[ SECRET POST #2850 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2850 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Not always. And I'd still take a circle-jerk of moderately good writers over going into AO3 or FF.net blind.

[(Anonymous)]

Often enough to make me class recs lists as much a crapshoot at random clicking.

I'd rather take my chances with going in blind than be manipulated that way by insecure egocentric assholes, thanks. The best fics never get recced anyway.

[intrigueing]

Sorry to rain on your rant, but I really don't think reccers tend to be "insecure egocentric assholes" with any more frequency than the general population of fans. At least not when they're reccing fandoms that are more than a couple years old. Just avoid recs by fans you know you disagree with or by authors whose work/meta you dislike. And see if you can find a fic that's been recced by more than one person, or gives concrete reasons for why a fic is good. Maybe it'll turn out to be shit anyway, but you won't waste any more time than flailing blindly, and it's more informative to get burned on a rec than to get burned on a random click.

Or, you know, PM a fellow fan who you get along with or who looks cool, start a conversation with them, and ask *them* for recs.

Assuming you're the anon above, IA that some of the best fic never gets recced though. *sigh*

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe I'm unlucky, although I find that hard to believe when it's my experience across several fandoms, but most recs lists are invariably made up by people promoting their friends' fics in return for the friends writing recs lists promoting them. The same half dozen terrible fics keep being recced as though they're the pinnacle of fandom literature and excellent fic goes by the wayside because new readers don't bother looking deeper than these Cool Kids Table fics, because why bother? These are obviously the best things the fandom, if not the written word as a whole, has to offer, right? They wouldn't be recced otherwise, right?

So yes, sorry, but in my experience most reccers are exactly that.

I'd much rather look for myself than rely on people who are promoting fics for reasons other than the actual quality. The best fics I've found have been by randomly perusing archives and just jumping in based on a summary. There are amazing fics I've never seen on any of these BNFs recs lists.

[(Anonymous)]

The solution to that is to start your own rec lists.