[ SECRET POST #3319 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3319 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Homestuck]


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[Manhunter, Criminal Minds, CSI and X-Files]


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[Heroes Reborn]


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[Story of Seasons]


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[Keanu Reeves]


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[One Punch Man]


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11. http://i.imgur.com/Pc6ksVv.png
[photo of naked dude in a suggestive(?) position]


















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Comments

Re: Tropes that can ruin a fic for you

[(Anonymous)]

1. Helpless flailing does not equal plot.

I like my characters to be active and at least moderately bamfy. They don't always have to have the perfect, genius solution that takes out the bad guy in a hot second. Some real struggle and fear and uncertainty is awesome. But it drives me crazy when they spend most of a fic wringing their hands and going, "Woe as me! This is really bad! I have to do something, but what? There's nothing I can do!"

IMO, if you write your character(s) into a place where there is genuinely nothing they can do, that's just bad writing. Like, what a boring, annoying story. The whole point is to write them into a place where it seems like there's nothing they can do, and then have them figure something out and do it.

2. Poor communication.

I actually like miscommunication as a trope in itself, but that presumes the characters are good at communicating most of the time, and there's just one particular instance, or one particular area where they really fail at communicating (usually because they're scared and vulnerable and trying to hide it). That, I love. But when they're just generally terrible at actually conveying information to each other, and their failure to explain things to each other is the main thing that's causing everything to go wrong, that drives me crazy. Like, I've read some fics where the characters will have really important issues to discuss, but the author won't let either of them speak more than half a sentence before having the other one cut them off, misunderstand them, derail the conversation, freak out, and storm out of the room. Even one scene like that can be annoying, but when it seems like that's the only way the author knows how to write dialogue, it's the worst.

3. Constant melodramatic emotional vacillating.

I don't mind heaps of angst, and I'm perfectly capable of enjoying fics where the characters act kind of like teenagers about each other. But some authors write the characters as going from one emotional tailspin to the next. Literally every chapter they bounce from "I am miserable and my life is empty and hopeless," to "everything's okay, I'm fine," to "I am so, so in love!" and back to "My life is empty and hopeless." Ugh, nope, no thanks.