Poll: Pairings

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

(First time posting a poll -- this might take a few edits.)

One of the goals here at Epic Recs is to continually improve the comm to make it more a more functional, fun, and entertaining place. Thus, as part of Recapalooza we'll be tossing out a few polls as well as a survey (coming soon). Hopefully we'll learn something new and exciting that will result in positive changes to the community as a whole.

ETA: Of course, I managed a typo in the very first poll and of course you can't actually edit them. Thus a clarification: for the first question, it should be which pairing(s) do you read most often and/or are you most interested in. More than one response is acceptable (even encouraged!)

[Poll #1564679]

Comments

[muffiewrites.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that I read popular pairings because that's the pairings I find the most long fic in. It's the popular thing. I'm not a pairing-vigilante by any means. I'm a development person. The story must sufficiently develop a climate for me to believe the pairing works. I'm not going to yell Emperor Palpatine would never fall in love with Princess Leia!, but I'm not going to believe it unless the fic writer does some serious, heavy duty work on the story line. And well, I'd be pretty skeeved by it, because the emperor was seriously gross when she was an adult.

[jane-elliot.livejournal.com]

The vast majority of the fics I read are popular pairings. For one, there's usually a reason why the pairings are popular:) Plus, I read so much that if I limited myself to rare pairings I would have long since run out of fic.

That said, I do enjoy rare pairings fics, mainly *because* authors who write rare pairings often put more time and effort into character development and making the pairing believable. Though there are definitely some exceptions (Chuck authors, I'm looking at you).