From the favorites list #2

Another story from my favorites list that I want to talk about is Reprogrammed, written by moviefan-92. The story is set in the Mirai timeline of Dragon Ball Z, and it centers on the (mis)adventures of Mirai Trunks as he has to deal with Android 18, who due to some special circumstances, loses her memory when her programming reboots and ends up thinking Trunks is her boyfriend.


Or, as the official summary states:

"Future timeline. A lightning strike erasing all of 18's memories. Future Trunks captures her and has her reprogrammed as a protector. Now she's taken a liking to him and attempts to seduce him. As he tries to ignore 18, villains that have not yet appeared in the Mirai timeline appear." 

The story, while it may seem a romantic comedy thanks to the above description, it is nothing but that, it's more of an action adventure with some drama and romance mixed in, and it does have lime scenes that push the rating as far as it can go without crossing the M line that fanfiction.net holds so dearly.

The pairing of Trunks and 18, while really out of the ordinary and the main focus of the story, is honestly very interesting and handled as best as possible, but the fanfic really shines the most when villains from the movies and Dragon Ball GT appear, since the way the author handles them and how the pair of heroes deal with the threat the villains represent is clever and well narrated.

Overall, this is one of the best Dragon Ball Z stories you'll find in fanfiction.net in my opinion, and it comes highly recommended.

Critics United

One thing that happens once or twice every given month (luckily some months it doesn't happen at all) is that I get either an anonymous flame or an anonymous review mentioning my time as a member of Critics United.

The flames I delete, while the questions range from silly to well structured, but those are not something I feel like answering in my stories.

The one thing I can say about Critics United, or CU for short, is that I learned many things about the site (fanfiction.net) during my time in the forum and that I'm happy I got to be a part of it.

I don't know how the group is doing these days or if it is still active, I stopped being a member about two and a half years ago at the moment of this writing and I haven't really visited since then.

I think some of the members I am familiar with are still there; I heard Goody inherited the forum from previous owner Paladin, and I believe Cha and Warg are still active mods. I'm also almost sure Zad is still a member. They were all nice to me and I have a lot of respect for them, I really wish them and CU the best.

So, in short: no, I don't regret my time at CU, I respect the members I am familiar with and consider them friends and I hope the forum can continue helping people as it has so far.

And that's all I have to say about the issue.

But, if you want to know more about the story of CU, here's a nice interview with the mods/founders from a few years back:

Behind the Scenes with Critics United