The Raye Trilogy
Characters/Pairings: Raye, Serena/Darien, Lita, rest of cast
Warnings: None
Summary: Once upon a time, Raye loved Darien. But her heart isn’t so small as to just love one person.
Comments: I really, really like this fic. It’s… a Raye/Serena story without ever explicitly being a Raye/Serena fic, and I love the way the author dealt with their relationship, and Darien’s impact on their relationship. The writing is excellent, and it’s just… one of those fics I’ve just loved for the past 8 years or so since I first read it. What else can I really say about it?
Series of three one-shots, complete.

Sailor Decoy
Characters/Pairings: Minako, Rei, Artemis
Warnings: None
Summary: Minako finds out why Sailor V was awoken first.
Comments: For some unbeknownst reason, Minako is my favorite of the Inner Senshi. I don’t know why, because she’s really, really not usually my favorite type of character, but I like her. And this fic is about her coming to grips to not being the sole heroine anymore, and not being the important one. And it’s something that just works very well for me. The writing is well-done, and her conversation with Rei was just extremely well-done. And just… I like a more serious treatment of Minako that isn’t just her as Usagi’s ditzier clone but as a character in her own right.
One-shot, complete.

Red Moon
Characters/Pairings: Usagi, Luna, Ami, Rei, Makoto, Artemis, Minako.
Warnings: Little mention of a dominatrix at the end
Summary: What happens if the Senshi were just a little…different?
Comments: The author is having Usagi be a fervent, even fanatic Marxist. And there is something utterly perfect about having Usagi saying stuff like “While I would be the first to admit our system is filled with the graft and corruption that is the institutional enemy of true progress and equality, it is a far step above the oppression inherent to any monarchical system. I cannot for the life of me understand why you would be trying to restore another Kingdom to power in this day and age” at Luna who’s just kind of going “Bzuh? What’s wrong with resurrecting the Moon Kingdom again?” And Minako’s appearance at the end is just the cherry on top.

Made of Stone
Characters/Pairings: Hotaru/OMC (The rarest of rarities. A goodself-insertion fic).
Warnings: None
Summary: When a twentieth century anime fan gets tossed into Crystal Tokyo, he kvetches and whines. Until a woman dies giving birth to the next Sailor Saturn in front of him, and the Sailor Senshi attempt to kill her. What will he do now?
Comments: What I like about this is he honestly is not a Gary Stu. How many self-insertion fics can say that? He’s immature, whiny, and has a relationship with Crystal Tokyo and the Sailor Senshi that closely resembles that of an adolescent and their parents. And the Sailor Senshi call him on it constantly. At the same time, I can’t help but sympathize, because were I to ever show up in a utopia, I’m sure I’d pretty much react the exact same way. It creeps me out, dammit. And it’s just… How often do you get to see a well done somewhat serious self-insertion fic?
One-shot, complete.

Destiny’s Child
Characters/Pairings: …The entire casts of Ranma and Sailor Moon. Focusing largely on Ranma/Rei, but with a little Ranma/Akane and Ranma/Hotaru.
Summary: Born 400 years earlier, Ranma fell into the spring of the Drowned Young Girl. His curse can only be activated by near-boiling water, and he has resigned himself to a nigh-unaging existence. When he is offered a cure by Mistress 9, he accepts, and comes to live as Hotaru. How do the events of Sailor Moon S change when Hotaru’s secretly an overpowered 400-year old martial artist with ridiculously bad luck?
Comments: Nowadays, Ranma/Sailor Moon crossovers have utterly lost their popularity. Probably a good thing, considering how bad most of them were. But this one is the one I will always fondly remember because the author does a very good job of working things out from the original premise. I know Ranma’s a Gary Stu in this, but in all honesty, I don’t have a problem with a Gary Stu as long as the story remains fun and entertaining. I have a weakness for very long, completed multi-chapter fics with interesting premises, and this is well-enough written for me to really enjoy it. Hell, the fact that I’m reccing it five years after first reading it should say something. If only that I remembered it for that long.
Multi-chapter, complete.

Under a Different Moon
Characters/Pairings: Ami, Usagi.
Warnings: AU
Summary: (Author’s summary) “Born to royalty, Princess Usagi will take over her mother’s kingdom some day. That is, if the Dark Kingdom does not conquer them all, bringing the entire world beneath their crushing might. The only hope of the Moon Kingdom is if the mysterious Sailor Moon can recruit her Senshi and take the battle to the invaders. Swashbuckling adventure as we see our heroines in a new light, leading their troops into bloody, desperate battle to save all they hold dear.”
Comments: First off, this fic takes some very large liberties with Usagi’s characterization. She acts like an airhead because if she acted as ruthless and as driven as she actually is, she knows that she’d be assassinated within a week by Metallia’s assassins. This is the very basis for an awful lot of the story, and my characterization-stickler side screams in agony at the thought.
On the other hand, the part of me that buys any book that looks like it might have Machiavellian maneuverings within loves it. And it’s an interesting idea that’s really a tad more different from the original Sailor Moon series than I prefer, but is nonetheless very well-written for what it is. (I almost wish he’d done it as an original fic, even though I’m enjoying seeing how he translates Sailor Moon stuff into the context of an actual war. But I’m still enjoying it.)
One chapter of a theoretically multi-chapter fic, incomplete.

The Use of Power - A crossover with the Wheel of Time
Characters/Pairings: Ami, Moiraine Sedai, Lan Mandragoran, Thom, Nynaeve, Rand, Matt, Perrin.
Summary: When Ami falls into the world of the Wheel of Time, she must do whatever she can to help defeat the Dark One.
Comments: You know, a while ago, I just kept seeing Sailor Moon/Wheel of Time or Ranma/Wheel of Time crossovers, and I never quite understood it. Admittedly, I last read the Wheel of Time series five years ago, and only through the fifth book, so I’m not exactly a big fan of it. But you’d think that a series with NO SIMILARITIES TO SAILOR MOON OR RANMA WHATSOEVER wouldn’t be a practical crossover target.
But, whatever. THis rec isn’t about the inexplicability of a Sailor Moon/Wheel of Time crossover. It’s about a fic that made it work, and work well. For starters, the author takes full advantage of the fact that Ami is, quite frankly, a genius from a far more technologicly advanced world, when she starts working to defeat the Dark Lord. But that isn’t it - a lot of the fic so far is about the type of culture clash that would occur if a girl from modern Tokyo fell into a world that was mostly medieval. The sheer inability of each other to understand on occasion what Ami’s world was like - it’s a nicely done outsider POV on our world, that also serves to further illuminate their world as well. I could ramble on about this for forever, but it’s 11:15 and I have to be at work at 8:00 tomorrow, so I’ll shut up.
One chapter of a theoretically multi-chapter fic, incomplete.