Recs site update, and a question

[arduinna]

70 new recs in 20 fandoms

All of the new recs can be found together on the What's New page.

Or go straight to the individual fandoms, with new recs at the top (everything's dated):

Boy Meets World (2 recs)

Dangermouse (1 rec)

Dead Zone (1 rec)

Doctor Who (3 recs)

Due South (2 recs)

Farscape (1 recs)

Forever Knight (1 rec)

Invisible Man (2 recs)

I Spy (5 recs)

Justice League (1 rec)

Life on Mars (1 rec)

Lord of the Rings (1 rec)

Mac/PC (1 rec)

Man From Uncle (1 rec)

NCIS (1 rec)

Professionals (5 recs)

Quantum Leap (1 rec)

Stargate Atlantis (28 recs)

Stargate SG-1 (15 recs)

Wiseguy (3 recs)

Crossovers (each crossover story is also counted under its individual fandoms, unless otherwise noted):

Dr. Who/Farscape (1 rec)

NCIS/Stargate SG-1 (1 rec)

Professionals/Dangermouse (1 rec)

Stargate Atlantis/Dr. Who (1 rec)

Stargate SG-1/Stargate Atlantis (3 recs)

Multiverse - House, others (1 rec) (listed only under Multiverse)

And now the question.

I've been listing recs as mixed-up as possible within fandoms -- trying to vary gen/het/slash, pairing, general tone, author, etc. -- so that anyone reading their way through a given fandom's recs would have some variety, and maybe would click on a link they wouldn't have noticed otherwise because it's not in their primary pairing or what have you, but catches their attention when they see it.

That's no problem for a handful of recs, but several fandoms have enough to warrant their own pages, and are probably going to get bigger over time. I was wondering if it would better suit people to sort those recs out by gen/het/slash, and by pairing within that. It's six of one, half a dozen of the other for me -- both methods involve a certain level of sorting while I'm writing recs up, but nothing major.

So does anyone have a preference?

Comments

[zoerayne]

Well, in SGA I don't care if everything's mixed together because I read pretty much anything if it's good. Other fandoms, I'd probably rather have at least a gen/het/slash breakdown.

Oh, and totally on a tangent, my website's changed so your links to my stories are broken. The new main URL is: http://zoe.vaportraces.com.

[aka-arduinna.livejournal.com]

Heh -- SGA was the one I was most concerned about, since it's the biggest section by far. But yeah, I think maybe I'll poke at sorting them out into basic categories at some point -- things are starting to feel a little unwieldy.

And *facepalm* I actually had your new site up on my desktop to fix the links, but finished the update on my laptop and spaced on it. Thanks for catching it -- fixed now!

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

*woots with glee*

You found me Dr Who/SGA! (No, haven't read it yet, but most certainly will.) And stories I missed, even though they're by people on my flist. And unread SGA! Yay!

I think gen/het/slash is fine as categories go, and probably the best useful option to divide a long list of stories.

Though really, what I want is a "Fighting, Sneaking and Snark, Time Machines and Monsters optional" category, and a "Someone Gets Hurt and/or Is Given Up For Dead, Ohnoes, Must Angst!" category, and "They Had a Long Hard Disgusting Day and Now There's Comfort" category, where maybe there's sex or maybe just ginseng tea and a pat on the shoulder.

I really like that you put up all the multifandom recs under What's New; I like to read them and at least skim the ones who are for unknown fandoms. You never know.

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