fulmination recs
These aren't, properly, reading orders, and don't include all possible related reading. They're recommendations for threads, split by what sorts of moods we think they feel. See Fulmination Reading Orders for series plus dependencies.
Murder gfs (Ellie/ Fate) threads are all femslash first and foremost, and they're all centrally romances. The majority of threads contain S/M relationships, some contain D/S, and polyamory is decently common.
Power couple (Lily/ 2B) threads are mostly femslash, though some might be m/f. The vast majority are heavy D/S, with some light S/M. Polyamory is less common but still pretty common to some extent. Most power couple threads are also murder gfs threads.
Other pairings of note are the Eridani ships (Eridani/ Ridis, Eridani/ Fate, and Eridani/ Lily). These don't have ship names (or a lot of threads) yet, but are almost always going to be femslash, with a good bit of S/M and D/S.
Other pairings include Lily/ Ellie, Fate/ 2B, Lily/ 2B/ Leia of mixed-author ships, and Ellie/ 2B, Lily/ Shmi, Fate/ Lily, and Fate/ Fate altcest of self-thread ships. Most of these haven't appeared more than once yet, and some are primarily spokes off of a polycule.
This page is in progress.
Proper Murderkitty Representation
These are 'classic' murder gfs. They're generally the most light-hearted threads, with a focus on romance (and committing murder while flirting) than serious emotions, plot, or fixing anything (unless the thing that needs fixed is a paucity of sexy lesbian serial killers, they're all over that). Expect warnings throughout for serial killers, torture, and violence.
mixed with the lightning of slaughter
The one, the only, the original murder gfs thread. This is a massive thread (7,777 tags for thread proper) with complicated dependencies. The other things you need to read to get the full story add a bit over 18,000 tags. Luckily, it has an index.
This thread is best if you're after a really long yarn, the historic development of the ship, murder fun times, cool power use, a giant peal, big emotions, and a minimal focus on side characters.
subtitle: you had me at "let's burn down wizarding britain"
Harry Potter setting, except it's early in the Marauder's Era and voldemort is replaced with a sexy lesbian. Ellie/ Fate as central pairing, with some Fate/ Fate. Has femslash, polyamory, rival-mance, hot dark ladies, and both a world and romance plot.
her lips taste like a loaded gun
A solid contender for 'most problematic murder gfs thread.' That's very impressive, given the murder gfs.
The basic premise is a role swap of Elesse and Palpatine, based off the Elesse + Anakin Star Wars prequels rewrites (see reading orders above), though you don't need to be familiar with those to keep track of this.
Features a female Anakin who doesn't fall to the dark side so much as swan dive, femslash, grooming, adult/ 17 year old + wide age gap + teacher/ student relationship, accidental parent/ child incest, BDSM, dissociation, a plural main character, villain protagonists, and murder. And also Jedi Master Palpatine + Mace Windu as notable side characters, who are both fun.
Long Fic
These are, as the header suggests, fics on the longer side. Many are series and/ or peals.
mixed with the lightning of slaughter
See above! This is a very long series. The main thread has 174,484 words across 7,778 tags (including the top post). With all the Fulmination side reading directly referenced in the main peal thread, you're looking at an additional 220,184 words across 10,733 tags. The two downstream threads add 62,844 words across 3,344 tags. Everyone's backstories add 146,024 words across 4,232 tags. That's a grand total of 603,536 words across 26,087 tags for the entire series.
plan for noon and plan for night
Subcontinuity, set in Harry Potter Except It Makes Sense. Featuring Ellie as the Girl-Who-Lived, another Ellie as Fleur, and like three different Fates. The primary plot happens in the first seven threads. The eighth is a Very Problematic epilogue and unnecessary to understand the series, though it's canon to later peals. This series features a lot of adorable magic lesbians, very long character/ relationship development arcs, worldbuilding fixes that don't totally overhaul the setting, and an actual full all-seven-books rewrite. (The eighth thread introduces polyamory and also is more or less porn.) Ellie/ Fate as central pairing.
This is eight threads long, with 205k words total across 8836 tags (including top posts).
foundations peal
This involves the plan for noon and plan for night set pealing to hope is a knife, a Star Wars sequels AU. The peal thread is foundations of the world. See above for the noon series link and description.
The two threads other than the noon series are 90k words across 4178 tags (including top posts), bringing the total for the peal so far to 295k words across 13,014 tags.
Drama Time
These are various Fulmination sets with much more narrative drama than typical. Expect big emotions. Some of these do contain relationship uncertainty or conflict, but it's always resolved by the end.
subtitle: lay of leithian, or, why decima is no longer allowed to propose thread ideas while manic
This thread is good if you're into romance with a side of grand plot, timetravel, villains who're secretly more-or-less heroic, and plot twists. Ellie/ Fate as central pairing.
Subtitle of the first post: the palpatine redemption arc literally no one asked for
Star Wars setting, where Lily-template Darth Sidious, during her apprenticeship to Darth Plagueis twenty two years before The Phantom Menace, starts very slowly becoming a marginally less terrible person.
Very, very slowly.
Features redemption arcs, exploration of the impact of intergenerational abuse within the Banite Sith, worldbuilding, politics, femslash + polyamory, BDSM, and also an entire boatload of warnings.
Introduces the Shmi template, and is one of the first two threads featuring the Eridani template. Current ships are Lily/ Shmi and Eridani/ Lily.
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