Non-Rec: Progress on My Backdating Project Ep. 1

[isabellerecs]

At the suggestion of the lovely musyc, I'm going to be announcing when I've made progress in backdating my previous recs but then I thought perhaps I should give a quick outline of the fandoms and pairings that were featured in the entries that I've done. They will be listed in reverse chronological order.

I finished entering in August 2017 and the whole of July 2017. :)

Hannibal  |  Alana Bloom/Margot Verger
Assassin's Creed | Ezio Auditore/Leonardo da Vinci, Desmond Miles/Shaun Hastings, Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad/Malik Al-Sayf
District 9 | Christopher Johnson/Wikus van der Merwe
Tokyo Ghoul | Touka Kirishima/Yoriko Kosaka, Ken Kaneki/Hideyoshi ‘Hide’ Nagachika
Good Omens | Aziraphale/Crowley
TMNT | Leonardo ‘Leo’ Hamato/Raphael 'Raph’ Hamato
Big Wolf on Campus | Tommy Dawkins/Merton Dingle
Captain America | Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes
Big Windup! [Oofuri] | Azusa Hanai/Yuuichirou Tajima

Comments

[corvidology]

I'm glad you're letting us know and it is nice to see the fandoms. :D

[isabellerecs]

I figure a heads up, whether you like or dislike the fandom/pairing, can only be a good thing. :D

[musyc]

Yay, more recs to sort through! I have CLEARED your current backlist and look forward to more. XD

[isabellerecs]

<3 Lol. :)

I have a quick question, it's not so much of an issue at the moment but I feel like it will become one at some point. Which do you find most helpful in searching through a rec journals entries: individual character tags OR pairing tags? (In the sense that I might end up having to get rid of one kind or the other if I start to reach my tag limit.)

[musyc]

Well, currently I'm just skimming the entire month at once. XD BUT, if I were coming in fresh? Fandom first, then ... hmm. If it's a fandom I'm familiar with and where I frequently read fics, I probably have an OTP, so I'll look at pairings first. If it's a fandom I'm unfamiliar with or where I don't like the main OTP, I'll read gen first, then look at pairings. Character's not going to matter to me much, personally.

I think the way you write your recs, since it includes character/pairing in the post itself, it's less of a variable for me.

I've never run close to running out of tags, so this is ramble thinking, but maybe a master post linking to post with a small quantity tag - one-off pairings or very rare characters in your categorizations, that sort of thing. It might be a lot more work for you, but could possibly cut down on the tags that only get used once or twice?

[isabellerecs]

No, yes that is very helpful! I hadn't thought of doing a master post, I could do that for all my rarer pairings and link on the sticky. Hmmm. Though I think I'm starting to lean towards ditching the character tags, but not yet.

Thanks! <3<3<3