Reading List?

[oddlittleturtle]

I'm making a Want-To-Read book list for books to purchase when we get settled into the new house. My books are packed and won't be out the boxes for a while. It's so strange to see empty bookshelves. Well, they aren't that empty. There are boxes on them. >_>;

I've been reading mostly Mass Effect fanfiction lately, and

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Re: typing quickly because I need to go to work

[rose_in_shadow]

Coming back after work to voice some thoughts on fanfic...

Unless the writing is of such high quality that I'm willing to stick it out, I usually click the back button when I come across a fic that hasn't been researched really well. Or, if the fic shows promise, I leave a review pointing out errors in the research.

But as for the overall quality... yeah, I do get tired of sifting through the piles of Shakarian, Shoker, Shali*, and Shiara*. The few times I've clicked on gen fics, they haven't been very good at all, or, like that long one about Garrus's time on Omega, become so long and meandering that I simply stopped caring.

That being said, I do still enjoy finding fShenko fics and luckily, there are plenty of those and so I'm under no obligation to read the crappy ones.

metaraymek's comment below about being sick of Shenko + baby fics made me feel a little guilty, to be honest, because I wrote one and I really like it and that made me feel... shallow I think? But I will say that I think mine was the first - or at least one of the very first post ME3 baby fics. lol I remember looking for them when I wrote mine and only found a couple that had been written post ME1 or ME2, not ME3. So maybe you all can blame me? :D In that case, I shouldn't feel guilty for what was - then - an original idea. Hehe.

In any case, that was just this Shepard. A family with Kaidan is all she's wanted, but not my other Shepards. They're content to wander the earth, retire to a beach somewhere, or die in the next battle that threatens the safety of the galaxy.

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* I totally made those portmanteau names up just now. lol

Re: typing quickly because I need to go to work

[metaraymek]

To clarify, I'm more tired of the ones that kind of handwave away the endings of ME3. As in, 'It was all a dream, everyone lived happily ever after'. I can make exceptions for babyfic stories written before ME3, though, since no one knew how ME3 was ultimately going to end.

And the babyfic thing does extend to Shepard and Liara, which I neglected to mention in my comment. Looking back on it, there's probably been more Shepard/Liara babyfic than Shenko. So, I apologize for my short-sighted/acerbic tone about the topic and if I was singling out Shenko in particular.

Oh, 'Interregnum'? Yeah, that story was good, but I think the author went on longer than they should have with that one.

Re: typing quickly because I need to go to work

[rose_in_shadow]

tired of the ones that kind of handwave away the endings of ME3

Oh yes, I don't read those at all. As much as the ending wasn't what I wanted in ME3, it's undeniably canon and my own headcanon now. I can't really stomach fics that handwave it away. Granted, I haven't tried to read any of them so I can't remark on the quality, but it just seems... lazy? *shrug*

I was singling out Shenko in particular

It seemed like it, but then, I've seen that singling out of being annoyed at Shenko babyfic in particular on the ME comm, so I might have been a bit sensitive to it. :)