Rec Archive up and running!

[fignewton]

I have an obsession a liking for organization, even if I'm not necessarily very good at it. :) So I wanted to have a central place for all my recs. The master list is useful, but not as handy as I would have liked.

I am therefore very pleased to announce that figs_sg1_rec is finally up and running! Essentially, the LJ has copies of all the recs I've ever made at stargateficrec. I had a lot of fun making a list of very comprehensive tags - character, friendship, genre, season... even pairings! I was highly amused to be able to actually count those. Out of what is currently 256 recs, exactly ten of them are not gen.

I've subtitled it "for the SG-1 fan with gen-colored glasses" for a reason. :)

I owe a great deal of thanks to nomadicwriter's marvelous nomads_gen_recs, which I shamelessly used as a template for setting things up. Her community is multi-fandom and beautifully organized. It's well worth a look!

Not quite sure where to go from here with the master list and my monthly lists of rec links. It would be neater, I suppose, to link to figs_sg1_rec instead of stargateficrec. Converting the master list to link to the journal, though, would be a massive undertaking. I'm going to have to think about that one for a while.

If you're already watching stargateficrec (and if not, why not?!), there's nothing new for you at figs_sg1_rec; watching it would only give you double posts on your flist, since I make entries to both at once. But if you want to browse through past recs, or you're looking for a certain type of fic, then I hope you'll find the archive LJ to be useful.

Comments, suggestions, virtual cookies? Leave 'em here. :)

Comments

[abyssinia4077.livejournal.com]

Oh, COOL! That's really rather awesome. Wish that was there when I first found the fandom and spent, um, *cough* quite a while scrolling through your memories of your recs...

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

I like the memories and the categories listings, but this will be more complete. And it's just so satisfying to have everything in one place, so yay! :)

[kalquessa.livejournal.com]

Woo organization! *bookmarks*

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

We won't mention how long this took to get running, then. ;)

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Yes! I only joined LJ a few months ago, and digging back through Stargateficrec can take a while; you're one of my favorite reccers, so this makes life much easier!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you! ::blushes:: And yes, stargateficrec is huge. Which is great, but can be a bit intimidating.

I adore your avatar icon. :)

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

I always applaud organization!!! Yay!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hard won organization! But thanks. :)

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Whee! Now I have a great place to send people who just want gen :)!

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Your own fic page isn't enough for them...? ;)

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

No, because the point at which I'm reccing is because they just wrote saying they've read my fic, and when will there be more, please?

At which point I have to shuffle feet apologetically, explain that I'm a slow writer and say, 'Quick, look! There's lots of shiny gen fic, right over there!', and then slink out while they're distracted...

[sg-fignewton.livejournal.com]

Hee! And then go back to writing more of SUH, because we're waaaaaiiiiiting!

[redbyrd-sgfic.livejournal.com]

Or the fic explaining Sam's babbling about Mark and his kids in Cold Lazarus which you suggested and I said I wasn't going to write but seem to be doing anyway

Actually I'm finishing the beta on Aelfgyfu's *fabulous*, *long* new fic (look, over there).

*slinks out again*