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Tell me your FF peeves and please, if you don't like the fact that fanfics exist, don't comment.

 

I don't have a lot of peeves aside from the cringeworthy cliches and the unrealistic events that try to be realistic.

 

But what peeves me off the most is...here, let me tell a story.

 

Today I got on AFF--my source for reading fanfics--and I'm just on my last story, finishing it up, and I decide that I'm going to look for another one to read. So I head to the tag option and put in what I want to read. I filter them all out so that it's easier to click and start scoping.

I find a few and get a little excited because one of them sounds really interesting and is right up my alley. I end up reading that one first and I've got my snacks and I'm tucked under my blanket with my fan on high despite that it's cold enough in my house, and I start on the first chapter.

I read the dialogue and it goes like this:

 

"Joheunachim Mr. __ , I've got my homework so you don't have to lecture me today."

 

"Annyeonghaseyo ___, let's see if you get to class on time geulae?"

 

"Ah. Ne, oppa."

 

"Chincha? That quickly?"

 

Now I'm not trying to throw this Fic under the bus or put it on blast or whatever but let me tell you. I unsubscribed so fast, and with an attitude too because why? Why? Why do you do this?

 

AND, as if that wasn't bad, the other new story I subscribed to was worse. It literally was a smut that went like this:

 

"Slowly oppa!"

 

"Saranghae oppa."

 

"Harder oppa!"

 

Like please...just keep it in English. Please. It bugs me so bad when people do that in fics. The random korean all throughout the story. And yes I know, "If you don't like it don't read" Trust me, I don't any further once I see it. I'm straight outta there and on to the next without it. I have tried to give a few fics a chance by saying it's not that bad but I just fail and get so annoyed and end up unsubscribing silently.

 

Look, I understand that people write whatever they want, however they're comfortable writing it and I don't have the right to tell them what to and to not write, but I can't help but be so annoyed by it. I'm understanding, grammar, spelling is understandable. Everyone makes those mistakes so they don't make me angry but the random Korean really makes me want to pull my hair out. It's the biggest peeve I have.

 

Ive read some good fics on AFF but it seems like they're all buried. I mean there's some good ones that have been featured but other than that I can't find any good ones that have just the right amount of realism and corn in them. I love smuts and I'm not afraid to admit that. I could careless if people give me the side eye when I say that, I love them. But please write like you know what you're talking about.

 

Freaking also: I love Kai very much. I love him and his dancing and his beautiful smile but when someone does this in a story I get annoyed and roll my eyes:

 

Kai took his place in the middle of the floor and let the music ready him. Once he got the first steps planted into his head "HE WHINED HIS HIPS" or gyrated

 

I swear it's in every Kai Fic where he is a dancer. Always has to whine his hips. You're ruining his real life hip whining for me. JK, no one could ruin that for me but seriously Kai can't just start off the dance by doing the worm or something?

 

 

Don't even get me started on how I find a good very realistic fic and people get all upset because the ending wasn't all get married, have kids, white picket fence house-ish. Or that their favs didn't get together I mean yes we all want them to be together but not everything turns out that way and definitely not in real life, all the time.

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Lol, I get so annoyed when they add random butchered Korean. Luckily I'm into horror/thriller/mystery stories (Der Marchenclub being my favorite) and usually writers of this genre aren't so stupid compared to puppy-love romance.

 

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In my early AFF days, I used to get so annoyed when they add a 2nd POV to a scene that was already finished.

 

For example:

 

Girl's POV of a scene:

 

Then the next paragraph is like:

 

Guy's POV of the exact same scene:

 

Like damn, they don't HAVE to repeat it. Just keep the scene to ONE POV!

 

Also, I get annoyed when in the Foreword, they add the characters and their traits/characteristics and how they're going to do in the story. They shouldn't giveaway top many details!

 

And authors should NOT apologize in advance saying stuff like ''Sorry this is my first story, I'll try my best''--it's dumb and it turns me off completely. Why would you giveaway your incompetence?

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It's not only for Kpop fics but also anime/manga ones.

 

''Hai, I'll get it done as soon as possible.''

''Eto...''

There was even one line where someone was making another character make a choice and they were like, ''Hai or Ie''

I dropped it there and then.

 

Like who are you trying to impress.

 

Also punctuation for speeches like:

''Thank you.'' He said.

Instead of:

''Thank you,'' he said.

 

If the plot is promising then I'm willing to withstand it occasionally.

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  • Adding korean 
  • When the author says English isn't their first language and the fic is grammatically incorrect and poor written
  • mpreg
  • Short chapters
  • Poor character development

Idk it may just be me but im really picky when it comes to fics 

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YES!! Lmao!1 I can't stand those fics XD

 

Also fics like this

 

"Hyung, you look really handsome" *smiles*

 

"It's because I'm looking at you" *touch **insert name here**'s face

 

 

or in the juicy parts 

 

 

"I love you **INH** "    *thrust*

 

"I love you too hyung..."  *Hyung is schocked* *thrust 2 more times even harder*

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A little is fine, but random ass Korean in every sentence is just as trash as random ass Japanese~ It's all garbage~ Like pick one language and write the whole story in it~ If you're expecting me to assume everyone is speaking Korean, anyway, what he hell is the point (other than you trying to look cool for knowing how to use Google Translate)?  :hoplz:

 

But even worse than that, I just hate fics where the grammar is so bad, I can't even read it~ Like if that's not your first language that's alright, but just write the fic in your language, then~ If I'm reading something in English, I expect it to be readable English~ I'm just saying~  :hoplz:

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In my early AFF days, I used to get so annoyed when they add a 2nd POV to a scene that was already finished.

 

For example:

 

Girl's POV of a scene:

 

Then the next paragraph is like:

 

Guy's POV of the exact same scene:

 

Like damn, they don't HAVE to repeat it. Just keep the scene to ONE POV!

 

Also, I get annoyed when in the Foreword, they add the characters and their traits/characteristics and how they're going to do in the story. They shouldn't giveaway to many details!

 

Not only that but when they just switch to another POV in the middle... like no.

I used to tolerate them but now I just don't even bother.

 

+ those sort of profiles, I've only seen them on AFF tbh, no where else.

 

 

But even worse than that, I just hate fics where the grammar is so bad, I can't even read it~ Like if that's not your first language that's alright, but just write the fic in your language, then~ If I'm reading something in English, I expect it to be readable English~ I'm just saying~ 

 

Trust... it's not so hard to get a beta-reader and fix it up.

It might sound harsh but if you want good reviews and a successful fic then...

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i hate it whenever i read a fanfic by a rly brilliant writer who keeps makes allusions to the most obscure things......

 

like the heck i read a fanfic (not kpop) just yesterday which kept alluding to derzhavin

 

however i also love it when this happens lol i get to learn stuff

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weab/koreaboo speak

switching povs(can be done well, but most of the time i leave a fic the second i see bold text like 'chara A first person' and 'chara B third person' in the same chapter)

one paragraph chapters(unless it's like a drabble collection or smth)

a/n takes up half of every chapter(usually bc an author is responding to legit ALL the reviews there instead of thru pm or roleplaying with characters/ocs for some reason)

bad formatting(like ppl who don't know when to start a new line so dialogue gets burred under a wall of exposition, etc.)

'you' fics in general

&& more i can't remember atm

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YES!! Lmao!1 I can't stand those fics XD

 

Also fics like this

 

"Hyung, you look really handsome" *smiles*

 

"It's because I'm looking at you" *touch **insert name here**'s face

 

 

or in the juicy parts 

 

 

"I love you **INH** "    *thrust*

 

"I love you too hyung..."  *Hyung is schocked* *thrust 2 more times even harder*

i laughed my ass off omgg

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1. When they don't space and it looks like a wall of text.

 

2. When the characters fall in love so quick. I like when there is some kind of development to how they fall in love instead of just hey I just met u two seconds ago and I already love u. Now let's do it like bunnies.

 

3. Stupid and unbelievable plots: for ex. when they make the main guy do a lot cruel things to main girl that it makes super hard to believe she will fall for him without stockholm syndrome explaining the insanity of her decision.

 

For ex. I read this story where this main guy did this to the main girl:

 

A. Rape her multiple times

 

B. Beat up her best friend to point he ends up in a coma

 

C. Blacklist her father so he lose his job and make it so he couldn't get any job even as janitor. Father kill himself cause of this.

 

D. Mom tries to get a job but couldn't as well and only job he left open for her is to sell her body.

 

 

Somehow she ignores it all and fall for him. Yea u ruin my life and family but it's cool cause oppa is so hot. OTL

 

Yep so those are my fanfic peeves

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I don't read fanfic about person that I knew, especialy idol that I listen to

I found that really weird but fanfic has really funny circustances

It feels satisfying cause the imagination is just out of the world

 

All event can be done in every place

There's rarely any other person in the story other than the OT

Nothing can outed love

Somehow there's another awesome 3rd parties that also interested in you but you can't accept the affection

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Yaoi/Slash pet peeves.

 

The god damn possessive, psychotic asshole seme who's too cool to give a fuck.

 

The too feminized, unbelievably submissive uke.

 

Super rich guys falls in love with someone who's dirt poor.

 

Seme rapes uke because it's the uke's fault for making him hard by being so cute that he should take responsibility and let him fuck the shit out of him.

 

Mpreg.

 

Uke gets "wet". Unless he has motherfucking diarrhea how in the hell can he get wet from his ass?

 

Seme makes uke's life a miserable hell yet they still end up together because what the heck right?

 

Seme: "You're mine, only mine, your innocence and purity is mine too take."

 

Making their relationship a girl/boy dynamic even if they're both guys.

 

Same last name? You're all somehow related. Kim Jiyong, Kim Jinhwan, Ki Hanbin, Kim Jong in, Kim Jong Un, Kim Possible...

 

Random korean words inserted into the dialogue.

 

Kingkas!!!

 

Virgin ass koreaboos not knowing how to write good smut. "Hyung is inside me, I can't believe it, ugh, ugh, ugh *hyung came."

 

The same characters over and over again (Jong wants to fuck 24/7, Key is a sassy diva bitch, Taemin is an innocent childish virgin who wants banana milk, Onew is a clueless third wheel, Minho is the jock)

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YES!! Lmao!1 I can't stand those fics XD

 

Also fics like this

 

"Hyung, you look really handsome" *smiles*

 

"It's because I'm looking at you" *touch **insert name here**'s face

 

 

or in the juicy parts

 

 

"I love you **INH** " *thrust*

 

"I love you too hyung..." *Hyung is schocked* *thrust 2 more times even harder*

 

Lmfao I'm dead

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- randomly adding Japanese or Korean words in an English fic. I don't mind honorifics but beyond that, it gets quickly annoying.

 

- when it's a wall of texts with no paragraphs

 

- people who write about a fandom they know next to nothing about, and get the most basic details wrong about the characters. It ruins the entire fic even if their writing is good. 

 

- badly written sex scenes. I don't mean the usual cliche stuff, but more like when the writer gets the basic mechanics of sex wrong. Why don't they ask someone more experienced to beta it, or just skip the smut altogether.

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1. When they don't space and it looks like a wall of text.

 

2. When the characters fall in love so quick. I like when there is some kind of development to how they fall in love instead of just hey I just met u two seconds ago and I already love u. Now let's do it like bunnies.

 

3. Stupid and unbelievable plots: for ex. when they make the main guy do a lot cruel things to main girl that it makes super hard to believe she will fall for him without stockholm syndrome explaining the insanity of her decision.

 

For ex. I read this story where this main guy did this to the main girl:

 

A. Rape her multiple times

 

B. Beat up her best friend to point he ends up in a coma

 

C. Blacklist her father so he lose his job and make it so he couldn't get any job even as janitor. Father kill himself cause of this.

 

D. Mom tries to get a job but couldn't as well and only job he left open for her is to sell her body.

 

 

Somehow she ignores it all and fall for him. Yea u ruin my life and family but it's cool cause oppa is so hot. OTL

 

Yep so those are my fanfic peeves

this sounds like a chanbaek fic I've read. omg,

and the first one.. that is one of the biggest pet peeves, walls of text arghh 

 

 

also also

when writers put  "..." everywhere. 

super good plots - grammar is bad, the whole fic is short and all the potential is lost :( 

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-Random Korean words where a English version would do the job. for ex "Oppa let me make love to you" :wth:

-Gratuitous rape or consensual sex scenes. The type of scene where if you get rid of it the story does'nt change.

-Plots that are forgotten after a few chapters.

-Wall of text, haven't these people heard of a damn paragraph.

-Sugary sweet dialog that will give your ass a sugar coma.

-Mpreg, Like where is the baby supposed to come from. :omgwtf:

-Unrealistic sex scenes.

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this sounds like a chanbaek fic I've read. omg,

and the first one.. that is one of the biggest pet peeves, walls of text arghh

 

 

also also

when writers put "..." everywhere.

super good plots - grammar is bad, the whole fic is short and all the potential is lost :(

I am sorry that I accidentally dislike ur comment. I try to get mod to fix but they told me they can't do anything about it. I was trying to like it. I'm sorry.

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The biggest thing for me is like massive time jumps or unrealistic timing for something to happen. Like people do not fall in love in a day (not stereotypically).

 

Its hard for me to like fluff for that reason I guess. Don't get me wrong I'm all for sweetness but some of "domesticity" pieces bug the hell out of me. 

 

Though I think someone said it before....massive walls of text with no paragraph spaces in between. (drives me insane)

 

Also....laps-lock....like, can we not?

 

Last thing I can think of for now is when someone writes in second person for an OC/reader fic. Like:

 

"You put on your lip gloss, you knew you looked hot."

(Shit is annoying af....I unsubscribe fast when I detect poorly written sentence structure.)

 

Im sure there's more I could add but these are probably the biggest.

 

(oh and the word 'hole' [though I've used it before sadly] in a M/M pairing....like, we need to think of better adjectives)

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