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Do you ever see a mediocre fic get really popular in a fandom just based on the author ran a semi-popular twitter account and it becomes kind of like a cult and nobody's allowed to say anything against that fic (not even that you're not interested in it) or the hoarde will come after you and the author even searches for indirects and sends their minions after people and you can't escape people talking about this fic no matter where you go and it's NOT EVEN THAT GOOD

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OK starting out there’s a huge blurb about the author’s life choices and links to their socials before we even get to anything about the story... Definitely a good start

Is the basic premise that all of them work at Staples?

Maybe it’s because I’m not invested in this fandom but the characters don’t really read as separate people at this point. They don’t have specific “voices” or anything interesting that tells them apart. The prose is bland the way most prose on AO3 is bland.

The premise of all your faves working at Staples is... OK I guess?

I could read it very quickly because nothing interesting happened. Even though it’s a set-up exposition chapter meant to hook you, it didn’t hook me or tell me anything very new about teh characters, save that they work for Staples or are about to work for Staples.

The SPAG is not very bad so there’s that. It was very legible.

I will enjoy this in a cathartic way

OP
oh and the staples thing is because on of the people once said he worked at staples for a few days when he was a weed smoking teen and I guess that resonated with this person
1. So does this fic span the course of a few days? Why is it 14 chapters long???
  1. OP
    no they said in the first author's note *exactly* how long it takes place for and how each chapter corresponds to a week of time or something
    1. 14 weeks?????? 14 weeks of this? I thought each chapter was like a day from how little stuff was happening

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