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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-02-08 03:20 pm

[ SECRET POST #2958 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2958 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-02-09 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
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).