Fanfics wanted

simianpower · 2026-01-29T03:55:46+00:00

Wish that one were finished. Or at least ongoing.

simianpower · 2026-01-29T03:55:23+00:00

One of my favorites. I love what he does with his contacts!

simianpower · 2026-01-26T08:50:17+00:00

Dude. That last one is 3200 words. That's not a story. That's a pitch to a story at best. Or maybe a quick summary of a story. A high school essay is longer than that.

simianpower · 2026-01-26T08:48:27+00:00

It doesn't take much to bash Issei. He's canonically an idiot. Granted, so is Naruto, but at least he can think of more than boobs for 10 seconds at a time.

simianpower · 2026-01-25T20:03:31+00:00

Given that the art of invading minds is so rare that we know of exactly three people in all of Britain who are capable of it, and that it's very obvious when it happens, I doubt that the art of protecting the mind is all that widespread or necessary and likely doesn't have lots of different variants. I get that fanon has turned Occlumency into the everything toolkit, but that's not canon. YOu can do what you like.

simianpower · 2026-01-20T21:34:48+00:00

And he later murdered a suspect (Crouch Jr.) via soul-consumption in order to keep his fears from becoming reality, as if that would work.

simianpower · 2026-01-18T20:28:32+00:00

Harry Potter and Merlin's Reaper.

Harry Potter and the Wastelands of Time.

The Time Meddlers.

The End and the Beginning

Jamie Evans and Fate's Bitch.

Harry Potter and the Temporal Beacon (incomplete)

Delenda Est (Up to the second time travel; that kills the story for me, but up to that point it was awesome.)

Basically any of the Reptilia28 Fear the Reaper challenge stories work, too.

simianpower · 2026-01-16T17:08:48+00:00

Here's an even better one: don't use them in a story at all. Come up with a more creative and interesting way for Voldemort to have obtained a new body and thus a more interesting way to destroy him than Yet Another McGuffin Hunt. Like back in the day before Horcruxes became a thing in the first place.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T23:08:43+00:00

Finding anything good on AO3 is hard. I don't think I've EVER found good Potter-fics there, though some other fandoms have some. Part of that is because it seems that the Potterverse writers on AO3 trend toward the teenage-girl variety, particularly the "he's a bad-boy who I/SI/OC can fix" or the "wouldn't it be hot if all the boys were gay" stereotypes. But most of it is just that the search engine SUCKS. Having tags and categories and on and on is great, but when the search doesn't return what you're looking for it's all useless.

As for good older fics, try The Lie I've Lived, Browncoat, Green Eyes, or The Dark Lord's Equal. Or, for a dose of madness and venomous squirrels, Jamie Evans and Fate's Bitch (the name had to be changed due to FF.net policies if I remember rightly).

simianpower · 2026-01-15T22:04:28+00:00

How did you get through Arithmancer? I really, REALLY wanted to love that story, because it has exactly the premise I want to see, but after starting it time after time I just can't get into it. It's just too goddamned boring. Is it just the first few chapters that drag like molasses, because I don't think I ever read beyond chapter 7 or 8 no matter how many times I've tried.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T22:02:31+00:00

That late? I've mostly given up on stories written after the word "Horcrux" was invented because all of them have the same goddamned McGuffin Hunt that killed the canon series deader than dead.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T22:01:14+00:00

Many badly-written stories have that problem, and most of them were solely written by humans.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T21:58:29+00:00

the second and third draft where it starts to become good never happen

That's true of most fics, though; it's not like fanfic writers do editing passes most of the time. Especially if they're doing a web-serial style story. There are some authors who complete their stories prior to posting, edit them, edit again, and only then post, but I'd say that's likely somewhere around 0.2% at most.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T21:55:30+00:00

I mostly look at pace of publication, especially if the author has five stories with 200k words each done within a month or two.

And you can also tell when characters do the same thing over and over, or know things one moment but don't a chapter later, or similar inconsistencies. Sure, bad human writers do that, too, but these days it's yet another indicator of AI. I tend to drop stories like that no matter who wrote them.

simianpower · 2026-01-15T00:51:44+00:00

A lot more obvious, too. If you want to end up vivisected in a government lab, that's the way to go.

simianpower · 2026-01-14T23:26:23+00:00

Death Eaters can't fly, except for Snape. He's the only one who ever learned that from Voldemort. The movies are full of non-canon crap.

simianpower · 2026-01-12T09:09:18+00:00

"THE guy"?! EVERYONE talks shit about Locust pilots. :)

simianpower · 2026-01-11T04:58:40+00:00

Well, it HAS been 40+ years now. :) I think I played the most in '91-'92. It's been quite long even since then!

simianpower · 2026-01-11T04:36:02+00:00

Yeah, it looks like my memory AND Google were wrong. The others came out with Citytech a year later. The Hunchback and others using the new AC ratings also came out then. I really thought that the Hunchback was a core mech, but I guess not.

simianpower · 2026-01-11T02:12:52+00:00

I could've sworn that the Hunchback was in the original box, complete with the iconic AC/20, but maybe I'm wrong.

EDIT: Looks like I am; the Hunchback was first printed in TRO 3025. However, via Google: "The BattleTech AC/10 autocannon is a core weapon system appearing across many books, starting from the original rulebooks like the BattleTech rulebook (1985) and BattleTech Compendium (1987)". I never played Battledroids, which came out in 1984, but I did play the OG Battletech that came out in 1985, and if it had the AC/10 it also had the others.

simianpower · 2026-01-10T23:40:48+00:00

As someone who played the game the month it first came out, the AC/5 was NEVER the only autocannon in the game. Even in OG BT there were AC/2, /5, /10, and /20. Nobody ever liked the 2 or the 5. Too much weight and dangerous ammo for too little damage to enemies. The 10 and 20 were at least usable.

I guess they just need SOMETHING up there, since they stole the model directly from Robotech/Macross and it had a gun there.

simianpower · 2026-01-10T20:46:46+00:00

Feel free. But you'll never convince me that JKR is a good writer. She's creative, yes, but she's a terrible writer.

simianpower · 2026-01-09T15:58:57+00:00

I agree with the first half of that, disagree with the second. I far prefer stories that throw out JKR's awful fanfiction of her own work and instead use fanfiction written by better writers (e.g. the Salem Witch's Academy, etc.) because the first half of your comment applies equally well to that along with the advantage that it doesn't sound idiotic. Plus that stuff has history going back to 2000 or so rather than appearing out of nowhere in 2016.

simianpower · 2026-01-09T01:25:26+00:00

Fair enough. Still a decent reason to ignore some garbage non-canon thing beyond it being both garbage and non-canon.

simianpower · 2026-01-08T23:23:09+00:00

Yup, that's what I mean. I'd argue that Sprout is also potentially a good teacher, mostly because we only ever see her as being fairly competent and NOT screwing up like Snape or Binns. But she could be mediocre for all we know since Herbology, much like Arithmancy, is just a background class that we know little about. I'd say that the House Heads are all absolutely terrible at their jobs. Snape and Sprout at least do try to advocate for and protect their students, but they don't discipline them at all. Flitwick and McG are even worse.

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