Kyubey promised that humanity would reach the stars one day. The Incubator tactfully refrained from saying too much about what they would find there.

"With swords that aren't yours, with skills that aren't yours, for dreams that aren't yours. Your entire existence is a lie!" - "Then I'll show you that even fake dreams can become reality." A different choice, a different path, a different FATE. Shirou/Multi

Shinji Ikari finds a boxful of insanity and becomes even more unhinged than before. Somehow, this is A Good Thing. As the grim dark future melts into stark bleak present, upon a throne of tropes humanity might find the savior it so requires. [story RESUMING]

The past is catching up to Ranma and Ryouga, and so are the Sailor Senshi. Now the accidental Dark Lords will have to come out of retirement for one more conflict. And the stakes will be even higher than any of them realize...

Odd little one shots that may or may not be turned into their own stories.

Twilight Sparkle has been here before. In fact, she's been here so often she's thoroughly bored. Time Loop stories for Equestria.

AU/multiple points of departure, with the intent to fix/sane-itize/create internal consistency, allowing rational agents to take things to the extreme. Visser Three is competent, the Yeerks are moving rapidly, and the Animorphs are actually trying to win (but are inexperienced and unprepared). Inspired by Worm and HPMOR.

AU inspired by an omake in HPMOR. 12 years ago, the Fourth Hokage gave his life to seal Kyubey, the Nine-Brained Demon Fox, into the infant Naruto. Now, the time has come for a smarter, more creative Naruto to take on a world in which quick thinking and a solid grasp of strategy are worth a dozen rare techniques, and a brilliant mind can challenge even the deepest darkness.

[COMPLETE] A strict single-point-of-departure fanfic of Lesswrong's epic fanfic "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", diverging partway through chapter 81.

AU. Harry, Ron, and Ginny send themselves back in time to avoid the destruction of everything they hold dear, and the deaths of everyone they love.

Milo, a genre-savvy D&D Wizard and Adventurer Extraordinaire is forced to attend Hogwarts, and soon finds himself plunged into a new adventure of magic, mad old Wizards, metagaming, misunderstandings, and munchkinry. Updates monthly.

It's the first day of spring, and Cirno and her friends are once again up to no good! But after stealing a strange box from Marisa's house, they soon find themselves over their heads as they discover some things are meant to remain locked up.

There's no such thing as happily ever after. Life goes on - even dearly bought. All Precia's plans may come to nought as shadowy actors take to the stage. But nothing unmasks a man like his use of power. Second of the Gamesverse series.

Hikaru and Touya attend a school for gifted youngsters to train them for an alien invasion. A school on a space station. Seriously. Spoilers for most of HnG. Now with sequels!

What if the mentioned super intelligence of Yagami Light and his antagonists wasn't just informed, but was actually true?

A padawan comes across an ancient Sith holocron during an archaeological field trip and keeps the discovery secret from his masters.

In a world where Orochimaru is Hokage and the Hidden Villages are ruled by tyrants, Tenten finds the lines between ally and enemy blurring when a desperate strategy lands her in the company of enigmatic strangers who wear black cloaks with red clouds. DeiTen and NejiTen. Contains adult themes.

Alone of every power in Middle-Earth, Saruman innovates, notably gunpowder. But he lost. What if he had a little help? Actually a cross-over between LOTR and the General series by David Drake. Uses both book and movie elements.

Continuation fic of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's Ginny Weasley's first year at Hogwarts, and before she knows it, she is caught up in matters too grave even for a second year Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres.

A retelling of the Mahou Sensei Negima storyline with some major changes. The young Negi Springfield is assigned to live with two of his students... Hasegawa Chisame and Hakase Satomi. Rated M for some future chapters.

A single-/dual-point-of-departure spinoff from Less Wrong's brilliant story "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality", branching away in Chapter 81. Hermione is sent to Azkaban, but Harry is not about to give up. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like his enemy is about to leave things alone either.

This is Ranma 1/2 shaken, stirred, and smashed with a baseball bat. Written with emphasis on accuracy, which was then completely disregarded for the sake of comedy, if you're reading this with fanonical misconceptions, prepare to be disappointed.

Short stories in which Taylor Hebert gets powers from the Slaughterhouse Nine. Some are short and lighthearted snippets, others are longer and more serious.

Taylor Hebert gets the power to see the numbers that underlie reality. But what will she do when the numbers show her the truth about her former best friend Emma?

The Simurgh comes to Brockton Bay. The Endbringer that sees the future has plans for the city. Victoria Dallon and Taylor Hebert must race against time to save the ones they love. Can they escape the city, or will they be driven mad by the Endbringer's song?

A fan epilogue to LessWrong's modern epic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, going into why the most popular fan theory was so popular.

Petunia married a biochemist, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, and a world of intriguing new possibilities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Professor McGonagall, and Professor Quirrell... COMPLETE.

Taylor Hebert triggers with Burnscar's power. After a confrontation with a hero goes wrong, she must choose between her ideals and her new companions. Is Taylor destined for the Birdcage, or can she build a new life with the help of Canary and Lung?

Taylor Hebert triggers with Shatterbird's power. Her hero, Alexandria, is called in to face the threat. Can Alexandria help Taylor find redemption? And can Brockton Bay survive the new Slaughterhouse Nine?

Taylor and Jack Slash are born in each other's places. Weaver is the infamous usurper of the Slaughterhouse Nine, while young Jacob Hebert forges his path through the underworld of Brockton Bay.

The nine-tailed demon fox. Its mighty tails can crumble mountains, cause tsunamis, and set things on fire. Lots of fire. It might have been better if she actually were an evil entity bent on destroying the world. Yes, she. AU pseudo-x-over.

Fork of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, exploring the intersection between rationality and human psychology. Knowing and doing are two different things, no matter how smart you might be. Divergence at chapter 91. If you haven't read HPMOR, and you should, beware the SPOILERS.

Taylor paid a bit more attention to her bullies, noticed a few key details, and then reached out for help in an unlikely direction. The reward for her troubles? After the Locker Incident she was Chosen by the Unconquered Sun and welcomed into the Brockton Bay Wards. Excellence 2.3 up as of 10-1-2014

Harry Potter loves, and is loved by, his parents, his godfather, and his brother. He isn’t mistreated, abused, or neglected. So why is he a Dark Wizard? NonBWL!Harry. Not your typical Harry’s brother is the Boy Who Lived story.

::Year 2 Divergence:: What does it take, to reshape a child? And if reshaped, what then is formed? Down in the Chamber, a choice is made. (Harry's Gryffindor traits were always so much scarier than other peoples'.)

The year is 1934, and Superman has arrived in Metropolis. Features Lex Luthor as the villain protagonist as he comes to grips with the arrival of an alien god. Occasional point-of-view chapters/sections featuring Lois Lane. Takes place outside any established comics continuity. Complete.

Recursive fic / altfic of Chapter 85 of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. The opposite of "Innocence" by linkhyrule5. The narrative version of a Reddit post where I theorize about the most likely outcome of Harry attacking Azkaban.

Five years after being bitten by a radioactive Portia and losing his beloved uncle Ben, Peter Parker dedicates his life to cryopreserving people on the brink of death.

On Hiatus due to Real Life and I'm sorry so deeply sorry for the broken promise

Six years after her coronation, Elsa rules over Arendelle, using the power of ice to improve the lives of her citizens.

Points of divergence in the Harry Potter universe. Those moments where someone really ought to have taken a step back and asked, "Wait, what?" An ongoing collection of one-shots. Episode 16: Why I Like You.

He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. "There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP.

Recursive fanfic of Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Fits in around chapter 94, and contains major spoilers. Harry Potter starts to come around to the idea that souls might exist.

The mantle of Santa Claus has been passed down once again, this time to an industrial engineer who starts to get some dangerous ideas in his head about the true meaning of Christmas. This fic is still being worked on. I finished it with Christmas (2013) as my deadline, but the story suffered for it, so even though it's complete there will probably be a reworking of it later.

Kyle Reese has traveled backwards in time, not to save Sarah Connor, but to help her rewrite the faulty utility function of Skynet. Together, it's possible that they might avert Judgment Day and save the world from nuclear Armageddon - and hopefully create a utopia ruled over by an AI god in the process. Fully completed. Diverges wildly from canon.

Sequel to "A Pound of Flesh." With Tom Riddle safely in Azkaban, Hermione turns to Occlumency to guard against his influence. But her mind is an even more dangerous battleground on which to fight the Dark Lord. COMPLETE

Harry is a prisoner, and Bellatrix has fallen from grace. The accidental activation of Bella's treasured heirloom results in another chance for Harry. It also gives him the opportunity to make the acquaintance of the young and enigmatic Bellatrix Black as they change the course of history.

AU: In her sixth year, Hermione engineers a way to reawaken Tom Riddle's diary. But forbidden magic has its risks, and she finds herself locked in a deadly battle of wits with the most dangerous teenaged Dark Wizard of all time. A game where the only way to win may be to prove the Sorting Hat's decision to put her in Gryffindor wrong. TW: Torture (some sexualized)

Ranma gets booted out of Furinkan after dealing with Saffron, and ends up on the bus to a new school called Youkai Academy, meeting a rather timid guy named Tsukune on the way. At least this place can't be worse than Furinkan, right?

AU: What if Kiritsugu had saved a very different sort of distorted person from the fire? A 17 year old Kotomine Kirei finds himself fighting Heaven's Feel in Shirou's place. This cannot end well.

A Tvtropes website/Haruhi crossover. Kyon with a beam saber. Haruhi aware of her powers. An unsubtle harem plot. Did I mention the Higurashi crossover? Now say it with a straight face - I dare you. Now with site-compatible formatting!

More than two decades ago, Headmaster Dippet made the fateful decision to hire Tom Riddle as an associate Hogwarts professor. And now, at last, Riddle's double life as Lord Voldemort is threatening to bring the Wizarding World to its knees…if only he can convince his students to leave him alone.

Who dares stand between a mother and her daughter's life? Precia will do anything to achieve her goals. Even if it means accepting Fate. First of the Gamesverse series.

CH12 up. With enough gun, even an Angel can be destroyed, AT field & all. Wiping-out much of the nearby area, you don't want your Pilot & Ops Director getting caught in the blast. With a proven alternative, Nerv's position has changed & Shinji? Well...

Years after his parents survived Heaven's Feel, the son of Kayneth and Sola-Ui finds himself in a different sort of supernatural tournament. But can he survive superpowered alien females, scheming businessmen, and his own partner's urge to strangle him?

With nothing left for him in the galaxy but empty space and idle time, Alex Mercer finds himself recruited in Commander Shepard's fight against the Collectors. DISCONTINUED.

"Bruce, tell me again why this arm is so important." "Because it came from another dimension." A desperate move by Kakashi sends the rookies into another dimension, revealing a world crisis for both the Justice League and the Teen Titans. BONUS CHAPTER UP

Consider the curiously humanoid mandrake root, or mandragora. It is hideously ugly, deadly dangerous, and a powerful restorative. Why would anything else matter? * * A tale of horror. Please review. * *

In which the ever-enthusiastic brigade chief realizes her powers...thanks to the high price of a can of Coca-Cola.

Kirima Harasami was an ordinary student in Tokyo-3 High School. Then a blue-haired, red-eyed girl called Rei joined her class, and her life became a whole lot more interesting than she ever wanted. Spinoff fanfic from NGE: Nobody Dies.

Excerpts from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, presented in ballad form. Parts completed 2011/06/05, 2011/06/06, 2011/06/11, 2011/07/03.

A series of short stories taking place in the same fanonverse as Luminosity and Radiance. Some of them will be comprehensible without having read the novels. Some won't. I recommend starting with the novels.

Sakura thought she was a capable kunoichi until she died in the Chuunin Exam. Now she's stuck in a loop, dying again and again while she struggles to understand her strange predicament. How hard can it be to pass one stupid test? Sakura/Naruto/Hinata

Superman is the son of one of the most brilliant men produced by a culture that practically fetishizes science. What if his parents got the opportunity to see how his life turned out? Would they be proud? Or would they take issue with his life choices?

You still dream of Azkaban, sometimes. A probably AU fic about the Aurors set in LessWrong's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. DO NOT READ unless you've read up to at least Chapter 56; contains major spoilers.

Sequel to "Luminosity", narrated by Elspeth. You do not need to have read canon Twilight, but you will be very confused if you haven't read Luminosity.

Someone messed with Luthor's mind. Someone was going to pay. A mystery that slowly unveils a terrible secret within the DCU and Lex's response to what he finds. Now complete!

Ranma and Ryouga are no strangers to trouble. But when they accidentally convince both the Sailor Senshi and the Dark Kingdom that they're megalomaniacal villains bent on world domination, trouble starts to take on a whole new meaning.

Naruto has been keeping dangerous secrets for years. A long-forgotten dream that just won’t die, an ally he shouldn’t know and a friend no one thought he had are what keep him going. Graduating is the least of his problems…

Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The N2 Mine

Luminosity is an AU reworking of the Twilight story where Bella is a rational self-knowledge junkie. Inspired by "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality". Requires no knowledge of or affection for Twilight canon.

Every ending is a new beginning, and often the endings of different stories come together for a new one. But this one might have some rather worrying implications for the world.

Hermione is killed by Voldemort, and is now dead. Well, sort of. Turns out that death is a little more complex than she knew. Ignores epilogue and last 50ish pages of DH.

Take a deep breath, count back from ten… and above all else – don't worry! It'll all be over soon. The world, that is. Yet for Harry Potter the end is just the beginning. Enemies close in on all sides, and Harry faces his greatest challenge of all - Time.

Lies have power. They can change a simple-minded believer into a two-faced schemer and a timid follower into a fanatical devotee. They can change a child angry at the world into a man consumed by more than vengeance. But that power is a lie as well.

Episode 14: These are the Loops that never end...

She fought her way to the Box, and somehow made it work, and now she's back. Will she be able to prevent the end of the world this time around? -- If this isn't the world's most gratuitous Peggy Sue fic, I'd like to know what is.

In their third and final year at North High, Kyon confronts the implications of the Riddle of Epicurus for his relationship with Haruhi.

Vernor Vinge x Greg Egan crackfic. This was supposed to be a bit of utterly deranged fun, but got out of control and ended up as a deep philosophical exploration.

There are creatures in the multiverse that should not be allowed beyond their own confines. Unfortunately someone has opened a door that should have remained closed. Thousand Shinji sequel/sidestory

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Similarly, it takes the entirety of Akatsuki to help Itachi get the girl. ItaSaku, complete.

When Peorth's past catches up with her, she'll have to decide how much a person can change and whether that change is for the better or worse. Chapter 7 is up.

Ranma, while in the Cat Fist, is rescued and healed by the Sailor Senshi. Shame about the amnesia and, wow, hasn't anybody ever been nice to this guy? Rated M just to be safe.

It takes two thieves, a Dark Wizard, and a Tentacle Monster named Tim.

You know the story of the typical selfinsert? This is not that story.

It has now come to this. I have lived too long, failed too often, and lost all that matters. Grant me this one last gamble. Grant me an end to our eternal conflict. Grant me the death of she who enslaved our world with its Purification. Grant me Serenity.

A crossing by chance of two very different universes. Hikaru no Go and Death Note.

Ranma must discover what he wants and who he loves in a neverending day that is a spiritual journey to maturity. What might he do with boundless time?