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If you could only read one fanfic for the rest of your life, which one would you pick? (if you want to do easy mode, I'll allow a fic series to be counted as just one fic)

tw: suicide, mentions of depression, yada yada yada

This is really tough for me to choose but probably Not About Superheroes (A Private Little War) by AnnaFugazzi http://archiveofourown.org/works/747827?view_full_work=true

It's Steve/Tony (which I honestly don't like that much) but it helped me out so much when I was really really depressed a few months ago. I would read it whenever I got too low. It just made me feel so much better, like wrapping myself in a warm familiar blanket when I felt alone.

I'd probably pick Battle Fatigue by bonsai_bunny as a second choice. http://archiveofourown.org/works/2228751

It also really helped. It made me feel less crazy and alone. Although a big part of that is due to how much I connected with the fic because Steve ended up trying to kill himself exactly the way I had been thinking about going. (Shooting himself in the head in the bathroom). It just made me feel less isolated I suppose.

(Melodramatic anon is melodramatic).

Anything that helps you, anon. *wraps you in virtual cozy blankets and hands you hot chocolate*

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I'm pretty sure that I've mentioned this one here before a while ago, but I'm going to with The Professor's Wife (http://archiveofourown.org/works/173254/chapters/253123)

I have a soft spot for Doumeki/Watanuki and it helps ease the pain of the shitty ending the manga had.

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This is such a cop out. http://archiveofourown.org/series/134280

So, if that does not count, I think I have to go with one of thegraytigress's fics.

Probably Unsustainable. http://archiveofourown.org/works/1973673/chapters/4271625

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Embers by Vathara

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solticisekf - 2015-01-18 03:07 (UTC) - Expand

Are we including published novels that can technically be considered fanfiction?

If so, Diane Duane's Rihannsu series.

If not, I'm going to go with My Immortal because it's fucking hilarious.

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(Anonymous) - 2015-01-17 21:43 (UTC) - Expand

Hard choice, but this hits almost all my buttons so: http://archiveofourown.org/works/330906 (The Boy Who Only Lived Twice by lettered)

Ahhhh! IDK, probably a toss up between A Forfeit of Dreams by KL Morgan (Labyrinth) or The Rising Sun by broken-vow (Phantom of the Opera).

Both are long, plotty, and shippy. A Forfeit of Dreams is an amazing sequel fic and The Rising Sun is an amazing AU.

I'd say A Forfeit of Dreams is probably my favorite of the two, but if I could only read one fanfic for the rest of my life I'd go with The Rising Sun because it has a lot more things going on and the stronger plot. It'd keep me entertained longer.

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...uhhhh. All my fandoms are tiny and barely have any long fic. To make matters worse, I'm a gen fan, which makes it nearly impossible to find good plotty stories. A close friend of mine is writing one RN, but it's not posted yet.

I have a lot of favourite one shots, but being stuck with a one shot for the rest of my life? XD

Alright, if I absolutely have to choose, perhaps this:
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1095384 - l'Heure d'Hiver by binz&shiplizard (the Horatio Hornblower series, gen). I figure a lifetime of reading about Hornblower getting so emotional he kisses Bush wouldn't be too bad.

Probably either Lords of Misrule (One of my favorite fics ever, and def one of my favorite Legolas/Gimli and LOTR fics. I've read it so many times it's ridiculous.)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/61169

Sansûkh (Thorin/Bilbo, Legolas/Gimli, lots of great side-characters, pairings and OC's, ridiculously long and still on-going, brilliant writing and all that.)
http://archiveofourown.org/works/855528/chapters/1637607

Or Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose (SGA fandom, McShep, lots of tears, ALL the tears, but seriously one of the best things I've read in fandom.)
http://www.kekkai.org/synecdochic/sga/freedoms_just_another_word.html

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People in the mirror are closer than they appear by

Nele

It's A:TLA, Jeeko, and absolutely, brilliantly hilarious! The latest chapter got posted just two days ago, and I'm currently re-reading.

Honestly I don't know anymore. Up until a few months ago, I would have hands down said the Dangerverse series even though I hate the pairings for the most part because I just loved the setup and the way the characters were written. The ending was so bad, though, that I can't say that anymore. Now I need to find a new favorite Harry Potter AU because they are my favorite type of fics.

I probably wouldn't read this the rest of my LIFE, but... current favorite would probably have to be "What Happens In Vegas..."

Trigger warnings all up ins for non con and graphic violence, but hands down best characterization of all COD: Ghosts fic out there.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/1061585/chapters/2128497

Also, god damn. How are you so good at porn? My jealousy, let me show you it.

This particular fill on the Pokémon kink meme- http://pokanon.livejournal.com/517.html?thread=3685125#t3685125

Because oh my gosh, I ship N x Silver like burning and this fic is basically everything I apparently wanted out of a kink meme fill for them. Long, well written and I like how both of them are characterised. It also proved to me that my friend and I aren't the only people out there who ship this.

http://archiveofourown.org/series/49178
America Isn't Chicken by Amuly
Comicsverse Steve/Tony. It is so, so good. The end gets a little bit sappy, but all the angst and ust, that never goes into over the top woobie territory, is so amazing. Plus it's so funny and well written.

It's a toss-up between two fics, really. I've re-read each probably a dozen times in the past year? (I think I've also recced the first at least twice on F!S.)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/229334
NOSTER NOSTRI by spicyshimmy (Post-DA2 Anders/Fenris)
Three years after the events of Act 3, Anders and Justice are separated, but everything goes wrong in the process. Fenris is a gladiator (sort of) and Anders wears a Saarebas collar (sometimes) and Danarius's summer pavilion factors in heavily.

Shimmy's summary doesn't do it justice. Absolutely the BEST characterization and descriptions of Fenris I've ever seen in a fic. And Shimmy managed to perfectly capture how Anders is caught between the man we saw in Awakening, and in DA2, and now stranded alone with Fenris of all people. Over all this is a fun adventure romp with slow-burn romance thrown in and a very satisfying ending.

A lot of people don't like Fenders, but this fic perfectly captures why it works so well as a pairing.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/333973/chapters/539639
shall we take a spin again (no witnesses) by miikkaa_xx (AU Thorki)
When Thor is need of money to help a friend, he turns to a less-than-legal source. However, what should have been a simple borrow-and-pay-back arrangement gets turned upside down when loanshark!Loki decides he wants something more than simply money in return.

In only a matter of days, Loki draws Thor into a dark, violent underworld, and it soon becomes clear that he has no intention of letting go.

Thor's descent is captured perfectly. This isn't a story where a good guy goes bad. There's no Dark!Thor here, only a guy who falls in love with a villain. The narrative doesn't shy from showing just how awful the shit Loki's involved in is, but at the same time Loki is still wonderfully human. It hits the perfect balance of glamorizing and demonizing the subject matter.

Ruse: Case Closed. Some context required.

Okay, so Ruse was a comic that went out in the early 00s, and had it come out maybe ten years later, it would've done well. It was... basically Sherlock Holmes, only instead of a rat-infested London, you had a gargoyles-infested Partington. Lots of fantasy, female Watson equivalent (her name was Emma Bishop, she was a polyglot and a former actress), great banter.

The company making Ruse went under after twenty-six issues. They were able to wrap up the immediate plotline, but a lot of bigger character questions were never answered. This fic answered all those questions for me, with perfect satisfaction.

The one I return to the most often is still the incomparable Aspects and Avatars, the A:TLA BDSM AU with just the best worldbuilding and the most adorable everybody and Zuko finally getting the belt like he's been begging for since season 1.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/270928/chapters/427712

Fix by Crysothemis.

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solticisekf - 2015-01-18 03:10 (UTC) - Expand

the first one i thought of was reparations and foundations by sarasgirl https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4842696/1/Reparations or http://saras-girl.livejournal.com/8930.html

It's All in the Mind
http://archiveofourown.org/series/21783

The steve/tony is thankfully rather small. Pretty good fic regardless! C:

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solticisekf - 2015-01-18 03:13 (UTC) - Expand

I'm reading though my rec list (while I sould be doing other things) and I like everything. ;_;
Here, have a funny Suits pre-slash fic.
http://suitsmeme.livejournal.com/1110.html?thread=1415510#t1415510

Well that is actually kinda easy for me, but I would have loved it to have a first chapter that holds up to the quality of the rest of the fic, but there is a lot of other fics I would miss.

At Least There's The Football, Mycroft Holmes/Lestrade (BBC!Sherlock)
I just love how it is written and how their story evolves and I like all that OCs and the dynamics between everyone. It is pretty much a get together/getting to know each other fic and it is just a nice (be it a long) read.
http://archiveofourown.org/series/9540

But I would also have trouble giving this one up as it is pure gold and one of the very few crossover fanfics that I enjoy.

Seduction By Aviation, Martin Crieff/Tony Stark (Cabin Pressure/Avengers):
Pretty much what it says on the tin.
http://archiveofourown.org/series/28029

And this, as it is one of the few Dom/Sub relationship fics I enjoy:
Taming a Hawk, Clint Barton/Phil Coulson (The Avengers):
I'm not sure what I should say about this one... I am not great at recommending things it seems.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/451462

Maybe The Bone Fiddle by htebazytook and Vulgarweed. It's Sherlock/John in 1970s Appalachia and I keep coming back to re-read it every few months.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/573857

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