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Saturday Night Recs

Sun, 30 Jan 2022 05:00:29 GMT

Posted by: doranwen

Here's this month's roundup of fics I read and enjoyed or found interesting enough to add to my database. It's mostly Matrix fics, but there are a few additions for smaller fandoms in my database.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( Deep Impact (1998) )

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Speed (1994) )

( The Matrix )

If any of the links above no longer work (and are inaccessible via the Wayback Machine), please let me know so I can flag them as "Dead" in my database, thanks!

Enjoy! :)

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Misc fandoms & crossovers I read & saved

Mon, 24 May 2021 01:44:13 GMT

Posted by: doranwen

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! :)

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Well-written fics that aren't my favorites (but maybe they'll be yours!)

Fri, 07 May 2021 03:05:27 GMT

Posted by: doranwen

So I realized the other day that all those rec posts I posted back in September… only featured fics I had marked as favorites (ones I'd like to re-read). That actually is not the same thing as well-written fics, as I have some I like that I have to admit aren't very well-written, and there are very well-written fics that just don't appeal to me for whatever reason. (I liked them enough to read through them and save them, it just means I probably won't re-read them very much if at all.) I went through my fanfic database and added a separate marking for the ones that I thought were very well-written, whether or not they were on my favorites lists. These had to strike me as exceptionally well-written, not just decent. You may disagree with my choices, and that's fine. :) But you can rest assured that any on this list are not riddled with SPAG errors, and show a good command of the English language, even if the style isn't always your thing.

I created a query of just the ones that were very well-written but NOT on my favorites list, for whatever reason, and I wanted to showcase them here. Just because they're not something I want to re-read a bunch doesn't mean they shouldn't be noticed and appreciated by someone, and hopefully one of these will appeal to you! Please kudos/comment as you feel comfortable doing for them, and enjoy! (Most of these are pretty tiny fandoms, but that's a function of what I've got in my database so far.)

Most of these I don't recall off the top of my head what they are about in order to describe them, but I put what notes I do remember. If you need a recs list that's more tailored (to avoid a particular theme or whatnot), please let me know - one of the major bonuses of using a database is that I can create all manner of queries to select just what I want.

Ratings are taken from the fics themselves and adapted to a combined rating system in my database, with ff.n fics getting G through R, and AO3 fics getting G/PG to X. AO3 fics and those on blogs without ratings are marked Unrated.

( Alphas )

( Anthropomorphic )

( Deep Impact )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Push )

( Rookie Blue )

( The Matrix )

Hope someone enjoys some of these!

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Tiny fandom fics

Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:33:31 GMT

Posted by: doranwen

Tiny fandoms time! (At least the database is perfect for that right now, since those are what I started with.) I've rec'd some of these in earlier posts but I'm starting to lose track of which, lol, other than I know I've rec'd all the ones under 1k and over 50k, so I'll eliminate those here and just show the ones in between, which is a lot of them. I'm defining "tiny" as Yuletide-eligible, which technically includes Matrix fic at this point, I believe. (A bit of a loophole, that, but it's not the only one, at least.) I also eliminated any WIPs (as I did with the over 50k post) because I know a lot of people who don't like reading anything that's not complete (especially if there's little to no chance of it being finished).

Again, ratings from Fanfiction.net were translated into G to R, and ratings from AO3 were translated into PG to X (which was shorter than NC-17). Anything not rated on AO3 or other sites is marked Unrated. I'll try to give warnings if there's anything that would fall under the big four AO3 warnings, and any ships.

I don't promise that all of these are necessarily the best-written (though many are!), just that they have something about them that I've really enjoyed, and hopefully you will find the same thing in some of them. :)

( Crossovers )

( Alphas )

( Cybergeddon )

( Deep Impact )

( FBI (TV) )

( Flood (2007) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( Gold Diggers (1995) )

( Push )

( Speed (1994) )

( Stick It (2006) )

( The Matrix )

Wow, that took a LOT longer than I expected - mostly because I had to skim-read each of them to write something up about them. Next time I'll just skip that part, maybe, lol. But I hope someone finds this list helpful in some way to make it worth it. :)

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