Questions about Recs
In honor of Rectober having wrapped up (SO MUCH FUN! all the kudos to birdsofshore for being awesome!), I thought I would ask ya'll a few questions about recs.
Obviously reccing is a big part of what I do on here, and I read a ton of fic with a variety of pairings and in multiple different fandoms. But I was wondering how other people went about recs. My " ( Read more... )
Obviously reccing is a big part of what I do on here, and I read a ton of fic with a variety of pairings and in multiple different fandoms. But I was wondering how other people went about recs. My " ( Read more... )
But I like to know about length, pairing(s), tags/warnings either.
2. Of course I like to read why someone recced a fic, but as I found a lot of things on my own on AO3, I'm used to listening to my gut feeling about fics.
The personal view from the reccer is the icing on the cake, and, if I know the person (and trust their recs), I'm more likely going to give fics a chance I might have not, based on summary and excerpt alone.
I have to admit that double and triple recs on my flist do the trick as well.
3. I love rec lists and bookmarks on AO3 and everything about recs. I can browse for hours over/through other peoples recs. And I'm hoarding fics and books. It's terrible a challenge to try to read IT ALL. :D
4. I love to read excerpts. If I feel immediately connected to a fic/an excerpt, I can be over 95% sure that I'll love the fic as well.
I agree. H/D fandom is like a shelter and not what I'm used to by other internet forums or book/reading platforms, so I'm trying to be way more polite and nice to address problems I had with fics, if I mention them at all. Maybe I should change that and be more candid. IDK
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Yeah, I feel once you get a feel for the kind of things a reccer likes (and if you like the same things) then it becomes less necessary to have the "Why" part, because there is that trust there.
OO, yeah, I didn't even think about what it would be like coming into this fandom after being elsewhere, where people tend to be a bit more critical. I definitely tend to not be at all critical/candid in comments, because that doesn't seem to be the place for concrit, but even when author's specifically ask for it, I feel so hesitant giving any.
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