Fictional Fans

Hmm, I guess you'd call mine sort of halfway between a catalog of fanworks and a recs list. I mark the fics I liked re-reading ("favorites") and the ones I thought were exceptionally well-written (which isn't the same thing as favorites!), so that makes it sort of a recs list, but the lists are a catalog of everything I have in my db for the fandom(s) in question.

I get overwhelmed when people want a lot of specifics on why I like this or that - because I like So Many! How does one do that for several *hundred* fics? (I've got 265 fics marked favorites in my database right now - and there's only 1700-ish fics in there. Sooooo many more fandoms to get to, and so many other projects I need to work on, alas.) I could do a post of only favorites *and* exceptionally well-written, but I do mean that "exceptionally" - many that don't have it are quite well-written, they just don't have that extra "wow" factor to me. I wouldn't want to try to fine-tune the quality rating beyond that, as that can be a YMMV thing so much. So that's why I just use an icon to mark the favorites and exceptionally well-written fics (and WIPs, while I'm at it, so people can avoid if they don't want to read unfinished stuff), and otherwise it's just a catalog/semi-comprehensive list. (I wouldn't say it's completely comprehensive, because my fanfic db is limited to the stuff I wanted to save. There are ships and themes I won't touch and those don't get saved or recorded anywhere - it *is* MY database, after all, lol. But I figure a lot of what I liked others might like too, hence making these posts.)

I do like recs requests (because then I can tailor to exactly what the person might like to read), but I haven't really gotten any (unless you count a friend of mine who likes to know whenever I've got new emotional h/c fics added, and I just give those to her on Discord) - and I suspect that's because I'm not into a lot of the popular fandoms, and no one knows about my DW. *shrug* I do have at least one or two people I know of who've found my Matrix lists useful, so I figure that's good.

I probably ought to make some posts of "my favorite emotional h/c fics" or "my favorite canon divergence fics", etc. That way there is a "here's part of why I like this fic" and limiting to favorites only makes it more of a recs list.

Several people here have commented that they do like fics organized by "what works exist for this installment/episode" so I will make some posts for that as well. I reorganized my master recs post to allow for multiple posts of the same fics for a canon. Then people can choose to visit whichever post they wish, by how they're organized.

Thanks for your feedback! :D