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

[hebethen]

I'm not a prolific reccer myself, but in my experience, I have seen recs in the following places:

1. rec-focused comms like fancake
2. fandom comms (for fics in that fandom)
3. digests or compilations after a particular event

[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.

[rosaxx50]

I've seen all of the above - the one-by-one, digest, though less of reblogs. Het-reccers on livejournal used to exist for essentially a set/single fic recs a day. Dreamwidth tends to run more slowly, and consequently daily/weekly digests are more common (and my personal preference) than one-by-one, but you can definitely make each work. Why not try both, depending on your patience?

[elperian]

Back in the day I used to do weekly fic recs on my blog with links to the OP's post (which became a little awkward with a person who was upset they weren't on it, so, er - ) but I've also seen communities for this! I think you could recreate mosylufic over here as a community and encourage people to cross-post to it as well?