[ SECRET POST #2958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think part of the problem is that a lot of people aren't especially well-read. They got everyone on their rec list from someone else's rec list, who got them from someone else's, who got them from someone who got them from someone who was in the fandom since day one and only knew what all the good fics were because there were only a handful on AO3 when they compiled their rec list.

No one wants to bother digging for gems, but everyone wants to be known for being helpful and having good taste.

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nayrt

I think that's very true.

For me, part of the excitement of getting into a fandom is precisely the digging for gems thing. I have never once gotten into a fandom and just hit up the first recs list I could find. I just trawl through archives and memes and whatever else.

Yeah a lot of the stuff I find is on the terrible-through-forgettable spectrum but even those will give you an internal gauge of the fandom and, especially if you're planning on writing for it, that's always a valuable thing to learn.

I've checked recs lists after the fact to see how well someone's taste meshes with mine, but never never as a guideline on what to read (to be fair, I do the same with professional reviews too - I only read them to see whether someone felt the same way I did after finishing something).