 | : Ranma 1/2 Fanworks Recs - Ranma 1/2 is a series I have an odd relationship with... I sort of come back and fade away from it a lot, largely because I don't have much patience for the fic unless it's writing that's so perfect it makes your teeth hurt. I also like Ranma x Akane--while the other characters are interesting, it was those two that stole my heart away completely with this series. They're exactly what I look for in a couple and are alternately fun and genuinely touching. This section will probably always be small and almost pure het, simply because that's what I'm interested in. |
 | : Rurouni Kenshin Fanworks Recs - Given that I'm only halfway through the manga and I still don't really have any ships in the series, I'm not sure why I'm reading even just one RK fic. But I want to eventually read them, I would especially be all over fics about Kenshin's Battousai past. It just. Probably won't. You know. Happen for quite some time, I've been terrible about reading manga lately. Still, I totally adore the series already and I love the dorky cast interaction and I'm fascinated by Kenshin. (I have no idea if I'll lean towards het or gen, but possibly het just because it's canon. Though, I'm not exactly running screaming from the idea of Kenshin/Sanousuke, either.) |
 | : Sailor Moon Fanworks Recs - This section isn't nearly as big as I wish it were, since I tend to have really picky tastes (If I'm going to read UsaMamo fic, it needs to be perfect or else I'm going back to canon nine times out of ten) or else the pairings I like (Kunzite and Zoisite! *__*) aren't written very well or very often. But I slowly chip away at the fandom and occasionally find fanart...? I also have the occasional old favorite tossed in or drabbles written for one of the theme comms that happened to catch my attention. But this is certainly not going to be a good guide to the fandom, this is more just rounding out my own site than anything. Half het, half yaoi, occasional gen. |
 | : Saiunkoku Monogatari Fanworks Recs - Saiunkoku Monogatari is one of those series that hit me hard and fast, I watched a handful of episodes and suddenly I was completely gone on it, tearing through the fandom as fast as I could. While the pages here are still a bit small, I think they'll eventually be really decent sized, both with fic and fanart. I tend towards just about anything with Kouyuu, whether gen het or gay, but I do like the other characters, too. Just. Kouyuu is clearly the fandom favorite and I'm so very much not complaining about that. There'll be a semi-even mix between gen, het, and gay here all over. |
 | : Saiyuki Fanworks Recs - Saiyuki is a series that I never quite got pulled into all the way (until recently), but sort of keep it on my peripheral 'to read when I get the entire thing' list. I sort of poked at the anime for a long time, realized that it made me spitting mad when I read the manga, and then promptly intensely disliked 90% of the fandom. It's not that there's not talent there, it's just... yeah. Saiyuki is a series I love, a manga that I consistently put in my top ten, but I don't have much in the way of fandom to show for it because so few write my favorite character right. |
 | : Samurai 7 Fanworks Recs - I was just somehow won over by this charming little story, for the endearing story it's telling, the sense of warmth I have for the characters, and just how... entertaining it is. As things stand (and could entirely change in the future :D), I mostly only want stuff with Katsushirou or maybe some character pieces for the others. But if it's Katsushirou/Kirara, I'll probably pounce on it. If it deals with the teacher/stundent thing with Katsushirou and Kambei, I will almost assuredly pounce on it. And there's gotta eventually be some fanart, right? *wibbles* |
 | : Samurai Champloo Fanworks Recs - Samurai Champloo... I can't tell if it's a series that just hasn't gotten off the ground quite yet, is just difficult to write for, if people are waiting for it to finish, or if it's just not the type that inspires a fandom. Whatever the reason, this section is rather small, but I'm definitely interested. It'll probably be mostly fanart, since fic doesn't seem to exist much yet and I'll be all over the map. I'm not running screaming from the idea of het, I totally adore gen, and I really, really kinda like Jin/Mugen. >__> |
 | : Scryed Fanworks Recs - Scryed doesn't really have an English fandom (and there are only a couple of fics that I've liked), but the Japanese fandom was fairly substantial and one of the first that I obsessed over the J-fandom with. (Which is fairly routine now, but this was one of my first, so it has a special place with me. ♥) This section will likely be almost pure yaoi since I liked RyuhouxKazuma mostly and the het pairing that I did like (KazumaxMimori--shut up, I know I'm weird) didn't get much attention. But there will also be a lot of gen mixed (because I liked Couger a lot) and some het, because some of the het art was beautiful. |
 | : Sex Pistols Fanworks Recs - I. Uhm. I. Don't quite know why I like this. But given that the rest of my flist seems similarily infected by the cuteness of the series (which doesn't take itself too seriously, yet still provides interesting characters and a semi-interesting plot, for a yaoi manga at least), I suppose I don't feel too badly. I don't expect this section to take off, it's likely going to be one of those series that's very flash-in-the-pan, but... there's a bit of a fandom and any time I can get at least three recs for a series, I'm liable to give it its own section? Eheh. ^_^; Yaoi, of course. |
 | : Shaman King Fanworks Recs - I never meant to seek out much for Shaman King, despite rather enjoying the manga that I've read. But then I stopped by some forums, happened to see a bunch of astonishingly gorgeous fanart posted and I thought, well, what would one night or so really hurt? I'd just spend a few hours looking, really... and I found a couple of sites that I thought were just tremendously gorgeous and then I got distracted by Final Fantasy VII fanart again, but. I know I'll eventually go back, I'll eventually start reading fic, etc. I hope to find either gen fanfic, Yoh/Anna fanfic, maybe some Ren fanfic, and fanart I'm okay with just about anything. But the j-fen seem fond of Horohoro/Ren, so that's probably what'll show up most often. |
 | : Shoujo Kakumei Utena Fanworks Recs - Ahhh, Utena, how I adore you. However, given the allegorical nature of the series, I find it really difficult to get into fic for the series, which means I haven't recommended a lot. Though, what little I have read tends to be all over the place--one minute I'm reading Utena/Anthy, the next I'm reading Touga x Saionji, the next I'm reading about Ruka/Juri/Shiori, the next I'm reading a gen piece, the next I'm poking around to see if there's any fanart, and the next I'm back to Touga x Saionji. So, this section will be a mix of everything, het, yaoi, and gen. |
 | : Slam Dunk Fanworks Recs - This, like One Piece, is a series I am very, very slowly creeping my way towards because certain people in the fandom have made it very tempting for me to scoot my way over there. It'll take me awhile (especially with all the other anime series out there right now *__*), but I'll eventually get there and since I've already started doing art recs.... All I know for sure is that I really like RuHana so far (Ahahahahaha, how could I not? XD) but will probably branch out to other yaoi pairings as well. I don't know if I'll like the het or not, but there'll probably be some gen in here, too. ^_^v |
 | : Slayers Fanworks Recs - It's a shame that I didn't start rec'ing stuff until after I was mostly done with the Slayers fandom (and I can never quite seem to drag myself all the way back), because there was some utterly amazing fic and art for these characters and I could have had a huge section. XD So if this section seems anemic, it's because I feel the need to reread before I rec a story and sometimes rereading those 1.5MB+ stories takes a bit of time. ~_~ I am largely a Zelgadiss fangirl, however, so this section mostly revolves around him; my favorite pairings being Lina/Zel (which gets some of the most fabulous fic written about it *starry eyes*) and Xellos/Zelgadiss, but I occasionally get totally geeked about gen fic. So, yeah, yaoi, het, and gen. |
 | : Soukyuu no Fafner Fanworks Recs - I only had to see three episodes of this series before I knew I was going to be drawn into it. I'm not sure why it is, it's not like it's all that different from RahXephon or Evangelion as far as I can tell, yet... something about it calls to me. Having watched the entire series now, I'm still not sure precisely how Fafner puts little shines on the usual mecha series cliches, but I came away from it completely in love. I promptly headed for the fandom, though, it's a very tiny one, so this section will never be very large. (I did go on a fanart binge or two, however.) Naturally, I headed immediately for the Soushi/Kazuki, though, I'm quite open to gen and a handful of other pairings. |
 | : Soul Eater Fanworks Recs - In a strange bit of timing, I picked up the Soul Eater manga just around the time the anime started, not knowing there was an anime, just being greatly intrigued by a bunch of oekaki art I'd seen on j-fanart sites and the discussion of it around LJ. What I found was a delightful little manga with some incredibly amazing characters and genuine partnerships between the boys and the girls and then some intriguing storylines and some really kind of smoking art and even an anime adaptation that I actually really, really like! At the current time, there's not much of a j-fandom or e-fandom, but I'm hoping that it'll at least develop into something bigger. Someday. |
 | : Spiral Fanworks Recs - Admittedly, I know very, very little about this series right now (other than that it's pretty...?), but I want to finish it someday and I've already started checking out some of the fanart available for the series and found a few that I liked. So this section will be quiet for quite some time to come (especially since I don't have any idea what I'm going to be geared towards with the fandom) and may not ever really get off the ground because there are so many other series out there right now, but I wanted to put it up since I have at least a couple recs already. Will probably be a mixture of het and yaoi, dunno yet. >_> |
 | : Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann Fanworks Recs - Gurren Lagann had gotten a lot of hype in fandom in a year when not too many anime series were getting much buzz at all. I saw a lot of icons, I saw occasional fanart links, I saw a lot of secrets on fandomsecrets. I was curious, so I gave it a shot. The first few episodes were only sort of all right, but there had to be something that made people so nuts over it, right? So I kept watching. And Gurren Lagann just... it got me. Just completely, utterly got me. I immediately dove into the fandom, especially the fanart. The biggest section will be Kamina/Simon, since that's what people draw the most of, but I really like Simon/Nia as well, which has a small following for it. And I think Kamina/Yoko was certainly just fine and I'll seek out the major sites for that as well. And there's tons of gorgeous, gorgeous gen. ♥ I'm pretty much open to anything with this series, so hopefully, this will provide something of a balance. |
 | : Tenjou Tenge Fanworks Recs - I didn't know if I would be won over by this series, despite the anime having a terribly addicting OP song (OMG watching Maya dance is the most fun thing ever XD), but then Takayanagi Masataka stole my heart away and hasn't given it back yet. I have yet to be able to find much fanart (that's not a oneshot), but there have been a couple of fics written so far, wheeeee~ I don't really have too many preferences right now, because I like the series all-around. I mean, I would totally love Takayanagi fic, but I'm at the point where I'll read anything, so, I have no idea what'll go here? XD;; Pretty much only het and gen, I suspect. |
 | : Tenshi ni Narumon! Fanworks Recs - Wahhhhh, why don't more people write Tennimon fic, dammit? *HUFFS* You people need to get on the ball, it's such a cute little series and surprisingly genuinely touching! I adore the characters to tiny, tiny little bits and OMG CANON GAY! ^_~ (Okay, I kid with the level of enthusiasm, but RaphaelxMikael was pretty damn canon. ♥) I've found very little fanart for the series and very little fic, but some of what's out there is really cute. This section will be mostly yaoi, but with the occasional gen or het mixed in, depends on what I can find. |
 | : Trigun Fanworks Recs - Ahhh, Trigun is one of those series that I never seemed to be able to have more than a wild fling with for some reason... I tore through the series like a thing posessed when I watched and combed over the fandom, but... I dunno, for some reason not much of the fic really clicked with me. Not that I looked super-hard, but nothing really quite caught beyond a few authors I recognized from other fandoms. There were a handful of authors that I really liked, but this section will always be fairly small, I think. Mostly yaoi, of the WolfwoodxVash and KnivesxVash types. Run now if you dislike either. |
 | : Trinity Blood Fanworks Recs - I probably should be tossing these recs onto the misc page (which I never seem to use) but two things stop me--one, TB is one of the best anime of the current season and, two, I had an image I really wanted to use for an icon. From the looks of the series, it's probably going to head in a very het direction, but I'm not overly enthused with the girl yet, and I am all OVER Tres and Abel, so... well, yes. I'll probably be more lax with fanart, whatever is pretty, I'll try to find and rec, but fanfic will be more gen and/or Tres/Abel, I think. |
 | : Tsubasa RESERVoir Chronicles Fanworks Recs - What can I say about Tsubasa? It's one of the few CLAMP series I'll actually read and follow, after my pissiness over what they did with their other series (basically, they dropped everything to run after the latest shiny toy) because 1) it's got Syaoran and Sakura and 2) it IS very pretty, very 'CLAMP meets Shounen JUMP' and 3) crossover characters abound! Plus, a handful of really good authors are writing for the series, so there's a little fic to read and maybe a little fanart on the side... anyway, a light, fun series/fandom that's very low-pressure. I like that. Will probably be mostly SxS here since I like them the most, I think. ♥ |
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