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The different fanfic eras explained as lunch
Pre-internet era: You walk into a room and sit down at a table. Someone brings you a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Perhaps you are a vegetarian, or gluten-free. Doesn’t matter; you get a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda.
Usenet era: You walk into a room and sit down to your turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Someone tells you that over at the University they are also serving BLTs, pizza, coffee, and beer.
Web 1.0 (aka The Great Schism): You walk into a room. The room is lined with 50 unmarked doors. Someone tells you, “We have enough food to feed you and a hundred more…but we’ve scattered it behind these fifty doors. Good luck!”
Web 2.0 (present): You walk into a room. Someone points at the buffet and says, “Enjoy!” You turn to see a 100-foot-long buffet table, piled high with every kind of food imaginable. To be fair, some of the food is durian, head cheese, and chilled monkey brains, but that’s cool, some people are into those…and trust me, they are even more psyched to be here than you are.
when i come across a fic with a long, lowercase title (perhaps with parentheses) that’s over 20k words and only one chapter
why do people in fandom not write exactly what I, personally, want rather than all these other things that aren’t exactly what I, personally, want
When the fanfic you’ve given up on finally updates.
fanfic titles be like “we have not touched the stars (nor are we forgiven)” and then you look at the tags & the first one is “anal fisting”
Me:*sees complete fanfic by a writer I already know at 10 pm knowing full well I won’t sleep if I read it*….
Me:
2 things: 1. Sometimes I’ll love a story so much to the point where I’ll accidentally give them more kudos each chapter. 2. The smiley face after the “you’ve already given kudos” is surprisingly intimidating
agreed
anybody else a fan of these rlly niche oneshot fics that r simultaneously a little moody and angsty while being exceptionally tender and sexy. they’re always like 20k words and absolutely nothing happens plot wise except feelings stuff. and they always have a title (like this)
Nothing like rereading a bunch of fanfics, wishing mine would somehow magically update themselves.
me whenever I get home from the movies:
Me:*sees complete fanfic by a writer I already know at 10 pm knowing full well I won’t sleep if I read it*….
Me:
Sir that’s my emotional support unrealistic romantic daydream
The Author: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This fic is not very good but I somehow ended up reading 21 chapters of it so now I have to finish: a biography
“Nope,” I whisper as I exit out of a fic with no paragraph breaks.
Countless times, I have mocked figures in Greek mythology for daring to think themselves the equals or betters of gods, and yet here I am, doing shit like clicking “entire work” on a 600k fic at 10pm. I like to think of myself as a decent, reasonable person, but talk about modern sheer fucking hubris.
I am a simple woman. I see an evil fictional man who shows the slightest hint of being a decent person and I go wild
me: i feel like reading some light fics tonight, something under 10k
ao3: shows me the perfect tags, everything i wanted, everything i love
fic:
me:
