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Jan. 25th, 2005 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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*
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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Date: 2005-01-26 12:30 pm (UTC)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*