Fic Potluck!

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

So I was wondering, given the spate of "I'm looking for this one fic" or "rec something" posts lately, that maybe we, as a community, could have a sort of fic potluck (h/t yaspis for the idea) where you (or anyone who wants to join in) could post a link or two to a fic that you feel deserves some attention or is one you happened to re-read recently or had a particular scene that you enjoyed--with a couple of notes explaining why you're--to extend the metaphor--bringing the fic to the party. It's not necessarily that you'd have to link to your OMG favorite fic of all time or anything, and you may decide to link one of your own fics, but it could be anything. So, um, anyone think it's a good idea?

Comments

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

Topping concept, old sport.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :) I hope others will be interested as well. :)

[charie-caphine.livejournal.com]

I, for one, like to some extent or another almost every J&W fanfic I've ever read, and find them all deserving peculiar attention.
Your idea, sans the personal commentary bit, reminds me rather of the suggestion that's been brought up lately, and which I wish would come to some fruition, of creating a usable fanfiction catalogue, - if only in the form of authorship tags, - so all the community-posted and off-linked stories would be easier to find and not go missing.

Besides, there is a couple of tagged general recommendation threads already.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

I absolutely agree with wanting to have fics tagged with authors and such, but that's probably much more involved than what I was thinking. And I guess I was trying to suggest something different than a standard what's your favorite fic post--because, as you said, I also like most of the ones I read and most of them are pretty good and they're all deserving of attention in their own ways. I guess I was hoping to rediscover some old fic that I hadn't read in a long time or maybe had forgotten about, or to hear someone else's take on a story. lol, but it could just be me interested in something like that. :)

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Does indeedsir have a delicious account? I mean, I could set up a delicious and just give everyone the password...? Or anyone could. Set it up, I mean.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Agh, I was going to keep it a secret until it was all done and shiny, but I am actually in the process of doing this. I'm up to 2005 with 82 bookmarks. :/ Tagging with authors, lengths, ratings, genres, tropey-things, etc. It's all locked right now because it's sort of a mess and I haven't bundled the tags, but I will accept help if anyone's offering. :)

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

Erm, sorry if this sounds dumb, but how does that work again? I've never used delicious before . . .

If I understand the point correctly, though, this has the makings of major awesomeness. :)

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Not dumb! Delicious is like live bookmarks with searchable/combine-able tags. For example, I just tagged "Jeeves and the Escape" as fic slash jeeves bertie jeeves/wooster first-time oops-one-bed lucylou NC-17 1k-5k 2005 . Someone browsing the bookmarks could look for other things with any or all or some of those tags, like find all the lucylou fics or find all the "oh, my, there's only one bed!" fics, or all the fics in the 1000-5000 word range, or all the slash fics, or all the jeeves/bertie NC-17 fics, etc etc. Or look for something they've lost that they know involved one of those things. And so it goes. And then the tag bundles will be stuff like "by author" and "by pairing" and whatnot.

It's involved and probably really nerdy that I took it upon myself to do it, or maybe not since there seem to be other people wanting something similar.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

Dude. If I wasn't already convinced by your fics that you're amazing, this idea would do it. That's so spectacular that you've undertaken all that. Are you incorporating non-lj fics, like things on fanfic.net and yuletide?

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Aww! *blush* Thankies!

And oh, yes! Everything everywhere that can be laid hands on. Yuletide, ffnet (even the horrifying ones), random websites (I have found strange old things from the 90s in the course of my "travels"), other challenge-fests, etc. I'm starting by just paging through the indeedsir backlog but plan for Entirety of Internets sort of thing. I'm also including Psmith stuff for now, as until recently indeedsir was the only place anyone posted it, but am on the fence about RPS and other Fry-Laurie efforts.

And I have now made the more organised portions of it public at jwfics (http://delicious.com/jwfics) if you want to peek or are considering the lending of any limbs. :)

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

I'm stunned and amazed and wow. This is such a massive undertaking. lol, I'd love to help, but I'm afraid of stepping on your toes or screwing the whole thing up. If there's anything specific you need, I'd love to help, though. :)

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

LOL, my toes are not sensitive. I mean, with tags like oops-only-one-bed and clothing-disagreement, it's an anything-goes sort of whatsit, just trying to shove things into various categories people might remember things by and eventually go looking for.

Even just some rudimentary author/year type tagging would be a help if you happen to feel like it. I can get you login info and specifics if you want, but totally seriously no pressure.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I'd love to help! lol, and maybe I can work my way backwards so I know that I don't do anything you've done. lol, unless you'd prefer me to work forwards, in which case I can do that too. :) You can message me on lj if you want or I can send you my e-mail. Either way. :)

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Will pm you the info in a sec.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

Awesome. :D

[princesshannah4.livejournal.com]

I love you. That is all.

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Eek, sorry to put you in a position where you had to reveal your secret! I didn't know! That's so wonderful that you're doing that, though! And if you need help, I'd be happy to offer assistance... I love tagging, it makes my OCD happy. :)

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, don't be sorry! This may make it get done before I'm dead. :P I have now bundled most of the tags and made the less-messy bookmarks public so you can see what I've been doing. The delicious is jwfics (http://delicious.com/jwfics). If you can halfway follow my troll-logic and want to help out, which would be awesome if you even just feel like doing even some rudimentary author-tagging or whatever, I can pm you the account info.

(and that goes for anyone who feels like jumping in)

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'd love to help! I'll totally PM you! I'm at a disadvantage in that I've read less J&W fics than most, but, as you said, I'm sure I can do at least some rudimentary tagging.

And wow, what a tremendous undertaking, dude. You have clearly done a fuckton of work. *salutes you*

[who-is-small.livejournal.com]

You are amazing. That is the word for what you are like. AMAZING.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 Or a bit dented in the onion with library-ness, whatev. ;)

[charie-caphine.livejournal.com]

You deserve a monument, of gold. Inlaid with diamonds.
If there's place left, I'd love to try and help out at least a bit.

[thirstyrobot.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you! There is certainly plenty of stuff to be done if you're up for doing some. I will pm you info.

[closetofheroes.livejournal.com]

I think it's a pretty good idea. I've been delving into the archives myself lately. It's amazing what you can find that you missed, or forgot about.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

See, this is exactly my thinking. I usually end up reading the ones I already have saved, but it would be nice to find something I'd forgotten (which has been happening with the lost fic posts lately), but yet maybe something a bit different than a standard what's your favorite fic, you know? lol, but maybe that's just me. :)

[sunsetsinthewes.livejournal.com]

Ooo, honestly, this seems like a great idea to me. I'd need a little time to find the fics I'd bring, but I'd love to do this.

[nox-candida.livejournal.com]

lol, well, I'm glad I'm not the only one. It doesn't have to be a big deal, just one or two fics and maybe a few words about each, but I just thought it could be fun to get the perspectives of other people on some of my favorite fics (or maybe to rediscover something I haven't read in a long time). :)

[lostwiginity.livejournal.com]

What about making a requests community?