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thedarlingone) wrote2020-06-17 09:46 am
thedarlingone) wrote2020-06-17 09:46 am
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fanfic meme
1: are there any fics that you wanted to leave multiple kudos for, and were disappointed when you could only leave one? -- Oh yes, lots. Pretty much most fics I reread, and most multi-chapter fics.
2: coffeeshop AU or soulmate AU? -- Um. I'm not really that into either one? I've written a coffeeshop AU and I don't think I've written a soulmate AU, though.
3: slowburn or established relationship? -- Established relationship. I am very fond of slice-of-life fluffy stuff.
4: has a fic ever made you cry? -- Definitely, especially tribute fics or character death. When I was especially depressed I used to have an assortment of deathfics I'd read specifically to cry.
5: what category of fics do you read the most? (angst, fluff, etc) -- Um. Pretty much whatever my friends write? That's the thing about being in a microfandom, you can't be super choosy.
6: what’s your least favourite fanfic category? -- I'm not super fond of angst without comfort.
7: would you rather read a plot-focused fic or pwp? -- Depends what I'm in the mood for. It changes around.
(Question 8 appears to have gone missing in the shoals of Tumblr.)
9: what are your favourite ships to read fics for? -- Wes/Hobbie or Fab Four, mostly. I'll pretty much read Wes/anybody, though.
10: have/would you read a reader-insert fic? -- I've read a few for curiosity's sake. I wasn't impressed. I think, not to be invidious, that reader-insert fics tend to be most popular among a different subset of writers and readers than the ones I'm part of.
11: ever read guilty pleasure fics? -- I honestly don't know what is meant by this. I read fics I like. Some of them are pretty kinky. Some, I probably wouldn't rec publicly. Does that answer the question?
12: first-person or third person fics? -- I can do either, although I'm definitely pickier about the narratorial voice in first-person. Apparently some people just won't even read first-person fics at all. I tend to figure that anything can be done well; there was even an excellent second-person Doctor Who Time War fic once that I really liked and can't find again. I think that was really helped by the... lack of definition around the Time War and who the Doctor was at that point, though. (This was a good ten years ago, well before the whole War Doctor thing.)
13: do you read author’s notes usually? -- Yes.
14: what’s your favourite AU setting? -- Hm. Good question. I tend to switch around. I've done a fair number of modern AUs, I think.
15: do you usually leave comments on chapters/fics? -- No, I'm very bad about commenting.
16: fix-it fics or au fics? -- Well, I would consider fixits a type of AU, but between fixits or other AUs, I don't really have a preference. I think it mostly depends whether I think something needs to be fixed.
17: canon-compliant or canon, what canon? -- Wildly veering between the two as my fancy takes me. I usually like trying to weave canon into a coherent whole, but there are aspects of any particular canon where I'm probably like "no fuck you".
18: have you ever read fics you would not confess to reading? -- Good question. Probably? I've read some very... unusual stuff because I'm extremely curious and difficult to squick. But if there was a good reason to bring it up, I might? So it really depends on whether there actually is anything I wouldn't confess to reading under the right circumstances, which is a complicated question. (The skeptical part of me suspects this is a trick question under Tumblr purity laws, where if you say "yes" you're probably shunned and/or accused of pedophilia, but we're not on Tumblr.)
19: undercover au or college au? -- Probably college AU. I'm not entirely sure what an undercover AU is, but I know I like college AUs because they lend themselves well to slice of life and meetings between improbable people.
20: what is something that immediately makes you exit out of a fic? -- Bad formatting (no paragraph breaks, misplaced quotation marks, anything that makes it physically difficult to read). Anything else, I tend to give a fair shot, although there are some idiosyncrasies of pacing and voice that will annoy me enough to backbutton if used repeatedly. Epithets (e.g. "the shorter man") will do that, as will verbs obviously taken off a said-list (e.g. "he vocalized", oh my god).
2: coffeeshop AU or soulmate AU? -- Um. I'm not really that into either one? I've written a coffeeshop AU and I don't think I've written a soulmate AU, though.
3: slowburn or established relationship? -- Established relationship. I am very fond of slice-of-life fluffy stuff.
4: has a fic ever made you cry? -- Definitely, especially tribute fics or character death. When I was especially depressed I used to have an assortment of deathfics I'd read specifically to cry.
5: what category of fics do you read the most? (angst, fluff, etc) -- Um. Pretty much whatever my friends write? That's the thing about being in a microfandom, you can't be super choosy.
6: what’s your least favourite fanfic category? -- I'm not super fond of angst without comfort.
7: would you rather read a plot-focused fic or pwp? -- Depends what I'm in the mood for. It changes around.
(Question 8 appears to have gone missing in the shoals of Tumblr.)
9: what are your favourite ships to read fics for? -- Wes/Hobbie or Fab Four, mostly. I'll pretty much read Wes/anybody, though.
10: have/would you read a reader-insert fic? -- I've read a few for curiosity's sake. I wasn't impressed. I think, not to be invidious, that reader-insert fics tend to be most popular among a different subset of writers and readers than the ones I'm part of.
11: ever read guilty pleasure fics? -- I honestly don't know what is meant by this. I read fics I like. Some of them are pretty kinky. Some, I probably wouldn't rec publicly. Does that answer the question?
12: first-person or third person fics? -- I can do either, although I'm definitely pickier about the narratorial voice in first-person. Apparently some people just won't even read first-person fics at all. I tend to figure that anything can be done well; there was even an excellent second-person Doctor Who Time War fic once that I really liked and can't find again. I think that was really helped by the... lack of definition around the Time War and who the Doctor was at that point, though. (This was a good ten years ago, well before the whole War Doctor thing.)
13: do you read author’s notes usually? -- Yes.
14: what’s your favourite AU setting? -- Hm. Good question. I tend to switch around. I've done a fair number of modern AUs, I think.
15: do you usually leave comments on chapters/fics? -- No, I'm very bad about commenting.
16: fix-it fics or au fics? -- Well, I would consider fixits a type of AU, but between fixits or other AUs, I don't really have a preference. I think it mostly depends whether I think something needs to be fixed.
17: canon-compliant or canon, what canon? -- Wildly veering between the two as my fancy takes me. I usually like trying to weave canon into a coherent whole, but there are aspects of any particular canon where I'm probably like "no fuck you".
18: have you ever read fics you would not confess to reading? -- Good question. Probably? I've read some very... unusual stuff because I'm extremely curious and difficult to squick. But if there was a good reason to bring it up, I might? So it really depends on whether there actually is anything I wouldn't confess to reading under the right circumstances, which is a complicated question. (The skeptical part of me suspects this is a trick question under Tumblr purity laws, where if you say "yes" you're probably shunned and/or accused of pedophilia, but we're not on Tumblr.)
19: undercover au or college au? -- Probably college AU. I'm not entirely sure what an undercover AU is, but I know I like college AUs because they lend themselves well to slice of life and meetings between improbable people.
20: what is something that immediately makes you exit out of a fic? -- Bad formatting (no paragraph breaks, misplaced quotation marks, anything that makes it physically difficult to read). Anything else, I tend to give a fair shot, although there are some idiosyncrasies of pacing and voice that will annoy me enough to backbutton if used repeatedly. Epithets (e.g. "the shorter man") will do that, as will verbs obviously taken off a said-list (e.g. "he vocalized", oh my god).
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