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"A Song of Ice and Fire" stories

Discussion in 'Story Search' started by purple, Jul 9, 2012.

  1. Cxjenious

    Cxjenious Dark Lord

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    Waaaay too many words. I apologize for not reading them all. I'm sure you made many valid points.
     
  2. soczab

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    no worries. Lifes short, no need to read something if it wont hold your interest.
     
  3. Mutton

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    Purple Days had a weak start, interesting middle, but went to complete shit when the author started writing entirely original fiction with Yi-Ti and The Beyond
     
  4. Methos

    Methos High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Any fics out there with premise off:
    Which covers Lyanna dealing with all the chickens coming home to roost?

    I guess it will be one-shots.

    Edit:
    Anyone can direct me to Odran fics?
    I know he hides them somewhere
     
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  5. KGB

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  6. Adric

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    To busy kicking puppies
     
  7. Cxjenious

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    He eats puppies. He doesn't kick them.
     
  8. Methos

    Methos High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Any interesting new fics in the Fandom ?
     
  9. Invictus

    Invictus Master of Death

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    https://forums.spacebattles.com/thr...guide-to-not-dying-horribly-asoiaf-si.559933/
    https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...steels-guide-to-not-dying-horribly-si.419657/

    There's this really interesting SI. It's a solid 3.5/5. Grammar starts horrible, but after a while it jumps to tolerable. The SB link is 40 or so chapters behind the AH one, but AH is for registered users only so if you don't want to bother. It's pretty good for a SI. He isn't Mary Sueish, no attempts at uplifting, author understands basic feudal politics pretty well and is good at Characterization.

    It was put on review for the library. https://forums.darklordpotter.net/t...ng-horribly-by-strangerorders-t-asoiaf.37099/ - here's the link which has more in depth reviews by me and the person who created the thread.
     
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  10. Donimo

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    This is a pretty decent fic. I'm not sure how it will hold up on its own merit, but the fact that it updates daily keeps me invested.
     
  11. Methos

    Methos High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Looking for a summary of the first book of Knees falling.
    Trying to remember the changes from canon, except the obvious.
    Renly is a live, Stannis and the red witch are dead.
     
  12. Odran

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    It was good for a while, but the author's constant habit of bringing up modern morality, and values of such, into Westeros annoyed me. Then there is the fact that you could see
    Rhaenyra using him to father her children from miles and miles away.
    In addition to that, I fucking hate it when supposedly grown up people pretend to be so ignorant of other's affections and such. I could understand if he was some 15 year old kid, writing this SI as wish fulfillment (which it kind of is, but then again, the same could be said for every SI fanfic, including my own), but according to him he was in his 30s when he was moved into the world of ASOIAF and yet he keeps acting out this perpetual blindness to how some of the people around him feel, most notably the female characters.

    As for the Mary Sueish bit, I disagree. The SI not only gets to be a Targaryen, but a Targaryen with a dragon, a Targaryen
    who apparently can make pacts with old gods of Valyria, gets to become all but immortal, learns how to make Valyrian blades and more besides (seriously, having not one Valyrian beauty as his wife-to-be, but having Rhaenyra, who used to be quite beautiful before she got fat, as his lover too; how the fuck does this not reek of blatant wish fulfillment masqueraded with the character's obliviousness on how they both feel about him).
    I mean, it's not the typical, canal-building, political powerhouse in the making that you see in most ASOIAF fics, but even when things go wrong for him, they end up with better results than you expect to see from all his worries and rambling.

    Also, the SI is blatant in his bias against some characters, undeservedly so.

    To make this matter clear: Criston Cole did literally nothing wrong.
     
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  13. Halt

    Halt 1/3 of the Note Bros. Moderator

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    TBF, I accept the blatant bias against characters as a flaw in the SI. If someone was reincarnated as the Hound, let's say, with all the book knowledge? I find it far more realistic they'd be extremely wary of the Mountain than trying to redeem him. Audience bias is very much a thing, and I think it's naive to think a person wouldn't take those biases with them for all that the law tells us we can't judge a person by what they might do.

    It just seems like an all too human knee jerk reaction.
     
  14. Odran

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    Yeah, but he wasn't born again into a preexisting role. And he just starts hating on Cole from day 1, without even getting to know the guy. When in fact, given that he has all that foreknowledge, he should be hating more on Rhaenyra who was better known as Maegor-with-teats.
     
  15. thor2006

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    Rhaenyra is family and not a monster like Daemon and Aemond. Cole isn't. And she is kind of important if he wants to stop the Dance. Witness he puts effort to get together with both Aegon and Rhaenyra. Cole is more secondary character like Aemond(until he demonstrated he isn't the monster he was in OTL) to really push him to get to know him and get over his bias. Witness his situation with Daemon.
     
  16. Celestin

    Celestin Dimensional Trunk

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    Maybe he should, but likes and dislikes can be rather random when it comes to fictional characters. Since the main character has no willingness to learn more about Cole and there were no situations that forced it, he's stuck with this bias.
     
  17. Hashasheen

    Hashasheen Half-Blood Prince

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    https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...to-stop-worrying-and-embrace-the-suck.419113/

    I would deeply recommend this for those who have AH access. It's a bit slow but the writing for the most part is very well done. SI drops into Rhaegar Targaryen about 3 years before Duskendale, though we're introduced only a year or so before Duskendale with ripple effects all around. Probably worth an AH account, if you don't have one.
     
  18. Odran

    Odran Fourth Champion

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    Until that tourney where he asked Alicent for her favor, i.e. the greens, he was pretty much Rhaenyra's man. It doesn't make sense that the SI didn't want to make good with someone who so obviously supported someone that he as a SI gave a damn about. Instead of buddying up with the guy, making sure things went along as best they could, he just wishes death on him from the very beginning, never bothering to team up with the guy and steer Rhaenyra towards a better path. Then again, that would have gotten in the way of what happens later on, so who knows, maybe he planned it that way from the very start.

    Been mentioned already, and somewhat recently, and I heartily endorse the recommendation yet again. I mean, it's a SI fic about Rhaegar Targaryen that I don't hate on or bash, which was quite a surprise for me, given how people tend to fuck these things up. Plus, the sequel just got an update too. Bit of a slow burner, but I don't mind waiting so long as there's no dip in quality.
     
  19. Methos

    Methos High Inquisitor DLP Supporter

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    Asking again after seeing more activity.
    Any stories with Eddard Stark where he decide to be more in North mindset than vale mindset.
    example: Ice and Honor

    Another search is for Lyanna survive the rebellion but need to deal with the chickens all coming home to roost.
    I'm quite surprised @Odran never wrote a fic covering it
     
  20. Hashasheen

    Hashasheen Half-Blood Prince

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    Odran is kind of super busy IRL these days.
     
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