#am i misremembering or did long fics used to be rarer? i feel like i remember people lamenting the lack of them back on LiveJournal? | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

nostalgia-tblr · 7 months ago

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lukewarm take but i blame all those "every oneshot shoved into a single work, showing up in every search forever more" compliations on people who talk about fics being "just a oneshot" and similar statements that imply anything less than novel-length is a silly, pointless piece of nonsense that does not deserve its own post with its own tags and its own summary.

#am i misremembering or did long fics used to be rarer? i feel like i remember people lamenting the lack of them back on LiveJournal?#because lately i sometimes tag things as “oneshot” to let people know that it's finished and that didn't ever feel necessary before #anyway it's just wild to me that anyone would think of posting fics to AO3 as “spamming” the site.#you're putting fanfiction on a fanfiction archive in what way is that not exactly what the site is there for in the first place?#fandom & fanfiction &tc #the worst are the ones that are 200+ drabbles (100 words or otherwise) updated weekly so they never leave the first page :'(#THERE IS ONE DRABBLE IN THERE WITH THE PAIRING I AM LOOKING FOR AND I'VE ALREADY READ THAT ONE THANKS #no i shall not be clicking through 75 'chapters' to see if the pairing i want and the tag i want are actually in the same story

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