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I haven't gone to sleep before 3am for the last 3 nights. I don't feel tired, but I think I must be a bit sleep-deprived, because I've cried at all of the last 3 fics I've read. Admittedly, two of them had character deaths, but an elderly side-character dying of a heart attack should not make me bawl my eyes out. And the one I'm reading at the moment didn't even have a death to make me cry, just this line: That night Touya dreamed strange dreams, of one white stone mixed among the black, of death by water and a want that lasted a thousand years.

Which, I suppose, kind of counts because it's a reference to Sai's death, but it's also a canon fact, so why is it tearing me up now?

On another fic-related note: come on people, know your fandom terminology!! a 482 word story is NOT a drabble!! I think in future when collecting links for dotcoms, I won't bother opening the cut, but take people's word for it if they say it's a drabble. I'm not going to reward people who use terms they don't understand the meaning of, and it will break my brain if I'm obliged to tag a 'drabble' that's over 500 words. Actual drabbles require some craftsmanship and skill; these few-hundred word stories are often just unfulfilling crap :/