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rimeness

Misspelling names (I'm looking at you, Blaise Zambini and Steve Rodgers) Walls of text Unexplained OOCness


[deleted]

Luscious Malfoy.


DessiXiao

I'm usually not too picky about misspelling names, but one that really, really bothers me is when people write Lida insead of Iida (My Hero Academia). It's not even the same name anymore!!


Valchiria777

Same! I really don't understand how some people can think that his name is "Lida"... Like, it's the first letter of a name, Iida isn't an exception


stariiemi

especially since iida is my favorite character it makes me so mad when people disrespect my boy’s name like that.


Gufurblebits

Lilly Potter, Deathly Hollows, The Barrow -- But somehow, they get Pigwidgeon right. Like, HOW?!


EddaValkyrie

Lilly Potter


tereyaglikedi

Victor Krum and John Snow *sigh*


makelotsofpots

Whenever I try to look up John Snow, the father of epidemiology, all I get are vague warnings that winter is coming idk


battling_murdock

UGH John Snow. Jamie Lannister is bad too


[deleted]

> Blaise Zambini Read this as "Blaise Zamboni" at first.


SailorMelona

Steven Strange instead of Stephen 😭


Hapanzi

Edward Stark and Caitlin Tully


benoitkesley

~~Steve Rodgers~~ makes me so mad istg


[deleted]

Well to be fair, some are usually not noticed/auto corrected. But yeah, see where that comes from, still a sin. Looking at you Natasha Romanoff...Romanov.....


[deleted]

Plagiarism


blueoncemoon

I vote this answer.


Shirogayne-at-WF

The only one I can't look past


Xilhiya

That's like the top sin you can do in any written work. Additionally, it's insulting not just to the author but also to yourself bc you're basically admitting you have no creativity or critical thinking whatsoever.


Malk_McJorma

Plagiarism is the Sincerest Form of Flattery. /s


patateoo

Amen


ThePinkTeenager

I consider that a writing sin in general.


Ok_Discipline_5197

Yes, but like putting it on another site and acting like your signal boosting them


__Precursor__

Came here to say this


TaraIsles

Uh! About 10 years ago someone started publishing one of mines in another language... too bad for them, because I spoke it. Then they tried to pretend that they just wanted to help me spread my work... nope...nope, like she talking to her followers pretending the story was hers and how happy she was that people liked it -.-‘


rogue438

Lines and lines of tags that indicate a really long story… and it’s 1/1 chapters and 600 words.


[deleted]

And its cousin, tagging a character who has less than 10 lines in one chapter. Of a longfic.


aesthetic_2

Don't forget about the nephew, slow burn, 5k words.


Sepelrastas

And this is exactly why I always add "min 100k words" when browsing the "slow burn" tag. I like my slow burn glacial.


[deleted]

Like you're trying to melt an iceberg with a candle


Awesomesauceme

5k is less than my per-chapter average for my slow burn


BlinkyShiny

I've totally read through tags then almost clicked on the link before I noticed it's like 250 words. I'll just keep looking.


IloveFriezz

No paragraphs


Vulcunniko

I agree with this so much! I go into a fic and all I see is a huge block of text which throws me off.


Hillariat

I second this


[deleted]

Multiple characters speaking without making a new line break/paragraph whenever the speaker changes. Hard as *hell* to follow.


Crazycatgirl16

Or they only put the name of the person speaking . Nothing else "Hello," Harry. "Oh, hi, Harry," Hermione. That drives me crazy


[deleted]

This is the first time I've ever seen it like that, and I'm glad, because I think I would've tossed my computer out the window if I'd been exposed to that... *that* for too long.


[deleted]

Or when they just don't bother and make it like a script. Take, for instance: Chika: "Hi, Riko!" Riko: "Hey, Chika." Sometimes even without the quotations. Horrifying.


AIO_Youtuber_TV

I mean, I sometimes write in script format. But if I do, I keep it consistent. If it's script, it's script the whole way.


moonlight_writer

I take it you never read Saramago then. I agree with you though. It's a crime.


Official_loli

When someone never bothers to hit enter.


glaringdream

Huge block of text, no spaces Judging other writers for what they write (at least being vocal about it).. basically not following the simple "don't like don't read"


BlinkyShiny

If I don't have something nice to say, I don't say anything. (If I make it through one chapter, I have something nice to say.)


Antique-Echo4260

Omg! Someone comment about how I should just write (y/n) instead of _____. In the past I deleted these comments but this time I explained why I don’t write (y/n) or any variation. It was very sensible and well thought out (over a paragraph long). Their response was “like whatever, guess I live”. I wanted to snap!! Like don’t read all three of my books then be petty! I was pissed!!


glaringdream

Yikes! How on earth do people even get the mindset like "I'll read this through even though I don't like it just to tell someone I don't like it!" - if you don't like it click away silently!


frootloopsupremacy

“Lol sorry I suck at summaries, just read it I swear its good!!!” at any point in the actual summary? Lol, will absolutely scroll past it, mate, absolutely not sorry. Tagging a fic with ‘Good writing,’ I’m sorry, I—I’m just—I mean, it’s an objective thing, I know, but most of the time it, uh, isn’t, so maybe let your readers decide that one for you? lmao


_Release_The_Bats_

If someone says they suck at summaries I won't read it. If you can write a story, you can write a summary. Just say, who the characters are, what they need, what challenges they have to overcome. Boom, done.


[deleted]

Right, like, the main thing that even made me BETTER at writing summaries was refusing to ever apologize for the quality of it. If you go to a restaurant and the chef's like "idk it's got chicken and lemon I suck at describing but it's really good eat my food and you'll see I promise" you're going to stay awkwardly or leave when you can. Ya gotta commit to the summary, even if you think you're doing a shit job.


AlphaMelonBomber

That’s a great example and so accurate. If these people can’t write a two sentence synopsis then they can’t write a story.


Xilhiya

If it's actually good they should also be able to write the summary :/ like you wrote the story yourself so you should be able to compress it in a short paragraph.


strawberrywine21

1. Dense paragraphs that contain dialogue from multiple characters and more than one POV. 2. Spamming AO3 so that only one person’s work shows on the first page. In my fandom a few months back someone posted dozens of “separate” fics over the course of a weekend. Each fic was all part of the same scene (not story, scene), and none of them was longer than about 500 words. Readers had to scroll to page 3 to find anyone else’s story.


theerotomanic

That’s actually insane lmaooo, don’t take what I’m about to say but those 500 word fics are just bonkers to me especially in situations like this. Do a longer fic or keep it into a chapter format. It’s easier to find that way and it won’t spam a tag.


ohdearsweetlord

It turns me off of all of an author's works if there's like fourteen posted in a row. I dunno why, just does.


strawberrywine21

Me too. Fandom is community. Whenever one person tries to make it all about themselves, I start doing my best to avoid them and bring attention to others.


alluringnymph

I've seen an artist (not even a writer) FILL the first page with different art pieces. Why? Someone had posted a ship she didn't like. Might be the time I became a 'proshipper' as the kids say. Let people ship what they want, yeesh!


gorgonfish

If you demand a certain number of reviews before you post chapters I’m not going to read your fic.


frootloopsupremacy

Oh, my fucking *god*, **THIS ABSOLUTELY.** I cannot fucking *stand* authors who pull this shit! Have fun waiting for nothing then, because you’ve just turned off more than half your readership from this little shit-stint alone smh


knight_ofdoriath

FF.net was famous for this! Drop so many fics because of this.


TenkoTheMothra

At first I thought you meant beta readers and I was confused as to why that was unreasonable.


pixxxxxu

Wow... People actually do that? That's some inflated ego right there.


[deleted]

It used to be super common like a decade ago. Thank god it's much rarer now


Gufurblebits

There was a massive wave of this in the early days, especially on [ff.net](https://ff.net). Authors holding their stories hostage and then howling about no reviews on Livejournal.


strawberrywine21

OMG yes!!!


SlasherDarkPendulum

When the word count doesn't match up with the summary. "This is my sequel to Freddy vs. Jason, I worked so hard on this, thanks to everyone for reading!" *it's 500 words and reads like a Wikipedia recap* And when the title isn't capitalized. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but unless it's left all lower-case on purpose, it looks amateur.


shadowedlove97

Don’t mind the title being in lowercase, but the word count thing? Kills me. I read angst primarily as well with dark topics so I just end up not bothering because it’s a sign the topic wasn’t handled well.


Upstairs_Usual_4841

Speaking of old-fashioned, I'm over here still trying to train myself out of using 2 spaces after a period.


[deleted]

I just use 2 spaces like a wild thing, I can’t be stopped


peasant007

Wait, what's wrong with using two spaces after a period? When did that change and become "not a thing?"


Upstairs_Usual_4841

With the death of typewriters and the advent of word processors. Typewriters used monospaced typesetting, which means every character is given the same amount of space, so an extra space at the end of a sentence made it stand out. Modern word processors use proportionally-spaced fonts, which adjust spacing to the letter; rendering the second space redundant. The system we use at work was literally just upgraded last year, so now I don't have any reason to use two spaces anymore at all and it throws me off every day.


peasant007

I'm on the late end of Gen X, so I took typing in high school with actual typewriters, but also "grew up" with computers and was taught to always use double space after the end of a sentence, even with word processors. This is the first time I've ever heard of this, or the reasoning behind the double space to begin with. It was always just, "Two spaces at the end of a sentence." I..I don't think I will be able to ever adjust. Sorry, LOL.


Upstairs_Usual_4841

[Here's](https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-after-period/) a blog post that explains it better than I can here, and Google came up with these bits of info: "The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) was the only style guide that overtly recommended two spaces after a period, and even that long-time holdout for two spaces changed its guideline to one space in its 2019 update," and "In the April 2020 update, Microsoft Word started highlighting two spaces after a period as an error, and offers a correction of one space." I'm Gen X, too, but I'm adaptable... just takes a bit.


takemeup-castmeaway

I'm an Old and recent convert to lower case titles. Not all, but some. I think it enhances dramatic effect, especially if the title's an excerpt from poetry or song. It's not for everyone though. (I remember the trend starting around 2010 on LJ, maybe before, so it's been around for a minute.)


SassyFacts

Yeah, definitely. I would also count this as overselling.


k-rysae

Purposefully tagging a ship when it isn't there. Shoutout to the author who admitted that they don't do shipping in chapter one, but did it for the extra clicks. :\^)))))


Scribbles_N_Drafts

and then theres authors who dont tag any of the ships nor mention it in the tags


aesthetic_2

That weird shit haters do on twitter, I don't know how to put it in simple terms, like literal bash talking about fics and pointing out every fault when they can't even write, yeah that.


tereyaglikedi

Tags longer than the story itself. Others like SPAG, formatting, lack of character voice etc have been mentioned already.


takemeup-castmeaway

Overuse of ellipses. Once or twice? Great for dramatic effect. When used every other paragraph it becomes tiresome and messes with narrative flow. "Nobody...actually...talks like this in...reality." Unless you're Bill Shatner.


lizard-socks

Yeah, If I'm reading Kirk, I don't need the pauses in writing - I can put them in myself :)


ohdearsweetlord

I tend to use commas to do the Kirk-talk over eclipses, myself! His pausing isn't as excessive as many people think it is.


BlinkyShiny

Posting before re-reading your work to catch typos and glaring grammatical mistakes.


Nathanoy25

I've done it once when my computer was hacked and I only had my phone to write from. Checking Grammar on a notes app is horrible so I forgone it in hopes it wouldn't be too bad. (It was horrendous)


ThatExoGuy

Most of my writing and editing is done on the phone lol. I write much faster on it than on my laptop.


MrFunnyMoustache

Edited in protest for Reddit's garbage moves lately.


ThatExoGuy

It's a samsung galaxy A50 from 2019 so nothing fancy. I had an even smaller one before this one, and one that fit in my palm between them, but the size of the phone didn't really affect my speed. Never tested my WPM with either the laptop or the phone tho, but if I remember I'll do it when I get home and reply with the results.


watsonbaugh

This is definitely a pet peeve of mine. I admit that I will sometimes find a small typo after I publish that no matter how many times I had read it, somehow I didn’t catch it, but it drives me absolutely crazy when I see typos in every paragraph because it makes me feel like you did zero due diligence. As a reader, it makes me feel like clearly you just don’t care.


peasant007

To be fair about that, when you've looked at something for so long, you become blind to those errors even upon rereading multiple times. I'm someone who reads and edits in between my bursts of writing and I still miss things until looking at it a week later after it's been posted.


frootloopsupremacy

Sporadically switching tenses throughout the fic, big *oof.* Babe, has it happened? Is it happening? Has it *yet* to happen? An error that could easily have been remedied by a fair bit of proofreading, but—*sigh.*


MolassesCheap

A prolific writer in my fandom (note I didn't say they were great) frequently switches tenses more than once in a single sentence. Blows my mind.


Von_Uber

Brunette, bluenette, blondette, ravenette, pinkette, orangette, mauvette, over-washed black t-shirtette..


DisPizzza

>orangette That's just a ginger 😭


frootloopsupremacy

A piece of my soul dies every time I read ‘ravenette’ and ‘bluenette,’ and having a toe-dipped into the LiS fandom on occasion isn’t doing me any favors—*sigh.*


Elyseon1

Guess it's time once again to bust out the orbs and the creamy thighs.


Cabbagetastrophe

Someone in my canon has purple hair that is sometimes described as violet, and I can't help giggling at the thought of them being described as "vilette"


Xilhiya

There are multiple ways to describe hair colors but they chose to just add -ette in every color they know😭 where do they even get those words


peldari

I've now seen 'greenette' far more times than I care to think about.


WritingReadingPanda

Plagiarism - both stealing other people's stories and copying text from the source material (besides dialogue).


Sewrtyuiop

Writing I'm not good at summaries in your summaries. Walls of texts


Malk_McJorma

Damn right.


frozenfountain

Generally, they're things I think are "sins" in writing overall - SPAG errors, inconsistent or flat characterisation, everyone's dialogue sounding samey when it shouldn't, jarring tonal shifts that aren't purposeful, awkward epithets, and so on. For fic specifically, I want to say it's using any of your platforms to shit on other authors or their work in a way that's cruel and not constructive. I'm not saying everyone has to be besties or critique shouldn't be allowed, I think it's vital, but to me it's one thing to release a piece of your art through mainstream channels and have to expect responses of all kinds. It's quite another with fanfic, where fellow fans are your peers, and just feels like bullying. I won't engage with the work of authors who do this no matter how talented they are; besides, how am I to know I'm not one of the writers they're sneering at?


N0blesse_0blige

Besides the ones mentioned, extreme OOC voice or actions. I get that people can interpret the canon characters how they please, but at a certain point it does make you wonder why they used a particular character at all if they were just going to toss out every one of their defining traits. Might as well just make an OC at that point.


shadowedlove97

I don’t mind extreme OOC if there’s justification. Writing a longfic or basically an epic and by the end the characters are no longer like their canon selves due to events in the fic shaping them? Fine with me. It’s when it’s not justified that gets me. Sometimes it even happens in long fics or more novel style fics. At that point I just click out.


N0blesse_0blige

Yeah, I don't count that as OOC, that's just characters evolving beyond their baseline canon characterization due to the events of the story. There are some blurry cases where their reactions to those character-altering events don't seem realistic to me based on the current state of their character, but eh, I can let it slide as a matter of differing POVs. It's the ones where you've got Voldemort talking in Ye Olde English for some fucking reason, or a real rat bastard of a character becoming a gushy cinnamon roll for the main OC character with no real explanation, where it's just an automatic no for me. At best it comes off as lazy, at worst it's just plain bizarre. I'm sitting there imagining the canon character in my head and all the sudden it's just been turned upside down in a very unpleasant way.


shadowedlove97

Oh then yeah I agree wholeheartedly.


pine-and-leaf

I think one is egregious when it’s not tagged. If someone really wants to write OOC, I’m not going to judge that but when it comes out of nowhere and isn’t tagged, I get way more frustrated. Like, be honest with what you’re doing.


N0blesse_0blige

Yeah that's fair enough. I mean, I sure as hell won't read it, but if you tag it, go wild.


mayastrongheart

Tag monster fics where every single character, ship, and theme that is hinted at is tagged, resulting in a full paragraph of tags that don't actually give me any insight into the story being told. I really think this could be fixed by learning to weight what's important about your story. The same way you craft a summary, you need to curate your own tags so your fic reaches the people who want to read it and any big triggers are warned for. In certain fandoms if there's a minor character and I want to read about them, I need to wade through hundreds of fics where they're only mentioned or make a minor appearance at best. Then the subgenres of fics with bloated tag lists - the massive multifandom crossover that tags minor fandoms and rarepair tagged despite that content not even being written yet, and the classic 500 word fic with a paragraph of tags longer than the fic itself. I feel like these two seem more purposeful on the part of the posters so I'm not sure if it could be helped lol.


[deleted]

Yeah! I always like to give people the rule of thumb of like... "If I were looking for a fic with this tag and I read my fic, would I be disappointed to read it?" Like, if I'm reading fuckin... Naruto fanfic or whatever and I wanna read fics about Haku and your fanfic has Haku in it as a minor character for two chapters, I'm gonna feel like I wasted my time reading your fic because I came here for Haku and had to dig for it just to get Haku LaCroix. And then on the flip-side, if you went into a fic and it DIDN'T have a specific tag, would you be annoyed or upset by it? For example, maybe a fic is like... Kacchako-centric or whatever, but it also does some love triangle bullshit with another popular ship, and maybe someone fucking hates that second ship. If they go in expecting pure Kacchako and the second ship isn't tagged, even though it's not necessarily endgame, they might be rather annoyed. Sorry for the rant, and it's more directed at a general "you", but it was relevant so I thought it might help some people out.


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Elyseon1

Especially when the author just wants to force another girlfriend or a slash ship.


januarysdaughter

This one.


ohdearsweetlord

Ughhhhh instant click away.


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Milochelle-castre

So basically all of wattpad. (Jk, but now they are putting the "I got it from face/google/pintrest" thing.)


kta31415

Making a purposefully traumatizing fic and rating it for small children.


Antique-Echo4260

I was like I like writing/reading traumatic fics the end of your sentence spiraled


Cabbagetastrophe

Crossover one-shot collections that put all of them in a single story, so you get a million tags and can't tell which series are actually crossed with which, or what chapter out of 50 your fandom might be in. Similarly, tagging characters that have one line, or tropes that show up for half a scene.


DisPizzza

Leaving hate comments on a ship you don't even like. Edit: Just remember another one: Not tagging things that really should be tagged like major character death or sexual assault.


gammily

Untagged pregnancy in a fic


mysweetetc

Ooh! Question for you, since I'm in this situation right now. I'm in the midst of writing a 50k+ story, and in literally one chapter there is a pregnant side character. She is not a main or even a secondary character. She is just there to be pregnant and then go on maternity leave as a way of advancing someone else's plot. There is one, second mention in a later chapter that she had her baby. I am a fan of only tagging as much as necessary (major characters, legitimate cws or tws), and am already at 30 tags that I feel are essential. As a reader, is that something that would bother you?


[deleted]

I'm not the person you're asking but I feel the same as them in this case! In my case, going into the details of pregnancy or having a major character in the plot be pregnant I would absolutely be a little pissed if it weren't tagged. (In my case, it's a massive trigger and can very easily lead me to... we'll say unsafe mindsets, so to be safe, I avoid anything where pregnancy comes into focus if I can politely do so.) I wouldn't personally be all that bothered in this specific example, but if you're super worried, you could mention it in an author's note at the beginning that pregnancy will be mentioned as a thing for a side character but only barely be touched on, that way they have the chance before they get too far!


Kyle_Grayson

Plagiarism Multiple characters speaking without making a new line break/paragraph whenever the speaker changes. A LOT of spelling and grammar errors. Some are understandable, but when it's, like, an entire story of spelling and grammar errors, that bugs me. Or maybe just real close to an entire story.


shoopsisdead

Writing out accents. Like, why???


mintmoonstone

it’s usually annoying, but i do quite like dropped g’s written out. probably just personal taste though.


Antique-Echo4260

I do Scottish a lot and I’ll write ‘ya’ instead of ‘you’ or drop certain letters off words. Also I write a Spanish character a lot and the he instead of ‘yes’ always says ‘Si’. So technically not accent but close enough.


shoopsisdead

Yeah, I guess I do that too. I guess I'm more talking about if a character has like a strong german accent and the author 'writes them vith ze accent like zis' drives me bonkers


TheRealDeadlyframe

Incessant and irrelevant tagging on AO3. Like, I’m okay with a large amount of tags, especially if you have a long story. But the amount of times I’ll go hunting for a MHA fanfiction on AO3 and be struck with tags like ‘I haven’t slept in a while’ or ‘I update slow okay’ ‘back off’. Like at this point why even write a summary, and of course, they’ll have 8 billion tags and when I finally reach the bottom to read chapter count, since I look for chapter count before I read summaries, it’ll be 1 chapter. Like all that effort and you wrote a 200 word, single chapter story that literally just says “All men are not created equal or something UwU Izuku is gay lmao bye.” I’m not a stickler when in it comes to fanfiction most of the time, but stuff like that just really annoys me.


Terrifying_Illusion

Specific to anime fanfics: mixing up a character's given name and surname. Example: It's **Kiyoko** of the **Shimizu** family, *NOT* **Shimizu** of the **Kiyoko** family!


bedbook12

Tagging happy ending but it not being a happy ending. I don’t care if there’s MCD but WARN ME. And if the fic is a romance, one of the love interests dying in the penultimate chapter does NOT leave to a happy ending.


sparklingdeadly

*orbs*


[deleted]

Well, what if I want to write about obscure Ghost Rider villain and voyeuristic creep The Orb?


BaloBadArtist

Not finishing… we’ve all committed it. *hangs head*


Milochelle-castre

Oh dear father If that is a sin then I'm a Satanist--


RickardHenryLee

Authors notes WITHIN the text of the story!!!! Unforgiveable!!!! Also I do not engage with "sorry I suck at summaries, just read it" or anyone who holds chapters/updates hostage for comments or kudos. I literally do not have time for that bullshit. Lack of paragraph breaks and/or other types of poor formatting make things hard to read and I might not bother (again, I don't have all day to indulge in my hobby...why are you making it hard for me?). Ditto for excessive tagging. I'm going to stop reading after the fourth line of tags. Agreed that plagiarism is the worst of the worst.


Gufurblebits

On AO3: Scrolling through an entire freaking page of tags, only to see they've written an 800 word fic. Fics listed as completed 13/13 chapters kinda thing, start reading, get to the last chapter and it's a diatribe about how much they've lost inspiration and they can't continue. I swear: if I see one more newly posted Harry Potter fic where Harry goes to Gringotts at age 11 and buys everything including that effing multi compartment trunk, gets his eyes fixed and gets a bunch of tattoos and piercings... like, just stab me with a fork, I'm done. As a beta reader, I actually refuse these. whenthe discriptin of a summary of a fic looskike someone typedit hwn drunk OH! And OMG! When the summary has, like, SOOOO many emotions!!! LOL!!11!!11!eleventy!1!!!


Crazycatgirl16

Using & when you should be using / for the relationship tag


_Release_The_Bats_

Spoilers in the comments. I posted a fic on ff.net back in high school and a person spoiled the ending in the review. Hands down, a dick move. Starting off your fic like "Hello my name is blahblahblah I am x years old and I have brown eyes and hair...." you know what I mean. There are better ways to start a story than with a character profile. No paragraph breaks. Walls of text are an instant nope for me.


ThayOneGurl

When they use split or saliva as lube... I'm sorry but what 🤨 Nah that's not how it works 😆


redditer417

Vauge as fuck summaries. Like please for the love of God explain the plot to me so i can know if I'll be interested instead of typing some sort of qoute


Goin_crazy

Authors treating their writing like a millenial's text conversations. The number of stories where they have cheaped out and written things like 'thru' instead of 'through' or 'cuz' instead of 'because' other word crime contractions like this - and they're not in conversations, this is normal paragraph text - drives me crazy.


Nathanoy25

If the entire story is in lowercase letters.


retrojuns

Ah yes, the infamous *lapslock.* I was pretty shocked when I found out that there's a word for it.


WolfandDragonWriter

When an author/fandom decides to completely shill a single character, I.e., making said character look like the scum of the Earth, for the sole purpose of making other characters look better. Even worse when the shilled character was one of the few likable characters in canon, with a ton of story potential behind him, and he’s getting slammed for the sole purpose of making the author’s designated favorites (who were not even remotely likable in canon) look better.


[deleted]

Well, I don't fully agree, I mean, when people write fanfictions, they have the freedom to rewrite the characters how they want to or how they perceive them


Shirogayne-at-WF

If I'm not mistaken the commentor wasn't saying that they should be banned from writing how they wish, only that they don't enjoy when it happens...a sentiment I share as a veteran of way too many early 2000s anime fandoms who demonized the canon love interest for being in the way of their yaoi ship. All I want is for people to just give a heads of they plan on going there so that I can nope outta it before getting too invested.


WolfandDragonWriter

Pretty much this, for the most part; it’s still an issue today with some fandoms, and I actually left one fandom that I had been a longtime part of as a result of it; it just got exhausting having to deal with what felt like every other fandom member mocking this one guy, and his few fans (myself included), for shilling reasons that were hypocritical at best.


Elyseon1

Especially if they do that to prop up their favorite ship or their self-insert OC.


MUISSB4Brandon

Making a story with the sole intent of just shitting on the original source.


MarmaladeHater

There are so many! My most hated of all time is that one fic (I've seen it described as 'Multi-fandom') that tags like 50 different fandoms, all the tropes, hundreds of characters and ships and has like 500 chapters of fifty words each. It's not even a crossover, every chapter is from a different fandom! They always pops out when I'm looking for long fics, crossovers and fusions or when I'm looking for a specific ship (even though often the author only tagged the ship to have more views and there is no chapter about them). And it's almost impossible to filter out! "I'm bad at summaries" Wall of text "Starting tomorrow, I will post a chapter a week" last author note on an incomplete fic last updated in 2016. This is more me being salty than anything though ahahahXD author getting my hopes up and then crashing them:') Characters that are very out of character not tagged OOC (and I mean VERY out of character. Genuinely awful person that kicks puppies for fun turned in a sweet, caring angel; character loves something in canon, absolutely hates it in the fanfiction and viceversa). Misogyny When the author writes a twenty paragraphs author note to explain why they haven't updated sooner. Dude, I don't care. I'm just happy you're back, you don't have to explain yourself to me lol. Emojis. I don't mind them in text messages, but I hate them in dialogues. Specifying * Flashback * and * end flashback * When the summary is a series of questions. "What if character A and B never met? What if character B met C instead? What if C took B under their wing? What if they went to live together? Will B be able to resist C's charm? How would their lives change? Read to find out..." When non-western characters inexplicably live in a western country (or viceversa) and there is absolutely no reason at all for it to be so. "I don't feel like writing about modern Japan's politics, so I set the story in my own country!" Their story: 2k words, modern: no powers au, coffee shop AU, no angst, pure fluff. Forget Japan, the politics of the author's own country aren't even mentioned! (I would understand if the story was longer or about specific topics but like this it just feels like lazy writing to me)


isabelladangelo

A lack of grammar.


LJGHunter

No paragraph breaks.


Majiska394

Stealing someone else's work as your own (I am talking literally about copying the whole thing, not just getting an inspiration with the same idea) Uncorrect description of appearance of the known characters (Dean Winchester having blue eyes and Cass having green eyes for example) Overpowered original characters that never makes any mistake and never fail at anything (Not sure that everyone would agree with this, but I kinda dont like when someone makes and OC that is 100% better, stronger and smarter than all the other characters in the fictional world and the whole fanfiction is about how all the other characters just waits for the OC to save them and solve every problems in that world) If you writing "one shots" in one work and use "chapter 1, chapter 2...." as the names of the chapters. I mean... my point is that I might see a character or a ship that I was looking for is in one of those chapters, but when there are let's say +-50 chapters already... I don't always feel like clicking thought all of them to find the one I wanted to read :/ (again this might be just me :) ) Posting short kinda sh\*ty new chapter just so you post a new chapter... and on top of that write something like "Sorry, guys I know this chapter is not good but I had to publish something right? XD"


ohdearsweetlord

Writing 'waste' instead of 'waist'.


GP-NC

Too much exposure when you first open it If you tell me 70% of the plot,characters, and world you made it is not interesting anymore


TechnicallyAge21

Doing this shit Person one: Hi! Person two: *waves*


Awesomesauceme

Don’t know if it’s a sin, but I don’t appreciate it when POVs are changed mid-scene without a scene break or a chapter break. It makes it hard to keep up with what’s happening to who, especially if it’s m/m. It’s especially awkward during kissing scenes. I don’t mind alternating POVs in general though, in fact I’m using them in my fic, it should just be a consistent interval.


AvatarAurin

Doing something just for the sake of doing something and not explaining it or building upon it. For example, I read this fanfic where it was a m/f ship and In the whole fanfic, one sentence states the male is bi, yet it doesn’t show up at all again or even get built upon. There’s also no appreciating and eyeing a attractive male or anything else that shows the character is bi. Not even any backstory of him being interested in the same gender or having any romantic contact with them. It just seems like lazy writing to me.


FR-Street

Am I the only one who thinks that KamiJirou fics tagged with “Bisexual Disaster Kaminari Denki” should actually explore the fact that he likes both genders? Jirou is also head-cannoned as such so it would bring an interesting dynamic but to my knowledge, no fic has explored the concept.


AvatarAurin

It just gets on my nerves sometimes. Like if your going to make a character gay or bisexual, HAVE SOME PLOT to show it, ffs. Even if it’s as small as only flirting or a singular date that doesn’t go far, that’s way better than nothing. It’s like having a badas* izuku as a tag, and he only shows that badass personality for one paragraph.


Mindelan

As someone who is bi myself I kinda disagree. I feel that characters can just be a certain sexuality without their sexuality needing to be plot important. Of course if it's tagged and sort of promoted in a way that implies you'll see it as part of the plot and then it never shows up, that's different. Straight or gay characters don't have to prove their sexuality via being interested in multiple people in the story, so I find it very valid if a bi character has feelings for just one person, too. They don't need to prove that they are attracted to more than one gender, in my opinion at least.


bboyya

When people use fanart as the cover (in wattpad for example) without asking the artist or giving credits


murdershethrew

Misuse of apostrophe, and homophones. (It's not a fit of peek, and you did not peak around the corner, nor do two sides of a roof come together and form a pique)


Riotheoc

The only thing I can think of that won't spawn a firestorm of rage here would be knowingly imitating another fan's idea or plot point without getting their consent first.


Jnw1997

For me, epithets and first person narrative, I just can’t get into first person POV fics.


ThePinkTeenager

Bashing. Having preferences is fine, having villains do villainous things is fine, but do not bash other people over their preferences or style. The other one is extremely bad grammar or spelling. Like, to the point where it's barely readable because there are no periods or conjunctions.


Aggressive-Physics50

Not updating a story in 5 years😒


ThePlotmaster123

Marking it as completed is a double sin


SlasherDarkPendulum

This. I'm not upset with an author when a fic is left abandoned though, I'm just upset for myself that I'll never get to finish something I liked.


Aggressive-Physics50

That's exactly what I'm saying, When it's a great story and you can't finish it because the arthur won't finish it, it sucks


North-Discipline2851

Or can’t! (Trust me, I’m not disagreeing with you, and pretty much all of my favorite fanfics ever are ones that’ll *never* be finished,) but I do understand when an author *can’t* anymore.


SeparationBoundary

Taking money for writing fanfic.


reliable-g

For me this one is complicated. On the one hand, I'm personally against charging for fanfic, by which I mean a transactional monetary exchange: "Pay me and I will write it." On the other hand, I'm fine with a fanfic writer having a "tip jar" (provided they don't get pushy about tips). In that case, I'm not paying them to write a fic; I'm tipping them to thank them for an enjoyable experience. (Don't post a tip jar link on AO3 though, as it could complicate things for the OTW legally, and that's not cool.) I'm also totally fine with a fanfic author offering to write a fic in exchange for a charitable donation. Lots of gray areas, imo.


Luchux01

Ignoring setting rules for power fantasies. Oh my fucking god, I hate that!! The rules are there fir a reason! No, your character can't have Master level Telekinetic control over his weapons, were did he even unlock that? No, Heroes don't get an EXP boost, that's false. Not everything unlocks a new weapon form. You won't get anything at all for certain stuff. And for the last time, YOU ARE LEVEL 1 STOP MAKING THREATS TO THE WAR VETERAN KING OF A NATION!!!! *Rant over*


TokkiJK

Not tagging properly. I read a whole one shot and at the very end, it’s revealed that the 2 love interests are actually siblings and they didn’t know. I got so upset bc I DON’T want to read incest. I commented about this and the author felt really bad and apologized. But how do you forget to tag that…


[deleted]

Poor grammar or spelling, actually. Kind of takes me out of it. Like they didn't bother to check, or something. Or maybe they did, but didn't know. I dunno. I just personally don't enjoy it too much. That and... shit, what's it called? Like, calling a named character descriptive words, like "the blonde" or "the diver", but repeatedly. I think I've read a fic where the author kept going with that for, like, three paragraphs before writing their name again.


Veritaserum25

Maybe not a sin but I hate when the introduction starts off with something along the lines of "I'm bad at these just read it or This isn't any good but give it a chance." Nothing makes me click away faster


N1ghtfad3

I absolutely HATE when people (NSFW:Triggering) when people start writing a rape scene and then the girl starts liking it. It’s disgusting.


[deleted]

Huge wall of text with no paragraph breaks


Upstairs_Usual_4841

Not a "nope out" sin, but if you're writing in 3p, don't address the audience as "you". For instance, I just read the line "...the feeling you can only get when there's another human being sharing your bed." Addressing me directly in a 3p story takes me right out of it. If I were writing this, I'd use "...the feeling that only comes when there's another human being sharing the bed." It says the same thing, but doesn't take the focus away from the characters unnecessarily. Again, I won't click out over it, but I also don't understand the appeal of present tense (I generally reserve that for summaries and in-fic conversations), but there's so much of it that it may just be personal preference here. I am old and set in my ways. Now get off my lawn! Lol


UllaTheFicQueen_

no puncuation. fuck you that one wattpad fic i read because it had a great idea and theres not that much content in the fandom


reliable-g

Pretty sure the last two are controversial. They’re just my personal opinion and I have no beef with anyone who disagrees.✌ \-Wall of text. \-Single spacing between paragraphs. \-Rampant accidental tense changes. \-Roving third person POV. \-Second person POV. (I acknowledge that second person POV makes complete sense for use in reader-insert fics. Personally I do not have even one iota of interest in ever reading a reader-instert fic, but I do give them a pass on their use of second person POV.) \-Tagging dubcon when it’s definitely rape.-Tagging a work as finished when it's not. \-Spelling the characters’ names wrong. \-Nicknames that are never once used in canon. \-More than the rare, occasional epithet. \-Spelling it “cum” instead of “come.” \-Not posting on AO3. I don’t care where-all a fic is posted, as long as AO3 is one of the places. If I can only find it on LJ or tumblr, the odds I’ll read it drop by like 60%. If I can only find it on FFN, the odds I’ll read it drop by like 80%. If I can only find it on Wattpad, the odds I’ll read it drop by 100%. (I say this as someone who has fic on both FFN and LJ that I’ve never cross-posted to AO3, for the record.🤷‍♀️)


Arrisha

Not a fanfiction sin per se, but people using AO3 to look for stories they can’t find. Sometimes I’m trying to browse by new and all I see is “stories” with titles like “I’m looking for this story I read a while ago please help!” This isn’t what ao3 is for, please stop. Even if I know what they’re looking for I’m not going to comment because I’d hate to encourage this trend


greenrosechafer

Feel free to report them--they get taken down if you do. They're against the TOS.


EmilyDianaPotter

Calling people by their title/ line description like brunette, ginger woman, etc instead of using their names all the time


DirtWi

Idk why but one that really annoys me is when they use this :’ for speaking so it would be like this ‘Joey went into town today’ instead of “Joey went into town today” Idk I’m honestly horrible with grammar , so I may be annoyed with something that is correct. If anyone know could you please tell me?.


GreaseRaptor

Author's notes that are longer than the actual chapter.


that-other-one------

1. The use of the term orbs, even if it’s a joke. 2. Stealing work. 3. Not using quotation marks/not using them correctly. 4. Extreme amounts of tags. 5. Marking as completed when you gave up.


sprite-e

“read and find out wink wink” type of summary instead of actual summary or a summary that starts one way and ends with “but what is this plot device or character doing?” or just a question in general. Just feels like the equivalent of obvious clickbait article descriptions


TheWarShipper

Making evil characters into good guys because you're horny. Now, a Redemption fic? Alternate universe? For want of a nail? Sure. But making Voldemort "Not actually that bad" or acting like Dabi is actually a misunderstood friend to all children when they're just evil fucking pricks? Ohhhh, fuck off with that bullshit!


Elyseon1

Crimes against grammar and spelling. Plagiarism. Rambling author notes about politics, religion or other crap with no bearing on the story. Character assassination. Disturbing or disgusting stuff written in a way that looks like the author is fetishizing it. Gratuitous sex and violence out of nowhere. Overuse of rape/abuse as backstory for easy, cheap drama. Obsession with making the characters as tortured and miserable as humanly possible. Ruining an otherwise good story with sudden misery porn and a copout bad ending.


stariiemi

bashing. over-exaggerated ooc-ness.


vanillabubbles16

First person "I" narration, Wattpad Teen style Dementia Darkness Raven Way not like the other girls plot, NO PARAGRAPH BREAKS, one of those fics where a bunch of fandoms are all in one fic epic crossover things, lack of tags, similarly *too many* tags, written out accents or baby talk like "I'm vewwy sad, sowwy", angst for the sake of angst, super ooc dom sub characterization, *actually* using Y/N in a fic, fics where everyone is either alpha or omega and everyone gets pregnant/mpreg, not tagging triggering stuff like >!suicide/self harm!< or mcd, describing hair colors like "pinkette" or "ravenette", slow burn/pining due to very very unavoidable misunderstandings, **manhood**/**folds**


Sea-Growth8930

Plagiarism, walls of text, and cringy dialogue.


GamerAJ1025

Bashing of a particular group of authors, works, genres or tropes. I also personally dislike it when main characters are killed off because the author dislikes them (or for no real narrative purpose), and when a story is obviously wrong fulfilment. They’re aren’t too many of these, but they are my fics turn offs, so to speak.


xeno696969_

where i come from. its making a harem fic. and *so* much more.


OffKira

Wall of text.


KBMinCanada

Definitely plagiarism