Poll: Lorraine's Recs

[lunabee34]

Since all I really seem to be doing with this journal lately is making rec posts, I've been wondering how you guys feel about them and if there's anything I can do to make them more useful for you. Also, I'm quite bored and polls are fun.



[Poll #1052162]

Comments

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I've only been skimming your recs (if I look at them at all) recently since they've been all SGA, which I don't watch, but I've actually meaning to mention for some time that your format of putting the pairing and the rating and the rec itself all on the same line without even any punctuation feels awkward to me. I'm used to being able to skim for pairings, and your set up makes my eyes have to work harder. It's not bad enough that I wouldn't read your recs for fandoms I know, and it helps that they're individual posts so it's not like I'm jumping into an entire webpage that's un-navigable, but since you asked for input, that's a change I would make.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

*nods*

That's something that altyronsmaker mentioned in her comment to the last question of the poll, so good info to know.

:)

I knew I'd get an indepth and honest answer out of you, Elizabeth.

LOL

I keep having issues with the whole pairing thing anyway as I rec stuff. Sometimes I think it wrecks enjoyment of the story if you know the pairing going into it. Or, in this last bunch I recced, there was a Sam-centric story that has sex in it (she has sex with a random woman and vision!Teal'c) but it wasn't shippy sex and the story feels like gen to me. So what to do with that, you know? I have the same problems with character death at times. People want to be warned for that and I get why, but I think it often spoils a fic.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

*grins* It's good to have a reputation :)

And yeah, I feel you on not wanting to give away the surprise. The problem I encounter more frequently is when a pairing is a major part of a fic but I think the fic has a lot of interesting stuff going on so that even if you're not particularly into that 'ship, so long as you don't actively dislike the 'ship you're likely to enjoy the fic. So I want it easily categorized for people who really do like the pairing, obviously, but I also want people who might not be actively searching for that pairing to find the fic rec. This is of course a bigger problem for me because all my recs go up on a big ole website rather than in easy to digest individual LJ posts. It's a little better on del.icio.us (though del.icio.us has its own problems, like the character limit in the "notes" section, so I can't speak at much length about *why* I'm reccing something) because I can tag by pairing and also character names and make tags like "ensemble" and "non-pairing centric."

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

You know, I do not like delicious. At all. I find it extremely annoying to navigate, which puts me in the minority I know as everybody on the flist seems to love it and use it regularly. Maybe part of it is that you can't really go on about what's something about or why you're bookmarking it.

Also, most people are not as really fucking smart conscientious as you are and end up tagging things in some inexplicable way that is somehow worse than random. LOL

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Aww, I'm sorry you've had such bad experience with del.icio.us. I don't have the mad love for it that a lot of fandom seems to, but I often really enjoy wandering through people's recs and while I often find stuff tagged minimally (like maybe just with the fandom or even just with "to.rec" -- and definitely there's often a lack of any "notes" telling me why I should read this fic) I haven't encountered bad tagging.

Also: *blushes* Heart.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I just glance over the recs because, alas, you have pulled up stakes and departed from fandoms I have even the most peripheral connection with. But I'm impressed by how you can locate and explain the salient points about the fic (and make them sound interesting even though I barely know who the characters are!)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I know!!!!!

*shame*

I need to do something to rekindle my FF love. Well, it's not that I don't love it. I just haven't had an urge to write any in forever. *sigh*

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

I do look at your recs but because the Atlantis fics tend to be John/Rodney I usually skip them.

I hope you keep rec'ing fic, it's always interesting to know what other people are reading. I'm nosey that way.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

McShep is really taken over the fandom LOL :)

It's sometimes hard to find other stuff *to* read. But I'm trying. I really want people to sex up Caldwell. It's a sickness of mine.

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

Skinner in Space would be excellent. If you find any send it my way.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I've found a Caldwell/Sheppard and a Caldwell/Rodney that I really liked but I don't get why more people aren't writing him. Oh the power trip angsty potential.

[trekgirl55.livejournal.com]

I always read the rec posts, but whether or not I read the fic usually depends on the fandom. (Loving the SGA and SG1 stuff by the way!)

I also appreciate that you give enough of a description of a fic to let one know what they are getting into without revealing anything key about the fic. Nicely done! :)

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Oh good. Well I've got a shit ton of stuff bookmarked always, so expect more.
LOL