I use fanfiction as both a distraction from the stress of real life and, well, for entertainment. I suggest reading the stories I have favorited. They are funny, interesting, or both.

One thing I will give as advice: if you, as an author, ever feel the need to apologize for or outwardly justify a specific point (plot, characterization, setting, whatever) in a story, consider whether you're actually making the right decision. If you can predict that your audience will lambaste you for it, think twice before adding it. Is it actively necessary? Does it fit with the tone of the story? Does it make logical sense? If you can't resolve these questions, it's rather poor writing to expect your audience to rationalize the failure for you.

Another bit of advice, this time more immediately useful: you can replace/update chapters using the manage stories function. If everyone hates something you did, you can always just change it.

Stories rattling around in my head, likely never to be put to paper:

Finis Temporis: Harry Potter/The Legend of Zelda: In any number of realities, a traveler jumped the fourth axis of the manifold, nudging the past towards good with experience born of age and turmoil. 11-year old Harry Potter has neither hidden strength nor future lore to rely on, and he has three days to save the world. But...he has an ocarina.

Learning by Example: Harry Potter: Theory is frivolous. Wand motion? Introductory and nothing more. Magic exists as will sharpened to iron, not as scientific reality by another code; in a castle built more on secrets than stone, it takes overwhelming curiosity and ruthless desire to truly excel. “Welcome to the Lumos Challenge, Harry Potter. Good Luck.” Harry Potter PC Games-Based AU.

Harry Potter and the Forever Serpent: Harry Potter/Magic: the Gathering: He’d expected the necessity of his death. He most certainly didn’t expect to feel a lurch, fall unconscious, and wake in a different world, very much alive. With five suns overhead, with glimmering metal underfoot, Harry Potter, Planeswalker, took his first steps into Mirrodin and the eternities beyond.

Shade and Firelight: Harry Potter/Book of Amber: Their lives were lost, and so had he. On a stroll to death, Harry Potter thought of his departed allies. When he arrived, he found them, whole, as though they’d never fallen...but they are not the only anomalies present. Another claims his name. His memories betray him. When Voldemort slammed a soul in Harry's blood, he did more than tether them: he elevated the child beyond shadow.

Uzumaki: Naruto/Gurren Lagann: Everyone knew that the village hidden in the whirlpools was named for its primary clan. This was indeed the truth, if only a partial variant thereof. But no one thought to ask what the clan was named for, not until a lonely blond seeking a family found an intergalactic legacy instead.

Everlight: Everworld/Highschool DxD: The world of Rias Gremory is a captive bubble, a trapped universe flickering outside the bounds of natural law. The Everworld is another such bubble, one exerting undue influence on the land of devils, dragons, angels, and fallen. A minor echo of the great beast is one thing. To the detriment of the established supernatural order, Ka Anor incarnate is quite another.

Conceptual Reinforcement: Persona 5/Psychonauts: Agents Nein and Vodello are sent to Japan to investigate unauthorized and unexplained ventures into the human psyche. They expected a simple snatch-and-grab operation. They didn't expect the talking cat, the demons, or the teenagers.

Bnei Elohim: Pokemon/Shin Megami Tensei: Humans have lived with Pokemon in symbiosis since time immemorial, partnering in turn for the sake of defense and progress. Such is the basic tale of history, repeated in similar form all throughout the globe. Why, then, do different regions honor separate, living legends? How can there be a first pokemon and yet a divorced creator, a reversed power gap between the gods and the creatures trained by mortal men?

Where Bloom the Gods: DC One Million/Warhammer 40K: There is little hope in the galaxy. Terrors leap between worlds, and whatever good exists lies buried, a relic of happier times long passed. But light is not so easily extinguished, and from the progeny of one universe — from the core of Sol — comes the hope of another. Kal-El, Superman of the 853rd Century: meet Warhammer 40K.

Path of Fire: Star Wars: KotOR/Planescape: Torment: Revan's lost himself more times than he can count, not that surviving the Blood War gives him much opportunity for math. Nearly four thousand years after the Sith Emperor's defeat, the Nameless One regains it. What can't change the nature of a man? Memory.

Godfall: Lord of Light/A Song of Ice and Fire: The Lord of Light, they call him, the God in Red. His instruments set his foes aflame and fill the hearts of his flock with fire. And yet, his weapons are not his own, forged as they are by a divinity aside. Here his name is forgotten, but he was once named Mahasamatman, the Binder of Demons. He always preferred Sam.

If you want to use one of them, feel free. I'd love to get a message about it, mostly out of a desire to read the story, but I claim no domain.