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johnlock
Can ya’ll believe just how much fanfic has skewed with our sense of how long something is? Like my ass can’t sit down to read a 3,000 word document for class but I can look at a 70,000 word fic like “oh that’s not too long, I can read that in a few hours.”
When did 70,000 words become SHORT
Were legit out here reading entire novels a day
it’s facinating how tumblr culture changed since its superwholock days like every About Me page was filled with notes on which fandoms one was in and each ship one shipped was listed and now it’s like “hi i’m jenna, i’m gay and sad”
When someone gender bends only one character in a gay/lesbian ship to make it a straight ship
consuming unhealthy amounts of fanfiction to cope with unbearable, suffocating loneliness
may 2019 bring you good health and a lot of new fanfics in your favorite tropes
I hate it when people are like ‘In the past you used to read a lot more’ like no, in the past I just used to read normal books at normal times and not 1k+ words of (gay) fanfiction at fucking 4:30 am
Mom: Honey, you keep smiling at your phone. Cute boy?
Me looking up form my gay fanfiction: Yeahhh
Me @ me: Even two
One of my favorite things is when you discover one of your favorite fan fiction authors from one fandom has 50 fics in a new fandom you’re in.
Okay but imagine your OTP:
There’s smut and then there’s smut
fanfiction taught me to adapt quickly because one minute these characters are bitter rivals and then suddenly they’ve been married for 25 years with 10 kids and are eternal vampires the next
Hands up if you want to stop spending so much time on the internet/your phone and actually would succeed…if it weren’t for fanfiction.
Because fanfiction mostly ruined you for normal books:
-cause you already know and love the characters
-thus do not need and introduction
- meaning the first 50-100 pages a book normally needs to get all that outta the way …are feeling unnecessarily and unbearably long.
- and because you’re impatient you want to skip them but then you would miss a lot and that is just took much work
- Also fanfiction is sooo much easier and cheaper to get in such a large quantity , it’s ridicoulus
- thus you can read the same plot with different characters you love 15 times (or more) or read about the same characters with a new plot every 15 minutes (or longer/shorter)
- Its basically been in your “night-routine” for so long now, it’ll be so way to hard to disintegrated it again
- me: *sees a fic with major character death warning*
- me: lmao not gonna do that again
- also me at 3 am in the morning after reading said fic: *chugs down vodka while drowning in tears* i did it friends
I can’t wait to celebrate Valentine’s Day by reading slightly more fan fiction than usual.
