[ SECRET POST #4155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4155 ⌋

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

How Do You Pick Your Fic?

[(Anonymous)]

How do you decide which fic to read, AFTER applying your desired filters? Or finding your fic specific site (pairing archives, gen archives, etc)

Do you slog through the wastefill that is more than 15 pages of fics for your pairing?
Go by summary and first page?
Decide by number of kudos or reviews?
Or are you a madcap, and plunge headfirst, fuck filters?!??

How do you discern the ones worthy of your attentions?

If I like the summary, and the first page isn't bad, I continue. I don't care for kudos or comment counts.

Re: How Do You Pick Your Fic?

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, depends on the fandom. If, with all my filters, I still have a ton of fic options, then I'm sure picky. I'll scroll through, open the ones that look serviceable in new tabs and then go through them. If the first paragraph or two is boring, close it!

If there are only a handful of fic options, I'll probably read them all unless the summaries are really horrible.

I never really adjusted to AO3 after the great migration from FF.N so I don't even really see where the reviews/kudos are listed. I just don't take notice of that. I'm not bragging or whatever, I definitely noted it in FF.N but AO3 doesn't have quite the same clean look so it goes right by me. Also probably helps that I'm 95% less active in fandoms these days.

Re: How Do You Pick Your Fic?

[(Anonymous)]

haha, well decreased activity helps.

I remember having to wade through so much crap at FF.N, but when I found something good, man they were real gems, genuine pearls. And that was with the basic filters that FF.N provided.

Re: How Do You Pick Your Fic?

[(Anonymous)]

By kudos. Then read the summaries, and check the word count for time investment.

If I read through the summaries and there's still lots I wouldn't read, then I use the filters some more to further narrow it down if I'm looking for something more specific or if something I don't like to read is popular like "-mpreg".

I only read fic that's not on AO3 if it's rec'd to me these days because I'm so used to the convenience and the lack of hideously unreadable page theme.

I also read the ending first just to make sure there is an actual fucking ending because I have been burned before.

Re: How Do You Pick Your Fic?

[(Anonymous)]

My filters almost always include some kind of kudos count to filter out some of the really low-hanging stuff. But other than that, I usually don't care about kudos count at all.

Mostly, I judge by summary / tags / description, and just go by instinct. It's partly about whether the premise appeals to me but mostly about trying to figure out where the author's coming from, and what their style is. And then I just make a gut call.