Stuff I Need More Of in My Fiction

[sigyn_medea]

In no particular order. Just getting stuff off my chest and venting a bit.
Will probably have other parts (I’m easily frustrated).

1. Hot dude is condescending, irritating, smug, pompous and generally a complete ass. Shy and easily flustered chick who usually tries to act tough doesn’t reveal her soft side together with her embarrassment. Instead, she flips hot dude the bird and goes hang out with people who don’t go out of their way to make her uncomfortable.
2. Hot dude controls heroine’s every move, chooses not to give her important information, basically locks her up and says he’s doing all of this for her own good. Heroine stops swooning over his biceps and calls the police.
3. Hero leaves love interest so as not to put her in danger, even if said love interest knows the risks perfectly and is willing to put up with them. Love interest hooks up with another guy who believes in her and knows her strength.
4. Ordinary girl meets gorgeous girl. Ordinary girl doesn’t feel threatened, self-conscious, angry or like making one-hundred bitchy remarks about how gorgeous girl is obviously just a man-eating airhead in the same paragraph.
5. Clumsy girl sometimes drops stuff, sometimes hits and knocks over random things, and generally moves in an awkward way. She still doesn’t trip and fall every three steps. When she does trip and fall, she doesn’t land in the arms of a timely cute guy, but hits the floor and hurts herself.
6. Girl has to choose between aloof but cool bad boy and sweet but insistent nice guy. She stops angsting, realises she could be doing something better with her time and ditches them both before finding herself a new and more interesting hobby.
7. Girl has to choose between aloof but cool bad boy and sweet but insistent nice guy. Bad boy and nice guy get tired of waiting for her to choose and hook up with each other instead.
8. Girl has to choose between aloof but cool bad boy and sweet but insistent nice guy. Thinking about it, they realise that actually they all have feelings for each other and start a polyamorous relationship together.
9. Character is being fought over by two other characters (jock and nerd if character is female, Alpha Bitch and cute nice girl if male) who each believe that they’re better than each other and that they deserve their love interest more. Character tells them to fuck off because they’re more than just a love interest and they certainly are not a prize to be fought over or “deserved”.
10. One character is abused, neglected and/or abandoned by a family member. Years later, another character who doesn’t even know said family member tries very insistently to push first character into getting over it already, stop acting like a victim and being all smiling and forgiving because they say so, totally ignoring first character’s feelings, fears and trauma. All because “family is important”, so if your abusers are part of your family then you should just quit your whining and do all you can to make them feel better about themselves, even if it means sweeping years of hurt under the rug in five seconds flat. Instead of letting themselves be pressured into giving other character the unreasonably quick and easy happy ending they want, first character punches other character in the face for daring to tell them how they’re supposed to feel. They then proceed to introduce other character to their very warm and loving family of choice.
11. Adopted kid calls their biological parents “biological parents”, not “true parents” or “real parents”. Even if their biological family are the royal family of the Super Duper Secret Realm of the Shiny Half-Dragon Elves. Because their adopted family are the ones who have always been there for them, and it just doesn’t matter if they’re mortals or commoners or poor.