Regarding Fic Recs

[mosylu]

So one of the things I love (lovelovelove) doing on Tumblr is recommending other peoples' fic. Over there, it's pretty easy, just slap that reblog button.

But I'm not sure what to do here. Put up linky posts? Do one-by-one fic recs? Do a sort of fic digest at a specific time each week? Crosspost my reblogs? (That one seems particularly fraught to me; far too easy for it to look like I'm reposting as my own or trying to take credit, which is 180 degrees removed from the whole point of recommending fic.)

If you are reading this and you have an opinion (particularly if you are one of those whose fic I like to share), let me know. Especially especially if you've logged more time on DW or other LJ-style sites than I have, and you know some of the unspoken rules or longstanding traditions.

Comments

[anghraine]

I've seen everything from post-by-post recs, posts with short/medium/long lists of links (with enough information to give an idea of what they're about/what should be warned for/etc), posting into a rec community, regular digests like you're talking about for the more organizationally minded among us.

The digest idea sounds very cool to me, personally, although I lack the discipline for something like that myself. But pretty much everything you've said is DW-appropriate.

[mosylu]

Thanks for the input!

Since I do try to rec regularly on Tumblr, a digest actually appeals to me quite a bit too, because it would just be a matter of scraping up the links from a week's worth of reblogs and AO3 links. And "Fic Friday" or something appeals to my schedule-loving self.

I would definitely break it out by fandom tho. For one thing, I've already decided on specific icons for each fandom.