December Talking Meme: Fiction Pet Peeves (Dec 1)

[dhampyresa]

rogueslayer452 : What are your biggest pet peeves in fanfiction? What are your biggest pet peeves about published fiction?

My biggest fanfiction pet peeve is easy: overtagging. No, you don't need to tag a character that has three lines in you 60k+ fic. Really. I swear, it's fine.

The worst case of this I ever encountered was a -- I can't remember the pairing, but

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[rogueslayer452]

Overtagging is the worst, imho, especially from those who forget that other sites like AO3 aren't Tumblr where they can literally go off into conversational thoughts in the tags. Like, seeing every single character and pairing tagged is annoying enough, there really is no need for tagging nonsensical sentences when you could have just written that in your summary or the additional notes on the fic itself

[dhampyresa]

I don't mind the tumblr-esque tags, because they tell me upfront that the fic is very very unlikely to be one I want to read. (It must be a nightmare for the tag wranglers, though, and they have my sympathies.)

I'm pretty sure "Major Character Death" is an Ao3 warning and you can report them to abuse for not using it (unless they use "Choose Not To Warn", obvs). But, yeah, that tends to be the kind of thing I want to know about up front.

I realise some authors might be trying to make the best out of a bad situation and most historical works are given a pass (mostly for reasons of authors having not as much control over thei work as they do now), but it is so so so annoying. Lol, "not relevant to the story", LOL.

It is spectacularly gross when it's not acknowledged as fucked up. I haven't read 50SoG, so I can't comment.

[_profiterole_]

Je suis d'accord avec tous ces points.

Pour le non-con, je n'en vois heureusement que très rarement dans les livres que je lis, en dehors des manga yaoi. Je n'en lis pratiquement plus à cause de ça.

[dhampyresa]

Oui, j'en vois aussi que très rarement, mais c'est pas top du tout quand ça arrive.