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Do you enjoy cliffhangers? Or do they turn you off? (lemmy.world)

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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ wrote:

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.

Although, to be fair, this is high-octane fanfic fuel. See Disney's Gargoyles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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