some thoughts on Ouroboros Mix
Mar. 23rd, 2013 03:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
edenfallingI've been reading back-to-front through the Ouroboros Mix archive (meaning I started with the stories posted earliest) and backtracking to read a bunch of the original stories that inspired the remixes while I'm at it -- some I'd read before, but a bunch I hadn't, so that's been interesting. I've also been skipping a few fics that look awesome but are also LONG, since I'm more in the mood for bite-size reading experiences today. I will get to the longer stories tomorrow, I suppose.
I have vague intentions of making a rec post when I'm finished with the archive... although that will probably take at least another day or three (there are only 53 stories, but that's still a lot of words to read!), so perhaps I will do two rec posts: one when I get halfway up page two of the archive and another when I reach the end. *ponders*
I am also trying to leave kudos and/or comments on each fic, since remixes are typically low-feedback exchanges so every little bit helps. I'm not sure why I try so hard to comment when participating in fic exchanges, since I am terrible at leaving comments on pretty much everything the rest of the year, but whatever, it's been working for me thus far.
(Oh, also! My remixee liked what I did with her story! *huge sigh of relief* I know that a remix challenge is not a gift exchange, strictly speaking, but one still wants to produce something the original writer won't hate, at the very least.)
And now back to reading. :-)
I have vague intentions of making a rec post when I'm finished with the archive... although that will probably take at least another day or three (there are only 53 stories, but that's still a lot of words to read!), so perhaps I will do two rec posts: one when I get halfway up page two of the archive and another when I reach the end. *ponders*
I am also trying to leave kudos and/or comments on each fic, since remixes are typically low-feedback exchanges so every little bit helps. I'm not sure why I try so hard to comment when participating in fic exchanges, since I am terrible at leaving comments on pretty much everything the rest of the year, but whatever, it's been working for me thus far.
(Oh, also! My remixee liked what I did with her story! *huge sigh of relief* I know that a remix challenge is not a gift exchange, strictly speaking, but one still wants to produce something the original writer won't hate, at the very least.)
And now back to reading. :-)
