A caveat - I tried to just pick fics that are completed. While I have a lot of excellent fics in my subscriptions on AO3, I figured I’d post ones that are done, for that instant gratification rush. :)
Also - if you know a Tumblr handle for the authors I’m missing, please let me know so I can tag them!
Humour and crack? Are those the same thing? I don’t think so. I ended up picking one story for each category.
Humour
A Matter of Survival by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
balloonarcade.
After millions of years of devastation, to Hound Earth was like a floating dream. This precious blue and white swirling crystal, polished round and suspended among a back drop of stars in a remote sector, teemed with life.
I loved this story. (And not just because it’s got Hound in it.) Hound’s inquisitiveness about human mating behaviours is amusing, but the lengths he goes to in order to get a closer look at these behaviours is very funny… And he still doesn’t get the payoff he wanted. What could possibly have gone wrong? XD
Crack
Lab Partners by Celaeno.
In which GLaDOS gets the best surprise ever, Shockwave gets a kick in the pants to solve the ‘whoops the AllSpark exploded and our species is going to die out’ issue, and the Oracle Turret keeps being dead-on (but obtuse).
So I saw this story get posted and thought, “Oh, a Portal/Transformers crossover fic. That sounds amazingly silly. I’ll give it a read.” Two and a half hours later, I was thinking, “That was freaking glorious!”
Dudes, Shockwave and GlaDOS were made for each other, and it was great fun watching them grow to become friends. All the callbacks to the Portal games, Shockwave’s characterization, GlaDOS’ unique blend of psychopathy and curiosity, Shockwave’s reaction to Cave Johnson’s lemon rant (“bringing extinction’s champion down in a hail of fire and fruit”)… I sat on my couch randomly cackling and reading good bits out loud. Definitely worth a read!
