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Anonymous Coward · 9mo

least favorite fic tropes? 🤔

i think it'd be easier to list the ones i like - not because there are only a few but because i rarely think about the ones i dislike :'> but let's see, hmm..

  • i'm not sure it's a 'trope', more of an entire genre, but i tru-uly don't get the whole a/b/o thing. i think people's animalistic nature hasn't evolved as much as it should have, so introducing even more primal physicality aspects is an idea that is quite confusing to me, to say the least.

  • as much as i love angst, i also don't really like the tropes of conscious and explicit cheating and/or polygamy involved. it can be very IC for some characters and/or written very well but i know it'd just hurt my ship feelings, hah, so i tend to avoid this.

  • 'there was only one bed' is more of a crack than a trope at this point. but any similar petty circumstantial reasons to make your ship confess/make out is something that'd earn a roll-eye from me. i want to see actual work put into forcing the 2 become a couple, not a gay deus ex machina do its job.

  • again, not sure it's a trope but seeing a stoic "i don't have feelings!"-character get "broken" with too little build up is something that can make me close the tab. my brain is very picky&demanding and genuinely doesn't enjoy anything pwp-style - it needs to see, co-experience, and believe the emotions behind actions in order to let me feel something from any rated scene. so 'a lack of buildup' - if it can be considered a trope - isn't something i'm particularly fond of.

mm, i think that's mostly it? i can't come up with a long list of tropes to assess them in my head, haha, so if you had some specific ones in mind - do share!

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