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

[scheherezhad]

The most reread stories in my SGA folder are Junk Cheap, A Hundred Happy Things, and Aegis. All three of them hit me in my happy AU place and my happy John place, although two of them are not terribly happy stories.

Less specifically, I tend to reread rarepair fic the most. I get hooked hard on rare pairings in a lot of my fandoms (or heck, just rare fandoms!), so I have dozens of stories nearly memorized from constant rereads because they're all that's out there.

[kate]

Oh, yeah, Junk Cheap, man, that hits so many of my buttons! And I love A Hundred Happy Things and Aegis, but I wouldn't say either one is on my super-duper well-loved and dog-eared reading list. I've reread Aegis once, and I have yet to reread A Hundred Happy Things - but that's partly because I'd convinced myself I'd read it when I hadn't. So the first time I went to reread it, I was actually reading it for the first time! I'll reread it again soon, I've been in that kind of mood for a while, and I'm thinking about rereading my entire delicious list over Christmas. Or maybe trying to catch up on the ridiculous amount of fic I haven't read in SGA in a few months.

I've been fortunate in my fic writing and reading fandoms that I've fallen in love with popular OTPs. I like rarepairs, but they're not my bread and butter, so I don't feel the lack of those stories as keenly as you and gblvr probably do. It reminds me that I'm thinking on a Radek/Ronon story that's maybe fifteenth on my 'to write' list.

[scheherezhad]

One that I really, really love but haven't reread is Shaenie's Indelible. It's amazing, but so long that I've never been able to make myself sit down and start into it again. I know several people, myself included, who found it so believable that we sometimes get things from it confused with canon. (And oh, how I wish Cheema was canon. Best OFC ever.)

[kate]

Yeah, I adore Indelible, OMG. It's about time for a reread too - maybe over Christmas, since I won't have time anywhere in November. I absolutely loved the OFC too - couldn't have been better. I just love Shaenie.