Fan Fic Recommendations - Television Tropes & Idioms

alt title(s): Fan Fic Recs

Caveat lector!

To prove that the remaining 10% is worth dying for, this is a list of recommendations made by Tropers for Fan Fics. Feel free to recommend your favorite fanfics here, but please follow the preferred template found below.

Bear in mind that recommendations are subjective, so if you want to question or discuss any given recommendation you should do so on the appropriate discussion page. Add the page to the watchlist, if need be. Also remember that if you want people to read the fanfic you're recommending, you should put some effort on writing the description. Sell us the fanfic, but don't inflate it; we're striving for some quality stories here, so if you have difficulties with making it look interesting, maybe it wasn't that good in the first place.

In addition, you will notice that the tropers have signed their recommendations. Somebody has to vouch for them, so if a given recco isn't backed up by anybody, it will be zapped. After a few samples, you will be able to note the interests of the tropers recommending them, and judge whether you might be interested too in a certain 'fic.

Cross Over fics between two fictions should be listed twice, once under each fiction's page. Cross Over fics between three or more should be listed once under Mega Crossover.

Important Note: If you were thinking of recommending a Fan Fic that was hosted by Geocities it is better to try and find a version mirrored elsewhere, like Archive.org as Geocities has suffered Critical Existence Failure! (That's right, Geocities didn't go under back in 2000....)

Jump to the bottom of this page to see the preferred format for a recommendation. If you're making a new page, copy this text

into the new page, replacing {{Template}} with the fandom in question and add a link to the new page on this one.

If you want people to stay away from a fan fic, or read it for other reasons, post it here. If you want to read articles for other fanfics of varying quality, go here.

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The template for each Fan Fic recommendation can be adjusted to better fit each series. A more extensive list of fields can be found here.

Title of the Fanfic by Author (Include at the right, in parenthesis, warnings for content that is usually considered squicky or separated from the rest. Usually AU fanfics, with explicit content, and/or more exotic things if considered appropiate. Some people just don't like them.)

Recommended by Troper
Pairing(s): If it's a Shipping Fic, list here the pairings that feature in the fic (warn here if it's het, male slash or female slash). If it's a Gen Fic, remove this line. To tell the difference between the two, notice if the focus of the fic is on a romantic relationship or if it focuses on the other aspects of the story. In case of doubt, classify the story according to the genres it's been tagged: the Romance tag for Shipping, absence of that tag for Gen Fic.
Synopsis: What's the story about? Give here a brief summary of the plot. It would be also useful to point out in what moment of the series the story takes place. If it's a Gen Fic but it has some romantic elements, note here the characters involved too.
Comments: What can you expect from the story? You can expand here on the other fields, and include things such as notes about the characterization and the plot, the tone (if it's particularly angsty, fluffy, or cracky...), the status of the story (complete, in progress, or dead), when in the series run the fanfic was written (if it's known) and pretty much the reasons why it's being recommended.