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Do you have any advice, guides, or opinions on how write a good rec list?

WELL! This is Elizabeth, and as the longtime co-curator of "The Rec Center" newsletter (with @hellotailor) I do have *a lot* of thoughts about rec lists. 😊 I'm delighted you asked, because as I'm sure both Flourish & I have mentioned on the podcast, rec-list-making is way less prominent now than it has been in previous fandom eras, and I think that's a shame. Reccing can be a great critical tool, and rec lists make a fanwork space richer—not least because they can move readers beyond the mostly quantitative metrics of the AO3.

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With fanfic, you have much more freedom to just say, ‘I’m recommending this particular fic because it’s this one really specific characterization point or pairing.’ And people are gonna just be like, ‘fine,’ whereas if you recommended a movie based on that same thing, people would be like, ‘What the fuck are you talking about? What about the artistic quality of the rest of everything else here?’

@hellotailor on the difference between reccing fic and reccing anything else, in Episode 31 of @fansplaining

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Episode 31 is released... but only for our $2/month+ Patreon supporters!

Don’t worry. We’re not leaving you high and dry—the episode will be out for everyone tomorrow, for free, just like always. But if you’ve been thinking about donating, this might be a good time, because then you’ll get an hour and a half of us and @hellotailor talking about reccing, 24 hours before the rest of the internets!

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