Is there anything good to read on fanficauthors.net?

Here's what I already have read:
Most of Ruskbyte's work
Most of canoncansodoff's work
Viridian's stuff (not terrible but highly overrated)
The few good things that Jeconais wrote (and unfortunately a few of the bad things as well)
JBern's work
FP's YoR

Here's what I already know is crap:
Deluded Musing's (Clell) stuff
Seel'vor's stuff
Bobmin's Sunset/Sunrise (only read like 2/3 of the first chapter, though)
Lord Dwar's Summer of Change

Is there anything I should read or give a second chance to?

 

Read some of kokopelli's stuff a few years ago. She(he?) had some innovative concepts going on and was generally readable. Unfortunately at some chapter Molly & Hermy's mum & some other bitches sat down to strategize about the H/G "romance" ; that made it auto-fail for me, but if it doesn't bother you, dive right in.

 

Missed the NSNS section, I'll take a look.

 

Christ, sorry to intrude without relevant content but you are so right about Viridian. I got a bazilion recs for his work, read it and it was massively meh. Boring and stale. Specifically, his Naruto fic 'Team 8' has the rep of being one of the best fics in fandom, but is actually just crappy and hyped up. Once, his work was justified by saying that he is in RL a child psychologist, meaning all the interaction must be accurate and good. What? Every time his name is mentioned I get annoyed.

 

Yeah, it's hard to believe that NFP is the fourth most reviewed fic in the HP fandom. It's far from amazing, and I doubt it was unique even in '05.

 

Nightmare's of Future's Past is one of the classics of the fandom. Notwithstanding it's issues when compared to the best work of later years, it was fantastic when it came out. It was the first really good time travel fic and it's still one of the few that don't suck. In many ways it pioneered the better parts of the genre.

Summer of Change is in a similar situation. While it may not be at the same level as works like The Skitterleap, it's the classic of the Indy Harry genre. It still stacks up extremely favorably compared to most fanfiction out there. It may seem cliche and derivative, but as a fic it actually spawned many of the now common cliches; you can't really hold that against it. It's absolutely worth a read and any serious HP fanfic should read it.

Both these works are classics that are absolutely deserving of a read. It's worth noting that both are in the Library. NOFP with a 4/5 rating and Summer of Change with a 5/5 rating. Summer of Change is also in the C2. Saying it's crap is, to put it mildly, ridiculous.

 

To be fair, I only read the first chapter of Summer. The obvious lack of editing made me x out, but I'll give it another go.

I enjoyed reading NoFP, though perhaps I'm rather unaware of when each genre emerged. I know that HP fanfiction didn't really get off the ground till around '02, so I thought there must have been time travel fics by then, though I guess it is rather longer/more detailed than most.

 

It's been a while since I read Summer, so I can't really speak as to the level of editing in it. If you can get past that it's definitely worth a read for the storyline.

As for NOFP, it's not so much that it was the first time travel story, but that it was the first good one. It's a notoriously difficult genre to write in. If handled the way most authors do it, it becomes instantly boring because it's a story with no conflict. Or it's treated as a chance to 'fix' everything the author believes was wrong with the books. Hence why there are so few good time travel fics, and why the best one's such as Catharsis by Nuhuh end up becoming wildly AU.

So NOFP is, I think, deservedly acclaimed because it's one of the few good fics in it's genre, and even more so because it was written back when there were no worthwhile time-travel stories. I'm actually not a huge fan, in fact, I don't know if I ever finished it. I mention it because it's reputation isn't undeserved as Berkeley Hunt made it out to be, and because it's worth at least a look see.

 

The only problem I had with SoC is that Harry is apparently incapable of using contractions when he speaks.

Other than that, it was an entertaining read. It was nice to see some conflict between Harry and Dumbledore without Dumbledore being turned into a massive douche, as well.

Also, I think this is the fic that pretty much spawned the LicensedToKill!Unspeakables cliche. Those fuckers were whacking Deatheaters left and right.

 

This is pretty accurate, though I have to say he made the Unspeakable thing pretty...believable, in my opinion. He put a lot of detail into the Unspeakable idea, unlike a lot of other ones.

As for NoFP, I liked the very beginning (his executional idea of him going back in time was interesting), but soon after that, I got bored with the story because it just didn't appeal to me anymore. The story, as mentioned earlier, became boring and stale without much conflict going on. I quit reading it after 3rd year or so, and that was a few years ago. The guy does have excellent writing ability, but the story could have been written less boring with different scenes written in.

 

I could never get into the Dangerverse by whydoyouneedtoknow, a billion or so words of meh. Ishtar's HP/Adaams Family story is decent, though incomplete. Full Pensieve's other stories are definitely worth reading. Tenhawk's stuff, if you can stand Xanderwank, should only be read on his own site (Tenhawk Presents or some such) since his FFA postings are like 50 chapters behind. I don't remember anything Crys wrote that can't be safely skipped. (He had an early Harry/Tonks, though I can't remember anything about it anymore, so it didn't make much of an impression). Abraxan's stories are around 1.5M words of tedious Harry/Ginny fluff. If your tastes align with DLP's, you probably won't enjoy them. Copperbadge writes some of the highest quality HP slash around, if that's your thing. Draco664 wrote a couple decent series, though they are showing their age now. Nearly all of Bobmin's stuff is crap; they (husband/wife team) basically write the same bashing super!Harry fics over and over. In a pinch, their Power of the Press might be readable if you are bored and can stomach often-times sappy, angsty H/Hr. I can't remember any interesting stories by Musings of Apathy.

In the NSNS list, Kokopelli is the only writer of note, really. Some of his stories are quite decent and all are written well technically. I found Lady Alchymia's Emerald Tablet stories to be boring. Same with Aaran St Vines's "I can't decide if I want to write H/G or H/Hr, so I'll write the same story with swappable text for both" stuff. Mr. Intel is known for fluffy H/G and most of his stuff can be found on other sites.

It goes without saying that my story posted on FFA should be read with relish and abandon.

Kinsfire is making the executive decisions now regarding which new authors, if any, will be added to the site. Read into that what you will regarding the future of the site.

 

So I tried reading SoC again and quit partway in chapter 2. Maybe it was good at the time, but I have a hard time believing that given that there were plenty of actually well-written stories by 05.

Will take a look at kokopelli's stuff. I sort of don't care about new authors being added, the only reason I was asking is because it's a small archive and I figured people might be familiar with what's worth reading on it, as opposed to a general query in FF.net

 

The Dangerverse is pretty fucking boring. The "family" is always constantly evading trouble and shit. It's retarded and pretty unrealistic. It's more about sappy family together time than anything else.

 

And not even realistic sappy family together time, at that.

 

True enough.

 

I would recommend Summer, I know you can't get through it, but once it gets into the unspeakable bit I really found it to be quite good. The writing is average to sub-par I'll admit, but it has some of the best fighting scenes. I'd also say give Draco's Apprentice + Journeyman Potter fics a read. They're older, but worth a read I think (haven't read them in a year or two though.)

 

CopperBadge is quite excellent, and he has a Lupin/Tonks story that's really good too.
DangerVerse is meh. Some interesting ideas, but a canon rehash up till 5th year, so around a million words of just meh. Also, kids and teens don't act like that. Ever.

 

Check out Kokopelli's The Unexpected Horcrux involving a Lily Potter Horcrux. It was interesting.

link: http://kokopelli.nsns.fanficauthors.net/The_Unexpected_Horcrux/index/