History FanficRecs / ForBetterOrForWorse

* ''Comments'': The first in the genre of {{Fix Fic}}s that sought to rewrite the ending of the strip so that it did not end up with the UnfortunateImplications that sacrificing one's happiness for parental approval that wouldn't be forthcoming anyway is the key to the good life. We start things off with Liz getting a wake-up call as to how she's just plain been drifting through life when April runs off North because she's sick of being dumped on. After cancelling the wedding and taking stock of her life, she admits that she's not really ready to commit to anyone any time soon. While most of the cast are reasonably supportive, Elly goes mildly gaga because she can't cope with it.

** There are also [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html a series]] [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1217513.html of]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1237288.html holiday]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1238504.html themed]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1276497.html sequels]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1287750.html written]] , where the children, grandchildren, and Ted muse on life after the deaths of their parents, how their finding their own paths in life, [[spoiler:and how April was the result of an affair Elly had with Ted]].
** Now there's also liographies [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1240658.html for]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1242317.html Georgia]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1242880.html Richards]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1302767.html and]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1309173.html Connie]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1337960.html Poirier]].

** Now there's also a liography [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1240658.html for]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1242317.html Georgia]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1242880.html Richards]].

** There are also [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html a series]] [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1217513.html of holiday]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1237288.html themed]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1238504.html sequels]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1276497.html written]] , where the children muse on life after the deaths of their parents, how their finding their own paths in life, [[spoiler:and how April was the result of an affair Elly had with Ted]].

** There are also [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html a series]] [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1217513.html of holiday]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1237288.html themed]] [[https://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1238504.html sequels]] , where the children muse on life after the deaths of their parents, how their finding their own paths in life, [[spoiler:and how April was the result of an affair Elly had with Ted]].

** There are also two sequels, [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html Thanksgiving Day, 2020]] (Canadian Thanksgiving, natch), and [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1217513.html Halloween 2020]], where Michael and Elizabeth muse about how the Patterson children are only now ''really'' celebrating the respective holidays because of the attitudes of John and Elly and their feeling there's nothing to be thankful for or needless panic tainting the children. The reader also learns [[spoiler: John and Elly cheated on each other, and April was the result of Elly's affair.]] Another theme is how someday Elly's voice will be silenced forever, thanks to the children adopting the customs of their respective in-laws (and April those of John's friend [[spoiler: and her biological father]] Ted)

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the Website/LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption, [[spoiler: with Michael realizing he's become his mother and getting therapy, Liz divorcing Anthony (with Therese's help, ironically) and marrying Warren, and April reconciling with her siblings]].

* Recommended by {{DreadedCandiru2}}

* ''Comments'': The first in the genre of FixFics that sought to rewrite the ending of the strip so that it did not end up with the UnfortunateImplications that sacrificing one's happiness for parental approval that wouldn't be forthcoming anyway is the key to the good life. We start things off with Liz getting a wake-up call as to how she's just plain been drifting through life when April runs off North because she's sick of being dumped on. After cancelling the wedding and taking stock of her life, she admits that she's not really ready to commit to anyone any time soon. While most of the cast are reasonably supportive, Elly goes mildly gaga because she can't cope with it.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption, [[spoiler: with Michael realizing he's become his mother and getting therapy, Liz divorcing Anthony (with Therese's help, ironically) and marrying Warren, and April reconciling with her siblings]].

* ''Comments'': The first in the genre of FixFics that sought to rewrite the ending of the strip so that it did not end up with the UnfortunateImplication that sacrificing one's happiness for parental approval that wouldn't be forthcoming anyway is the key to the good life. We start things off with Liz getting a wake-up call as to how she's just plain been drifting through life when April runs off North because she's sick of being dumped on. After cancelling the wedding and taking stock of her life, she admits that she's not really ready to commit to anyone any time soon. While most of the cast are reasonably supportive, Elly goes mildly gaga because she can't cope with it.

Proof that [[SturgeonsLaw the remaining 10% is worth dying for]] here.

* Recommended by Tropers/{{Kazokuhouou}}

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** There are also two sequels, [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html Thanksgiving Day, 2020]] (Canadian Thanksgiving, natch), and [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1217513.html Halloween 2020]], where Michael and Elizabeth muse about how the Patterson children are only now ''really'' celebrating the respective holidays because of the attitudes of John and Elly and their feeling there's nothing to be thankful for or needless panic tainting the children. The reader also learns [[spoiler: John and Elly cheated on each other, and April was the result of Elly's affair.]]

** There is also a [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/1212144.html one shot sequel]], ''Thanksgiving Day, 2020'' (Canadian Thanksgiving, natch), where Michael muses about how the Patterson children are only now ''really'' celebrating Thanksgiving because of the attitudes of John and Elly and their feeling there's nothing to be thankful for tainting the children. The reader also learns [[spoiler: John and Elly cheated on each other, and April was the result of Elly's affair.]]

[[http://allfoobedup.blogspot.com/2008/11/introducting-foobar-foobed-up-beyond.html FOOBAR]][[hottip:*: link takes you to the first entry]] by Albanymous/April Patterson (usually posts as Albanymous when posting the strips, and as April Patterson when responding to comments)

* Recommended by Tropers/{{Kazokuhouou}}

* ''Comments:'' This is what happens when someone as messed up as Elly attempts FixFic in real life. Finding a way to go back in time, she goes to when Elizabeth was still a baby to fix up what she thought went wrong in her life, namely avoid gaining weight, having a writing career, and [[spoiler: never conceiving April]]. What she doesn't realize is that everyone that had existed then also went back in time. Some, like Connie, see it as a second chance to get things right, while others, like Michael and Elizabeth are trying to fix it to go back to their lives. Meanwhile, all the children who hadn't been born yet (like April, Francoise, Meredith and Robin) are all stuck in the present trying to cope after all the adults disappeared, with April going back in time to try to stop Elly from changing history as well. It's an interesting read, and a plausible explanation for the new-runs, and suspenseful. What will Elly do now? How are they going to stop her? Will they go back to the present? How will the events of the past affect the present? The final strips answer these questions, namely that now they have two sets of memories in their heads, the 'canon' timeline and what would have happened had Elly's fixfic timeline continued to present day. Both end up influencing the characters. All in all, it is a good read, and popular among the aformentioned binky_betsy community.

** dreadedcandiru2 had since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well. Their liographies show just how messed up Elly and John were from the beginning, (GenerationXerox, indeed), partly from their own childhoods, partly from their own narcissism and mental problems (with even a suggestion that John would have been diagnosed with some form of autism were he born today). Unfortunately, there is no redemption for these two, nor it likely they would have taken it were it offered. [[spoiler: Their stories end with an epilogue of Michael struggling to write their eulogies, trying to make them sound better in death than they were at life.]]

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption, [[spoiler: with Michael realizing he's become his mother and getting therapy, Liz divorcing Anthony (with Therese's help, ironically) and marrying Warren, and April reconciling with her siblings]]. dreadedcandiru2 had since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well. Their liographies show just how messed up Elly and John were from the beginning, partly from their own childhoods, partly from their own narcissism and mental problems (with even a suggestion that John would have been diagnosed with some form of autism were he born today). Unfortunately, there is no redemption for these two, nor it likely they would have taken it were it offered.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption. dreadedcandiru2 had since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well. Their liographies show just how messed up Elly and John were from the beginning, partly from their own childhoods, partly from their own narcissism and mental problems (with even a suggestion that John would have been diagnosed with some form of autism were he born today). Unfortunately, there is no redemption for these two, nor it likely they would have taken it were it offered.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption. dreadedcandiru2 has since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well, Elly's and most of John's done as of this post. Their liographies show just how messed up Elly and John were from the beginning, partly from their own childhoods, partly from their own narcissism and mental problems (with even a suggestion that John would have been diagnosed with some form of autism were he born today). Unfortunately, there is no redemption for these two, nor it likely they would have taken it were it offered.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption. dreadedcandiru2 has since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well, Elly's and half of John's done as of this post.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption. dreadedcandiru2 has since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well, Elly's and the first part of John's done as of this post.

* ''Comments:'' A 'liography' is the term used by FBOFW snarkers to describe the biographies on the For Better or For Worse website. These biographies tend to have a very...slanted and cliched view. Long time CausticCritic dreadedcandiru2 on the LiveJournal community [[http://binky-betsy.livejournal.com/ binky_betsy]] decided to try writing biographies like these for the Patterson children themselves. These fics do a very good job of showing how screwed up the children were from the beginning, thanks to having Elly and John for parents, and how their parenting helped shaped Michael, Elizabeth, and April into the MartyStu, MarySue, and OnlySaneMan respectively. However, the fics also give the children the hope of redemption. dreadedcandiru2 has since decided to do liographies for Elly and John as well, Elly's done as of this post.