Writing to Admire
Occasionally, while delving through the great and funny and entertaining works on the Archive, one runs across a story who's prose, insight, style, and skill leaves one breathless.
There will be old favorites, and hidden gems, new discoveries, and some aquired tastes. Some writers take a few chapters to find their feet, but in the end they produce stories with such compelling writing that the original premise ceases to matter.
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before I die again by wildsofmarch
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
15 May 2022
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The clues had been there all along. Jason pushed a shaky hand through his hair as all the puzzle pieces came together at once.
The black-suited underbosses who showed up like clockwork. The fancy cars, the omnipresent bodyguards. The manor built like a fortress. The clandestine surgeries in the conservatory. The guns and knives squirrelled away in every room. The shooting range in the basement.
Bruce wasn’t just a wealthy scion and society fixture, he was also a fucking mob boss.
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OR: the Mafia AU where Bruce has Gotham under his iron fist and Jason just wants to be a priest.
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This will sound a little ridiculous, no matter how Sasuke phrases it. I see dead people is embarrassingly tacky, and I'm half-spirit seems like something Sakura might say when she's stoned sky high. So he settles for a shrug.
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- Part 2 of Sharingan Rising
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Through the spite of the spirits or plain rotten chance, a door that would have been better left untouched has opened. On the other hand, with Fire and Earth as one's allies, sometimes escaping is the easy part.
Even the Dragon-King's temple floods.
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before I die again by wildsofmarch
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Red Hood: Lost Days
15 May 2022
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The clues had been there all along. Jason pushed a shaky hand through his hair as all the puzzle pieces came together at once.
The black-suited underbosses who showed up like clockwork. The fancy cars, the omnipresent bodyguards. The manor built like a fortress. The clandestine surgeries in the conservatory. The guns and knives squirrelled away in every room. The shooting range in the basement.
Bruce wasn’t just a wealthy scion and society fixture, he was also a fucking mob boss.
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OR: the Mafia AU where Bruce has Gotham under his iron fist and Jason just wants to be a priest.
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here's to the strongest fighter, here's to the last survivor by Dialux
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Jul 2020
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Well, thinks Nerdanel. Well. It isn’t as if she has much faith in her own sons’ abilities to make decisions now, not after she spent a lifetime trying to instill independence in them and they all still followed their father into the teeth of ruin and grief.
[The fix-it fic where Nerdanel, Anairë and Eärwen sneak out of Aman to steal some Silmarils because wars don't always need to be won by armies.]
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Christmas in Kansas by Unpretty
Fandoms: DCU, Superman - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Wonder Woman - All Media Types
26 Apr 2016
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Clark Kent invites Bruce Wayne and Diana of Themyscira to his parents' house for Christmas. It goes, in general, pretty okay.
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- Part 20 of Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts
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Bookmarked by gossamerthreads
17 Nov 2018
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Alfred took too long to answer. Bruce was incoherent when he did. Everything took too long. He gave up, and ran back. In his absence Martha had lain beside her husband, and laced her fingers with his. She had shut his eyes, and fixed his coat. They used to stargaze that way, out on the lawn behind the house in summer, when the air was hot and filled with fireflies. With nothing left that he could do, Bruce had curled up between them. He'd thought maybe he would die. He'd thought maybe he could go wherever it was that they had gone. It was the only thing he could think of. Their blood had soaked hot through his clothes. He couldn't see the stars past the city lights. The police had thought he was dead, too, when they got there.
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The always ordinary Lily Evans enters her 7th-Year with a whole slew of unordinary changes. And with everything changing, Lily fears she may be going a bit mad. Suddenly, she’s Head Girl, her friends are acting strangely, and there’s a new James Potter she just can't seem to get rid of. [Pre-OotP]
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pick it up, pick it all up and start again by Annerb
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Aug 2017
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The thing about war is that it never ends. Not really. The battlefields just change locations. Harry and Ginny after the war. (Sequel to The Changeling)
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- Part 1 of Armistice Series