KB's Bookshelf
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Popcorn = it doesn't have enough plot and/or character development to be anything more than shallow fun. Often coincides with the *feel-good label.
Full meal = character development, and/or world-building and/or plot is sufficient to make solidly interesting story. Read this when you have a free evening and want real meat for your mind to chew on.
Three course meal = something that really, really ought to be published, because it's downright gripping in both character development and plot. Savor this.
*Feel-good means something that doesn't do anything except pile on good feelings, generally by gradually or immediately fixing all the emotional pitfalls, angst, and physical/psychological defeats in canon. No real tension. After all, defeats and losses don't create good feelings, do they? Being a feel-good fic is not necessarily bad, but it's like eating candy: best in small doses, and not very filling. The Hedonic Treadmill is a thing.
(Open, Moderated)
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Home is where you make it. Or, the AU where Loki falls to Earth after Thor, wanders around trying to work out what to do with himself, and somehow ends up working for SHIELD. (Mostly because supervillains are so plebian.)
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Killing Time by pristineungift
Fandoms: Batman (Movies - Nolan), Batman: The Animated Series, Batman - All Media Types, Injustice: Gods Among Us, Dark Knight Rises (2012)
06 Feb 2015
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The little lady was screaming, her eyes wide, and frightened, and blue. She was what society said was beautiful: tall and lean and curvy in the right places, white and golden haired and unblemished. If J was honest (and he always was, to himself), he thought she was gorgeous.
Takes place during The Dark Knight Rises. An origin story for Harley Quinn, as told through Joker’s eyes.
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“Blessed Spirit, we thank you for the gift of this child’s life. We are forever in your debt.” The whole village is kneeling now, even the tiniest toddlers flopped down on their stomachs doing their best approximation of a bow. “Please, won’t you give us a name to call you? We would like to properly express our gratitude.”
Oh.
Well shit.
(Where Zuko saves a little Earth Kingdom girl from drowning, the villagers think he's a Spirit, build him a shrine, and long story short, a fake story about the Blue Spirit who dances with dragons suddenly becomes very real.)
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In which Ursa dies in childbirth, Zuko becomes the most obsessively overprotective big brother imaginable, and Azula looks up to the big brother who raised her a lot more than her mostly absent father.
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It's time to stop waiting for other people to save you. A story about fear, resilience, and Sakura.
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Death isn't good for the soul and dead things can't die twice.
Harry dies too many times to be fine. After the war he goes travelling; he and Tom Riddle always were too much alike for their own good.
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Bookmarked by KB_Caerbannog
28 Nov 2021
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Harry survived two killing curses, and had a hunk of a soul stitched onto his and then ripped off. He physically died and came back by magic hand-waving.
What if he didn't come back whole?
Dark popcorn.
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The New Man : An Adam Smasher SI by Seat_Admiral
Fandoms: Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game), Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (Anime), Cyberpunk & Cyberpunk 2020 (Roleplaying Games)
08 Jan 2023
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Just before his climactic confrontation with David Martinez and the Cyberskeleton, Adam Smasher finds himself with a set of memories not his own. It came with a warning, that he would soon meet his end at the hands of some cyberpunk and the ghost of Johnny Silverhand, but he could avoid this if he recruited David and his crew and readied them for that fated encounter.
He wasn’t about to die to the ghost of some upjumped cheerleader. He was Adam fucking Smasher. He wasn’t about to die to fucking anyone.
That was a promise.
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- English
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- 558,130
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- 158/?
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Bookmarked by KB_Caerbannog
25 Jun 2023
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There's a trope somewhere out there wherein the protagonist doesn't actually have a character arc for development, but instead the sidekick(s) develop. It can fall flat, or be nothing more than shallow popcorn. This story definitely does not fall into either trap. Adam Smasher's personality as a war-junkie cyborg is an entertaining anchor for the story (like following around that one Grumpy Grandpa), around which an entire supporting cast begins dragging themselves up to his level. And as the story is ongoing, we're starting to even see small changes in Adam's opinions too! Of course, this is on top of the usual prerequisites for an excellent story: tight action, dialogue, cohesive world-building, plot threads woven together in abundance... there's a fair amount of Cyberpunk 2077/Edgerunner fanfiction out there by now. This is the best I've come across thus far.
Full meal, likely three courses by the time it's complete.
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Son of Suns Trilogy Part I
Darth Vader captures the passengers of the Millennium Falcon after their attempted escape at Cloud City, sure that Luke will convert to his cause and aid him in overthrowing the Emperor. When his plan is rebuffed he falls back on more desperate measures and hands his son over to Palpatine, who begins to systematically take apart Luke’s life to create a new Sith, turning him against his allies, his father and his beliefs with devastating consequences for both the Empire and the Alliance, as events cascade beyond anyone's control.
This is a completed trilogy, featuring Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Palpatine, Han Solo, Leia Organa, Mara Jade, Mon Mothma, and Crix Madine.
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- Part 1 of Son of Suns Trilogy
Bookmarked by KB_Caerbannog
14 Apr 2021
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Three-course meal. 'nuff said. This is one of the best Star Wars fanfictions out there, on par with fics like Hull No. 721. Slow and heavily favors angst and political intrigue over action. The only real thing to criticize is that when combat scenes do occur, they're sometimes jarringly interspersed with political intrigue, which messes with pacing. This is only the first book in a trilogy; the rest are available on fanfiction.com.
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“I am not cute! I will crush my enemies!”
But these people – her parents – had only smiled, and said –
“Of course you will, darling.”
“And you’ll make sure they never get up again.”
And, well. Wasn’t that refreshing?
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Azula is reborn into the Uchiha clan. It's not half as bad as she thought it would be.
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- English
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- 10,480
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- 7/?
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Bookmarked by KB_Caerbannog
02 Feb 2023
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Crossover crack. You will /not/ stop giggling if you're familiar with both settings.
Best of popcorn.
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Elsewhere... by WinchesterNimrod
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Under the Red Hood, Superman - All Media Types, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman/Batman (Comics), Man of Steel (2013), Smallville, Naruto
24 Jul 2019
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Kakashi dies and wakes up elsewhere...In short, he's not impressed. Jason can relate.
[Basically, two assholes decide to instigate a murderous friendship that will knock the DC universe off its moral axis.]
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- 12,138
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- 8/?
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Bookmarked by KB_Caerbannog
27 May 2021
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Kakashi with all his ANBU and Jonin-level training dropped without warning into the DCU, specifically Gotham. Utterly hilarious, blood-soaked popcorn.