Previous Thread>>4202541>The main places to read ficshttps://archiveofourown.org/https://www.fanfiction.net/>An old archive of fics compiled and shared by a kind anon (note that this is not a curated collection, just a very extensive archive)https://mega.nz/#F!oaphAAaZ!6FnZFfH2f-Vx5d9A47pSowPost links to fics and discuss them and fanfiction in general. Link fics you like, your own stuff, it's all good as long as it's yuri.
>>4255745>KnM fanfiction where Chikane does a horse riding competition against Amane Ootari from Strawberry Panic>KnM fanfiction where Chikane must save Himeko by dueling Seto Kaiba in a Children's Card Game>KnM fanfiction where an enemy Stand User tries to find a Golden Bow and Arrow set in Mahoroba>KnM fanfiction where Saiki Kusuo drops in.All the crossovers! Even the ones that don't make sense!
>>4256669>that one knm fic where himeko is shipped with naruto now wait a damn minute
I was recommended To The Stars as a rare sci fi that makes accurate tech predictions. It's really long and I am only a few chapters in. But so far the sci fi setting is not accurate at all and the Madoka characters are butchered.Does it get better?
All of SuspiciousZucchini's fics... gone...
>>4257804Backup everything
>>4257804I actually fucking screamed. Holy shit, not even a century long hiatus, but actual deletion of their work. They were the best light cannon author in the whole fandom, debatably.
I'm either blind or not looking correctly, but there seems to be a terrible lack of Strike Witches fics.
I still miss Mongol.
>>4257804Sis? They're right herehttps://archiveofourown.org/users/SuspiciousZucchini/pseuds/SuspiciousZucchini/works?fandom_id=67003954
>>4257923Who?
>>4257929Either Genghis Khan, or a biker group
>>4257928bitch
>>4257923I'm writing again.
>>4257928>>4257941nvm I think you just need an account to see them nowsorry for calling you a bitch
>>4257956Nice. Let me know if you post anything. I still reread The Crane and The Sea every once in a while.
>>4258126Virage, is that you? Anyway I did post one Bg3 fic.
If you delete your account on ao3 do your comments get deleted as well? Or do they get changed to "this comment has been deleted"?
>>4257709Accurate to what? It's a chatGPTcommietopia with an immortal magical girl oligarchic shadow-cabinet on the side, dude. Temper your expectations accordingly. Also, all of the characters have got like a thousand years of life experience behind them by the beginning of the story so changes are expected. Indeed, these form the cruxes of their personal arcs explored within the story.Let go of your ego and let the story speak for itself, sister.
>>4258694NTA but they seem to have let the story speak for itself and it did so poorly, hence their response to it.
>>4258696She ended her post with essentially the following>will the story be more accomodating of my expecations after the first few chapters?which is quite literally the opposite of approaching a fic with an open mind.
>>4258637The comments stay as they are, but the username changes to “Account Deleted”
>>4258769>the opposite of approaching a fic with an open mind.Reading the first few chapters of a fic and then asking if it gets better IS approaching it with an open mind. I dunno why you're taking anon not liking the fic as some sort of personal attack.
>>4258787And you acting as if that better is an objective and an absolute metric. TtS IS a stellar work that stands above the vast majority of fics out there in scope, ambition, inventiveness, worldbuilding, storytelling and featured yuri. It's objectively great. And it's completely ok to not like it or to not want to read it for any number of subjective reasons.
>>4258771Thanks
>>4257884>They were the best light cannon author in the whole fandomIt's rare to see combined arms military yuri so that's a shame
What's a more humiliating piece of clothing to use as an impromptu mouth gag, pantyhose or a sock? Pantyhose has the advantage of being able to be tied around the other girl's head but a sock smells like feet so that has that going for it. I've never written BDSM before so I'm a little stuck.
>>4259673That girl's own panties. But between those two choices I'd say the sock.
>>4259673I think a sock. Smells worse, less sexy for anyone else than a foot fetishist. If that is the case then the pantyhose.
>>4259707as a foot fetishist, I like pantyhose more than socks so it'd still be worse
>>4255745I have a fanfiction story, but I’m not ready to polish it to archive of our own yet, how do I post it here at have you lot review it and tell me how terrible it is?Upload a PDF?
>>4260059You could drop it on pastebin and hope somebody here will take a look at it.
>>4260062OK. Thanks for the advice.
>>4260062Are works in progress acceptable or do you prefer completed first drafts?
>>4260081I don't promise anything, but the closer to complete it is, the more likely you are to get useful advice no matter who reads it.
what are some decent crossover fics? i know of that fairy tail and bleach one but i can't think of any others
>>4260322Clarify what you mean by a crossover fic and anything specific you're looking for in one. As crossover stuff can cover quite the spread of integration of each work; from barely more than taken powers/concepts/characters to full fusion verses.Anyways, I'd recommend looking at fics tagged with the Wondercroft ship. For it's a really good pairinghttps://archiveofourown.org/tags/Lara%20Croft*s*Diana%20(Wonder%20Woman)/works
>>4260059If there are certain aspects you want to focus on, such as plot, characterization, or spelling and grammar, it may be helpful to specify too
I have a pastebin but it’s auto saved to privatehttps://pastebin.com/hFC4D0TK
>>4260772https://pastebin.com/BubK3ZFcFixed it.
New To The Stars chapter:https://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/147394690Some development but mostly more setup.
>>4266342Better to move this to the right thread.I never looked for any MHA fics but if there are this many surely there is at least one good one right? I've shipped less gay characters.
Posting my short idea here since I'll never write it anyway. But it's a digimon fanfic about adult Ruki x human-Renamon. Like, after the end of tamers, the digimons spent several years separated from their humans and Renanon missed Ruki a lot, so the main villain from the drama CD (which I have no idea what it is) took advantage of these feelings and tricked Renamon into helping it. This villain promised it would take her to the human world, but didn't mention it would be able to control her body at times. So Renamon gets sent to the real world, but in an human form, which is just Sakuyamon without the armor. So this is why she is missing from the drama CD.Eventually Ruki saves her and yuri happens. The end
>>4257709>To The StarsI've kept reading, here's my opinion so far. As a reminder, it's a Madoka fanfic with a sci-fi setting 450 years after the show, where humans fight a galactic war for survival against aliens.The good:Homura was ambitious and created a powerful global organization for magical girls.There is a cult of magical girls worshiping Madoka.The bad:I've now read a quarter of the story, which is already 3 times as long as the last book I read. And so far absolutely nothing happened except that Homura disappeared before the story began. It is extremely boring. Most of the text is irrelevant to the story and most things that happen seem pointless. The writing is shit and tells instead of shows.The characters from the anime are butchered and their relevance to the story is forced. The original characters are uninteresting. The author can't write distinct characters, they are all samey. The original main character is a bland mary sue super special snowflake who hasn't earned any of it. There are huge paragraphs listing the many things that make her special but nothing makes her likable.While there are good ideas, many parts of the world building are stupid. For example they have FTL and antimatter bombs but both the humans and the much more advanced aliens fight with infantry and tanks, which is already outdated now.>>4258694>all of the characters have got like a thousand years of life experience behind them by the beginning of the story so changes are expectedWith so much life experience, the changes should be to the better, not worse. Also, there are flashbacks where they behave the same way.
>>4270518>both the humans and the much more advanced aliens fight with infantry and tanksI haven't read TTS yet, but I'm going to assume the basics of modern warfare still apply there. Maybe the ayys want the general infrastructure or the planet itself mostly intact so they don't just obliterate everything. Or maybe they do want to, but can't because the humans have either air superiority or very advanced antiair platforms, making the ground fight a necessity.Also>which is already outdated now.I don't know what you mean by this. There are two major wars being fought right now and both feature infantry and tanks.
I don't really get the critique either. The magical girls act more like special forces operators who either do specific missions in a theater or act as force multipliers in a battlefield setting. We don't really see grunts grunting around at all that much. Certainly not enough to draw far-reaching conclusions about operational and tactical level planning and excecution and standardised tactics. And it's not like our military can't trace common elements and their evolution back hundreds or thousands of years either.
Is ao3 shitting itself again? My fic shows 2 kudos less than it did yesterday.
They are having a couple problems, you can check the AO3news tumblr if you want but they aren't being terribly descriptive.
or, if I check the actual address, ao3orghttps://ao3org.tumblr.com/
>>4278039Seems to be working fine again. Thx for the info
Is it excessive to write 'crotch' four times in fifteen sentences? If so, are there words other than 'crotch' for the area that is the mons veneris and vulva and a bit around there? Other than 'pussy'. That just sounds too vulgar to me.
>>4279008yes, write pusi and onahole...
>>4279008Is there a reason it has to reference the whole area every time and you can't substitute 'mons' or 'vulva' or whatever in?My preferences are mostly on the vulgar side so I doubt I have many synonyms you'd be interested in.
>>4279008You can always go full purple and call it her special place or her secret garden or whatever.I seem to recall cleft being popular in these kinds of books too.
>>4279008Can't you just say vuvla? I get trying to be dainty, but imo just going for it is better than repeatedly using the same term.
>>4279008>the mons veneris and vulvaAh, Mars...
>>4279008I think it's probably excessive to write 'crotch' even once. You can simply avoid directly referencing rude anatomy.>She pressed her thigh firmly between the girl's legs, eliciting a shuddering sigh.Or use euphemistic descriptions.>She moved her hand lower, past the girl's navel and then further, until her fingers found wet, silken heat.It depends on what you're going for but using words like crotch, pussy etc, are a choice and not necessary.
>>4279110Yeah 'crotch' is just a uniformly unsexy word that should never be used in romance or smut
>>4279008>pussy sounds too vulgarYou should try becoming a nun
>>4279122You should try becoming a stand-up comedian
>>4279008Core is typically what I use when trying to bypass chatbot filters
>>4279122Nun. Shikanoko nokonoko Koshi-tan tan
Now that I'm 10k words into my Flowers fanfic, I stopped to think, is there even an audience for this anywhere lol
>people will write thousands of Sylvaina fics>still 0 Alleria/Xal'atath on Ao3I'm fucking mad about it.
There's a specific person who I want to ask to proofread/edit my shit (about 35k words), keeping in mind I've only had one interaction with them before and they don't know who I am, I'm wondering if it would be too weird to send them a PM like "Hey you helped me with XYZ a while back and it seems we have similar interests, would you be interested in proofreading my fanfic? I'll pay you <price>/1k words."
>>4281856Go for it. You're polite and offering to pay. The worst that can happen is they say no.
>>4281757I'm not sure why you'd expect any different. Jaina and Sylvanas have a lot going for the two of them as a ship and enough prominence to encourage big plot things between the two of them for nearly all of the Warcraft timeline as both women were notable players in events for basically the entire played through storyline.Meanwhile you got the shittiest Windrunner who fucked off from existence for most of the timeline after abandoning basically everyone including her brat, and a butterknife who only starting existing late into WoW's life cycle and as far as i can tell has literally zero connection to Alleria other than both being void related.
>>4281856>Paying someone to edit your fanfictionWhat the fuck? At that point why not just pay them to write it?
It feels a bit shitty to write for a really niche fandom and barely get any engagement when I know I would get a lot more kudos and comments if I wrote fics for a popular ship in a big fandom. Oh well.
>>4282043Yeah, but imagine the joy in someone's heart when they come across your fic at random. You can't get that feeling from big fandoms.
>>4282043You're supposed to write for fun and out of love. not profit.
>>4282043I know someone who writes for more niche fandoms and you do get engagement. Biggest thing I understand from there is that everyone tends to know everyone because it's so small
>>4282043If you take that attitude you might as well stop writing F/F because any other category will get way more engagement. Whatever reasons stop you from doing that are the ones that'll compel you to write about the rare pairs and fandoms you're actually into.
>>4282016Well they aren't a writer, or a proofreader for that matter, so that'd be even weirder.I realize offering to pay first thing might be unnecessary. I just want someone who's into that fandom to read it and talk about it with me and point out ESL wording. It's not even my story, it's a translation.
>>4282003The two barely interacted and Slyvanas was MIA for 90% of the expansion that most Sylvaina fics are based around. It's not a case of long-standing shipping of prominent characters, hence it being pretty much non-existent up until the expansion in question. I would get this line of logic if Sylvaina was a ship that was a decade and a half old, but it was, in the most literal sense, memetic. It saw a surge as "there's two big female characters this expansion, let's ship them lol" and people jumping on the bandwagon.> as far as i can tell has literally zero connection to Alleria other than both being void related.They are the principle opposed characters of the expansion. That is why it is mind-boggling. Alleria and Xal'atath are literally what fics -pretend- fourth war Sylvanas and Jaina were. Because the reality was Jaina was locked in the jail/another dimension for most of her arc, and then dealing with pirates and trolls. Sylvanas was off plotting against the Anduin/Saurfang buddycop gang and didn't care at all about Jaina's individual presence beyond the tangential threat of the Kul Tiran navy.Meanwhile here you have Alleria, whose obsessive, singular focus is on hunting down Xal'atath, and Xal'atath who keeps getting into Alleria's head, is singling her out as the face of her opposition and takes every face-to-face occasion between the two of them to get straight into Alleria's personal space and be as flirty as you can get while mocking someone. It is textbook foeyay. I'm not even expecting the sudden snowball volume Sylvaina had, but to have ZERO fics? Not even some shitty 1k word lemon? How?There is literally a fucking Sylvanas/Xal'atath/Valeera Sanguinar smut fic AND another Sylvanas/Xal one, and Xal was an actual knife during the brief window the two were in contact.I am red-faced.
>>4282316NTA but part of the charm of the Sylvaina ship came from both being characters that Blizzard was.ruining at the time so you also have the motivation of wanting to making fix fics with them, also remember that WOW isn't as popular as before and now.they're using characters that only a handful of nerds really care about.
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>>4282316Not interacting when they should have is part of the reason they're shipped but thinking that it's just "two female characters that are big this exapc" is dumb as fuck. As the two women share a lot of the same trauma and plenty that comes from the same events and people. They also got an interesting contrast in their skillsets and looks whilst vaguely being equals both socially and combatively. Plus human on elf is always a fun ride.I'll admit you've made a case for the knife on void elf ship but you must see what Sylvanaia took over.
>>4282320There there. You can always write your own. I doubt it's a consolation but I feel the sticking point is more Alleria than Xal'atath. Cause really, the youngest sister has more to her than MIA Alleria
>>4282323>As the two women share a lot of the same trauma and plenty that comes from the same events and people. They also got an interesting contrast in their skillsets and looks whilst vaguely being equals both socially and combatively. Plus human on elf is always a fun ride.This is conflating what makes them narratively a good ship with what made the ship a notable thing at the time. They are two different things. The ship didn't take off because of the above--they had that shared trauma (coming out of the RTS) in 2004 when the game launched, and 2008 when they were both trying to deal with their respective Arthas shit in Northrend, and in 2012 when they had those same contrasts and shared traumas and shared oppositions and were both dealing with Garrosh and the divisions between the Alliance and Horde.I don't say it's a memetic pairing as derision. I mean that it was very, very literally just a meme. It started as a handful of people jokingly, I mean actually jokingly, shipping the two of them because they were big players in BfA and then circles jumped on that momentum and suddenly it was a whole thing that was being done. Like that one dumb Harry Potter ship with the literal nobodies that everyone pushed hard to try and add F/F rep to that fandom. It was just one of those trends that took off.But my point was NOT to say that Sylvaina shouldn't have taken over. I like Sylvaina. My annoyance is in part because I enjoy Sylvaina fics and want more fics in the setting and this ship is sitting right there directly in front of everyone but somehow going largely unappreciated outside of a handful of art pieces. This thing screams ship but isn't being shipped much.
>>4282324Alleria is clearly being set up to be the central protagonist for the trilogy, and Xal is confirmed to be sticking around at least past this expansion so I'm just holding out hope it picks up eventually.
>>4282329>it picks upMaybe, unfortunately you're gonna contend with the fact that the wider fanbase straight up doesn't care. If nothing else you have won me over in addition to that other anon, and now I'm also interested in getting back into WoW but that's for a different thread.Curious to see what the Horde is doing during all of this. Can't wait to be disappointed.
>>4282316I don't have the slightest idea of WoW lore past wotlk but these pictures have convinced me.
>>4282316You are mostly correct excepting the whole ignoring the common points between Jaina and Sylvanas which makes it easier to pair and contrast them thing. Both Alleria and Xal have a lot less history for writers to dig into and get their creative with as of now, though I'm hoping that will change with the planned expansion-spanning storylines. While there is some story for Alleria, it has all been told instead of shown in a way, compared to Jaina and Sylvanas whom players have been accompaning and following as various events unfolded since wc3. So I'm not surprised that a lot of people found it easy to get attached to them.After this expansion there might be more planks to the frame that ship might actually float and perhaps even sail if midnight has favorable winds.
>>4282043Same, I write for a ship with around 50 works on ao3 but every hit feels somehow better than in a big fandom.
So the war craft talk got me curious: why would Alleria push back again Xal in such a way that she's effectively playing Xal's little game? From what I remember of the little Alleria lore there isn't she was more self-loathing and doubt than anything interesting or fiery.
What are the best Jinx/Lux fics
>>4284600The Ill Omens series is just straight up goodhttps://archiveofourown.org/series/3063984The daemons AU runs with a bit of a weird concept but executes it wellhttps://archiveofourown.org/series/4034197Flashbangs and Handgrenades is pretty good but honestly devolves into fuckery towards the end of things.https://archiveofourown.org/series/2216451
>>4284645Have you read the one where Jinx is adopted by Caitlyn's family and fights Fiddlesticks with Lux
>>4284653Sounds familiar enough. Isn't that the one where Jinx adopts a kid then steals Lux to raise their new daughter together?
>>4284654No. Isn't that Flashbang and hanggrenades where Jinx adopts that kid who uses fire
>>4284645>pretty good but honestly devolves into fuckery towards the end of thingsSeems to be a running theme with Calchexxis' fics.
>>4284656FB&HG doesn't have them have a kid. Latest fic in that series has it sorta a plot point that the timeline needs to continue for Lux and Jinx to have their kid. Don't remember who she is supposed to be though. It also doesn't have Jinx being adopted into Caitlyn's family and in fact the big thing in the later chapters is a war between Zaun and Piltover.Found the one with the fire kid adoption and family merginghttps://archiveofourown.org/works/36393766/chapters/90737152
>>4284679Anna.. Annie? Another League character
>>4283598>why would Alleria push back again Xal in such a way that she's effectively playing Xal's little gameYou mean like trying to hunt her down? The self-loathing part feeds straight into the fiery part, and the doubt is on her end not the goal's end. Her whole character has basically been built on the end of WC2, where her, Khadgar and Turalyon's solution to the Dark Portal was to suicide mission the other side. She just keeps throwing her own life a the problem. Xal in particular is a sore spot because her void nature speaks directly to Alleria's insecurities about her own void tightrope walk, and also killed one of lifelong friends. Almost. So this particular suicide mission is extra broody and angry. Feeling bad about being around regular people + ranger skill set + fixation on "I'm the one who can do this" means she's stuck playing cat and mouse.
Are there any smut fics where one girl is doing down on another and the girl giving head starts crying because she remembered that her dog died that morning or whatever and the girl getting head tells her not to stop licking but to just let the tears land?
>>4284883What
as good as arcane is i hate how it took over league fics since there are more characters than cait/vi that people can make fics of
>>4284863idk anything about warcraft but love the energy desu
What's your favorite smutty but still like good, fanfic?
>>4284863Enlightening although I feel Xal's not fully committed yet. Definitely leaning towards it by the end of what's current. Hopefully she doesn't end up being a pawn later in the expac/saga
>>4285345https://archiveofourown.org/works/27987261
So, what poly ships does everyone like where at least one set of girls doesn't work out as a solo pairing but works out as part of the polycule?Personally I think Azula/Mai/Ty Lee is a good triad but Azula/Mai has vastly more need of external help to not end in at least one murder when it's not some sort of NTR thing than Azula/Ty Lee and Mai/Ty Lee is pretty bog standard opposites attract when it's not spares being paired harder than Azula/Ty Lee can sometimes get when Zuko gets fics focusing on him.
>>4285802Punctuation is your friend
I try not to get bogged down by stats but I can't help looking at the kudos to hits ratio of other works for the same ship. Checked 10 non-explicit fics from the last year, not all from the same author, and they get 1 for 10 hits on average. Meanwhile my ratio is 1/30 at best, and no comments. I don't think my writing is that bad, no blatant ESL mistakes at least. Not gonna post link here cause it sounds like I'm begging for kudos, just wanted to complain.
>>4286888>begging for kudosThere are like 12 people in these threads and I doubt most of them would bother even clicking a link unless it's some pairing they are specifically interested in. Just post it so we can maybe tell you what, if anything, is wrong.
>>4285802Mami and Homura. It's mostly just Homura needs to still be in love with Madoka for the sake of canon/characterization purposes. I think Mami & Homura as a pairing in later timelines goes back to the source of most of Homura's issues and helps her overcome them. And likely a stronger magical girl by having her not abuse timestop so much.
>>4286911I think both Mami and Homura are equally contributing to monogamous pairing between the two of them being a disaster. Mami has plenty of problems of her own that Homura at any stage of her development just isn't equipped to handle. Madoka, no matter if she's at her baseline self or her super confident end state, can balance the two and give them both something they have equal stake in. The Soulmate timeline pulls this off rather well up till Sayaka and Kyoko join in the polycule and Homura and Mami are basically solved by then.Though now that I think about it, Homura and Sayaka have a similar problem. Sayaka is all about justice, making shit wishes, and distrusting Homura. Homura does still care for her but all of the shit prior Sayakas have pulled probably even outweighs the heartbreak of Mami's schenagains and thus Homura probably tries to think of Sayaka as something to handle for Madoka's sake.And because I'm now in the mood for examining the rest of the options for the full quintet, I'll just lightning round the rest. Sayaka and Madoka are no problem and neither is Sayaka/Kyoko though their dynamics are opposite. Sayaka and Mami just don't have enough connecting each other but Sayaka and Kyoko together with Mami works as the squabbling of Sayaka and Kyoko prompting interventions by Mami can have fun results. Kyoko works well with later timeline Homuras though what you said about Mami and Homura probably applies here for ideal results. And I honestly have no idea how Kyoko and Madoka dynamics could be like without strongly ripping off other dynamics. Maybe you'd get something akin to Homura and Kyoko with a confident Madoka only less sad unless you set them up post Walpurgisnacht? Not sure, the two are definitely the hardest to pair off.
>>4286979I did have an idea for a Mami x Homura (x Madoka) fic which was essentially Mami having a ribbon on Homura when she goes back in time and thus gets dragged back herself due to the nature of her wish. My thought here was due to the nature of Mami actually just being from a prior timeloop and the possibility of having future help in more timelines (possibly seeing if Mami's ribbons would allow another to go back with her) - Homura deviates from keeping Mami at a distance to making sure she survives the timeloop itself and doesn't go nuts from finding out the truth. Possibly having Homura know about Asunaro from prior loops and decides Kazumi might be the gentlest way to reveal the truth about Witches to Mami. And the funny thing is the Asunaro group was missing someone with memory powers and Homura is supposed to have some memory power she doesn't yet know how to use - which Mami might discover when working with Homura due to the nature of the loops being memories being sent back. This leads into an actual rebellion across multiple timeloops.Homura would be so relieved to not have to reintroduce herself to Mami again that she gets way closer than she'd expect to get to Mami. Mami noticing all the ways the timeloops have negatively impacted Homura as a fresh time traveller. There would be a lot to bond over and bitch about. And possibly notice Madoka has memories of the prior loops too.
the word polycule is such cringe that it's killing me
>>4287018What exactly is cringe about the term and what would you propose as an alternative?
>>4287035NTA, but we've had the terms 'love triangle' and/or 'harem' since more or less forever.
>>4287043>love triangleImplications doesn't point to a throuple. An ot3 would be more apt>haremAgain implications and if you wanna start throwing cringe don't bring harem up. Hell even the lack of lesbian harems as well
>>4287043Those are distinctly different types of relationships though. A love triangle is a temporary state that is (theoretically) to be eventually resolved and a harem is one individual with multiple partners or committed suitors. A polycule is a proper web of relationships with multiple people in it having multiple connections rather than a single person being connected to everyone with no other meaningful relationships between those connections.>>4287057>An ot3 would be more aptEh, OT3 is just shipping terminology for a prefered throuple like and OTP is for a monogamous pair that's one's favorite and any other number stuffed in there if for bigger relationships.
>>4286888Are we talking explicit vs. non-explicit? Cause the difference makes sense to me then. But yeah in a lot of cases the authors who've been doing this forever get a lot more attention.
Any good Katara/Azula fics?
>>4287261I recall Measure Each Step Towards Infinity being good.https://archiveofourown.org/works/5703577/chapters/13138870
>>4287261That One is really good but it's unfinished as of yethttps://archiveofourown.org/works/54414010/chapters/137836201
>>4287261https://archiveofourown.org/series/2539666Avatar Azula/Katara
>>4287270>say it with me Ursa can be a good mom but still exhibit bad behaviors due to her abuse from OzaiSounds like Ursa apologetics to me.
>>4287275>Ursa apologeticsFics that act like Ursa did nothing wrong and Azula just needs to make up with her piss me off so much.
>>4287282I don't like Ursa to but it's a niche paring so beggars can't be choosers, and it is well written work for that paring standard... The worst thing is that we get almost no good stories that do different version of ATLA ending (there supposed to be 4th season), so almost all you can find with Azula is "she went crazy"
I think you can go either way with Ursa being a bad mom, in general or to Azula in particular, as there really isn't enough canon material involving her to make a firm call one way or the other. Unlike with Iroh and Ozai who never made an effort and were actively abusing Azula respectively.I personally think that both Ursa and Azula were in fact unlucky to be born as descendants of Roku and gaining too much attention from the royalty of the fire nation. Though even without Ozai's everything, I have to say that I'm fairly sure that Ursa would have really struggled to be a good mom to Azula. As that girl was probably born with some sort of mental issue (dealer's choice on what that is, as theories about what is up with Azula cover quite a bit of ground even discounting blatantly wrong ideas like calling her a sociopath) that Ursa just doesn't have the knowledge/tools/help to work with.
Returning here after a long absence. Humbly requesting any angsty/dark themes or yandere recs, and meguca recs. Will read and give feedback on writing if any anons want it.
>>4287442Why is this the only shit people ever ask for? It's always gotta be some maladjusted angsty trash. People who mistake "dark themes" for maturity are really the perfect audience for fanfics I guess. Teenagers who never mentally grew up and still think that if something is horrible it must be deep.
>>4287442I don't have any on hand cuz I don't really read angst, but if I did I'd totally post a bunch to spite that other anon.
>>4287464Alright, gimme a rec for: something between two milves(I'll accept adults), where the romance is a sub-plot but isn't glacial, on top of an adventure or drama plot that's about 80k or more in words.
>>4287464>People who mistake "dark themes" for maturity are really the perfect audience for fanfics I guess. Teenagers who never mentally grew up and still think that if something is horrible it must be deep.Not sure it gets more immature than whining about what a stranger likes to read and then posturing by implying themes that have been fundamental to storytelling for a thousand years are childish.
>>4287498The hell are milves? Some kind of bird?>>4287499Oh sick No u. Really shows your maturity.The exessive focus on trying to make things as angsty and "dark" as possible shows a lack of maturity in the writer and the reader. You shouldn't be looking for a "omg so dark and edgy" work. That just shows you don't care about quality you just want that teenager in your brain stimulated.A work that has dark themes but is written well is never trying to appear dark and gritty on purpose. It doesn't advertise itself as an angst fest. People like you never heard of the rule that to make heava moments matter a work requires levity for contrast. The works that make you feel the most pain are those that also brought you joy. You can't appreciate how bad a situation is if you never saw how it could be better.There is a reason that works trying to be edgy on purpose are mocked and tedious. Six paragraphs of how badly the protagonist is emotionally tortured are BORING. Oh woe is me! Even Shakespeare would consider this shit trite. At least he knew to mix comedy with drama.
>>4287529I aint reading all that seethe. I'm happy for you tho or sorry that happened.
>>4287532Good on your for proving my point. I'm surprised you can even read fanfics at all though. I expect you to quite two sentences in.
>>4287120>Are we talking explicit vs. non-explicit?Nah not explicit. It might just be the content, being an angsty unrequited love introspection story rather than a romance like most of the other fics. Also one of the girls is married to a man, so maybe that set some people off (understandably). I think it's too off-topic to post here because of that. The yuri is only really happening in flashbacks.
>>4287551Not that anon, but unrequited love and the married status likely contributes as you suspect. If it’s a bittersweet or sad ending, people tend to avoid those. For my angst fics with bittersweet ends and/or major character deaths, they do a fair bit worse (hits and ratio-wise) than my fluff with angst happy ending fics
>>4287529>The hell are milves?It's a condition where a completely regular girl turns into a MILF during the full moon. WereMILF is a mouthful, so we shortened it to 'milves' to refer to a group of those.
Erm... perchance, is this thread also a place for.... kpop yuri fanfics? Have you guys read any?
>>4287673RPF fics unsettle me a little but I don't see why they couldn't be posted here. Who's your favorite groups?
>>4287464The reason why I like these things is just a matter of taste. For the same reason that some people like depressing movies, I like tragic and dark fiction. I also like slow, introspective music with melancholy moods. It is not the case that I can't enjoy or appreciate fluff I just don't prefer it.
>>4287673Real person fanfition is still fanfiction. The kpop star identity is so far removed from being a 'real person' that they may as well be fictional characters. I have read a handful of fics featuring kpop stars. As I recall they tended to be rather poor quality and assumed a lot of knowledge I don't have as I'm not a kpop fan - I much prefer the K/DA setting league of legends fics, if you haven't read those.
>>4287529I don't think asking for recs with dark themes precludes fiction with a good balance of levity and darkness or a bittersweet tone. I know what kind of fics you're referring to which come across as edgy teen writing and I don't like those either. Having said that, I do not see a qualitative difference between teenage angsty fics and mindless fluff fics, you know the ones where almost nothing happens - if anything I find the latter more boring. An overly angsty fix can still be entertaining to me if it's executed well, I can't say the same for it's fluffy equivalent.
>>4287673I've read a few. Never went out of my way to find them, they just showed up while I was browsing certain tags
>>4287691I actually feel the same way when it comes to RPF but like the other anon said, Kpop idols barely feel like real people to me so that's probably why it's not that weird. I don't follow kpop anymore, but I was a big fan of Girls' Generation and have read a ton of fanfic with them over the years. That fandom was massive for its time. Two of the members had a HUGE yuri following, and they're still getting fics 15 years later, which is kind of surprising to see given that the group itself has been inactive for years. Predictably the vast majority of fanfic was shit and posted on a now dead forum that requires an account to view. I recently got back into reading them, and it's been a slightly cringe but very nostalgic experience for sure.
>>4287705The fact that you treat this as a binary tells me all I need about you.>>4287723Fluff is the equivalent of eating a bar of chocolate or doing any other minor feel-good thing. That angst-edge shit is just the equivalent of watching a so-bad-it's-good movie or a looking at a car crash. It's not good and often disturbing, but people are attracted to the catastrophic.Between these two extremes there is no clear better option (although a feel good story will always have a better overall result for humanity), but the really good fiction is inbetween those.
>>4287442https://archiveofourown.org/works/38287942/chapters/95669569I'm not really into Harry Potter, but I wanted to read at least one Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes fic. They're both posthumous characters who both get like a sentence in canon, but because they appear as a side couple in so many Marauders fics, they're a top 10 f/f couple on AO3. That one starts out relatively nice until graduation, after which it's just them fighting a losing guerrilla war as their relationship unravels.
>>4287745Damn, Girls' Generation, talk about a throwback. I'm sure a lot of the shippers there moved onto Red Velvet and more specifically Irene/Seulgi because I know they've got a massive fanbase.
I almost wanted to write some RPF the other day because the guitarist and keyboardist of one girl band that I like watching are always gesturing to each other during concerts and stuff like that to the point of almost screwing around during songs instead of actually playing music and their chemistry together looks really cute but it's hard to tell anything about their personalities from the small curated snippets about themselves that are posted online.
>>4287936Just write a fic for the dozens of girl band anime/manga we have been flooded with lately...
>>4287936You can just apply that idea to one of the shows >>4287955 mentioned.
>>4287745Endless Season next chapter when
>>4255745What is the best /u/ fanfic you've ever read
>>4289073This Danganronpa one:https://archiveofourown.org/works/1124573/chapters/2266799
Diakko recs?
>>4289100I look like this
>>4289073Not the best one, but my favorite was Lillium. I don't think it's on fanfiction.net anymore though. It was a Ashe x Katarina League of Legends fanfic in an HS setting.
>>4289353https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9995427/1/Lilium
