Thoughts on recommendations

[audreyii_fic]

So, I seem to remember that when the mods were talking about new and interesting ways to spiff up TATS (and they've come through and are made of total win) that there was some discussion about more organized methods of fic recommendations. The recs around here are awesome, but there's also a problem of sort of getting a... list, you know, of "Hey, go read this!" without any real categorization or stuff like that.

Did that paragraph make sense? It made sense in my head. I haven't had breakfast.

Anyway, so while I was standing in the shower this morning, I had an idea. (That is where most of my ideas happen.) Is it possible that we could arrange a couple of main posts of fic recs based on timeline? Maybe, say, the following categories:

• Pre-Twilight (baby!JakeandBells)
• Twilight to New Moon, pre-FURSPLODE!sion
• New Moon, post-FURSPLODE!sion
• Eclipse
• Post-Eclipse
• Breaking Dawn and beyond (ugh, but there are some really good ones out there)
• Total AU

Obviously the categories are a touch rough, and you have things like The Passing Years, which is both future and post-Eclipse. So I figured the fics would be placed in categories based on canon-acceptance, perhaps, rather than starting point. For instance, take Nature vs. Nurture (which I just read for the first time and DAMN), which premises that Renee and Billy get married when Jacob and Bella are teenagers, thus making them step-siblings. Although that's obviously pretty AU, it still would probably fall under the Twilight to New Moon category, since it starts roughly in that timeline and isn't completely off the charts as far as changes to premise. The counter-example would be The Neighbor: Anytime, Anyplace (also just read and my monitor started smoking), which is AH/AU. That would be the sort of thing that fell under the Total AU category. It wouldn't be perfect, but it would probably shake out about right.

I'd really like to see something like this -- a series of rec posts, one for each of these categories, with short descriptions of why it's recommended. When I go off looking for something to read, the first thing I'm usually looking for is a particular timeline. Sometimes you just want to read a garage fic, you know? It would be nice to be steered in those directions.

Thoughts?