All That: World Class
Fics with particularly good/interesting/detailed world building (mix of completely original settings, well-blended crossovers, & the occasional canon expansion)
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A Constellation of Complications by AuroraKant for classysleuth
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
02 Jul 2022
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No one besides a select few knew that Dick tried to solve the cases the people of the upper city were too busy to care about. Cases that dealt with the lower classes, the current addicts, the bitcoin debtors, the cyborg traders.
Cases like this one.
Or: Cyborgs are being killed in Gotham City and Dick is the only one who can find the killer before it's too late,
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Of Artificial Suns And Alternate Courses by dorianne77
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Dec 2021
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“A meeting,” Tony doesn’t even bother to hide his incredulity.
“Yes.”
“With the Galactic Empire,” he attempts to lighten his own mood with the joke, but the response he gets from Ross makes the blood freeze in his veins.
“They call themselves the Unitary Galactic Communia, actually.”
If Tony lets his silence speak for itself, it’s only partially because his throat is closing up on him at an alarming rate.
“I know it sounds bad at first—“
“Oh no no no, not at all,” Tony interjects quickly, “this is wonderful news. A communia. A unitary one. Sounds very… organized. They must be people who know how to keep an army. Of galactic proportions. This is great, really. Not debilitatingly frightening in the least.”
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Alternatively: the freshly pardoned Rogues have complaints, Tony is dead on his feet, and Steve has issues with the handsome alien lord who keeps offering Stark the literal universe.- Language:
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17 Nov 2025
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Codename: Firestarter by Trinket2018
Fandoms: Criminal Minds (US TV), Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Sentinel, NCIS
06 Apr 2018
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When the alien Wraith attack Nevada (!?), Dr. Spencer Reid helps the Las Vegas CSI team defend Groom Lake. But what they find in their sweep shocks them all, even beyond the presence of space vampire aliens in their home town.
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12 Feb 2025
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M=violence, death, (mentions of) torture
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Time Bomb Town by Moxibustion (RyuuzaKochou)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Talents Series - Anne McCaffrey
31 Dec 2020
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In a world of scientifically proven psychic abilities, the practitioners - the so-called Talents - are called on to serve the public good. This is never more true than in Gotham, where the Wayne Parapsychic Institute works diligently for justice and peace in what is otherwise a mecca of rogue Talents. Bruce Wayne is one of the most powerful Talents on record; a Prime. So are all his children. All, that is, except for Tim Drake; a winged donkey to their high-flying Pegasus. Fed up with the constant reminders that he will never be able to catch up to their flight into the stars and beyond, he leaves.
Trying to put the shattered pieces of his life together, he comes across Jason Todd; former member of the Wayne Parapsychic Institute and a powerhouse in terms of Talent, alive in an asylum years after everyone assumed him dead.
Tim is determined to help Jason find a way back. Jason might end up teaching him a way forward.
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This Space Opera by AthenaAstrea
Fandom JAG, NCIS, Stargate SG-1, The Sentinel (TV), Various Fandoms - Fandom
15 Jun 2019
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“Tony, I don’t want to scare the bejesus out of you or anything, but you are, like the hero of every space opera ever. Seriously, I’m getting Captain Kirk, Paul Atreides, and Obi Wan Kenobi all rolled into one here. The young Obi Wan I mean.” Guide Angela Montenegro
Guide Anthony DiNozzo thinks he's had his shot at bonding. He's met "his" sentinel and, for reasons that he doesn't want to talk about, he turned him down. That should be it. After all, if a person doesn't bond with their perfect match, they don't get another chance, right? Tony's former sentinel won't so much as consider bonding with another guide, even to treat his terminal illness.
Leave it to Tony to break all the rules and in doing so, end up in the middle of a goddamned space opera, complete with politics, aliens, and his very own Space Force general.
Okay, so technically, Major General Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill is Air Force, but by the time Tony is done, who knows, there may well be a sixth branch of the military. And who better to lead it than a guy who's saved Earth a few dozen times?
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03 Feb 2025
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S/M: (long discussion, end of ch.3) end of ch.4 (brief, not plot-critical) end of ch.6 (brief, after-plot)
S/E: end of ch.1 (plot-significant), start of ch.2 (mostly discussion), start of ch.7 (brief, minimal detail), last third ch.8 (very long, mostly vague, builds), end of ch.9 (skippable) start & end of ch.14 (before & after breaks), mid ch.15 (half discussion), 3/4 (brief, not plot-critical)
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Two Nickels: Jack finding his guide in Tony leads to revelations for the SGC
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"US troops make crap peacekeepers.”“Of course we do,” Jack said a little huffily. “We’re soldiers. We make war, not peace. I just don’t know why everyone is so surprised,” Jack groused. “Our job is to defend the US Constitution and kick ass— it’s right there in our Oath of Service, fer crying out loud. We don’t make good international hall monitors, and sometimes we literally can’t do the job right because it conflicts with our primary mandate. No, if you want global babysitters, you need a force that is specifically trained for peacekeeping and isn’t obligated on pain of court martial to put one country’s interests ahead of all others."