12 for the fic ask
12.) What makes you recommend a fic to everyone you know? You know, I should really get my interests sorted for that. Currently, I’ve stopped reading fanfics for as long as I’ve been posting, for 5 years, only reading slight bits that people have requested me to read or gifts made for me. So, I’m probably really out of it with my reading interests.
I think that, for me to recommend a fanfic, it’d have to hit the right notes for me. More likely than not, I need to see some canon seep through, because I do like being able to read something and go, “Oh yeah, I remember that from the thing!” The whole story doesn’t need to be canon compliant, but it should have something to call back to its franchise.
It’d probably also need to be a story that’s a big on the longer side; not that I’m going to look for stories that exceed 100k to be good, but something that’s at least 20k would be worth investment, imo. I think that, if there’s ample development between the story and the characters, length doesn’t matter so much as this; seeing a story reach its ending and seeing characters go through a lot to transform from one side of themselves to another, that’s where it gets good.
Also, not going to lie, I’d probably want a little interaction from the author as well. Deadfics aren’t exactly fun to stumble upon, and you go, “Oh, when has the author last updated? Like 12 years ago? Perfect!” Incomplete stuff is as much of a turn-off to me as anyone else, hence why I’m struggling but trying to put my all into finishing at least my major ongoing content.
For that same token, though, I like when the author will respond to things; not that I’ve left many comments myself (which I’m hoping to correct when ENY’s done), but if I were to be all, “Wow, this work was amazing, I hope you do this with it, but you’ve done great so far,” and I was met with silence, that’d be deafening and utterly expunge my interest in the author and story. No one wants to support something that the author doesn’t really get into.
Also, honestly, if a friend of mine is like, “Can you share this with people?” I’d probably do that easily. They’re someone that I’m actively interacting with, so yeah, I’d totally be like, “Check this out, y’all!” The power of friendship tends to prevail more than all else; plus, that shows that they’re an active writer, lol.
Beyond all of that, I’d probably really have to look back into things that I enjoy and see what hits the right strokes for me with a work. Yeah, shipping could be what takes most of my interest, sure. But, I really want stories that take me on some kind of a journey. That doesn’t mean an adventure genre story, though those are cool. It goes back to the story development bit from before.
I really need to get back to reading over writing for a while to properly understand what hits my interests. But, until I finish something major, I need to spend my free time writing, so…to be continued, I guess.














