Poll! What kind of fic do you read?

[kate]

This is in no way scientific, but I was curious what y'all read, love, and reread. I'm curious to see if people like to read the same things I do, or if there's as wide a variety as it seems. Assume the writing quality on all is equal; given superior writing, what genres would you like to read?

Like I said, not science, so the 'genres' are based on tags from various communities.

Poll #1623 What kind of fic do you like?

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 28

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What kinds of fic do you read? (I'm thinking fanfic here, but go broad if you want to.)

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long fic
26 (92.9%)

schort fic
25 (89.3%)

angst
22 (78.6%)

fluff
22 (78.6%)

apocafic
22 (78.6%)

darkfic
20 (71.4%)

genderbender
21 (75.0%)

h/c
23 (82.1%)

schmoop
16 (57.1%)

crackfic
24 (85.7%)

character studies
18 (64.3%)

drama
25 (89.3%)

action
24 (85.7%)

romance
24 (85.7%)

humor
25 (89.3%)

kidfic
15 (53.6%)

pwp
24 (85.7%)

curtainfic
17 (60.7%)

other I will tell you about below
6 (21.4%)

So tell me, what else do you read?

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So if you had to name your top three types of stories, what would they be?

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long fic
17 (63.0%)

short fic
2 (7.4%)

angst
9 (33.3%)

fluff
1 (3.7%)

apocafic
2 (7.4%)

darkfic
5 (18.5%)

genderbender
5 (18.5%)

h/c
4 (14.8%)

schmoop
0 (0.0%)

crackfic
4 (14.8%)

character studies
3 (11.1%)

drama
8 (29.6%)

romance
11 (40.7%)

action
6 (22.2%)

humor
6 (22.2%)

kidfic
0 (0.0%)

pwp
4 (14.8%)

curtainfic
0 (0.0%)

other I will tell you about below
1 (3.7%)

So tell me, what is it that is your favorite type of fic?

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So what kind of fic do you go back to again and again, reread multiple times?

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I don't reread
2 (8.0%)

long fic
18 (72.0%)

short fic
8 (32.0%)

angst
10 (40.0%)

fluff
5 (20.0%)

apocafic
6 (24.0%)

darkfic
7 (28.0%)

genderbender
5 (20.0%)

h/c
9 (36.0%)

schmoop
4 (16.0%)

character studies
4 (16.0%)

crackfic
7 (28.0%)

action
9 (36.0%)

drama
12 (48.0%)

romance
12 (48.0%)

humor
11 (44.0%)

kidfic
7 (28.0%)

pwp
9 (36.0%)

curtainfic
5 (20.0%)

other I will tell you about below
5 (20.0%)

So tell me, what kind of fic do you reread over and over again?

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Comments

[kate]

Huh. Yeah, I find I want something that I can get from a variety of fics too, but nothing so... grand. I just like a really satisfying ending, and usually the ones I go back to time and again have a degree of romance that makes me happy. But, before they get there, they need to have enough substance that I have a real journey, you know?

And Cesperanza's SGA are some of my favorite, isn't that funny? Beautiful Lifetime Event makes me ridiculously happy, and I enjoy Ordinary Life when I just want to lay around reading something fun. I don't know dueSouth at all, but I might check out that fic just to see what the fuss is about.

[auburn]

But A Beautiful Lifetime Event is by astolat, not Ces. Not knocking Ces.

I should dig out my Medium List of SGA fic I Reread Regularly, even though I haven't updated it since about season two.

[kate]

Dammit, you're right! I don't know why, and this is kind of hilarious, but I get Ces and Astolat's stories mixed up, but I get Ces and Seperis's posts mixed up (they have the same icon, it's fooled me more than once).

And Ordinary Life is Ces and Astolat! Fail, me. Definitely time to do a recs post so I can link links and make up for my fail.

[auburn]

I get astolat and mzbstone mixed up in my head, probably because they were posting fantastic SGA stories at the same time when I first started reading in the fandom. I also recently about went crazy trying to find a story I swore was by purna that turned out to be by mzbstone.

[kate]

God, isn't that hysterical? Ces was still writing in SGA by the time I got there (and I was recced astolat, though I think she hadn't written anything in a while), but I don't recognize mzbstone, so either she wasn't posting any more or I missed it all. Rec me something?

Also - which purna story is it? I have one from her on my delicious, I think.

[auburn]

mzbstone was writing as brighidestone back then. She's left the fandom behind long since. She wrote two of my forever favs, though, back in season one:

Devours the Face and Seven Circles Turning

The story I thought was by purna, that was not, was That Will Break You, to which I no longer have a link. But a fantastic story that predated and pwns Last Man Standing seasons before it aired. And left me with a huge thing for John with a Wraith tattoo.

All three are perfect examples of my preference to reread darker, more dramatic fics. Thinking of them reminds me that I really miss when SGA had that frisson of horror, when the Wraith were scary and unbeatable.

[kate]

OH MY GOD.

Those were amazing. Just, holy crap. And now I need to watch Project Runway so I can sleep tonight.

I love dark fics. Particularly for first time reads, I prefer darkfic, and not necessarily happy endings, exactly. I like hope, but not... fake happy, if that makes sense. Someone once said of fiercelydreamed's fics that there's no automatic reset button - there are consequences and shifts and dealing, but there's still hope. I like that. (I'm okay with bleak too, actually - particularly on a first read, where I'm not going in with any expactations at all.)

Rereads, though... unless I'm in a particularly angsty mood (and I love Kashmir for angst, wowza), I usually want the fairytale ending... provided they earned it along the way.

[kate]

Oh, and I was so concentrated on my fail that I missed this the first time around:

Medium List of SGA fic I Reread Regularly

YES PLEASE. *begs*

[auburn]

You want it here or in an email? Huh. I'm not sure I'd want this out where anyone could read it. Like someone said, what's saved to my hard drive would definitely be pretty revealing to a shrink. Also some of the stories get reread just for one little section I love.

Also, thanks for an hour or so's worth of excuse to procrastinate on working on the story. ::pulls hair::

[kate]

I'll take it any way you'll give it to me! And no judging here, your kink is okay! I have fics that would normally make me run screaming for the hills but have one little section that I reread religiously. Iff'n you feel like emailing I'm kisahawklin at gmail.

And yay? Or something... I've been ignoring my story too. Time to get my words in for the day.

[anatsuno]

um. I would love it too! Not because I'm curious enough to want to psycho-analyze you through it but because I always wans SGA recs and links by people I trust/like! :) *buts in*