What are your fan fiction gripes?

I am never using a dialogue tag other than "he nutted" ever again.

 

Multiple porn fics with same characters from same author = fine. Same characters performing same acts in same configuration in all of them = isn't half the point of writing threesomes to avoid repetitiveness by adding more possibilities? And then add in horrible poetry...

 

I once saw a fic where the main dialogue tag was "stated". No matter what the intended tone was.

 

I find my strange mental balance has become avoid using dialog tags whenever possible.

 

Like, I still use them, but...I forego them more often than is probably usual?

 

Homestuck thread informs me heteronormativity isn't the right term for this, but I am frustrated by my urge to fully quadrant-up every character. Holding the characters to unrealistic standards even if those standards are fictional makes me feel bad, and I end up having to use crack pairs or ones I don't much like to fill the grid, but on the other hand I feel horrible leaving anyone out. I hate it when I have conflicting compulsions! I know it doesn't matter if some characters only have one or two or three quads filled but I feel like they'd be lonely! Poly up some characters so the grid is filled with ships I do like?

 

I think it's one thing to want to fill out the grid because you didn't want anyone left out versus compulsory shipping.

Thoughts: poly shipping is always yes. You can also have characters be somewhere on the ace/aro spectrum, or maybe have them be aquadrennial and prefer the less defined relationship boundaries of human romance.

 

I know it's a completely silly compulsion to have; I don't feel a compulsive shipping urge in any other fandom. When it's specifically set up with an even number of characters divided equally by gender and with sufficient non-het-ness to not have all the pairs be boy/girl and no token queer left out in the corner? MUST USE ALL POSSIBILITIES.

 

I secretly kind of appreciate pair the spares, unless it's a misleadingly tagged ship I'm much more interested in than the main one, or if it manages to be done in a way that offends me.

 

I'm so glad my special interest fandom is set in a monastery, albeit a mixed-gender one. I have no compulsive need to ship characters who've demonstrated they don't care about not being paired up.

 

"globes" for breasts

no

 

Obviously their owner has some very extensive tattoos.

 

I just kept picturing a pair taped to an otherwise flat chest. Complete with stand.

 

As I briefly mentioned above: horrible poetry. Anyone else run into much of that?

 

Clearly those are rumblespheres!

 

I can see your dirtypillows. /Carrie

 

so, asking for science, what's your position on "fleshy globes"?

 

........ Why?

Why would you ever do this?

 

you have a lot to say but the structure of your plot isn't one that'd be helped by a chapter structure?

 

With help from google and Siri I have calculated this is almost 5,200 pages. In one chapter??? Who has time to scroll that far?????

Edit: Update for readers of posterity: I have recalculated and arrived at the startling conclusion that Siri can’t help if I don’t say the entire number.