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

[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.