field guide to hopeful_fiction/you know you’re reading story by angstslashhope when...

1. more words are used up by description than actual plot progression.

2. run on sentences are more common than Richard Sharpe’s birthplace.

3. the story starts with someone waking up.

4. lines from canon are randomly dropped into places that twist their original meaning.

5. the dialogue is broken up with description of body language.


...and that’s all i can think of right now. feel free to add to the list!