paraka | Fic length

You know, when I started off in fandom I *loved* long fics. I know I spent about a month working through Miss Meko's fics. I'd seek them out, and relish them. When I came over to the SGA fandom and saw that the majority of fics seemed to be only 1, 2, or 3 LJ posts long, well, it made me sad, and long for longer fics. I know at the beginning I was able to read quite a few, but once I got through them, I was stuck with the shorter fics.

I don't know what it is, but while I still seek out longer fics, I've found myself having trouble reading them. It's like my attention span just shrunk. It seems that as I read these longer fics I think to myself "Ok, hurry up now" or "OMG I can't believe I'm only half way through!" Even the longer fics that I read and loved, I'm not able to go back and read them again (at least not all of it at once, I'll sometimes just read parts of it though).

I don't know what this says about me. All I know is that I'm reading this one fic right now thinking both those thoughts mentioned above, and instead of just reading through it, I'm making my second post of the night, am completely caught up on my flist, have been leaving comments for people, and have even read through a couple old wank debates/meta. I just can't believe this. *sigh* I just joined

sga_epicfic which lists quite a few fics I've never read before, but I'm slightly afraid of reading them because they might bore me. WHERE HAS MY ATTENTION SPAN GONE!

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I've never been a fan of long fics myself, for reasons I've never bothered to examine, but the one long series I was able to get into recently was...hell if I know either the title or the author. It's the one where John was married to Elizabeth and she died of cancer and he ends up dating Rodney and they're domestic and adorable and nothing really happens. God, I lovelovelove fics where nothing really happens. Tell me about the bathroom renovations John and Rodney are fighting over and I'm a happy girl.

Also, because I've meaning to ask, how's your sister doing?

I have always loved long fics. In fact, I think that's part of the reason why I like fandom so much, when I decide I like something, I latch onto it, and don't want to let go. It's really weird to find myself not being able to read these things now. When I was a teenager I would read Diana Gabaldon's books over and over again, and her smallest one was over 800 pages (at the time, I think she has smaller ones now).

Also, because I've meaning to ask, how's your sister doing?
Which one? The pregnant one? Or the paralyzed face one?
Jenny, is just happy to be over the morning sickness stage of things, and is anxious to get into her second trimester (our family has a history of miscarriages, so she scared). She's sleepy a lot, but doing well otherwise.

Andrea's face is pretty much back to normal now. She went to the Dr.'s last week and was told she had 92% of her movement back, which basically meant her forehead didn't go as wrinkly if she raised her eyebrows. I think it's probably all back by now.

I don't think I knew about Jenny, so I was asking about Andrea. Glad to hear they're both doing well, though. I was worried about that whole not being able to move her face thing. How scary.

Well, luckily Andrea is too lazy to research it on the web, so we just kept telling her don't worry it's temporary, and then laughed at her and her crooked face. Since we didn't take it seriously she didn't. It was more kind of cool, and she'd make funny faces at people and tell all of her friends and family to go see her on YouTube.

I don't know what it is, but while I still seek out longer fics, I've found myself having trouble reading them. It's like my attention span just shrunk. It seems that as I read these longer fics I think to myself "Ok, hurry up now" or "OMG I can't believe I'm only half way through!" Even the longer fics that I read and loved, I'm not able to go back and read them again (at least not all of it at once, I'll sometimes just read parts of it though).
Oh man, this is absolutely the same for me. It's kind of sad. :(

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