Prospecting on the World Wide Web:
Hand-Picked Fics

Looking for anything  on the Web is exactly like prospecting...you have to go through a lot of plain old ordinary dirt and rocks to find the good stuff!  Here's a list of my favorite fanfics for DBZ/GT, Slayers, Wild ARMS and Odds & Ends.

Stuff you won't find here:  my own fics, silliness, crossovers (with VERY few exceptions), PWP's, songfics, poetry, any mega-fics with less than FIVE chapters finished, anything that is a real pain to read (bad grammar, poor spelling, not in English, "squint font," "too gross," weak plot, no character development, BaD tYpOgRaPhY).

(If anyone is wondering, I'm still slogging through fanfiction.net and haven't looked at any of the fics on filgaia.com.  Yet.  Nor have I gotten even halfway through "Redemption").

This page is pretty much permanently under construction.

And here's the key:

Jewels -- great ideas exquisitely crafted, usually very long fics.  Rarest of the bunch.  "Jewels" are so special they each get their own graphic.  

Gold nuggets -- very good, usually longer, fics.

Silver nuggets -- worth reading

Rating -- This page is for fanfics rated G - R.  Lemons have their own page

Vejiitasei Ascendant

The gold standard by which fanfics are measured.  Three 'books' so far, now publically available again!  Don't let the yaoi hints fool you--the main pairing is Vegeta x Bulma.

Book One:   http://www.geocities.com/bulmasan/young_prince/
Book Two:
http://www.geocities.com/bulmasan/chikyuu/
Book Three:
http://www.geocities.com/bulmasan/super_saiyan
Amethyst

R

DBZ

 
AU, VxB, some yaoi

 

Zelgadis on the Couch
and
Zelgadis on the Road

Very, very good fics.  ZotR will never be finished because the Queen of Swords has given up writing fanfics to pursue professional endeavors.  We wish her all the best.
sapphire

R

Slayers
 

A Flower Whose Name I Don't Know Yet

A classic from someone best known for "Jewel"-quality fanart.  Only a few grammatical errors keep it from the gold.  Worth a read, and finished.  It's a very unusual pairing.  The last sequel is a lemon but has a warning page.

The author deserves some slack because her native language isn't English.

Slayers
 

The Story of Zed in St. Centaur

All right, I have a weakness for Zed fics.  That said, this is one of the best Zed fics you'll ever read.

G

WA1

 

Birds in the Eighty-Seventh Empyrean

Who thought immortality could be boring?

G

WA2

 

The Birds, the Bees, and So Forth

Gremio blushes and stammers his way through THAT talk with the Young Master, who is 10 years old in this charming fic.

PG
13

Suiko1

 

Forever Young

Ties up a plot twist I always wondered about.  By the same author as "The Birds, the Bees, and So Forth."

G

Suiko1

 

The Burden of Hope

An excellent prequel to the Mirai storyline by Demisaiyanprodigy.

PG
13

DBZ

 

ElfQuest: Hidden Years, issue 1

Not a fanfic but a comic book sample online.  I chose this issue because it's completely online, unlike the samples of their other titles.

Very nicely done.  May take awhile to load each image if you're using a dialup connection.

PG

 

Game of the Gods

If you despise Mary Sues, you'll LOVE this fic!

PG
13

LotR