recs
Because I'm just generous this way. (And because it cleans up my Favorites folders.)
Even though some may call me obsessively addicted, I'm picky about certain things, so this isn't as large a rec index thingy as it could be. An ongoing WIP.
FINAL FANTASY VII
Title: A Long, Hard Road
Author: Twig
Pairings: Sephiroth/Cloud; Zack/Tifa; Rude/Reno/Elena; Yuffie/Vincent; Jenova/OC
Status: Chapters 1-38, Complete
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 - angst, spoilers, mild language, violence
Summary: Five years after the end of the game, Cloud Strife is fighting a losing battle against the dark forces of Hojo and Jenova. What will happen when the decision is made to resurrect the very man who nearly destroyed them all?
Comment: An unabashed emotional rollercoaster of ANGST, love, and more angst. Couldn't tell you how many times I've read it.
Title: Fusion
Author: Knowing Shadows
Pairings: Sephiroth/Cloud
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: M
Summary: Cloud Strife finds it hard to deal with what he had to do to save his world, but now the Planet will give him a chance to change things for himself and for General Sephiroth.
Comment: *dies* One of the best EVER. I love her Cloud, and her Zack, and just about everything.
Title: Unexpected Side-Effects
Author: tir_synni
Pairings: Sephiroth/Zack/Cloud
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: R - tentacles, spoilers, adult content, violence
Summary: Cloud really wished that his mother had warned him about days like this. Pre-game.
Comment: It's tentacle!sex with plot. OMG. What else need I say? Except that it's brilliantly written, and Cloud is just priceless?
FINAL FANTASY VIII
Title: Whispered Screams
Author: Angry Angel
Pairings: Seifer/Squall; Irvine/Selphie
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: R - angst, NCS, adult content, disturbing content
Summary: [HighSchool AU] Some wounds run much deeper than others. Some can never be cured. And yet, there are people who will try to heal them all the same. They try, because they care. Because they love...
Comment: I know it's a high school AU. Still manages to be pretty awesome, not the least because she always writes Squall as so beautifully fucked up.
TItle: Blind Sight
Author: Sukunami
Pairing: Seifer/Squall
Status: Chapters 1-16; complete
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 - lemon, mild language
Summary: [AU] A blind seer guides the 'hero' through his destiny.
Comment: I'm...not entirely sure why I like this one so much. I just do. ^^;
GUNDAM WING
Title: Asylum
Author: Spooks
Pairings: 1x2, 3x4, 5xMeiran
Status: Chapters 1-15, Complete
Rating/Warnings: R - dark, disturbing content, attempted NCS, lime/sap, supernatural
Summary: [Not given by author]
Comment: It's a mental hospital AU that works, with all the loveliness you could want both dark and fluffy.
HARRY POTTER
Title: Crumbling Pedestal
Author: Shivani
Pairings: SS/HP
Status: Chapters 1-43, Complete
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 - time travel, moderate super!Harry, identity hopping, cliches...
Summary: Harry's date with Voldemort at the conclusion of the Triwizard tournament didn't go quite as planned. Fate steps in with a 'unique' opportunity, offering Harry the chance to live and mature in the past. For a while, anyway.
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Title: Eclipse
Author: Mijan
Pairings: HP/DM
Status: Chapters 1-20, Complete
Rating/Warnings:
Summary: Draco swore revenge on Harry for Lucius's imprisonment, and for once, he keeps his promise. The old rivalry turns deadly when Draco abducts Harry for Voldemort. But when Draco’s world turns upside down, the fight to save himself and Harry begins.
Comment: Also has sequel, Convergence.
Title: Fine Lines
Author: shadowphoenix
Pairings: SS/HP
Status: Chapters 1-13, Complete
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: When Lucius Malfoy seeks to become the next Dark Lord, Severus Snape finds himself the unwilling protector of Harry Potter, who has no memory of the wizarding world.
Comment: First of the Embers and Ashes arc. I wasn't unduly impressed with this first part, but the later additions to the arc are...just wow. Eventually deals with the ramifications of the wizarding world meeting the muggle world and if things didn't go so well.
Title: The Mirror of Maybe
Author: Midnight Blue
Pairings: SS/HP
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: R - violence, adult content
Summary: [none given by author]
Comment: A great story that would be even greater if it updated more than once a decade. Um. Not that that's a hypocritical thought.
Title: On the Last Day of Our World
Author: Sansa
Pairings: HP/DM, SS/RL
Status: Chapters 1-17, Complete
Rating/Warnings: NC-17
Summary: During a detention, Harry and Draco get locked in a strange room together overnight. When they escape the next morning, they discover they are alone. Love, angst and adventure abound as they struggle to survive in an empty world.
Comment:
Title: Parce que...
Author: curiouslyfic
Pairings: HP/DM
Status: Chapters 1-2, Complete
Rating/Warnings: NC-17
Summary: Harry blames the salad. Everyone else blames Harry. Featuring fluff, bad salad, Oblivious!Harry, and appalling French. Now with added smut. Rated for addition.
Comment: Oh Harry. Cute in a terribly dorky and oblivious way.
Title: Saving Connor
Author: Lightning on the Wave
Pairings: HP/DM (by fourth year)
Status: Chapters 1-22, Complete
Rating/Warnings: M - Slytherin!Harry, violence, disturbing content
Summary: Harry’s brother Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived, and Harry has devoted himself to protecting him-by being ordinary. But certain people aren’t content to let Harry hide in the shadows.
Comment: An epic rewrite of all seven years called the Sacrifices arc, which is finished. Brilliantly written and brilliantly complicated. It's kind of intimidating.
JAK & DAXTER
Title: Instrospective Hero
Author: Weiila
Pairings: Jak/Daxter
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: M - language, battle violence
Summary: Through all the mistakes he has done, and all the horrors of his existence, Jak knows that he'll always be able to count on Daxter to remain by his side. And that means more to him than even the fuzzball realizes.
Comment: Finally, one in which Jak is emotionally confused and Daxter's the oblivious one. Fluffy in a bittersweet and angsty way, but very well done, IMO.
KINGDOM HEARTS
Title: But That Was in Another Country
Author: Guardian1
Pairings: not sure yet...
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: Sometimes the good guys don't win against unstoppable odds. Yuffie Kisaragi and the last stand: before Traverse Town, there was the Planet, and before Sora, there was AVALANCHE.
Comment: Get the tissues ready. Heartbreakingly tragic and brutally realistic.
Title: Smokethoughts
Author: Lena ban Obsidian
Pairings: Sephiroth/Cloud
Status: Oneshot
Rating/Warnings: R - language, general mind-fuckery
Summary: Cloud awakens in a lab.
Comment: I've never seen anyone capture insane!Cloud with the same poignancy as Obsidian. First of a trilogy of oneshots.
Title: Suburbia
Author: Falaphesian
Pairings: Riku/Sora main, past Riku/Roxas
Status: Chapters 1-8, Complete
Rating/Warnings: M - angst, language, sexual content
Summary: With a runaway ferris wheel and the sinking of the sun, Riku's life was forever changed. Thrown into a cold and hostile new world, he battles locals, relatives, and himself as he tries to seek out a little shelter from a major storm.
Comment: A social commentary dressed up in ficcage--one that struck so close to home I couldn't sleep for the rest of the night. One of the few fics that truly blew my mind.
NARUTO
"There is no dominating or submission, just sex. (with Sasuke on bottom.)" -- Quack Says the T-Shape
Title: At the End of All Things
Author: Silvaren
Pairings: NaruSasu
Status: Chapters 1-5, Complete
Rating/Warnings: R
Summary: In the end, Sasuke comes home.
Comment: *squees* Believably disturbed!Sasuke and just general NaruSasu IC-ness.
Title: Attraction
Author: gelfling
Pairings: NaruSasu, NaruGaa, very slight KakaSasu
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: M - dark, angst, violence, gore, insanity, NCS, mind-fuckery
Summary: Naruto embraces his demonic roots, and Sasuke's his 1 enemy and dream. Blood, DARK, angst, lime, non-fluff introspective. And a bag of chips. Push something too hard, and it will break or bite back.
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Title: Deity
Author: Fantastical Queen Ebony Black
Pairings: Uchihacest
Status: Chapters 1-10, Complete
Rating/Warnings: M
Summary: A modern day rendition of the Uchiha tragedy. The problem with humans, you see, is that we're more entranced with our fantasies than reality...
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Title: Gray Colored Happiness
Author: mylilchickadee
Pairings: NaruSasu
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: T - angst, language, some mind-fuckery and Sasuke being Sasuke
Summary: (Sasuke 1st POV) Sasuke returns to Konoha only to discover that everything has changed, most of all himself. A study on what makes an avenger tick, after he's taken his vengeance.
Comment: Sequel of sorts to the lovely By His Side.
Title: i hold my breath until you creak to life
Author:
ronsard
Pairings: NarySasuSaku
Status: Oneshot (I think)
Rating/Warnings:
Summary:
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Title: Revolutions
Author: blue arcane
Pairings: NaruSasu
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: T
Summary: They went from rivals to best friends to near enemies, and all the way back again. A story about the evolving friendship between the two shinobi, as things between them shift subtly yet steadily.
Comment: Naturally evolving romance that's IC. YAYNESS.
Title: Summer Storms
Author:
luc_y7
Pairings: ItaSasu...for now.
Status: WIP
Rating/Warnings: NC-17 - shota, angst, disturbing content, NCS
Summary: An alternate tale. Sasuke tried to cling to his childlike self, but Itachi pushed and pushed until Sasuke had to tumble away.
Comment: There's just something so torture-able about Sasuke. Apparently, Itachi agrees with me.
SPIDER-MAN
(Ha, no, I'm not joking.)
Title: Just A Face on A Train
Author: katheryne
Pairings: none
Status: Chapters 1-5, Complete
Rating/Warnings: K - none
Summary: After rescuing a train from Doc Ock's attack, Peter Parker found himself unmasked and indebted to those he had just saved. 4 months later, a train passenger again crosses paths with the young hero. Based on events from SpiderMan 2.
Comment: This is probably the only Spider-Man fic I've ever read. Short and bittersweet, though more sweet. Unusually tame for my tastes, actually, but seriously, there's just something about this that I adore.
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Updated: 1 February 2007
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