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

[kalliel]

If you could request more of a certain type of fic, which would it be? The things I like best about fics don't prompt well and don't really summarize well, since what I like best are the non-moments and little details and pointless wanderings. Except you can't really prompt those things because then by definition they become the focus of the fic, and the non-moments become moments, the random details unrandom, the pointless wanderings pointed. Like, say I love it when Sam has to read the instructions to figure out how to work a motel's arcane coffee maker (random example; I don't have any particular interest in this scenario, though maybe now I do, XD). I wouldn't actually want to request a fic about that, because what I really want is a random pointless offhand mention of a scene that might involve that, in the middle of some fic, the point of which has NOTHING AT ALL to do with that throwaway scene. That's what I really want.

This is why I suck at prompting. XD

What’s the most hard-core smut or kinky fic you’ve ever read (be honest)! Difficult one; I guess I don't tend to be terribly surprised by what happens in fic, or I guess like, not in the sense that particular situations get ingrained in my memory. STRANGE AS THIS IS TO BELIEVE, I KNOW, I actually ran the kink meme in my fandom before SPN, and we had tentacles already in canon, so.

Do you read AUs? I don't seek them out, but I've certainly read them. I'm most interested in canon-timeline or divergent-timeline stuff, but AUs can be fun, too, provided they engage their canon source interestingly.

Do you read crack? Again, I don't seek it out, but I've certainly read it. My favorite kinds are random transformations, particularly for Sam, for whatever reason. Not bunnies or cats or cute stuff but like, CREATURES FROM THE DEEP. INVERTEBRATES. END TABLES.

What makes you give up on reading a fic? The usual things, I suppose. A specific back-click I can actually remember is this fic where of the Js was convincing the other to divorce his wife so they (that is, J2) could be together 4ever. NOPE. I think the reasons I won't read a fic in the first place are probably more telling, though more asshole-ish. If the A/N is explicitly antagonistic about the character or (more often) piece of canon it's writing about, I won't read it. Even if it's probably good. You can overwrite/disregard/deepen/alter canon however you want, but I'm only interested if it's a conversation you're having with canon in some way. If I know I disagree philosophically with the author beforehand, I prejudge, and have a harder time clicking on their fic... D: If (I believe) a fic misconstrues (or denies) Dean's relationship with suicidal ideation, I'll probably stop reading, because that's important to me.

What makes you pick up a fic, what makes it sound interesting? That's a really good question. XD Interesting cut text, most often. Which sucks when there isn't any...

What’s the weirdest fic you’ve ever read? Describe it. I dunno, man. I guess in recent memory I read de_nugis's fic where animal fae take up temporary residence in Sam's hair, which in the scheme of things probably isn't actually that weird on its face. But it sounds like crack and it's not, even though it is charming and often funny instead.

If you could imagine the perfect fic, what would it be like? Something that makes you feel the same damn thing every time you read it, while all the while introducing new facets of itself to you.

If you had to introduce someone to fanfiction with a few fics, which would you suggest? Oh god, I wouldn't introduce anyone to fan fiction. XP I'll let someone else be that gateway. Fan fic is too personal for me to want to have to explain it to someone who doesn't already understand.

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

non-moments
TOTALLY get that - and I really very much like your idea re instructions etc!!!!



Do you have other sorts of beloved things, or particular fics you like / dislike getting this in?


I don't tend to be terribly surprised by what happens in fic

Yas this question is so.... naive - sort of - ?
It is all so subjective, and - what really, is going to register aas out there kinkk, anymore?

Feel like saying what fandom? It's totally fine if not!!!!

I'm most interested in canon-timeline or divergent-timeline stuff, but AUs can be fun, too, provided they engage their canon source interestingly

YES! !!!


If the A/N is explicitly antagonistic about the character or (more often) piece of canon it's writing about, I won't read it

Aw, this and your other reasons make sense! and awww, show so much love


If (I believe) a fic misconstrues (or denies) Dean's relationship with suicidal ideation, I'll probably stop reading, because that's important to me



Aw, I (in my way) get that....
Any particular interpretation you find disturbing? (if you feel like saying.... )


and I get not wanting to expose something so personal and vulnerable for people who don't already get it, DEFINITELY....

de_nugisdoes weird so well!

[kalliel]

re: the kink question, yeah, that question was sort of weird. Like, I will assume that there's definitely communities out there that are all about sexual zaniness on behalf of out-doing expectations and being ~edgy, but often I feel like for the stuff I've read, if someone's having a/b/o knotting semi-invertebrate tantric sex on the moon in handcuffs, it's not for the sake of causing a sensation but because, for whatever reason, that was exactly the scenario required of the idea/relationship they wanted to write and strongly believed in, and the way it often comes across is that it makes perfect sense within the world of the fic, and really isn't strange at all! I feel like often it's a sort of promise, like, 'I realize this sounds arcane but I promise you it will feel like all the sense in the world.' Which is how SPN itself is often best summarized, so. XD

And haha, former fandom was the manga, Naruto~ In that one my brother pair really did torture and kill each other, so really, Sam and Dean are doing just fine. XD

As for Dean, oooshhh, I don't know if I'm ready to put that to paper. XD But I believe very strongly that it is one of Dean's most consistent aspects [often passive but ever-present], and I think it limns canon explicitly quite a bit, even when (perhaps especially when) Dean's claiming the opposite (9x21-ish, 10x19). And while I'm often pretty open to taking other people's headcanons on just about anything within the world of their fic, reading a world where Dean's apparently entirely non-conversant and unfamiliar with the idea is not something I can do. XP In that vein, S7 Dean is super important to me! Haters gonna haaaaaate XP

[citrusjava.livejournal.com]

'I realize this sounds arcane but I promise you it will feel like all the sense in the worl

yesyesyesyesyes!!!!
"Dean needs to wash Sam's hair because Sam is this fish creature because of a case, or something that requires Sam to eat fish, anyway".
" Sam turns to incst because Dean has amnesia"
" JDM buys Jensen as a slave and refuses to sleep with him because Jensen wants it too much"
some of the best fic....
Even the normal ones!!!
"Jensen becomes dependent on Jared for making coffee"

OK, this is no longer examples, and more just me enjoying this game ....

Which is how SPN itself is often best summarized, so. XD

YAY yesyesyes lololl


Agreed, re Dean having issues with suicide - that is canon!1


S7 Dean is super important to me! Haters gonna haaaaaate XP


aww.... i'd like to read more, if at some point you'd like to share (please don't, if not!!!!)
i feel similarly about s7 Sam - very personal and very important for me