Fanfic Recommendations: The Next Generation

[Jinx999]

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/102618/foxfire-esq

Noa, the author of Pound the Table, has started an original legal/superhero work. It's currently six chapters and just getting going, but given her previous work, I'll recommend it anyway.

[Matrix Dragon]

Fan Comic instead of fanfic, but close enough I feel.

An AU for Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, where Zelda doesn't get sent back in time, and teams up with Link to resolve the latest crisis to hit Hyrule.

https://www.tumblr.com/proxycrit/7639306...urce=share

[classicdrogn]

Magical Girl Gunslinger is a nebulous-near-future urban fantasy piece with the theme it says on the tin. It is very well written, though the MC's motr hinted around than explicitly stated personal issues may bother those with sensitive dispositions. For my own part, a medicine adjacent background made me drop out of the narrative in a particular scene because it should have been vastly more visceral and forey, but that's the kind of problem most people would say isn't, I expect. MC just makes me want to give her a good book and a plate of comfott food (and a nice chair with the back to a wall near an easy exit) before sitting quietly across the room with my own, because that would be far less stressful than the briefest of hugs or head pats and wow do I ever know that feeling.

250k words in 36 chapters, of which the last is the beginning of a new arc might be better left unread to leave off on a "complete book." Sadly, updates seem to come at a minimum of two or three moths apart, with the gap from the previous chapter having been ten.

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Bring a hanky or two.

[classicdrogn]

Do you know Da Wei?

Born to the mistress of a clan patriarch in a locally powerful sect of a backwater continent, his cultivation was crippled in a plot to weaken the clan and take over his betrothal to well-placed daughter. This pathetic fate was overturned by the revelation that the gragon pearl amulet his mother had given him on her deathbed was actually a heaven-shaking secret item, but memories of another life in our modern world lead him to reject the temptations of the Demonic Pat grandpa it carried... and also following up on all those protagonist flags.

Exiled by his own choice from the sect, he wanders off to a small village in a spirit forest, to simply live quietly and enjoy the company of people without the cut-throat mentality of the cultivation world. Alas, it seems the heavens are not done with Da Wei...


That's my own, only semi-serious summary of the premise of I am the Main Character? No thanks!, and on a scale of blah to BoC I'd say it's maybe at 70-80%. The first few chapters are a little rough, switching between the initial events and the present a few months (maybe as much as a year or so?) later when he's gotten more back on his feet, but it's not too bad about that and the storytelling smooths out rapidly once it starts moving forward from the established opening situation.

It is for now entirely available on SB and from author comments Royal Road, but as Book 1 wrapped up this past Nov-Dec those indicated he was going to try to publish it "soon" so I'd say to check it out quickly lest it be stubbed, and archive a copy via whatever means or make plans to buy it if/when it goes up for sale.

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