Some war AU fic recs

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In a minute I'll forward-date the sparkly text placeholder entry I posted a few hours ago, so that will still be the top-of-journal entry while I'm away on vacation.

Prompted by lusciniaecantus' homage to chrissy's prince of tennis war au, it was suddenly more important that I post this than that I finish packing. XD themed recs posts are surprisingly fun to write. This and the explosion of monthly themed communities makes me think Tin's long-defunct themed panfandom fic project, fanthology, might have worked better as a less formal, less centrally organized weekly themed recs comm. So you'd get Genderswitch Week, War AU Week, Ghost Story Week, etc, and posters could tag by theme. Then the tag page would become the index and the comm would become a giant fanfic linkchive categorized by topic instead of by fandom. Fun! And each time a new poster posts they could write a short paragraph about whatever this week's theme means to them, like so:

The War AU satisfies several urges: for character torture, for deathfic, for blood, angst and violence. Most war AUs are dreamlike. That's because the inspiration for most authors to write them comes from dreams -- more specifically, from nightmares. Either that, or watching Band of Brothers one too many times XD.

Okay okay, on to the recs:

1. Prince of Tennis, After the War by sesame_seed
The aforementioned POT War AU. All of Chrissy's fics are at least a little dreamlike and violent, really, even though they (mostly) have happy endings. This one reminds me of a strategy RPG since it is all about assigning the characters to the right job classes ahaha. (Go! Read! And then read the sequel by two_if_by_sea)

2. Naruto, NejiHina angst by solis_pierrot
Dark, dark, disturbing and dark and noncon. It's hard to classify a Naruto fic as war AU, since there are plenty of canon wars to choose from. This one meets requirements by putting the war in Neji's dreams, thus creating an AU within an AU. There are three (short) chapters on hyugacest:
One
Two
Three

3. Ranma 1/2, Ranma Goes to War and Once More Into the Breach by Jamie Wilde
More Ranma 1/2 sl0rage. The website is gone, but the fanfic lives on in our hearts! And more importantly, in the wayback machine. This fic deserves speical mention for being written by someone who has actually served in a war -- specifically, as an engineer on the U.S. Kamehameha during the Korean War. There are many technical details. There is also much angst and man-to-man bonding. It is very, very good.

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So about this hypothetical themed recs comm. I don't know whether it would be better to require every post to contain at least two recs in at least two fandoms for variety, or to require that each rec be given it's own post for completeness like in try_this_fic. XD it would also be cool to make a certain week -- say the last week of odd-numbered months -- into "what has come before week", where members are free to post recs for any of the comm's prior topics.

Thoughts?

ETA
Speaking of LJ fic communities, only two fics have been posted to chain_of_fics in all of December and that is just sad. Also I'm saving this month's BBSS to read while on vacation~! Trim, the cover looks great.

v_voltaire, I got your package! "Used books," yeah right! You rock for so many reasons, but right now that biggest one is that you sent the volume of Runaways that comes right after the last volume I had. It was just, wow. Thank you!