Subject: Goodfics and Badfics round-up
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Posted on: 2014-09-11 20:24:00 UTC
Goodfics
Sakura and the Scottish of Magic - Card Captor Sakura/Harry Potter crossover
What I think make this one work is that here Sakura is not swooping in to save the Golden Trio from the lastest HP canonical peril. Instead, she is just trying to be a normal Hogwarts student, while struggling to reconcille her magic with HP-verse version, and also to make her own friends while there.
The light in the darkness
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic
The perfect antidote to Cupcakes. The levels of heartwarming content in this story are known to counteract even all the darkness gererated by that Legendary Badfic. There will still be some residual unsettling content, was a result of it using Cupcakes as Pinkie's nightmare, but will be quickly overshadowed for the wonderful interactions of friendship between Dash and Pinkie, and later on the rest of the Mane six as well.
Past sins
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic
A great characterization of Twilight Sparkle as well as an excellent use of an OC in the figure of Nyx. A both heartwarming and tragic tale of motherhood and redeemption throught love.
Pony Pov
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic
An amazing Alternative Universe with its own unique set of events, history and cosmology.
Equestria: A history revealed
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic
A hilariuosly zany reinterpretation of Equestrian history and the shows events by a crazy history that makes horrible leaps of logic to justify her increasingly insane conspiracy theories.
Every Line Speaks The Language Of Love
How I met your mother
A simultaneously heartwarming and heartbreaking reinterpretation of the series
Not A Love Story
How I met your mother
Another amazing, angsty reinterpretation of the events behind Ted’s tale
As fast as she can
How I met your mother
An incredibly well-written perspective flip oneshot, giving us the point-of-view of The Mother. Also a surprisingly good example of
an YouFic
The Legendary Five-way
How I met your mother
I will just let the Tv Tropes Fanfic Rec text speak for me on this one:
“You'd think it would be impossible to take the terms "in-character", "sweet", "believable", "hot", "well-written", and "five way" together in a fic review, but you'd be wrong. Perhaps it's due to the canon relationships between the five main characters, with their extreme closeness and long history and lack of boundaries and the way they orbit around Marshall and Lily.
Perhaps it's due to the (snarkily lampshaded by the narration) perfect storm of build-up and circumstances - loneliness, "Three Day's Rule"-esque homoerotic discussions, drunken ideas, a surprising turn of events that opens up new trains of thought and possibilities, and a convenient power outage. Either way, yes, this story contains a shockingly poignant but still funny and slightly cracky fivesome that manages to actually take into account the characters' personalities. ”
Someday
How I met your mother
(warning: spoilers all the way up to the series finale and The Mother’s identity)
A sweet oneshot of Ted and The Mother, as she tries to tell their story to the kids over the years. Also provides a nice alternative ending to controversial series finale.
The Trap: The Parent Trap 2
The Parent Trap (1998)
A good continuation fic. Makes a great reuse of the whole twin switch plot as well as including a fairly good mystery plot.
Never let you go
The Parent Trap (1998)
a nice depiction of the unseen events leading to the ending of the movie.
Why didn’t I get my happy ending
The Parent Trap (1998)
A more realistic portrayal of Meredith’s motivations and how the girls actions against affect her.
Sisterhood
Katawa Shoujo
A great continuation of Hanako’s Good End. Extremely well-written, containing plenty of nice character development and heartwarming content. Seriously,the writing in this rivals even the original VN. Some even say it overshadows it.
Reconcialiation
Katawa Shoujo
Both a continuation and a fixfic to Hanako’s Bad End. A heartbreaking tale that follows Hanako’s perpecstive from that particular ending of her route in the VN to the tragic events that reunite her with her former friends.
Hanako Extra: The Fireman
Katawa Shoujo
(spoilers for her Hanako’s route )
A heartmelting tale that allows to peer into Hanako’s tragic childhood throught the perpesctive of the one who saved her.
Perfect is Overrated
SUEs (Superpowered Unbalancing Entities) - Mai-Hime
This is ,I think, of particular interest to all of us PPC-cers, as the villains in the are beings called SUEs (Superpowered Unbalancing Entities), who are representations of several Sue types and whose Hime-like powers appear much like Sues do in PPC Missions: They are symbolic representations of Mary Sues' effect on the plot, taken as reality warping powers.
Badfics
Pages of harmony
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic - Mature rated - NSFB
Yet another Brony shockfic. A Twilight replacement murders of her friends, as well as two child characters, in a misguided quest to uncanonically “ preserve the Elements of Harmony’s essences “ which are taken here as having some sort genetic component (yeah).
Do you guys remember an old threat here the dubious value of these things around was discussed? And how one of the arguments was how well-researched some of their…. vicious methods were? Well, this abomination presents a solid counterrargument. The author uses every method of torture under Luna’s moon in this thing. And they are used until every single one of the rest of the Mane Six are left psychologically unrecognisable( and they become replacements themselves, that live on in some sort of twisted Limbo!)
The Smarty Complex
My Little Pony: Friendship is magic - Everyone rated
This is thankfully (or not) only here because of terrible technical issues. There are huge and frequent walls of text, the pacing is horrible and any conflict the otherwise instering premise might have killed as a result of said pacing (or lack of thereof)
Rini’s horrile death - Mature rated - NSFB
Sailor Moon
Rini dies a horrible death! YAY! (really had to put that summary over here)
A replacement Sue of Serena viciously tortures and murders Rini. It keeps and flanderizes Serena's jealousy of Rini, makes confound the love of a child for a parent with romantic love, pervertes Sailor Moon's powers into tools for hiding a Glaurunging patricide, makes Luna stupidly not investigate Rini's sudden vanishment and of course inflicts a massive Canon Break because of Rini's untimely death, as she is central to pretty much every season from Sailor Moon R onwards. All of this because the author finds the character annoying, like most western fans, but dammit this clearly taking that petty hatred too Glaurunging far!
Chibiusa’s seventh birthday - Mature rated - NSFW - NSFB
Sailor Moon
Every single Canon in this story is possessed if not replaced. Chibiusa is Glaurunging raped by every other main character ( and yes, that includes Usagi and Mamoru, her own future parents), and she suffers so much sexual abuse that throught extremely Bad Logic and Bad Psichology,
it makes this child characters being okay, nay even worse, enjoy such rapes and subsequently becoming nothing more than a sex zombie, willing sexually engaging with the ones that violated her.
Opposite Reaction Same Result
Parent Trap (1998) - Teen rated
What if Annie had taken Hallie's insults the way she did. Would things have ended up differently or perhaps would they still occur.
A Hailey replacement viciously insults an also extremely OOC Annie, thus completely derailing the plot of the movie in a wrong way. The author in both title and summary that is supposed to still reach the
happy of the movie and it still not finished, but I doubt it.
The Replacement Sue uses vitriolic insults that befit neither the age of the Canon nor the tone of the work. Seriously , this a Disney movie based on
a dramatic but innocent classic German children’s book, whose author Erich Kastner must be really spinning in his grave and generating enough energy for the entire PPC HQ.