#fan fiction polls

[ajwinter-is-a-nerd]

LawLight Polls - The Longfic Lawlight MVPs

Hello my pretties! (Was said in a Wicked Witch of the West accent)

Today we start off the first poll for our mission to read as many Lawlight Fics as possible! As promised, the first poll will be our only work vs. work in this series of polls.

First up, we have The Sweet Taste of Silver by LumiOlivier (Tumblr: @lumiolivierlithium)

Word count: 172, 511 Summary: Email after email...It only made Light sicker to look at them. Final notice. Past due. Expulsion threats. He knew going to one of the best schools in the country would be pricey, but that's what his scholarships were for, right? At least until they start running out. At least he'll have his internship...And his new employer. Rating: Mature

Secondly, we have Passengers by Pyreneese (Tumblr: @pyreneese)

Wordcount: 100, 434 Summary: It comes in the middle of the night, on the eve of L's death. Both L and Light find themselves on a train right out of science fiction, handcuffed and totally unprepared. **NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF INFINITY TRAIN REQUIRED** Rating: Explicit

Side note - I have read both of these and highly recommend both of them. And I still haven't read or seen anything about Infinity Train - can confirm it is not required for Passengers!!

Original Thread: https://www.tumblr.com/winter-literature/738604422202114048/lawlight-polls-opening-january-25-2024?source=share

Special Hashtag: #WintersLawlightBible

[honeypiecastiel]

Example: a fic is 100k words but has 30 chapters of 3000 words each or a fic is 100k words and has 10 chapters of 10k words each

[k9effect]

Reblog for a larger sample size!

No "show results", if you're not a fanfic writer just be patient.

I saw a post about an anon saying it was embarrasing to have an ao3 account in your 30s (it's absolutely not), so I want to do a poll and see what the age range actually is.

[gaypiratebrainrot]

PORN WRITERS OF AO3

the #author wants to hear about dead batteries tag has always kinda bugged me, in part because i suspect porn writers who don't want comments about readers getting off to their porn are a small minority of porn writers, which would mean that the norm should be it's cool to comment "do you know how much i masturbate to this", and authors who don't want those comments can have their own tag instead.

but i am speculating wildly, so please reblog and give me some data!

[spec-squared]

I'll go first: I have 414 😅

[duelbraids]

a question for fanfic readers

What is the longest you think an individual chapter of a longfic should be, ie, at what point would you balk and not read?

edit: what i've learned from this is that: - my anxiety of long chapters being disliked was unfounded, and i'm fine actually, lol. - my data is likely skewed by virtue of being on the 'hyperliterate nerds' website - people love talking about the long fics they adore and its honestly so sweet <3

edit 2: no one gets to reblog this anymore because people started being fucking mean <3

[annwrites24]

I'm working on a WIP right now, getting approximate word counts for chapters, and some of them are twice the length of others... Most are 3- 4k, but one is over 7k, and another is barely 2k, lol!!!!! Do I just need to get better at editing? Who knows.

Pls rb for a larger sample size; I'm looking for general opinions here!

[the-bar-sinister]

Feel free to share your answer and primary fandom in the responses.

ETA: here's a poll that asks the question about percentages instead.

[tellmeallaboutit]

Answer options are as always as binary as possible, nuance in comments / reblogs

[writingwithfolklore]

(We chatted about this a bit in the discord. I'll tell you what won over there when this poll is up. Don't wanna skew the numbers. But I'd be curious what people think over here...)

[curiositysavesthecat]

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