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I really love the trope in JJBA Part 5 doujins where the end of the doujin is reflecting on the characters’ tragic canonical deaths, but it’s honestly a trick that works best in paper doujin.

When you’re reading doujin, you have A: the tactile act of physically turning the page, and B: a really immediate sense of How Much Doujin Is Left. So, you’re sitting there, looking at the happy couple cuddling in bed after they Fixed Their Emotional Problems With A Hot Sex Scene, and going like “wait, there are too many pages left for it to be just authors notes, what’s going on", and then, if you know the drill, you just sit there in trepidation, building and building and building until you decide you’re ready to release the Sad and turn the page.

It’s kind of like Junji Ito’s full-page body horror spreads, how that I think about it. Reluctance to turn the page because of fear vs. reluctance to turn the page because of Sad. Interesting trick that really shows how choice of medium affects writing choices, because I’ve only ever seen one ENG-language fic author pull a similar trick.

Date: 2026-04-04 06:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] feotakahari
This makes me think of a My Little Pony fic called Austraeoh. No story on FIMfiction can have more than 200 chapters. Rainbow Dash felt increasingly hopeless about her quest, and as chapter 200 approached, it was implied she was going to die trying to help someone else, and this was a death she wanted even though it left her quest unfinished. Then she was unexpectedly and unwantedly spared, and the fic said it was to be continued in Eljunbyro. She would be shackled by duty for a long while yet.

Date: 2026-04-04 02:58 pm (UTC)
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The effect is lost with digitized doujinshi, too. I've had to physically set doujinshi down on my desk and go do something else for a few minutes because I knew what was about to happen and needed to mentally prepare myself. Meanwhile, with digital, it's like "They're going to bring up The Thing, aren't they? scroll scroll Yep. There it is."

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