for me it depends, most fics i’ve read have done it well and in a way that adds tension and/or conveys just how split across time and memory these characters feel with each other, but yea when done poorly it can come across as very choppy and anticlimactic

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I like it the first time, but it has no re-readability for me

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I hope people know what I mean abt mental movie, it’s like where you’re imagining the story in your head while reading. Sometimes I get so sucked into it that I forget that I’m actually reading words. But without the mental images, I can’t get into a story at all.

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