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never lose hope. somewhere, a middle-aged, gender ambiguous person with an advanced degree in an esoteric field and a fiber arts hobby could be crashing out and pinning all their remaining mental health on getting obsessed with your otp. any day now, the most elegantly written 100k fanfic you have ever read is going to hit ao3. it could happen. it has happened.

mjlor-chan

sakeofpower

n-moonbreeze

Fanfic tiktok is wild... I see so many people saying shit like "I could never read anything below 60k!!", or "What story can you even tell in under 5k words?" or "A oneshot below 10k isn't even a story!" or "I always filter completed fics by 100k< only!"

And I'm like...

A) which fandoms are you reading fics for where you have this kind of offerings on the regular?

B) have you heard of short stories? If you truly think every story NEEDS to be longform to connect with people, I sincerely feel sorry for you.

C) Average novel length is between 50k to 100k. I'm sorry, but CONSISTENTLY demanding fic writers to push out fics of that length is insane. Just think about it: YOU DEMAND AUTHORS TO PUT OUT FICS THAT COMPARE TO COMMERCIAL NOVELS IN LENGTH (AND QUALITY) AS A BASELINE.

Yall are wilding.

eeveethejedi

aimmyarrowshigh

#cannot believe I had to read the words ‘what story can you even tell in under 5k words.’ I’m gonna go live in the woods real quick#oh you poor souls have never been eviscerated by short fiction?#how sad for you!#couldn’t be me (via @dharmasharks)

parlapina

"I've never seen you at the club"

Okay, well, I've never seen you on ao3 reading fanfictions in the middle of the night

sirius-you-know

"go to hell" is basic. "i hope your favourite AO3 work gets deleted." is smart. its possible. its terrifying.

chrasilla

"fuck you" is basic. "i hope there's a major character death in your favorite ao3 fanfic after 56 chapters and 148k words" is smart. it's possible. it's terrifying.

wikiipediabf

yall know the feeling when you're reading a fanfiction and you read a line/dialog that's just so beautiful that you rethink all your life choices and want to start being a better person so you just stare at it like:

cryiling

babe what's wrong? you've hardly touched your 200 fics you opened in a new tab and swore you'd get to at some point but never had the time or motivation to read

boydykedoctor

ao3 comments will be like “i like this line of your fic” and my reply will be like “fantastic thank you here’s my entire thought process about how i ended up with that particular line and also an outline for another fic i have and fifteen resources i used to research 1980s politics” and nobody asked for that chill

yokothetypo

i asked for that

lizardlicks

No we 100% asked for that.

spacecasehobbit

Definitely asked for that, and also here’s the other three dozen lines from your fic that I liked and the outline for the fic they inspired me to write plus some extra character meta that at this point is only tangentially related to your fic but was definitely inspired by those 1980s politics resources and -

greenjudy

Yep.

saathi1013

This is literally how I made most of my fandom besties.

sweetiepie08

Listen…

Fic Commenters: If you ever want to make a comment going on depth about a part of a fic that stood out to you, but think “does the author really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!!

Fic authors: If you ever see a comment that makes you want to explain your thought process behind your writing, and you think “does the commenter really want to read all this?” The answer is YES! YES WE DO WANT TO READ ALL THAT!!!

fitzsimp

“You have already left kudos here. :)”

well maybe i would like to leave MORE kudos bc THIS FIC IS TOO GOOD OKAY

moonlit-sunflower-books

friends to lovers never had a bad track. “scared i’ll ruin what we have” SLAPS. “friendship cuddles while secretly dying inside” BANGER. “teasing each other and holding eye contact for a little too long” KILLS ME. and don’t even get me STARTED on “screaming i love you in the middle of a heated argument.”

larryfanfiction

Glitter in the sky, glitter in our eyes by softfonds

Length: 59k

What happens when a Duke who will only marry for love and a courtesan who only sells it create a public ruse? Well, nothing boring for sure. An Edwardian AU.

Ao3, Chaptered, Completed