#esp smut

still, i kinda wish the fics i read now were a bit more similar in style to old favs. a lot of decent het fic always tries to make itself a really lengthy epic. which is nice, but very few of them make me forget length and just sink me into the story. not quite purple prose, but definitely mauve. i’m always hyper aware im 5 chapters in and 40k words down outta 39 chapters and 200k words. while im enjoying the ride, i’m also kinda already anticipating the exit. i dont think thats a quality/het/shipping problem, but a writer/fandom/site issue, were authors and styles get shifted around and make stylistic niches in fandoms/sites. also a bit of write what you read/know. predominantly het writers will write fantasy with more or less unchanged gender rules, while the otherside veers off into a more interpersonal narrative. or something. my ass should be asleep