I’m in the mood for some banger fanonical reimaginings/explorations.
Off the top of my head, here’s what I can contribute:
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An Eagle Among Lions is a neat little (and by little I mean long) Fire Emblem: Three Houses Edelgard-centric time travel fic (kinda) that has all-but-explicitly leftist undertones poking out from under it every now and then. It’s to the point where I consider it leftist dogwhistling, which had me going every time something hit.
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The Summoned Hero Is A Historical Materialist is an explicitly communist Shield Hero AU that flips Naofumi’s character to be an hardline anti-slavery socialist rather than an isekai-typical pedophile slaver protag. It is the fanfic equivalent of the concept of a John Brown Isekai. It’s great, well-executed, and I think it deserves more recognition
Anyone else have recommendations? I’d love to expand my palate.
I don’t have any reccs unfortunately (haven’t read enough Disco Elysium fanfic to find out if there are any that works. Maybe I should write anti-imperialism otherside picnic fanfic :sorawo-think:
Anyways that summoned hero is a historical materialist thing makes me actually think about actually reading it lol, tho im not sure if I could Get It because I havent seen the source material
It’s pretty divorced from the source material, everything important to know for the story is contained within the story, so would still rec it
hmmm may well check it out then!
Broken Things is a pokemon fic, but it’s really more of alt history (now with pokemons.) For the leftist aspect, you’ve got a trans main character, and a story with anti imperialist, anti colonial, and anti capitalist themes. It’s well written too, with high quality prose and writing style that stands out among the amateurish sea of fic writers. Currently unfinished, but is still getting new chapters. Author just returned from a hiatus. No/minimal knowledge of canon is needed (just read the wiki page on gen 7 game plot), because it’s so massively diverged from canon that going in blind is probably fine. If you like characters that you can get into the mind of; rich worldbuilding(there’s 2 side stories that are just worldbuilding stuff); leftist and queer themes; and a fic that stands above a sea of slop, this is it. I can’t stress enough how criminally underrated this fic is.
Does this fic do anything about the slavery (of sapient pokemon) and animal abuse (of the non-sapeint ones)? That’s the main issue that makes me stay away from that fandom…
Yes, this is brought up. The setting is not shown uncritically, but it’s not like the characters do a revolution of veganism either.
While I would like a fic about revolution, I’m fine if there’s like some progress made…
Son of the Stars is about the Starship Enterprise crash landing on Middle-Earth, leading to a steamy gay love affair between Elrond and Captain Picard. It’s leftist/communist cuz Star Trek, but it’s mostly just extremely gay.
knowledge comes but wisdom lingers by Ywena is a very good BNHA SI that tries to deal with social issues and systemic change (it’s not the main focus, but it’s an important part of the story).
Aioka; A Career Genin in a Naruto OC who reforms the “Genin Corps” from a dead-end place for whoever was left behind by Konoha into a competent force under the nose of the Hokage. It’s not leftist (for instance, it doesn’t try to dismantle Konoha’s nationalist military dictatorship), but it is about empowering people society has left behind.
Democracy by Starfox5 is liberal, but I think leftists may enjoy it too. It’s about overthrowing the aristocracy in a typical HP AU where the pureblood houses control the hereditary Wizengamot.
So I read the fanfic that Devon highlighted a while back and it’s pretty funny. It’s a short transcript of a fake episode titled Well There’s Your Problem Episode 49.5: The hololive EN Minecraft Tunnel. Someone also posted an honest Safety Third there which was kinda funny to see.
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From HOI4 game:
- Kaiserreich USA Civil war is great when you win
- TNO WRRF runs or any of the russian factions are well written.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/2038914
I liked this harry potter one a lot
Also I made a comm dedicated to socialist fanfic a couple months back, nobody really posts in it though: !fan_fiction@lemmygrad.ml
sorry, instinct reaction to HP. I’m sure its fine
It has explicitly trans characters in it, jk rowling would die on the spot if she read this trilogy of fanfics
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