Re: Assumptions You Make

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If you're in a bad mood already, you're less likely to look at things more charitably than you are if you're happy.

Yep, and if you check out the fandoms you were most looking forward to first and find nothing but coal, that can skew the tone from the start and make you much more uncharitable towards all the more average fic as you're going through the rest of the collection. It's a fine line between, "Woohoo, some decent, readable fic in a tiny fandom that doesn't get much!" and, "Gah, more bland forgettable crap, I haven't read a single fic that really stands out yet."