with the sun burning the dashboard by theappleppielifestyle
Summary:
The war is over and everyone goes their separate ways until Marco suggests something to drag them back together.

(Or: the road-trip fic where everyone needs therapy, the teenagers attempt to have teenage experiences and Enpury arire qvrq.)

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I'd recommend this fic since it does a good job of showing the effects of the war on all the characters and doesn't provide a particularly happy ending despite the spoilerly thing I rot13'd in the summary not happening.

It's also got a bunch of funny moments and, as near as I can tell, keeps everyone pretty well in character.

Cribbed from my recommendations page (wonder if I should add more to it...)

The Wedding Crashers by Das Mervin (Rated M)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6721038/1/The-Wedding-Crashers
Supernatural/Twilight
A gloriously cathartic read as the Winchester brothers (and Castiel) poke holes into the vampires' smug, self-aggrandizing ways.

Wish Carefully by Ten Toes (Rated T)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4356667/1/Wish-Carefully
Harry Potter
Another delightfully cathartic read that points out the folly of the Death Eaters in a very satisfying way.

The Pony POV Series by AlexWarlorn
(Discorded)http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/32745467, (Reharmonized)http://alexwarlorn.deviantart.com/gallery/32848832
A terrific story that takes an in-depth look at the affect Discord had on the characters and what comes after. It's more of a psychological look at the effects Discording would have on a pony... and the aftermath is not always pleasant. Now complete, but it might take a long time to read.

Marie D. Susse and the Mystery New Pirate Age by Phalanx (rated T)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6328454/1/Marie-D-Suesse-And-The-Mystery-New-Pirate-Age
One Piece
A deconstruction of Mary Sues and fanfic tropes that gets surprisingly deep.

Broken Cycles by Doc Mui (Rated T)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10352376/1/Broken-Cycles
Doctor Who and Puella Magi Madoka Magica
It takes the time to explain details the original anime didn't bother with, not to mention is fixes one of the biggest problems I have with the series (not going into details because Spoilers.)

Flat Dreams by Pangychan (Rated T)
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11802026/1/Flat-Dreams
Gravity Falls
It gives a backstory for Bill Cipher that really gives him some depth - metaphorically speaking. And the parallels between certain characters really adds to the story.

What can I say? The thread inspired me.

Rec list is here. Among the new ones I particularly recommend "I Never Promised You A Rose Garden" (Harry Potter, Neville-centric, post-war and beautiful), and "Glorfindel Fair" (LotR, features young!Estel, a song about Glorfindel's historic heroics, and Glorfindel's reactions to said song. Absolutely hilarious).

~Z

...And recommend a set of classic 40k fics that have no right to be as good as it is: Warhammer High.

WHH is an AU where the Heresy never happened, The Great Crusade properly ended, the galaxy is peaceful (relatively: this IS 40k, so think less noticeable constant war), and all the primarchs had wives and daughters. Depending on the fic, sometimes they also had sons. We usually ignore that because the sons don't show up so much in the good stuff.

However, WHH is really big, with tons of different fics by different authors of varying quality. It can be difficult to start. So now I must present the OFFICIAL THOTH LIST OF WHH STUFF WORTH READING.

(Warning, this is a /tg/ AU and 1d4chan is the repo of record for the thing. As a result, you should just generally assume that all of these pages may contain swearwords. I will try to warn of outright NSFW content, but I may miss something.)

And the list is basically just anything by Someone Else (a Who's On First name if I've ever heard one). Someone Else is the reason why WHH is as good as it is. He's brilliant. In particular, you need to read his series of 4 WHH fics, which are as follows:

-Venus' Burn (NSFW). All about Vulkan's daughter and her boyfriend. This is about as mild as a smutfic gets, and with so much plot you'd be forgiven for missimg the smut. It's also really really really good. And adorable: Someone Else is a sucker for a happy ending.

-Bleeding Out. A primarch's daughter gets shot, and it goes downhill from there. It takes a deeper dive into the angst and depression and feelings of inadequacy around the daughters and generally has that feeling of angst. And yet it doesn't feel overly angsty. It feels compelling. Did I mentipn it's novel length?

-ROAD TRIP! and Eternity... I'll confess I haven't read these yet. But everyone says they're great, and having read these, I believe them.

Also:

-Furia's Failed Dare>: This feels a bit like a prototype for Bleeding Out. It's good, though.

There are a ton of other good stories around. That's just a starter.

I'll recommend this one, Chaos Theory, by Mozco:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6372400/1/Chaos-Theory

Basically, it starts with a context looking like Heaven's Feels for starters, before giving you the Illya Road you either always wanted, or didn't know you needed that badly before reading that story. A must for Nasuverse fans. And better yet, a finished one.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/369158 - my favorite goodfic of all time, the *you can only use your own* series.

(UNDERTALE SPOILERS FOLLOW, READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION)






This is the only true "everyone lives" Undertale AU I've ever read. It's poignant, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking, and it's how to do an AU right. (Warnings: The series gets very heavy at times, and has a very large number of characters with mental health issues, which the author is pulling no punches when depicting. It's very well-researched and respectful, but it's emotionally difficult to read as well. In short, HEED THE TAGS. The two side stories *live inside a green moment* and *seal our lips until we're found* are NSFW.)

First, Harry Potter and the Natural 20. To use the author's description of it:

Milo, a genre-savvy D&D Wizard and Adventurer Extraordinaire is forced to attend Hogwarts, and soon finds himself plunged into a new adventure of magic, mad old Wizards, metagaming, misunderstandings, and munchkinry.

You can find it here:
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8096183/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Natural-20

For a more unorthodox recommendation I give you Auralnauts Star Wars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSCm8yAxBr8

It's a series of musical gag dubs of Star Wars I-VI which turns the Jedi into drugged-up party animals dance-fighting their way across the galaxy. Warning for sex, drugs, creepy droids, and a sick EDM soundtrack. It radiates cool like little else.