Fic/Commenting Question Meme

[stripytights]

Snagged from frozen_delightThere's 50 questions below the cut, feel free to pick a number (or 2 or 3) and prepare for the resultant word vomit. If there's one thing I love, it's talking about fic, commenting, favourite authors, reccing and all of those good things. So ask away

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[dolnmoon]

47. If you had to introduce someone to fanfiction with a few fics, which would you suggest?

28. Who are your favorite fanfiction author(s)?

10. What’s the most hard-core smut or kinky fic you’ve ever read (be honest)!

[stripytights]

28. I really can't pick. On my flist alone, ten spring to mind, also I have a pretty terrible memory. The following is more a sample of what attracts me to an author, I guess there's clear common threads. In essence, I tend to like writers that provide what I lack, a counterbalancing of the things I find hard and they do well. Names that spring to mind: tryfanstone, Naraht, Dorinda, Morgan, road_rhythm

[miss_morland]

13. What type of AUs are your favorites? Give a general description.
14. What makes you give up on reading a fic?
34. Name a common type of fic that you cannot stand.

[stripytights]

13. I like action type AUs, even though there doesn't have to be action. Ones where there's a dynamic of change and opposition, whichever way that materalises. I also really adore AUs where it's clear that either the author has done their research or they've lived what they're describing, so you get that incredibly rich detail and developed feel to the world.

14. I've got very good at sorting fic that I want to read via summary, tags, author's name, length, so I backbutton out of surprisingly little fic. Woobiefication, the dynamic of blaming one character for things that they didn't do, untagged D/s has me backclicking fast - that's probably the one that does it the most. Occasionally boredom will do it, or feeling sure that I'm seeing a different canon to the one the author is.

34. Mundane AUs for canons that aren't mundane. I have no clue why anyone would want to strip what makes a canon interesting from it.

[stripytights]

26. This one varies by fandom - for SPN, I would love there to be more fic about the connections between the different worlds of the canon - playing with concepts of purgatory/redemption, or which picked out the thread of epicness and developed that (viewing the canon through an epic tragedy lens and relating it to extant ones). For my small book fandoms (like The Charioteer) my wants are exactly the opposite - I'd like even more of the fics that deal with the tiniest, the most mundane of incidences, blown up to provide a portrait of the most minute moments of daily life, and all the awfulness contained within it (has to be awful). Alternatively, I'd like fics that used a kink to say something about the character involved with it

[stripytights]

This is going to be the most self indulgent answer ever, but speaking of trope/plotwise, I would adore it if there was more soulless Sam and demon Dean fic, or more post-apocalyptic AUs! I just have a real fondness for all those things. Kinkwise, if there was more explicit switching, it would be amazing.

[stripytights]

This is where the self indulgent bit comes in though. I have no interest in a lot of the popular tropes that accompany soulless!Sam and demon!Dean (non-con, slavery, D/s) but in the hypothetical perfect world where I get everything I want, there'd be so much fic about their faulty adaption to the world (and their interactions with each other through time travel!) So tons of learning to live/work with someone so fundamentally wrong, and fighting to get the real brother back.

/bathes in that self indulgent thought!

[wings128]

15. What makes you pick up a fic, what makes it sound interesting?
16. Name a fic that made you cry (or that made you come close).