The honeymoon period is over...

[graculus]

I have officially reached the 'meh' period where HP fanfic is concerned. So I guess that's not bad, considering I've been reading it for a solid 18 months now.

The 'meh' period can best be defined as: 'I will no longer finish everything I read regardless of how awful. I will wince at bad summaries and run away quickly, rather than allow hope to triumph over experience and believe that the story will be better than the summary. I will still slavishly read anything written by writers who I trust to know what they're doing, even in pairings I don't like, but other than that I will not scrape the bottom of the fic barrel in the hope there's... just... one... more... new... story'.

It could be worse, though. I could be torturing myself with half-written stories... lucky escape! :)

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[dmarley.livejournal.com]

*Welcomes Graculus to the club*

I hit that point about six months ago, I guess. I'm always kind of sad when the honeymoon's over. There's a wonderful frenzy in those first heady days of a fandom, when it's all so new and shiny that even five stories in a row where Harry has to spend the summer at Snape's house don't matter. When the nickname "Sevvy" only makes me shudder instead making me want to claw my eyes out. When Lupin/Black stories don't seem hopelessly sweet and sugary....oh, wait, but that never happened....

It could be worse, though. I could be torturing myself with half-written stories

Do you mean ones you've not read or ones you've not written? I got sucked into reading, well, a lot of WIPs myself, but I can't think of any I'm still actively keeping up with. If a new part of one I was reading falls in my lap, fine, but I've quit checking almost all of them for new bits.

The only places I really check regularly anymore are Ink Stained Fingers, the SSFF, and occasionally I'll take a spin around the Snape Slash Fleet. But, alas, the honeymoon is over. *snif*

[xochiquetzl]

I remember the honeymoon in Stargate. I think I'm officially old and jaded and in permanent "meh" mode. I made one small attempt to find HP fic on google, burned my eyes out with a badfic, ;) and then immediately started looking for recs lists.

You know, just because something's recced is no guarantee it's good. ;) I managed to find some stories that didn't make me want to pluck out my eyes, but I feel no obligation to finish stories at this point if they suck.

I'm now reading your recs. Thus far I seem to agree with your pics more than that other person's who I found on google.

[obelix]

*grin* That's one of the reasons I rotate fandoms... stay away long enough and you can go back and get some new fics that don't make you want to run around the house screaming... usually... well mostly... well ok it depends on the fandom...