call to order

[reccer]

RECCING SIGN-UP POST

so, for this comm to get in order, what we need are reccers!

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

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.

"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 yes, we do require a dreamwidth account. but other than that... that's it, and you'll hear from us soon!

Comments

[ex_sanji763]

sounds fun! one piece please :D

[reccer]

yaaay! favor any day in particular?

[ex_sanji763]

any day is fine!

[reccer]

ok! i'll throw you on wednesday but let me know if anything works better!

[darkages]

signing up for yuri!!! on ice and tuesdays :)

[reccer]

ehueh

[arysthaeniru]

Signing up for BTS? a friday would be nice, but I honestly don't mind which day.

[reccer]

bts sounds great! and you've got fridays :)

[reccer]

please remember to join the comm so you can post to it!

[sapphirablue]

Hello!! I'd be interested in reccing for Haikyuu!!
I'm mostly into rarepairs, though, so that might get a bit one-sided from me? Maybe you'll want another person wo reads mainly main/popular ships :0

[reccer]

haikyuu rarepairs sounds good! favor any days?

[reccer]

please also remember to join the comm so you can post to it!

[germankitty]

Is it okay to rec older fics that never made it to AO3? Like, fics that were written well over 15 years ago in a fandom that's still going but has changed so much that a lot of the great classics are kind of being lost? If so, sign me up for Power Rangers -- and I don't care on which day. :-)

[reccer]

that's fine by us! that's super exciting actually, since i don't know anything about power rangers fandom and it'd be great to get older fics back into the spotlight, especially since ao3's become so mainstream that a lot of people don't know those older fics exist. i'm super excited for this!

i'll put you down on monday then, if that's okay :)

[germankitty]

Cool! So I'll be posting my first rec on the first Monday in August (07/08), right?

[reccer]

yep! we'll send a reminder pm as well.

[pleasantboat]

i heard it, i heard the call of UNDER APPRECIATED DRARRY RECS and i would love to put myself down for harry potter if that's ok ;v

[reccer]

of course! harry potter in general or drarry specifically? ;) and is there a day that you prefer?

[pleasantboat]

i mean, it'll probably be harry/draco, but i have been known to read fics with luna in a pairing so... also i saw your thursdays are free so i would love to sneak in on that day if that's okay!

[reccer]

thursday sounds great! and i'll get you in for general hp ships then :)

eta: actually would it be okay for me to put you down for draco/harry and you can sign up for any luna ships in the future? for unification purposes, at least for our first round

[pleasantboat]

sure thing!! that should be okay with me. sorry that i didn't see this until now RIP

[ideare]

may i sign-up with generation kill, please? possibly reccing from both lj and ao3?

[reccer]

sure! for lj we'll define underappreciated as having only one page of comments, if that works for you :) any day in particular?

[ideare]

sure, that works. i can do sundays.

[reccer]

awesome :)

Rules?

[alessnox]

Do you have to do every week? I am not sure I'll always be here, but I can do Sherlock Saturdays.

Could you go over how the posting wrks again?

Re: Rules?

[reccer]

for now we're starting with august, so yes, every week in august is what this sign up post is for. you can post any time on your designated day - so in your situation that may be saturdays - to this community, using the form above with the fic you're reccing. again, this is just one on the day you're reccing the day. it's pretty simple - as long as your rec fits our guidelines of underappreciated, we shouldn't run into many problems :)

oh, and signing up for august essentially just means you need 4-5 recs for now. that's about it! and if you can't make a week, you can still submit it and we'll queue your post for the week/day you're due to post.

[meretricula]

I'm interested in reccing for Georgette Heyer fandom in general but I don't know if it's too broad a category... what's the modly take on that? there's only 220 completed fics total in the HEYER Georgette - Works tag, so I think it would be hard to narrow it down to just one book.

[reccer]

i don't think it's broad, especially since the fandom seems so small! our baseline for "smaller fandoms" is basically the same as yuletide - under 1k fics in general (we're not accounting for the complete/in-progress dichotomy.)

for georgette heyer fandom we've decided that any fic EXCEPT for the most popular fic in the heyer, georgette fandom tag can go! just any except for the most popular, so have at it :D

also, is there any day you'd prefer?

[meretricula]

that does leave a wide scope for choices, haha. excellent! I was wondering how to calculate the top 2% out of 220, I admit. and I have to do all the posts before August (going away, potentially sucky internet, etc etc) and queue them anyway, so whatever day works best for you guys -- it makes no difference to me whatsoever.

[reccer]

awesome! i'll put you down for thursdays then :)

[meretricula]

sounds perfect! I shall get to work selecting a mere five of the gems in the Heyer tag. ;)

[meretricula]

ok, new question! I've got my recs ready to queue, but I can't post to the comm... how do you want them submitted?

[reccer]

oops hold on, I'll give you posting access

[meretricula]

awesome, thank you! :) just to check -- if I hit post, it will go to a moderation queue, right, it won't just post? I don't want to jump the gun XD

[reccer]

yep, it'll go into the moderation queue

[knightspur]

I'd like to sign up for Seventeen? Either Saturday or Sunday is good for me

[reccer]

seventeen and sunday would be great! thanks :) we're excited to have you on board!!

[azulina]

Sorry, I just have a question: What does "not in the top 2% of pages" mean, and where would I find that? Same question with the top 1% for authors.

Thanks!

[reccer]

hi! thanks for asking :)

top % are when:
1. fics sorted by kudos
2. the total number of pages there are for the fandom in question
3. 2% [or 1%] of that total number

for example, as of right now supernatural has 8427 pages here. 2% of 8427 is 168.54, which means that no fics in the first 168 (or 169, if we want to round up) pages when all the works are sorted by kudos are allowed to be recced.

another way to do this without needing to manually Find if a fic is on any of the pages is to take the last fic on the last page of the limit - for our supernatural example, that would be 527 kudos - and see if the fic we're reccing has less kudos than this. then it'll definitely be on a later page! (it also occurs to me that supernatural isn't a great example, since there seems to be a large disparity between the most popular fics and the others, so if there's anyone interested in reccing for supernatural, we'd be happy to discuss having this adjusted due to these patterns.)

authors is similar - if an author has a fic in the top 1% of pages - so for supernatural, that would be 1% of 8427, which is 84 pages - then none of their other stuff is allowed to be recced for the fandom in question. for authors, though, we'll actually help make lists of authors who aren't allowed to be recced in this way, since we know this requires much more effort.

[argentum_ls]

How do these numbers translate for fandoms that don't have enough stories to have a top 2% or 1%?

[reccer]

well, at the moment we have a fandom that doesn't have enough stories for a top 2% or 1%, so we're just either allowing any fic except for the most popular to be recced (as we're doing for the present one), or may just exclude the first page sorted by kudos but allow all other fics

(also, love your icon!)

[argentum_ls]

OK. I'm in a number of fandoms where there's only one or two pages of stories, so either everything is eligible or nothing is.

(Thanks! It's one of my favs too.)

[reccer]

yeah, if there's only one or two pages then everything should be eligible then :)

[argentum_ls]

Thanks :)