musamea [Sidenote: I saw her top 5 own fics list and have read all of them] and in part of her response she said:By the way, I hope you don't mind that I friended you. I just realized that you're the owner of athenewriter.com, with its fantastically organized recs section. Plus, you were an English major and list greek myth and the Dewey Decimal System under your interests. How could I resist? :)♥
I finally did a recs page update today. (Only took me three months since the last one. Sigh.) It's been temperamental, so if you can't access the site, um, I apologize and will bake you cookies?
In wanting Heroes fic, I read lots of
hackthis because I know she's good, but that means all I'm reading is Petrellicest -- which I'm not opposed to, but I want Eden fic, Haitian fic, possibly Hana fic, Micah fic, possibly Claire fic (she gets lots of screentime in such a way that I'm not feeling hungry like I need more stories to fill in the gaps, but I love Claire so I certainly wouldn't be opposed to Claire fic -- or fic about any of the Bennets for that matter, or Meredith). Also Claude fic, backstory for either or both Petrelli parents, oh or Heidi fic. Also, Candice.I should friend
ninth_wonders, but I've been soured on fandom newsletters and don't really want to read mediocre fic.I was also debating whether in anticipation of Heroes becoming a substantial fandom I should give it its own page. (As of this update I only have 7 fics recced in the fandom.) When I first binged on Grey's Anatomy recs I made them their own page, though that was partly to minimize their presence 'cause hi, I have shame (though less so now). I had 14 fics recced in that fandom in that first round. What's my cutoff gonna be for giving a fandom its own page? I currently have 13 TNG fics and 20 Good Omens fics and neither of them has its own page. I'm also worrying whether the list of non-Whedon fandoms [i.e. the list you see in one big blockquote on the main fandom page and at the top of the "Other Fic Recs" page] is getting overwhelming and I should break it up somehow -- even just paragraph breaks every ten fandoms or something (I tried breaking it up by media format but that just wasn't working).
I thought about compromising and giving Heroes its own section in the Updates list, direct linking to its section in the Other Fandoms page. This then got me wondering about whether I should do that for other "major" fandoms (like The West Wing). I decided that there was such a glut of "other" fandoms that I would just create subset headings within the "other fandoms" update list (though this then begs the question of whether I should just make all the fic recs one big list with subset headings -- I like the idea of streamlining, but I think losing the "privileging" of major fandoms [since it would all be alphabetical] would be, well, a loss). Lemme know if this appears to you a good or a bad idea. And yes, I still want input on the other above-mentioned site management issues.
And yes, I'm still recurrently tempted to get a del.icio.us as a redundancy for the entire recs portion of the site (and possibly taking a hint from musesfool and making a second one for all my own fic), though I'm not entirely sold on the tagging system.
Oh, and recalling
thelastgoodname's post about the lack of femslash07 squee, I did an imperfect tally of how many of my recs focus on an f/f relationship: 16, with 70 other recs -- though this "other" includes at least one fic centering on a female-female friendship and some non-'ship fics focusing on a female character. 