User blog comment:Rhonda the stalker fan!/Total Drama 30 Day Challenge: Day 24/@comment-5931267-20180725065255

Oh crap uh... this’ll be fun. There are a lot of fanfics I enjoy but I’ll try to keep this brief.

Life After Lies by FSS16 This is the best non competition, if not just the best, based TD fanfic I’ve ever read. Heather and Noah are two of my favorite characters in TD and they are a couple of the few characters who could actually work in a non comedic role without having to change their personalities in any way. FSS’s writing made me feel so much for these two as they’re thrust into a very unfortunate and dark situation the have to fight out of. The writing was great and refined, the pacing was amazing and never dragged, the characters that needed to be fleshed out were, and the dark tone was great. Gid’s canon ending was well done, and was honestly the best possible ending, not terribly dark but not happy either. It was a fic that couldn’t end happily, and I’m glad it was bittersweet (had Noah and Heather gotten together I would’ve puked). I still consider this among my favorite TD fanfics all these years after first reading it (it was the first TD fic I read all the way through), and would defend it against anyone.

LIFE AS AN EX-REALITY TV SHOW CONTESTANT by Sunshine This is my actual favorite TD fic though. It’s not technically the best (Sunshine’s pacing could be kinda wonky at times) but it is the one I enjoyed reading the most. It’s just a fun coming of age tale that just happened to have TD characters in it. Every single character that’s meant to be likeable is, the banter and interactions honestly feel genuine, the OCs are some of the best written the fandom has to offer, the TD cast that’s used feel pretty true to form (or at least true to their TDI iterations), and I’m a sucker for a good teen romcom with a hint of drama. It might also help that Noah/Andrea and Christin/DJ are two of my fav ships in all of fan fiction because of how sweet and genuine they were. It’s an absolute shame Sunshine only wrote five chapters, cause I need more of this fic (and these awesome characters) in my life.

Total Drama Reality by Sprinklemist My all time favorite competition fic bar none. The characters Sprink crafted were believable, and had real and relatable problems. Tsuyoshi is probably the best depiction of a gay character I’ve seen in any TD fanfic, and he’s still my favorite winner to date. The whole thing just felt like real people dealing with very real issues with the backdrop of a TD season. I couldn’t stop reading until I’d completed it, and I’ve never really recaptured that same magic reading any other competition story. I love other comp stories, but Reality holds a very special place in my heart. Sprink’s stories were some of my favs, and I was so sad when he decided that he wanted them deleted.

The Legend of Total Drama Island by Gid This is my favorite TD reimagining (unless something drastic happens between now and the end), and is a genuinely interesting take on TD as a whole. Though some people think the fic can be a tad long winded at times with its description, I actually adore the depth Gid’s writing has, and the painstaking detail he goes into. Tolkein and Faulkner are two of my favorite authors and they both make effective use of meticulous attention to detail in their works. I see a bit of both of them in this story, I especially thought Ella’s transformation scene was reminiscent of Tolkein’s fantastical elements. It’s just a well written story that I can get engrossed in, and the many mysteries it holds always keep me guessing (Brett’s Mother’s identity is one of the best kept secrets in any TD fic bar none).

Find Your Grail by Rhonda Finally we come to my favorite one shot and my favorite comedy centric story. Rhonda already knows but I love her writing’s sense of humor. It comes across really well in this zany and random shipping story about two characters who shouldn’t work at all. In fact I’m not entirely certain they do work, but this fic goes a long way towards convincing me that they could! It’s just absolutely absurd in all the best ways, and is a ton of fun to read through. There have been ome shots that were better on a technical level (NCSS recently deleted a bunch of the wiki’s better one shots), but none that have ever been as enjoyable to read.