1. worm: long-ass intense superhero story, lots of interesting characters, lots of crazy escalations, the ending is outrageously cool imo
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2. ' tim tebow CFL chronicles + 17776: best read as a pair and in that order, i think. incredibly unique stuff. i don't even know what to say about it and i want to minimize spoilers. just let them unfold
sbnation.com/2014/8/18/5998
sbnation.com/a/17776-footba
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3. 's antimemetics stories: imo some of the best content on the entire SCP wiki. really cool concepts, genuinely spooky to me (i find very few things spooky)
scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-d
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4. 's fine structure: gloriously big and complicated science fiction. idk how to really describe it but maybe permutation city-era greg egan + SCP
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5. ZHPL's the gig economy: this is the spookiest thing i've ever read, b/c i didn't realize it was fiction until maybe a quarter of the way through and that had *unique effects* on me. just including it on this list is a spoiler, sadly
zerohplovecraft.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/the
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6. cordyceps: this is another one where i want to minimize spoilers. best read knowing as little as possible. you would almost be better off forgetting the title even
archiveofourown.org/works/6178036/
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7. 's the northern caves: i get intensely nostalgic about the pitch-perfect fictional depiction of old-school internet forum culture alone. super interesting concept for a story even if it arguably doesn't quite stick the landing
archiveofourown.org/works/3659997/
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8. flash crash: very short. this just straight up made me cry ok
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9. time braid: this is a naruto fanfic, i think i heard about it through eliezer. fun and imaginative, and you don't have to know too much about naruto to enjoy. CW sex and torture
fanfiction.net/s/5193644/1/Ti
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10. short stories: fun and imaginative. short enough that you can just read them all. a rough ranking of my favorites:
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the rabbit hole
universal love
anglophysics
asches to asches
a modern myth
samsara
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11. 's google people: once again, its inclusion on this list is a spoiler, part of the experience is reading it thinking it's just a normal series of tweets
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13. zack parsons' instruction for a help; i cannot remember for the life of me who showed this to me but it's so haunting and unique in tone and format. starts here:
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This is amazing. It took a long time to digest but worth every minute. Thank you.
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it is impressive to me because it manages to like... be so of-the-moment? i really like fiction that takes the experience of being a denizen of the internet very seriously, several of the other entries in this list are like that too
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