How comfortable are you with sharing your reading habits? Are there any fics out there that you like/dislike, but are hesitant to admit it?
Somewhat comfortable. I don't comment as much as I should in response to fic I like, but that has more to do with general laziness on my part than wanting to hide my fic taste from others. Like anoel said above, I tend to think that the only people who'd read my feedback and therefore know that I liked such and such a fic would be those that shared my appreciation of it so that's not something I really worry about.
But yeah, there are a lot of "classics" by BNFs in my various fandoms I would never admit to disliking 'cause I don't want to piss people off.
Rec'ing fic on the other hand is trickier. To be fair, I rarely rec fic on my lj, but when I do, it's always stuff I think is amazing, objectively speaking, never the crack!fic that I so enjoy.
I also shy away from lower rated fic and balk at gen-centric fic. Ironically enough, I don't really care for sex scenes that aren't preceded by a lot of PG type stuff beforehand because it's the build-up I love. I'm a sucker for first time fic, and always feel cheated if somehow the characters are already aware of their feelings for each other or fall into each other's arms by the second page.
Meanwhile, it took me forever to try the Retrograde Series in SGA fandom because I knew it was gen for like the first five books and that when the slash finally cropped up it'd be in the form of Rodney/John/Teyla which isn't really my cup o' tea. But when I buckled down and forced myself to give it a go, I totally fell in love with it. Same with that HP Sacrifices Series I told you about before wherein there's 3 and 1/2 massive books before the slash enters into it, and I was so sure that the AU premise and the fact that it'd take so long for the H/D stuff to start up would put me off, but in the end, it wound up being my very favorite fic series to date. So yeah, I'm inconsistent to the max.
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Somewhat comfortable. I don't comment as much as I should in response to fic I like, but that has more to do with general laziness on my part than wanting to hide my fic taste from others. Like
But yeah, there are a lot of "classics" by BNFs in my various fandoms I would never admit to disliking 'cause I don't want to piss people off.
Rec'ing fic on the other hand is trickier. To be fair, I rarely rec fic on my lj, but when I do, it's always stuff I think is amazing, objectively speaking, never the crack!fic that I so enjoy.
I also shy away from lower rated fic and balk at gen-centric fic. Ironically enough, I don't really care for sex scenes that aren't preceded by a lot of PG type stuff beforehand because it's the build-up I love. I'm a sucker for first time fic, and always feel cheated if somehow the characters are already aware of their feelings for each other or fall into each other's arms by the second page.
Meanwhile, it took me forever to try the Retrograde Series in SGA fandom because I knew it was gen for like the first five books and that when the slash finally cropped up it'd be in the form of Rodney/John/Teyla which isn't really my cup o' tea. But when I buckled down and forced myself to give it a go, I totally fell in love with it. Same with that HP Sacrifices Series I told you about before wherein there's 3 and 1/2 massive books before the slash enters into it, and I was so sure that the AU premise and the fact that it'd take so long for the H/D stuff to start up would put me off, but in the end, it wound up being my very favorite fic series to date. So yeah, I'm inconsistent to the max.