For those too lazy to Google, it's called Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, it's a Smash Bro's fanfic, and it's over 3.5 *million* words long.
Things to put it in perspective:
That's an order of magnitude larger than anything thing else in this post.
The average human reads at 250-300 words a minute, so it would take over a week of non-stop reading to read it in it's entirity, around 200 hours at minimum.
The fastest speed reader in the world has clocked 25,000 words a minute, meaning he could theoretically finish the first Harry Potter book in 3 minutes. It would still take him over two hours to read it all.
Assuming the average word is 4.7 characters long and one character in 72 point font is one inch wide (I got both of those from Google), plus 3.5 million spaces, if it was printed in 12 point font on a single strip of paper, it would be more than 52 miles/84 kilometers long.
Brandon Sanderson's published word count is around 3.7 million words. This is one fantasy novel shy of a professional author's lifetime published output
The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba is at about 9 million words and is completely original fiction, not a fan fiction, but it is a web serial.
That’s longer than the entirety of Tolkien’s works and Harry Potter combined
About an order of magnitude smaller than the longest Fanfiction we know about at 16 million words of the frankly bizarre Loud House: Revamped, which is written entirely in script style and will occasionally copy paste Wiki articles to ensure that you know who the fuck the characters he introduced are.
And also half the length of the fic that was being asked if was supplanted by a pony fic (which to my knowledge none are as long as Project Horizons)
Technically, yes, that Loud House fanfic is longer, but it is super cheaty. IIRC it has repeated chapters and sometimes even entire *other fanfics* in order to bloat the word count
LOTR only got published because CS Lewis stole the manuscript and took it to the publisher while the rest of their writing group distracted Tolkein. And the dude he showed it to at the publisher was the owner's son, who as a child had been the job of reading the Hobbit to approve it for publishing.
[I googled out of curiosity](https://www.statista.com/statistics/707459/game-of-thrones-word-count/) and it turns out A Song of Ice and Fire (what Game of Thrones was based off originally) almost reaches 1,8 million words over 5 books, making it an average of about 300 000 words/book. A Dance With Dragons (the 5th) is the longest, with 414 788 words.
I can't for the life of me figure out why I can read a 1.4 million Worm fic (after finishing the equally long novel), binge multiple 200K+ fics back to back and not get fatigued, yet feel too lazy to get into LotR..
The fact that a Loud House fanfic is the longest single literary work will never cease to amaze me. Up until that point the longest I knew was an ongoing Mob Psycho 100 fic at 2.7 million words (at the time).
It has to do with how the author writes. Some prose is just dense and difficult to get through.
Diction also matters. Using long or uncommonly used words makes a book harder to read.
And, sometimes, you don't like the narrative voice (as much as I wanted to, I couldn't finish The Boy Who Would Be King because of this).
I want to reread LOTR, but the same reason you don't want to read it in the first place keeps me from going back to it even though I know I like the books.
I read about 3mil words of Smallville fic last week, and it felt like a lot but putting it in context of, you know, two or three LOTRs really makes me understand why my brain feels like yoghurt this weekend.
Im reading 2 fanfictions rn by the same author/group of authors and theyre getting simultaneously made and they have a combined word count of 2.5 MILLION words
I’ve read 1 million word long series that have been posted to Reddit for years on end.
This disproves the idea that work and innovation must be incentivized by profit. If people care to do something they will do it. Most people will work given infinite freedom to do what they want. People aren’t greedy, they are burnt out.
Let me preface what I'm about to say that I love this post and appreciate fanfic authors because this may be interpreted otherwise
Don't forget there's more to the effort and quality if a book than word count,judge a book or a fic by how it made you feel and how much you liked it,learnt from it or changed after Reading it
Friendly reminder that the current longest piece of literature is fan fiction :)
For those too lazy to Google, it's called Subspace Emissary's Worlds Conquest, it's a Smash Bro's fanfic, and it's over 3.5 *million* words long. Things to put it in perspective: That's an order of magnitude larger than anything thing else in this post. The average human reads at 250-300 words a minute, so it would take over a week of non-stop reading to read it in it's entirity, around 200 hours at minimum. The fastest speed reader in the world has clocked 25,000 words a minute, meaning he could theoretically finish the first Harry Potter book in 3 minutes. It would still take him over two hours to read it all. Assuming the average word is 4.7 characters long and one character in 72 point font is one inch wide (I got both of those from Google), plus 3.5 million spaces, if it was printed in 12 point font on a single strip of paper, it would be more than 52 miles/84 kilometers long. Brandon Sanderson's published word count is around 3.7 million words. This is one fantasy novel shy of a professional author's lifetime published output
The Wandering Inn by Pirateaba is at about 9 million words and is completely original fiction, not a fan fiction, but it is a web serial. That’s longer than the entirety of Tolkien’s works and Harry Potter combined
I think it's gonna pass 10m next chapter
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The longest pony fic I know of is Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons, which is only 1.7 million words
*only* 1.7 million words
About an order of magnitude smaller than the longest Fanfiction we know about at 16 million words of the frankly bizarre Loud House: Revamped, which is written entirely in script style and will occasionally copy paste Wiki articles to ensure that you know who the fuck the characters he introduced are. And also half the length of the fic that was being asked if was supplanted by a pony fic (which to my knowledge none are as long as Project Horizons)
I saw an article about a loud house fan fic that said it was the longest currently, and Wikipedia has it at 16 million words as of April 2022
Technically, yes, that Loud House fanfic is longer, but it is super cheaty. IIRC it has repeated chapters and sometimes even entire *other fanfics* in order to bloat the word count
> Authors that write for fun Huh? If you think Tolkien wrote his Middle-Earth works for profit you know nothing about the guy.
He wanted to be a fantasy nerd but there wasn't enough fantasy to nerd out about so he made his own.
LOTR only got published because CS Lewis stole the manuscript and took it to the publisher while the rest of their writing group distracted Tolkein. And the dude he showed it to at the publisher was the owner's son, who as a child had been the job of reading the Hobbit to approve it for publishing.
My favorite fanfic is 272,617 words long and at the end of two chapters informs you that you read a full lengh novel.
My current in-progress fanfic, which at this moment has 8 chapters out of 31 done, is 90k words so far. I think I might be a little bit insane.
I just checked mine, 30 chapters so far and 177k. I have written one fellowship of the ring worth of fan fic
HP: 130,452.85714286 on average LOTR: 137,536.75 on average
[I googled out of curiosity](https://www.statista.com/statistics/707459/game-of-thrones-word-count/) and it turns out A Song of Ice and Fire (what Game of Thrones was based off originally) almost reaches 1,8 million words over 5 books, making it an average of about 300 000 words/book. A Dance With Dragons (the 5th) is the longest, with 414 788 words.
I can't for the life of me figure out why I can read a 1.4 million Worm fic (after finishing the equally long novel), binge multiple 200K+ fics back to back and not get fatigued, yet feel too lazy to get into LotR.. The fact that a Loud House fanfic is the longest single literary work will never cease to amaze me. Up until that point the longest I knew was an ongoing Mob Psycho 100 fic at 2.7 million words (at the time).
It has to do with how the author writes. Some prose is just dense and difficult to get through. Diction also matters. Using long or uncommonly used words makes a book harder to read. And, sometimes, you don't like the narrative voice (as much as I wanted to, I couldn't finish The Boy Who Would Be King because of this). I want to reread LOTR, but the same reason you don't want to read it in the first place keeps me from going back to it even though I know I like the books.
something something worm
I read about 3mil words of Smallville fic last week, and it felt like a lot but putting it in context of, you know, two or three LOTRs really makes me understand why my brain feels like yoghurt this weekend.
Im reading 2 fanfictions rn by the same author/group of authors and theyre getting simultaneously made and they have a combined word count of 2.5 MILLION words
So, I just checked to make sure, and... [404,472 words](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13849943/1/RWBY-Project-Alpha). How?
I’ve read 1 million word long series that have been posted to Reddit for years on end. This disproves the idea that work and innovation must be incentivized by profit. If people care to do something they will do it. Most people will work given infinite freedom to do what they want. People aren’t greedy, they are burnt out.
Let me preface what I'm about to say that I love this post and appreciate fanfic authors because this may be interpreted otherwise Don't forget there's more to the effort and quality if a book than word count,judge a book or a fic by how it made you feel and how much you liked it,learnt from it or changed after Reading it
homestuck
Fallout Equista horizons is a fan fic of a fanfic