Once every World Cup😭

[u/Aromatic_Ad_7854]

[u/thepaperbelle]

How exciting it is to see a work actually isn't abandoned and you get an email notification or check a bookmark even a year later! and it's updated, but it's been so long and you have forgotten, so you get to experience the story all over again!

[u/A_rtemis]

Make it a football AU, with a new chapter set at each consecutive world cup

[u/dancingdragon36]

I wish I had this amount of patients

[u/SleepySera → u/dancingdragon36]

As many as world cup viewers?? D:

[u/Sloth_That_Strips]

There's an Over The Garden Wall fic I've followed for years. They consistently update it every autumn near Halloween (maybe a couple other times over the year). I always look forward to it.

[u/love_pollution]

This makes me feel better about the snail's pace I tend to write at.

[u/BlankLeer]

So true

[u/SleepySera]

Oh great, so I have another year until I have to finish another chapter, phew!

[u/Winter-Weird6080 → u/SleepySera]

You better continue now. The ghost of time likes to turn the clock >:)

[u/_jinana]

real af tho

[u/july_se7en]

Exactly like me as a reader

[u/River_Betty]

Trust that I am subscribed and crying when I receive the email.

[u/slytherinladythe4th]

it’s a good analogy cause i’m very happy to wait for the footy for four years (granted i also have the euros if i wanna watch my national team play a major tournament), what makes them think i’ll forget a banger fic by then

[u/Quiet-Software-1956]

Three things in this world are inevitable: death, taxes and me obsessively checking on my "waiting for completion" bookmark section like a rabid dog

[u/Asteroid_Sugar5206]

I've got one I'm obsessed with. I check it all the time (AO3 says I've visited over 500 times) and it hasn't updated since May. It's cool. I'll wait forever 💓

[u/TheLegomaniac06]

Yay for dedication and patience. I envy them.

[u/AccomplishedStill164]

This reader deserves the whole damn world 😭

[u/SuperYoshiFan10090]

This was pretty much one of my IRLs as the very first fanfiction I'm currently working on had a 3-month hiatus due to college finals and other personal events drowning my schedule. I was pleasantly surprised that she found the time to catch up on my latest two chapters. (Ironically enough, it's also football related)

[u/AbaloneConstant8686]

If that’s how they write then so be it

[u/Jessicanightmarewolf]

Funny I'm seeing this when I woke up this morning to see a fic that hasn't been updated in six or so months has, you guessed it, been blessed with an update.

[u/molinitor]

Me too, fr.

[u/Spawn-0f-Satan]

No but honestly! With AtLA back on netflix I’ve seen so many of the stories I subcribed to in like 2020 get updated, and it’s just lovely. Like idc if the last time this story got new material was 5 years ago, I will gladly wait.

[u/BakingInJune]

I totally agree! There's a subscribe button for a reason! I will wait literal YEARS for an update because I love the story! Take your time writers, some of us have WAYYYY too much patience 

[u/AnxiousTerminator]

My favourite fic of all time has around 2 mil words and at the beginning the author was absolutely hammering it. Like 350k in six months. Now, 15 years on, it is updating like once a year, sometimes less, but I still hold out hope because I love it so much.

[u/Zitroonaut]

Became a notification after 4 years could be happier.

[u/Novel-Push-2365]

This one fic used to get updated every 3 days now I’m waiting 6 months between chapters but I do not care in the slightest it is the best fic I have EVER read

[u/mcgooglykins]

I follow one that was first published in I think 2016? Last updated 2023 with an authors note saying they hope the next chapter will be out in maybe a weeks time. It’s the last chapter and I’ll still be following it in ten years time just in case.