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Pet Peeves in Fanfiction

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Cancelled For A said:
Putting omakes into chapter indexes. I'm in the mood, I'm kicking ass reading a chapter. I finish it. I turn to the next chapter. I read the chapter. Half-way through I realise it's a fucking omake.
I scream internally in rage and indignation.
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This is also why authors should have a standardized header. Makes it nice and simple to determine if this is story content or other fuckery.
 
My TOP 3 biggest pet peeves in fan fiction are :

1) using the word DEFIANTLY instead of DEFINITELY. What sucks about this one is the spell checker doesn't have "definitely" as a correction option when you spell it wrong, only "defiantly". (I tested it a few years ago.) so the writers just select it from the list given and move on. but seriously, how hard is it? definite + ly ≠ defiantly :mad:

2) characters who are strong in cannon turning into big lovelorn crybaby wimps in fiction

3) those characters who are ALWAYS ASLEEP. in every scene, they either are waking up, going to sleep, or BOTH! puts me to sleep just reading that ish.

:jackiechan:
 
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o, I forgot a big one. PEOPLE! DO! NOT! PURR! THEY! DON'T! MAKE! PURRING! NOISES! WHEN! TURNED! ON! [(or any other time, because they aren't cats) unless they are cats because they are in furry stories or were-cat stories or whatever they're called, which I don't read anyways] - every time I read about someone "purring" or "making a purring noise in the back of their throat" I vomit.
 
Except, you know, that when an author uses purr they probably don't mean the character actually purrs but are using it to evoke a certain attitude?

Besides, how else do you refer to that happy, grumbly noise people make in the back of their throat when you massage their scalp?

EDIT: Yay, my first Meow rating \o/
 
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You know, people don't mean Purr literally right? (usually, some women actually DO do that, mostly to freak people out or for giggles)
They mean either an agreeing or lusty Hum, or the closed-mouth throat-moan.

It's simply easier to say 'purr' than "MMmmmmmmmm" or 'she moaned softly, not like I said two sentences ago, a different Kind of moan, all closed mouth and low'
 
rASON said:
o, I forgot a big one. PEOPLE! DO! NOT! PURR! THEY! DON'T! MAKE! PURRING! NOISES! WHEN! TURNED! ON! [(or any other time, because they aren't cats) unless they are cats because they are in furry stories or were-cat stories or whatever they're called, which I don't read anyways] - every time I read about someone "purring" or "making a purring noise in the back of their throat" I vomit.
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I've purred and someone I once massaged purred.
 
I use to be able to purr when I was younger, but alas I no longer can now that I'm older.

Anyways, as this is a pet peeve thread, I always seem to dislike happy endings. Well I shouldn't say I dislike happy endings, but rather happy endings that just happen out of the blue.

Oh sure the plot is there, but it just gets waved away or simply written out. Like where's the fun in that? Where is the challenge to the cast of characters? In my opinion if a character is going to get a happy ending they should at least work for it.
 
Grey Rook said:
Unusually large and uncommonly stupid cats, but cats.
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This is literally what cats believe btw. They think we are stupid deaf kittens. It's why they sometimes bring dead animals for us to eat (it's step1 to How To Hunt) and meow.
Cats only meow in the verbal range to young Kittens with poor hearing and humans, when talking to each other normally the sound is outside Human range.
 
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I hate stories where the author points out 'flaws' in the setting, usually via their OC curb stomping the setting.

"Oh I'm in star wars, time to build railguins because lol turbolasers are slow."

No, fuck off. The people in SW are not stupid. If everyone uses turbo lasers then there is an in-universe reason for this, and its not because everyone but you is an idiot.
 
Elbrop said:
If everyone uses turbo lasers then there is an in-universe reason for this, and its not because everyone but you is an idiot.
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Well, the reason is probably energy requirements and maintenance. Now, coilguns, on the otherhand, are able to be made in a way that they'd compete with turbolasers. If only as bombardment weapons/anti-shield weapons/anti-Jedi weapons. After all, a mach 20 projectile can easily end up killing you with the shockwave, and can be made to go through lightsabers by not melting fast enough, getting through the weapon to kill the Jedi.

Meanwhile, for bombardment and shield breaking, you can cram a lot more energy into a physical projectile than you can cram into a laser or plasma weapon, because you can always make better propellants or a longer acceleration system. Plasma shares the latter, but quite a lot of energy is lost to containing the plasma and plasma has rather little impact. Kinetic energy is also better than thermal for bombardment.

Also, physical projectiles get expensive and can do some rather nasty collateral damage on a miss. Granted, they're probably far better at busting shields than lasers, but lasers have this attractive property where you can always break any armor with enough exposure. Ablative plating only lasts so long and a good laser weapon will vaporize armor a few millimeters at a time if needed.

It's basically impossible to avoid Death of One Thousand Cuts against lasers, and the massive proliferation of lasers and plasma means that shields are probably extremely heavily specialized against electromagnetic forces. So a railgun will work great at getting shields down, but takes more maintenance and is easier to counter with armor than lasers/plasma.
 
rASON said:
o, I forgot a big one. PEOPLE! DO! NOT! PURR! THEY! DON'T! MAKE! PURRING! NOISES! WHEN! TURNED! ON! [(or any other time, because they aren't cats) unless they are cats because they are in furry stories or were-cat stories or whatever they're called, which I don't read anyways] - every time I read about someone "purring" or "making a purring noise in the back of their throat" I vomit.
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I almost always purr when I yawn.

lordchaos99 said:
It's why they sometimes bring dead animals for us to eat (it's step1 to How To Hunt) and meow.
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It's done mostly by spayed females since they don't have an outlet for that instinct.

There's also tribute to the one in charge as a reason.
 
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