#fanfic pet peeves

[bluephoenixprincess]

Ya know another fanfic idea that would probably be really funny and petty to Write?

A 12/Rise crossover where instead of being thinly vieled gushing about how "OP" the Rise Turtles are with their Ninpo, its the Rise Turtles being completely unable to keep up with the 2012 Turtles superior Stealth Skills.

Like the Rise boys keep trying to draw the 2012 fam into a straitforward fight and the 2012 fam just keep ignoring them and disappearing on them cause theyre focused on their mission, have encountered dimension counterparts before and therefore arent curious, and do not have time to babysit these rowdy younger versions of themselves.

And the Rise boys are out of their depth cause their used to Direct confrontation and Enemies who are more spontaneous jerks than careful planners.

They can barely even get a good look at their counterparts. It might even take them awhile to realize the 2012 boys are them from another dimension and not just random turtle yokai making trouble.

And knowing the rise boys, when they do catch up its in a way that makes the 2012 boys pissed at them cause they interupt a crucial part of the mission.

#tmnt 2012 #tmnt #rise of the tmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #crossover #fanfic idea #fanfic pet peeves #im a petty bitch today #talent vs training #rottmnt #stop nerfing other tmnt versions to make rise look cooler challenge

[lovelybrooke]

Is it just me or is there an influx of people/authors who write x reader fics but seem to hate it?

Like here me out, the I've seen way more fanfic where in the warnings is something like "this is technically an x reader fic but reader is only referred to with a nickname throughout the story." or "This is an x reader fic but there is not use of Y/n."

I'm a little bit more okay with the second one but like, come on, the whole point of x reader fics is the ability to insert yourself into the story, the name is like the most important thing.

I think this is because the conversation around self inserts/x reader fics has kinda negative. Like most people just assume that it's weird even though most fanfic is self-insert to a point, whether you know it or not. It doesn't help that even though cringe culture is pretty dead here on Tumblr, there is still a large amount of people who feel the need to make fun of people who either read or write x reader fanfic.

Like if you want to write for an oc/self insert that's fine, but please don't tag it as x reader if it isn't. Yes, this does include if the reader doesn't have an explicit description but is given a nickname. Yes, this does include if the reader is given a description but not a name. Yes, this does include if you're only tagging it as x reader because you want more interactions. It's annoying, and it's just going to get you blocked rather than interacted with.

I don't know if I'm the only one whose been experiencing it, so maybe it's just all in my head, but if any of you have experienced please let me know so I know I'm not crazy.

#fanfic pet peeves #fanfic #fanfiction #x reader

[evilkitten3]

maybe it's bc i'm aro but i fundamentally Do Not vibe with any kind of "soulmates" fic stuff. like if the universe picked out a Person for me i would categorically refuse to even be their friend. don't care how compatible we are or what my opinion of them as an individual ends up being. it's the principle of the thing

#personal #vent post #anti soulmates #fanfic pet peeves #like no it's not romantic to have a universe-assigned one true love #it's creepy #the universe should mind its damn business #why's it gotta be micromanaging like this go away #kill the universe cop in your brain

[binghe-malewife-goals]

sometimes I want to shake fic writers when they don't properly tag their fic, and im not even necessarily talking about dead dove stuff, but simply in general. Because yes, even your tame college au fic still needs to be properly tagged.

You guys don't understand the amount of times I've started a long fic only for the ending to be unresolved or unhappy with no prior warning.

No one is holding a gun to your head and insisting that your fic has to have a happy ending, but for the love of god please at least properly tag your fic with a bittersweet/sad ending.

Of course people are simply going to assume the fic will have a happy ending if there is no tag indicating otherwise; fanfic is literally built on wish fulfillment, especially when it comes to ships. Why wouldn't we expect a fanfic with a pairing to not end happily?

Just [clutches at your pants] please...,, please just properly tag your fics, I am begging you.

#“but its not like that with books u dont know the ending of a book” im sorry i dont want my morning 4k+ fic to have a surprise BE #yes books and fics are in fact different but not in the way of “fic bad book good” but in the way they are consumed #perhaps simply think of each tag as a much more specific type of genre (which is kinda what they are tbf) #obviously if you want to read horror youre going to avoid romance and seek out horror n vice versa #anyways this is just me ranting <3 #fanfic pet peeves

[dragonflylady77]

Fanfic pet peeve #35

I don't need you to go in detail about who the characters are and how they relate to each other in the exposition. It's fanfic. I know who they are. That's why I'm here.

Fanfic pet peeve #27

Characters referring to each other by their full names, every time.

Why?

#fanfic pet peeves #feeling petty #not feeling well #so you're getting these

[brettdoesdiscourse]

Every time people write a villain couple as normal people (in a way that isn't specified that they are NOT villains anymore), a devil loses its horns. I don't WANT the villains to be normal people, I WANT the villains to be EVIL.

#this happens so much in ship fics #like those two are TOXIC #they would NOT be healthy here #villains #villain discourse #shipping discourse #fandom discourse #writing pet peeves #fanfic pet peeves #brett does discourse

[bluephoenixprincess]

Is it time to bitch more about rise favoritism in tmnt crossovers? I think it is.

This ones a bit stickier and maybe at this point its just personal bitterness but im really at the poijnt where i cant stand any interpretation where the other versions of the turtles are made to feel like them, their families and their lives are lesser and inferior to the rise turtles.

Like... ok i can definitely accept Many other versions being jealous of Rise having the hidden city to run around in and feel normal. Thats valid, tho many other versions of the turtles have their own networks of friends and allies and very real community. The 2003 boys have friends across the city, other planets and other dimensions. They regullarly hang out with new yorks homeless population. Theyre among the most social versions of the turtles aside from rise.

Im just sick of the narrative that Rise are the only version of the turtles that are happy and fullfilled with their lives. And that all other versions are miserable and unfun. Its anotjer thing that makes it feel like the authors of many crossovers either strait up dont watch the non rise shows they put in their crossovers or watch them with extreme blinders on being upset its not more of Rise.

Its a disservice to both Rise being a fresh take on the franchise and the legacy that allowed rise to exist to keep treating past series like this please STOP IT.

#tmnt #crossover #tmnt 2012 #rise of the tmnt #fanfic pet peeves #tmnt 2003 #rottmnt #this is just a vent post at this point #im sorry crossover writers the worst of your number have ruined me

[lovelybrooke]

I don’t understand how some people choose to write x reader fics but don’t like using (Y/n).

Like, if I see another fic that’s in the x reader tag only to then give the reader a name because they “think using (Y/n) is cringey” I’m going to scream.

Like, you do understand the type of fanfic you’re writing, right?

#fanfic pet peeves

[owchie-wowchie]

#fanfic #tumblr poll #ao3 #fanfic.net #wattpad #I can't think of any other fanfic sites off the top of my head #fanfic pet peeves

[reileinaxiu]

MDZS Fanon Pet Peeve: the Jiang heir

Warning: Some cursing and expletive language.

I just noticed/realized is that there are fics out there with JWY, the bane of all matchmakers and decent women in all the land, would actually make his head disciple or any other person who wasn't Jiang blood into his heir.

Yes the classist, bigoted, JWY, naming some cultivator he recruited in the war to inherit his position as Sect leader.

I'm sad to know that there are actually fics out there that portray JWY as someone who could care less about the background of their heir and choose them for competency. Or worse. Choose them because they were apparently surviving Jiang disciples that WWX had trained because apparently sentimentality (which JWY never had).

I think worst of them all is when they think JWY would actually appoint WWX as the Jiang heir especially post canon.😱

See where I'm going here? That just goes to show how those writers understood him. Which is to say not at all.🧐

That's why I'm always struck by some fics that show JWY as dying a bitter single unlikeable person that he truly is at the end of the book. Those were particularly good 😊. I found more realistic compared to the drivel that I cannot unread.

I sometimes wish my brain can do selective amnesia so I can unread all the OOC JWY fics I've read in my dark history. 😓

Let's take a look at why he would never allow someone who was at least not his own child or blood relative to become an heir of YunmengJiang and why he shall remain a bachelor for the rest of his lonely angry lifespan.

First of all, I don't think it was really mentioned, but I doubt JWY is the last Jiang besides JL.

He might be the last main line Jiang there is within immediate succession. Maybe he had relatives who married out to come back to bolster the ranks or there were non-clan Jiang disciples who were not prevented from nighthunting were out on a hunt and escaped the massacre to rejoin the sect.

How many besides the main clan are actual gentry? Not a lot unless they married in or they were civilian gentry that joined (I'm calling it civilian gentry cause there was the Mo Family who were a non-cultivation family ruling their village)

I'm guessing not a lot in the Jiang Clan too. The Sect more or less survived the war but the Jiang Clan was probably down to JFM, JYL, and JWY. With JYL marrying out and JFM and YZY dying, the Jiang Clan was unfortunately left with JWY to continue the bloodline. Sucks for them.

YZY would probably roll in her grave, claw her way out of hell, and become a fierce corspe just to make sure that no one other than her children or her grandchildren were to inherit the throne of sect leader. And I believe JWY would think the same as her or seek approval from his parents even after death. Nor would he grant the Jiang name to anyone that wasn't his blood related family. Plus I think he'd rather slit his own throat than adopt some child.

Another thing is the tag Adopted WWX that gets me annoyed sometimes. In the novel he was never adopted he was just taken in as a ward and treated like nuisance. So it confounds me that people actually write how WWX was always in the clan registry or that JWY had the option of naming WWX as Jiang Heir.

If in the novel JFM couldn't deign to give WWX at least legal familial support through adoption why would JWY?

JWY who blamed WWX for a lot of things he never did and still blames him. Who couldn't even look at WWX's relationship with LWJ without sneering in disgust. Would actually give him a position of power that means the most to his egotistical life. Yeah nuh uh. 😑

As for a Jiang heir, he also would never appoint any of his disciples that position. Much less if they were rogue cultivators or backgroundless civilians that he recruited during the war. Much lesser if they were trained by WWX of all people.

He treats all of his disciples like subordinates where his command was unquestioned. What WWX was not are the qualities he looks for in his disciples. JWY would prefer all of his disciples to stay far away from any behavior WWX had. His disciples didn't blink an eye to when WWX was being dragged into an inn to most likely be tortured to death.

As long as JWY lives and breathes and has the final say so he would never appoint, WWX or any of his disciples Jiang heir. Only by some miracle he actually gets married and has a child will the Jiang Clan have an heir because he is mostly like to die single. Also YunmengJiang sect would probably be fine under temporary leadership of someone who is not the Jiang Clan heir.

So why would he forever remain a single fermented grape?

JC stans are probably the only ones that would marry him and those don't exist in the MDZS universe.

One. He was blacklisted by all the matchmakers in Yunmeng.

I would say it takes skill to become rejected by an entire region of eligible families and their daughters. But no he is just an ***hole who can't keep his opinions to himself and aims to be as rude and derisive as possible towards perfectly fine ladies. In the audio drama he insulted a lady's choice of colors and perfume for smelling like, and I quote, "noxious poison". I mean wtf?! If that's how he treats all the females then it's no wonder he's not married yet. Plus three more off screen blind dates that went horrible.

Two. He will never marry because he has standards.

Standards he will probably not budge on. Those were: naturally beautiful, graceful and obedient, hard-working and thrifty, coming from a respected family, cultivation level not too high, personality not too strong, not too talkative, voice not too loud and must treat Jin Ling nicely.

The last one is the only relatively reasonable standard he has set. The rest is just him being picky he might as well get a doll dress it in red and marry it.

Three. No one in their sane state of mind would marry someone with the reputation of a rabid dog.

JWY, has gone on to torture people of inconsequential backgrounds, to death, for years. I say inconsequential because I doubt he would target people who had societal backing. People like Xue Yang who was under the Jins and proven to be a homicidal demonic cultivator with a record of massacring entire clans who he did not pursue because he is a coward.

The slightest suspicion not always with verified proof a person gets dragged to Lotus Pier to be flayed to death with a lightning whip. He barely even proves any of his victims to be demonic cultivators before whipping them or interrogating them further. Lots of firm connotations and even secondhand accounts of people being violently whipped on the the docks of Lotus pier.

WWX as MXY was already allegedly proven to not be possessed but JWY still insists on dragging him to Lotus Pier.

WWX dodged a bullet when LWJ was there to protect him.

Someone tell me if I'm not too far off and this is a viable argument that JWY will remain heirless or at least single for the rest of his f***ed up natural life? And would never name a Jiang heir that doesn't meet his requirements. Maybe even add to this discussion. Much appreciated 😌.

References:

https://modao-zushi.fandom.com/wiki/Jiang_Cheng

Jiang Cheng | Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation Wiki - Fandom

#mdzs #mo dao zu shi #anti jiang cheng #anti jc #fanon peeves #canon jiang cheng #jc's canonical marriage prospects #mdzs meta #mdzs fanon pet peeves #fanfic pet peeves

[bli-o]

reading a miguel found family fic is such whiplash from atsv miguel like i have audibly “he would not fucking say that”ed

#atsv #across the spiderverse #across the spider verse #astv miguel #miguel spiderverse #miguel atsv #miguel o'hara #fanfic pet peeves #fanfiction #fanfic problems #fanfic #atsv fic #atsv fanfiction

[reiningsoral]

trying to read this fic but the author censors the swear words like

"b*tch"

im trying to read but its so jarring omg

#fanfic #fanfic pet peeves #pet peeves

[binghe-malewife-goals]

people who complain about reading messed up fics when the fic is purposefully tagged with warnings is like someone going into an apple store and saying "apples!? In the APPLE store??! I can't believe this."

#fanfic #fanfic pet peeves

[just-an-enby-lemon]

A thing that I sometimes find in fanfic that makes no sense but it is really funny is that sometimes the characthers want to express their feelings about a characther by mentioning how they feel about their names wich is great and all, but the authors want to drive this uniquiness home except they are not OCs and so their name can't be crafted to fit the feelings and so I've read things like: "pretensious name" being used for names like Jonathan and Edward, "exclusive" and even "weird" for Cecil, Regina and Martin, "curious" for Stephany and the list goes on with the most egregious case being "Smith" being considered "unique".

And like most of the times the fics were great both in plot and writing but my brain couldn't stop going "this are very normal names actually" and like they aren't even normal for me (because they are american names) and it still took me out but it appears to be a pet peeve only I have.

#fanfic #fanfic pet peeves

[kacchanbiased]

Reading fanfics where I can tell the author is like a white person or a super American person because in their fic they won’t shut up about how backwards asia is while conveniently leaving out the discrimination Asians regularly face in America

#um this one might be controversial #fanfiction #fanfic pet peeves