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Main Fan Fic Recommendations Discussion
"Do warn when a fanfic may head into homosexual or non-canon territory. Some people just don't like it, and as we all know, Shipping is Serious Business."
God, this sentence bugs me.
"Some people" just don't like lots of stuff, including het. Why only warn against Teh Gay? (And we are aware that sometime gay people are already there in the source material, right?)
And isn't all fanfic, by definition, non-canon? What does that even mean?
Wouldn't it be a little more helpful, and a lot less homophobic, to just say "Shipping is Serious Business, so help readers decide if they want to read a fic by noting all pairings clearly?"
Why oh why is there no Hellsing section in the fanfic recs folder?
I've come across a couple GI Joe fics that are pretty good, but the authors are working with a mix of animated series canon and comic book canon — what's the best place to enter these?
I recommend this
collection of kaiju battles. No plot, But the way they're written is magnificently done.
collection of kaiju battles. No plot, But the way they're written is magnificently done.
Is it okay to link to fanfiction communities? Because I'm working on a fanfic recommendation.
This may be more of a site-wide question, but where do animated films belong? Currently they're spread between the western animation and film categories.
Hey guys, new member Stormpaw here. I just found a fanfic for Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry on Fanfiction.net. Should the Fanfic Recommendations page go with Van Beuren Studios or should I create a page in the Main Namespace for just that series, and put the Fanfic Recommendations page there?
As per Here
, template moved to top and wording tweaked.
, template moved to top and wording tweaked.
The Fanfic Recommendations template requires editors to divide stories into Gen Fic and Shipping Fic. Now there are fandoms with fan fiction which cannot be split into these two genres as easily as in your average anime fandom, which do not allow for drawing a clear and definite line between Gen Fic and Shipping Fic because they don't play by established anime fan fiction rules.
Rescue Rangers fanfics, for example, are almost never devoid of quite obvious shipping, if not even downright romantic subplots, but at the same time, they almost never focus on said shipping, much less treat it as more important than, say, the case the Rangers have to solve. For example, First Date does, Last Date does to a lesser degree, but of the fanfics listed as shipping fics under the CDRR fanfic recommendations, not a single one does to a degree that the shipping in the story would become more important than any of the other story elements. These stories do ship Chip and Gadget, but they do not explicitly focus on shipping Chip and Gadget. It does happen, yes, and it doesn't happen in the background, but it's not the one main #1 driving plot element like it is in
In such a case, would it be frowned upon if the split into Gen Fic and Shipping Fic was done away with entirely to avoid confusion, misunderstandings, and misjudgement by people who aren't familiar enough with the fan fiction in the respective fandom?
For if this split is absolutely required to remain in place, this would mean that some 98% of all Rescue Rangers fan fiction would end up under Shipping Fic, implying that they're about these pairings—which they aren't. Or else, depending on how Gen Fic is defined, 99% of all Rescue Rangers fan fiction would end up under Gen Fic despite clearly shipping characters with one another.
Do I need a verification to recommend a fic? I have a really well written fic that I found that I would like to reccomend, but I'm not sure if I should just post it, get it checked, ect.
I want to add a Play By Post Game called Sburb Patch Notes to Homestuck Fanfic Recommendations. I have two questions: 1. I'm a somewhat active participant, can I still add it? 2. Where should I put it? Alternate Universe, Crossovers, or just General Fics? It has no Shipping. (Please read the page for information about it)(I added this to another discussion page but nobody seemed to answer.)
Why isn't there a Count Duckula Fan-Fic Reccommendations page? I saw a few good ones on Fanfiction.net, so it can't be a lack of good fic.
This troper made a fanfic starring a ton of cartoon characters from various mediums. It involves them all banding together to stop a bad guy from throwing the world into total chaos by having everyone's bad dreams and weird dreams becoming reality. What kind of fanfic is this?
(I included characters like Phineas and Ferb, Timmy Turner, Calvin and Hobbes, and quite a few others.)
I want to recommend a Xiaolin Showdown fic, but I honestly have no idea how. Could I get a little help? :)
Would anyone else think that drafting a full template page, for users to copy'n'paste for each new fandom's recs, would be a good idea? It could be linked to at the top of the index (outside the folders, or even above the header) with a name like Template Page For New Fandom Recommendations and just need copy'pasted and the name of the fandom filled in.
I think we should ban recommending blocked fics. There's nothing more frustrating then clicking on the link to a fan fic that's supposed to be really good only to find that there's no way for me to actually read it.
Can we have a music/bandfic/music real person fic and/or stage persona fic section?
A kind of secret vice of mine is reading Visual Kei slash (and there ARE some canon pairings even in this field - one I especially love was confirmed to have happened many years ago, recently).
Anyway, there's a variety of fics I'd love to recommend (and I even had a few for my favorite band on a page recommended but I think it must have been cut since I can't find it :( ) and I'd love to see what other people recommend.
I'd also like to see the section folderized by band/artist, since the band I like to read slash for the most kind of lost popularity among writers and one of my biggest pet peeves in looking for fic is wading through 100 Gazett E or Dir En Grey fics to find one for the guys I like...
can we do this? Please?
ETA: found the page I was working on at one point http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/XJapan . Not cut but wrong namespace. So once (if) we get the bandfic page up I'll move the stuff to it and cut list the linked page here.
. Not cut but wrong namespace. So once (if) we get the bandfic page up I'll move the stuff to it and cut list the linked page here.
Are we allowed to have negative reviews/comments? Because I had made a comment on the Total Drama page stating a few problems I had with a series of fan fics (which were, by the way, recommended by their own author) and it was deleted, appearantly (there were many things done on the edit, so it's not completely clear) because the edittor thought negative comments were complaining. But I thought that ffr pages were only for what really was recommended as good, and if enough tropers oppose it, the fan fic will be removed from the list, so that every single fan fic won't be listed up there. Plus, there are other pages (Such as the Naruto page) where people can comment against a fic last time I checked.
For refference, here's the comment: [About a series of Fix Fics]
- Great Pikmin Fan: I strongly advise you don't read these. Noah is turned into a blatant Gary Stu who gets New Powers As The Plot Demands that doesn't fit him at all; several moments from canon are repeated but with different characters, complete with Ezekiel and Sadie being such clones of Geoff and Bridgette that they are kicked off in the same spots at least twice; there's no villain at all, so the story is essentially talk about couples; and the new relationships are all forced. Especially Noah/Bridgette, which gives out wierd stalker vibes on his side (Noah builds cameras to spy on her in the shower, but appearantly it's okay since he's protecting her from pranks) and obsession vibes on her side (Bridgette dresses in a different swimsuit and normal outfit just to impress Noah or something.) I read through the entire first season, but gave up early in the second when it was clear that the author had made no effort on improving these flaws at all.
I would heartily recommend this fanfic Arrangements Shall Be Made, for sheer Crazy Awesome and hilarity. It's made by @Sam Jaz however, HERE IS MY QUESTION: It's based on Super Smash Bros. which is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover on it's own. but it's much bigger than that and really puts the mega in Mega X-Over, so which category should I put it in? It's also on hiatus until the author comes back. If somebody wants to recommend it before me go right ahead.
for sheer Crazy Awesome and hilarity. It's made by @Sam Jaz however, HERE IS MY QUESTION: It's based on Super Smash Bros. which is a Massive Multiplayer Crossover on it's own. but it's much bigger than that and really puts the mega in Mega X-Over, so which category should I put it in? It's also on hiatus until the author comes back. If somebody wants to recommend it before me go right ahead.