Musing: fic - The reading thereof

[wilderthan]

I was just thinking -- I really don't read much fic any more. If I have a craving, I go and hunt stuff down, and if someone recs something really interesting, I might read it, but posts that come up on my flist from getbackers or over_look or even fated_children, I just don't read. And, I confess, I haven't read anything written by irishais in ages. >>;;

I think part of that's my tendency not to read anything unfinished. I very, very rarely start buying a trilogy or series until it's finished. The only time I've done otherwise is when I bought the first three books of Sarah Zettel's Arthurian romance series. And I haven't read those yet. Oh, and Garth Nix: I have up to Grim Thursday already despite the series not being finished.

Another part of it is, I guess, that a lot of the stuff I come across just doesn't interest me that much or tends to disappoint me even if it does. Still, I don't like it, 'cause here's me getting a reasonable amount of comments -- usually, one or two per fic post! -- and I don't give anything back to my various fandoms in that way. Most of the fics I come across and like are ones I've hunted down after the fact and I feel shy leaving comments.

I think I'm going to go round and leave comments to any fics I've got bookmarked in my del.icio.us, for a start, and then I think I'll try and set myself some kind of goal of commenting on at least one fic a day. 8D

So! If you have anything you'd really like me to read that you think I skipped, drop me a link (or a couple of links -- not too many >>). Please, though, not anything still in progress. In fact -- it'd be better if it wasn't a chaptered fic. Chaptered fics intimidate me. Long one-shots are a-okay, but nothing with more than, say, two parts.

Preferred reading fandoms: Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII, X, X-2, XII (RW). Kingdom Hearts (I/CoM/II). Robin Hood BBC. The Dark Is Rising. The Fionavar Tapestry. Good Omens. Doctor Who (but not Torchwood, yet). Phoenix Wright. Firefly. Heroes (season one). GetBackers. Gundam Wing (which I never watched, but acquired a huge knowledge of by osmosis).

Comments

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

OMG READ EVERYTHING I EVER WROTE EVAR!!!11

This is a useless comment. Oftentimes you do read stuff I write, and I haven't written anything good in a while. >.>

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

Haha, you're one of the people I have been reading. 8D

[calliopepurple.livejournal.com]

Work your way through my stuff! I don't have all of my older fics in my journal, although I should slowly start copying them over here, but they're on AFF.Net under the same pen name as this journal.

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

I might take a look, then. :)

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna lie and say you didn't make me a little disappointed, since I basically read everything you post, even if it's TDIR/Robin Hood/fandom I'm not even in.

I don't even know if you're reading TLO, but everyone else on the planet is, so check it out if you want to.

Invocations (http://irishais.livejournal.com/58096.html)
Way I See It (http://irishais.livejournal.com/57647.html#cutid1)
After the Wall Has Fallen (http://irishais.livejournal.com/58341.html)

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

Aww. :( I just... haven't felt like reading, lately? I have read a lot of your stuff up to about... Christmas, maybe? It's my exams that threw me off! I haven't been reading TLO, because I am awkward that way about things that're in progress. xD;

[irish-ais.livejournal.com]

Booooo, exams. I got you on the unfinished part (I am totally notorious for like. Not finishing everything, but I AM TRYING TO CHANGE MY WAYS.)

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

I hereby promise that I will read most of your fic unless it's ongoing in which case I would be more hesitant. And insanely long stuff because my attention span is shit.

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

You've been reading 'fic for a long time, no doubt, and that means you're likely due for a dry spell. No shame in that. It's possible to oversaturate the brain and require a break.

^_^; I have a different problem. I don't read much 'fic because I'm usually too short on time to do anything but either write it or play / watch the stuff that inspires me to write.

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

Since I was twelve. 8D I've mostly been lax in reading since... my final exams for A Level. First I was busy and stressed and then I was too busy sleeping in all day and taking advantage of my newfound freedom from school. xD

I have far too much time. I do about an hour of class each day and that's my only obligation.

[lassarina]

anything of mine? haha. i am so useless.

[wilderthan.livejournal.com]

I'll have a look sometime soon. xD ♥ I don't have your fic journal friended, I think, or I would've already. Huh.