#i'm just so incredibly picky and get jarred out of fics so easily

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P, S, T for the fanfic asks?

ty joley! you’ve opened the floodgates and are about to find out how picky i am with reading fics, whoops.

P: Are you what George R. R. Martin would call an “architect” or a “gardener”? (How much do you plan in advance, versus letting the story unfold as you go?)

I’m a little bit of both. I’ve lately been doing more outlines, and it is helpful! I also write headcanons for the characters in my notes app a lot of the time. Even if they never come up, it helps the characters feel more real.

S: Any fandom tropes you can’t resist?

Stoner fics, fake dating, enemies to lovers, and out-there AUs.

T: Any fandom tropes you can’t stand?

Parent fics: Children are rarely written well, and most of the ship dynamics I like don’t lend themselves well to the characters having children.

Childhood friendship fics: Children’s voices are hard to capture, and it’s just not the type of fluff I’m super interested in.

Season/book rewrites: I’m really not interested in seeing a bunch of scenes I already recognize but with different character dynamics. I lean more towards AU anyway.

First-person POV fics: 95% of the time, it doesn’t work for me. I feel like it’s hard to do it masterfully where you really get in the character’s head. Both in writing and reading, I like the openess that third-person omniscient allows.

A/B/O: I was in the Teen Wolf fandom for a while, and this was the bane of my existance. There's so much dub-con involved, and I don't love a lot of the sub-tropes that come with it—in heat, knotting, self-lubrication, mpreg.

Mpreg: Speaking of mpreg... It’s always weirdly transphobic and feels like a weird, hellish mix of weight gain kink and lactation kink with the way it’s written.

Crossover: I don’t think I’ve ever once gotten into a crossover fic. I like specific ship and friend dynamics, and crossovers always throw those off-balance. I’m not picky with headcanons, but I won’t read or write those fics (unless given a prompt).

Self-Insert/Reader-Insert Fics: The second-person of it all always gets to me. Also, domestic or sexual, it just doesn’t appeal to me!

Sickfic: For terminal/major illnesses, tbh, I feel like they’re weirdly insensitive about illnesses and romanticize death/tragedy. I used to write them as a teen, but even in the best case scenarios, they feel like an easy method of emotional manipulation. For colds, broken bones, etc, I think they’re totally fine and get why they’d be appealing, but they’re just not my jam.

Addict Fics: Again, 99% of the time, they’re insensitive, inaccurate, and easy emotional manipulation. Also, it’s really funny when you read something and it’s just... not how drugs work both in effect and dosage.

Lyricfics: This feels like it’s less common than it was 10 years ago, but in the days of fanfiction.net, I feel like they were inescapable. I use songs as inspiration, but I find it really distracting when someone pastes the entierty of a song into a fic and alternates between 1-3 paragraphs of fic and 1 stanza of song. It also just feels like it’s whacking you in the face with the mood of the fic.

There are more, but I’m gonna stop there because that’s already like 10, lol.

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