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

  • vltraviolet@lemmy.world
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    1 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.

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
    2·
    1 year ago

    I like them so long as I actually get the payoff. I really hate media that ends on a cliffhanger and then never gets finished.

    TV shows seen to be all about it these days. Every single episode leaves on a wild cliffhanger so you wanna see the next episode as soon as it airs.

    • CrayonMaster@midwest.socialMEnglish
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      11 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