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[sua_lay]

There was a discussion in daily_snitch about the abundance of smut in HP fandom, and now I have to wonder if people actually want to read long and plot oriented fics in this fandom?

I've read a few longer series, but usually HP fics I've stumbled upon are 50k to 200k. Anything over 500k is a rare saga. Does anyone actually have the patience to read a slash fanfic that's longer than any of the HP books? have I just been wasting my time?

Also, everyone seems to be all yay about sad endings. Harry has to die to kill Voldemort. Snape has to kill Harry. There's either uberangst or then the ending is so smarmy I want to puke. What the heck is going on?

*feels old*

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[mimm]

*raises hand* I love longer, plotty fics. They give me a chance to really get inside the world the writer's created. Sure, I like shorter ones as well, but what I find the most satisfying ones are the longer ones. Just last weekend I spent 2,5 days reading a long Mulder/Krycek, the one I already mentioned, and I loved the fact that when I went to bed on Friday I knew I'd have a full day of reading ahead of me :) I like escapism.

As for sad endings... I'm masochistic enough to like sad endings. They hurt, but I like to hurt sometimes. Sometimes the only possibility really seems to be a sad ending. It's reality, I guess. Sometimes life sucks, and I like to be reminded of it. It's also kind of cathartic to suffer through a character.

But I also admit that I couldn't continue reading stuff if every single fic/book/story had a sad ending. I'd get depressed eventually. Sometimes I desperately want a happy ending, because sometimes it really is the most satisfying one.

In general, I think I like to balance the two. When I read a fic with a sad ending (see If You Are Prepared, for example) I hurt and feel miserable (if it's written well, that is, and not just for the sake of having a sad ending), and I'll like it, but soon after that I would like to read something happier. And sometimes I like stories that are a bit of both. Bittersweet, so to speak.

Just my thoughts, of course :) I can see why people would dislike sad endings. World's a lousy place as it is, so why make the fiction as lousy? Wish I knew.

[sua-lay.livejournal.com]

So.... A long angsty drama fic with a happy/bittersweet ending would be all right then. :D

Okay, I admit that the problem with huge fics is that it's not easy to make the story flow without boring people to tears from time to time (or not to use five hundred cliched sex scenes to make your minions go yay *cough*) but a well thought plotfic is a passion of mine.

I can read sad-ish fics, but I really need a warning if the ending's like in that fic you mention. Started to read it when it was a WIP and there were no warnings, which made me totally nuts! Killing supporting characters can be bad enough, but I really don't like them to be death fics in the definition that one of the main guys dies.

*goes and kills a Weasley*