#bingo progress

I need to finish my bingo asap so I can spread their fic to a wider audience who leave comments, it is now my life’s mission

Aaaaahhhhh!!!!! That's so awesome 😆 Vicariously delighted right now.

Was already planning to rec all the fics I read for this, but this has just cemented it tbh

Happy bingoing!

500 kudos and zero comments just blows my mind—I'm so glad you left the author some long-overdue love!!

And YES I adore it when people promote the fics. Seems like rec lists in general have really fallen off over the years... I remember relying on them so much in past fandoms, but it's become pretty rare for me to see them nowadays.

But I did make time to read some great fic this week, and one of my Fanart Frenzy Bingo squares I completed was 'Write a comment for your favorite fic'.

Tough one! How do you choose???

But in the end I went with a fic that never fails to make me cry. It hurts, but in a (kind of) good, bittersweet way, and everytime I reread it I fall in love with Boromir even more. It's 'The Care and Feeding of Hobbits' by Baylor and I'll leave the link below in case anyone wants it. It's amazing. Have tissues nearby.

And I've just realised when I checked to see if there was anything on that dash about not sharing their fics that they've a load more fic. Why have I never checked their profile before? Why??? But also, yay!

Oooh, I like that adjustment!! Perfectly over-the-top.

Theorizing in the comments is so fun during long WIPs. I recently experienced it from the author's side for the first time and it's 10/10 amazing.

Woohoo!! You do, you got this 👏🏻

Some tasks are def more daunting than others (bargaining firstborn for more is another that we helped people troubleshoot in the past, since it's the weirdest one).

For the theorizing square, I'd say speculating about character is the easiest angle—sort of making inferences about a character's motivations or feelings, digging into stuff that's been left up to interpretation a bit. Or predicting what the character will do in xyz potential scenario. Lots to play around with!

Theorizing about the world is easier to do with fics that feature extensive worldbuilding of the author's own making, where you can wonder about the broader implications of established lore and whatnot.

Exploring themes is probably the toughest, as it's more about major ideas and throughlines that you've noticed over the course of the text, and what underlying concepts the story examines or sheds light on.

thank you for all the hard work ♥

aw, thanks 🥰 but also thank you to you, too!! first person to jump into this bingo game and start innovating. hope you don't mind me promoting your methods all over the place because i'm about to do it again:

if anyone wants to really jazz up their bingo card AND promote the authors/works as they go, check out @tciddaemina's card HERE. The card itself is becoming a mosaic of fics with a different icon in each square along with the title/author, and below is a running rec list complete with summaries and commentary.