I want fic to make me feel, even if that reaction is a shiver up my spine. So much *yes* to that. I can forgive an awful lot of OOCness and other things if a fic can make me *feel* (OOCness seems to be one of the first things people tend to criticize, which gets me, since it's arguable one of the most changeable factors IMO).
I will generally only read drabbles from writers I know and who know that I've seen it. That way I'm guilted into reading and leaving feedback. There are very few people on my flist that I friended because of their writing (maybe 2 or 3?) so I actually feel no obligation to leave feedback to their fic. Actually, there are quite a few author's on my flist whom I'm surprised to find out that they're an author, because I had never read their work. As far as I can remember actually, I've only left feedback once to an author on my current flist, and it wasn't anyone I was close to. That seems really weird now that I think about it....
I hate AU's. High school, wild west, non-stargate SGA. Can't stand them... I don't want John, Rodney, Don Eppes etc as faces pasted onto another body. Ha, AUs are probably some of my favourite fics. If I were to make a list of my top 5 fic, I'm pretty sure they'd all be AUs. I think I read fanfic because I like the familiarity of the characters and setting, but I'm willing to really stretch that familiarity, as I said in the first part of my comment.
I'm better at leaving feedback than I was. LJ has done that to me. I Yeah, it's a lot easier to leave a comment than it is to write up an e-mail. Especially since it's ok to leave short "Yay!" comments, but, personally, I'd feel stupid doing the same via e-mail.
But yeah, interesting answers. So far, there aren't that many people who feel the need to *hide* what they like, so maybe I'm just weird.
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So much *yes* to that. I can forgive an awful lot of OOCness and other things if a fic can make me *feel* (OOCness seems to be one of the first things people tend to criticize, which gets me, since it's arguable one of the most changeable factors IMO).
I will generally only read drabbles from writers I know and who know that I've seen it. That way I'm guilted into reading and leaving feedback.
There are very few people on my flist that I friended because of their writing (maybe 2 or 3?) so I actually feel no obligation to leave feedback to their fic. Actually, there are quite a few author's on my flist whom I'm surprised to find out that they're an author, because I had never read their work. As far as I can remember actually, I've only left feedback once to an author on my current flist, and it wasn't anyone I was close to.
That seems really weird now that I think about it....
I hate AU's. High school, wild west, non-stargate SGA. Can't stand them... I don't want John, Rodney, Don Eppes etc as faces pasted onto another body.
Ha, AUs are probably some of my favourite fics. If I were to make a list of my top 5 fic, I'm pretty sure they'd all be AUs. I think I read fanfic because I like the familiarity of the characters and setting, but I'm willing to really stretch that familiarity, as I said in the first part of my comment.
I'm better at leaving feedback than I was. LJ has done that to me. I
Yeah, it's a lot easier to leave a comment than it is to write up an e-mail. Especially since it's ok to leave short "Yay!" comments, but, personally, I'd feel stupid doing the same via e-mail.
But yeah, interesting answers. So far, there aren't that many people who feel the need to *hide* what they like, so maybe I'm just weird.