#Just to be clear I'm not talking about the Kacy fandom here

[i-like-turkey]

wanted to drop in and say i absolutely love how long your fic chapters are!! it is such an integral part of your style of writing and is part of the reason why i love your stuff so much! i get so excited when a new chapter drops to sit and read through it all! don't listen to anyone who says otherwise, write how you want to write because it'll be well-loved and appreciated no matter what :)

Thank you!!! I will absolutely keep doing what I'm doing.

I think what bothers me the most about this bullshit is that fanfic is CREATIVE writing. There are very, very few rules. If you want to write a 100 word drabble? Great! Fantastic! You are valid and wonderful. If you want to write a 2 million word slow-burn where your characters don't meet until 500k words and don't kiss until 1 million? Great! Fantastic! You are valid and wonderful.

But there are people out there who seriously think that all fanfic has to look a certain way. Basically they want chapters that are 2-3k words, stories that are plot/action heavy & always moving, and ones that don't have lots of detail. That's a fucking terrible mindset. There is room for all styles and all people so long as those people are doing their own damn work. So that means no Chat-GPT and no reading a ton of other fics, taking bits and pieces from them, and regurgitating them into your own.

And yet so many folks on the Reddit forums have that mindset which is how you end up with posts like this:

I didn't comment, but if I had, it would look like this:

"There is an audience for those kinds of fics. Signed someone who wrote a longfic that's 99% two characters talking and yet it's one of the most loved and well received fics in the fandom. CHARACTER STUDIES ARE VALID AND INTERESTING."

It's funny cause I never really imagined that this is the kind of writing that I would end up doing. Dumb, funny smut was easy and now that kinda bores me. What's fascinating is drilling down deep into characters' heads and writing in what's basically real time: minute by minute, day by day. Cause there's so many subtle changes that happen over the course of days and weeks and if you sit and build those changes piece by piece, you can tell a really beautiful and powerful story. And AGGN proves this.