I love you Reccers! <3

[sasha_feather]

This post is to say that I really appreciate all of you who post recs for fic, art, vids, podfic, articles, or whatever. Even if you think, "Everyone's already seen this!", I probably haven't. I really like recs! It saves me from digging through for fic/fanworks on my own; it tells me what other people are enjoying and thinking about; it is how I get most of my internet reading material really. I especially love it when you say a bit about why you like or love the piece (I admit I don't always do this).

I'm going to take a moment to reiterate my internet pet-peeve, which is when people don't identify where the link leads. Maybe I already *have* seen the thing you are reccing, but can't tell, because you only say I really liked this X men fic instead of saying Slight Return, X-Men, AU, Charles/Eric, by aesc. It's also simply nice to know where the link is going to take me. People who are experienced, thoughtful reccers and linkers also include bits of html like style=light when linking to journals, or they link to the complete work in AO3. That makes me happy!

Some good reccers and comms to follow:

fancake: Themed recs, anyone can participate.
bestthingever
dodificus
bluemeridian

Feel free to direct me towards others!

Comments

[sophinisba]

my internet pet-peeve, which is when people don't identify where the link leads

That is my Internet pet peeve too! I don't even mind "I liked this X-Men fic" so much as posts that just say "This is awesome!"

I do love links and rec posts too though!

[sasha_feather]

ARGH I know right?! My example was less obnoxious than some, probably because it's just not in my scientist/categorical nature to type out "this is awesome" without saying what the thing is.

[dodificus]

*beams at you*

[sasha_feather]

I love your recs!! <3

[devildoll]

OR! Or link text that says "God, this story was brilliant and so in character! Oh, John!"

Sheppard? Watson? Winchester? [a billionty other Johns]?

Confusing!

[sasha_feather]

Hahahah! If show creators would only stop naming their main characters John!

[trouble]

Were I more popular fandomer, I'd try to arrange an All Sam on Sam ficfest. Someone writes a prompt that could be any famous Sam in fandom with any other famous Sam in fandom, author gets to write for whichever Sams they like. Chaos ensues.

[sasha_feather]

Actually that has already happened, I think; general_jinjur and some others had this thing that I don't remember the name of, where you slashed people and things based on names. Lemme ask twitter.

[trouble]

!!!

[sasha_feather]

This! The appellathon,
http://in-a-name.livejournal.com/

the best one was the Butlerian Jihad slashed with Judith Butler!

[trouble]

I LOVE YOU FANDOM. Thanks, Sasha! :D

[bluemeridian]

*bows*

It's interesting because I always like the most basic links possible - mine will never have ?format=light. Partly this is to let the reader decide for themselves but primarily it has to do with Delicious, which regards a link with ?format=light separately from one without that addition and therefore calculates the number of other people who have saved that bookmark differently. It also means that when I might click over to see who else has saved it or what they might have said about it, I'll find one set, but without re-saving the bookmark with possible extensions, I don't see the others. Crazy making! So I've gotten in the habit of saving a very clean link, which I admit appeals to me aesthetically as well.

Regarding the AO3, you know that if you have an account there, you can set the default for how you view a work, yes? For instance, mine is set to view the full work by default, so unless the link specifically states the chaptered version, then it will show me the full work. Convenient!

[sasha_feather]

Wow, I didn't know that! Thank you for the info! I'm going to change my AO3 default right now.

[jesse_the_k]

Thank you! (Please imagine that sounds like General Jinjur reading over-sincere Rodney in "Every Day in Every Way") Which I also rec.

For the last two years I've been religious tagging my favorite links in a local snippets keeper (Yojimbo, actually terrible for the purpose) and now I can unroll them. Yay!

siegeofangels's themed recs sets are epic. They're built on the scaffold of popular music. Each line corresponds to some event in the story. Definitely gnomic: but for those of us with several years in the fandom, the pleasure of figuring out the puzzle is delicious.

Solsbury Hill (SGA)
[She somehow manages to find a fic worth reccing for each of the canonical lines of this Peter Gabriel song.]
http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/275631.html

My Favorite Things (SGA)
Arguably all of my rec sets have the theme of "My Favorite Things." But this one you can hum along to.
http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/353265.html

Turn the Page: A Stargate: Atlantis Musical Interlude.
It's sort of a musical montage, and sort of a themed recs set. Forty-eight fics by 48 authors. I only wish I could have included more.
http://siegeofangels.livejournal.com/255578.html
——
Moving right along, we have kashmir's
Kash's Big Damn SGA Rec Post of McShep Doom (Or something else witty)
(with around forty recs, briefly described)
http://kashmir.dreamwidth.org/846306.html
Kash is in a number of other fandoms, including SPN, Inception, and LotR, so check out http://kashmir.dreamwidth.org/tag/fic+recs for many more.


pir8fancier has been around for a long time, and she's been tagging her recs as she goes. I find her a reliable and thorough:
http://pir8fancier.nfshost.com/Recs.html
or
http://pir8fancier.dreamwidth.org/?tag=fic%20rec

I'll finish with a plain old rec from me:
Out of Bounds by icarus
http://archiveofourown.org/works/5960
AU as they come, McShep

This AU novel is just short of 225,000 words. It's about something I didn't think I was interested in, figure skating. Rodney McKay was set to win gold for Canada, except for the terrible fall. Now he's the world's grumpiest skating coach, patching his living together tutoring the semi-talented children of the well off. John Sheppard's a great jumper, but doesn't have grace in the dance, and he's ancient (for a skater) at 28. He's given himself one last try to compete at the level he knows he can achieve.

So, there's romance, there's painless instruction in figure skating (including the Cold War proxy politics in 1980 and 1984), there's deconstruction of several musical pieces. I really enjoyed it. If you read it too, we can watch the Nationals or Olympics together and snark!