Too long, didn't read? WHAT THE FUCK?

[themostepotente]

tl;dr

Okay -- this is just assinine.

Came across this on gmth's journal. And Gina, count me among those that had no fucking clue what the initials stood for either. *G*

Forget rude. There should be a Darwin Awards for stupid fucking fandom assholes.

Do you know how many stories I would have missed out on if I based my reading on length?

Fic is NOT a cock. Length does NOT matter.

I mean if something looks promising and you haven't the time, why wouldn't you just fucking bookmark?

If anything I'm more off-put by shorter fics, but Christ I read 'anything' that catches my eye.

Fuck, FIND me a 100,000 word Snack fic and I WILL BE ALL OVER THE MOTHERFUCKER!

So now I have to ask...

Is length (long or short) off-putting to a reader?

--P

ETA: Okay, I'm a dumbshit. I didn't read all the way down. Apparently it applies to comments not fics. But I'm with Gina, I wouldn't be surprised if someone didn't use this for fic either.

Comments

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never seen it used for a fic. I only use it for an excuse when people ask me why I didn't comment on their lj rants about how everything sucks.

Length is not off-putting, but WIPness can be. Like I'm one to talk. But sometimes you just want to be able to sit and read it all you know? Like waiting for the next installment of the source material isn't bad enough torture.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

Duh I didn't see your edit, or else you just put it there. I guess your post was tl;dr :PPPP

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

You suck :P

I am totally crashing now.

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA ICON.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Danny still looks like he's wanking, God bless him :-)

[scarah2.livejournal.com]

He's 15, he never gets tired.