Fic readers' meme

[citrusjava]

I miss you....

Ask away, or tell me yours, if you feel like it!
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What fandom(s) do you read?
If you could request more of a certain type of fic, which would it be?
What is your favorite all-time fic?
Do you ever re-read fics? How about triple-read?
Do you prefer angst or fluff?
Do you prefer long fics or short fics?
Name some incomplete fics that you wish were completed.
Talk about the ships that you read.
Do you read smut?
What’s the most hard-core smut or kinky fic you’ve ever read (be honest)!
Do you read AUs?
List a few of your favorite AUs.
What type of AUs are your favorites? Give a general description.
What makes you give up on reading a fic?
What makes you pick up a fic, what makes it sound interesting?
Name a fic that made you cry (or that made you come close).
Name a fic that made you laugh a lot.
Do you have a fic recommendation page or master list?
How many fics do you think you’ve read before?
What’s the weirdest fic you’ve ever read? Describe it.
Do you read crack!fic?
Name a few of your favorite crack!fics.
Has fluff ever made you cry? What about angst?
What’s the longest fic you’ve ever read?
What’s your opinion on reading dubious consent or no consent?
Name a type of fic you’ll never ever read.
Name a type of fic that you wish there was more of.
Who are your favorite fanfiction author(s)?
When you find an author you like, do you follow them?
How often do you read fanfiction?
Do people know that you read fanfiction?
Do you leave reviews after reading fics? If so, what do they sound like?
When you read a good fic, do you go to the author’s page?
Name a common type of fic that you cannot stand.
Name all the Work in Progress fics that you are currently reading.
Has a fic ever left you unable to fall asleep or think about anything else?
Are you good about keeping up when reading Work in Progresses?
Name some of your favorite fic recommendations pages.
Name a fanfiction author that you’re scared to talk to because they’re so amazing.
Have you ever written fanfiction or considered it?
Name a fic that has a perfect ending.
Name a fic that you wish was longer.
Do you read OT3 fics commonly? Have you ever?
Do you mainly read TV shows, movies, or books?
Do you read fanfiction about Anime?
If you could imagine the perfect fic, what would it be like?
If you had to introduce someone to fanfiction with a few fics, which would you suggest?
Have you ever read a fic containing character death?
Do you have an AO3/Fanfiction.net/LiveJournal page? Link it.
What sites do you typically use to read on?

Comments

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

BB <3

If you could request more of a certain type of fic, which would it be?

There are all sorts of fics I like. I appreciate a new take on a well explored theme, interesting, intricate explorations of characters, and perhaps even more, of relationships, and if possible, of the world, though that is something I am less hungry for. And I adore recovery stories, stories about beng fucked up etc - when they are - truthful, gentle, respectful....?

But if I had to choose just one sort of fic to have more more more of - it would almost for sure be the classic Wincest (or gen! But if I am choosing one, then Wincest) sort: epic love, the other person is more important that literally everything else, the world is large, unknown, scary and interesting, the road trip vibe, music, banter, all the interesting things they encounter, pining, incest drama, all their isolation and ISSUES, so many lovely issues, and they ways they play of each other.... they actually finding something good in each other, worth the, well, hell they go through.
I want more Coast on Through, Oh, it is Love, The One You'll Know By, and of course, my love, And I have Asked to Be Where No Storms Come

I would pay for well written present day Wincest with freaking out over incest. Yes, they went through hell, but they are still people and still influenced by this world....

Also, I so so so so want more RPF that is about characters and relationships, that is about characterization and that is thought through - preferably non-au

[kalliel]

Is RPF not usually about characters and relationships? (Honest question--I've not read very much of it at all, and now I'm curious. Because if it isn't, what is it about instead? Is it heavily based on world-buiding [like with the more extreme AUs], or?)

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna generalize and so forth a bit unfairl, and say that it more often is more about plot, tropes, genre. It's about retelling classic stories or movies (it's sort of plot-napping for them as the original text, maybe) or playing with genre (fairy tales, spy novels etc), or favorite tropes or kinks.... When the characterizations do get attention, they are often not realistic (which is definitely a literary choice, I like it less, but it's not any less of a good choice), centered around one or a few characterizations, nd often not particularly connected with "canon"


I crave character studies, relationship based fic, yk....
to *recognize*
my boys ....

[kalliel]

Ohhh I see; yeah, I wouldn't...really be into the plot-napping, really, unless they were maybe doing something actually interesting with it. And now that you mention it, re: those kinds of genre--the dragon AUs, or the spies AUs, etc., I DO see those a lot. But since I'm not interested in those genres in fiction generally writ, I'm not really into them in fic, either. Because I too am very character-centered, and character-interested.