Ficrec Masterlist (all the best stuff)
THIS IS A PRETTY OLD MASTERLIST. FOR UPDATED RECS PLEASE VISIT MY DELICIOUS OR MY BOOKMARKS AT AO3
I love fanfiction. Fanfiction is the best thing ever, and there are so many stories out there to choose from. God bless the Internet and creative people.
This is the masterlist of all my recomendations, split into the various fandoms I enjoy. This list will grow as I find new stories that are just fantastic and make me want to marry the author's brain. No so-so fics here, in other words. Just the very best stuff.
Harry Potter fanfiction
Fanfic on the Harry Potter book series (seven books by JK Rowling about a boy wizard. I'm guessing you've heard of them. :-)). Mainly slash pairings, but some het and gen too. My icon should be an indication of the main pairing found here.
Bandom fanfiction
Bandom fanfic is people making up stories about real people who play in different bands. I didn't know this existed until about a month ago. I found the stories via other people's rec lists and thought I'd missed some kind of TV series or something. :-) But no. Real people (Panic! at the Disco, mainly. If you don't know who Panic! at the Disco are, these commented pictures will give you a good idea). Slightly disturbing, but once you get past that, this stuff is beyond amazing.
Queer as Folk (US) fanfiction
TV series about a group of gay friends living in Pittsburg, USA. There is a British version as well, but I haven't seen that. Practically everything here is Brian/Justin. I never really cared about the rest of the characters even when watching the show.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and spin-offs) fanfiction
TV series about a girl with superpowers who kills vampires (except for sometimes when she falls in love with them instead). Lots of different pairings since I like practically all the characters on this show. Weak spot for Spike/Buffy and slash pairings involving Xander, however. And anything dark with Wesley. I love Wesley.
Friends fanfiction
TV comedy series about a group of friends living in New York. Mainly stories with Chandler in them because I love Chandler stories. General warning for Monica-bashing. :-)
Short wordlist for the uninitiated
(aka friends that I've nagged to come here and take an interest in fanfic :-))
Fandom - The universe in which a story takes place. For example a TV series or a book.
Slash - Stories featuring male/male relationships (the nice stuff! :-D)
Femslash - Stories featuring female/female relationships.
Het - Stories featuring male/female relationships.
Gen - Stories that don't focus on any relationships (for example stories centered around a specific character, stories with a more general perspective or stories that simply don't care about romance or smut)
Smut - porn (the raison d'être for lots an lots of fanfic)
Ship - A specific pairing in focus. To ship something is to write stories to promote a specific pairing. (I ship Harry/Draco a lot right now for example)
OTP - One True Pairing, i.e. your absolute favourite ship that you love and adore with all your heart way past any point of reason or normality.
GSF - Group Slut Fic, i.e. polyamorous relationships where more than three people get it one with one another at the same time. Happens a lot in bandom. :-D
Canon - What actually happened in the book/TV series/film.
Fanon - What didn't actually happen but which has been used so many times in fanfiction that it has become a well-known and widely accepted concept. A fanon character is a specific version of a character, usually very well-defined and appearing in many stories by different people while staying internally consistent. (For example Mr Darcy!Snape, who looks like Snape and talks like Snape but who is a distinguished nobleman and the perfect romantic lead to any Jane Austen remake you'd want to write. :-)
Bashing - To write a specific character in a very bad light (making someone into the villain of the story). Usually plays a counterpart to shipping (a story shipping Buffy/Spike will usually not be very nice to Angel, for example).