42 minutes would be about the length of time before the episode ended on American TV.
So anyone watching it would wait until the end of the show before writing their first story.
The trick is to have five or six stories ready at any given time using PLACEHOLDER1(/2/3/…) for the names. Just a quick find/replace and PLACEHOLDER’s your uncle.
Wait is that really how it works?
If you’re prolific maybe? Most people have a pairing they like so I think it was much more
“Oh thank fuck a pairing that’s not incestuous I’m going to type the fastest I’ve ever typed” in the case of Dean/Cas though.
Probably had a plot line in general thought out!
Wait – there are people who object to incestuous plots??
Weird.
Yeah, the people causing shit with Steam, Itch, etc.
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Watch it on double speed that way you have 21 mins to watch and the 21 mins to write it out
But then you miss the slow part of the slow burn
It was just a community, so you just needed a few seconds post episode to make the community and type “did you see that??”
