New Fic Recommendations: The Phoned-in Sequel

[Black Aeronaut]

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Deadpan29 wrote:

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A few years ago, Acadamia Nut made Evangelion fandom history with Thousand Shinji, featuring a Magnificent Bastard Shinji of captital-C Chaos.  This was followed by the unfinished mega-crossover The Open Door.  However, some have argued that the Magnificent Bastards of the first story are more Bastard and less Magnificent in the second.  As a critique from this view point, Iaculus has been writing The Doorstop.

I'm seconding this fic, too, and giving it one of these as well:

Why, you may ask?  This:

After a moment's consideration, Gunther turned to Fred.
"Mission details?"

"You mean the one we're going on next?" he asked, slightly thrown by the change of subject. "Why would I have those?"

"Always do."

"OK, fair point. They're pretty highly-classified, though, so I wasn't able to catch everything. What I do know is that it's a tech-retrieval job. We're headed to a Non-Administered World in Bureau space, another alternate Earth, to pick up some gizmo called a Lambda Driver. No idea what that is, but it's clearly something important. Omega-level clearance, boss."

Gunther gave a low whistle. "Impressive."