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  1. fire
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    Quality Naruto fics

    Wrt Naru/Hina fics - for some reason, most of them are just... boring? Unless you have some other thing driving the plot (e.g. the new team dynamics in S'Tar'Kan's Team 8), you only really have the Naruto-Hinata relationship to carry the story, the problem with which should be obvious - one party is a social dunderhead, the other has the personality of wet tissue paper, and together they no chemistry, no spark. Ah well. Any new fics in the fandom?
    Post by: fire, Dec 17, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  2. fire
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    Any new-ish stuff people are inclined to recommend? I blame Menace updating Love Sick for sucking me back into the fandom.
    Post by: fire, Apr 6, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  3. fire
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    I recommended this in another thread before, but since this got updated, here's recommending it again: Heliocentrism - A parody; a Minato-as-gamer story that looks at how truly insane such a person's actions would look and actually be.
    Post by: fire, Apr 3, 2019 in forum: Story Search
  4. fire
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    https://m.fanfiction.net/s/13076923/1/Kurama-s-Day-Out I fucking lol'ed.
    Post by: fire, Nov 4, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  5. fire
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    This. Absolutely fucking this. There is nothing more tiresome than reading about a dumb or normal person's idea of a smart person, because it almost always ends up as a parody - aping all the tropes of smartness (big words, arrogance, needlessly complex reasoning) without the actual clever thinking. And of course they can't do that, they don't know what the fuck it's like, and it's about as edifying to read these rationalist fics as it is to read a 13 year old teenage virgin's account of...
    Post by: fire, Oct 20, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  6. fire
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    I tried Beast Wars before, it was a decent time waster, nothing more.
    Post by: fire, Oct 19, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  7. fire
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    Kakashi Quest by TPK is a pretty fun read.
    Post by: fire, Aug 22, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  8. fire
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    While Agayek is right that thematically the manga climaxed with Pein and then went downhill after that, the rest of the story is still worth reading, both for the cool fights (Itachi/Naruto/Bee vs Nagato, Madara vs the Gokage, Gai vs Madara) as well as for understanding key characters (e.g. Bee, Danzo, Madara) and plot points (e.g. the Madara/Tobi conspiracy) that are only fully revealed later on, and which will likely feature in fanfics.
    Post by: fire, Jun 8, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  9. fire
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    Another TPK quest, and the spiritual successor to Shed Skin: Heavenly Rotation, a time-travel story featuring Hinata.
    Post by: fire, Jun 7, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  10. fire
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    Quality Naruto fics

    I like how this thread gets activity only when we all pile in on the shitness of Boruto ha. But seriously, any good new-ish stuff? Like HP, the Naruto fandom has seen quite the decline in new fics post-EOS, as is only to be expected. And of the older stuff I've been following, none bar two have updated in the last two years; and of that two, one is dead and the other iis basically on a semi-permanent hiatus.
    Post by: fire, May 22, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  11. fire
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    At EoS, Naruto has saved the world, fulfilled his destiny, and gained enough power to blow up the moon a million times over - any subsequent conflict is either hollow in comparison, or contrived, or both. This being the context, Boruto is fucking intolerable - who is this fucking brat, bitching like a bitch-ass punk bitch, about his father? He has no perspective - we know how his father struggled, in his journey from pariah to messiah, and brought peace and justice to the world. And yet...
    Post by: fire, May 21, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  12. fire
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    I don't understand what people like about these female OC/SI stories tbh. They're just counterparts to the male-centric Naruto harem stories - wish fulfillment, albeit better written.
    Post by: fire, Apr 28, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  13. fire
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    I'm trying to recall the name of this fic where the Sandaime gives a graduation speech to the assembled, freshly-minted genin. Crucially, he talks about how they as ninja are loyal to the village because the village becomes worthy of loyalty by protecting the things that truly matter - peace, justice, love, etc. It is because protecting the village protects one's family and friends, while ensuring a fair and peaceful society where the strong does not exploit the weak, that the village is...
    Post by: fire, Jan 14, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  14. fire
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    I followed Youth when it was active, but whatever was good about it, you could find in Shinobi Team 7, and the new stuff were mere changes, not improvements. Gallyrat should never have abandoned ST7 tbh, it's one of the best fics in the fandom; the story certainly didn't improve by the turning of decisions over to an SV mob.
    Post by: fire, Jan 13, 2018 in forum: Story Search
  15. fire
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    Actually the r/rational subreddit has a pretty good summary on the difference between rational and rationalist fics:
    Post by: fire, Dec 10, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  16. fire
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    It's true that it's basically just good writing, but it does seem to me that the "fixing plotholes" and "ironing out logical flaws" part takes centre-stage in soft rationalist fics - it's kinda the express purpose, as opposed to other fics where the central concern is perhaps some idea or premise (e.g. Naruto goes back in time) and any fixing of plotholes and the like is incidental. In general, I would agree that there's no hard and fast division.
    Post by: fire, Dec 9, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  17. fire
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    I think there are two kinds of rationalist fics. There's the hard sort (e.g. HPMOR), where the story is basically a vehicle for exploring rationalist/Less Wrong ideas - and if done badly, as it often is, it just comes off as the author doing some intellectual masturbation and trying to show off how smart they are. In the soft sort of rationalist fics, however, in whose ranks I count In Fire Forged, it's simply an attempt to iron out the logical flaws in the original story. So, you get stuff...
    Post by: fire, Dec 9, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  18. fire
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    In Fire Forged is really good. For the people who mistrust Sakura-centric fics, don't worry; it's more of a Team 7 fic, in truth. In any case, does anyone have a good recent fic to recommend? The fandom feels dead.
    Post by: fire, Dec 9, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  19. fire
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    Found a couple of good Naruto quests on SV: Shed Skin - Orochimaru-centric and Spotted Cherry - Madara-in-Sakura, which is about as awesome as it sounds.
    Post by: fire, Aug 26, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  20. fire
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    Haven't seen Lungs about for quite some time. I guess he got killed in the Fuyuki Grail War?
    Post by: fire, Aug 5, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  21. fire
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    I tried Kaleidoscope, and holy shit you guys were right. The first part was pretty good - compelling, even, at points. The second part was batshit insane; I've literally never seen a fic go downhill so fast, not even Chunin Exam Day.
    Post by: fire, Aug 4, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  22. fire
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    Our microscopes stand ready!
    Post by: fire, Apr 28, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  23. fire
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    In Fire Forged A really cool AU, with great team 7 interactions. Dead Garden Sakura as the Kyuubi Jinchurikki
    Post by: fire, Apr 26, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  24. fire
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    Glad you guys like it! I've been on a Naruto binge, but have come up against a hard wall, and finding nothing good anymore - the best I can do are these random rare short-ish gems. Does anyone have any recent recommendations? Preferable not those female SI/OC fics that have been so distressingly common since Dreaming of Sunshine, yet without being of the same quality.
    Post by: fire, Apr 8, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  25. fire
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    https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12307390/1 Minato as gamer/rpg protagonist fic - and how utterly insane it looks to others.
    Post by: fire, Apr 7, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  26. fire
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    Lies is amazingly funny. I've not laughed so much, so hard, in a long time.
    Post by: fire, Mar 29, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  27. fire
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    If you have the time, go read chapter three of Setting Sun. The scene where Naruto finds out about the academy library is totally bizarre. Its so contrived, with conversation so stilted, i wanted to think it was some sort of clever bluff with the academy teachers obliquely passing info on to Naruto - but it wasnt.
    Post by: fire, Mar 23, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  28. fire
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    Is Tale of the Setting Sun worth reading? It seems an interesting story, and has a fuck-ton of favourites (5k), but I never got past the rather boring bullying and angsty stuff at the beginning.
    Post by: fire, Mar 21, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  29. fire
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    I think that change was cool enough, plus Gallyrat's a good writer - I trust that he will give Naruto the sort of mentorship and development he will need eventually. That, plus the Kyuubi seems more God than man here - that small fraction of a fraction of its power that we saw in that hospital scene (reality warping, time reversal, teleportation) was not just terrifying in itself but also by far the most powerful thing we've seen in the series. In fact, given portrayals thus far, I'll bet...
    Post by: fire, Mar 19, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  30. fire
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    I'm quite certain they get roughly equal screentime? As befitting a story that calls itself Team 7, I suppose. I get what you mean though - I think it's more of the fact that we're used to Naruto getting the lion's share (or at least more than any other character), and so anything less, even equal amounts, feels unnaturally short and shafting.
    Post by: fire, Mar 17, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  31. fire
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    Where The Heart Is is pretty good, but kwizzic just went on hiatus due to real life stuff, unfortunately.
    Post by: fire, Mar 16, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  32. fire
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    Gallyrat's Team 7, as recommended above, has Itachi as the Eighth Hokage. Overall, Team 7 is an incredibly pleasing read - exhibiting refreshing novelty in its worldbuilding, and yet also having that familiar sense-of-wonder-and-adventure that canon had but which so many Naruto fics lose with their grimdarkness. Oh yeah, and Team 7 has one of the most beautiful pieces of writing I've seen - read the Interlude on the Hokages, and guarantee you'll want to read the rest, if you've not...
    Post by: fire, Mar 15, 2017 in forum: Story Search
  33. fire
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    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-Czq5gpcmBtBN3ozE2JkhfH33HXELC2eGzw50oeZxWo/edit?pref=2&pli=1# Found this on reddit - doesn't look to be too bad a list of recommendations. I'm looking through it myself, though of course most of the good stuff on it I've already read.
    Post by: fire, Jul 17, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  34. fire
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    Do you have any other Shikamaru-centric fics to recommend? I'll actually like to read one, but the ones I've found (Kagamane-complete as well as Chiaroscuro) were pretty bad - the writing awkward, the characters wooden, and all that jazz.
    Post by: fire, Jul 14, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  35. fire
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    Thanks for the recommendations. I've read or tried most of those on the list - I've been in the fandom long enough to remember when Time and Again and Chunin Exam Day (rofl) were new fics. I've never gotten what's so good about Sheeza's Life in Konoha's Anbu honestly - it's just battle after battle, and it's just not... exciting. Not to mention that the characters aren't terrible compelling, nor does the story seem to have a point beyond Naruto doing awesome things in Anbu.
    Post by: fire, Jun 24, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  36. fire
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    Out of curiosity, which fic would you guys recommend that's most like Gallyrat's Shinobi: Team 7? I'm on a Naruto roll since reading it, but nothing really compares. I'm thinking of this very different AU, with unique worldbuilding and the like. The only stories that I can recall, being similarly different, are Shadow Rebirth's Worth Dying For and Howdy's Houses of the Holy - but the former is dead, and the latter is deader than dead ever since Howdy went into the Playhouse and never came out.
    Post by: fire, Jun 22, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  37. fire
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    A lot of people in there disliking it just because of Sakura's relative prominence. It's quite silly really.
    Post by: fire, Jun 21, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  38. fire
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    I've been reading Shinobi Team 7, and it's fucking awesome. Haven't been this excited by a Naruto fic for a very long time - I'm very impressed with its ambitious worldbuilding. It's really too bad that it's like 3 years old, with only 120k words (that's basically 3k~ words per month).
    Post by: fire, Jun 20, 2016 in forum: Story Search
  39. fire
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    Here's an objective list of all the good Naruto time-travel stories (by objective I mean my opinion, of course): (1) Time and Again, and its incomplete sequel, Here and Now I consider this the best there is in the fandom, as far as time-travel stories go, and would give my left nut to see it completed. The main problem with it, if you can call it that, is that it's somewhat dated - you might have some trouble reconciling the 2008-2009 assumptions of the story and the later revelations of...
    Post by: fire, Sep 16, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  40. fire
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    While I agree with you that Kenichi is a poor writer, whose stuff is painful to read, I think you're being a little glib here. A story's value isn't additive in this way. Just because a story is poor, it doesn't mean that the overall reading experience isn't improved from having more of it (i.e. having a complete story, or a sufficient long story that covers a good number of arcs). Because in the latter scenario, at least the story isn't cut off half-way, with character storylines and...
    Post by: fire, Sep 16, 2015 in forum: Story Search
  41. fire
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    Nugar had a great idea, but it was horribly executed, I thought. Especially the pivotal first scene that Naruto and Hinata had together - it read like it was badly ripped off Fight Club, which it was.
    Post by: fire, Jul 31, 2015 in forum: Story Search
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    Shameless. But them again shamelessness is a quality I admire a lot in authors.
    Post by: fire, Dec 23, 2014 in forum: Story Search
  43. fire
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    I've always imagined Hiruzen to be basically fucking Sun Wu Kong. Yes, he has his pretty elemental jutsus, but his main "trick" was no trick at all. Just using sheer godlike strength, speed, durability, and his giant Ruyijingubang of Fuck-Off, he smacks Bijuu around and flattens small inconveniences like other ninja. Add to that clones. Many many clones. Given his reliance on taijutsu and his physical capabilities, it's likely that the decline in his abilities was much more...
    Post by: fire, Dec 4, 2014 in forum: Story Search
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    Hilarious that Sakura gets progressively less awesome over time. Starts out wielding giant dual cleavers, and ends up clutching onto Sasuke/eating dango.
    Post by: fire, Oct 5, 2014 in forum: Story Search
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    Tempered in Water is excellent, possibly the best romance fic in the Naruto fandom. Unfortunately, romance fics tend to kill themselves. By railroading in a particular ship, romance fics tend to undermine consistent characterization and the tightness of plot. Honestly, even some professional authors don't really handle romance that well - it takes a special kind of maturity and subtlety to do it well. There's Girl from Whirlpool and Cutting Loose, but both are incomplete and abandoned.
    Post by: fire, Apr 15, 2014 in forum: Story Search
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