Don't worry about the length -- I've seen fic from one word right up to novel-length.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
amych - Jul 14, 2003 10:51:44 am PDT #5166 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
victor infante - Jul 14, 2003 10:52:41 am PDT #5167 of 10001
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Don't worry about the length -- I've seen fic from one word right up to novel-length.
Oh, not worrying. Just noting it went on a bit longer than I thought it would.
deborah grabien - Jul 14, 2003 10:55:00 am PDT #5168 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Victor, both "Pensioner" and "Needfire" are that long, if not longer. Speaking of which, someday I need to write the third part of the trilogy.
Elena, I think (yes, I am a meanie) that Angelus' snapping of Jenny's neck was karma for Jenny. She obeyed the family dictates, and the result of her secrecy and secret agenda was the unsouling of Angel (she could have prevented it, by being upfront much earlier, maybe), and Angelus took her down. Instant karma. Sorry for Giles, but on that one? It was all about the Jennyness of the original order-following screwup.
And yes, I know, deep family stuff. I don't care. Whatever the reason for an action, there's always the possibility that a reaction is going to come slamming down the pike.
Beverly - Jul 14, 2003 10:55:33 am PDT #5169 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Catching up on more than a hundred posts. Oh. my. freaking. goodness. Victor, um, gah. connie, wow. sa, hee! elena, oh my. lyra, hmm, you intrigue me. Plei, guh, and whaddaya mean that scene never aired?
I dassn't get this far behind again. This much effugence all at once will cause my brain to go all 'splody.
Beverly - Jul 14, 2003 10:57:02 am PDT #5170 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
someday I need to write the third part of the trilogy.
Yes. Yes, you do.
Anne W. - Jul 14, 2003 11:44:15 am PDT #5171 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Huh. My longest fic is currently 165,000 words, and will very likely end up at around 300,000. This scares me if I think about it too much.
Fay - Jul 14, 2003 12:46:11 pm PDT #5172 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
165,000 words? Phew! Which one is this? My longest is still the unfinished HP story (which, yo, I should get cracking with now I have some time) which is presently at 50,000 words and I reckon will be around 70,000 when it's finished. I thought that was a bit of a beast. 300,000 - that's one hell of a big fic.
Victor, based on the bits of this story of yours that I've read (and I can't wait to get a link to the whole thing in one place and read it properly!), I think you might perhaps enjoy Yahtzee's Phoenix Burning . Not that it's anything like your story, mind, just that she wrote it in the summer between the Season Five ending and the start of Season Six, and she too just jumped off into What If to spin her future fic. It's a big-ass story, but if you've only encountered wee pieces so far, it's well worth a look. Very well told and some smashing original characters.
smonster - Jul 14, 2003 12:49:21 pm PDT #5173 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Yahtzee's Phoenix Burning
I read this recently. Pretty interesting. She got me in that Joss way, the holy-shit-I-should-have-seen-that-coming-but-didn't way. I may or may not have gotten teary, too. I don't recall.
t /5th amendment
esse - Jul 14, 2003 1:50:07 pm PDT #5174 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Hey, Fay, shoot me an email. I've got something I'd like you to look at.
Anne W. - Jul 14, 2003 3:37:15 pm PDT #5175 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Am-Chau, insent.
165,000 words? Phew! Which one is this?
It is the very, very long anime fic which has turned into a ^(*&$ novel. I love big, long, sprawly novels and series (Tad Williams' Otherworld quadruple-decker, Tim Powers' novels, etc.) and I'm afraid it shows in my writing. I'm trying to write more drabbles and short fics so I can learn to rein in my verbosity.