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It always bothers me when a fic has two characters who are strangers to each other having sex and not using a condom.

Honestly for me it is more character or universe-related things. Like if something feels too OOC for a particular character, I have difficulty suspending disbelief. Or something that just doesn't make sense in a particular universe (like using modern slang for Middle Earth characters).

Oh dude modern slang in Tolkien fic is hilarious, but I also have some sympathy because completely avoiding modern-colloquialisms can be hard(I'm trying to write some Middle-Earth fic and I am very much having to think about my word choices but it's a fun exercise in trying to avoid modern sayings).

Oh totally. I don't expect full-on Tolkien language in fics. I just wince at actual slang terms. And when characters give each other nicknames.

Modern slang, modern labels, or modern social issues popping up in Middle Earth or similar fantasy or AU settings is such a pet peeve. Like those topics can exist, but not under modern labels/vocabulary (with probably some exceptions).

Agreed. If the writers of a show suddenly decide to do a 180 on someone's personality for no real reason at all, especially if it contradicts current existing canon, I'm noping out of there.

The main couple absolutely despising one another and that leading to them bumping uglies or falling in love. I can sort-of see the having sex part, but actually ending up having loving feelings towards each other is such a stretch it doesn't work for me. If there isn't a foundation of respect or understanding then I cannot ever envision it working out long-term.

And this isn't some 'the romance needs to be HEALTHY uwu' you can have unhealthy as fuck romances with two characters who love and respect one another, just for me hate-turns-to-love is not something I can buy. Hate-sex is as close as I can get but that's it.

I don't like instant hate to love. But if a fic is longer and actually takes the time to develop things and show the characters changing over time, I can buy that. It just takes more work and usually isn't how it shows up in fics.

Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

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Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

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Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

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Yep, same! Similarly, the only enemies to lovers dynamic I like is when it's friends > enemies > lovers. Even enemies > friends > lovers usually don't works for me even if it's extremely slow burning.
It's the base of respect they built when they were friends that make all the difference. Starting from enemies/despising each other and then developing feelings for one another is difficult imho and people who can write it convincingly are very very rare.

Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

(Anonymous) - 2025-06-29 21:33 (UTC) - Expand

It depends for me. If the reason for despising each other is that they can't stand who the other person is, or their values, etc... I don't see it working out AT ALL.

If the reason is misconceptions gone wild (say they're from different countries and have been told lies about the people, and they come to realize they were wrong about the other person), then there's a chance.

If a setting is fantasy or at least fantastical in some way, aliens/robots/etc I can accept any form of 'these people don't have refractory periods' but if something is set in the real world then I can't turn off the disbelief for that. It's weird lmao.

This is more for fic as that's where I see this most often, but it does crop up sometimes in canon stuff.

Wow. How young are you?

35.

Why do you think that opinion is a refection of age? (Also, am assuming original anon meant in modern day fic, not like fantasy or something)

op you are referring to

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I'd bet they're old enough to not take offense to someone else's fictional preferences.

Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

(Anonymous) - 2025-06-29 20:33 (UTC) - Expand

What difference does that make? I'm almost 60, and the terror of getting pregnant and/or an STD was pretty much on our minds 24/7 as randy teens. Condoms ahoy!

Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

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tabaqui - 2025-06-29 21:51 (UTC) - Expand

Hanahaki. I don't know why that of all things is the limit for me, but it is. Probably in part because I just don't like it and find it kind of disturbing on a few different levels.

I had to google that. That's one of the silliest fucking things I've ever heard of in my life.

Re: What fiction tropes or events can you not suspend your belief for?

(Anonymous) - 2025-06-29 23:33 (UTC) - Expand

Fucking. Hate. Hanahaki.
There is nothing even remotely romantic about it.

"They're standing next to each other and of the correct genders for the genre? In love! Why? Shut up, I said they're in LOVE."

I hate that. Used to be the gay stuff was actually worth while because it was so radical that you had to show why they were going against All Of Society or whatever for love. Made it believable. Now that it's mostly accepted among publishers and studios it's falling into the same trap as the het stuff. Either take the time and effort to show why they care about each other or don't include romance, ffs.

There's a recurring trend I see in fantasy games where because it's a fantasy world, if X is a widely known and accepted fact, then Y will be accepted with the same expediency and calm even if Y upends common knowledge about the world.

Very common JRPG example: People live in a world with lots of magic. It turns out, that magic is actually super ancient technology and everyone's living in a post-apocalyptic world, and the only evidence of that is a group of teenagers telling you this. Everyone who hears this promptly takes it at face value with no lost sleep over their understanding of the world being uprooted.

when characters start out not liking eachother very much and end up besties/a couple by the end of the movie/show. Bizarrely enough, the only movie I ever saw where this was at all convincing was a very silly comedy, Blades of Glory.

The thing in some Xianxia novels where time passes for thousands of years but society doesn't actually change much. I get that the cultivators who are extremely long lived/immortal and have magic powers would need no change but there's usually also non-cultivator civillians and it's weird that regular society just stagnates for tens of thousands of years.

“I want my phone call!” when the character isn’t supposed to be ignorant about getting arrested. You are neither limited to nor guaranteed exactly one phone call.

Most lies that characters make up on the spot to buy time and stall the villain from killing them. If someone is a few seconds away from killing you, they're not going to stop and hear you out. They won't believe anything you say, and if they do, they won't care.

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