WIP recs list

[doranwen]

This is sort of an unusual list - all of these are WIPs, and most are really old and will never be completed. But some people (*cough*me*cough*) are willing to read even permanently unfinished fics because they can be enjoyable, so I'm sharing them here. If you can't stand WIPs, then this post most definitely is not for you!

As always, ratings are all converted to a single system for convenience:
Fanfiction.net - G through R
AO3 - PG through X (though the occasional child-friendly fic I mark G)
anything without a rating (AO3 or other site) - Unrated

I listed any ships I thought were major below each fic. If there are any minor/background ships you want to avoid, please leave a comment and ask for a list to be made for you. Note that ships may refer to one-sided or unrequited ones as well as to requited/mutual.

Favorite Matrix WIPs:

From what's in my database so far, all of my favorite WIPs turn out to be Matrix ones, lol. There's something about each of these that grabs me, and I wish they'd been continued further! The Matrix: Redux has had some updates in the past year or so, but the rest are long abandoned, I believe.

Emma-G - Body Warmth is the Best Defence Against the Cold
6060 words, G
Morpheus/Niobe, Neo/Trinity

Jennifer Jolie - Obligation
13299 words, PG
Neo/Trinity

Madolan - Prophecy I: Triune Godhead
3090 words, PG-13
No ships.

Trialia - Inori
2431 words, PG-13
Neo/Trinity

Trin303 - The Matrix: Redux
139302 words, R
Neo/Trinity


and the rest of the WIPs:

Alphas

No major ships for any of these.

Boredom Queen of Insanity - Unknown
4129 words, PG-13

Dr. E. Mode - Deception
4016 words, PG-13

evening_spirit - (untitled)
368 words, PG-13

Geek for God - Remember Me?
840 words, PG-13

Lia-Sophia Bark - Break Him
1727 words, PG-13

memorysdaughter - Keep Her Safe
18782 words, PG-13

pretzzell - How They Came To Be
6512 words, PG

SevenGate - Damsel in Distress
1144 words, PG-13




There's definitely some Underage in some of the Nick/Cassie ones.

amare - The Future Didn't Look Like This
10964 words, R
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

BeingProtector - Move
1102 words, Unrated
Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

IsisIzabel - SNAP
6981 words, R
Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

JustAGirl24 - The Same New Story
5032 words, PG-13
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

lazuli_writes - Four Grey Walls
1621 words, Unrated
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes

Liberty Roth - The Eye of the Tiger
5324 words, PG-13
Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

soiheard - Pushed
9788 words, PG-13
No ships.

soiheard - The Edge
3040 words, PG-13
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

southern cross - Buttery Goodness
5412 words, PG-13
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes

StudentofDust - More Questions Than Answers
3126 words, PG-13
Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson

StudentofDust - The Care Knot
12015 words, PG-13
Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes

thewordsmith13 - While the city sleeps
2906 words, PG-13
Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson


Rizzoli & Isles [TV] / Rookie Blue

neworlddiscoverer - breakers
3222 words, PG-13
No ships.


The Matrix

Agent Mercury - Learning
24176 words, R
Agent Thompson/OFC

Anakin McFly - The Next Generation
3294 words, PG
No ships.

benignmilitancy - A Son of Fire
44324 words, PG-13
Merovingian/Persephone, Neo/Trinity

ceridwen-amyed - Understanding
17994 words, PG-13
Neo/Trinity

Chord - Fade To Black
8813 words, PG-13
No ships.

Chord, Jennifer Jolie - Three shades of sky
31422 words, PG-13
Neo/Trinity

Cris - The Fourth Kingdom
41549 words, R
Neo/Trinity

Drucilla - Understanding
116023 words, PG-13
Agent Smith/OFC

Dust1 - Blood Like Roses
1337 words, G
Switch/OFC

Emma-G - Steps in a journey
17200 words, G
No ships.

Jennifer Jolie - Déjà vu
3002 words, PG
Neo/Trinity

Jennifer Jolie - Not like this
4485 words, PG
Neo/Trinity

Mara Trinity Scully - See Your Enemy AU
5244 words, R
Bane/Trinity, Neo/Trinity

matrixrefugee - A Little Child Shall Lead Him
9138 words, PG
Merovingian/Persephone

Meridian1 - Alterations
5834 words, PG-13
Neo/OFC, Neo/Trinity

Meridian1 - The Promise of What Is
45756 words, R
Neo/Trinity

Miss Misery - Soldiers Never Live Apart
3758 words, G
Neo/Trinity

MistyX - Epic
35706 words, PG-13
Ghost/Trinity, Neo/Trinity

NobleKnight1 - Wake Up, Xander
995 words, PG
No ships.

NobleKnight1 - Xander
1536 words, PG-13
No ships.

Ryven (Lannakitty) - Equilibrium
73514 words, R
Neo/Trinity

Ryven (Lannakitty) - Unplugged
22074 words, PG-13
No ships.

Seyi - Cold Reality
4981 words, PG-13
Neo/Trinity

SunGoddess7 - Offspring
44983 words, PG
OMC/OFC

Sydney Andrews - The Last Exile
99299 words, R
Neo/Trinity

Sydney Andrews - The Undiscovered Country
122836 words, R
Neo/Trinity, OMC/OFC

Tabard - Dreamworld Shutdown
8371 words, PG-13
No ships.

Tastywheat - The Rise and Fall of Dante
20779 words, PG
No ships.

trinityfaraday - A New Beginning
4823 words, PG
Neo/Trinity

Us-And-Them - In the Aftermath
4789 words, PG-13
No ships.

Us-And-Them - The Rabbit Hole
12358 words, PG-13
No ships.

WriterSpud - Untitled
2083 words, PG
No ships.

Zodiac - Agents Of Change (4)
11580 words, PG-13
No ships. (Note that this one's the sequel to three fics linked in the Matrix fic post I made a few days ago.)


If any of the links above no longer work, please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

I have definitely recced abandoned WIPs before. It sometimes depends on whether it ends in a very cliffhangery way or what kind of story it is. Sometimes the author just doesn't know how to end them or they're leading up to a turn they don't want to explore. But very often the journey is worth it.

[indywind]

This reminds me of a few abandoned WIPS that I like enough to rec. Usually WIPs are pretty frustrating to me, but these either had enough to interest me while they lasted to make up for the sudden stop in medias res, or come to a reasonably satisfying stopping point.

The Blog of Eugenia Watson by Mad_Lori
95026 words, G
A SherlockTV AU from the perspective of the teen daughter of John & OFC (there is no Mary), parented by all 3. Sherlock/John mostly in the background.

Born from the Earth by venusm
277,602 words, Explicit
An IronMan/MCUA/B/O-verse AU that really digs into social effects of a world where that kind of biology is a thing. Multiple pairings, OFCs, several chapters of Tony's childhood backstory & worldbuilding before it earns the E rating, iirc.