many links out there

Do you know if you Google for "Ethan Rayne" you get about 11,400 links?
Which is many.
I have decided to go make a database with links and descriptions. Eventually I will have a great big uberlist of Ethan-y links.
Or, you know, the front two pages of Google links, until I get bored.

I was going to just link fanfics, but I'll have to go look at pages to tell if they are fanfic, so I might as well write down what I see.

For fanfic the categories need to be: Title, Author, URL, star, characters, pairings, rating, summary, and my notes on it.
anything I've forgotten?

for not-fanfic I don't know if I need different categories or just typing in the summary box.
hmmm.



As with most of my Grand Plans, this will probably not add up to a whole lot. *shrugs* Is a nice plan until then.

And yes, something I could have done while LJ was down. Except while LJ was down all I could think was *whyyyyyy is LJ not there? whyyyyyyy?* So now LJ is back so is my brain.
This proves that LJ is my brain. I must be very smart indeed. Somewhere or other I know *everything*

;)

Do we have to be nice?

Are anti-recs fair? Or writing a little review that says 'this fic was really, really, bad.' Or 'I disliked this fic intensely because'.

Or would it be better to say the things I dislike intensely, ie writing Giles as insane enough to need medication and having him do terrible things to Ethan because he wasnt taking his meds and then posting it to a Giles/Ethan archive? That one being fairly specific. But if I make it more general then every author I don't mean will also be sitting there wondering if I mean them.

Thing is, while recs are useful, sometimes stuff doesn't get recs just because it hasnt been found yet, so lack of rec is insufficient warning. And while warnings on stories cover quite a lot of stuff, some very different things can be hiding under a 'Character Death' or 'Child Abuse' label. And some of them I'd rather be warned away from in advance.


Edit: okay, what I'm now thinking of isnt so much the hypothetical low quality fics as some I have read with really inadequate warnings. Not so much 'it isn't to my taste' as 'it says orange and tastes strawberry, and I'm allergic to strawberry'. In which case keeping quiet perpetuates the problem for the next reader. Like, in the example above, reading something on a G/E archive where G is unrecogniseably insane and tortures E to death. Note- on a G/E archive. I have problems with that kind of story at all, but when it is posted on an archive meant to be about Ethan/Giles ie Giles & Ethan in love, I think it is a problem others need warning of.

Ghosts!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4178533.stm
Woman jailed for haunting castle
...
He called in the police, who captured a 42-year-old Polish woman on video,
masquerading as a ghost over a period of weeks, making mysterious noises.
...

! :)