Do you see them as anticipation? Or just unnecessary stress in reading fanfics? Have you dropped fanfics that ended in cliffhangers?

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Chapter cliffhangers are fun! I want to be engaged and wonder what will happen next. If the story itself ends on a cliffhanger… I guess that kinda depends. Is it setting up for a sequel? Is the author leaning into ambiguity? Both can work if the author can pull it off. I don’t think I would drop a fic for cliffhangers; I usually drop fics when I stop caring about the story/characters, or reading the story feels more like a chore than something fun that I look forward to.

    • @[email protected]M
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      111 months ago

      I like them so long as I actually get the payoff.

      This. I love them, but fanfiction gets abandoned often enough that there’s a real risk that it never gets updated