284 is enough AGAIN! NEW NEW new fic reccomendation thread

[Valles]

My reaction: "Gyahwha..."
Ja, -n

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"Puripuri puripuri... Bang!"

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Yet again: what Valles said.
When she formed her first post-Faith sentence, I just about sprayed down my monitor.
--Sam
"It's not working. My face is too expressive."

[katreus]

Wow.
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[Acyl]

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April 10, 1997 by Mediancat
A rather interesting Faith-centric BtVS crossover with a series I'd rather not spoil. Almost a Crossover That Should Not Be, except it works so strangely well.

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...I'm not really a Buffy fan, despite being more-or-less familiar with the series. I mildly dislike the, er, other series in this crossover.
That said...
Dear God, this fic is brilliant. >_o;;
-- Acyl

[Periwinkle Skyye]

Fill in the Blanks, a BtVS/Black Widows crossover. Giles attends a dinner, and he has a puzzle he needs solved...

[ECSNorway]

Frang.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
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Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Aleh]

Brilliant? Yeah. Right. 'Cause the perversion of my chosen discipline to this extent is something that I'd like.
Now that I've gotten the sarcasm out of my system, all I have to say is that I wanted to gag. Repeatedly.
For those of you who don't know, I'm a psychology student. This... has very little to do with real psychology or psychiatry. Or real DID, for that matter.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[Acyl]

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For those of you who don't know, I'm a psychology student. This... has very little to do with real psychology or psychiatry. Or real DID, for that matter.

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I didn't know that...or rather, I wasn't thinking about it when I formed my opinion of the story.
It's certainly not my field. I'm currently an International Relations student, and my last job was in broadcast journalism.
The latter of which means I'm more interested in telling a good story, not getting the facts right.
(Yes, yes, that was a joke. But there's still some truth there.)
Now, I did find the hypnotism bit terribly contrived, and the explanatory psychobabble rather less than convincing.
The thing is, though... I didn't find it a stumbling block in my enjoyment of the story, once I accepted it as a plot device.
It's a suspension of disbelief thing, a vehicle for making the concept work. Maybe the writer could have researched real psychiatric disorders better. Maybe, I don't know. Perhaps the writer did do a lot of reading, but then went and intentionally discarded it for the sake of the tale they wanted to tell.
Ignorance or design? No idea. But the end result is a story I did enjoy.
Mind, now that you bring it up...I see how it could really piss off someone actually knowledgable about psychiatry. That's understandable.
But, well, I figure most fiction based heavily on some professional field of study...is gonna piss off people truly familiar with it. There's some authors who can do it well, of course. British crime novelist Ian Rankin is praised by the police for keeping his work close to reality, even though he's got no law enforcement experience himself.
That's hard to do, tho.

Myself? I got pretty ticked off a year ago, when someone in my roleplay community used Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in a story plot...and got it completely wrong. They assumed Yudhoyono was his surname - it isn't, Javanese don't have surnames. And nevermind the utter mess they made of describing Southeast Asian regional politics...
Point, see?
-- Acyl

[Aleh]

*Shrug* Hypnotism doesn't work like that. At all. DID is not only incredibly rare (there's exactly *ONE* documented case of it that's not debated), but not treatable in the way they describe. Oh, and psychiatrists don't practice hypnotism, anyway, as a general rule. That's usually reserved for some of the weirder psychologists.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[CattyNebulart]

skunk works is a fairly good read.
www.changingthetimes.net/..._works.htm
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[Evil Midnight Lurker]

Chapter 27 of "April 10" has arrived under cover of the debate about it.
--Sam
"SPOON!"

[Black Aeronaut]

Skunk Works is awesome indeed, but... "Somebody get a Grammar Checker in here quick, cause... DAMN!"

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Black Aeronaut Technologies Group, LLC
Aerospace Solutions for the discerning spacer

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What!? Were you expecitng something witty?

[Aleh]

This is a rather silly one-shot about Dumbledore's death (and his mental blind-spots).
This is a rather... different... possible ending to OotP.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[CattyNebulart]

This is a retelling of a few noir episodes from Chloe's point of view. It's quite interesting.
www.fanfiction.net/s/3171446/1/
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."

[Morganite]

www.fanfiction.net/s/757155/1/
An Angelic Layer fanfic I found a while back that find amusing. What if there are doujinshi about Angelic Layer in the AL universe... and Oujirou collects them?

[Bob Schroeck]

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Chapter 27 of "April 10" has arrived under cover of the debate about it.

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And another chapter appeared last night.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Periwinkle Skyye]

The author of "Father Goose & the Black Knight" has started a sequel: "Loyalties: A Father Goose Tale". It's an Alias/BtVS cross.

[Aleh]

The No-Shipper's Anthem is a fairly amusing, if short, song about the HP fandom.

[Bob Schroeck]

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Fill in the Blanks, a BtVS/Black Widows crossover.

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Black Widowers, but yeah. Nicely done, that. I have a couple paperbacks of Asimov's Black Widowers stories, and for the most part, that was perfectly on the money.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Bob Schroeck]

Short? It's no epic, but I wouldn't call it "short".
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

[Aleh]

Perhaps. By song standards, it probably isn't, so I suppose you're right. I suppose I'm just too used to reading fanfic chapters and books. :-)-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[Aleh]

For another "item", this is some speculation on what the hat's songs would be like if it read fanfiction and got drunk on veritaserum.
Edit: And this is a very different confrontation between Tom and Harry.-- This message brought to you by Ely Lilly, makers of SeraFem: Happy Pills for PMS.

[ECSNorway]

Training for the Job
Great Naruto fic, quite long so far. Skims over Naruto, Sakura, and Ino during the timeskip. Then Konoha establishes a 'branch village' in Wave Country, with Kakashi and Naruto in charge of it. Training, romance, occasional visits from Crazy!Sasuke, scuffles with other villages... and some surprises from the Hyuuga.--
"I give you the beautiful... the talented... the tirelessly atomic-powered...
R!
DOROTHY!
WAYNERIGHT!
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Xenoproctologist]

I don't recall seeing this one pointed out here before, so here's another brush-pass with Crossovers Which Should Not Be that disturbs and amazes in its viability:
A Slayer Transformed by Philister.
A Faith-centric crossover...with Transformers:RiD.

[Bob Schroeck]

amuse bouche, Chapter 1
(Yes, it's supposed to be uncapitalized.)
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...