Rec Milestone!

[fignewton]

Wow. Just posted my 150th rec at stargateficrec. That's not a milestone I ever expected to reach, to be frank.

For the most part, I've had a lot of fun being so active in the community. The mods are helpful and gracious people and most of the community members are equally enthusiastic and friendly. So thanks a lot, guys, for feeding my addiction, and encouraging me to be a part of all this!

So... how can we celebrate? :)

How's this? Leave a link to a favorite story or two of yours in the comments - gen, please - whether it's yours or another author's. I won't make any promises, but I'll review the story here and hopefully include it on my recs list for future reference. I'm still reccing Teal'c and Daniel friendship fics and Sam fics this month; next month, I hope to snag gen and episode related. So if you have stories that fit those categories, now would be a really, really good time to bring them to my notice!

This is also an opportunity to ask something I've been wondering about for quite some time now. If you have a fic posted to your LJ and also to your website, which URL would you prefer a reccer to use? Is it better to send readers to the website, which presumably is more permanent, neater, and better formatted; or would you rather have people read your story at your LJ, where feedback is more or less instantaneous and a lot more likely to occur? And how about readers - which location would you prefer for your reading pleasure? Where would you want a reccer to send you?

Virtual hugs to all the marvelous authors out there who bring some of my favorite people to life, and thanks to those of you who have made the LJ experience so enjoyable.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Gotta say, I *always* check out your recs (though I find I've already read about half of them!). I don't know how much fic I'd be reading without your recs- I just have no *time* to spend sampling the way I used to. I hardly ever venture off sgfic or my flist without a rec. And even the stuff that turns up on lists, I don't read as much as I used to (unless it's one of my A-list reccers or by the description solidly in the zone of what I like).

I don't post fic on LJ, so I can't offer an authorial opinion as to which I'd prefer to have linked. But the *reason* I post everything to my own site is that when I started writing I was on a dialup connection. And LJ is *excruciating* on dialup. When I read Stargateficrec, I'd sit there with a book, reading between page loads. So when I designed the website, I stripped it down to bare bones- nothing but text, the absolute minimum of formatting I needed to make it readable and to get people to the fic. Now I have a faster connection, but not everyone does. I still keep all the fic on the site where it's fast and easy to load for everyone (okay, also I'm not really interested in redesigning the site!). But as a reader, I'd vote to link to the site under most circumstances. Sites almost always load faster.