sign up to rec in september!

[darkages]

this is the post where you sign up for the fandom (or large ship within a fandom) you're interested in reccing for. we're looking for recs just for the month of september, with one person per fandom/ship. (please don't worry if the fandom/ship you're interested in is taken! there will be more rounds in the future.)

 

the way this will go is that once you have a fandom/ship to rec for, you will be assigned a certain day (such as sunday, monday, tuesday.) on the designated day, you will post one fic rec for your fandom. here's the schedule for september.

 

"underappreciated":

how we define "underappreciated" (as stated in our profile) is:

- any fic with less than 1000 kudos on ao3 - this is a hard rule

- fic that is not in the top 2% of pages for a fandom

- fic not by an author who has a story in the top 1% of pages for a fandom

- fic that has been posted/created for at least a month

- (we will help set these numbers for you so nothing gets lost in translation)

- if you're interested in reccing a specific popular ship for a large fandom, please let us know for that. (e.g. drarry)

- if you're interested in reccing fic from small fandoms, we can discuss adjusting qualifications.

- if you're interested in reccing fic from fanfiction.net, livejournal (not x-posted to ao3), or any other platform, please let us know so we can discuss popularity proportions.

 

this is the format of the recs:

 

subject: Title by Author [Rating]

 

Fandom: your fandom

Title: title with link to the fic. please let us know if you don't know how to make a link on dreamwidth

Pairing/Character Focus: please use full names if possible

Author: ao3 users can be credited with the following code: <user name="main ao3 pseud" site="archiveofourown.org">

What makes this a gem: write a little blurb about why you're reccing this fic in particular! does it have wonderful prose? wonderful themes? (both?) is it a personal favorite? can you not stop thinking about it?

 

warnings are not required as they are assumed to be appropriately marked by the author

formats inspired by crack_van

 

 

 

please leave a comment with the fandom you're interested in reccing for, and you'll hear from us soon! and yes, we do require a dreamwidth account.

aside: this mod would like to apologise for accidentally posting both thursday and friday's recs on thursday :')

Comments

[eccentric_hat]

I'd be happy to offer some Yuri on Ice recs! Maybe on Thursdays?

[darkages]

great, thank you! i'm adding you to the schedule for thursday :)

[eccentric_hat]

Thanks! Do you have any policies or preferences about recommending a series? There's one that I'm thinking of recommending that has a single narrative arc (so I'd rather write a rec for the whole thing than just the first installment). I know you can't pull stats on a series as easily as a single story, but all the stories within the series are well within the popularity guidelines. Actually even if you add all the kudos on all the stories together it wouldn't exceed the limit.

[darkages]

for the sake of consistency across all recs, we'd ask that you don't rec the entire series. however, you're perfectly welcome to rec the first or most major fic in the series and make a note that it's part of a series, and even link to the series if you want :)

[eccentric_hat]

Okay, great. I'll get started with an entry for Thursday--although it looks like I don't have posting access yet? Let me know if I'm just missing something.

[darkages]

hmm, you should be able to post to the queue. all posts are moderated, so when you do post it won't show up on the journal immediately. can you try to submit a test post? i'll let you know if it works.

[eccentric_hat]

It doesn't seem like I'm allowed to submit a post at all--on the community's profile page, the "Post to community" button is grayed out for me, and when I hover over it a little alt-text window tells me "You can't post to this community." When I'm on the "Post an Entry" dreamwidth page, this community isn't in the "Post to:" drop-down menu. I've tried the usual log-out-and-in-again sort of fixes to see if anything changes, and no joy.

[darkages]

sorry i couldn't reply to you, i was away from my desk. i spoke to the other mod and we fixed all that up, and it looks like you were able to submit just fine! thanks for your patience :)

[nenya_narya_vilya]

do you take recs for legend of korra?

[darkages]

yes, we take recs for any fandom that isn't already on the schedule. i'm amending this post now to add a link to the schedule.

[nenya_narya_vilya]

perfect! how about mondays?

[darkages]

sounds good! i'll pencil you in :)

[darkages]

signing myself up for tuesdays again, this time with haikyuu!! :)

[ideare]

may i sign-up for inception on sundays, please?

[darkages]

absolutely! thanks for signing up, i'll add you to the schedule now :)