In just one universe, Ultear called out to her mother instead of turning away and the fate of Fairy Tail and the world was irrevocably altered. These are glimpses of a world where a single word made all the difference.

In other words, welcome to the Butterfly Effect - Fairy Tail style. 」

It’s a really cute canon-divergent, and while the series makes no attempt to re-write Fairy Tail, it addresses the major events and just snippets in between. It does a good job at giving the vast cast ample spotlight, but it’s also an easy read. It’s special to me because it was the series that made me really pay attention to Bickslow in particular, and I respect that.

Vigilantis Pretium Libertatis

by aradian_nights

Fandom: Attack on Titan Word Count: 399,226 Status: Complete

「 Five years ago, an accident freed Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackerman, and Armin Arlelt from an experiment that forced the most extraordinary powers onto them. After five years of separation, of being raised apart to be heroes by a set of three very different adults, they meet again. As they uncover the truth behind their captivity they realize being free and being heroes are sadly nothing but an illusion. 」

This wrecked me.

I still remember when I read it. It was the beginning of 2018, and I had the flu and a lot of time on my hands, so I binge-read this. It was simultaneously the best and the worst thing I have ever done, because I resonated with it so deeply there were times I was just staring up at the ceiling wondering what was real. I empathized with the characters to a level I rarely achieve, and I empathize easily. I laughed. I cried. It was amazing.

I refer to this story in conversation to this day. It handled themes published authors have only dreamed of achieving. Heck, if Dani (the author) took out the names of the AoT cast and replaced it with new ones, it could be its own stand alone novel. It is worldbuilding from the ground up, and any fandom knowledge you take in with you is used against you like a knife leveraged against your throat. Yet, no one is out of character. It’s phenomenal. I would say more, but this is something I daren’t spoil for anybody, because you must be as wrecked as I was. Vigilantis Pretium Libertatis is a level of writing I achieve to gain as a writer myself. It is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.

Life in Glass Houses

by blueskyscribe ( @blueskyscribe )

Fandom: Transformers (Transformers Prime, Transformers: Shattered Glass) Word Count: 119,900 Status: Ongoing (maybe, I hope)

「 No one would have thought Bumblebee and Knock Out were capable of getting along, but when they're stuck in a strange new world and their only hope of survival is cooperation . . . Yeah, they're probably doomed. 」

I could be biased because Knock Out and Bumblebee are two of my favorite characters, but it really is brilliant. Two enemies, stuck together—but not in an overly cliché way. It’s the right amount of cliché, with heaps moral conflict and inner conflict and sometimes just beating each other with a broom when no one is looking. It’s also a fascinating look into what makes a character the way they are in relation to the morals they possess, and how stalwart those morals can be. I can’t help but think of this story whenever I see or write a “role reverse” or mirror-verse AU. It does an excellent job at making all of the characters engaging and their own character, despite being in a mirror-verse.

Yesterday Upon the Stair

by PitViperOfDoom ( @pitviperofdoom )

Fandom: My Hero Academia Word Count: 424,070 Status: Complete

「 Midoriya Izuku has always been written off as weird. As if it's not bad enough to be the quirkless weakling, he has to be the weird quirkless weakling on top of it.

But truthfully, the "weird" part is the only part that's accurate. He's determined not to be a weakling, and in spite of what it says on paper, he's not actually quirkless. Even before meeting All-Might and taking on the power of One For All, Izuku isn't quirkless.

Not that anyone would believe it if he told them. 」

As a person who normally doesn’t read these kind of minor canon divergences, especially at the time of reading, I frickin’ love this fic. In fact, I think YUTS gave me a deep appreciation for canon divergence fics. It’s MHA in all of its glory but it’s so much more, and even the parts that rehash canon give new light to the characters and their points of view.

I had read Viper’s work before and saw Yesterday Upon the Stair filling my inbox, and then I finally watched My Hero Academia. It was one of the first MHA fics I read and it still has a very special place in my heart. I recommend this series to people who don’t even watch MHA; in fact, there are some who might prefer the darker tones and themes of heroism vs apathy to the main series. Not to mention the writing style is phenomenal, and I aspire to be that good. It made me laugh. It made me cry. Yes, tears streaming down my face crying. It is the best ghost story I have ever read.

the Vantage Point Universe

by Aggie2011 ( @aggie2011whoop )

Fandom: The Avengers (MCU) Collective Word Count: 1,032,651 (35 parts) Status: Ongoing (just slowed down)

「 Six months after the Loki incident, Clint isn't adjusting well. When an enemy from his days in the Army comes back to haunt him, he'll be forced to face a part of his past - and to move past Loki, if he has a hope of finding his place with the Avengers. (First of a universe created to center around Clint Barton) 」

// description taken from first installment

Have you enjoyed the MCU, especially the first-era Avengers phase, but like me, were disappointed in the fact that Hawkeye was barely there? The VP universe is for you.

I honestly have a hard time remembering what was canon and what was VP. And if it’s not canon, it should be. The VP universe gave so much life to Clint and to Natasha and to all of SHIELD and even the rest of the Avengers. It’s just...so good. It’s completely immersive. It focuses a lot on Hawkeye and Black Widow from before the Avengers team-up, as well as after, and it all flows together so beautifully. Not to mention that I can be reading a mission that happened pre-series, so I know that they are going to live with all of their limbs, and I still sit there on the edge of my seat the whole time.

The OCs, minor as they are, that are created for this are also wonderfully done. I can’t believe Dan and Phil don’t exist in canon. Every character, canon or no, is engaging and dynamic, it is a pleasure to follow each point of view. The emotional turmoil is also handled very well, and the VP universe carries the MCU trend of humanizing its heroes and takes it so much further.

Ghosts of the Future

by Evan Stanley ( @evanstanleyportfolio )

Fandom: Sonic the Hedgehog Word Count: comic (18 issues) Status: ongoing

「 About 200 years in the future, Silver the Hedgehog is an average kid living in San Francisco... except for his strange and terrible dreams of a dying Blue Hedgehog, a Black Hedgehog, and mysterious gems called "Chaos Emeralds". What will he do, when these "figments of his imagination" appear before him in his real life? 」

// description taken from first installment

Okay so this is the only one that isn’t an Ao3 story, but rather a comic on DeviantArt. However, it is still one of my favorite stories. Even though it takes the commonalities of Sonic canon and turns them on its head, GotF really treats the characters well. There are enough familiar world elements to create intrigue, but it is set in a completely different take of the future, so there is ample opportunity for world building and being able to engage with a completely new thing. I wish SEGA put as much love in the series (namely the games, because the comics are *chef’s kiss*) and all of its possibilities as creators like Evan Stanley do.

The friendship and family relationships in GotF are so diverse and all so fantastic to witness. It’s a keynote example of the new hero and the old veterans, and both parties are active and trying their best.

Do not be alarmed by the starting art style. Sure, it’s rough around the edges at first, but then it gets better, and then it gets gorgeous, and then you’re left there so stunned that it looks like just life canon art. And then you could be like me, blinking slowly as my small brain finally connected that this Evan Stanley is in fact the Evan Stanley. GotF is an amazing fanwork, but she also draws and writes for the Official Canon comics (the IDW ones now) and that work is also phenomenal and should be supported.

Whirlwind

by Lynse ( @ladylynse )

Fandom: Danny Phantom, American Dragon: Jake Long, Miraculous Ladybug, Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja Word Count: 75,556 Status: Complete

「 Jake should be used to ominous predictions by now. Randy should know better than to blindly follow McFist. Adrien should think twice before sneaking away. And Danny really should've expected something like this when he got that phone call from Jake. (Secret Quartet fic) 」

I have to start by saying that I adore all of Lynse’s fics, and I chose this one simply because it is one of my favorites. But it’s all fantastic, one hundred percent. I also love Mirrored, the sort-of prequel to this fic, but Whirlwind just has the chaotic pure bean energy that each of the shows bring and it foils against each other so perfectly. This is the epitome of the Secret Quartet crossover, truly.

All fandoms and all characters get ample love, and the way the reader gets to see just how badly the characters’ assumptions are going is positively wonderful. It’s so easy to fall into the “I know what’s happening and so do the characters” trap, but Lynse leaps over it gracefully and lands in greatness. The fic had me smiling like a maniac one minute, and feeling sorry for my babies the next. Wonderful. Simply fantastic!

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pippip-cheerio · 5 years

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ROLEPLAY MASTERLIST

7/10/19 (DD/MM/YY)

THE SEVEN (plus solangelo, reyna)

Reyna: @reynathesaviorofrome

Annabeth: @smartest-of-them-all

Percy: @persassy-basson

Hazel: @smol-gem-child

Leo: @leo-valdez-fire-boi

Will: @sunshine-b0i

Nico: @ghostkingnikodiangelo

Jason: @bricks-and-staplers but temporarily @official-blonde-superman

Piper: @pippip-cheerio

Frank: @be-frank-and-help-me

OTHER DEMIGODS (all books)

Samirah: @samirah-the-valkyrie

Mallory: @official-mallory-keen

Octavian: @savior-of-rome

Lityerses: @lityerses-is-lit

Pollux: @pollux-wine-child

Paolo: @paolomontesss

Zoe: @zoe-nightshadess

Bianca: @not-dead-girl-bianca

Drew: @drewtanaknah

Sadie: @the-sadie-kane

Billie: @billies-garden

Rachel: @prophetic-cave-dweller

Felix: @icy-penguin-magic

Alex: @dead-kid-with-a-garrote

Calypso: @just-calypso

Thalia: @thalia-the-hunter

Kayla: @kayla-knowles-in-the-house

Clarisse: @daughter-ofares2018

Grover: @natures-trashcan

Lou: @2twitchy-witchy-girl0

Connor: @connor-son-of-hermes

Blitzen: @blitzenthefashonista

Meg: @nutmeg-mccandied-apples

Luke: @luke-fucking-castellan

Michael: @yewbetterbelieveit

Anubis: @anubis-puts-the-fun-in-funeral

Jake: @jake-son-of-hephaestus

Zia: @zebra-zia-rashid

Lacy: @lacyisalwayslate

Magnus: @swagness-chasing-me

Katie: @swordwielding-flowergirl

Tyson: @peanutbuttercyclops

Max Ollie: @max-ollies-house-of-fun

Hylla: @queen-hylla-rules

Valentina: @valentinas-valentines

GODS (all books)

Nemesis: @darth-nemo

Anubis: @anubis-puts-the-fun-in-funeral

Hermes: @the-god-of-thieves

Astraea: @the-innocence-goddess

Hades: @collector-of-lost-souls

Dionysus: @tired-and-shouldnt-be-here

Artemis: @hateutothemoonandback

Mr D: @tired-and-shouldnt-be-here

Loki: @loki-god-of-poki

Aphrodite: @loveisthestrongestmagic

Athena: @athena-the-wisdom-goddess

Hera: @hera-queen-of-the-gods

Tartarus: @Litterally-Tartarus

Zeus: @big-boi-zeus

Hestia: @godess-of-fireplaces

Iris: @shade-never-made-anyone-less-gay

Hephaestus: @olympus-forge

Demeter: @eat-more-cereal-cowards

Mesperyian: @depressedangryandsuffering

Persephone: @queen0ftheunderworld

Apollo/Lester: @lester-apollodopoulos

Isis: @isis-the-egyptian-goddess

Poseidon: @i-gotta-trident

Sif: @the-goldilocks-goddess

Hebe: @goddess-of-youthfulness

Pan: @the-flute-dude

Nemesis: @revenge-mhm-yummy

Khione: @i-like-ice-sculptures

Gaea: @bitchy-earth-mama

Zethes: @wind-bro-of-quebec

Hebe: @goddess-of-youthfulness

Ares: @best-war-god-of-all

Hecate: @magic-goddesshecate

Styx: @oaths-and-a-river

OC’S (original characters)

Corby: @hels-nb-child

eliza saxon: @miss-magic-girl

Phoenix: @pheonix-at-camp

Valerie Rivers: @another-damn-rp-blog

Honey: @sweeter-th4n-h0ney

Eliza: @adopted-by-minnie

Skylar: @skylar-cabin10

Emm: @emmers-young

Queenie: @queen-annes-lace-magical-girl

Serena: idk the url

Takita: @takita-is-freela

Desdemona: @the-unlucky-archer

Maxence: @iammaxence

Carlos: @runfastsmokegrasseatass

Rosshu: @not-yo-typical-geologist

Nak: @imafuckinmiracle

Diogenes: @diogenes-daily

Cressida: @undertheskyandsea

Melony: @mel-the-gay-witch

Atta beckett: @atta-the-magical-person

Melanippe: @melani-not-melanie-get-it-right

Parker Gonzalez: @not-really-spider-man

Jessalyn Parks: @pipabxthmp4

Adorei Rosshu: @not-yo-typical-geologist

Melody: @straight-from-cabin-7

Kindanico: @kindanicodiangelobutnotreally

Geier: @vxltxrecxltxre

Daniel: @thenotsodrunkwinechild

Knight Ravenwood: @knight-the-nightmare

Kaftos (God - Heat and Pop tarts): @kaftos-is-demidead

Maddison Victoria: @maddison-victoria

Stella: @starlight-eyed-girl

Charlie: @tiny-kroyfish

Equinox: @im-an-equal-nox

Marina: @dont-wave-at-me

Clint: @goldengoodboy

Lorry: @mad-hatter-without-a-hat

Sorin @the-littlest-minogoat

Max-Ollie @max-ollies-house-of-fun

Corey Saunders @sarcastic-wizard-corey

Jordyn @littledeer03

Rosshu: @rosshulee-rosshuleavemealone

Miranda: @gardiner-everywhere

Eliza Saxon: @eliza-minn-saxon

Leah: @not-like-your-typical-girl

Buck: @buck-it-im-out

Max: @the-official-maximum-carstairs

Anastasia Stark @daughter-with-a-high-iq

OTHER PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T FIT INTO THE ABOVE HEADINGS:

Chiron: @activity-director-chiron

Estelle: @aquamans-sister

Clio: @historically-a-mused

Sally: @number-one-demigod-mom

Ella: @ella-ze-harpy

Festus: @festustheawesomedragon

Paul: @real-paul-blowfish

Hannibal the elephant: @dont-give-the-elephant-penuts

Juniper: @juniper-the-dryad

Arrow of dodona: @all-thys-and-thees

Coach hedge: @an-aggressive-hedge

Bricky: @jasons-real-bae

HARRY POTTER:

Hermione: @house-elf-protection

Ron: @quidditch-and-chicken

Ginny: @ginny-quidditch-weasley

Fred and George: @gred-and-forge-weasleyy

Pansy: @the-lesbi-slytherin-bitch

Sirius: @thatmarauderpadfoot

Luna: @loony-the-dreamer

Basilisk: @huge-motha-frickin-snake

Draco: @jdlightfulslytherin

Voldy: @dark-lord-voldy

Nagini: @lord-voldemorts-deadly-snake

Tonks: @finding-and-metamorphing

Harry: @wands-and-scars

Newt: @lizards-4-life

Queenie: @queens-annes-lace-magical-girl

((if i missed anyone dm me and ill add u on

#masterlist

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