Fair. If I actually had access to a unfiltered list of all the good stuff in the world then I think I'd collapse out of the compulsion to read it all.
>> Sometimes you just wander through the bookstore/library
Clearly at some point I could do this, because of all the fantasy-novels kid-me liked to read, but I can't do it now. Well, Ao3, maybe, but a bookstore? I just stand around and look for titles I recognize. I think AO3 has me spoiled with the whole "tags that actually work" thing.
>> For that matter, there have been times where I *later* got the canon and went "this is pretty mediocre, its existence is useful only because of the fic it's inspired".
I haven't actually had that reaction, but I know there are works which I refuse to consume because I know they're bad but which I still devour fic of (Worm being the one that comes to mind)
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Fair. If I actually had access to a unfiltered list of all the good stuff in the world then I think I'd collapse out of the compulsion to read it all.
>> Sometimes you just wander through the bookstore/library
Clearly at some point I could do this, because of all the fantasy-novels kid-me liked to read, but I can't do it now. Well, Ao3, maybe, but a bookstore? I just stand around and look for titles I recognize. I think AO3 has me spoiled with the whole "tags that actually work" thing.
>> For that matter, there have been times where I *later* got the canon and went "this is pretty mediocre, its existence is useful only because of the fic it's inspired".
I haven't actually had that reaction, but I know there are works which I refuse to consume because I know they're bad but which I still devour fic of (Worm being the one that comes to mind)