For the fanfic reader ask game 3, 9, 17(for you to want to read, not necessarily all fics in general) ?
Hi, @familyofpaladins! For the FanFic Meme :D #3. Do you ever read fics in fandoms where you don't know the canon? It's rare, but I will read a non-TMNT that a friend has posted or is very excited about. Even with those, though, my friends will have talked about their shows or projects. I have some knowledge. I can't say I go in tabula rasa. In this land of gif sets, who among us can say we don't know the canon?
#9. How many fics are in your marked for later list?
I have a billion fics to read. Written and unwritten. Archived and forgotten. Spoken and unspoken. I don't really use the 'for later' list function on Ao3, but every few years i get a wild hair of up my butt and try to read all the turtle fics that appeal to me starting from the back of the archive and going forward to current. I've only successfully done it once. Y'all keep writing more fics. It's wonderful. :) #17. What's the best length for a fic?
It should go until the author thinks it should stop. I will read any word count. Authors cannot scare me with 5millionK words. Authors cannot hide their 200 word treasures from my gaze. As long as the fic premise matches the size, I'm thrilled. I'm saying this badly. Sometimes an idea is a incredibly powerful single scene. And the author gives me 500 words, and I'm delighted at the compact and clever presentation. Sometimes an idea is an epic quest across 12 generations and requires a whole shift of union men on the loading docks to serve the webpage to me. This is a hearty feast to be savored. I think my only disappointments would have to come from the complex and immersive long!fic idea being stuffed into 300 words and left unexplored or unpacked. Or a compact yet potent scene!fic idea being stretched and diluted across 300k words. Both happen, and neither is an author failing, but both leave my heart yearning. That makes sense, right?
