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Cringe nicknames. Authors have a thing for characters calling their partner nicknames that aren't your usual nicknames and honestly it just sounds cringe. example "baby doll" EUGHHHHHHHH   2 reply

when they use '.' for dialogue. JUST USE "." goddamn.   2 reply

the blatant use of AI... i don't get why someone would bother promoting boring chatgpt slop as their own work, but even if u do, at least *try* hiding the fact that u used it. i lowkey get triggered just seeing the em dash now   1 reply

please please please use paragraph breaks, i physically am incapable of reading fanfics which are just huge paras without gap, as a fanfic writer myself, its not that hard trust   2 reply

Jackson Wang isn't the one hosting the party/j   1 reply

When they make the mc "loving, kind, genuine, dosn't hold grudges, pure and whatever" I mean stfu someone killed your parent and you forgave them cause you're supposedly a better human aaaaggggggggggghhhhhhh   reply

They always use a descriptor like their hair color instead of just writing a pronoun or their name. And specifically for hair color, half of fictional characters have weird hair colors there are no word for so they just make one up! Do you really think "He walked to the door" sounds worse than "The blue-nette walked out the door"? It doesn't, and i......   2 reply

I'm a shit writer too so I understand its hard to write BUT, When someone is so mischaracterisated that you wonder what media the author consumed to write them so badly   1 reply