If it ends up that fic discussion stays, I'd still like to know how others can be made more comfortable beyond ensuring active Show discussion isn't interrupted. Is it not just volume, but content? How do I edit myself? In timing and frequency, or topic (too in-depth on the D/C. Wincest? Slash deets?)?

I'd like to have my squee and my peeves, but I don't want to be a bull in a china shop either. Which maybe I have and for that I apologize.

If I'm not alone it would make sense that there is more fic talk in here than previously; I am more interested in fic than I was before, and SPN fic is my favorite.

Am I crazy to suggest fic-free weekends? I'm wondering how out of hand it would be if we only talked fanfic in here Monday-Thursday.

I've noticed it.

You've noticed discussion, or you've noticed show discussion suffering?

I know I'm guilty of the behaviour being discussed here, because I read a lot of fic, I talk a lot, and I talk about some of the fic I read. But I'd be really surprised to see a number of instances in which show discussion suffered, got derailed, or was drowned out because there was a thriving fic discussion going on instead. Each bout of discussion is usually pretty short and not happening on top of any other conversation.

You've noticed discussion, or you've noticed show discussion suffering?

I've noticed that it seems like at least half the posts here in the last six months have been fic, not show. Now it might be that we'd talk about the show no more if there weren't fic discussons going on.

I, personally, don't like posting show stuff in the midst of ongoing fic recs, squee and discussion because it feels like interrupting a conversation. But I've not been as frequent a poster in the last season so that's not a huge deal.

It's definitely a thread I skim because I default assuming that it's mostly fic talk, even when there might be show talk too.

Threads evolve. Threads about shows more than most, I'd guess.

I'd still like to know how others can be made more comfortable beyond ensuring active Show discussion isn't interrupted

Speaking for myself, I think that's all that's needed. Just a sensitivity to timing. People are good about knowing what to whitefont.

I did feel that the conversation upthread about Death's role in the show got cut rather short, and that's what prompted me to post something I've been thinking about for a while. To your point, ita, while it may not happen often, that instance just happened to hit a breaking point for me. It was as if Hec had come back to a thread looking forward to continued discussion of haircuts and instead found a string of cat macros.

Again, I apologize for forgetting that the Boxed Set move was a sore point for a lot of people and for therefore stirring up a lot of old bitterness. I will retract my suggestion and will do what I can to adjust to how the thread has evolved.

Anne, Thank you, and I'm sorry if I made you feel like you couldn't speak your mind. Knee jerk reaction aside, I think being mindful of not cutting off show discussion is a good thing. I'm not sure how we can balance it, given that we are all talky meat, and not always about the same things, but mindfulness is never a bad thing.

I want to see Death reap God.

I'm sorry if I made you feel like you couldn't speak your mind

You didn't make me feel that at all. Thank you.

I had a long post, and I deleted it.

There was a conversation about Death. An hour after the last post, I posted something about a fic. Almost 24 hours later, I posted something about another fic.

Is that seriously derailing show talk? If I had posted something about Henriksen and 20 hours later something else about Jo, and no one else had said anything more about Death, would that have been better?

If I had posted a link to a picture instead of a reaction to a story (or a rec, which some people are saying would still be okay), would that have been fine?

Vid? Con report? TV Guide cover poll?

I'm not being deliberately obtuse. It's just that if that's the example of show discussion being drowned out, I really don't get it. I had nothing to say about Death. Did I stop someone else from saying something on the topic with one post in just shy of 24 hours? Seriously?

I want to see Death reap God.

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