How/Why I rec

[hils]

It's 2:40am and I really should be asleep but I need to get this down while it's fresh in my mind.

I want to talk briefly about my weekly rec list and how it came into being.

It started last year when woman_of_, kittypoker1 and I decided to band together and do weekly recs for spn_j2_bigbang. Prior to that I'd been tossing out the odd rec here and there when something caught my eye but it was this that got me into reccing on a regular basis.

Every Monday I would link to my favourite fics posted for the challenge over the past seven days with a few details about why I was reccing it. When the challenge was over it just kind of stuck and branched out to include fics from any fandom/pairing and not just J2

I just want to say that I am far from an expert when it comes to fannish things. I haven't been in the SPN fandom for that long compared to a lot of people so I'm not what you would call well versed in characterisation and tropes that have been done to death. In fact I'm quite specific in my tastes and often I've found that fics that the majority of the fandom loves just doesn't do it for me. I just know what I like and that's what I rec.

I also want to add that there are LOADS of fics out there that I enjoy but don't rec. Unfortunately if I recced every fic I enjoyed my rec list would be pages long every week. The ones I rec are just the ones that I had a particularly strong emotional reaction to. They might not even necessarily be the most brilliantly well written, but if I get sucked into the story enough that is makes me laugh, cry or think then I'll rec it.

So I don't mean any offence if I don't include something you've written and it certainly doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it.

So there we go.

I'm going to bed now