Fleeting Fancies - Fanworks Recommendations

: FAKE Fanworks Recs - This section will be almost purely fic as I'm not sure FAKE fanart exists, beyond a few random illustrations scattered across the web. Unfortunately, the fic side of this fandom is also rather anemic, so this section will likely always be small. Which I bitch about a lot, mind. XD Occasionally, some gems do sneak through, though, and I try to read as much as I can to find them. But with not a lot of good fic to encourage me, sometimes it gets difficult. >_> Yaoi, of course.

: Full Metal Alchemist Fanworks Recs - FMA is one of those series that I was up and down with a lot, I seem to run either extremely hot or extremely cold with the series. When I started, there was almost no English fandom and then I came to really fall in love with the FMA J-fanart, so there'll probably always be more of that here than fic, but god knows I pounce on any Havoc/Hawkeye fic and have such incredible love for the RoyEd. Which is the lion's share of what I'll be rec'ing here because they're my favorite. Well, and because more people don't write Al/Winry and that makes me WEEP. Occasionally, I'll branch out into other pairings and there's a lot of gen (almost as much as there is RoyEd ♥), but... well, yes. At this point, if I'm going to go back, it'd better kick some serious ass or give me smoochies for my favorite pairings. ^_~ Split fairly well between yaoi and gen, but some nice het mixed in as much as I can.

: Fruits Basket Fanworks Recs - Eeee! Fruits Basket! Such a lovely series, a nice selection of pretty, pretty fanart, yet so little good fic. I'm in several camps here--I like gen fic, I like het fic, I like yaoi fic... I just want good stuff. Y'know. For the pairings I'll read. The really, really good stuff. But I'm lazy when it comes to actually poking at the fandom and trying to find fic to read, so I usually end up recommending only shorter little stories. I also tend to be focused on two things with Furuba--Kyouru and Mabudachi yaoi... or else prettypretty fanart, since there's some absolutely stunning fanart for this series out there. Anyway. Yaoi, het, and gen.

: Gad Guard Fanworks Recs - ....I don't know why I'm giving Gad Guard its own section, rather than putting it in the miscellaneous section, all I can figure is that I'm overreaching. >_> At any rate, Gad Guard is one of those silly little series that I couldn't help but like because I ♥'d Katana and it was just... fun. I'm not really very picky about fanworks for this series--I'm not particularily hyped on the potential het pairings and I'm not particularily hyped with the potential yaoi pairings, I'd actually like to see more gen than anything. It's not a very big section right now, will probably be largely just fanart, but... well, yes. >_>

: Gankutsuou Fanworks Recs - I took to this series almost immediately and I think it may just be the best done series of the season. Sure, the art took half an episode to get used to, but the writing and plotting and pacing has been utterly fabulous and I'm terribly entranced by the characters and the story. This means that I had to immediately seek out fanart, because I needed more in between episodes coming out. I'm largely, largely attracted to Monte Cristo/Albert, but I like both characters seperately as well, because I honestly like them. I also can very much see Franz/Albert in the anime and that'll probably pop up a lot on art sites. (Which will make up the bulk of this section, I suspect, since this may be a quiet series fic-wise.)

: Get Backers Fanworks Recs - GetBackers was all the rage for quite some time and there was a solid amount of fanfic put out... just not that much that really caught my attention. Despite that the main pairing of the fandom was my beloved BanGin and despite that there were several very talented authors writing for the series, it still felt like I never really had all that much fic to read. Going back later, after over a year of not touching the series, the fandom never really grew that much. But there's a nice little cache of BanGin fic to read and maybe someday I'll read the gen fic, too. ^_~ I rarely branch out, though, because the kind of thing I want to see is rarely written.

: Gintama Fanworks Recs - Do you know how many times I saw J-fanart for this series and had to pass by with not much more than a cursory look because I had no idea about the series, other than that it had pretty boys in uniforms? Then I finally learned what the damn name of the series was, promptly downloaded all the scanslations that were out, tore through it, and am now attempting to devour the fanart with an actual idea of who the characters are. I'm going to be all over the map with this one, while I prefer Hijikata/Okita, I also am kinda leaning towards Gin/Katsura and, really, so long as it's pretty or has boys in uniforms in it, I'll probably pounce on it. Going to be almost pure j-fanart because I don't think it has an English fandom. Also probably mostly yaoi with occasional het.

: Gokusen Fanworks Recs - For a long time I didn't really know why I had a Gokusen section, I'd only watched about half of the anime, I'd just barely started on the manga, and I'd hardly touched the drama. But I was draw to the Shinkumi pairing pretty hard almost immediately and, as time goes by (and now that I'm more familiar with the anime and manga), I'm all over this series. It's not a big fandom and it's pretty exclusively Shinkumi, but that is exactly what I want. ♥ The majority of this section will be focused on the manga since that's what I'm familiar with, but I think you could be a drama-only fan and read the fic just fine (as well as several people writing drama-based fic!), hence putting this in both sections.

: Gravitation Fanworks Recs - Oooh, Gravitation is one of those series that ate my brain the minute Ochiba originally subtitled the episodes. I waited all aquiver for the next episode to be released and promptly watched it the second I got my hot little hands on it. Partially for the promise of a shounen ai relationship, partially because I liked the characters, and partially because I thought it was genuinely funny in so many places. I fell hard and fast for one Yuki Eiri and his relationship with Shuuichi. Eventually, I branched out (I especially love good Tohma x Mika and Hiro x Ayaka is an all-too-rare treat) and would like to find more for them, but Eiri will always be my heart and soul with this series. I will always want more of him and his relationships with the people around him.

: Gundam SEED Fanworks Recs - Originally, I was very much, "Pft. So not as good as Wing, no matter how much doujinshi it produces." And I didn't care for it that much. Then, okay, Ashuran/Cagalli was cute. Then, oh, I suppose Kira/Lux is cute. And somewhere along the line, when I wasn't looking, the series went, "Mmm, fangirl brains~ I'm hungry~! *CHOMP*" and hasn't given it back yet. ;_____; So I've taken to scouring for fanart all over the place (I'd like to read more fic, but most of it kinda makes my head bleed) and I've amassed quite a bit of it by now. Occasionaly, pretty yaoi sneaks in, but I found myself wibbling mainly over the het pairings this time around, so most of it will be focused on Ashuran/Cagalli and Kira/Lux. And Dearka/Millie if I can find it. +__+

: Gundam Wing Fanworks Recs - This section will probably always be fairly small given two things--I've been out of the GundamW fandom for over three years (only occasionally sliding back in) and there are far, far bigger recs archives out there that are far more comprehensive than I could ever be. I will simply just stumble over stuff I like every once in awhile and shove it up here, this will never be a guide to the fandom by any means. Fic: Yaoi and gen, largely going to be 1x2 focused. Art: All over the map. I love 1x2, but there will be 1xR recs in here, because I love Relena and they have the best Relena art. *pouts*

: Gungrave Fanworks Recs - Well, for once, it wasn't the Japanese artists that made me get a section for this series, it was the English artists. ^_~ I found an artist or two that I liked and I have my fingers crossed for fic, so.... Right now, I'm open for just about anything, because there's so little in the way of fanworks, that I can't be picky. I mean, I would love some good HarryxBrandon, but given that there doesn't seem to be any English fic in existance, I doubt that exists yet. *pouts* But I also wouldn't mind gen, since I rather like the series as a whole. I probably won't ever be too fond of the het unless it's done really pretty or I change my mind later. So... yeah, I have no idea where this section is going. XD;;;

: Hana Yori Dango - Admittedly, I watched the drama first and tended to skew towards that version, but I've read a fair amount of the manga and genuinely like it, so I'll read manga fic because I'm at the point where I can take the canons seperately, each for their own merits. (Hence being linked both on the manga and drama indices.) Most of the Hanadan fic I'll rec will actually be mangaverse, but you could probably be a fan of the drama and still read it just fine, I think. I OTP the hell out of Tsukasa/Tsukushi and 90% of the fic I read will be about them, either apart or together. Occasionally, I'll read Soujirou/Yuuki or Soujirou/Akira and I still pine for one good pre-series Rui/Tsukasa, but for the most part... yeah, Doumyouji/Makino Forever. ♥

: Hanazakari no Kimi-tachi e Fanworks Recs - What to say about Hanakimi? It's a very small English fandom (and practically non-existant in J-fandom as far as I can tell) and a great majority of the fics I rec are stories that I directly nagged people into writing. (Because I can't very well rec my own fic and I probably write more for the Akiha/Umeda pairing than anyone else right now.) While I like the entire series, I tend to focus mostly on Akiha/Umeda because they've become a fascination of mine. I'll read other stuff once in awhile, I do have several Sano/Mizuki recs, I have a soft spot for many other pairings (Azuma/Seira! Nakatsu/Julia!), but AkiUme will be the main focus of my recs. As you will soon see, Hanakimi is one of those Great Loves of My Fandom Life. *sheepish*

: Hellsing Fanworks Recs - Hellsing is one of those series that I watched over a short period of time, went, "WHOA. THAT WAS FUCKING COOL. *HEARTS*" and promptly went in search of fanart. I found some absolutely amazing stuff and rec'd it. The fic side of the fandom kinda sucked (ha, ha, no pun intended >_>) so I never really got very far into it. By this point, I'm pretty well burnt out on the series, but if nothing else, this'll give you a good place to start? Some het and gen.

: Hikaru no Go Fanworks Recs - Hikaru no Go is one of those series I practically gorged myself on when I would catch up with the episodes and watch in nine to eleven episode runs. Then I would devour the fanart, because there was some stunning stuff for it out there. Some of those AkiHika/HikaAki sites.... *fawns* I also had a strong, strong love of KagaxHikaru (*waves banner*) and MitanixAkari and Ogata-sensei. So... yeah, a mix of a lot of different things. Yaoi and gen, maybe a little het if I can find it.

: Houshin Engi Fanworks Recs - Houshin Engi is one of those series that I've been aware of for a long time, have seen a lot of fanart for here and there, but never really got into too much. I barely know any of the characters' names even. >_> Most of these recs are going to be combination sites--where I stumbled over the site for a different series, but recognized that there was some pretty HE fanart there, so I snagged and rec'd it here. Eheh. At least it'll get you started? (One day I will read the series and actually know the characters' names and the storyline. No, really.) Yaoi and some gen.

: Howl's Moving Castle Fanworks Recs - I'd heard of Howl's Moving Castle before the Ghibli movie came out, but I'd never really read the book or knew much about the series until I finally sat down to watch the movie, as I was in a very Ghibli mood one weekend. I really quite liked it, took a fancy to Howl's character, and decided to read the book. After which I further fell in love with the character and the Howl/Sophie relationship and immediately began to seek out fic and art. This section probably won't ever be that big, the fandom's not that large even after the movie, but there'll be an even mix between fic and Japanese fanart, I would say. Almost all of it will be Howl/Sophie, what with the giant OTP they are and all. ^_~

: Hunter x Hunter Fanworks Recs - Hunter x Hunter doesn't seem to be popular on either side of the ocean, so this section is still pretty tiny. However, there are a handful of nice fics for the series and some really cute fanart out there. I am definitely in the Killua/Gon and Leorio/Kurapika camps, but I like gen friendship, too. And Hisoka. Oh, how I adore Hisoka. <333 I'm not opposed to the idea of Hisoka/Gon or Hisoka/Illumi, but... they're not necessarily my passion, either. Or else they're often times done really badly (Hisoka/Gon, I am LOOKING AT YOU.) and thus leave me feeling... 'err, yes, I'll just be getting back to the gen now, kthx' afterwards. *coughs* Yaoi, some gen.

: Initial D Fanworks Recs - Yet another shounen series that ate my brain when I was least expecting it. It started out so sweet and innocent, just a silly little racing show. And, okay, the bishounen were all right, not gorgeous, but appealing enough, since I wasn't watching for the art anyway. And it wasn't until halfway through the series before I was going *____* over Takahashi Ryousuke and Takumi's staring-off-into-space over him. And a new pairing obsession was borng. <3 I can read gen for this series and will sometimes... I just don't want to. *waves RyouTaku banner madly* Yaoi, yaoi, yaoi. Some gen. Read grudgingly.

: Inu-Yasha Fanworks Recs - Don't expect much from this section because I don't think I'll ever be a major IY fan (if only because nothing is ever resolved in the series, the same story just keeps going and going and going and nothing changes at the end of the stories), so this will be rather haphazard of a section. That said, I tend to definitely fall in line with Inuyasha/Kagome, but I have a weakness for Miroku/Inuyasha and anything with Fluffy-sama, so long as it's not romantic with Rin. >_> Yeah, yeah, I grudgingly admit that it's probably there, but still. This section will be largely focused on Inuyasha himself, whether gen, het, or yaoi.

: Juuni Kokki Fanworks Recs - Juuni Kokki is one of those series where I honestly don't really feel the need for fic, so there probably won't be much here, especially since I'm not really fond of pairings with the series. (Which, I gotta say, shocked the hell out of me.) Though, I can easily see where other people get them. I just likeses the pretties artses is all. ^_~ That and Tai-ou. God, I fell hard for him. *___* Will be mostly gen, occasional dashes of het and yaoi on the art sites.