Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Fan Fiction & Art => Topic started by: sundi on June 17, 2008, 10:14:02 AM
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I'm new to the fan fiction, what's the best you've read/recommend
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That's a good question, I'll have to think about that...
also, this is probably on the wrong board
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its probably set in stone or Daniel Nabet ;)
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Awww, gee. Thanks! ;D
I must admit, I am extremely fond of ANYTHING tied to O.MAAS. It's like my internet home-away-from-home. Almost all my first real RAFfriends were a part of it.
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This lady has some awesome fanfics that you should totally check out. :)
http://www.fanfiction.net/u/40452/
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there are a bunch by terenia (fanfiction.net username) that i really love.
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A lot of the fics that I liked way back when aren't that great upon my re-read... hmmm...
Korean Pearl's fics are pretty good, even though they start kind of meh. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/497804/Korean_Pearl
Don't let the summaries throw you off, her OC is actually GOOD.
But, it does take a while before her writing gets good, so the first couple of fics are a bit harder to read.
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id go check out raf classic for all the old ones, as far as more recent ones i like the two O.MAAS based ones mentioned above (gotta love it, that rp is some good fun lol) and i like the nothlit chronicles, cant think of too many others that have been updated that recently
id plug my own fics but they havent been updated in ages, ive got a new one on the way tho V hehe oops plug
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I personally was a huge fan of DinosuarNothlit's Book 55: The Difference, and Phoenix004's Animorphs Travels, but neither has been updated in a while. Musicman's The Song series is also very good.
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I wouldn't say tht mine r the best cuz I've read better but here's one tht I made http://richardsani.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=animorphsfanfiction&action=display&num=1201819531
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there are a bunch by terenia (fanfiction.net username) that i really love.
Aww, thanks Esplin! :D
There's a lot of good fics out there, but there's a lot of trash too. I usually just peruse the ff.net 'new' page, and see if anything good pops up (often a futile effort).
I do enjoy this fic quite a bit: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871169/1/Untitled (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871169/1/Untitled)
It's nice and short, just a bunch of 100-word ficlets about different scenes from the books and beyond. :)
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Oh, yes. Terenia. I forgot you. :( Which is really lame, because I'm reading one of your fics right now.
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Whenever D (jaxtalon/ Crazy [Explitive deleted]) actually finishes something it's usually pretty good, otherwise I wouldn't be his agent, cause I like making money. ;D
Edit: Money from original works of course.
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I don't suppose any of you remember my Ani fic? It's been a while since I worked on it, but I'm thinking of reposting it here and finishing it. I liked it, but I guess that's bias on my part! :P
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Ah, that was pretty awesome, Mike. You should repost it on here, and finish it of course. :)
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yea that fic was cool mike, it was long before my time here haha id def pick it up again if you finished it
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people have certain tendancies
most people on this board like the romantic, group orentated and namely all about the main chars in the serise.
then there are people who try to be orginal.
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Was that a slam on everyone with OCs? lol.
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yea seriously, ouch
Nabet is awesome
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I don't think I've ever written a fic primarily about a main character in the series. Or about the main Ani's at all....except a quick one shot.
For some reason fics involving the canon Animorphs bore me. I feel like it's all been done. I'm much more interested in fics about the aliens involved.
There is a good one I'm reading now by Qoheleth called Sacred Host. It's a bit preachy, which can be irritating, but it's written extremely well and I think that makes up for it.
Hmm...I guess one that I'm entertained by that DOES involve the canon's is Becoming Mary Sue by Mrowrkat98. It's one of those 7th Animorph stories everyone loathes (myself included), but this one is pretty decent and entertaining, because everything turns out completely opposite of what the main character expects.
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yea i think i usually give up on fics about the main characters cause the tone doesnt seem right, or the plot is just generic reminiscent of the ghostwriters lol
Origional characters are much more fun to read, or at least some new take on a main or minor character
It usually takes alot to get me into a new fic, you gotta show me something new
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With the Nothlit Chronicles, I'm trying to tie in characters and events from the actual series, but the main focus is an OC
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The only fanfics I really like are like the chronicles. books from the points of view of people other than the animorphs. It's because fanfics from the point of view of the animorphs, don't have the right...tone (for lack of a better word).
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I tend to prefer fics that have OCs in them, but I've read quite a few fics with just original characters that have turned out good because they are well written and interesting.
EDIT: And thank you to the guys who liked my fic! :)
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Was that a slam on everyone with OCs? lol.
no it wasn't. it's just fics that have the OCs in them have to be extremely well written or have something extremely turmaic for the OCs to have to go through (the actual death of one of the members and seeing how the others cope (or suffer from it) would be an excellent plot line. say that what if jake died in the middle of the serise. how would each char cope? would rachel go even more crazy, cassie starting to lose intrest in the fighting it's self, Is Ax and Tobias acting coldly towards the death? and would it push Marco over the edge? litterially thousands of questions pop up here and await the hand of an excellent writer).
the fate of Orginals however, entirely depends on the writer and if he/she attract and hold the audience. there is no known varabies, no known settings, and the freedom for the writer to create stuff has he/she goes along.
in other terms: here be dragons.
what pisses me off about most orginals is most of them follow the same basic concept: a group of new random people somehow find the blue box and proceed to join in the fight. now this is enterianting if it is excellently written but after more than 20 fanfics that have this concept, it get's old fast. i really like (and try to write) concepts that haven't been tried before. i have done a bit of brainstorming over the years and came up with the following:
1. the andalite-human war: war in the future where andalites and humans go at it, add humans with Arn bio-techology and dragons into the mix and fights. the animorphs are occisaonly meantioned but are long dead (a 150 years will do that to ya).
progress: on hold (geting back on in a month though)
2.the underground: basicly, i have shifted to the "what if" question about the conflict and basicly given the human view of the fight. these people have no special powers, no morphing, and they see their friends and love ones die and still fight on. i am also in the process of given the history of each race and oranization, and given their own viewpoint of the war. animorphs will not have a big part to play in the beginning but they will after the story where Tom get's freed and conscripted into the Shadows.
progress: (on hold)
3. Deep Ocean Blue
the plot of this one does involve the OCs heavly but deals with the question of a person wanting to become trapped in a morph.
the story starts on a boat where a boy and his father own and fish. they can barly make ends meet and most of their time is spent just putting food on the table. his mother passed away ( she is really dead, no Marco paradox going to happen) a few years ago and thus they are just trying to get by.
they are out fishing one day when they run into the OCs running from a bug fighter and (as we all know how trigger happy yeerks are) the fighter blows up the boat and kills everyone on board. the kid (who was collecting clams at the bottom of the sea) is rescued by the animorphs and (after much debate, this is story is Post-David) they recultently give him the cube. the boy fights with them but becomes more and more attached to one of his morphs and on many occiastions, starts demorphing dangerously close time limit. skipping over a few plot elements, he becomes a nothlit of a dolpfin and runs off.
the animorphs evenually find him and find out what he has done and the story procceds from there.
progress: (concept)
4. Red in Tooth and Claw
a Lovecraftain tale where a deteive hunts down a killer who kills his victims by litterially tearing them to shreds. skippin a large part of the plot, the detetive discovers the man is a morph capable and he recants his discoverly of the blue box and how he start to become what he is. the story ends with the guy escaping and taunting the detive to come after him again.
progress (concept)
those are my ideas and i have read many other fics that feature many onginal ideas (Glass Dagger, The Weight of a Name, Pretender, and Hacker, are just to name a few, quite a few of them are well written. but right now, i just can't stand fics that work with old concept (if it is an OC fic, it's a "what if rachel didn't really die". if it's a ornginal, it a "what if another random group of people found the blue box").. they just really tiring...
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A lot of the fics that I liked way back when aren't that great upon my re-read... hmmm...
Korean Pearl's fics are pretty good, even though they start kind of meh. http://www.fanfiction.net/u/497804/Korean_Pearl
Don't let the summaries throw you off, her OC is actually GOOD.
But, it does take a while before her writing gets good, so the first couple of fics are a bit harder to read.
I actually read those pretty recently, and I kind of skipped the first two. But I agree, most of them are pretty good. She created a whole new plotline revolving around the Animorphs. It's almost a crossover, but it isn't.
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There's some awesome fic up on the Animorphs LJ.
Five Things That Never Happened to Jordan & One That Did. (http://community.livejournal.com/animorphs/421421.html)
a revolution without dancing (http://odette-river.livejournal.com/138230.html) (I think this was posted here as well)
Also found two reclists: 1 (http://julygreen.livejournal.com/1195.html) 2 (http://julygreen.livejournal.com/2441.html)
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I recomend "Animorphs Travels" by our very own Phoenix004.
I've been hooked on it, great plot development, and nice OC that actually seems to fit well into the Ani's universe (which is pretty rare).
Also, I like "Animorphs: Redux" a whole lot too.
We really have some incredible writers on this board.....
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Well I wouldn't say it's the best here, but thanks anyway Soldier! :)
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OH, mercy!
"A Revolution Without Dancing" STILL almost makes me weep. I don't know who that author was, but she has a gift. Words flow through that story like breathing, effortless and utterly alive.
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She always knew By Raspberrygirl
Don't Take Life Seriously, It's Not Permanent By Britz
Animorphs (AU The Invasion) By Shane C.
Trust By RaspberryGirl
One Least Likely By Augustine Quill (who last I checked held top # of reviews on ff.net animorphs- that may have changed in the years)
And for crazy, nasty stuff that you'd never admit you read: anything by Jinako-Chan
Sorry it's long, but I couldn't bear to leave one out in the name of brevity
Edit: Of course there's always MY fanfiction (mememe) one of my reviewers said that I have the most Reviews per chapter for animorphs on ff.net. But again, things may have changed.