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Rec a fic Sunday
Mar. 29th, 2015 04:44 pmWhen I returned to fandom this Autumn I decided that I should clean up my act a little. You see, I used to read lots and lots of fanfiction, but I was notoriously bad at giving feedback. Loved to get it, of course, it’s always nice to get a review. But I used to junk read, skimming through a lot of fics and usually not bothering to log in, which is usually a requirement on fic-sites if you want to review. But after a couple of years when I didn’t read fanfic at all, I decided to change that. It makes my day when someone read what I write and tell me they like it, after all, so it seems only fair to do the same.
So I decided to comment when I read something. Even if the fic is several years old. I have never really understood why fics often seem to be viewed as if they have a best-before date. A good story is a good story that rarely changes over time. I haven’t managed to review 100%, I know I have lost a few fics when the computer has crashed or I just had had to log out. But I work on that. I noticed that on the Teaspoon, which keeps a track of reviews given, that I have given feedback 63 times since I joined in November and that isn’t the only place I read fanfic at.
I used to find it a bit intimidating to give feedback, but I find I love it! And as I also try to answer my own reviews, I find that this combination have led to a lot more interaction and finding friends. A win-win situation!
Funny thing is that it has completely changed my fic-reading habits. As my time for reading fanfic is limited and you can’t skim-read if you know you are to comment on it, I read rather few fics now. Which in turn makes me much pickier, I prioritize writer’s who I know I have enjoyed before, for example. I’m much less prone to read a pairing or a character that isn’t on my top-list, which I try to counter-act with belonging to a few contest and challenge communities and read what is posted there.
And I really love it when people rec fics. I belong to and I know some of you do it regularly as well. So I am thinking of reccing a fanfic-a-week, say on Sunday’s, as today. And perhaps some of you would like to join me? I think it could be a very nice way to find fics that one wouldn’t, perhaps, have found, otherwise.
Title: The Benevolence of Dragons (AOU)
Author: snowgrouse
Fandom: Doctor Who, Classic series
Length: One-shot; 789 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None stated
Characters/pairing: The Master(Delgado)/Chin Lee
Summary: A Mr. Emil Keller arrives in Beijing, and for Chin Lee, nothing is the same as it was before.
Why I rec it: I re-watched The Mind of Evil recently and I have kept thinking of Chin Lee after that. In the Master’s second outing he has acquired a pretty young companion. I don’t know if it was intentional to mirror the Doctor or something that was considered to be more frequent, but Chin Lee is rather unique among the Master’s minions, at least until Lucy Saxon. Anyway, I went in search for fanfic about Chin Lee and found exactly one, this one. I think it’s very good. The Master manages to be superbly threatening without actually acting on it. I love how Chin Lee sees him as a dragon, it works very, very well. And using the weather to set the mood is a nice touch as well.
So I decided to comment when I read something. Even if the fic is several years old. I have never really understood why fics often seem to be viewed as if they have a best-before date. A good story is a good story that rarely changes over time. I haven’t managed to review 100%, I know I have lost a few fics when the computer has crashed or I just had had to log out. But I work on that. I noticed that on the Teaspoon, which keeps a track of reviews given, that I have given feedback 63 times since I joined in November and that isn’t the only place I read fanfic at.
I used to find it a bit intimidating to give feedback, but I find I love it! And as I also try to answer my own reviews, I find that this combination have led to a lot more interaction and finding friends. A win-win situation!
Funny thing is that it has completely changed my fic-reading habits. As my time for reading fanfic is limited and you can’t skim-read if you know you are to comment on it, I read rather few fics now. Which in turn makes me much pickier, I prioritize writer’s who I know I have enjoyed before, for example. I’m much less prone to read a pairing or a character that isn’t on my top-list, which I try to counter-act with belonging to a few contest and challenge communities and read what is posted there.
And I really love it when people rec fics. I belong to and I know some of you do it regularly as well. So I am thinking of reccing a fanfic-a-week, say on Sunday’s, as today. And perhaps some of you would like to join me? I think it could be a very nice way to find fics that one wouldn’t, perhaps, have found, otherwise.
Title: The Benevolence of Dragons (AOU)
Author: snowgrouse
Fandom: Doctor Who, Classic series
Length: One-shot; 789 words
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: None stated
Characters/pairing: The Master(Delgado)/Chin Lee
Summary: A Mr. Emil Keller arrives in Beijing, and for Chin Lee, nothing is the same as it was before.
Why I rec it: I re-watched The Mind of Evil recently and I have kept thinking of Chin Lee after that. In the Master’s second outing he has acquired a pretty young companion. I don’t know if it was intentional to mirror the Doctor or something that was considered to be more frequent, but Chin Lee is rather unique among the Master’s minions, at least until Lucy Saxon. Anyway, I went in search for fanfic about Chin Lee and found exactly one, this one. I think it’s very good. The Master manages to be superbly threatening without actually acting on it. I love how Chin Lee sees him as a dragon, it works very, very well. And using the weather to set the mood is a nice touch as well.
