As a diehard Catwoman fan, I have to say that Cat Tales is epically awesome, and I need to get caught up quickly. It starts off as your basic “Catwoman and Batman hook up” fic, but it’s done so well. The whole point is basically to say “OK, how can you make a relationship between the two work without making either act OOC?” And in the process, it’s also a very, very good re-imagining of the entire DCU that… fixes certain less-than-fan-approved events. And it’s been updating relatively regularly since 2001, with even a few spin-off fics by other people.

If that isn’t enough to convince you, then I should also say this is a fic series in which Batman’s rogues all hang out at the Iceberg Lounge (owned by the Penguin) and lie about getting beaten up by Batman when it was really Batgirl, Catwoman and the Riddler are very good friends except for when he’s hitting on her, and Harley and the Joker host annual Christmas parties for the other rogues. Don’t drink the punch.

This fic has its share of grammar and formatting issues, but it doesn’t matter. The content and the characters, even/especially the OCs, are just /flail/ and it’s an example of first-person done well. AU (-ish) as well, with how the author has further developed the world and given the Gerudo in particular a distinct culture.

Then again, it’s Legend of Zelda fic, so I may be biased.

SQUIRRELKING! Yes. And also Peter Chimaera.

You put whatever you want the title of the link to be inside the quotes (the “linktext” bit) and you have to take out the space between the final quote and the colon. Be sure Textile is marked below the textbox!

What fandom is that from?

Links, bro.

An important critique of slash fiction

EDIT: Yes, yes, this is a major bump of the thread and you’ll probably want to close it, but the link has useful things to say about the nature of fanfiction (and porn).

Isn’t Nightmares of Future Past actually one of the first of that genre, and everyone else is sort of playing follow the leader?

can I push my own?

Battlestar Galactica fanfic The Long War

Rather than chase after the Galactica and look for Earth, the surviving human ships stay behind at the colonies and keep fighting the cylons. It’s a character driven war epic that’s formatted like a TV show.

Wait, Artemis? Wasn’t she the virgin goddess? Like, militantly so?

I suppose that depends on where you kiss, and with which lips.

... that was incredibly wrong. Lord, I apologise.

Well, a dodecahedron is a twelve-sided three-dimensional object. A “love dodecahedron” is essentially a more complicated take on the standard love triangle.

This is what you get from spending time on tvtropes.

That sounds less like a love dodecahedron and more like a harem fic.

Understandable. But still, if they’re going to name-drop specific tropes, they should at least get them right.