Yep. Emphatically. And it makes me happy when MMWD recs me, too - and for much the same reasons.
Wouldn't, like, crack_van be better, because that has so many readers? And usually recommenders there post more detailed summaries and quotes, even. Or one of the mono-fandom obsessives? I would expect recs on those sites or journals to have way more cachet to them.)
And they might very well be more cachet-full. I dunno. Pretty much everything I know about any of the fandoms in which I'm even peripherally involved comes from something I've stumbled over in the course of blindly following some favorite writers around as they moved through Sithland (!) and Cascade en route to, say, Chicago/Tuktoyaktuk (and now to Atlantis). I've never gone searching for obsessively detailed sites (for various reasons having to do with not trusting fanatics, but that's another post); I've always gotten recs from friends. And the best friends from whom to get recs are the ones who write well themselves: who are funny, clear, incisive, thorough, occasionally scathing, and always on their game. In my mind, "person who writes well" (what I consider "well") = "person whose recs can be trusted". So appearing on one of your lists, or one of MMWDs, means a great deal to me: it feels like the return of a compliment I've thus far been too shy to pay.
*examines that stream-of-consciousness mess*
Erk. Does that scan at all?
I had to see those sheets. Not to mention live through the whole hideous scene.
Point. Very good point. And at least you didn't make the mistake of using, say, strawberry preserves. (One word: seeds.)
I mean, people in Lovecraft stories do, and that was way worse than just some pathetic Cthulhu encounter. Wimps.
*weighs horrors in either hand* Giant soul-sucking monster...grape jelly in places peanut butter's never even dreamt of. Monster...jelly. Monster...jelly.
Yeah, I think Lovecraft might've missed the boat there.
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Yep. Emphatically. And it makes me happy when MMWD recs me, too - and for much the same reasons.
Wouldn't, like, crack_van be better, because that has so many readers? And usually recommenders there post more detailed summaries and quotes, even. Or one of the mono-fandom obsessives? I would expect recs on those sites or journals to have way more cachet to them.)
And they might very well be more cachet-full. I dunno. Pretty much everything I know about any of the fandoms in which I'm even peripherally involved comes from something I've stumbled over in the course of blindly following some favorite writers around as they moved through Sithland (!) and Cascade en route to, say, Chicago/Tuktoyaktuk (and now to Atlantis). I've never gone searching for obsessively detailed sites (for various reasons having to do with not trusting fanatics, but that's another post); I've always gotten recs from friends. And the best friends from whom to get recs are the ones who write well themselves: who are funny, clear, incisive, thorough, occasionally scathing, and always on their game. In my mind, "person who writes well" (what I consider "well") = "person whose recs can be trusted". So appearing on one of your lists, or one of MMWDs, means a great deal to me: it feels like the return of a compliment I've thus far been too shy to pay.
*examines that stream-of-consciousness mess*
Erk. Does that scan at all?
I had to see those sheets. Not to mention live through the whole hideous scene.
Point. Very good point. And at least you didn't make the mistake of using, say, strawberry preserves. (One word: seeds.)
I mean, people in Lovecraft stories do, and that was way worse than just some pathetic Cthulhu encounter. Wimps.
*weighs horrors in either hand* Giant soul-sucking monster...grape jelly in places peanut butter's never even dreamt of. Monster...jelly. Monster...jelly.
Yeah, I think Lovecraft might've missed the boat there.