Rec the Thing

A few years I created a database to organize my fanfics, stocked it with about 1800 fics from a handful of fandoms (mostly small ones), and then got swamped with things and put it on hold. Tonight I've finally caught up with the fandoms in it* and updated all of the lists, and thought it might be good to link them here in case someone hasn't seen the posts before or wants to revisit them now that I have added nearly 350 fics to the lists.

You can find them all linked at my master recs post. All lists indicate which ships are major in the fic, if any, and I mark a few additional things that may be helpful.

Fandoms currently included:

• Alphas


• FBI (CBS show)


• FBI: Most Wanted


• Fried Green Tomatoes (book & movie)


• Push


• Speed


• The Matrix

as well as a smattering of recs from tinier fandoms (mainly movies). Fandoms with fewer than 30 fics in my database (such as Speed) are in a "Tiny fandoms" post, and there's a post just for crossovers as well.

In order to keep maintenance to a minimum, I don't include all the themes with the main posts above, but I generally include them with any post made on request. Themes tagged cover everything from tropes to grammar (I tag anything that isn't third person past tense) to story ending (positive, sad/unhappy, etc.) to AO3's archive warnings. If you want or need to be spoiled about everything, follow the directions on that post to request a custom recs list and I'd be happy to make one for you.

* The only fandoms not updated are the two FBI shows, because I haven't watched past S3 of the main show and S2 of the Most Wanted one. Someday, perhaps…

All of these are fics I read in the past month and added to my fanfic database. Most of them are for The Matrix, as usual, because of the fandoms I've added to my database, that one is by far the most active. There were more Matrix fics than the ones I added, too - mostly kink and/or ships I'm not into, so if those sound appealing, you'll have to check the actual fandom tag for what's been posted. But if you'd like a more curated list, the ones below I thought were all interesting enough to suggest, and they're sorted by wordcount so you can choose what fits the length of time you have to read. (And while I always love Neo/Trinity, the ones with no major ships at all are all short and quite intriguing, so if you don't know where to start, try those.)

I'm assuming at this point that most everyone has seen The Matrix: Resurrections and don't need spoiler warnings; the fics in this list are mostly for that film. If you're wanting lists separated by the film(s) they're based on instead, those are linked from my master recs post, and also contain the fics below.

( Icon guide )

( Explanation of ratings )

( Content warnings and spoilers )

( Ships )

Below are the recs:

( FBI (CBS show) )

( Fried Green Tomatoes )

( 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! :)

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! :)

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. :)

I was going to do all the weekly themes in one but fanvids are kind of their own thing, so here are a bunch of my favorite fanvids for a ton of fandoms, and I'll get to the fics later.

All totally SFW as far as I know (though the Alphas and Rookie Blue ones do have some making out in them).

tomorrow, when the war began || it's a brave new world
Fantastic TWTWB movie vid to the song "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars. It's got some interesting coloring, nice cuts, and is way deeper if you've read the books and know what's going to happen with the different characters.

Alphas TV
An Alphas fanvid with the idea that you're watching TV and changing the channel, so there are different song choices to different parts of it. Uses songs such as "Have a Nice Day" by Bon Jovi, the Imperial March theme from Star Wars (by John Williams), and Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber. Ranges from hilarious to heartbreaking.

Idgie and Ruth Love Story Fried Green Tomatoes (FGT)
A well-done video for Fried Green Tomatoes showing the relationship between Idgie and Ruth to Taylor Swift's Love Story.

Leave Me Hypnotized, Love [Push]
One of multiple Push fanvids made to this song (featured in the film) and focusing on Nick/Cassie.

Rizzoli & Isles - Crazy Jane
A funny Rizzoli & Isles vid to Crazy Jane by Dizzy Balloon. The song is too perfect for Jane Rizzoli, lol.

Andy McNally and Sam Swarek ~ Crash and Burn
A lovely Rookie Blue fanvid for the Andy/Sam ship to Savage Garden's Crash and Burn.

Éomer's Bootcamp (I'll Make a Man Out of You)
A very funny LOTR video to the song from Mulan. If you've seen the LOTR films and you've never seen this video, you have to change that right away. :D

LOTR - music video -Fallin
A blast from the past, this LOTR video was reposted in 2007 and made years before that, probably just after the first film came out (note that it isn't remotely hi-def; the version I have on my hdd, which is the original size, was 320x240 - best to watch from a distance if you can't shrink Youtube's version small enough). It's set to Falling by K-Otic and features the Fellowship falling over, and over, and over… :D

One Step At a Time - Women's Murder Club (Cindy)
You'll need to find a way to stretch this back to landscape somehow (download from Youtube and watch with VLC is my recommendation), but it's a great Women's Murder Club video focusing on Cindy and using Jordin Sparks' song One Step at a Time.

Lois & Clark fanvid - That's All - season 1
Very well-done Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman vid to the tune of That's All by Genesis. I particularly love all the newspaper bits.

And I posted my favorite Leverage fanvids in a comment to a community recs post earlier, but I reposted that to my own DW to save my recs, so if anyone didn't see them before, here they are.