Crowd-sourcing HD fan-fair: Progress Report #3 - Take a Poll

[snowgall]

A poll to see how best to label fics: top, bottom, or switching?

We are so close to having completed our hd-fan-fair spreadsheet with all of the information on who tops in each fic! As of today, we are only missing information on 12 fics rated R or NC-17.

Thanks again to cabinetcaligari, cagnurit, eidheann_writes, and khalulu who have all added lots more information in just the last few days. If I

Comments

[iwao]

Who tops or bottoms doesn't influence me on whether or not I read a fic. Although I tend towards bottom!Draco, I'm just as happy with bottom!Harry (unless it's an Mpreg fic, cos for some reason I really dislike it when Harry is the one carrying. And now I feel I need to qualify this, cos I dislike Harry carrying except in the Gains arch by enchanted_jae. LOL!)) or switching, but for the sake of avoiding trolls and disappointed readers I'm all for labelling fics in an accurate manner.

Hence, when one of them tops (or bottoms) with another character but takes the opposite position when sex is between the boys, I'm not sure it'd be accurate to label it bottom! whoever or top whoever, cos I feel the possibility of switching in the future is pretty high. At the most top!/bottom! whoever in this fic. In the case of one of them topping or bottoming wit another character and then being not sex on screen between D and H, I'd label it as no explicit sex (between H/D)

Erm, now that I see all I've written, it all looks terribly complicated. So unless there is clear-cut explicit sex between the boys, I wouldn't label top/bottom at all! D:

Not very helpful, am I? LOL!

[snowgall]

Oh, I think all opinions are helpful here, if only to clarify which cases are the controversial ones which will need careful thought. And so far, that seems to be #4 and #5, as you suggest.

My own opinion is to do the classification based solely on the in this fic metric you mentioned. But this is only an opinion, not some edict from on high :) And at the end of the day, the number of fics falling into the #4 or #5 sets isn't going to be that large, so hopefully the choices won't make a huge difference either way.

Thanks so much for taking the poll and leaving helpful comments ♥

And P.S. I get you about qualifying my likes and dislikes! I feel I have to be super careful now when explaining what I like since many people have strong opinions and I don't want to offend anyone. Mostly these likes and dislikes are just mild preferences for me and don't stop me from liking an otherwise great fic. But I always want to make that clear now! :)