I believe I've mentioned Dreaming of Sunshine in other contexts, but I think it may be something you enjoy! While it is written in first person, it's a weighty fic (clocking in at about 716,000 words) with an active recursive fandom. You don't need to be aware of Naruto to enjoy it, and in fact many of the participants in the twice-yearly recursive exchange (which includes podfic!) have never seen or read Naruto and only know the canon through Dreaming of Sunshine. If you are familiar with the canon: It's a self-insert original character fic, where the author has been reincarnated as Nara Shikako, twin sister of Nara Shikamaru, and takes Haruno Sakura's place on Team 7 with Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. DoS itself hits a lot of your likes (intimate friendships, philosophical musings, POV female character, banter, plot -- its tagline should be 'epic plotty gen'), and the fandom is strongly focused on gen, T-rated at most works. There are high-stakes moments, as well as serious arcs (including characters dealing with PTSD), but overall it's not an angsty work.
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Date: 2020-12-31 10:34 pm (UTC)I believe I've mentioned Dreaming of Sunshine in other contexts, but I think it may be something you enjoy! While it is written in first person, it's a weighty fic (clocking in at about 716,000 words) with an active recursive fandom. You don't need to be aware of Naruto to enjoy it, and in fact many of the participants in the twice-yearly recursive exchange (which includes podfic!) have never seen or read Naruto and only know the canon through Dreaming of Sunshine. If you are familiar with the canon: It's a self-insert original character fic, where the author has been reincarnated as Nara Shikako, twin sister of Nara Shikamaru, and takes Haruno Sakura's place on Team 7 with Uzumaki Naruto and Uchiha Sasuke. DoS itself hits a lot of your likes (intimate friendships, philosophical musings, POV female character, banter, plot -- its tagline should be 'epic plotty gen'), and the fandom is strongly focused on gen, T-rated at most works. There are high-stakes moments, as well as serious arcs (including characters dealing with PTSD), but overall it's not an angsty work.