Fanfiction Rec Thread

Oh Most of what we do is just read fanfic, so if you want fanfic recs then theres over 2k of them depending on the fandom.

Because this is wayyyyyy too many to put in one forum post, we will rec our faves and ones that have nonhuman/transhuman/transspecies/alterhuman themeing.

FFN:
To The Stars by Hieronym
Rating: T
Fandom: PMMM
Update status: Incomplete, still updating
Summary: Kyubey promised that humanity would reach the stars one day. The Incubator tactfully refrained from saying too much about what they would find there.
Notes: Absolutely bananas long sci-fi futurefic of madokaverse with a bunch of OCs. REALLY well worldbuilt. When we look for inspiration on how to do fanfic worldbuilding, this is the one we look at. It has little supplemental 'written from perspective of in-universe' bits of writing at the start and end of most chapters and even without them there is SO MUCH going on. Its still updating once or twice a year or so, and its very good and has a strong transhuman vibe.

Dragon Sisters by DBAinsw
Rating: T
Fandom: W.I.T.C.H. (cartoon version)
Update status: Incomplete, discontinued
Summary: The Guardians touched the dragons, and they got burned. It was the only way to save the world, but it forever changed them. Rather than the end, it was the start. The start of their evolution, and a fresh start to the oldest war in the cosmos.
Notes: -rattles special interest- Good transspecies fic if you are familiar with the cartoon version of the franchise. It got discontinued pretty fast which is a shame but hey, its one of the better ones in the ffn archive so on the rec pile it goes. They certainly went some type of way in Au-ing the worldbuilding into the fic.

A03:
Authors:

Esama - Has lots of fics that are transhuman/transspecies/have some plural stuff going on. Various fandoms, very good fics.

Vathara - Considered one of the 'greats'/'must reads' in a few fandoms for their fics for good reason. Vathara has many fics that have nonhuman or transspecies flavor and has an amazing writing style and massive longfics. 'Embers' is probably their biggest hit fanfic, being a massive atla au fic. Its very very good, and most of their fics you can read without knowing one of the crossover legs- or even both of them.

Blackkat - very good writer, comes highly recced, lots of good fics both short and long. Lots of rarepairs. Mostly has written naruto and star wars. Not much nonhuman flavored stuff, so this is just a rec because her stuff is so good.

Fic:
There May Be Some Collateral Damage by metisket
Rating: T
Fandom: Bleach + Harry Potter
Update Status: Complete
Summary: Ichigo’s been ordered to go undercover at a magic school to bodyguard a kid named Harry Potter, and this would be fine, except that he’s about as good at bodyguarding as he is at magic. And he considers it a good day, magic-wise, if he hasn’t set anything on fire.
Notes: Due to it being well-written bleachfic, its plural. Its also very very funny 'Ichigo trashes HP canon' stuff and the prose is just A+++

Now dreams won't do by bannanachan
Rating: G
Fandom: Cardcaptor Sakura
Update Status: Complete oneshot
Summary: "You’re my boyfriend. I want you to get along, and he tries to do what I want. Be patient, and trust me. He’ll come around.”
Toya took a second to formulate a response. “You want us to get along?”
Yukito raised his eyebrows. “Don’t you?”
Notes: Nice little sweet fic. Plural stuff going on.

freedom above all things by hellbeast
Rating: M
Fandom: Bleach
Update Status: Incomplete, still updating
Summary: My first relatively coherent thought was: Grimmjow f-ckin’ Jaegarjaques, some jackass put me into the body of Grimmjow f-ckin’ Jaegarjaques. And the original Grimmjow f-ckin’ Jaegarjaques is still f-ckin’ in here.
My second, more tangential thought was: I am not f-cking dying in a shounen manga.
or, two chaotic neutral assholes ruin everything ever
Notes: Good good transspecies plural fic. Lots of worldbuilding. Tasty.

Dragon Eclipse by Akaluan
Rating: M
Fandom: Bleach
Update Status: Incomplete, still updating
Summary: A single mistake, that's all it took to shatter Ishida Uryuu's world around him. A mistake coated in metallic blood and desperation to win... no, to survive. Now burdened with the expectations of everyone, Uryuu must forge his own path while trying to relearn exactly who he is.
Notes: Plural fic, got a bit of nonhuman flavor, great time travel, very fluffy and fun.

As N Approaches Infinityby Corisanna
Rating: T
Fandom: Bleach + PMMM
Update Status: Incomplete, still updating
Summary: Despairing as yet another timeline goes horribly wrong, Homura wanders into Karakura. There she discovers that while the spiritually-aware people of Karakura were distracted by Ichigo Kurosaki and Xcution, Kyubey had managed to contract the Kurosaki sisters as magical girls. Drawing the attention of the shinigami could be just the advantage Homura needs.
Notes: Good good good fic. Not super alt h+ or anything, just a fic we come back to every so often to read

A Star To Steer By by dogmatix and norcumi
Rating: T
Fandom: Sg-1 + Star Wars
Update Status: Complete, sequel in progress
Summary: Jack O'Neill runs into the weirdest snake he's ever met, and that's saying something. Obi-Wan just wants to get his people home.
Notes: Good good fic. Like above, a fic that has been reread a lot by us. But this time theres plural flavor.

We Like Things Related To Our Survival by sprx77
Rating: Not rated
Fandom: Naruto
Update Status: Complete oneshot
Summary: Naruto and Kurama meet before Naruto even leaves the orphanage. Naruto grows up with a second person under his skin-- in canon. Now he knows about Kurama, and refuses to keep him locked away.
Notes: Plural fic. Good stuff.

We by Iceisawesome
Rating: G
Fandom: Naruto
Update status: Complete oneshot
Summary: Naruto and Kurama end up sharing more than a body.
Notes: More good plural Naruto fic

Kamikakushi by Pandaflower
Rating: G
Fandom: Naruto
Update status: Incomplete, still updating
Summary: Tobirama is dearly wishing he'd just sucked it up and slept in a tree. Until he isn't anymore
Notes: transspecies flavored a bit. Good fic

there's no place (for us/like home) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Rating: G
Fandom: Inuyasha
Update status: Complete oneshot
Summary: Slowly, excruciatingly slowly, Inuyasha starts to creep closer to the fire at night. Now that he's not so injured, he's begun to vanish into the woods and come back to throw down rabbits and once a badger at the side of the hut, and Kagome hasn't had to worry about finding enough to eat as the air starts to turn colder. He hardly ever talks to them, or at all, and he won't come close enough to touch- he never comes as close as he had that first day again, but he stays.
She's not sure why he stays, but she's glad that he does.
Notes: Just a good fic

Dragon Skin by Feneris
Rating: Gen
Fandom: HTTYD
Update Status: Complete oneshot
Summary: Stoick has always feared that one day his son would find the black dragon-skin he kept in the oak chest at the foot of his bed.
He feared that his son would know immediately what that dragon-skin was for.
He feared that one day his son would don that skin, and discover he could turn himself into a dragon.
He feared that Hiccup would then fly off, and never been seen again.
Just as his mother had done.
Notes: Dragon Selkies!!

N7 SOLDIER by ScreamingViking
Rating: T
Fandom: FF7 + Mass Effect
Update status: Complete
Summary: The Crucible's explosion dumps Shepard on the planet Gaia. The first human Spectre becomes SOLDIER's first sniper. Her ability to bring reason to unreasonable situations will alter the fate of the entire planet, but especially that of her three First Class friends.
"You can pay a soldier to fire a gun. You can pay him to charge the enemy and take a hill. But you can't pay him to believe."
Notes: Transhumanism tag, nice long fic

like religion by WerewolvesAreReal
Rating: G
Fandom: Natsume's Book of Friends
Update status: Complete oneshot
Summary: Natsume would like to make it clear that this is all the dog's fault.
(OR: how to become a god, by accident).
Notes: A little transspecies flavored in the sense of 'becoming divine'

PRojects IN Controlled Environments, version Sith by Beth Winter
Rating: G
Fandom: Star Wars
Update Status: Complete oneshot
Summary: The overworked project manager on the redesign of the Imperial Lambda-class shuttle gets surprisingly competent feedback from an unknown official on Coruscant. She promptly decides that anyone bored enough to do a technical review of their own free will should be found proper employment for their own good.
Her correspondent has been missing the opportunity to tinker with machinery. It gives him something to do between hunting down rebels.
Notes: Good good starwars oneshot

wonderterror by peradi
Rating: not rated
Fandom: star wars
Update status: Complete
Summary: Anakin Skywalker is the son of the Force.
He’s half human and half something monumental.
What does that make his children?
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The Skywalkers aren't entirely human. Here's what that means.
Notes: Good eldritch horror flavored fic

Strange Disturbances by skyGaia
Rating: T
Fandom: Warrior Cats
Update status: Complete oneshot
Summary: There’s something odd happening with the stray cats in Chelford. [POV Outsider, OC-centric, one-shot]
Notes: Good outsider pov fic

Wild Card: Return to Start by brawltogethernow
Rating: T
Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh!
Update status: Incomplete
Summary: Jounouchi accidentally time travels. Many lunches are shared.
Notes: Nice time travel fic

Home and Heart by winterlogic
Rating: T
Fandom: Natsume's Book of Friends
Summary: After spending years bouncing from family to family and school to school, Takashi's learned that the best way to survive as an omega is to keep his head down and leave no traces. When he moves in with the Fujiwara couple, Takashi plans to do much the same, but they seem bound, set, and determined to upset all semblance of stability and familiarity in his life. And so does everyone else in Hitoyoshi.
It's going to be a long year.
Notes: Really really well-worldbuilt omegaverse au. The culture differences and stuff, just SO GOOD. The fluff so strong it burns!

Insomnia by tbat
Rating: T
Fandom: Xenoblade 2
Summary: One night in Indol, Rex notices that Pyra can't sleep. Offering his help, he learns a little more about the burden she has to bear.
Notes: THE FLUFF HHHH Plurality is kinda touched on bc the nature of xc2. Also spoilers a bit going on so maybe witness the game first its really worth it but mind the 'does the dog die' warnings for it if you need those.

snowglobe's broke
Rating: T
Fandom: Xenoblade Chornicles
Summary: “How did you get here,” Vanea demands, a lot more hostile than Tyrea’s used to, “and of all the many valuable, defunct pieces of machinery in Agniratha, why did you choose to raid the ether accelerator? Why are you still standing in the chamber?”
Shulk shuffles his feet but makes no attempt to move. “It’s... kind of a long story?”
“I have time,” Vanea says sharply.
“Well, this should be fun,” Tyrea mumbles, though clearly not quietly enough, because now Vanea’s giving her the evil side-eye. “Awesome. Wonderful. Fall in, team. Let’s tell this story exactly how it stands.”

In which Shulk, Melia, and Tyrea come to the unfortunate realization that spacetime is a lot more fragile than it seems, and doing the right thing while going fast is seriously a pain.
Notes: cracky timetravel fic that spoils the whole game almost instantly so as above, super play/witness the game first its worth it. Just a good favorite fic.

Made For The Journey [by Merixcil].
Fandom: DC Comics.

My absolute favorite Batjokes fic of all time that portrays the Joker as borderline eldritch in Bruce Wayne/Batman's eyes. Eventual explicit scenes!

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Now Winter Nights Enlarge [by 1863].

A man meets a winter spirit. Romance!

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His Song [by Raven Elliot Conners, AKA SometimesRaven].

An intriguing look into an alien's perspective. Gen.

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And that's my 3 recs!! For now.

archiveofourown.org/series/2628949 Very interesting dive into the past of the holiday and dreemur kids from deltarune! Also some very prominent and casual nonhuman/alterhuman experiences here, Kris as a human child raised by monsters but also as a coyote therian! Very good writing <3