And We Should Be Grateful For That However Long Or Short Or Whatever It Is They Provide - Blog Posts

quackarooz

1 year ago

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.

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I started with shorter fics like one digit - k fics under because anything upper intimidates me but once i got over that I got appreciate the two digit - k fics and eventually the 100k + fics its more of a depends on the day for me i guess but my point is THEY CAN ALL BE BOMB even after i got accustomed to the 100k ones i still love fics shorter than those also yall stop acting like fan content creators owe you shit everyone could be making fan content but some people chose to share it yall and we should be grateful for that however long or short or whatever it is they provide

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