Big Bang recs--

[ladyjanelly]

 I don't have a horse in this race, but it's still making me sad to read the SPN/J2 fic-rec groups this year.
Like--are they reccing every single fic?  If so, it's not so much of a rec list as it is a recap of this weeks BB posts.
And if they aren't reccing every single fic, they're reccing so many that those that don't get mentioned might feel sad for being not good enough and all left out and stuff.  For some reason it feels exclusional this year.  Maybe I'm just in a weird mood...

Comments

[yasmine32068.livejournal.com]

I have been pleasantly surprised and totally let down by this years Big Bangs... But I get what you mean...

[faith-mars.livejournal.com]

I just oopsed in my mind cause I just did the weekly bigbang rec at j2_rec. *lol*

But I know what you mean. I looked at some of the bigbang rec posts and was like "Huh? Seriously?"

[ysbail.livejournal.com]

I've read a couple of really great BigBang's this year, but then I've also started a couple that I couldn't finish ... I was under the impression that all BigBang fics were supposed to have a beta but I've read a couple of really poorly edited fics - and one or two full of typos. And I don't just mean occasion typos, but 2 or 3 in a sentence!

I'm trying not to let the recs effect my reading choices but I have seen a couple of fics that I've already read that I agreed with wholeheartedly. (And I've read one or two that I didn't)

[epeeblade]

And then when you're me and your bigbang isn't J2 it doesn't fit anywhere;)

Actually I was hoping to look at some recs for big bangs, I've been so bad about finding time to read them.

[vshendria.livejournal.com]

I know I'm kind of a stranger here but can I just leap in and say...oh, god, yes. So many fics seemed to suffer from a complete lack of editing.

[deathangelgw.livejournal.com]

yea I have no confidence in my stuff and I'm so far behind in reading the bigbangs that I just don't listen to the recs. *shrugs and tries to smile, too sad to really do it* guess you have to be a big shot in the fandom to get any kind of recognition.

LUCKILY you are one of them and I love your stuff!!

[davidcrackin.livejournal.com]

I try to avoid community rec lists, unless I am in the mood for something specific and I'm feeling a little desperate. Otherwise I tend to stick with a few individual people who consistently rec good fics. I was a little disapointed by some of the bb -- like a totally great premis butchered by bad grammar.
On a moderately related topic: I recently graduated from school and we had a portfolio show. One of the students in my class had people looking at the first two pages of her book and then running away from her booth. When I went to see what the issue was (because srsly, these people looked traumatized) I couldn't believe what I saw, "Here is an esample of a corrsat I maid for a clint, she thought it was vary speshul...I lef this to make un till last cause it is totally, like, hard." English is her only language and she had her portfolio printed a week ahead of time.
Vary Spechul indeed -- SPELL CHECK WOULD HAVE CAUGHT THAT.
Me? Rant? Noooooooooo.