Music and a poll

[geoviki]

I just posted four songs on audiography, one of which is a gorgeous jazz ballad by Les McCann, With These Hands. Songs available to upload for one week.

My next topic was going to be "Why Frozen Strawberry Daquiris are the Adult Equivalent of the Slurpee, and Why I Need to Find a New Drink To Order In Bars", but I think I covered the whole discussion in the topic sentence. Which means it's time for a poll.

I don't do enough polls. For "not enough" read "more than the lone one I did about a year ago". This one feeds my little worried obsession about whether or not I'm normal. You know the feeling? Am I doing it as often as everyone else or am I abnormal? I'm talking about reading Works In Progress; why, what do you think I was talking about?

I glance through a few of the Harry/Draco comms on occasion, because I can sometimes help with recs or fic searches, but I find I cruise right on by all the WsIPs there, because I rarely commit to an unfinished story. I have a few that I keep up with, but it has to be compelling to tip me over the edge to read them in the volume I used to as a newbie. And it's not only the fear of being left hanging, although that is a concern. Sometimes I want to wait and indulge in one fell swoop - I think it helps my enjoyment of the fic. Well, plus I have a spotty memory these days from being a young adult during the '70's and a menopausal mother now.

What about you? You can even tell me which WsIP you follow in the comments if you like.

[Poll #645057]

Comments

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

See, that's exactly what I did. And being the anal little scientist-person I am, I made a spreadsheet of which ones were which, and what plot was happening, because of course they were all H/D and I couldn't remember which one was which. Then it got to the point where I was utterly confused.

Actually, the WIP scenario remindes me of a long-ago job: I was an art-history librarian in charge of periodicals. And it was a shock to discover that not all periodicals were released periodically. Some shrivelled up like a WIP, even though they were ostensibly getting paid for the issues. We'd get them monthly, then they'd skip one or two issues, then one last gasp would come out months later, then nothing.

[aurani.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never resorted to spreadsheets, but the forgetting thing. Oh, the forgetting thing. And then they would finally update, sometimes half a year later, and I would have to read from chapter one for having forgotten. Aja's big Heart-fic was like that... (drat, I've even forgotten the title -_-;; ), as was much of Irresistible Poison and even some of Underwater Light and In the Shadow of His Wings.

Then there were the unique ones that will forever and ever stand out -- your fairytale being one of them because it has such a prettily cohesive story, if I may say so myself, along with AJ's Snitch!, Koanju's Gingerbread House, maybe Maya's Darkside of Light for being all dialogue and talking about socks.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I was fortunate that Irresistible Poison was complete when I found it, since it was my first HP fic I ever read. Who knows if I'd have had a very short fandom life if it had left me hanging?

Snitch! was the first fic I begged for completion from the author, but he was pretty clear that he was done with it. I still like it, even half-undone. He wrote that little epilogue, though, so we know how it ends.