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    Pet Peeves v.11

    Lack of scale in scifi wars. A common problem in scifi is for authors to write about "large" conflicts only containing millions or low tens of millions of personnel on each side, in conflicts between nations/planets/systems/whatever containing billions of people. This does not make much sense. For example in 1945 the US had ~12 million men under arms, with a population of only 139 million people, or about 8.7% of the population. So, ignoring the fact that advanced technology probably...
    Post by: Download, Jul 4, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I hate it when people have no bothered to read/watch the source material, or have and just shit on things for no reason. The other week I came across a Star Wars fic that had Leia land on Tatooine with C3PO and R2D2. It was a cool concept that was completely ruined by every interaction Leia had with Obi-Wan having some bizarre sexist undertone. I don't ever recall Obi-Wan displaying sexist views. In fact, I've never even seen such a thing in fanfic despite having read thousands of Star Wars...
    Post by: Download, Apr 20, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Hermione might be a bit full of herself at times, but she certainly doesn't have the ego to say that about herself. That said, tacking "seriously" onto the end make me think it's sarcastic lol.
    Post by: Download, Feb 18, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The anime sneeze. You know, the one where a character talks about a character not present, before flashing to the person in question who sneezes? Besides being a bit dumb, when the character is not named and instead described, I find it insulting to the reader's/viewer's intelligence. It's like the author thinks the reader can't figure out who they were talking about unless they have a shot of said person sneezing.
    Post by: Download, Jan 10, 2022 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Authors who bring up disbelievable things that are done for plot convenience. The locals speaking the same language is the usual example. If you want to make everyone speak English to avoid the mess of learning to speak the local language and such, don't mention it. Don't have a character go "how weird that these people who couldn't possibly know English, speak English". It's painfully jarring and was not something I was giving any thought to until you brought up how stupid it was.
    Post by: Download, Dec 5, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I think the only time I've seen a believable plot line like that involved Lily and James being memory charmed to forget they had another kid. Unfortunately, the memory charm bit was because of "greater good" Dumbledore, so you know, ruined in other ways.
    Post by: Download, Sep 7, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Yes, but lesbian porn isn't generally filled with masculine and feminine roles.
    Post by: Download, Mar 15, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The irony of these slash pairings is that they're quite often hetronormative (which I guess is also homophobic) in that they assume in a gay relationship someone must assume a masculine role and someone must assume a feminine role.
    Post by: Download, Mar 14, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Pet Peeves v.11

    MCU spider man, oh yeah. It's a classic case of a fanfic community creating their own mental image of what Spider Man is, and that is a very sensitive and nervous little boy who needs to be looked after. Sort of how MCU fans were horribly hurt when poor wittle billionaire Tony was betrayed by his mean boyfriend Steve (how dare he chose basic human rights over Tony!), or how poor Draco was abused by his daddy and now hates how Ron is bullying Harry for falling in love with him (he didn't...
    Post by: Download, Mar 14, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I decided to test it and Word picks up on it being wrong immediately. So unless you're using a different word processor you can't use it being a typo as an excuse.
    Post by: Download, Feb 24, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    This crosses into a canon peeve. I really hate an aversion to powerful weaponry, particularly in the context of universes where they are absolutely necessary. Take the MCU. Earth is invaded by aliens multiple times with each time Earth demonstrating they are way behind everyone else in the universe, only surviving due to the timely intervention of superheroes. So seeing fan and canon writers go on about how evil (or an in general "bad") it was for SHIELD to develop weapons from the...
    Post by: Download, Feb 3, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I think you're right with the DBZ idea. People like to wank Saiyans and don't want their carefully crafted wanking to be interrupted by some mere humans. I'm not sure that's the case with the Pokemon idea though. It does not seem to fit in my mind as a Misty story ticks the nostalgia boxes.
    Post by: Download, Jan 25, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I guess this isn't an ordinary pet peeve, but I feel like griping. I commonly post of Spacebattles, mostly because I have more fandom interests than HP. But there seems to be a distinct lack of any writing creativity or the ability to use your head and find ways to write around problems. I suggested in the Pokemon thread a story that has anime Misty go in search of her Togepi/Togetic. It was supposed to be some heart-warming reunion thing. First comment "but how will Misty run her gym from...
    Post by: Download, Jan 25, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Saw a "realistic" Pokemon SI fic yesterday. The SI ends up a Pokemon, a carnivorous Pokemon; that's fine. What's not fine is the SI barely addressing the fact that in the story Pokemon are demonstrated to have human or near human intelligence after killing and eating several Pokemon, and the SI only mentions any concern for this fact when the mother of one of the Pokemon they ate decides to try kill them. It gets like two lines. You either need to address this matter properly, or not write...
    Post by: Download, Jan 6, 2021 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Yeah, never got the appeal of that, and it's super popular in non-fanfic too.
    Post by: Download, Dec 7, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    That depends on why you're doing it. I know well off people who play a game a week because it's fun, while there are people who actually think they will get rich off it.
    Post by: Download, Sep 30, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Lottery winners are a bit different from inheritances. Most people who play the lottery are poor while most people with large inheritances waiting for them are rich (unless they were spoiled and never learnt anything). The unfortunate reality is most poor people have very poor financial skills while many richer people (or people with rich parents) have financial skills.
    Post by: Download, Sep 30, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    In Of Queens, Knights, and Pawns, the author keeps making stupidly long 50k chapters. It's annoying as hell and is why I stopped actively reading the story. Almost no one has time to read through a 50k update, and there's no easy way to bookmark where you stopped. Not to mention breaking chapters up would make for way more consistent updates.
    Post by: Download, Sep 17, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It wasn't. It was a Miraculous Ladybug fic.
    Post by: Download, Jul 12, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Authors depicting things they are in no way qualified to talk about. Case in point, a fic I just read's last chapter featured a trial. I was willing to forgive at the start that the writer might not be aware that in France they operate on Napoleonic Law and that trials for serious crimes are a combination of jury trials and bench trials (i.e. decided by judges). But the author then brought in a civil matter into the court, and then had the prosecution be led by a teen (superhero or not) and...
    Post by: Download, Jul 12, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I do that on FF.net and AO3. What both sites need to do is either enable the removal of site enforced numbering or let people do custom numbering. I will keep doing what I am doing until they do. I suggest you complain to FF.net or AO3. --- Post automerged --- Can you remove it though ? I spent ages looking for that option a year or two back when I first got triggered by the enforced number and mine not matching.
    Post by: Download, May 7, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Read a RWBY story that must have been inspired by bad HP fics because the SI main character spend far too much time talking about how Ozpin should be in jail for his practices at his school. It's a school designed to train its students to survive the most dangerous profession on the planet, students who have powerful natural shielding that lets them survive all sorts of horrific injuries, and here the SI us whining about comparatively trivial shit being too dangerous.
    Post by: Download, Feb 2, 2020 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The author confused degree with decree in the first paragraph. Nope.
    Post by: Download, Nov 4, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I PM'ed an author I (used to) have lots of respect for. I just said great work and asked if they'd ever thought of doing a sequel. I got a several paragraph passive aggressive response back for being so demanding, and then was blocked. It was actually quite bizarre.
    Post by: Download, Sep 29, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Pet Peeves v.11

    i.e doormat harry
    Post by: Download, Aug 25, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    So I posted a new story last night. Literally the second comment was asking about potential major plot points. Why the hell would I answer that question for you?
    Post by: Download, Aug 2, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    So I came across an Iron Man Peggy Sue story a few weeks back. I'd never seen an MCU Peggy Sue before so I thought it would be interesting. By default I tick the "do not display M/M fics" box on all of my AO3 searches. This story isn't marked as slash and is specifically marked as Tony/Pepper, but throughout the fic so far Tony has flirted with almost every male character and never shown any interest in any female ones. I can only assume the author is desperate to stick to canon pairings...
    Post by: Download, May 9, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    That's actually quite insightful.
    Post by: Download, Apr 15, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11240114/5/Coffee-Run Hmm.
    Post by: Download, Apr 9, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    People who tag their fics with multiple types of pairing (i.e m/m and m/f, or m/m and f/f), with "multi" instead of the pairing type. It should be obvious but nope, come people seem to think multi means it has multiple types of pairing, instead of - you know - just tagging it with the types. Maybe I should just make multi a default excluded tag. It's trash anyway.
    Post by: Download, Mar 23, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I think it falls under being jarring. Things that just don't mesh with the canon universe at all.
    Post by: Download, Mar 2, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Reading a Dragonball story. All of a sudden there's a Jewish friend for Gohan talking about how his Rabbi taught him to fight. Right. It's jarring enough I'm out of the story.
    Post by: Download, Mar 2, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Doesn't work that way. It would require Gringotts to have twice the cash they need to do things. Just admit it's stupid.
    Post by: Download, Feb 27, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    It annoys me from a financial perspective, not because of that, but because rich people get rich by making their money work for them. It doesn't sit in a vault, it's spent on sound financial investments making more money.
    Post by: Download, Feb 27, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Found a story. The dialogue is cringy, but what annoys me more is the author ends nearly every sentence with an exclamation mark.
    Post by: Download, Feb 26, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    This is why I support the death penalty.
    Post by: Download, Feb 16, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Yeah, not sure why you'd even try to read those.
    Post by: Download, Feb 11, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    People not tagging the relationship type of AO3. It's primarily a problem with M/M relationship stories. There is a litany of authors who leave the option blank so I can't easily filter slash out. I can only assume it's some sort of pissy response to other people not like slash. --- Post automerged --- Anther one is people thinking multi means a combination of straight, slash and femslash. It's not. At least that one is easy to filter out.
    Post by: Download, Jan 30, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Canon rehashes are so fucking annoying. What a writer is thinking when they start I'll never understand. I've never had the urge to write one. Even my long deleted first stories never did it. There's a newish story on SBs. When I saw it was a RWBY/Portal crossover with a decent first chapter I was psyched, but by chapter 3 it was clear it was just a rehash of Portal only Chell is replaced by Blake with line for line canon dialogue. How original.
    Post by: Download, Jan 23, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I a link to a short story on another nameless forum in that fandom's thread. I immediately get a request for summary. It's a 2k word short story. There's basically nothing I can say without spoiling it, and if you're really that desperate, click the link and spend 5 seconds looking at what the author wrote. Fuck some people are useless. It's not like it was a curated thread or archive.
    Post by: Download, Jan 10, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The "English isn't my first language!" comment. Perhaps this is petty, but I'm not sure that should be your reply when I make a simple suggestion for improving your writing (whatever that be). I don't know, but I just find the comment grating. It sort of screams to me this idea that you don't speak it natively so you don't need to improve.
    Post by: Download, Jan 1, 2019 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Now that Harry had discovered the Potter Vault and free himself from Dumbledork's manipulations he went out, past the Dursleys who cowered in fear of his wandless magic, and out to the music shop to buy a cool album he had heard a muggleborn who knew to make electronics works at Hogwarts playing: My Chemical Romance's I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
    Post by: Download, Dec 27, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    The word "pup" triggers me so badly I can't stand to see it in any story. I nearly gagged just a moment ago seeing a character in an aSoIaF story refer to Arya as "pup".
    Post by: Download, Dec 24, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Yeah, they're not related, at all.
    Post by: Download, Dec 17, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    I complained about a lack of agency in Peggy Sue stories a few days ago and I now feel I can declare ASoIaF to be riddled with them.
    Post by: Download, Dec 16, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Add in drama rape.
    Post by: Download, Dec 10, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Characters lacking agency. I truly hate reading stories where the main character just goes along with things. I was just reading a ASoIaF SI story for example where the main character did nothing to try and alter the plot besides trying to convince someone to not do something right at the start of canon, after being in the universe for literally years. I know the SI is young and doesn't have as much agency as say a king or a lord or something, but they're still pretty high up the social...
    Post by: Download, Dec 7, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Would you prefer: Instead?
    Post by: Download, Dec 4, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Nah, it was a Halo story. The story had some soldier who was part of the ensemble cast make late 2000s, early 2010s pop culture and movie references despite being set in the 2550s.
    Post by: Download, Oct 25, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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    Just ran into one of my biggest pet peeves in any story set in the far future: present day references. Either having a character who likes music, tv or film from our era or the era the author was raised in, or talking about pop culture references from the same. Just to top it all off, having the "knowledgeable" character mock the other characters for not knowing where the media or pop culture comes from.
    Post by: Download, Oct 24, 2018 in forum: Fanfic Discussion
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