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

[qbic1.livejournal.com]

Thank you for this poll; it really made me think about what I like to read and why I follow epic_recs so religiously. I do have a request, though. When sending a rec, it would be very helpful if the show/manga/book - i.e. fandom - the rec is from is listed in the tags when the original rec is sent. About half the recs I receive in my mail box, don't have the tag in the email. But the tag appears when I get over to epic_recs. I know this sound catty - truly it is not intended that way. But I receive in excess of 300 non-work related emails a day. And I'm trying desperately to decrease the amount I have follow the links. I know I can't be the only one ... lol.

Thank you so much.

[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.

[silviakundera.livejournal.com]

I love the slash, but I'd definitely welcome more het, gen, and femslash if they have good characterization and are very long. (that's the main factor that draws me to this rec community vs. all the others -- I hate combing through rec lists to find the long ones. So the less short fic, the better. other than that, I just want to be served up good stories.) *g*

p.s. and I feel like het pregnant fic should have a warning just like mpreg does--but that's just me. LOL.

Thanks for all your hard work on this comm!

[lothy.livejournal.com]

I'm not really a "slash fan" as such, though I doubt that's exactly news to you! I'll read it if the story's good enough but I don't specifically search it out... save for certain pairings, most of which are sadly not major ones in fandom (yet - come on, NCIS LA). But I love het, femslash and gen. Basically anything with women.

And my tastes run more to rare pairings in many fandoms. Though in slash-heavy fandoms that's probably related to my wish for stories featuring women.