#and a lot of anglophone mass culture stuff can be pretty predictable

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For the fic reader asks! 12! 14! 20!

12. Do you subscribe to authors or stories?

neither! i’m extremely chaotic and i’m extremely organised and i’m extremely suspicious/lazy, ha ha.  it took me a long time to come around to using bookmarks even (i kept thinking well whatever i’ll just find it again???). i haven’t thus far really needed subscriptions? i’ll normally see if a story or author has updated. but maybe i’ll come around to it one day! 

14.  What kind of plotline are you always here for?

hmm, i’m honestly not sure if there’s a specific type of plot i’m ALWAYS here/there/everywhere for, i feel like it’s kinda similar to the fave tropes thing, the delivery of the story is more important to me than what the story itself is, if that makes sense? i’m a very big fan of stuff where i can’t predict the shape of the story from the outset, and yet it all DOES make sense as it unfolds.

20.  Have you ever read a fic more than once? What is it about that fic that made you read it again?

yea ofc! (although the way this is written kind of implies that ive only reread one story and that is...not true, ha ha)

i mean ive reread lots of things for different reasons - sometimes accidentally bc i didn’t realise i’d already read it and then been like ohhh yeaaaaa this one!!! ive reread things bc ive suddenly recalled enjoying them or seen them rec’d and wanted to refresh my memory. ive reread things bc i like them and want to read them again and it’s like an amazing treat! im not a huuuuge rereader/rewatcher generally but there’s some books ive reread a few times or series ive watched a few goes round, and i definitely think you get more out of things when you know what’s going to happen (but it’s a trade-off, cos there’s always new stuff i wanna imbibe too!). i’m more likely to reread shorter fics i think bc it’s less time-intensive. 

i’ve reread stuff to check i wasnt imagining how good it was lol, i mentioned it in my @goodgirlsficrecs thingy about y por fin by @septiembur - the first time I read it I was a lil tipsy and i was like OBSESSED with it. and i had to go back to read it sober to make sure i wasnt making it up (which i was not, it’s amazing).

one that i actually havent reread but am looking fwd to rereading is why storms are named after people by @veronicamarz (bc i wasnt using bookmarks for ages there’s a few fics i havent been able to re-find, so i normally just wait till someone recs them, at which point i often find i actually did have it bookmarked and dont know to read, or that it’s been rec’d like 8 times and, again, i don’t know how to read... but i actually caved the other day and trawled back through the early pages on ao3 to find this... and i’m pretty sure i’m gonna find out i already had it bookmarked or ppl have rec’d it 8 times recently and i just...dont know how to read).

anyhoo, what was my point? oh yea, i mean yea different reasons for rereading, and bookmarking as it turns out...is helpful for finding things. who knew?!

reader asks although i’m pretty sure i don’t know how to read