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

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[capitu]

I swear I tried but I'm not sure I did right, the thing is, I'm really not very concerned about who bottoms and who tops in the grand scheme of things. I have a preference but it's definitely not what I think about when I start reading a story, my expectations and enjoyment of a fic don't depend on this, you know? And it's a debate that gets kind of old for me pretty quickly. Like, I don't like to spend a lot of time thinking about this, you know? XD Sorry!

For me it's bottom!whoever if the sex happened in the story.

I make a note if a story is explicitly bottom!whoever and the switching occurs one time (or more, sometimes a fic is 100K and there are only 2 times switching in a otherwise mainly top!whoever, I make a note because some people who do have a strong preference see both tags, but will know that bottom!whoever is minimal and would still read it).

If the story isn't explicit about who tops or something, I don't tag it because, reading is, well, reading is interpreting, too. If Harry says, 'oh, I'm going to fuck you.' But in the fic there's no penetration, that 'I'm going to fuck you' can mean, say; I'm going to rim you, I'm going to suck you, I'm going to alsdkfalskd whatever, you know?

At least, I think that's how I do it. I don't have a set of rules that as I read I go, 'nope, this went too far, now it's something else.' As I read I make decisions on how to tag, story by story.

Not terribly helpful about these discussions at all, sorry!

[snowgall]

So funny about the debate getting old! It's crazy how much time I have voluntarily given up to discuss these issues when if you had asked me at the start I would have said that I didn't have strong preferences and didn't care all that much! But it seems like maybe I do actually care a bit more than I thought :)

And I totally get the rationalization behind how you have decided to tag your recs, and for the most part those reasons are how I've chosen to do it too. It's just that when you open up a project to group input (and that has been AWESOME) then you start seeing different opinions about how to tag things and so I wanted to see if we could get a consensus about how to tag in order to run the numbers.

And a lot of time these decisions come down to a gut instinct which can be hard to qualify. I'd like to have a metric that is as objective as possible, but I don't know if that's 100% possible, in the end ♥

[capitu]

Hahahaha. I just sent you a message! lol

No, I'd never dare to ask anyone to give up on a topic at all. I didn't mean that. I just meant that I personally don't think about this too much, don't put much thought in this topic, so I don't have a lot of ground to say 'this is what I think' because I usually don't think about it at great length. :)

And how funny that you realise you do care more than you initially thought. ^^ I do have a preference myself, as I've said before, but for the most part, I'm happy to read bottom!whoever, but I've realised, and mentioned to eidheann_writes and vaysh, I do miss bottom!whoever when there's a ~flood of the other. :D

Yes, gut is mostly how I get by. *lol* Like I said, for me as I rec individually, it's easier to make a note on a specific story in the rec, and tag accordingly, but I get that when it's a group project, or you're talking about tagging several stories, the little things balance it one way or the other. nods. Specially if people feel strongly about this or that, yeah?

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[snowgall]

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(response necessarily short as I'm about to be out of communication for the next several hours. Will reply to more comments later this evening. Love to all!)