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Jan. 5th, 2005 @ 06:36 pm
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I'm actually not making a fanfic rec at all. I'm taking this opportunity to announce that, after a lot of frustration, The Griffin and the Fox's fifth Chapter is FINISHED(minus beta-ing). And will be uploaded to the Usual Place upon completion of that event. |
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Naruto - First Frost
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Aug. 3rd, 2004 @ 09:54 pm
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Second try, this time with a series someone else reads. Go Naruto! Appologies if anyone has seen this one before; I think it might be well-known but I'm not sure.
Title: First Frost
Author:: Moonsheen. No relation.
Author's Summary: In which it snows in Konoha and Naruto incites a revolt. Pay no attention to the brooding ninja in the background.
Summary: Light-hearted antics in a snowed-in Konoha. One-shot futurefic.
?Que? My favorite Naruto fanfiction ever. It has a little something for everyone - fluff, all the major characters, het and implied shonen-ai, believable canon speculation, atmosphere, and great dialogue. The humor is fantastic stuff, really genuinely funny. The only thing it doesn't have is a plot, but really, how much can you expect in a one-shot?
More to the point, the writing is excellent. Moonsheen is one the few wants-to-be-professional fanfiction writers that I really think can make it. Her writing is descriptive but not overdone, and she has a quirky draws-you-in style that is still very readable. Fun to read. |
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New Member Says Hi
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Jul. 27th, 2004 @ 10:10 pm
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Hello everyone! I'm new and I followed ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) telophase here, although she may or may not remember as that was a very long time ago. In any case, I've recently been reminded of just how much I like to recommend things. So for this, my first entry, I thought I'd go a little ways out on a limb to pimp what is still one of my all-time favorites:
Fic - A Midsummer's Nightmare, Or Juuohcho no Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the Search for Spock-kun
Author - Experimental, best known for her epic (and unfinished) Sailor Moon fanfic Rubies in Zoicite. I haven't read that one. No relation.
Series - Yami no Matsuei/ Descendants of Darkness
What? A fiction with atmosphere and understated humor. To be honest, a bit confusing and without proper plotting. Non-sequiturs abound, but this story could best be described as: An unknown threat to the department. A mysterious death that shouldn't have been possible. A lunar eclipse and no one's acting quite right. Is there some sinister underlying force? Or is enka to blame?
I love this one for the style. Beautifully written, so that it gives the impression of coherency when for all I know there may be none. It flows wonderfully well. Each chapter varies slightly from each other chapter, but all of them are engrossing in a "Wait, did I just miss something?" kind of way. My only real regret is the lack of an ending.
Right, so does anyone else here read Yami no Matsuei fanfic? Scrolling down, I see a lot of Harry Potter and Naruto, which I completely understand as it is really, really hard to find good fics for those series (too much crap). For myself, I'm a big Naruto, YnM, Ranma 1/2, FMA, Shaman King, Detective Conan, and Card Captor Sakura reader, although I'll read anything as long as it's well enough done. |
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Harry Potter Fanfic Web Comic
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Jul. 8th, 2004 @ 03:03 pm
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Kill Harry, Part 1
This amuses me terribly.Current Mood:  amused |
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Wagga Wagga Werewolf
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Jun. 7th, 2004 @ 06:20 pm
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Now that A-Kon's over and I have my life back again, hopefully I can resume posting things here. :) For my frist post-A-Kon post, I have a short fic that isn't a crossover or a parody. Amazing, hn?
How I Vanquished the Werewolf of Wagga Wagga (A ballad by Gilderoy Lockhart), by Suburban House Elf
Fandom: Harry Potter, as if you couldn't tell.
An amusing ballad from the viewpoint of everyone's favorite popinjay, Gilderoy Lockhart. The title says exactly what it is: the tale of how he vanquished a fearsome beast. Suburban House Elf (SHE) stays in character throughout and it's obvious that SHE knows quite a bit about ballads and ballad-writing. (telophase has an abnormal love for internal rhyme, and it's utilized quite well here.) |
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What: A PGSM character piece.
Where: FF.net
By Who: Dora, of course.
Link to fic: Shitennou
Is it good? Well, yeah. Very dark, though, And spoilerific through at least episode 26 of the Live Action Sailor Moon.(well, for one particular distant past event, not the series as a whole)
How many parts? Just the one. It's self-contained.
Is there bias? Well, yes. I'm her bestest friendworshipperminionpersoninmyownmind ever. XD
Yes, this is short and to the point. Only this and nothing more. :D Go forth and read. Be enthralled. Give her reviews!
Jun. 5th, 2004 @ 12:45 am
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| » Shameless plug...er, Fic recommendation: The Griffin and the Fox |
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What: A Naruto/Harry Potter crossover
Where: FF.net
The Griffin and the Fox
Who: The-Chibi-Poe
Why should you read it: It's Harry Potter. And Naruto. (Though, more Naruto than HP to start)
What's it about: After the chuunin exam, Jiraiya, some jounin and a few genin set out to Hogwarts to correct the gaps in their education.
Is it good: Well, I wrote it. I'd like to think so. :)
How many chapters? Just one right now. More to come later as I can manage.
Why does this fic exist? Well, over here, Telophase mentioned how she was looking for a well-written Naruto/HP crossover. And I promptly set out to work out the logistics of it and it blossomed into this.
As a side note, I have also posted to the FFML, which you can find subscription info for at FFML
May. 19th, 2004 @ 01:16 am
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| » Hi-diddly-ho, neighbor! |
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*is new* *is frightened* *trembles* o.o
lol, not really. I'm just a new member looking for good fics to pass the lonely time keep my lazy ass occupied enjoy. I'm really into LotR but seeing as how it's very hard to find a good LotR fic, my fandom doesn't allow for a lot of good reading. I also love Harry Potter and a few animes but my interests are limited. I'm afraid I won't be spending much time here. Though, this kind of community is a great idea and I'll be popping by occasionally to check things out. Long live fic_sans_pareil!
Still, I do have a fic that I'd like to share with you all. It truly is (or I believe so, anyway) a diamond in the rough.
Author -- Madelyn Scott
Title -- Cabbages and Kings (link opens a new window to ff.net)
Fandom -- Lord of the Rings
Summary -- (Author's summary:) Pippin's always told Merry all his secrets - except one. (My summary:) Down-time in the Great Smials for Merry and Pippin. Much cuteness and fluff ensues.
What makes this story stand out -- As telophase and myself stated before, it's very hard to find a good LotR fic because there are very few who can catch the essense of Tolkienesque writing. Of all the LotR fics I've read, I sincerely believe that none other has sounded more beautifully and rhythmically Tolkienesque than this one. If it weren't for the fact that it is a slash fic, I may possibly even look at an excerpt from it and believe it was from the Silmarillion! There is still a noticeable difference between Tolkien's writing and this author's, but there are some moments in her fic where you truly believe that you are reading a genuine tale of Middle-Earth.
Anything else -- Yes, it is slash and the pairing is Merry/Pippin. I am really not one for odd pairings so I tend to stick with the very mild ones. Anything beyond the oddness of this pairing makes me squeamish. The fact that it is slash may make it less believable, especially being Tolkienesque as it is, though I think the author's superior writing skills make up for it almost completely along with sticking completely to canon. As I said before, it is a diamond in the rough.
Full disclosure -- I am not the author of this fic nor do I personally know the author. I just think she had an amazing talent that should be shared.
(and just for good measure...)
Rating -- R, for an extremely mild sex scene, non-graphic, no nudity, much fluff... though it's not really even a sex scene so I don't know how you'd describe it. O.o Fluffy snoggage? Oh well, very cute nonetheless. If it weren't for this particular bitty scene, it would be a firm G rating. Very mild and cute.
Thanks for allowing me to share. I hope you all enjoy and comment below after you read it to let me know what you think. :)
May. 8th, 2004 @ 12:37 pm
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Hi, I'm new. I currently don't have any stories to rec - my computer has managed to lose all my links and I'm still trying to get them back - but I do have a fanartist who I'd like to recommend.
pu-sama draws darker stuff, and most of her recent pictures have all been of Hellsing, mainly the manga. Farther back, she has some Getbackers and Violinist of Hameln art.
I really like her style, which is, as I said, often dark. She does both hair and clothing very well, at least in her more recent stuff, and overall, her drawings are very nice.
And a little intro about me - I'm a big fan of anime, though I read some fanfiction for a few books, too, and original fiction. I don't really like most romance fics - I'm a much bigger fan of action, mystery, or friendship/family fics. If I do read romance, I prefer weird pairings, since I have to work more to see them, and it's more entertaining. I don't mind yuri, yaoi, or het, though I tend to skip over any graphic sex scenes because they're usually boring. ^_^; I also beta-read a lot, so a few things really bug when I read fanfiction because I want to yank out a red pen and correct them. (POV switch and tons of exposition, mainly).
I also had a question - when recommending something, should we try to avoid the big names that "everyone" knows? Though I admit, I often have no clue who's who in fandom. ^_^;
May. 8th, 2004 @ 11:27 am
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Hello! Got a couple of new members and a few watchers of this community. It's still small, but I hope to get some more activity going on here. So, say hi, introduce yourself, say hello back to each other, have fun. :) I don't think we have to limit ourselves to just recomending fanfic and fanart if there's interest in random discussion of the subject at hand.
I've added all the posts so far to the Memories so people can search for fics by series and such.
And I'm probably rambling because it's 3:30 AM and I really should have gone to sleep before now.
May. 8th, 2004 @ 03:28 am
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And now, I bring you a rather dangerous crossover ... that works. Hellblazer/Harry Potter. I've bene putting off reviewing this, since ebony14 introduced it to me and I thought he might review it, but he's taking too long and I wanted to get this one out there.
Hellblazer: Hogwarts
Author: Camwyn
Summary (stolen from website): "Sometimes, life bashes you upside the head with a brick in a sock. John Constantine's arrived in the Potterverse - sans equipment, wand, or even as much as a place to stay. Fortunately for the baffled magus, Albus Dumbledore needs a position filled. Now if John could only find a place to smoke in peace!"
Due to a short, violent conflict between an otherworldy antagonist and a half-brick in a sock, John Constantine ends up in the England of Hogwarts instead of his own reality.
This is told partly from Constantine's point of view, in a sort of diary format, and partly in third-person. The first-person journal-type entries and the third-person parts from Constantine's POV have the grubby flavor of Constantine's personality.
Hagrid's war all down to one man, some git calling himself Lord Voldemort. Apparently he's some magic psychopathic racist dictator or something who held power 15+ yrs. ago. Reign of terror, people dying left & right, armies of sinister magic creatures, etc. etc., but got his arse served to him on a silver platter by a baby name of Harry Potter. Been trying to stage comeback ever since. Lord V wants to 'purify wizarding race', can't even stand wizards w/muggle ancestors, would be happier if muggles all died screaming. Sounds like every fascist wanker to come down the pike only w/magic. Tried telling Hagrid this. Did not help.
Control of POV fairly good, there is a bit of unheralded head-hopping in the third person bits in the early chapters - that means the point of view switches from one person to another a bit abruptly without anything signaling the transition - but I'm probably the only person on the planet who would notice that and it's excellent otherwise.
There are many creative touches in this story that add to the characterization of Constantine and the wizarding world. Constantine's solution to earning book money before the school term starts is especially apropos.
Seven chapters up as of this review, with more to come.
May. 8th, 2004 @ 03:21 am
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Yo! Hi everybody! New member, wanting to rec some Naruto fics that I really like. Only doing one today though, and I'll get to others later with coherent summary.
Title: Waste of Time
Author: Deathkun, or deadums
Fandom: Naruto
Linky: http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1587244
Summary: The only SasuShika I've ever read, and one of the few Naruto fanfics that make sense! Yipee! Er...or that could just be me ^^ Anyway, I believe it has all been spell-checked, and is in the POV of Shikamaru Nara in his observation, and unwanted passive relations with Sasuke. Oooh--is yaoi!
May. 7th, 2004 @ 03:11 pm
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A Day in the Life of Severus Snape: An Excerpt from his Diary by Madam Otaku.
Yup, yet another parody fic I like. (What are the odds?) The author of this one says she wrote it to get into Snape's character before writing something else, and she managed to keep him in character and yet be hilarious at the same time. It's exactly what the title says it is, Snape's diary entry from a typical day at Hogwarts. There isn't much point in going on for too long in this review since that would end up making it longer than the fic, so I'll just say: Go read. It funny.
For anyone coming over from DeviantArt, this fic is the source of the quote I use in my sig there.
May. 3rd, 2004 @ 10:24 pm
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| » Well, hi! I'm Poe, and I read fanfic |
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(Hi, Poe!)
Well, I'm a spelling nazi. You will never meet another like me, I expect. (arrogant too!) Anyway. I like anime fanfic. Naruto is one of my favorites right now, and likely to stay that way. (81 episodes and counting!) Anyway. I've found a few Naruto fics here and there that I like, so I thought I'd recommend one now.
( Naruto - Bloodlines )
Apr. 29th, 2004 @ 12:36 am
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Well, I said this community would be open for recommending fanart as well as fic, so let me put my money where my mouth is...
Paintpixel, whose works can be found at her DeviantArt page as well as www.paintpixel.com, is a digital artist who's gained a bit of fame around the Net for her color renditions of pages in Inane's translations of the Naruto manga. She does original works as well as fanart, and is good at cel shading though in my opinion she excels at soft shading. Unlike a lot of fan artists out there, she's solid in anatomy and shading, and can emulate the styles of the original but with her own flair, not slavishly imitating them.
Apr. 28th, 2004 @ 04:38 pm
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Well, I should introduce myself, I guess. I'm the friend that telophase was talking to when she came up with the idea for this sort of thing. As a professional proofreader and part-time editor and writer and all-around lit geek, I just got tired of reading poorly written, poorly thought-out, repetitive fiction. Too much of what I've seen needs a quick consultation with a dictionary, at the very least, and at the very worst, it needs to be totally scrapped and started over. I got tired of slogging through the garbage to find the gems, and found that telophase felt the same way. Hence ... this group.
I enjoy character-driven stories, mostly adventures. SI is okay, provided that the SI character is crafted with an appropriate consideration for limits. If you're going to insert yourself into a fanfic, give yourself some limitations. Let the characters of the series shine as well. I do not like slashfic in any form. Call it an atavistic reaction.
Apr. 28th, 2004 @ 12:08 pm
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Yes! A story I like that isn't a parody!
Author: JoIsBishMyoga
Title: The Best Defense
Fandom: Harry Potter/Yu Yu Hakusho
Summary: cut-and-pasted from the official description at ff.net The Yu Yu Hakusho team goes undercover at Hogwarts to protect the student body from the fallout of the war with Voldemort. The question is-- how undercover can a group like them stay in a school full of wizards? Hiei/Kurama, Ron/Hermione, other pairings.
Why recommend it?: This is pretty much a natural crossover - the Yu Yu Hakusho characters and the Harry Potter characters are about the same age and both are set in the modern day, so there's no inconvenient time travel to handwave away (I'm thinking of an HP/Rurouni Kenshin one I saw, which really just doesn't work for me). It's set in Hogwarts in an alternate fifth year. JoIsBishMyoga is a decent enough writer to keep a handle on most of the characters, which is hard when you've got something like eight major characters to write, although she's better with the Yu Yu Hakusho group than the HP group -- Harry tends to be more passive than I think he is in canon. The story follows the HP formula, hitting all the established points like owl delivery, Diagon Alley, the Hogwarts Express, and the Sorting Hat. So far it has more elements of mystery than adventure, though I think this is going to change quite soon, lightened with touches of humor that don't go overboard.
She departs from YYH canon a bit in elaborating on their magic system and some reactions of the magical characters to events and seasons, but she doesn't contradict, just adds to it. There's at least one point in the story that very obviously contradicts HP canon rules (regarding House placement), but the author had obviously written that part of the story before reading Order of the Phoenix, where it was established, and she has to do some twisting to fit the two magic systems together, not entirely seamlessly, but well enough.
It's a long story, with 21 chapters so far, and the plot is engaging enough to stand up to the length. JoIsBishMyoga is a frequent updater, adding a chapter every couple of weeks it seems. Here's hoping she keeps that up through the end.
Random digression: the crossover I'm *really* waiting for is a well-done Naruto/HP. I've only run across one and it -- well, let's say I'm not going to be recommending it here anytime soon.
Apr. 28th, 2004 @ 01:51 am
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All right, my name is dora, and I'm a bit of an English nerd and grammar nazi. I like good fanfic as much as anyone, and I've actually managed to find a few things that I think count as "good." :)
Generally, I like slash fic, but I've been warming up to het fic a lot recently. Just a warning, though, I am more likely to reccomend a slash piece than not.
Anyway, on with the recommendation!
( Falling Farther In by KazVL )
I believe that covers everything. Please tell me if I missed anything. o.o
Apr. 28th, 2004 @ 02:22 am
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LJ set the community to Closed instead fo Moderated somehow, so I said the hell with it and set the membership to Open. Anyone can join. Let's see what happens. :)
I've got a couple more fics to recommend, but one's funny and I've done two of those so far, and one was told to me by a friend who's supposed to be joining this group soon, so I'll let him do it. I've got a couple of fan artists to rec soon, too.
Let's use the inflammatory icon, shall we?
Apr. 28th, 2004 @ 12:57 am
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