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biggest fanfic pet peeves?


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this can be related to genres or anything else.

 

personally, there are two things that will make me not read a fic as soon as i see them. firstly, fics written in POV, especially when they label it "-insert idol's- POV". 3rd person fics are just better imo. secondly, fics that aren't formatted properly, like, if the writer doesn't have any spaces in between paragraphs/dialogue. as soon as i see that i don't read it because my eyes just can't take it. and it's usually a sign of an inexperienced writer.

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Koreaboo English and all those givens aside, inconsistent POV is a huge turnoff for me. I hate it when a third person POV fic suddenly includes multiple characters' thoughts in the same scene. Yes it's third person, but there still needs to be a focus otherwise it feels like some bizarre all seeing eye that can't keep a consistent viewpoint. It's just cheap storying telling in order to get other character's thoughts across. 

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just gonna copy-paste what I said in a similar thread months ago:

 

hate:

- bad grammar and spelling

- self-insert mary sues/gary stus

- (this goes for anime fanfics) OCs with western names despite the setting being in Japan. There's SO many high school and even middle school AUs with characters with English names (both first and last).

- people who make up a canon character's name because they can't be bothered to do proper research. I once came across a Cardcaptor Sakura fanfic that called Sakura's dad's name by a name that wasn't Fujitaka (all the other names in that fanfic went by their original Japanese name) and it pissed me off, and the author didn't correct it even after i pointed it out in a review

- bad plots

- fanfics with relationships involving a minor and an adult

- fanfics that glorify a master/slave relationship. That shit isn't cute.

- fanfics involving real people. I only read fanfics based on anime/cartoons for this reason.

- fanfics involving rape and the victim getting together with the rapist. Nonononono keep that fuck away from me.

- fanfics where a character is completely ooc. It turns me off to see CCS fanfics where Sakura Kinomoto is cussing up a storm because that's not the kind of person she is.

- fanfics that's just one big wall of text because the author apparently doesn't know about the existence of paragraphs

 

 

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- super good fics that have you on the edge of your seat every update but have meh endings

- grammatical errors

- uninteresting, rigid, systematic writing styles

- predictable storylines

- daddy/mommy kink (very boring to me)

- stockholm syndrome / falling in love with rapist 

- awkwardly written smut that 's just...all over the place

- authority figure x lesser relationships (teacher/student, boss/employee, etc)

- animal hybrid au's other than a/b/o wolf

- when it's an OT-all fic where a group has an odd number of members and the odd person out is either straight or in a threesome with two other members

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  • HAREM/ REVERSE HAREM. a bit hard to follow who likes who. 
  • ILLOGICAL GORE, gore is fine but unnecessary ones? no- im no goth and your readers are mostly arent either
  • MARY SUE/ GARY STU, dont self insert your ideal self in your fanfic please. 
  • ARROGANT AND COOL (TRY HARD), doesnt your character know humility?
  • FEMINIZING MEN, i respect shipping but dont go OOC just because youre a homophobe. how the heck did baekhyun have curves? hes a freakin guy. (i dont read shipping fanfics, but most people complain about this. and as a guy, its offensive. same with girls as well- dont butch a girl if she isnt even a butch. gender bent is cool though. 
  • INEQUALITY AMONG GENDERS, dont go in an anime route please. doesnt mean if a guy was accused of perving (even if he really is not) a woman has rights to hurt a man because shes entitled to. applies with women as well. 
  • THE WOMAN ALWAYS SURVIVES, should be placed on the above bullet but seriously... why? same also in men.
  • OOC, without reason.
  • AUTHOR'S NOTES IN BETWEEN STORIES, no... were reading your story not your comments. 
  • UNREAL. EVERYONE IS HOMO, this is a shock. like how likely does every character in your fanfic homosexual? null. like everyone... again EVERYONE.
  • SHIPS ARE NECESSARY, the dont. a person can stand alone. 

im a big fanfic reader. sorry if im ranting. 

 

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ooc stuff. if i can't tell who is talking from their tone most of the time then you have an issue with writing fanfic and need to just write oc stuff. 

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- reader x idol fics

- oppa kink (i can deal with a daddy kink more but i still don't like it. i cannot stand oppa kinks though)

- really poor writing skills? like i don't wanna read smut if it seems like a 10 year old wrote it. that's just weird 

- anything non-consensual (which is surprisingly common i've noticed? like it's not cute. don't write that)

- ooc characters unless it's an au fic

- koreaboo writers that insert the 6 korean words they know into their fics any time they get the chance

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formatting

-not tagging correctly -UNHAPPY ENDINGS & *DAMN YOU MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH*

 

thissssssss omg. i refuse to read character death fics and an author just happened to forget to tag it. the character was like brutally murdered and i was like wtf? why did you not tag this 

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  • Bad grammar/first person POV/insert yourself

 

Over-the-top Angst

 

Rushed relationships between characters because it's unrealistic. Also bad character development.

 

pairings I can't stand. (as petty as this is, I've seen some good stories but with pairings I hate, and no matter what I skip reading it)   :unsure:

 

lack of enough descriptions (stories where it may as well just be plain dialogue)

 

Genres I hate are the most are plain fluff and domestic with only cute happy scenes. I hate these boring ass fics. May as well sit down to an episode of Barney. Keep that sappy love shit. It has to have some kind of drama, action, or angst.

 

illogical character behavior. I'll dove this "horror movie behavior", where characters do things or react in a way that is completely against what people would actually do in a normal situation. 

 

Fics about serious illnesses. I can't read fics where main characters are entirely blind, mute, or disabled in some way, unless they did not start out that way, or they will get better in the end.

 

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I hate the _________ does this or that we're suppose to put our name in blank. Same with the use of you. When there is no proper formatting with words and all I see are paragraphs. The use of colors other than black in the font or weird types of fonts in general.

 

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Luckily...my fanfics are either based on a spinoff of an existing subject (like Yu-Gi-Oh or Masked Rider) or my own creations (mostly oneshot romance or crack)

 

If someone hates my fanfic (like a mix of tokusatsu and kpop), i believe you don't have any childhood memories or you are overrealistic and deemed unfit to be a fanfic reader or writer.

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