You know, the thing is that rec requests like yours happen here roughly every four months or so. Yes, also particular requests for IC fics (although, as I said, if I took that as criterium, I'd still rec all of my favorites, maybe excluding three or four and five would come with asterisks). I just wonder why they aren't organized into one entity, at least one distinct tag that's linked in the top regions of the sidebar, because 90% author names appear in every single one of those posts and it'd be just more handy to add new authors to one existing post than rehash the same topic over and over from the beginning. Maybe because there are already tons of rec lists out there and mods think there's no use in multiplying them? Or maybe because the community could use some additional traffic from time to time, that those lists generate :p I've actually wanted to make a comprehensive list in the past, but it always boils down to my fear that it'll end up including every single writer in fandom, which would defeat the purpose, or in a wank, because I'm adamant about my standards and eventually I'd tell someone "I'm sorry, but I can't include your favorite author X.Yz, because her fics suck and you must be joking when you say they're IC." Yeah, so maybe the potential wankiness is one of the problems. Pretty sure, though, that there have been posts in the past where people submitted their own rec lists.
Actually, I have another problem with the general idea of one big rec post: they're usually just lists of names with no explanations attached. I only pick blindly from those if I'm very desperate, then give up by the third fic when they're not what I was looking for. I only have use of those if it's by a person whose taste I completely agree with. And when it comes to the 'fandom classics' amelialourdes made a comprehensive list a few years ago, so I think instead of recounting those, we could just link it :) (Part 1 (http://amelialourdes.livejournal.com/321795.html), Part 2 (http://amelialourdes.livejournal.com/347122.html#cutid1), etc.)
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:59 pm (UTC)Actually, I have another problem with the general idea of one big rec post: they're usually just lists of names with no explanations attached. I only pick blindly from those if I'm very desperate, then give up by the third fic when they're not what I was looking for. I only have use of those if it's by a person whose taste I completely agree with. And when it comes to the 'fandom classics'