[ SECRET POST #4434 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4434 ⌋

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

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[The Good Place]


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[Taskmaster]


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[The Umbrella Academy, "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals"]


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[Criminal Minds S04E15, "Zoe's Reprise"]


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[FBI (2018)]


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[Cameron Britton playing Ed Kemper in Mindhunter]











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Comments

Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

name and complain

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[philstar22]

Just in general when characterization is changed so a character can be shoved into specific stereotypes/roles/etc. I prefer it when the characters are recognizably the one I'm actually here to read about.

When every single character involved in the story is in a relationship, and either all of them are straight or all of them are gay. I prefer more variety.

When authors make everything revolve around their favorite characters (or historical figure). That character is perfect and loved by everyone, and anyone who doesn't love them is evil. And any possible romantic competition is also evil and completely unsympathetic in every way.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Just in general when characterization is changed so a character can be shoved into specific stereotypes/roles/etc. I prefer it when the characters are recognizably the one I'm actually here to read about.

THIS. It's particularly irritating when it's a character with a history, or someone with a lot of character development that gets reversed for other reason than the writer going "lol well that won't work with MY plot."

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

When medical shows don't do proper research. And it leads to their characters saying dumbass shit like, "Give me 10mg of benzodiazepine!" which is a class of drugs, not an actual drug.

Like, I can maybe sort of overlook this in a non-medical show/movie, but on things like ER, House, etc, just... DO YOUR RESEARCH OKAY.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

It bothers me when 2D media has the kids look like mom-but-a-boy and dad-but-a-girl. Or even worse is when the parents look like their collective family tree is one generation away from hemophilia. I get that it's shorthand, but please stretch your character designs some. There is plenty of real world inspiration to take from, please use it.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

when the parents look like their collective family tree is one generation away from hemophilia.

Lmfao. XD

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[philstar22]

I agree. Also, when all the female characters look exactly the same. It is possible to animate a variety of body types. If they can do it for males, they can do it for females.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[kaijinscendre]

STOP TAGGING YOUR READER FIC AS 'YOU' FIC. I don't want to wade through your 20 Castiel/You fic drabbles and I can't blacklist the tag because 'you' is a normal word.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[philstar22]

Yes. Also stop tagging it with a pairing of canon characters when the two canon characters only ever interact with or have sex with the "you" character (or an OC for that matter). The tag of my OTP has become clogged up with these fics, and it is really irritating.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

On the one hand, I totally get how that's annoying.

On the other hand, I firmly believe that there's a real difference between "you" fics and "reader" fics, and that "you" fics are much better, so I think it's useful to be able to tag them differently.

On the third hand, nobody actually applies the tag consistently anyway so it's all fucked up and useless even if you're actually looking for the fic.

Re: Fictional pet peeves

[(Anonymous)]

Love triangles, but namely the kind where it's a girl who likes a boy (we'll call her Girl A) and the boy likes another girl (we'll call her Girl B) and Girl A gets mad at Boy for liking Girl B and is a dick to him without ever letting him know why or having done anything to show that SHE likes him. But Boy is treated by the narrative and fandom like a dense jerk for not knowing and continuing to like Girl B. And it always gets solved by him realizing by himself that Girl A was actually The One all along, and only then can we forgive him.