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sheliesshattered · 5 months

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I think my tastes must just vary wildly from most people's, but I feel like the last several fanfics I've read have gone on for five or six chapters too many. I'll take an open-ended happy ending over wading through 15k+ words of a dense cloud of cotton candy overly sweet denouement in which every aspect of their perfect life together is explained in excruciating detail, and pet-names and 'I love you's are exchanged every other paragraph

#also. like. getting married and living happily ever after doesn't mean having no problems at all #there's always problems. the point is that you face them TOGETHER. stories about people with no problems are boring #idk I just feel like reading 100k+ words of really great plot and character development #only to faceplant into the literary equivalent of a vat of high fructose corn syrup for the last 15k+ words #really doesn't feel true to the rest of the story that came before it #it's also a huge contributor to why I leave so few comments these days #I don't want to comment chapter by chapter as I go along and then suddenly stop commenting when I get to the saccharine ending #and by the time I've waded through all that corny sweet syrup I don't particularly feel like commenting anymore #so the fics that I comment on are the ones that stick the landing. and sadly that feels like such a small percentage #whereas I'll leave kudos if I read all the way to the end even if there were things I didn't like about it #Jack suggested maybe I should just stop reading when it feels like I've reached the equivalent of an open-ended happy ending #and just leave a comment then about how much I liked the actual plot. then just walk away and leave the sugar rush for those who like it #and he's probably right tbh. I'll have to try that in the future #honestly this might also just be me transitioning out of my reading phase and into a writing phase instead #when other people's writing starts to piss me off it's time to get back to writing the stuff I actually want to read lol #tagtalking #fanfiction #fandom life #writing #2024 mood #about me

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