After Lifetime Fic Bingo
Feb. 28th, 2025 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tinturtleI was going to wait to discuss new endeavors until after I had finished my Lifetime Fic Bingo game. I'm feeling really rotten tonight, though, and I thought doing it now might cheer me up.
First, let me introduce the Old and New Project. For each step of this project, I will reread one of the fics in my Beloved Collection, then check out one or more new (to me) fics by the same author. I will probably do write-ups of at least some of what I read as part of this project, but I may restrict myself to the fics I recommend.
This project will be more informal than the reading games I've played over the past several years. I will read fics not related to the project whenever I have a notion and only work on the project when I am at a loose end. My Beloved Collection is large, so the project will probably take years to finish. I may also play some other reading games while keeping the project on the back burner.
That brings me to my other planned endeavor, Lookback Fic Bingo. This game is an extension of Lifetime Fic Bingo. For Lookback Fic Bingo, I will read fics by year, but counting backward from the year of my birth instead of forward. With the help of Fanlore, I've found a handful of available fics from each year stretching back to 1980, so that's where I've decided to stop my game. All the fics are from Professionals fandom, so I am dropping the requirement of at least two fandoms per year that was part of Lifetime Fic Bingo. I've also decided to set the number of fics for each year at between one and three, rather than between three and five.
I'm not sure when I will start Lookback Fic Bingo. It probably won't be immediately after I finish my current game. I'll wait and see when I feel like it.
I hope those of you who have enjoyed Lifetime Fic Bingo will enjoy these new endeavors as well.
First, let me introduce the Old and New Project. For each step of this project, I will reread one of the fics in my Beloved Collection, then check out one or more new (to me) fics by the same author. I will probably do write-ups of at least some of what I read as part of this project, but I may restrict myself to the fics I recommend.
This project will be more informal than the reading games I've played over the past several years. I will read fics not related to the project whenever I have a notion and only work on the project when I am at a loose end. My Beloved Collection is large, so the project will probably take years to finish. I may also play some other reading games while keeping the project on the back burner.
That brings me to my other planned endeavor, Lookback Fic Bingo. This game is an extension of Lifetime Fic Bingo. For Lookback Fic Bingo, I will read fics by year, but counting backward from the year of my birth instead of forward. With the help of Fanlore, I've found a handful of available fics from each year stretching back to 1980, so that's where I've decided to stop my game. All the fics are from Professionals fandom, so I am dropping the requirement of at least two fandoms per year that was part of Lifetime Fic Bingo. I've also decided to set the number of fics for each year at between one and three, rather than between three and five.
I'm not sure when I will start Lookback Fic Bingo. It probably won't be immediately after I finish my current game. I'll wait and see when I feel like it.
I hope those of you who have enjoyed Lifetime Fic Bingo will enjoy these new endeavors as well.
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