Guest reccage: itty bitty fic.

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Hi! I am guest reccing! Which means I have power. I like that. With my unlimited power, I declare it shortfic appreciation week (half week, whatever) here at ds_recsredux, because I like to appreciate shortfic. Very short fic; drabbles, snippets, fragments, commentfic, all of the above. (I, uh, have been planning this theme for a while. Like, before the last week. *coughcough*)

I maybe have a short attention span and like immediate gratification, this is possible! But tiny fic is a tasty snack, a way to enjoy fanfic on the fly. Sometimes tiny fic tends towards the sap and the kissing, which I don't mind. Sometimes it tends towards the cheap, clever joke, which I don't mind. Sometimes it tends towards the open-ended (open-beginninged, open-middled), which I adore. Spaces in fic for me to wonder about and be frustrated over and fill in my ownself? Yes, please! A bit of inspiring insight or porniness that gets stuck in my brain forever and ever? Yay! And sometimes an author just nails a character or a situation in a bit of breathless, itty-bitty perfection. That's cool, too.

I'll be reccing many snippets and short fic and drabbles this week, and I'll also be doing something a little different. Many minific gems straddle the line between fic and notfic/meta, are commentfic or casual posts, and I'll be reccing some of those as well. These kinds of impromptu fic/meta/off the cuff deliciousness are one of the great joys of reading on LJ, of being part of the community, but they're also somewhat hidden and ephemeral. They're rarely linked or announced by their authors, and can be hard to find if you weren't there at the just-right moment. So there's an element of LJ stalking going on with my reccing them here, and if you see a comment or post of yours recced this week that you'd prefer not be, please do let me know.

(The do I have to disclaimer: Certainly there are inherent flaws in a tinyfic format, and they rarely/for most people evoke the kind of emotional commitment and satisfaction of good longer fic. Longer fic is wonderful and yay, too. This is not an either/or kind of post, here. Also, a sad admission: I haven't actually commented on much of the material I'll be reccing. I suck. I'll get on that.)

( Shortfic recs, yay! )

That's it for today! I'll be back with two more shortfic rec posts before my week of power is up.

(Many thanks to dessert_first, ignazwisdom, and nos4a2no9 for getting this comm up and running again, and for holding my hand.)