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I have a LOT of recs. I will leave off the obvious ones (I assume that you've read OFUM, Shoebox, etc already, they're already on your reading list, or they're Just Not Your Thing), but even then, there's a LOT of stuff to recommend.

Just a note, not ALL of these are technically fanfics. Some of them or original universes, AARs, or some other sort of writing.

Other note: I'm not sorting these in any way. A lot of them are Warhammer, some of them are not. Most of them are NSFW, whether that be swearing, or actual adult content. With all that out of the way:

-The All Guardsmen Party[NSFW - language]: Some of you have been following the Dark Heresy game on Discord with interest. I know I have. It's been entertaining. Now, what do you get when you crank the funny up to 11, get a truly EVIL DM, have all the players play Guardsmen, and have it all written up in third person IC by a remarkably entertaining writer? You get The All Guardsmen Party. And it is glorious.

-Old Man Henderson[NSFW]: You know how I said that I'd be leaving out the obvious? I lied. Old Man Henderson is arguably the most amazing story ever recorded about a TRPG. It's funny, it's jawdropping, it's really, REALLY funny, and it ends with one of the most legendary things to ever happen in a Call Trail of Cthulhu game. I know most of you have read it, but it is basically Required Reading. So I'm putting it here!

-The Ballad of Edgardo[...Might be SFW? I don't remember,so assume NSFW]: You may have noticed I have an affection for entertaining stories of RPG nonsense. This is another one. Learn about how a poorly-optimized character in a semi-freeform Forum RPG would up on a quest of mighty vengeance with a squidman. And won.

-Thri-Kreen Erotica[VERY NSFW]: I love Tailsteak. Everyone here should probably know that I love Tailsteak by now, seeing how much I've plugged 1/0 (actually, go read 1/0 right now). So when someone on 4chan's /tg/ board posted asking whether D&D's Thri-Kreen were Furry (because it's 4chan), and a discussion ensued on the impossibility of writing good Thri-Kreen erotica, Tailsteak responded in a... uniquely Tailsteak fashion. It was hilarious, and somewhat disturbing.

-Toyhammer[Probably SFW - swears at worst]: You know, there are a few fics written about Warhammer 40k models that come to life, or the 40k factions at model scale. None of them matter save this one, because this one is just that good. It goes from wacky antics to Animorphs-esque secret war over time, and remains consistently engaging through all of it. Sadly, it hasn't updated in a while, and may never be finished. But it's still fantastic.

-Avoiding Stupid Deaths in the 41st Millenium[NSFW]: Some of you may know about TIANTDATPPC. Others of you may recall Skippy's list, or Things Mr Welch is No Longer Allowed to do in This RPG. This fic, which started as an attempt at an IG-focused 40k equivalent, became VERY different over time. It slowly developed a recurring cast of characters, an increasingly present in-universe author, and even, gradually, a storyline that I am invested enough in to check the fic for updates regularly. Cerebus has been kind of 40k fics...

-Love Can Bloom[Rating Unknown: Assume NSFW]: All right, I'll admit it: I haven't had time to read Love Can Bloom yet. But it is one of the most well-known 40k fics out there, to my knowledge, had a large number of spinoffs, and is generally beloved, although sometimes somewhat controversial. And most of you probably haven't heard of it. It's the story of an Eldar Farseer (Taldeer from Dawn of War) and a Vindicare Assassin who fall in love. It has become synonymous with sweet and gentle happenings in the Grim Darkness of the 41st Millennium. I'll tell you more when I actually read it...

-The Millenial King[SFW I think...]: Necromancers get a bad rap. But do you have to be evil to be a Necromancer? /tg/ didn't think so, so they wrote this collection of stories about a good necromancer and the kingdom that he ruled.

-Warhammer High[varies, but some NSFW]: Warhammer High is not a Warhammer 40k Highschool AU. I know it sounds like it should be, but it isn't. It's actually an AU where the Horus Heresy never happened (because The Emperor took Eldrad more seriously), and the Primarchs got daughters who all go to highschool together. I know. Somehow, the various writers at /tg/ managed to take this absolutely ludicrous concept and make some fics that are absolutely brilliant. Given, not all of these fics are great: there are parts of the written lore that are just stupid (Caliban and a lot of the other Sons) and are written poorly, and there is at least one piece of smut so eye-sporkingly bad that I may consider missioning it if I ever get Permission. It also tends to be much lighter in tone than the standard 40k fair. Having said that, Meet the Primarchs is absolutely hilarious, and the alleged smutfic Venus' Burn is absolutely fantastic and basically the inverse of PWP to the point that I had trouble finding the smut. Actually, Someone Else's (that's really his username) work for Warhammer High in general is excellent, especially the one he wrote after Venus' Burn, Bleeding Out.

-The Golem's Garden[SFW]: You can get my attention in two ways: You can be funny, or you can be heartwarming. This is the ladder.

-Marcius Flavius[I don't remember]: One of the hardest parts about crossovers is justifying them. How do characters from one world find themselves in another? Thankfully, 40k has a built-in answer: Warp Shenanigans. Not that this fic needs it, it's too funny to be bogged down by that. But I digress. Star Trek's Federation, and 40k's Imperium: Never were there two spacefaring civilizations in sci-fi more different. So what happens why they collide? Well, in this case, they organize a cultural exchange program, and hilarity ensues: Riker becomes an honorary Space Marine, and Marcius Flavius of the Imperial Fists is put under Picard. Neither deals with their new allies well...

Confessions of a Wayward Son[SFW]: I'm a Sons player, and they're probably my all-time favorite faction, so I'm biased on this one. Anyways, one type of 40k fic we see a lot of is the idea of the Chaos Space Marine who ends up changing his allegiances and fighting for The Imperium once more, kind of Drizzt-style, except hopefully not as Sue-ish. This actually kind of makes sense: There are some Marines in the Traitor Legions that never really wanted what happened. Like, to pick a completely random example, a good chunk of the Thousand Sons - although they hate the Imperium more. So what happens when a Son decides that Magnus was *definitely* wrong, and the Imperium was right to do what they did? Well, you get this fic. Some would say it's too angsty (and I have been known to mock the angst myself), and it certainly has some flaws here and there, but I never claimed that I had some highly developed taste in fic. At the end of the day, I like it. YMMV.

...the idea makes me kinda wince. I love Young Wizards, I like PJato somewhat, but I just don't feel like they'd mesh well--what would either universe gain from crossing with the other narrative-wise?

This one manages to achieve feels in about a page (which is good because that's its total length): https://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_doll
Class about to start so I'll find more later. *poofs*

Thank you very much, and no, haven't heard of it. *clicks link* Ah, fascinating! My Lizardmen approve :D

Well, hmmm....
I generally write Warhammer fanfiction, do a lot of RP on a MUCK. Thoth and I also have a bit of a Gundam AU going. I've submitted stuff to Black Library before on the Warhammer front, didn't get accepted but they at least got it to the stage where they actually looked at it. Thoth and I also did/are working on an MST of a badfic that he read in the discord a couple days ago.
I like my fics like I like my canon--grimdark, but with a balancing of hope and nobledarkness in between here and there.

Have one of my own shed feathers and a complimentary kit of Spikes!

Please have this bag of black-hole chocolates.

Out of curiosity, did you ever hear about Warhammer Armies Project?

It's mainly about Worm since that's what I've been reading recently, but not all.

The recs are all about an author posting on Spacebattles and Sufficient Velocity, Cerulean.

His first work for Worm, in hiatus for now, is Atonement. This is an AU starting up with the locker scene... And Taylor's death, putting the focus on another character, Madison as she triggers out of guilt and decides to, well atone, by being a hero. Cerulean takes an one-notice character, and manage to create an excellent story.

Next, my favorite, his other Worm AU, Intrepid. The initial premise is similar to Atonement, with a worst-than-canon locker scene for Taylor (although more AU elements can be spotted as the story continues, no spoilers here), leading here some girls of the bullying trio, Madison and Emma, to trigger when they realize just how ducked-up was their behavior, before going to cape life. The fic alternates between them, Taylor and Sophia Hess. It's in my opinion an even better story than the former, updates roughly once a week, and includes a... spin-off I guess, Odyssey, from Vista's POV, although it's also canon to this story. A sort of fifth POV, I guess?

But Cerulean also writes original fiction. Namely, an urban fantasy web-novel called Heretical Edge, updating twice a week. The story is about Flick Chambers, a young girl who just got selected to be part of a monster-hunting school. Still, expect a few surprises, here because this premise let to a really interesting 'verse.

Welp, I think that excuses the both of us a bit, wouldn't you say?

But, ey, absolutely, there. What's wrong's wrong, ideology and such aside. I feel like a lot of people are afraid to criticise, and have criticised, people representing their own ideas, as if a single area of criticism means that their ideology is no longer 'good' but 'bad', and they, themselves, are suddenly no longer 'good', as they thought, but 'bad'! Or, at least, that's the case in the example I'm thinking of, in which certain people refuse to acknowledge the horrendous situation of Indigenous Australians, as if accepting the responsibility for it and trying to support and acknowledge them will somehow make themselves, and all non-indigenous Australia (or at least all the white ones), immoral and spoiled and irreversibly evil, as a whole.
Which, er, is not the case. People ought to be responsible enough to admit wrongs, irrelevant of who did them, and not have a whole black and white worldview about the whole thing. Certainly, there's no good reason to be dishonest about things.

Also, as I read this I am eating a sugar-filled chocolate muffin. News statistics-wise, I am a health superman!

Fellow newbie, it is my great pleasure to present you with this bar of pink chocolate, the first ever produced. Please do tell us what it tastes like.
On a different note, wow, it's been a while since I thought of Ender's Game.
Anyways, I'm happy you decided to join!
Diana.

Do you read self-published tales about already established stories?

Are you sick and tired of reading tales that are less than good?

WELL DO I HAVE THE THREAD FOR YOU!

For those unaware, this thread is dedicated to people recommending fics that they believe are awesome! Feel free to make your own recommendations below.

((Not sure how to respond. Thanks for the feedback? Sorry it wasn't worse as a Badfic Games thing? Either way, in true badficcer fashion, this is all YOUR fault. Not mine. :P

Seriously, though, um. No, I couldn't keep a straight face at all. And I guess I'm a slash author now.))

Dear gods, what hath I wrought? ¿Por qué? ¿Por queeeé?!

No, for real though, I am conflicted. On the one hand, actually decent writing! It doesn't hurt my eyes, and the porn itself, while naturally YMMV according to taste, does not straight-up hurt my brain, either. Like, I'm not into cat peens, and I'm not sure they work quite the way you think they do, but you do you!

On the other hand, the characters are still painfully OOC, your lemon is a tad purple (which is not a healthy color for lemons!), and the last paragraph made me laugh. This is not a good thing. First, that is a terrible, awful, no good, very bad joke about poor Zeb, and you should be ashamed! Second, buckets of it, seriously? *giggle snort* And finally, are you telling me Zeb's eau de vie contains some sort of anesthetic? That's... that's a nice feature, that is, I admit, but come on. XD You just couldn't keep a straight face on it, could you?

But still, I must congratulate you. I was thoroughly over-the-top ridiculous at you, and you called my bluff and made something I can honestly call half-decent. Kudos!

--Lemony

(( I'm not sorry and I'm not apologizing! {X D Unless Ix is actually mad, in which case I will.

(( And once again, the Badfic Game gets more M-rated toward the end. ))

http://makemegoogly.com/Y4R2Z

((I decided to go ahead and create my personal interpretation of JayBird's and NTtDFA's online personas. You're welcome, hS.

-Twistey))

Thanks to LemonyEggnog, I've decided to write a second part!

((Seriously. They're to blame for this. It's waaaay too NSFW for the Board, but here is a link to it. NSFW for graphic smut. May Iximaz have mercy on my soul :D ))

http://ppc.wikia.com/wiki/Jaycacia_Thornbyrd

That, but less so. Her hair is probably more strawberry-blonde, and I'd guess she wears it long but in a ponytail (she /wants/ to have it loose, but it's too stupidly curly, and just tangles). She's actually moderately cute, if you don't mind glitter and incoherence.

(Also she's apparently from New England, which I think gets cold? So while she'd like to wear that dress, she's probably in something warmer.)

hS

(I myself am aiming to grab some of my writer friends and take them here. They have some serious potential.)

Anyway, hey there! I'm Twistey, a chaotic good-ish lightly-used-bie who is in a ton of fandoms (although Wolfenstein 3D, Camp Camp, and Sheep in the Big City are currently my life right now. Weird combination, I know.) I currently have a lot of original universes and some fanfiction that are works in progress, and I plan to write missions eventually. Hopefully.

Anyway, enough about me. What are you like? What do you generally write, if anything? Having had a Board conversation with Thoth in which he explained Warhammer, I know that there's got to be a good reason why he brought you here. Do you like missions? MSTs? Stuff like GAFF? I'm curious to know :)

As for your newbie gift, since I often grab things from the Wolfenstein 3D fandom (haha, ask Thoth about what I gave him), and since you seem to be into the mech fighting genre, here! Have this prototype version of Hitler's mechsuit from the third episode! Complete with four chain guns, a good amount of armor, and ventilation! (And clanky sounds... Don't walk around in it near me or I might freak out. That boss fight scared me to death.)

Anyway, nice to meet you! Welcome to the Protectors of the Plot Coninuum!

-Twistey
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(In case you need more detail about the mech suit, here's a link to the Wolfenstein Wiki page about its corresponding boss. Copy and paste the link because clicking on it won't work.)

http://wolfenstein.wikia.com/wiki/AdolfHitler(Wolf3D)

((Because I seriously want to draw more googly eyed fan art. Y'know, JayBird and NTtDFA literally trying to kill each other and then hS and I in the background stuffing our faces with popcorn like we're watching a movie. That'd be great.

-Twistey))

I didn't mean to come off as accusative, more as "here is an interesting question your words have raised." My apologies also for not being more clear.

And yeah, I totally get where you're coming from. It's basically another side to the same problem, I think, of news people unscrupulously pushing a story without regard for the actual facts, reliability of data, etc. Mostly I get riled about this sort of thing when it comes to science and medicine stories, because people tend to grab onto statistically meaningless numbers and use them to insist that chocolate is great for your health, or butter is the devil, or whatever the latest trend is. Or like, the sugar industry shelling out to place all the blame for obesity on fats when it doesn't really work that way.

Or people arguing that climate change isn't happening and/or we have nothing to do with it, which is the thing I was thinking of, and am saying now because I now think being vague about it might be less helpful to a discussion.

Basically, I think we agree with each other that the news should strive to be honest and accurate, no matter its political leanings. Like, IMO, if your political party is doing something dumb, you shouldn't defend it, you should call it out so they stop being dumb, right? ... Eh?

~Neshomeh

I'm pretty sure we had this conversation last time, only with more capslock. Once again, to quote my dear would-be rival D4rkm0k, he's totes gay. It's all there in the subtext.

That said, you are completely free to write Nume with "someone like a girl," by which I presume you mean your OC, if you want to! It would be better if you based it on his actual character and not a rancid garbage fire like Christian Grey, but hey, de gustibus non disputandem est, right?

... I miss D4rkm0k. Sigh.

--Lemony

(( I looked up the 2015 Badfic Game to quote myself. That year was kind of epic.

(( Also, yeee. ^_^ ~Neshomeh ))

I see you're a friend of my Pretentious Mythological Name Buddy. It's nice to have you here! I know the Author thing says "The Triumvirate" but nobody calls me that. It's more of a relic than anything. Call me Calliope! Or Cal. Cal is a good abbreviation.

For your gift, I present to you: a set of roleplaying dice! You can choose the color and pattern at your leisure, but try not to make it urple. Or bled. Or rue. Those colors hurt.

Because you and Thoth are friends, I present you with one gift further: a hand-written copy of the Imperial Creed. Yes, I see that Warhammer fandom - have fun with this!