The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 2nd Fanfic

And now we come to the greatest one yet …

Sansukh

Author: determamfidd

Blurb: The battle was over and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors. The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of hope arises in the form of his youngest Kinsman, a Dwarf of Duran’s line with bright red hair. In which recovery takes time, the dead members of the company take to watching Gilmore as though he’s a soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused, Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten ‘inches of guilt and anger.

Description: Actually I think that summarises the story up well. Probably one of the most famous fanfics of the decade – if the amount of the fanart, music and other FanFictions it’s inspired are anything to judge by.

Warnings: Depictions of violent battles; and slow recovery from severe trauma.

Special Mention: Oh God, so much – hard to choose just one. But gun to my head I’d said my favourite part would have to the council of Elrond.

Available on: AO3

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 3rd Fanfic

I love Coco.

The Road Home

Author: FernWithy

Blurb: In the year following Miguel’s eventful Day of the Dead, the family in both the land of the living and the land of the dead has to come to term with what happened so long ago.

Description: An in-depth look at the fallout from the events of the original film, both for the Land of the Living, and the Land of the Dead – bring your tissues, because this one is a weeper. Side note: While it is the second story in a series you won’t be confused if you start with this one, I wasn’t.

Warnings: Discussion of Adult content such as Murder and improper disposal of a body. Also, Ernesto, just Ernesto.

Special Mention: God, the scene with the Hector’s recovered body, I was weeping quite openly by the end.

Available on: AO3

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 4th Fanfic

Maggie Smith rules over all.

All the Help I Have to Give

Author: LauraHuntORI

Blurb: As the Dowager would say, relationships are a long business.

Descriptions: So, I didn’t know I wanted the Tom Branson & the Dowager Countess, Found Family Fic – and yet, here we are.

Warnings: Depictions of Death, unfair class systems, and mentions of physical abuse. Also Lord Grantham is his own warning all by himself.

Special Mention: Lady Sybil’s Death

Available on: fanfiction.net

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 5th Fanfic

Time to cry ….

So True a Fool is Love

Author: SwissArmyKnife

Blurb: What would have happened if Kirk and Spock had been forced to leave McCoy behind with the godlike psychopaths in “Plato’s Stepchildren”?

Description: When forced to choose between Spock or Bones, Kirk goes with his agent and gets Spock out of danger. And he’ll have to live with the consequences of that choice for the rest of his life.

Warnings: Depiction of severe abuse inflicted by psychic individuals.

Special Mention: Spock’s anger.

Available On: AO3

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 6th Fanfic

Onwards, Wee Readers, Onwards!

The Paladin Protocol

Author: SpaceAnJL

Blurb: In which Penny finds a fun alternative to paintball, and Sheldon dusts off an old skill. And everything starts to change.

Description: Ever watched ‘The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation’ and felt annoyed that the others didn’t face any consequences for sabotage? Watched any of the later episodes and thought Penny doesn’t really seem happy with Leonard. Great, so does the author.

Warnings: Depiction of Toxic relationships of all flavours, as well as some ableism from Leonard and Howard.

Special Mention: Not to give anything away but the Can opener incident will be addressed – and oh my God, is it glorious.

Available On: AO3 & FanFiction.Net

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 7th Fanfic

Right, let’s get down to business…

It

Author: Scriblit

Blurb: You lose three mates, ten babies, both parents, all your siblings and then every friend for scores of millennia and still entertain the concept of being ‘sweet’ on a dead woman still consumed by her own pain.

Doing It never had much meaning to Robin, even when he was alive. Now that he’s dead, it’s really just something to while away all the years. At some point he’s asked most of the ghosts if they want to do it. Some said no, some said yes. His only rule is, they have to genuinely want to do it, too. And, they mustn’t be too sad. One of the ghosts was too sad, for so long, so he waited. And waited.

Description: Over the years stuck as a Ghost, Robin propositions the other ghosts when he first meets them, except Mary who is too sad. You wouldn’t think this description would be of a heartbreaking story of loss, and the pain of years stuck in one place unable to even touch anything but your fellow ghosts. But that just goes to show, never judge a story by its initial premise.

Special Mention: Oh God, Robin’s speech to Julian at the end. ‘I was in tears’, does not put justice to the state I was in after I read this.

Warnings: Mentions of violent death, the loss of children, and other adult matter. Also Julian, he’s a warning all by himself.

Available on: AO3

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The Top 8 FanFictions the Wee the Writing Lassie has ever read: The 8th Fanfic

What Ho wee readers, and welcome to the newest blog serious of the Wee Writing Lassie. As you might have been able to guess from the title, this one will be about all the fanfiction I’ve read … and I’ve read a lot of it over the years. I had planned to make an introduction, making the case for a fanfiction as a form of engagement with the original media that’s more active and creative – and far more natural to those of us of a more writerly persuasion – than the passive consumption that main stream society expects of us, but to be honest I’m so excited to get this thing going that I’m just not going to bother. Either you heard the word fanfic and ran screaming towards the hills, clutching your pearls all the way – or you were intrigued and sat down to listen to me gush over my favourite stories. If the former, goodbye you won’t be missed – if the latter welcome , to beginning of your obsession 😁

Let’s begin, shall we?

Ned Stark Adopts His Way Through Westeros

Author: witchbreaker

Blurb: “This isn’t my fault.”;And other lies Edward Stark tells himself.

Description: Basically what it says on the Tin. After finishing the campaign of the Iron Islands, Robert Baratheon decides to go on a great tour round his new kingdom – dragging his foster brother, Ned Stark along in his wake. Somehow this begins a series of events in which Ned Stark ends up fostering the abused/ neglected/or forgotten children of the nobility. And since this is Westeros – that would be most of them. It’s a surprisingly heartwarming- considering the source material- tale, where Ned Stark fixes most of the problems to come, simply by being his, best character, self.

Warnings: While this is certainly not a story that is driven by violence – with most of the drama / humour coming from Ned going “whoops I’ve accidentally adopted another child again” in almost every scene – this is still a fic set in Westeros. So if violence of any kind makes you uncomfortable, I’d advise you to skip past the scenes where he whips his sword out. There’s also depictions of child neglect and at the very least verbal abuse on screen. But don’t worry Ned Stark is here to make it all better.

Special mention: Particular mention goes to the child he adopts in Dorne – I can’t say who because I don’t want to spoil anything, but believe me when I say once you know the whole backstory from the books/show it’s freaking hilarious. King Robert couldn’t stop laughing when he found out and you know what, neither could I.

Available on: AO3

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