Rec me stuff!

[springgreen]

Now that I have an ereader, I find I've been reading more long fic than I have since probably high school.

So, rec me stuff! And feel free to rec things from around 2000 till now. I think I read a lot of long fic in Rurouni Kenshin, GWing, and XF, but I stopped after that.

I am more interested in long, gen-type stuff, particularly exploring consequences of world building or character development. I am also feeling more like reading gen, het, or femslash and generally am not interested in most of the big pairings.

Badass female characters and/or badass characters of color double plus good.

Notable fandoms I am unfamiliar with: Star Trek, SG-1, SPN, SV (what is it with the s's?), Prince of Tennis, Due South, Highlander, HikaGo, YYH, Dr. Who, pretty much all RPF, Farscape, Hetalia, non-GWing Gundam, non-X-Men Marvelverse, non-Batman-DC-verse, Inuyasha, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh, DBZ, WK, and probably a lot of other stuff I forgot to mention that shows I have had my head in a ditch for the past decade.

Go forth and rec!

Comments

[the_rck]

For Ranma, I think familiarity with the basic concept is required. Ranma doesn't so much have plot as characters (sometimes with more comedy schtick than personality) and loosely connected incidents. If you know that Ranma sometimes turns into a girl and has several competing fiancees (who in turn have other, competing, love interests), I think you can get by with that story. It may take a little to get up to speed with who the characters are.

I think the GetBackers fic needs canon knowledge because the setting of the story is very particular, and the story uses a lot of characters introduced at different points during canon. There's more story to be aware of there than in Ranma.

For the Negima story, I'm iffier. I think it benefits from knowing the characters, but I also have trouble with keeping track of who's who in canon, so I was reading it and not being sure who exactly was being talked about. I think I could have enjoyed it not knowing the canon, but I'm not sure somebody else would. If you want to try it, I'd be happy to give you a thumbnail of what I think you need to know.

One other recommendation that I forgot about-- You might want to try Vathara's fics. She writes long AUs and crossovers of the sort that most people either love or hate. I can't predict which way you'd go on it. She crossed Gundam Wing with Stargate: SG-1 and Rurouni Kenshin with Star Wars. She has a long Avatar: the Last Airbender WIP that I like quite a bit (she updates about every three weeks). The Avatar fic isn't to everyone's taste (my husband bounced hard off Zuko Sue), but it's interesting world building.