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vaginadentatacas · 9 months

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attention to all my longfic readers. sometimes you have to stop and look up the word count on the actual physical books you own. just for a sense of scale. 225k seems long but reasonable on ao3, until you realize that is an 800 page BRICK of a book when put onto paper. this is a terrible exercise but extremely necessary, because sometimes you may be forced to confront the fact you have read a fic the length of war and peace in the span of four days

#avoided picking up priory of the orange tree because it was so thick... just found out i have read destiel fics that were 3x it's length #FYI this is not a bad thing #but um. sometimes getting that sense of scale is bonkers wacky brain melting #i am in AWE of anyone who has ever written a whole ass NOVEL and shared it because a piece of media or certain characters inspired them sm

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