Rec the Thing

Before I get to the rest of the post, I thought I should probably link to my dead fics post. From here on out I won't be posting any recs here on this comm for fics which are inaccessible even via the Wayback Machine. Any such fics I run across on my hard drive will be rec'd on that post instead, updated as necessary. (See the instructions there for how to read those fics, should you want to.) I won't try to keep the tags on this post updated to match, however (currently there are only recs for Push, Stick It, and The Matrix there, but at points in the future I'll be adding - at the very least - Pern, Rizzoli & Isles, Sue Thomas F.B.Eye, and Young Wizards fics to that post).

On to the Saturday Night Recs:
All of these are fics I read in the past couple of weeks and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. (I will also be unable to post on the 3rd, so the next Saturday Night Recs will be on July 10, if anyone cares, lol.)

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

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.


( FBI (CBS show) )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

Back with more fics I've read this past week. I won't be able to post on the 19th, so the next batch of these will be on the 26th.

I've finally caught up with FBI and FBI: Most Wanted - at least, with what I've spotted on AO3 and ff.n. If people are posting fics elsewhere, I have no idea how to find them and therefore haven't read them.

I've caught up with Matrix fics on AO3 now but have tons to go through on ff.n and other sites yet.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

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.


( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI (CBS show) / Rizzoli & Isles )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

Maybe I'll start a tradition - all the fics I've enjoyed and added to my database in a week. I've been working on other projects, but still reading fic to catch up. There's a bunch more I just haven't had time to get in the database yet - but I wanted to post this before it hit midnight in my time zone. :)

Fics I tagged as favorites:
Fics I thought were exceptionally well-written:
WIPs:
(Icons come from the Icon pack by Icons8.)

As always with my db-generated lists, 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.


( FBI (CBS show) )

( FBI (CBS show) / FBI Most Wanted )

( FBI Most Wanted )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

I decided against rec'ing these from the database because it's a series and you're best off going to the series page and seeing the order from there.

For anyone who has enjoyed FBI: Most Wanted, starring Julian McMahon, Roxy Sternberg, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Kellan Lutz, and a host of other people (Nathaniel Arcand, Miguel Gomez, YaYa Gosselin, Irene Bedard, etc.), I'm rec'ing a series featuring an interesting OC.

The Wild Hunt by Bastet5 is at 422,604 words currently and is on hold, so there may not be more forthcoming (it didn't make it to S2), but what is there is plenty complete and enjoyable.

The author adds an original female character who is an FBI agent from the same tribe as Clinton Skye (Nathaniel Arcand's character) and who also speaks Mohawk as well as French (hailing from Quebec originally). She has PTSD and claustrophobia so there's quite a bit of dealing with that involved, in addition to mentions of child physical abuse. There are no romantic ships involved beyond brief mentions of canonical ones, but a variety of friendships and a whole lot of team-as-family.

The series reads like a cross between a recap of the episodes and outsider POV with a side dose of A-plot (and plenty of h/c) that we don't get to see on the show, and I found myself being genuinely interested in the original character as the time went on (and wishing she actually existed on the show). It doesn't completely walk through all of the episodes, as the OC isn't always present for some of them due to various events, but it adds another perspective plus some backstory to things like the quote from the backdoor pilot in FBI 1x18 where Jess tells Kenny "next time a fugitive throws a refrigerator down a staircase, don't try to catch it". If you love this show, I highly recommend trying it out.

I've been catching up on fics posted months ago (adding them to my database), and enjoying so many good ones, that I had to share them.

Rather than make a bunch of separate posts, I thought it might be easier to just flag the tagged ones with suitable icons:

Fics I tagged as favorites:
Fics I thought were exceptionally well-written:
WIPs:
(Icons come from the Icon pack by Icons8.)

I enjoyed reading all of these fics so much that very few stood out above the rest. There's a lot of great fic here! (More FBI than anything else, as I've been going through the archives to catch up there.)


As always with my db-generated lists, 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.


( Alphas )

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Greatest American Hero )

( Push )

( Rizzoli & Isles (TV) / Women's Murder Club (TV) )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

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.

( My favorite WIPs, all Matrix )

and the rest of the WIPs:

( Alphas )

( Push )

( Rizzoli & Isles [TV] / Rookie Blue )

( The Matrix )

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! :)

These are all the fics from miscellaneous fandoms and crossovers that didn't fit in my other posts. All complete, not flagged in my database for anything in particular.

As always with my db-generated lists, 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

There are few enough of these that it wasn't too hard to put ships - most of them are unusual enough that I remembered what they were about.


( Chronicles of Narnia [books] / Lord of the Rings [books] )

( Deep Impact )

( Gold Diggers )

( Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman / Smallville )

( Smallville / The Pretender )

( Stick It (2006) )

( Misc. Crossovers )

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! :)

With Fried Green Tomatoes, I lumped all book and film fics together as the differences are fairly minor. I have no way of sorting them out now, lol.

As always with my db-generated lists, 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

EDIT: With some help from a very SQL-knowledgeable friend (and a LOT of tinkering on my own), I've managed to pull the list of all the ships I thought were major. 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. (Chars in ships are in whatever order I happened to think of when I created the ship, so it doesn't match AO3 order necessarily.)

( Fried Green Tomatoes fics here )

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! :)