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⌈ Secret Post #660 ⌋

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[Metal Gear Solid]

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[Hikaru no Go]

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[No Heroics]

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[Invader Zim]

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[Kyou Kara Maou]

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[Ctrl+Alt+Del]

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[Nevermind the Buzzcocks]

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[Anne Hathaway; The Devil Wears Prada]

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[Princess Tutu]

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[Friends / [title of show]]

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[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]

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[Marquis De Sade / Von Sacher-Masoch]

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[Harry Potter, Remus/Sirius]

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I haven't read anything on FFN in a long time. *sheepish* I really should, but I don't feel like spending time wading through everything else there. At least on LJ my friends tell me about fic that's worth reading, and I watch the authors I care to read.

Re: HP, I was on the fringes a long time ago, and I haven't felt the need to go into the fandom at all. I was around when Fictionalley was becoming _the_ place to go, but I was only a reader, and I read VERY few stories. (That was back when I was a high school student and actually had time to read...) I think I only cared about one (the Psychic Serpent trilogy, by Barb.) Never really found anything else since then (except Transfigurations). The fics that really push the "what is magic" and explore the magical properties of the HP world were the ones I cared about, but I will be the first to admit you could fit the titles of all the HP fics I've read into one of LJ's comment boxes, and still have room enough for a drabble without scrolling.

I presume (based on your icon) that your main fandom is PoT?
It's a fair presumption! I think I'm actually more well-known in Hikaru no Go, which is another reason why I leapt to the assumption that you knew who I was. (Knowing most of the authors does not mean being known by most of the readers, but it's hard to remember this when I've not had to introduce myself in a long time.) I actually don't read very much myself, nowadays, because I'm a little swamped. (I also tend to specialize in Seigaku, Tezuka in particular, so eventually everything starts to sound the same.)

As for a rec... here, a current one. If you haven't seen

subrosa_tennis yet, I strongly recommend you do. This round we have some VERY strong fics. As co-mod, I am very pleased with this round's "harvest" overall. ^_^ (There _are_ some fics I just can't get into, but I think that holds true everywhere...)

I also recommend

goldenagefic, which has a lot of Hikago as well as PoT.

The character search is good for finding less popular pairings. You'll still end up with lots of crap, but there's sometimes a gem or two to be found. It doesn't help with gen stuff or more popular pairings, though. It's probably safer to go through recs. There are a couple of really good HikaGo fics there; I can think of three at the moment. Two of them were wips the last time I saw them and somewhat AU; a different take on the canon events. The finished one was one where Hikaru died and showed up as a ghost during a stormy night at Akira's door. I can't remember the title, but my male friend who never reads fanfiction (and somewhat resembles House in his commentary) loved the story when I made him read it, and that tells a lot. It's probably THE fic for me in the HikaGo fandom and I found it on ffnet. In general I prefer reading fics on series-specific archives or the author's personal website, as long as they have some understanding of readable colours vs. something a hippie on crack designed. I prefer archives like this (http://www.athenewolfe.com/justrewards/index.php), though; ones that have the option of opening the story chapter by chapter or as a full story.

Fictionalley = fanfiction.net part 2, in my opinion. It may have occasional good stories, but most of the stuff is as much crap as most of the stuff on ffnet. With big fandoms like HP recs are really the way to go, until you find some authors whose work you like. Never read the Psychic Serpent, but Transfigurations is one of the better H/D ones. I find this website (http://partial-eclipse.net/lists/index.html) helpful when trying to find fics with a particular theme. Some of the stuff linked is crap, but there's also good stuff, and the classifications help a lot in trying to find something that might interest you.

I don't really read that much HikaGo fic, as there's generally not much good, long, finished gen to be found (or I look in the wrong places), and I tend to stay away from HikaAki/AkiHika after seeing so much OOC stuff. I'd like to see some decent Meijin/Sai for a change.

Thanks for the links. :)

I hate to rec myself, but... here, Meijin/Sai. A Deeper Calm.

The character search is good for finding less popular pairings.
This is where I admit--sheepishly and with much foot-shuffling--that for me, it's never about the pairing. I actually don't care who's doing what with who (... okay, no, I do care when it squicks me, but I don't have OTPs, for the most part). The fic you mention, I think I have read, but it was a long time ago! (I read that one on FFN.)

Fictionalley didn't use to be so big. *sighs* I was around when there were almost no stories to read on that site. (I have no idea when was this. I was in high school, that's all I can remember. I had also finished books 1 and 2 for sure. No idea if I read 3 by the time I started looking for fic.) I have had

mistful's DDG and QoM recced to me repeatedly, but for some reason I don't enjoy them very much, possibly because we have different views when it comes to characterisation, and I can't reconcile Maya's with my own.

Thank you for the multiple HP links! I'll have to go through them one day. *adds them to her Readitlater* ^_^

Actually one of the links was a Buffy archive. The other one is HP, though. :) If you like slash, PSA (http://glassesreflect.net) might have some good stuff. It's been years since I've visited it, though, and the last time I tried it the new version wasn't yet functional. I think that it's also about Harry-pairings and James-pairings, so you won't find e.g. Lucius/Severus there. Might be best to find a rec list by someone with a decent taste and use it to find readable stuff.

I have OTPs for a couple of fandoms, but mostly I'll read anything I don't dislike. I like less common pairings because they usually require some work from the author to make them work, so that makes them more interesting; they're also less likely to make me feel like I've read the same thing a 100 times before. I often have fun with the pairing search trying to come up with some strange matches and am then disappointed when I find nothing. I've found some great stuff I hadn't thought of before like that. I often enjoy exploring the possibilities and character dynamics, how some unlikely couple could be made to work. It is my firm belief that a good author can make any couple believable; some just take more work to reach that point. I like gen fics and occasional het, too. It's less about the pairing and more about the character focus for me; if the fic is about a particular pairing, I know that the focus is on those characters, but I'm as likely to like a well-written story about them in a friendship setting.

I always associate the site with Cassie Claire / Aja / Ivy / Mistful and their minions, and I've never been fond of that sect or their fics. I've read something supposedly amazing by Mistful, but it bored me and I never finished it. I also never understood the CC hype. Aja had a couple of nice fics, but I didn't like most of her stuff, either. There are lots worse fics on the site, though.

Yeah, considering the time crunches, I've devolved into going by authors I know or by recs.

Which site are you talking about in the last paragraph? FFN?

Fiction Alley. Most of the time when I hear it mentioned it comes with a mention of those people. However, I have read a couple of nice fics (written by someone else) I found via recs, at FA.

Ah, I see. ^_^ I really haven't been in the _fandom_ part of fandom that long.

I LOL'd at this
The finished one was one where Hikaru died and showed up as a ghost during a stormy night at Akira's door.
Is this the one? http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2295997/1/

*snorts at the irony of it

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