Things You Don't Like in Stories

When people chuck in swear words but it doesn't suit the character or make sense.

When names don't match the time of the story.

Like, someone isn't going to be named Aiden in the 1880s.
Or when every character has a stereotypical "emo" or "goth" name like Raven, Emery, or Skylar.

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Raven, Emery, or Skylar.

I had a character named Emery Hunt ages ago, but he was a futuristic space-traffic controller, not a scenie-beanie.

When in comes to romantic band fan fiction, I have a strong distaste for stories that villainize the real life girlfriends/wives of band members as a means of making the main pairings work out.

when the Spanish--or any other language--is so obviously Google translated...I've been a victim to this and now stick to asking people that speak that specific language to make sure I have it right. I'm a native Spanish speaker, but I know sometimes I say things entirely wrong.

When people use "chocolate brown eyes" to describe any and every character in a story. Now I don't mind if it's used once, but why not change up the description a bit instead of overusing it? It's just become a common description in so many stories that it's kind of predictable and not surprising anymore. It doesn't take away from the story or anything I just wish people would maybe try to branch out and challenge themselves to find alternae ways to describe things.

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When in comes to romantic band fan fiction, I have a strong distaste for stories that villainize the real life girlfriends/wives of band members as a means of making the main pairings work out.

This 100%. I'm of the opinion that if you don't know them, you shouldn't speak shit about them so I wish people would extend that courtesy to stories as well, regardless of whether it's a way of pushing the plot forward. They are real people, I think some writers forget about that.

When every character fits a role, especially in stories that involve a band. There isn't always going to be a "quiet one", a "loud one", a "slutty one", etc., so I don't really like when I see that in stories.

Overly-cliche plot lines.

Perfectly pale, unblemished skin and perfect blue/green/hazel eyes and perfect personal style, perfect life perfect flawless perfect alongside a perfect love interest.

It scares me to think of someone in a story who is that perfect.

"I'm not like other girls." She's not like other girls. "I'm like no girl you've ever met." Not your typical girl. "I'm nothing like the girls you're used to." Different from the other girls. Not one of those girls...

Anything along those lines drive me crazy-daisy.

I think even if the author wants to create a character that isn't your stereotypical female persona (or what they think is a typical female persona), they can do so through the character's action/personalty rather than having the character (or her friends or the narrator) say it.

Whenever I read it in a story, I can't help but thing, "Yeah. But you probably are, though." And too often when I read it, the character IS like other girls - like literally most of the girls I've ever encountered in real life and in fiction - but the author thought the character was 'different' because she wasn't a flat one-tracked characters.

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When people use "chocolate brown eyes" to describe any and every character in a story. Now I don't mind if it's used once, but why not change up the description a bit instead of overusing it? It's just become a common description in so many stories that it's kind of predictable and not surprising anymore. It doesn't take away from the story or anything I just wish people would maybe try to branch out and challenge themselves to find alternae ways to describe things.

I don't really like food descriptions in general.

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"I'm not like other girls." She's not like other girls. "I'm like no girl you've ever met." Not your typical girl. "I'm nothing like the girls you're used to." Different from the other girls. Not one of those girls...

Anything along those lines drive me crazy-daisy.

I think even if the author wants to create a character that isn't your stereotypical female persona (or what they think is a typical female persona), they can do so through the character's action/personalty rather than having the character (or her friends or the narrator) say it.

Whenever I read it in a story, I can't help but thing, "Yeah. But you probably are, though." And too often when I read it, the character IS like other girls - like literally most of the girls I've ever encountered in real life and in fiction - but the author thought the character was 'different' because she wasn't a flat one-tracked characters.

Also this (what's so bad about the "other girls," anyway?).

People using supernatural based/science fiction based/etc. as an excuse to not have character interactions make sense. I'm not saying that everything has to make 100% sense. After all, I'm not asking you to give concrete scientific evidence for how your character is a werewolf/vampire/witch/etc. What I'm asking for is the relationship to still make sense. Regardless of species of character, it should have some rationality behind it. If a character is stalking/harassing/rude to the protagonist to the point where they can't stand to be around them then, then why should I root for them to be together? The only thing at that point that I'm rooting for is a restraining order.

Also, if we can just stop doing mpreg entirely, that'd be great. Or at the very least, clearly warn about that in short descriptions and long descriptions, because I can be into a story and then the second mpreg happens, you've totally lost me. My suspension of disbelief is not that high.

Strong, independent female characters who don't need anybody in their love life...until they meet a boy (who is almost always a "rebel"), and suddenly her life revolves around him.

I don't like incest of any kind. (I'm also hoping Jaime ends up leaving Cersei.) This includes Thor/Loki. Sure, they're not biologically related, but they grew up together as brothers.

When stories start off with the typical "Hi, I'm *insert name here* and I'm a typical *insert age here* teenage girl with *insert physical descriptions of character here*. " followed by a huge chunk of their past already explained. I sometimes do this but I try not to. it gets kind of repetitive to read in every other fanfic. I'm glad people are trying to write in first person view but people tend to do huge information dumps which makes me lose interest in the sotry right away.

When a girl character is brought in/has been there to further the plot lines of other - usually male - characters. And then are just tossed aside once the job is done.

I dislike Mpreg, most stories told from a female's point of view, and self-harm in stories.

Also as most others have said, I don't like the whole 'scene names' thing. It's annoying and automatically turns me off from a story when I read it.

This is more of a grammar / writing style thing, but it irks me when people put '...' as a way of joining two sentences together as opposed to making them two separate sentences. Why. Why do you do this.

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When names don't match the time of the story.

Like, someone isn't going to be named Aiden in the 1880s.
Or when every character has a stereotypical "emo" or "goth" name like Raven, Emery, or Skylar.

Related to this, I can't stand when characters are named unrealistically. Like when you name your character you need to think of time period, culture of character, where they live/region, and what their parents would name them! That last thing especially gets overlooked!
What really irks me is that even professional writers commit this particular sin all the time!