Rec the Thing

So when I posted the other week all of the fics I thought were exceptionally well-written (but not my favorites), a comment thread made me think - why not post a list of all the fics in the database that I haven't flagged as either favorite or exceptionally well-written? There are too many to go in one post, so I'm starting with all of the Matrix fic that I have in there so far. (Please note that I am NOT done adding Matrix fic - there's a lot more out there I haven't gone through yet!) I finished doing a further edit of the database for some new themes and separating major vs. minor characters, and now that I'm done I'm celebrating by posting. :D

In the process of doing the last edit, I found another Matrix fic I added to the very well-written fic list post from last time.

Note that the fics in this list range from quite good to less so, as far as writing goes, but even the latter were interesting enough to read through once. YMMV as far as each individual fic goes (you might think some of these belonged in my last post, and others you might wonder why I even bothered to read them). However, this list does represent some weeding out of the worst sludge so it'll save you the trouble of browsing through both sites in search of some good fics. :) (Though some fics aren't here just because I didn't care for the pairing or other content, so please don't take absence of any fic on any of my lists as a denigration of the fic itself.)

All of these fics are either marked complete or appear to be complete (the option for completeness was added to ff.n several years after the Matrix films came out, so the majority of the fics were never updated to reflect that). I'll save WIPs for a different post another day.

Multi-author fics can be found under the first author's name alphabetically, with the second name following it, separated by a comma. Thus a fic written by both Scottishlass and Centaur is found under "Centaur, Scottishlass".

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

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.) Note that ships may refer to one-sided or unrequited ones as well as to requited.

( A big long list of Matrix fics )

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! :)