Recommended Type-Moon Fanfics Discussion II: Electric Boogaloo

[Arch-Magos Winter]

If I did, Kyte forgot to include it.

[Kirby]

Welp, that reminds me to -1 FFD.

Everyone's given their reasons, like the prose and the pacing and the mischaracterization and whatever, so I won't mention those. I'll focus on the wankery.

Basically, FFD!Shirou is pretty much broken for the sake of broken. This brokenness(?) adds little to the story other than "Hey, look how BAMF my not-OC is!", and TF gives him a ridiculous amount of power-ups, for yet again no reason other than what's likely wish-fulfillment. Not only this, but he also makes him perform ridiculous feats that pretty much kill suspension of disbelief. Here's a list of things:

wankery examples, spoilers within

Pure Eyes
Weapons somehow on par with NPs
DAA status
Killing Louvre
Taking on Berserker one-on-one and living
SWORD SURFING
Two Servants
Regularly hunts DAs
...and more! I think.

While that alone would only be kind of terrible, the narration pretty much gushes about how analytic and badass and whatever FFD!Shirou is supposed to be every other line or so (okay, that was an exaggeration). This, combined with his Shirou acting like a smug asshat all the time, makes the reading rather unenjoyable.

TL;DR: TF makes him OP for the sake of OP, and the story suffers for it.

I probably missed a few points, but the above should be sufficient.

[Kirby]

Was considering that, but it was already mentioned by others.

[SeiKeo]

Sword surfing owns. It reminds me of my Bionicles.

[Kirby]

Heh. I remember those. Those were like 7 percent of my childhood.

[Lycodrake]

Sword surfing owns. It reminds me of my Bionicles.

Bionicles were awesome.

[GG_Abrams]

hei guise, what's your favourite bionicles movie?

[SeiKeo]

Write a 1000000 words fic about your favorite Bionicle winning the War and I'll give a +1 to FFD for the sword surfing.

That is really a lot of words.

[SeiKeo]

Look I don't think I've written something a hundred thousand words long in my entire life.

[Kirby]

+1 Snow Bunnies, by Arashi Leonheart.

A one-shot, focused on Taiga, family, and Christmas. There isn't too much to say about this, except it's fluffy and sweet, mixed with somewhat sad. It's a short story, so it's more of a read-it-and-see sort of thing. But it's still good.

[SeiKeo]

I don't think the TM wiki is that long.

[Kyte]

GB's thread shouldn't have been locked, this is the obvious consequence.

To try to be on topic, a -1 to FFD, because it takes sheer genius to mischaracterize Rin that badly.

In recent news, Kyte as a disguised TF.

Fuck you. No recs for you.

Same, -1 to FFD.

You've seen all my posts as to why I think it's bad and why you should feel bad for reading it.

Go hunt your reasonposts because I can't be arsed to do it.

[Renko]

It seems to me there are still some good fanfics lurking around the net....you know the ones not found in the usual sites.

[Kirby]

Then rec them.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Then rec them.

Exactly.

[Chicago Ted]

+1 Snow Bunnies, by Arashi Leonheart.

A one-shot, focused on Taiga, family, and Christmas. There isn't too much to say about this, except it's fluffy and sweet, mixed with somewhat sad. It's a short story, so it's more of a read-it-and-see sort of thing. But it's still good.

Seconded, a +1 from me as well.

[Kyte]

I save the last post I've processed and then I go through everything in one big batch. No need for find the post, I'll come across it myself.

[Kyte]

Aaaand done.

+1 to The Kings in the Mountain (Ao3) by Seika

I can't find it in my index. You'll have to gimme a writeup. What's it about and why you like it, preferably not so mixed so I can distill the former into a summary.

Do it. Seriously, do it. It's a fantastic story.

I took the liberty of taking this as a +1

This one has been hibernating for ten months, but I really enjoyed it anyway.

Title: the CONQUEST of Tokyo
Author: Rodyle
Genre: Humor
Pairing: Fate/Sekirei
Summary: Alexander the Great and Waver Velvet stumble into the Sekirei plan, and decide to have fun.

I kinda don't wanna add this one because I just know it's not gonna go anywhere. Rodyle can't finish stories.

Then bring up the big guns: harem shenanigans with Bionicle.

Also, I'll give a +1 to "That's one way to wake Nii-san up", by Pata Hikari.
After some months of relationship, Akiha decides to satisfy every man's fetish. Except that she didn't take into account Kohaku's deviousness, and Shiki's bad dreams.
A short fic, with an often neglected pairing, funny, sweet and with a nice lemon. Especially because Shiki is not much of an asshole.

It's missing a link.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

Actually, scratch what I've said, the fic has a flaw, in that it's the only one the author has written about the Nasuverse, at least as far as I know.

Bryn too busy recovering from getting into Gen Urobuchi's head and translating Fate/Zero for us.

[NewAgeOfPower]

Sorry for the double posting, but I wished to make this as distinct as possible.

A +1 for Njeri, that I've just read and decided to be the best F/SN oneshot I know of.
I am honestly unable to find a single fault in it. Ilya is a character that I love, and yet so very few fics are about her, and only the tiniest minority manage to catch her character duality, of lonely, abused and whimsical child and of inhumanly remote living sacrifice.
The war setting confers an obvious poignancy to a story about people preparing for another fruitless War, and yet the author knows better than to bash his reader's head with a big, rocky message.

Without spoilering, the twist at the end is of my favorite kind, one that alters your perception of what you've read so far, and that you cannot even be completely sure that it will actually have a large impact on what is yet to come.

Actually, scratch what I've said, the fic has a flaw, in that it's the only one the author has written about the Nasuverse, at least as far as I know.

It was good, however, I tend not to give +1's to bittersweet or just bitter works- not something I want to encourage, thank you.

The author has written about 4 other FFnet stories- all about Yu-gi-oh.