Hey y'all 👋🏻

It’s time for Who’s Who Wednesday where every Wednesday we introduce ourselves and make new friends. This is possibly part 15.

Jadelovesbooks originally started this. These were some of my favorite posts to read through so I'd like to bring it back if that's cool (or if these were ended on purpose, let me know and I'll remove this).

If you participated in any of the times before, you don’t have to introduce yourself again but you can share some different facts about you, an opinion you have, or how your week is going.

If you’re new, introduce yourself!

I’ll go first.

My name is Wibbily. When I listen to Good Luck Babe by Chappell Roan, I only hear 🎶"When you wake up next to ham in the middle of the night."🎶 I can't unhear it and now I kinda prefer it 🐷

I wanted to know everyone's thoughts on fanfictions getting published since I know people have quite varied opinions on the subject. I personally haven't read much or any books that were adapted from a fanfics so if your favorite fanfic was published, how did you feel about it?

My take on this is mostly as a fanfic reader I feel like I would be sad if a fanfic that I loved or that I was reading was taken down to be published. Don't get me wrong I'm happy for the author that they are getting published but for that to happen we need to strip the fanfic of the characters and what would make it recognisable because of copyright issues. If it is an AU I think it could still work but a canon divergent fic or anything in that same universe would probably require a lot of prior knowledge, that with a fanfic the reader already have with the source material. But maybe I'm reading too much into that.

Also I thought that it was strange that the fandom space and fanfics are predominantly queer ships but so far I've only heard about straight fanfics getting published. Wouldn't it make more sense for queer fanfics to get publish since they are more popular.

I was just thinking yesterday about how I actually don't always like (or at least don't feel the most comfortable) when I start a new book because I really don't like not knowing things; this is why I always end up looking up spoilers for everything I read/watch. I tend to feel blind and uncertain when I'm starting a new world and am trying to figure everything out.

I much prefer the ending of books, when things are resolved and I know exactly what is going on. My therapist would say it's a control thing for me. I definitely feel much more comfortable with endings than beginning of books, at the very least. I'm okay with the middle of books, but that's usually when I end up giving up on not spoiling myself and either read the ending first or look up spoilers online.

So do y'all prefer the beginning of books, endings of books, or the middle when you're still ~in it?

i’ve been on a HUUUUGE manhwa bender recently and as much as i love reading them, im unsure whether to put them in my reading goals or so. because more often than not, they’re not even listed on the database,, (eg, the spark in your eyes, my sweet enemy thy name is my husband, etc.) i couldn’t even find them on goodreads’ database so im assuming that’s why it’s not on here. but other ones (eg, your eternal lies, for better or for worse, etc.) Are listed. so now im conflicted if i should add them towards my reading goals or not.

i know this is a big ask but would adding manta, tappytoons, webtoon and lezhin’s works be plausible? it would make everything so much more convenient and don’t worry, im aware its a Big ask. really appreciate everything you’re doing for this community and love it so so so much. <33

what are we marking as spoilers? specific story details, thoughts about those details, anything past a certain point in a book? i tend to err on the side of caution and mark most story details as a spoiler, but i feel like traditionally, spoilers are things that happen later in the story. like big plot twists or reveals about a character, character deaths. stuff like that 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️ i’m just curious what other people’s criteria are for marking something as a spoiler 🫣🫣

Ok, so you know that book series that you read and fell instantly in love; where you are so immersed with the world and their characters that they feel so real you ; where a character(s) is your book boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse; and you just generally die happy from shock every time it's brought up (or a slightly less exaggerated form of this feeling)?

Yeah, I don't have that.

sniffles then sobs

But I believe it's finally the time to find my own favourite book series! So feel free to drop recommendations or your own favourites. I really don't any preference, so it could be romance, fantasy, adventure, action/crime, e.t.c e.tc...

EDIT: omg, just a few minutes after making this post and already have so many replies. Thank you all! I have made a list of series mentioned and will try and get through it all. Don't be shy to add more: my tbr can never be full (mwahahahahaha)

This is a side note or whatever, but I'm surprised I didn't get popular booktok books as recommendations, as this is what usually floods my feed so I thought that was what everyone was reading lol.

I've seen a few posts where the audience is assumed to be American and it made me curious about how many users are actually American? Objectively speaking it makes sense that the majority is but I wish there was a statistic for it (just out of curiosity).

From Kill Joy to AGGGTM… I really hate Ant. Bro is pissing me tf offffff. What a stinky character.