#except thst it was this exact progression with a bunch of DIFFERENT couples over and over and over and over for

[sharkface]

Whether you like fanfic or hate it you kind of have to respect some of these people for just generating insane amounts of words that have basically no internal value like just chapter after chapter of the same interaction in a different setting every time to the point that it kind of eliminates all potential tension. Like ok they're baking together. Let me guess they're going to notice how close their faces are and describe features they like in each other in their internal dialogues and have a meaningful looking at each other moment and then bashfully look away while resuming overmixing this cake batter and then have some more internal dialogue about how they don't know what that was or what they want and it is forbidden but the other guy wouldn't want them anyway. And then next chapter they're gonna do that again while assembling an ikea desk. And then the one after that they're gonna do the same thing but then also fight about it. And then this is all going to culminate in a graphic sex scene for some reason at which point the reader will realize that that is the only part the author was actually interested in writing but wanted there to be like 60 thousand words of buildup to that for some reason. Like it or hate it their wordcounts are nuts

#talk #When I was a teenager there was one I liked which I will NOT name or even say what it was about #except thst it was this exact progression with a bunch of DIFFERENT couples over and over and over and over for #THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND WORDS written across only about two years in tandem with at least two smaller projects #With the same characters #Like that's crazy mqn I couldn't do thst even if I didn't care about the quality of my writing #I just don't have thst much energy