madimpossibledreamer

v  JJBA Vento Aureo/Golden Wind Anime Reactions

Ø  https://www.youtube.com/user/LegoAlex99

Ø  Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure Vento Aureo

Look, I understand if you don’t watch reaction videos or whatever, but if you have an interest in Vento Aureo and how accurate it is to actual Italy, you might want to check this user’s reactions out.  It’s interesting to see an actual Italian point of view on the part.

edit: link was wrong for a while, sorry

v  Continuing Education (Source: Archive of Our Own)

Ø  https://archiveofourown.org/works/48173

Ø  Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ø  Xander/Dean

This is the third one I forgot to include in the list of inspirations for Lucky Strike.  I also read the Kashmir series after, but that's suuuper angsty.  (Good to read, probably, but I'm not reccing it because I don't think I'd reread because it's angsty.  Which, unfortunately, the lucky strike 'verse went [Coming Home, Hope's Flame, When It's All Said and Done, It's You] in the direction of as well.  Dean.  This is all your fault, fyi.  You're the reason we can't have nice things, because you have to go and angst over them all and sabotage yourself.)

This one isn't angsty, though.  It's fluffy.  Flirting, being impressed and turned on by competence?  Sign me up.  (Also, Dawn rolling her eyes and being sarcastic is great.)  It’s also fairly short, but unlike the previous one, it doesn’t deserve the M rating (a Teen rating, probably).

v  When At First We Meet (Source: Twisting the Hellmouth)

Ø  https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-13703/IceBlueRose+When+At+First+We+Meet.htm

Ø  Supernatural/Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ø  Xander/Dean (pairing light/hinted, but it’s there)

If anyone wants to know why I wrote Lucky Strike or future installments in the first place, this is one of two fics that are pretty much the entire reason it happened.  In other words, this is one of two fics that started me shipping a new ship, which is pretty good for any fic.  All the characters are well-written, there’s at least a nod to Dean’s paranoia (which is ridiculous, seriously), and the natural feel of the plot comes from that.  Also, yeah, my thing for dialogue.  I have a thing for snappy dialogue, in case it hadn’t been mentioned before.  (Don’t always succeed in including it in my own writing, but, well, I try).

well that conversation with my dad was super awkward
you know it's bad when you're like 'connor and haytham get along better'.

v  The New Creed (Source: Twisting the Hellmouth)

Ø  https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-16532/OLazyOne+The+New+Creed.htm

Ø  Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Assassin’s Creed

Pretty much every time I get into a new fandom I go looking for Halloween crossover fanfic.  …Uh, yeah, I’m weird.  I knew that already though.  Anyway, this one is really well written, really short, and doesn’t bash anybody.  There’s a lot of action for all that.  If there’s one that captures Xander’s character really well, I think, it’s this one.

v  Theory of Narrative Casuality (Source: Livejournal)

Ø  https://falling-voices.livejournal.com/18100.html

Ø  Sherlock

Ø  Sherlock/John

Ø  Marked as NC-17, though that largely depends on whether you click on all links and/or actually read the relevant fanfic in the fanfic…it’ll make sense, you’ll see.

The formatting blew my mind.  The idea of using tumblr or email or chat or BUTTONS (some of which work) to tell a story I found incredible.  Even further, most of the blogs ACTUALLY EXIST AND ALSO HELP TELL THE FIC.  It’s, like, the evolved form of tumblr rp storytelling (yeah, I lurk, partly because I don’t have time and partly cause I’m intimidated).  It’ll take you forever to dig into this and it must have been a lot of work.  It’s also meta and meta-meta.

v  Meifu’s Gate (Source: Fanfic.net)

Ø  https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4730338/1/Meifu-s-Gate-Prequel

Ø  Bleach

Ø  There’s more than just the prequel, but it’s easy enough to find the others using the author’s profile.

If you can't get enough of the Soul Society pre-Turn Back the Pendulum (i.e. me), you should check out Meifu's Gate.  You'll get hours of entertaining reading out of it (but, uh, be more intelligent than me and start when you actually have time vs when you should be working on homework.  It's nice that it's broken up into volumes, but I didn't find that helped much because I got to the end of one and just kept saying 'but I need to know what happens next'.  So, yeah, block out time).  It is longer and without the shipping of the later work Cat's Cradle, so I'd say it has a wider audience. 
The characterization is amazing and I love the worldbuilding in, well, Bleach and even more so here, because I get that Bleach is shounen but I'm here for the awesome world that you're just using as a backdrop for your fights, Kubo. 
This was one of two fics that formed my headcanons which is an amazing feeling (you've probably noticed by now that I love fics with awesome plot and yet more worldbuilding that add a lot to the original story).

I was scheduled for clopening this week.  Hopefully that gets fixed before I collapse.
~Dreamer~

v  Lone Flower (Source: Twisting the Hellmouth)

Ø  https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-16817/Vathara+Lone+Flower.htm

Ø  Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Bleach/Others

All of the characters are very well written, and this is definitely one that I’ve returned to multiple times.  I’m not sure I’ve ever read much of the follow-up stories past the point Buffy meets Ukitake and Shunsui, but then, there was a lot more of the crossover characters I didn’t recognize in the sequels, and the intriguing long-term plot didn’t go where it was heading (I would’ve enjoyed the ‘everybody vs Aizen’ plot).  The setup for the crossover made complete sense, and there were no real plot holes, either.  Also, there are a ton of quotable lines.  Plus, it’s a YAHF that doesn’t involve just Xander, and Buffy, costume and all, is the main character.  Kinda.  Ukitake is the main character too.

What's up, people (by Maximum the Hormone)?  I just got done with dinner.  Yay.  10 hour shifts suck.  But now I get to post for all you lovely people out there, yay.
~Dreamer~

v  Red Moon Rising (Source: Livejournal)

Ø  http://what-we-dream.livejournal.com/62969.html#cutid1

Ø  Red Cliff [which is itself an adaptation of a segment from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms which I actually own and is a kind of fascinating read; I rec that book on its own]

Like a feather on the wind, Zhuge Liang, or Kongming (the Sleeping Dragon) dances into danger and dances out again.  It’s a fascinating character study that also has some action.  The dialogue is excellent (well…of course it is, all of my favorites are like that…), and it served as a good extension when I was searching for something to fill in the gap when I wanted more than just watching the film for the nth time.  I still remembered this fic years later, and knew I had to go looking for it to find it again.  (It also has nothing to do with the fic, but I was rather pleased and amused to note that the author’s icon on both of their Red Cliff fics is Sherlock Holmes in the 22^nd Century.  Good show, that.  Even if I don’t get the joke there.)
(Also, adding their fics will double the number of things in my zhuge liang tag...kinda sad when 3 of my icons are Red Cliff, really...)

v  If You Cross the Street (Source: Twisting the Hellmouth)

Ø  https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-30332-18/AsarStar+If+You+Cross+the+Street.htm

Ø  Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Iron Man

Pepper and Buffy form an alliance to try to stop Tony from being an idiot.  It’s kind of awesome.  This story brings out the best in everyone (well, to some extent…if you can stop Tony’s curiosity at the expense of his sense of self-preservation).  When Buffy runs away after dealing with Angel, she ends up running into Tony instead.  And, y’know, once a millionaire follows you home, you have to feed them and prevent them from provoking vampires again.

It was my last day, ha!!!!  And now I get to go back to a job I actually enjoyed last year.
~Dreamer~

v  There May Be Some Collateral Damage (Source: Archive of Our Own)

Ø  https://archiveofourown.org/works/5030443/chapters/11562568

Ø  Harry Potter/Bleach Crossover

Ø  Warnings: Quite possibly crack.  But only the best of crack, I solemnly swear.  (Uhh, except, y’know, it was a combination masterpiece from the Weasley Twins and Urahara, so maybe don’t trust it.)

This doesn’t have the worldbuilding of the Big Five (on my recs list), but it is nevertheless excellent.  Ichigo is quite possibly insane (but then, the same is true of Harry), Urahat reclaims his title of ‘best slightly sketchy teacher’ from Dumbledore, Voldemort’s end is, predictably given the fic, somewhat anticlimactic, and the dialogue is top-notch.  I think I read this three times in quick succession?  I’ll also point out that I almost never laugh out loud, and yet this fic made me do it at least a few times.  And I just reread it again.  Man.  I didn’t mean to spend that time, but yes, it’s great.

Quote from the actual story that sums pretty much everything up: “Whoever thought Ichigo could handle any kind of undercover anything was clearly a moron.”

Note: pretty sure the ship Ichigo/Rukia/Renji is a thing, but it’s one line (or maybe a paragraph tops) and I completely missed it on the first two reads, so I think you’re pretty safe to read it even if that’s not your cup of tea.