We all like LnC fanfic, but some of us like to read stories in other fandoms, too. Here are some of my favorites, and I'd like to see what other people recommend, too.
1. Star Wars:
The Sith Academy : 181 vignettes about Darth Maul before
The Phantom Menace. Most of them are funny. They frequently show Maul honing his rage on life's everyday annoyances (like being audited by the IRS, working a minimum wage job, learning to drive, babysitting, etc.). There are some nfic-type stories, but you have to click extra links and go through the page that asks you to confirm that you're at least 18, so they're easy to avoid if you don't want to read them.
2. Rambo Series:
Rambo: Coming Home : Summary from FanFiction.net:
'You have family back home' 'Father, maybe, I dunno.' 'Aren't you curious to see how things might have changed back home' 'Gotta have a reason for that.' What awaits a warrior back home? I don't usually read stories in this fandom, but someone recommended it to me, and I'm glad I read it. John Rambo returns home at the end of Rambo IV to see his elderly father and the ranch where he grew up in Arizona. The story is very well-written and researched, and comprehensible even if you're not familiar with the movies.
3. The Hunger Games:
Spectator . Summary from FanFiction.net:
AU: Prim volunteers to take a pregnant Katniss' place in the Seventy Fourth Hunger Games. Peeta vows to make sure Prim comes home alive. Now all Katniss can do is watch and hope that the boy with the bread will keep his word and her sister makes it home. That is until the Capitol finds a way to mess everything up. (Main Story of "The Parts We Play" universe.) This is an engaging story in which Katniss is Reaped for the 74th Hunger Games and Prim volunteers to take her place in order to save Katniss's unborn baby. The author has been trying to update every second Sunday, but sometimes real life gets in the way (and we all know how that goes).
4. Titanic:
The Unsinkable Rose Dawson . Summary from FanFiction.net:
Rose's accounts of her life and the lives of her friends and family, before and the ten years or so after Titanic. Scenes in WWI, the Mexican Revolution, the beginning of prohibition in New York, among others. Sadly, this story was abandoned years ago, but it's written as a series of vignettes, so it's still enjoyable. It tells the stories of various characters from
Titanic before and after the first and only voyage the ship made. It also includes some real people like Pancho Villa and Adolf Hitler.
5. Pirates of the Caribbean:
Pirates of the Caribbean: Sons of Liberty . Summary from FanFiction.net:
Jack Sparrow and company have decided to join the United States! Men in dresses, rum, chaos, mayhem, and did I mention rum? This story is set during the American Revolution. The characters from Pirates of the Caribbean are hired to make trouble with the British, and they do, frequently in very humorous ways.
6. Teen Titans:
The Last Buffalo . Summary from FanFiction.net:
Dick Grayson and the Titans try to deal with Garth's illness. This is a kind of deathfic and has a couple of naughty words, be warned. WHAM warning on this one. A horrible disease goes through the Atlantean populace.
7. Earth's Children:
Durc . Summary from FanFiction.net:
This is the story of Durc of Broud's Clan of the Cave Bear, from the time of his mother's departure to his reaching adulthood. After the novel
The Clan of the Cave Bear ended, Ayla's half-Neanderthal son Durc was never seen again (and by the last book was pretty much forgotten). Many readers wanted to know what happened to him, so fanfic writers stepped in and wrote their own takes on his story. This one is especially good and very plausible.
8. Star Wars/Sherlock Holmes:
Elementary, My Dear Obi-Wan . Summary from FanFiction.net:
Life in London can get plenty interesting when Sherlock Holmes is hot on the trail of the dastardly Moriarty. Things take a bizarre turn, however, when Holmes and Watson intervene in a most unusual assassination attempt on a strangely dressed young man. Several Jedi, including Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, chase a villain to a primitive planet called Earth and a city called London. Sherlock Holmes helps them track the villain down. This is one of the best-written fanfics I've ever come across.
9. The Hunger Games:
Knot Your Fingers Through Mine . Summary from FanFiction.net:
AU. Peeta and Katniss and the American Civil War. A great deal of research went into this story. It takes the characters from The Hunger Games and places them in the Civil War era -- and it works. Everyone is kept in character and the research is outstanding.
10. Titanic/Gangs of New York:
The Education of Rose Dawson, Parts I and
II . Summary from Anne's Story Page:
Part I: This story focuses on Rose and her new life in New York as soon as she alights from the Carpathia. Part II: Rose's New York story continues as she gets to know a pair of benefactors she met in the previous story and gains some knowledge of life in the Lower East Side. The author of this story did an incredible amount of research (and when he finds the slightest error, he rewrites that part and has me fix it). This story is very well-written, very well-researched, and the author grew up in New York, so he knows the area quite well.
