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↠The Peaky Blinders Season 5 Trailer gives pretty much nothing away, but to no one's surprise it is absolutely gorgeous. I don't even know if Netflix has the contract for it yet (or how that works at all), but I'm excited for some '30s costumes and political drama.

↠On the other hand, the 13 Reasons Why Season 3 Trailer gives a bunch away! Holy smokes, I'm hyped. And I've got some theories: I know this isn't a ghost show but Hannah as a blood-thirsty ghost would really make my day. More plausible theory? Tony. Maybe that would be super cliche, but the show has focused a lot on his past violence and how he struggles with that. And the show has also focused on the guilt he feels about Hannah's death, because he was the last person to see her and had an indication of what she was feeling at the time. Although the trend about throwing in huge twists for almost no reason might mean someone new comes along to do the deed. My third theory is there was a group confrontation that lead to some kind of accident.

↠So prior to this year, I never really read long fanfic over 30k. But I've found a lot of authors I like, and I've been reading a lot more, and some longfic are absolutely incredible and blow me away. Usually they are very rewarding and inspire me to write more. However, this past month I've started two different longfics well over 100k. The first few chapters were great and keep me engaged, but then the fics started to get repetitive or went down a weird path (or the sex was really weirdly written). But I've already commented on earlier chapters, so I feel super bad about walking away! I know I don't have to read something I don't want to read, but I'm confessing my sins here.

Date: 2019-08-11 10:10 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kunstarschloch
I really liked the first season of Peaky Blinders, but it went into creepy rape fantasy and trauma porn territory in season 2 with Aunt Polly and I just couldn't finish it. Did that ever get any better?

And I feel you on the longfic thing, I tend not to leave a comment until the end if I reach it because so many just go on for so long that I lose interest, or turn into a complete smutfest, lol.

Date: 2019-08-24 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kunstarschloch
It's nothing against you, but I always get irritated when it's just "some justice"-- I wish media would actually take some accountability and show rapists getting the justice they deserve. But I might check out season 3, I never minded the gang violence, just the gratuitous sexual assault.

Date: 2019-08-25 02:24 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] kunstarschloch
Yeah...it's a difficult subject to handle inoffensively, while keeping it entertaining. I'm not sure what the answer is, as to resolving these sorts of situations, I just keep coming back to how utterly graphic the scenes were. It made me deeply, viscerally uncomfortable because it was filmed in a way that felt pornographic, as in the audience was meant to enjoy it as the woman was exploited. Or maybe that's just me...either way, I disliked it a lot.

Date: 2019-08-12 03:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nyctanthes
I know there are plenty of fans of the 150-200K word story, but for me it's hard to sustain interest for that long. I'd rather be left wanting more than skimming an abundance. This applies to professional fiction as well as fanfic. My ideal novel length is between 250-300 pages.

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