gensplosion | Entries tagged with angst

FANDOM: Sonic the Hedgehog (Movies)
FIC LINK: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62836168
AUTHOR LINK:

ladyworld_astronomer
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Completed, 3,019 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Gerald Robotnik, Ivo Robotnik, Maria Robotnik

FIC SUMMARY:

Fourteen years. Four hours.

A lifetime in an afternoon.

Comparison is the thief of joy, and Gerald has been robbed of everything.

RECCER'S NOTES: Ohhh baby is this angsty! A character study of sorts for Gerald Robotnik, as he makes comparisons between his beloved Maria and detested Ivo.

scifirenegade

FANDOM: Doctor Who (classic series)
FIC LINK: On AO3
AUTHOR LINK:

thisiszircon
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen and Up
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete, 8k words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane

FIC SUMMARY: Ace is no stranger to betrayal.

RECCER'S NOTES: Ever wanted to know what was going on in Ace's head during that moment? Ever wanted an extension of the ending of the story plus a coda to Survival? Behold! For this story delivers!

Crossposted to

tardis_library

Current Mood: annoyed

ozqueen

FANDOM: MCU
FIC LINK: the way out is through
AUTHOR LINK:

Nokomis
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 1529
MAIN CHARACTERS: Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Steve Rogers

FIC SUMMARY: Little by little, Natasha becomes part of the team.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a gorgeous fic set just after the Battle of New York. Natasha is still trying to figure out how to fit into the team, and the team is trying to figure out how to be a team. Steve is adjusting to his new time, Clint is trying to rid himself of the guilt of Loki's possession, and Bruce can't forget that Hulk almost killed Natasha.

It's all these tiny little steps and character moments all winding together to reveal broken little pieces and the attempts to fix them. This is just a beautiful character-driven fic.

ozqueen

FANDOM: Voltron: Legendary Defender
FIC LINK: Routine Maintenance
AUTHOR LINK:

VelkynKarma
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen | Violence/Injury
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 50777
MAIN CHARACTERS: Shiro, Hunk, Lance, Pidge, Keith, Allura, Coran

FIC SUMMARY: Being an amputee with a prosthetic limb is difficult enough. Having a solid metal alien prosthetic forced on you by another species entirely is even worse.

OR:

Five times Shiro’s Galra arm caused him trouble in some way and another member of the team helped him out with it, and the one time the same arm is the only reason any of them survive.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This fic is incredible. Amazing character voices, a huge, huge amount of hurt/comfort, and incredible tension and emotion. Shiro learning to deal with his Galra arm, not just physically, but emotionally, and all the Paladins + Allura + Coran helping him as best they can (even when he's doing his best to ensure he battles on alone, goddamn it Shiro). I mean seriously, this fic is incredible.

longlivehumour

M*A*S*H leans heavily towards the slashy side, for obvious reasons, but there's some excellent genfic in the fandom too. Here's some of my favourites:

FANDOM: M*A*S*H
FIC LINK: Sanity Will Be Graded on a Curve
AUTHOR LINK:

OldToadWoman
RATING/WARNING(S): Teen | vague references to wartime violence and gore
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 5,000
MAIN CHARACTERS: Main cast (Season 1)

FIC SUMMARY: They're all this crazy because it's the only way to stay sane. The 4077th as seen through the eyes of a terrified new recruit.

RECCER'S NOTES: I read this as a newbie with barely any knowledge of the story; I loved it anyway. The story takes place during the Korean War in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital where all the personnel, from the army-obsessed surgeon to his fishing-obsessed CO to the crossdressing corporal, are a little bit mad. No further canon knowledge is required.

He hadn't even noticed the gunfire until then. Funny not noticing gunfire. Maybe it was the background music. You never missed the important parts of the picture, because the background music always let you know when the good bits were coming. The music reel was broken today. They should ask for free popcorn. It was only fair.

( Four more beyond the tent flap. )

thady

FANDOM: BABYLON 5
FIC LINK: The Quiet Ones.
AUTHOR LINK:

Amatara
RATING/WARNING(S): G | ( canonical character death )
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ficlet | ~ 990 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Regent Virini, Londo Mollari

FIC SUMMARY: The life and death of Regent Virini - one of the quiet ones history is bound to forget.

RECCER'S NOTES: This is such a wonderful character study. The background Amatara made up for Virini makes so much sense, it becomes my headcanon. I'd love to read more about him.

thady

FANDOM: HARRY POTTER
FIC LINK: The Daring Win.
AUTHOR LINK:

Lomonaaeren | on LJ:

lomonaaeren
RATING/WARNING(S): R | ( content notes )
WIP?/WORD COUNT: novel | ~ 106,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Dolores Umbridge, Harry Potter, Albus Dumbledore, Sirius Black, assorted others

FIC SUMMARY: The year: 1987. The place: Muggle London. The situation: The Boy-Who-Lived is being treated horribly by his Muggle relatives. A young witch must take him in for the Ministry’s good and his.
The witch’s name: Dolores Umbridge.

RECCER'S NOTES: Please don't let the summary and the warnings deter you. It's much better than I expected.
While Dolores begins as despicable as we know her in the books, she learns to grow here in this story. I love her character development. While she starts out with manipulating Harry, she develops so much that I was surprised.
It's not always an easy story to read, but I was always eagerly anticipating another chapter.

longlivehumour

FANDOM: Fullmetal Alchemist (all universes)
FIC LINK: Stock Market Crash
AUTHOR LINK:

VIKAN
RATING/WARNING(S): Complete | Discussions of genocide, some gore, swearing
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 30,500
MAIN CHARACTERS: Roy Mustang, Edward Elric

FIC SUMMARY: Stranded in the middle of the Eastern Desert, Roy Mustang must try to get himself and a concussed Edward across it safely before he completely loses his mind.

RECCER'S NOTES: OH GOD THIS FIC. Told from the perspective of an increasingly-unbalanced Roy Mustang, this is a superb story. Though the subject matter is grim, the dialogue is sprinkled with humour - Ed and Roy's acerbic relationship is a joy to read - and it never falls into the trap of navel-gazing that plagues so many fanfics. Mustang is a complex character who's done some truly horrible things, and this story has no qualms in showing that. If it has one flaw it's the proofreading, which left out a number of homophone mistakes, but the rest of the writing is fantastic: vivid and to the point. The story structure keeps the suspense right up till the end.

"Evil, evil thing, to make someone want revenge."

~~(Happy birfday to meee now here's some SUFFERING)~~

longlivehumour

FANDOM: Red Dwarf
FIC LINK: Ode to Enlightenment
AUTHOR LINK:

jazzfic
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 2,000
MAIN CHARACTERS: Arnold Rimmer, Dave Lister

FIC SUMMARY: Rimmer's whole life, from what Lister had managed to glean from various drunken confessionals, was one missed opportunity after another.

RECCER'S NOTES: Pitch-perfect voices, down to Rimmer's horrific attempts at writing. A small scene in a storage locker.

( And while I'm at it, here's another 'Enlightenment' fic. )

longlivehumour

FANDOM: Star Trek: TOS
FIC LINK: Errors on the Edge of Forever
AUTHOR LINK:

louiseb
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 11,000
MAIN CHARACTERS: Spock, James T. Kirk, Christine Chapel, Leonard McCoy

FIC SUMMARY: "A joyless smile, a shuttered look, a turn of shoulders. Is this how friendship ends?" Set after "The City on the Edge of Forever". Spock fears the worst.

RECCER'S NOTES: Second-person narrative is a rare choice for fanfic and, for that matter, also for profic, but oh how this story makes it work. It does a great job of portraying the careful balance of reason and feeling in Spock's mind, and the disconnect between "what you think" and "what you end up saying" was painfully familiar. Also: Christine Chapel is awesome.

(There is a leeetle bit of non-gen-ness in the interaction between Spock and Chapel, but it holds close to what we see in canon.)

ozqueen

FANDOM: Voltron: Legendary Defender
FIC LINK: Your Grace is Wasted
AUTHOR LINK:

BossToaster
RATING/WARNING(S): M | violence (above canon-typical)
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Completed | 12073
MAIN CHARACTERS: Shiro, Pidge, Hunk, Lance, Keith, Allura, Coran

FIC SUMMARY: Five times that no one was thinking of Shiro as a dad.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This fic has a mix of everything. It's the first in a series but it's complete within itself and it's like a rollercoaster of all of my favourite things - found family, angst, fluffy feels, hurt/comfort, and there's a great sense of humour all woven through it as well.

ozqueen

FANDOM: MCU/The Avengers
FIC LINK: Pour Back the Ocean
AUTHOR LINK:

imperfectcircle
RATING/WARNING(S): T | Canononical character death
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Complete | 10907
MAIN CHARACTERS: Wanda Maximoff, Sam Wilson, James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Natasha Romanoff, Vision, Steve Rogers

FIC SUMMARY: After the events of Age of Ultron, Wanda has to find a new place in the world. Contains team training exercises, expected grief and unexpected kindness.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Oh, this fic hit me right in the feels. I actually cried. This is a beautiful story about Wanda trying to work her way through what happened in Age of Ultron. Gorgeous character building and lots of team/found family feelings. There are no spoilers for Civil War here.

dirty_diana

FANDOM: Marvel Cinematic Universe / Agent Carter
FIC LINK: Columbia
AUTHOR LINK:

CourtneyCourtney
RATING/WARNING(S): General Audiences
WIP?/WORD COUNT: complete / 1700 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Edwin Jarvis, Peggy Carter, Howard Stark

FIC SUMMARY: Edwin Jarvis learns to navigate in the wake of Steve Rogers.

RECCER'S NOTES: An interesting look at Edwin Jarvis. Captures the determination and melancholy of Season 1, as Jarvis navigates around the legend of Captain America, and his friends' lingering grief for a fallen hero.

dirty_diana

FANDOM: The Goblin Emperor
FIC LINK: Passage
AUTHOR LINK:

bigsunglasses
RATING/WARNING(S):Teen
WIP?/WORD COUNT: 15 000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Idra Drazhar & Paru Tethimin
FIC SUMMARY: Released from his role as Prince by the birth of a son to the Emperor and Empress, Idra is allowed to attend university. But he can't escape his past so easily, or perhaps at all, particularly not when he meets someone who walks under a similar shadow ...

Three years post-canon.

RECCER'S NOTES: The novel The Goblin Emperor is full of intricate world-building and intriguing minor characters. This story makes interesting stars of Idra and Paru, while still dealing wirh some of the fallout that events in the novel may have caused.

thady

FANDOM: Star Wars: Rebels/Star War Original Trilogy
FIC LINK: Hide Yourself for Me.
AUTHOR LINK:

musesfool |

musesfool
RATING/WARNING(S): G | none
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ~ 2,200 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Ahsoka Tano, Leia Organa

FIC SUMMARY: Ahsoka won't teach Leia to use the Force, but she can teach her to hide herself within it.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a brilliant story featuring Ahsoka teaching Leia. Ahsoka is great here, and Leia too, very close to canon. And it makes so much sense. Awesome.

thady

FANDOM: Stargate: Atlantis
FIC LINK: 5 ways to go crazy without trying.
AUTHOR LINK:

bratfarrar
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13 | dark
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ficlet | ~ 590 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: team

FIC SUMMARY: see title.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Creepy and realistic, perhaps even more because it's easily imaginable. I could easily see this happening were SGA a darker show.

thady

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Tea and Whiskey.
AUTHOR LINK:

magickatfics
RATING/WARNING(S): PG
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 1,500 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Alistair Moody, Nymphadora Tonks

FIC SUMMARY: The day they met they had tea - the day their world changed, they had whisky.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Oh, this is such a great take on Tonks and Moody. I really love Tonks here. And I love how we see Moody through her eyes.

thady

FANDOM: Burn Notice
FIC LINK: Commercial Value.
AUTHOR LINK:

arsenicjade
RATING/WARNING(S): PG-13
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ficlet | ~ 920 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Fiona Glenanne

FIC SUMMARY: For all his practicality, his cleverness in getting them in and out of situations, Fiona wonders if Michael ever thinks about the fact that he’s never had his body put on display for the sake of culling information, thumbing ID, whatever.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Fiona is my favorite character in Burn Notice. This is a really neat little character study.
(And after reading it I really want her Natasha Romanov to meet up. How awesome would that be?)

thady

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Memorial Ceremony.
AUTHOR LINK:

celandineb
RATING/WARNING(S): G
WIP?/WORD COUNT: ficlet | 626 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Harry Potter

FIC SUMMARY: Harry speaks at the ceremony unveiling the memorial to the fallen.

RECCER'S NOTES:

Short but powerful snippet. I can never really suspend my disbelief with a Harry who is an awesome speaker, but this is a speech I could see him give.

thady

FANDOM: Harry Potter
FIC LINK: Bedside Manners.
AUTHOR LINK:

serpenscript | Fic-journal at IJ:

serpens_fic
RATING/WARNING(S): G | set partly during the seventh book
WIP?/WORD COUNT: one-shot | ~ 2,000 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Poppy Pomphrey, Minerva McGonagall, Luna Lovegood

FIC SUMMARY: Poppy Pomfrey liked to sing. It was a little known secret, because although she indulged in singing quite frequently she very rarely gave anyone the chance to hear her sing. To put it kindly, she was tone deaf; to put it bluntly was to say she sounded like a hippogriff caught in a harpy's nest.

RECCER'S NOTES:

This is a wonderful character study of Poppy Pomphrey. I love the setting during the seventh book, love her friendships, and she is such an amazing character.

The Espresso Addict

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Entries tagged with angst

Sonic the Hedgehog (Movies): Le Voleur de Joie

Doctor Who: Undercurrents by thisiszircon

mcu: the way out is through, by nokomis

voltron: legendary defender - routine maintenance, by VelkynKarma

mas*h: Five fics

Babylon 5: The Quiet Ones, by Amatara.

Harry Potter: The Daring Win, by Lomonaaeren.

Fullmetal Alchemist: Stock Market Crash, by VIKAN

Red Dwarf: Ode to Enlightenment, by jazzfic

ST:TOS: Errors on the Edge of Forever, by louiseb

Voltron: Legendary Defender: Your Grace is Wasted, by BossToaster

marvel/the avengers: pour back the ocean, by imperfectcircle

MCU/Agent Carter: Columbia by CourtneyCourtney

The Goblin Emperor: Passage by bigsunglasses

SW Rebels: Hide Yourself for Me, by victoria_p (musesfool).

SGA: 5 ways to go crazy without trying, by bratfarrar.

HP: Tea and Whiskey, by magickatfics.

BN: Commercial Value, by arsenicjade.

HP: Memorial Ceremony, by celandineb.

HP: Bedside Manners, by Serpenscript.

The Espresso Addict