Only tagging common squicks with the fandom-specific and not the general term. (Why are there so many fics of giant robots being pregnant. Why.)
... pppffffaaaaahah AHAHAAAA YOU GUYS guess what I just fell accross "(...) the owner himself, lying castrate on the carpeted floor" MY FUCKING GOD SO CLOSE I mean. I'm assuming this is a mistake, as there is no mention of blood. I shall have to read further to confirm; as the fic is rated E I can narrow down authorial intent by seeing if the narrative goes on to describe the state of the above-mentioned character's testicles. (My friend, in this particular case the word you were looking for was, in fact, "prostrate.")
Aaw. Author of the boring superhero porn responded and she was like, "Whaaa! Thank you lovie!" That was so cute! ^x^!!!
Oh lord, that's a pet peeve of mine too, and it's one I have issues with in RPs as well. Like - yes, your character is probably going to be hella muscular from running around and literally fighting for their life on a regular basis, but they're not gonna look like someone posing for a bodybuilder beefcake calendar! They're going to have leg muscles like woah, the muscles for whatever weaponry and fighting-style of choice they use, and they're probably going to have some pudge because body fat is a thing. And it's a thing the characters in this RP would, in fact, be encouraged to develop! Having body fat means you won't starve as fast if something fucks up your ability to acquire food! Argh, yes. It's one of the things I have an issue with, in the Barbverse (a BtVS fic series that starts with the premise of "okay, what if Willow didn't auto-assume that Buffy's in hell and didn't just yank her out of heaven without any cushioning for that?") - like, yes, Buffy's in her late teens / early twenties, and hormones are a thing, and yes, Spike's going to be happy to go whenever she wants (probably), and yes, Buffy and Riley canonically went so far into "we need to be given a separate room and slash or hosed down with cold water" territory that it got made into a plot point, but! If they're working? Buffy and Spike can fucking focus, do not tell me they can't, they're not going to be stopping every third alleyway for makeouts and stolen kisses and full-on sex if they're supposed to be on patrol during a time when there's actually dangerous stuff going on! Lord, that trope, yes. Like - of all the fandoms it can exist in, Homestuck's the one where it's got the least excuse for it, too? Because there's not just one socially-accepted-and-expected type of romance! There's four! You could have Feferi<3Sollux, Sollux<>Aradia, Aradia<3<Feferi. Or Feferi<3Aradia, Aradia<>Sollux, Feferi<>Sollux! (Don't tell me that two moirails wouldn't be exactly his kink.) Or Feferi<>Aradia, Aradia c3< Sollux, Sollux<3Feferi. (I'm not sure why AraSol would be in clubs, but it'd be an interesting concept to see done.) And the only reason I'm not suggesting spades for anyone but Feferi and Aradia in this triad is because Sollux doesn't actually hate either of them, but they could plausibly hate each other for some very valid reasons. And this leaves out the option of "Sollux comes to terms with being a kinky bastard with a duality fetish and says 'why not both in the same quadrant'" which could be done really well, especially if you use it to look at how troll society responds to such quadrant-smearing.
That's why I love SolAraFef tbh. (karkat probably: GEE SOLLUX, HOW COME YOUR LUSUS LETS YOU HAVE TWO MATESPRITS?)
I'm seconding the sexual jealousy pet peeve. I hate it in original fiction and I hate it in fanfiction. Mostly because it almost always involves tropes I hate, like women being pitted against each other and bad communication. (the ironic thing is my current fic project actually involves some love triangle angst but then it resolves in happy polyamory because that's a thing! That can happen! And the angst isn't because of someone feeling the need to choose between two options, but because she doesn't return her best friend's romantic feelings at the time and it makes both of them sad. Then she does eventually develop romantic feelings and things are great.)
A specific case of the missing comma: Forgetting the comma in a line like "Hi, Bob!" or "I've missed you, dear," It just ends up making the character say the line weird in my head, like they shouted out "ive missed you dear" with no pausing at all (eta: i think the word i meant was "inflection")
Sometimes I do that on purpose because that's what the character did, though. Ford is particularly bad for not pausing between someone's name and the rest of the sentence. It wastes time, you know.
If someone's writing multiple epic-length fics which on inspection prove to be basically a vehicle for their bizarre fetishes, I would prefer it very much if they said at the start that was what they were doing. I said so with Hivefled springing from a fetish fic, and it's really disconcerting to discover a fic with chapter after chapter filled with completely unnecessary faecal matter.
Re: stuff like "hi, bob" I always thought that the comma was just a grammar rule and thus omitted it on the grounds that no one actually pauses there so it matches actual dialogue better to omit Which is to say ...anyone actually pauses there?? Today I learned a thing.
I know I read "hi, bob" like "hi bob" and "hi bob" like "hibob". Not so much a pause as the natural rhythm of speech getting given such grammatical weight that omitting the grammar changes the feel of the speech for me so it become a runon. Sort of like how dropping commas in speech, even if there isn't really a pause there between clauses when you say it, starts giving me the feeling of someone who's starting to talk faster and faster until their words are running into each other. Brains are weird!
it looks weird to me without the comma so i always use it there in my own writing, regardless of whether there's actually a pause there or not prior to this, i'd never actually thought about the logic behind the name comma thing all i knew was that it was grammatical and it felt right to me
Furry-specific one; claiming that being a member of a physically bigger species means the dick is also bigger in proportion to themselves as well as the smaller partner. My zoology knowledge isn't gonna let me believe rats are supposed to have dicks which would drag on the ground while mice don't. They don't. (Balls are a different matter.) Also, quit giving them both a sheath and a foreskin.
Nyep. Actual otters, if they're anything like ferrets and most other small animals, are proportionally tiny there, which makes it doubly funny. Humans are pretty unusual in having big dicks.
I've heard about that particular issue most often in the context of people comparing their sexual prowess to gorillas. :::PPP
