Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

[Magical Twilight Sparkle]

I hate it when people spoil the ending of the story in the description somehow.

OC x Canon character.
I'm all up for putting a OC in a story, as long as it doesn't completely revolve around them, but when they pair it up... I just don't like it. Especially when the OC is based on the writer or it's actually the writer themself in the story being paired with them. e_e Creepy in a way.

[Clare_N]

Here's some of my pet peeves when it comes to fanfiction:

1, People who use the "you're not my English teacher" line in response to being advised to work on their spelling, punctuation and grammar

2, Characters spouting random Japanese words for no reason other than that the author thinks anything to do with Japan is cool

3, Prejudice against OCs - they're not all spotlight-hogging Mary Sues

4, Fics which are one HUGE paragraph

[Really Awful Username]

OC x Canon pairings.

[Roseflower52]

And you keep the air in my lungs
Floating along as a melody comes
And my heart beats like timpani drums
Keeping the time while a symphony strums

arrow Author's notes right in the middle of the story. It totally ruins the flow.

arrow No paragraph breaks. Huge walls of text hurt my eyes. The same goes for stories that are all bold/underlined/italicized.

arrow Using text speak. No. Just no. This isn't your cell phone. No one says "OMG!" in real life. They say "Oh my god!" The first two I can sort of tolerate--to a point--but this will make me immediately hit the back button.

Son I am not everything you thought that I would be
But every story I have told is part of me
Son I leave you now but you have so much more to do
And every story I have told is part of you

[Dark Cookiez]

Hurr...I don't like average main characters - they need to be different in powers and personality. I actually enjoy Mary Sues. I also hate when people fall in love too easily/too fast. Blergh. Oh, and the lines need to be indented.

[Renkon Root]

* No paragraph breaks.
* Txt tlk
* OOC
* Gratuitous swearing (especially in the case of fics for children's media!)
* Excess of dialogue with minimal narration (or no narration at all).
* Non-cannon character relationships (NOTE: not necessarily romantic) that are not adequately explained/justified within the story.
* Author notes where the author has an argument with either his/herself or a character within the fic.

[Renkon Root]

Roseflower52

No one says "OMG!" in real life. They say "Oh my god!"

I'm sorry, but that's just not true.

I know several people IRL who say "omg" or "O-M-G" instead of "oh my God/gosh". "OMG" has become so common that it has been integrated into American-English slang. I believe Webster's even gone so far as to add it to the dictionary. *double checks* Ah, my mistake, it wasn't Webster, it was Oxford. [ Link ]

However, other text talk such as TTYL (talk to you later), or BRB (be right back), etc. Those still bother me greatly within the context of a written work.

[Lady Zyzzyva]

I'm another one who hates OC x Cannon characters. Especially when the OC is a girl. Usually, they're all Mary Sues and are quite dull and uninteresting. I wouldn't mind half as bad if they were just characters, but when OCs are romantically involved with someone else is where I draw the line. Almost always, they're Mary Sues.

The same type of fanfiction, repeated over and over and over again. Like two characters comforting each other after a nightmare, like what's been happening in the Black Butler fandom of late.

OOCness is also another thing I can't tolerate. I get it if it's a parody or something, and I wouldn't even mind if they're OOC but well written. Unfortunately, not a lot of them are and the authors act as if you're flaming them if you point it out.

[Roseflower52]

Renkon Root

Roseflower52

No one says "OMG!" in real life. They say "Oh my god!"

I'm sorry, but that's just not true.

I know several people IRL who say "omg" or "O-M-G" instead of "oh my God/gosh". "OMG" has become so common that it has been integrated into American-English slang. I believe Webster's even gone so far as to add it to the dictionary. *double checks* Ah, my mistake, it wasn't Webster, it was Oxford. [ Link ]

I think I just died a little inside crying

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* Gratuitous swearing (especially in the case of fics for children's media!)

I 100% agree with you!

[VlRGlNlA]

My Immortal.

[Renkon Root]

That One Novice

My Immortal.

Lulz. rofl
Were you one of those "flegmming preps"?

[Clemence Amorette]

I'm going to take a good guess those OOCness is mostly with Cannon x Cannon pairings where they are so out of their characteristics it's sickening... <.<; Because I was gonna comment that when introducing a new character ( aka an OC) that OOC might/might not happen depending on what the purpose the OC is to play.

I do have to agree that most OCs can be Mary Sue/Gary Stus; however, that is because the writer writing the Oc is making them such. Thusly, not all OC are terrible. Keep in mind that that the person to blame isn't the OC. It's the writer who's at fault for making her/him a Sue/Stu. Not the OC. OCs are slaves of the writer. Meaning they can ******** their lives up, and make them so Mary Sue/Gary Stu that it irritates readers who want to enjoy an good non-Sue character.

Now to what someone else brought up... the smut. Terribly written smut, no matter what the pairing is, is irritating to me. If the author of the fan fiction cannot write a sex scene, there is no reason for them to attempt one and should remove it or edit the living ******** out of it after seeing good examples of a sex scene.

[VlRGlNlA]

Renkon Root

Lulz. rofl
Were you one of those "flegmming preps"?

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Indeed I was.
emotion_awesome

[demon strait outta_hell]

Poorly written blocks of text.

Just because it's fanfiction doesn't mean u don't have to slack off and studs.

[supergeek17]

* Badly written, gratuitous smut

* Turning characters into wibble bunnies. If you have a character in canon who is a magnificent b*****d in canon, do not make them a fluffy romantic.

* Blatantly ignoring subtext for a pairing to put them with someone they have no business being with, or a Mary Sue

* The phrase "X is Y's One True Love" generally makes me want to run away.

* Pairing bait and switch-- never promise my A/B and then give me A/C or B/C

* Piss poor grammar / spelling / formatting