Comment Bingo #3

[cornerofmadness]

a work by a creator you've never commented on before tough as nails (the owl house)	a work from a fandom you don't normally seek out	a work by someone who's given you a kudos or a comment	a work from an event from 2020	art on AO3 Cat Paradise -Star Trek: Lower Decks
black and white art	a canon compliant work Frenemies The Owl House	a work in a series	a work from a Reverse Big Bang	a fic not on AO3 Sweet Home, Cha Hyeonsoo
a work from an event from 2013	a work by your favorite creator	FREE SPACE	a work from an event from 2021	a work from your newest fandom it’s just the beast under your bed (in your closet, in your head) The Owl House
a fic that's over 20k Creation (both haunted and holy) The Owl House	a long comment Hedge Trimmers, Or A Bread Knife The Owl House	a work posted in 2020	a work posted in 2014	a comment where you quote your favourite line Untitled Scream (1996)
a work posted in 2022 to know and forgive The Owl House	a work you've already commented on Triton, Prodigal Son	coloured art Dog Days (The Owl House) technically fan animation	a work posted in the past month Abandoned Lighthouse Prodigal Son	a work from an event from 2022 Stand and Deliver - Doctor Who

Comments

[sysann]

Ohhh, looks awesome. Good luck! <3

[cornerofmadness]

thanks.

[ysilme]

Good luck! I'm not joining this round as I currently can't have any additional pressure (and as much as I enjoyed the last round, I didn't manage to not feel pressured by it *sigh*), but I plan to keep being more dililgent about reviewing than previously.

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks. Hey I totally get it. I sometimes feel the same about it but I'm pretty good at setting that aside. I know me. I will read very little and then I actually feel guilty about that because I have so many friends out there writing (I don't even know everyone's AO3 handle) and I want them to read me but I haven't been doing the same for them. That's not fair.

[ysilme]

That's a very good and useful reason for the bingo! It worked quite differently for me; for at least half of the prompts I had to go and search fic - which of course I enjoyed, and likely also wouldn't have either read and/or commented on otherwise, but at the same time read instead of those I would otherwise have by friends or my usual authors/in my usual fandom, so didn't (yet, I hope I'll manage sometime soon) leave feedback on as I simply didn't manage (*) ). I totally get the fairness issue, too. I feel the same and try always to check out people's fic, particularly those who write reviews to me and those I meet through WED, but particularly for the latter I mostly don't find either fandoms I know or genres I like to/will read. I try sometimes to read fandom blind but that rarely works for me, as I'm also not very well-read or rather well-watched with a lot of movies and TV shows or even genres.
Like in your case, for example: I don't know your current fandom at all or what you're usually mentioning (altough I do have to check out your Star Trek fic, I didn't realise you're writing that), and although I mostly also check your recs I rarely find something I know and would like to read, mostly for character reasons. ;op But I also realise my fannish reading preferences aren't typical for most fandoms and fandom people, if typical enough in my main fandom (Tolkienverse): I prefer longfic (including REALLY long fic) and love worldbuilding but am not interested in anything explicit or too relationship-focused, and my preferred eras within the Tolkienverse aren't mainstream either. XD For what it's worth my AO3 handle is the same, but I don't expect you to find anything there you might be interested in. (Just for the record: I don't expect any of my flist to read anything by me, at that!)

(*) I find it strangely hard to give feedback to stories I enjoyed a lot/really love. 95% of what I'm reading I read offline/on my e-reader, so couldn't write feedback right away - but even when reading online I wouldn't except if it's just a quick one that I liked it or so. I don't really know why this is but I usually can't leave feedback right after reading, but need a bit of time to digest what I read, and also be awake enough to write it which isn't the case when I'm reading - also because I'm reading to unwind but writing feedback gets me wound up again. ;op Due to this I managed to get myself into a bad habit of planning detailed reviews which never got written, and I'm in the process of changing that. The Comment bingo helped with some of this but also hindered it as I neglected those outstanding reviews to manage the bingo ones. Of course, my annoying brain also decided I need to to a blackout which hasn't helped. /o\
But I'm now trying to set review challenges for myself, and have also improved insofar that I try to leave a shorter comment at first even if I want to leave a more thorough one, with the intention of adding another one later (which happens more and more often).

[cornerofmadness]

All of this is very good points. For me the downside of the bingo IS all the ones with dates (I know I can switch them out but I rarely do) so I'm trying to wade through AO3 which doesn't make searching by date as easy as one would think it should be. The flip side of this is I have found people I want to read more from.

I'm there with you too. If the friends came from fandoms I'm in, no problem but I've picked up a lot over the years from various places. A lot of the stories I rec on friday are ones I have not read because they're not my fandoms (some are in fandoms I actively dislike even) but I trust their writing skills AND I know I have friends who are into those fandoms. For the record LoTR was one of my earliest fandoms but it's not one I 'hear' the voices for. I don't write in it, though at this point I find myself dreading long stories (mostly because of how ereading affects my eyes).

Now that you mention it I doubt there is anyone on my flist who are into my two most active (currently) fandoms. Prodigal Son or the Owl House (except one person for each of those) and wouldn't expect anyone to read them.

I'm also very much more 'case fic' vs relationship fic

as for the reviews I'm the opposite. I'll forget it if I wait (damn you aging brain) Hell I won't even remember the title if you give me a week. But I also don't really give much in the way of long comments. If it's chaptered fic I do try to give a short comment per chapter.

But yeah if you figure out how to tell your brain it doesn't have to do a black out, tell me how you managed it. That's my issue too.

[tjs_whatnot]

So cool!

Now THIS looks like a Bingo I could actually complete!

❤️❤️

[cornerofmadness]

comment_bingo is still open if you want to play along. I have had fun with it