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pedantherArchive of Our Own recently did a feature update that now makes it possible to sort one's collection of bookmarks (links to fics one is interested in revisiting) by the length of the fic in question.
The shortest fics I've bookmarked that consist entirely of normal text are several drabbles; the sorting gives priority, apparently on the basis of age, torabidsamfan's Calvin and Hobbes drabble Introduction.
(Works that don't consist entirely of normal text, and thereby confuse the word counter, include embedded videos, comic strips and other works told entirely in images, andysobel's I am Groot (Groot's Story), where the bulk of the story is in the footnotes.)
My two largest bookmarks are both series: Motion Practice (by an author who has chosen to remain anonymous) and Don't Look Back by![[tumblr.com profile]](https://www.tumblr.com/favicon.ico)
this-acuteneurosis.
Motion Practice is a series that reimagines the Avengers (the American superheroes, not the English crimefighters) as a team of lawyers, with various other characters in associated roles including Loki as that one slimy defence lawyer you always get in legal dramas who will do anything to get his client off as long as his client has money; there are over forty works in the series, including seven entire novels.
Don't Look Back is a Star Wars story in which Princess Leia is sent back in time to before the Empire, and sets out to prevent the Empire being created -- which, unlike in many works with similar premises, doesn't just meaning assassinating the would-be Emperor but also dealing with the social and cultural forces that enabled his rise to power. I've seen the author say somewhere that when they started writing it, they expected it to be a single work under a hundred thousand words long; it's currently over 750,000 words and counting, and with luck may be finally completed some time next year.
The longest individual fic I have bookmarked is Sansûkh by determamfidd, in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are retold from the point of view of a group of dwarves (the late Thorin Oakenshield and his companions) watching from the afterlife and commentating on the action. I've been re-reading this one over the past few days, since I first did the experiment of seeing what the longest fic I had bookmarked was, and am about a quarter of the way through. I have mixed feelings about it, because some of the worldbuilding is interesting, but the fic uses the characterisations from the Peter Jackson movies, which means that sometimes the author's priorities and decisions have significant areas of non-overlap with mine, including when it comes to what the author has chosen to make one of the main emotional threads of the narrative. (If you know what the word "bagginshield" means, you likely have an idea of whether this is a story you're likely to be willing to spend 570,000 words with.)
The shortest fics I've bookmarked that consist entirely of normal text are several drabbles; the sorting gives priority, apparently on the basis of age, to
rabidsamfan's Calvin and Hobbes drabble Introduction.(Works that don't consist entirely of normal text, and thereby confuse the word counter, include embedded videos, comic strips and other works told entirely in images, and
ysobel's I am Groot (Groot's Story), where the bulk of the story is in the footnotes.)My two largest bookmarks are both series: Motion Practice (by an author who has chosen to remain anonymous) and Don't Look Back by
Motion Practice is a series that reimagines the Avengers (the American superheroes, not the English crimefighters) as a team of lawyers, with various other characters in associated roles including Loki as that one slimy defence lawyer you always get in legal dramas who will do anything to get his client off as long as his client has money; there are over forty works in the series, including seven entire novels.
Don't Look Back is a Star Wars story in which Princess Leia is sent back in time to before the Empire, and sets out to prevent the Empire being created -- which, unlike in many works with similar premises, doesn't just meaning assassinating the would-be Emperor but also dealing with the social and cultural forces that enabled his rise to power. I've seen the author say somewhere that when they started writing it, they expected it to be a single work under a hundred thousand words long; it's currently over 750,000 words and counting, and with luck may be finally completed some time next year.
The longest individual fic I have bookmarked is Sansûkh by determamfidd, in which the events of The Lord of the Rings are retold from the point of view of a group of dwarves (the late Thorin Oakenshield and his companions) watching from the afterlife and commentating on the action. I've been re-reading this one over the past few days, since I first did the experiment of seeing what the longest fic I had bookmarked was, and am about a quarter of the way through. I have mixed feelings about it, because some of the worldbuilding is interesting, but the fic uses the characterisations from the Peter Jackson movies, which means that sometimes the author's priorities and decisions have significant areas of non-overlap with mine, including when it comes to what the author has chosen to make one of the main emotional threads of the narrative. (If you know what the word "bagginshield" means, you likely have an idea of whether this is a story you're likely to be willing to spend 570,000 words with.)
