Who are your top 5 favorite fanfic authors of all time and what would you say is your favorite story from each of them? ā¤ļø Share the love and pass this on!
....bro this is such a hard question. I have way more than five favorites and it's so hard to narrow it down. So this is definitely a non-exclusive list.
BlossomingRosebud ( @therosefrontier )
Okay so this is a biased answer, but one I absolutely must give, because family bias aside, I do genuinely love all of my sister's fics and stories. When we were kids, her increasingly complex story-telling during playtime was such a huge inspiration for me to do the same, and then later we got into writing together and it only went up from there. Because of all of this, I would say we have very similar tastes, so it's only natural that I am inclined to the kinds of stories she writes and in turn thoroughly enjoy them. Rosebud is a master of juggling so many characters, and povs, and making all aspects of the narrative satisfying, with insightful character introspection. Also she is a fellow connoisseur of that delightful balance between angst, pain, and fluff.
It's suuuper hard for me to pick and choose between her stories, so I'm going top three with this one.
And You Think āNo Escapeā (Twisted Wonderland) [389,391 words. Complete]
āA massive, multi-character epic filled with friendship, suffering, globetrotting, and mystery. What's not to love? She made me feel every single emotion, so much so that she got not one, but two pieces of fully rendered free fanart out of me. Seriously though, this kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time, and that was even with knowing some of the twists ahead of time.
Roaring Dragon, Soaring Sun (Twisted Wonderland & Honkai: Star Rail) [Series. 119,511 words. Ongoing.]
āAll the HSR I know is second-hand, through her, but she made me soooo invested in all of the characters, and it's a great what-if look into post-series TWST. At the base of it, it's found family between a rescued dragon child and a jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold lion man. She custom tailored it for herself, which is to say, it was also custom-tailored for me. :D
The Geo Family AU (Genshin Impact) [Unreleased]
āThis is just to Rosebud: I am very patient don't worry but pleaaaaaaseeeee it's soo gooooooood. Give it to meeeeeeeeee
HotCocoaaa ( @biscaanii )
Her Jujutsu Kaisen time travel fix it quite literally changed my brain chemistry. I don't know how else to explain it. The visceral emotion and imagery in her proseānot overly flowery, but definitely downright poetic at timesāreally stood out to me in a great way. Not to mention that the storytelling is utterly captivating. I read through the series three times at this point, and at least one of those was a complete and utter accidentābecause I wanted to reread a chapter in the beginning, and then I kept going, despite knowing what was coming. It's the kind of writing I inspire to. And that series isn't the only one either. Everything I have read of hers has that quality. If I were to boil it down to a phrase, I would say that Cocoaaa's writing is a love letter to human connection, paved through the heart of emotions so big, they can never be handled alone.
The Odyssey (Jujutsu Kaisen) [Series. 558,155 words. Ongoing, with completed arcs.]
āThe series in question. People might have heard me refer to it as the Achilles Come Down series, after it's first entry. I think So Find One and Seize It is my favorite installment but honestly I love all three equally. Everything from the crushing angst to the found family fluff is positively fantastic, and it has made me cry several times, including out of happiness and joy.
Every Orchard Needs a Watering Can (Sonic the Hedgehog movies) [53,099 words. Complete.]
āAlso throwing this one in because I remember encountering it on tumblr and being so delighted it was written by Cocoaaa that I read it immediately. No regrets. This was the movie-verse Shadow hurt/comfort fic I craved in my very soul.
They only have one fic, that I know of, but this fic has for a long time remained one of my favorite pieces of written media for a reason. Fairy Dance of Death opened my eyes to world-building in new and exciting ways, and watching the way it unfoldsāwith approximately 583 characters to keep track of at the same timeāis awe-inspiring. And seriously, the way they handle split-narratives? Legendary. I am always left at the edge of my seat for any given story-line and I am never disappointed to see a switch to another story-line, because I was equally invested in that one too. Catsy gave me writing style envy in the best of ways. The level of detail in the world and how it presents a mystery and adds to the plot, all while still being a very character-driven narrative, is sometimes I aspire to.
And, on a quick personal sort of note, Catsy's rare updates have always managed to come at the times when I needed a pick-me-up the most. <3
Fairy Dance of Death (Sword Art Online) [740,979 words. Ongoing. (Slow Updates, but worth it, promise.)]
āThis is what SAO could be and aspired to be and more. It doesn't matter if someone has watched the source material or not: I will always, always rec this fic. It's canon rewrite of the death-game-plot except in Alfheim Online instead of Aincrad, and it makes the horrors soooooo much worse. (Zero uncomfortable fanservice needed.) It's fantastic. It's an experience. I think about it often.
I have very fond memories of Lynse's work, having encountered them a long time ago, and then later I followed them to AO3 as well. Time as not weathered my love of Lynse's vast and creative catalog of works in the slightest. The variation of stories and story ideas never ceases to amaze me, from fluff to hard-core angst and everything in-between. And the crossovers! I am a sucker for crossovers, and she always does each side of them so true-to-form and balanced with each other.
This is another body of work that is really hard to pick favorites on, but in the name of crossovers....
Whirlwind (Danny Phantom, American Dragon, Randy Cunningham, Miraculous Ladybug) [75,549 words. Complete.]
āMy favorite Secret Quartet fic of all time. It really lets all of the characters shine and have their own flavor of angst and have a well-integrated plot.
Another writer whose prose I want to eat and absorb like I have Kirby powers. It's that perfect balance of natural characterization and greater thematic purpose, brilliantly intertwined, that has me in a choke hold. I have ready angel's egg too many times. So many times that AO3's search bar on my computer remembers it as soon as I type 'a'. And I'll read it again. Perhaps I will go to bed and read it now. That entire little series, in fact. It's the perfect journey through light-hearted life to angst to happy little moments fought for in-between, all with the express purpose of making me bawl my eyes out in an overload by the end, and it works.
angel's egg (Jujutsu Kaisen) [49.869 words. Complete.]
āI already started my ramble above, but it's the perfect series of events and timeskips that flow and intertwine so beautifully together. Like a rising crescendo in music, so when the climax happens, it hits harder than if you just heard the climax by itself. Anyway, without spoiling anything, I cannot think of holding hands on the crosswalk the same anymore, without being overcome by such tender affection.
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