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[(Anonymous)]

da are you more pointing your discussion towards people who write longfic solely for the expectation that bc what their writing is long it should be praised and people will have to like it?
what about those who start writing fic and it just ends up being long?

i don't know if there's a difference like this in kpop fandom, which seems to really value longfic. i side more with the writer who may have too ambitious an idea and maybe not have executed it properly over maybe someone writing for a word count

[(Anonymous)]

i feel like there are definitely subsets in kpop fandom who overvalue the length of a story/deliberately try to aim for something long. imo there's a difference when something about the plot actually calls for a novel length story, for instance a spy au or a pacific rim au or a fantasy au with a lot of necessary worldbuilding and probably also has at least one plot line apart from the main romance. stuff like that is naturally going to end up being long if you want to properly flesh out the plot, and i love reading stuff like that! i just think that kind of plot is naturally lacking in RPF fandoms especially KPOP, since it's about real people, and boy band members at that, whereas for fic in fictional fandoms like harry potter or star trek there's a natural inclination for long casefic or things that have to do with something other than 2 people's relationship with each other because the source material provides so many built-in plot devices.

i'm not saying i haven't enjoyed long canon fic about relationships in kpop fandom before, but i think because age of writers skews young in this fandom a lot of them aren't as good with pacing and attempt to draw things out beyond belief. there are so many stories i've read in the past 2 years that could've been cut to 20% of their original length and lost nothing of the original story. i think a lot of people just need editors.