Rec! Rec! Rec!

[sigune]

While I'm hanging around, I must take the opportunity to pimp two gen rec lists:

ani_bester is setting up a Gen Art masterlist

and

chthonya is setting up a Gen Fic masterlist.

Please, dear flistees, help Gen survive in this harsh world of fandom, where the poor phenomenon is threatened by strangulation with smut, kinky hanky-panky and other porn. Please recommend any Gen gems you may have encountered during your roamings on the web, and vote for those you like that are already on the list, so that we may all share in them!

Comments

[sscrewdriver.livejournal.com]

I find good gen writing really, really hard to find. It's a lot easier to find good porn (and romance, for that matter). I don't know why this is. Perhaps the smutty writers have a just higher output, so automatically their standard increases just through practice? But it does mean that I started reading the porn, just because I was so impressed by the standard.

The multifaceted awards out recently gave me a great list of gen stories to try.
http://multifaceted.creative-musings.com/main.htm
I'm really enjoying 'A Year Like None Other' by aspeninthelight.
http://archive.skyehawke.com/story.php?no=5036

There's loads of good gen art out there though. No problems there.

A Gen Fic masterlist is a great idea, but it would only be really useful if there's some kind of review or quality control of the fics listed.

[seaislewitch.livejournal.com]

I've been over to both! I'll go back again tomorrow!

[thirteen-ravens.livejournal.com]

Aha, more gen fics!

Yes, I have read my fair share of Harry Potter slash fics (And have been responsible for a couple of them myself...*coughSnape/Blackcough*) But the majority of ones I have written have been gen, and the majority of my favourite fics have also been gen.

"In Blood Only" remains my favourite Snapefic of all time, I guess with the amount of reviews it got most Snape fans have read it, but just in case:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2027554/1/

If this fic is not already on one of the lists I will post it! :o)