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

[grackles.livejournal.com]

Wow. I love to read, the longer the better. The only time I skip anything that's long, comment or fic or whatever, is when there are no paragraph breaks. And even then I'll try to read it, but it has to be absolutely fascinating for me to read the entire thing if that is the case.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

The 'no-paragraph breaks' thing drives me apeshit :P