WORST TROPES IN FANFIC

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fanfiction has inflitrated the shelves of bookstores and libraries, and that's an amazing thing for fan culture...but sometimes not the best thing for writing as a whole...here are my biggest pet peeves about this type of writing! tell me yours if you're reading this

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the first one gives "her skin was like a cup of coffee, which was mostly milk because she was white" vibes...

Happycakes
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The “nice until they’re scary” trope. Like it can be done well if the character is typically gentle and patience but can be physically threatening and has been shown to be capable of standing up for themselves, like a gentle giant that decides they’re going to stop being gentle. But most of the time it’s completely out of character and they pull some insane violence with no repercussions and are rewarded by others for it.

silverbullet
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The way I gasped when Lavendertowne started reading "My Immortal" 😭😭😭💀💀💀

sigamigs
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I don't think I've had as big of a fight or flight reaction as when Haley started reading My Immortal and I literally got hit by a car this week.

ovenwater
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i feel like the "author is every character" situation happens a lot when an author is starting to understand their own voice but also lowkey wants to insert themselves into the story. when I write characters im usually always thinking about it like an outsider looking in on the world and I'm just documenting the happenings so I get shocked when a character (I'm writing about) does something interesting or excited when another character defends people they normally never would and stuff like that. separating yourself from the work in this sense is important for creative growth~

voidinkedpen
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I’ve only seen an author pull off the “oh, woe is me I’m so pale” thing in a believable way once before, is was because the main character was a platinum blonde, blue eyed, pale as snow girl, who was traveling through a dessert and was constantly super sunburnt. I wish more authors would acknowledge how sunburnt their characters are while they travel across barren dystopian wastelands without even a hint of sunscreen

abigailkondoudis
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Unpopular opinion: a good fanfiction is basically an unofficial spin-off

DaviRed_
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Im studying dante's inferno and he keeps on FAINTING, I can't with this man it feels too much like reading a fanfic😭

EDIT: guys I know that it is technically bible fanfic because it doesn't follow the canons of the text, but I meant it feels like present time fanfiction, like Ao3 fanfics

elenacottaramusino
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On the note of "Blue Orbs", one time I was chatting to a my older sister about a problem I was having in my writing in that I have a character who has soft pink eyes (I nowadays use candy-pink) but I was struggling to find the right synonym, and the closest shade the internet was giving me was salmon. My sister then uttered the phrase:

*"Her salmon orbs."*

I still have not recovered.

throneisbed
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My biggest pet peeve in fanfic is when the author has clearly lost track of where the characters' placements are. "She stood with her back to his chest and placed a hand on his shoulder, her knees softly pushing into his elbows. They locked eyes." HOW am I meant to envision this.

swordswordsdev
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Your rant about the "they never talk about how red they get when they blush" sent me back in time and reminded me of one book I read where the girl actually did exactly that. She lamented how she doesn't even just redden, but instead gets uneven red splotches when she blushes, and that it happens so quickly.

It really stuck with me back then because I could actually see myself in that.

Her love interest was a cute mixed-race nerd who always described his own skin as gravy-colored, which he also didn't like. Of course, she couldn't see any flaw in that.

There was a cute scene when she told him that she was jealous of how coolly he took compliments and flirts and he confessed to her that she made him blush all the time, it just didn't show up much on his face. So he could downplay it but secretly was just as jittery as she felt.

It was a really cute book, I wish I remembered the title or author.

Broeckchen
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The “Hi, my name is Ebony Darkness—“ Immediately made me spit my drink I did not expect My Immortal to suddenly drop in a Lavender Towne video 😭😭😭

creativeusername
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once I wrote a fan fic between the homophobic guys in my class and they actually ended up dating so you never know when the word orbs will replace the word eyes

Renizalivee-vfbx
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Idk if this counts as a fanfic but when I was in elementary school I wrote “lesser known hogwarts tales, ” which had no plot, just a bunch of fart and poop jokes about the Harry Potter characters, and then someone got everybody in the ravenclaw common room to start chanting “MALFOY IS SILLY!!!!” which caused Malfoy to get really mad and turn red and smoke come out his ears and then run around punching people and end up banging his head off of a statue and fainting. A great story indeed.

KatietheKreator
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Out of Character characters is simultaneously my favorite things and my biggest pet peeve. Taking liberties is fine, but there's a line imo. Shoto Todoroki somehow being a god of video games? Hilarious, interesting take, I like it. Tenya Iida breaking the rules a ton and being actually chaotic? To far ooc, stretching canon so far its non existent, don't like it.

cloudyvulpine
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I hate that trope of the girl thinking she’s ugly, but everyone thinks she’s so hot, and it’s written like that to tell the reader “no she’s actually not ugly, thus she’s important!!!” LIKE WE CAN BE UGLY AND STILL MATTER?! And like when they write teenagers, like 14 year olds, they have acne! They have dark circles! They look bad according to society and they still matter!!!!

LabraDoodleDraws
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Your ideas on the pale trope are interesting! As someone who has always been pale, I've never seen a character actually live it. No one constantly asking if they're sick except for when they are sick, no getting severely burned trying to tan to make people less uncomfortable. No struggles with finding clothes that clash or emphasizing the red undertones of the blood under the skin. The paleness making blemishes and dark circles more visable. The struggle is real, lol😅.

richelleg
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I once read a fanfic that was incredibly written, had a beautiful story, and an amazing plot, but exclusively referred to the characters eyes as orbs

igreatlyandpowerfullydisag
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The moment you brought up the "I'm so plain but everyone falls for me" trope just screamed divergent in every way

LatulaArts
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I actually have used the fainting one before. I was writing a character who had narcolepsy. So already you can kind of see why it’s necessary. But I used the frustrations you described with that method so you would put yourself in her place. Going black in times where you were experiencing positive momentum. Missing important moments because the world faded away. Not getting that blissful darkness in times where you desperately wish you would. So I think that we can actually flip that in a really interesting way

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