sathinfection: ten-thousand-leaves: Murphy’s law, applied to fanfics. – The fic starts out great, nice style, language, captivating summary. It’s unfinished and has been abandoned since 2013. – The fic is complete, nice style, language, tons of kudos speak for themselves. It’s about your NOTP. – The fic is about your OTP, it’s complete, it’s kinky …
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me: I’m going to write a quick little oneshot fanfiction. I never write, I’m not a good writer, so it’ll be terrible. 1k is probably a reasonable word count goal for this. eight thousand words later: now what kind of bath tubs did they have in the eighteenth century.
museaway: I made a flow chart illustrating the sophisticated process I use to weed through fics. Source: museaway
notanightlight: There are some fics that are really good… And then there are some fics that would bring you out of a coma if somebody told you they updated.
galactic-spacekid: I laugh really hard when I read pompous pep fanfics and they describe vlad as muscular and straight forward and hot , Because I can only imagine vlad as skinny nervous and tall
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mermaidfaeryraptor: boomer-rowdyruff: siren-stuff: “Warnings: Major character death—” “Half of your OTP x OC—” “Unfinished. Last time updated: 358451 years a—” “Starts with your OTP— —but eventually NOTP” I LAUGHED IN TEARS ON THE FOURTH ONE Painfully true everywhere.
megturnies: poly ships are so fucking perfect and i wish there was more. i wish there were more fics exploring three people falling in love, or two people building a friendship and growing closer because they’re both in love with the same person. i want art and head canons and all of it. there’s so …
someone: hey are you ever going to post that thing you teased a while back? 🙂 me: *hisses and retreats into a pile of half-finished fics and empty dorito bags*
inkstainstink: when i see really good fic ideas that are executed really poorly i just
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suntanna: orangelemonart: professortennant: Word count in the HP Series: Sorcerer’s Stones: 76,944 Chamber of Secrets: 85,141Prisoner of Azkaban: 107,253 Goblet of Fire: 190,637Order of the Phoenix: 257,045Half-Blood Prince: 168,923Deathly Hallows: 198,227 Word count in the LOTR Series: The Hobbit: 95,022Fellowship of the Ring: 177,227Two Towers: 143,436Return of the King: 134,462 This changed me Holy shit. Well that puts …