Recommend a Recommender

[melannen]

Where do you go for fanwork recs?

Naming this community is cheating. :P

But another DW community or journal, a website, a tumblr, and AO3 or Pinboard bookmarker, or anywhere else you go to find good fanwork recommendations is great!

Here's one from me:
Polyamorous Recs by shrift and nestra has been going as long as I've been in fandom, and is still updating with good recs! It is *not* only poly fic - it's been going long enough that it predates polyamory being in common usage, so they use it to mean that they, the reccers, love a great many different fandoms and pairings instead of being monogamously devoted to only one. :D There will probably be something there you will like!

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[doranwen]

Other than X-Men (to which I came too late for recs, really, as I got into it right after the first three films came out and developed a strong un-desire to ever see the newer ones, so I basically just poked through all the sites back then and once in a blue moon try to find something that DOESN'T use anything past X3)

or LOTR (which I get into in waves and just basically browse various of the fanfic archives)

or Smallville (which I used to lurk in K-Site's mbs and look for recs and read fic there for Chlark but the show jumped the shark for me in S4 so I quit watching then; for me it ended at the end of S3

or Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (where I basically read nearly all the fic on the fandom's main archive years ago and every so often come back and read new stuff, so I know who all the good authors are already)

or Narnia (where I pretty much just browse if I feel like reading some, I'm not super into it most of the time, got burnt out writing it a few years back so I don't have as much interest in reading it)…

OK, I know those are some big "other thans" but you can see, I don't really look for recs for those!

All the rest of my fandoms are pretty much super tiny. Rookie Blue and The Matrix are the biggest ones there, and I've either read or glanced at every one of the former, and I was working my way through the latter when the demise of Yahoo Groups became imminent and everything else got dropped to deal with it. With tiny fandoms, you read everything. Even if it's a pairing you're not super into (though after a while I realized I *really* couldn't get into Gail/Holly from Rookie Blue, I just was NOT invested whatsoever, so I quit trying to read them). Who needs recs then? I mean, if you *don't* want to go through everything, I guess… at which point my fanfic database might prove useful, lol. (If I ever get around to finishing it with the fandoms I have on my hdd. That might take years.)