Re: Fanfic Recs / What Are You Reading

[Icy Shake]

Not really fanfic, maybe not even fiction at all, but "How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps" was a hell of a story, basic but with excellent delivery. Won't take long either: it's under 1900 words.

[RoboRed]

That....That was pretty damn good.

[RoboRed]

Ynanhluutr has completed, and the next book, Utann, has been posted.

[RoboRed]

(Let me know if you need more information. I'm trying to be a spoiler-free as possible.)
A event that occurred in Equestria has Rainbow Dash heading off on a journey alone. All she is told about her target's destination is that it lies eastward on the other side of the world. Along the way, she meets new ponies, encounters foreign villages, cities and kingdoms, endures trials and tribulations, and learns more about the truth, secrets and history of the world they all live on, as well as its and her own destiny.

The story is an AU that splits off from Season 2.

Here is one person's testimonal/description of the made in a fairly recent post to someone else asking about the material:

not spoilery:

Here's another post:

slightly spoilery:

[RoboRed]

Yes it is. It so is.

[RoboRed]

Designing Intrigue updated.
Been a while since that one's had an update, eh Swicked?

[Icy Shake]

Never read it, but wow. That's well after how long it'd have taken for me to consider it dead, especially with so few chapters published in the first place.

[ILM126]

I have just started reading "The Twilight Enigma" by iisaw

:3

[Icy Shake]

Just read "What is Missing, What is Lost," which hit some nice crazy-Twi notes to go with tone and themeing that reminded me of parts of PH, in a pure drama between Twilight and Celestia.

[Valikdu]

The Victory at Ostagar series: http://www.redhen-publications.com/publications.html#

Five novels, based on Dragon Age: Origins. I think it's just Origins, although I'm only reading the second one right now. AU. The immediate threat from the Blight is dialed down (see the title), the political intrigue aspects are dialed way up. Loving it so far.

[Icy Shake]

The Season of Grace is a beautiful season-appropriate FlutterMac shipfic. Builds an internal sense of nostalgia in service of the story and the ship, great atmosphere all around. Nice bit of worldbuilding in terms of the traditions, as well.

The Jet-Powered Pegasus is a nice combination of thriller and character piece, with a strong enough Scootaloo perspective that despite upon further thought actually kind of agreeing with the antagonist's original position, at the time I was entirely in Scootaloo's corner. Also has a structure that just kept pulling me along.

[Icy Shake]

Whaaaaat?!
Through the Eyes of Another Pony is coming back after over three years without an update?! And now it's going to be an FiM-Undertale-??? triple crossover?!
Wat.
Still excited to have something from the very early days back. But wat.

[RoboRed]

It's going to be veeeeeeeeeeery interesting.

[Icy Shake]

Just finished "Second Person, Present Tense," a story about a sort-of amnesiac (still can kind of access the memories, but different consciousness and sense of self) dealing with her parents trying to therapy her back into who she was before the drug overdose that caused it. Tense and even a little frightening, it still kept a frame that vilified the people around her far less than might have been the case. It came up in the comments on a (semi-, I've been busy) recent Bad Horse blog. It's a bit longer than most of the things I've brought up here, but I thought it was worthwhile.

[Icy Shake]

"The Universal" might be the best "immortality fic" I've read in a long time.

[Icy Shake]

I've recently been working with a group translating a story from Russian to English as an English language editor. It's sci-fi, set in a (semi-? hard to say so far: it's completed, but since I don't read Russian, I only know what's been translated so far) dystopian future where artificial life forms can be made and programmed. Among them, ponies. Bits of mystery in there, it seems, too.
Prologue and first chapter are up here: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/324970/the-broken-toy. I think it's got some promise, and could be worth a few minutes to check out. (Also, any suggestions relating to how the prose could be handled now or in the future would be welcome.)

[Valikdu]

I've brought more Eva.

Reticence

-It's well-written mechanically
-It's post-Rebuild 3.33
-It's *finished* (and large)
-The author isn't trying to slap the WILLE crew down with his OC while yelling "YOU SO WROOOONG AND BAD PERSN"
-Actually, there aren't any notable OC
-Actually, the author doesn't seem to be trying to push anything on you at all
-The characters are reacting to things and developing like actual people
-The world is expanded in an interesting fashion

So... Get in the (fucking) robot.

[Valikdu]

And more.

A Century Apart sets the Second Impact and the events of NGE a hundred years earlier. Shinji is an IJN cadet, Gendo's an admiral, other characters have their positions altered accordingly, Evangelions are dieselpunk mechs, Zeppelins are a thing.

Very well-written story.

[Valikdu]

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7642230/1/Puella-Stellae-Madoka-Magica

The events of PMMM take place In The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future.

[Valikdu]

Children of an Elder God

An AU of Evangelion, made by fusion with Lovecraftian mythos. Very well written.

The level of character trauma overtakes NGE and approaches Darkest Dungeon Horizons.

[Valikdu]

Altered Destinies


Follows the NGE series (one chapter for one episode), with a twist. It's a shipfic, but I sort of like it.

[Icy Shake]

Chuck Finley has a novella out. It's a mystery/thriller set in a planet in a sci-fi world (apparently run by MrNumbers) that's just lost FTL communication and all its high-level AI, and is fun, fast-paced, and at times quite funny. Liking detective stories (so much time in high school years spent with Law and Order), I thought that side of things went pretty well, and the base sci-fi concept is one I really enjoyed (but I'm probably biased). Consider checking it out.

[Valikdu]

Gob Hobblin writes excellent Eva stories. Although, one stands out for me:

Someplace Vast And Dry (FF.net)

It's a 'fusion' AU, with elements from Deus Ex: HR and Ghost in the Shell.

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