Discussion Fan Fic Pet Peeves?

Well, that plot bunny about Grover that I adopted, the donator reposted it after seven years, because it hadn't been taken up, and I would just like my notification to her, to hang around long enough for her to see it.

Then again, I found the story created from another of her bunnies (c. 2006), and no way can my effort match the quality of that other one, so that has tempered my desire a bit.

I hear ya; my muse won't concentrate on the Under-represented topic, and days are ticking away...

 

Closely related to one of my biggest pet peeves (“anyone who shares the screen/page for thirty seconds and treats each other decently must be shipped”): “anyone who shares even slight physical or temperamental similarities must be RELATED!”. Today, the admin of a SW fan page I follow on FB spammed the page with a bunch of breathless “Is so-and-so related to so-and-so?” posts. Admiral Rae Sloane and Tam Ryvora? Both have dark skin, wavy hair and high cheekbones—must be related. Bo-Katan begat Mara Jade begat Rey? All kick-shebs women, must be true! Enfys Nest and Hux? Because all the redheads in the Galaxy are related. Why not throw Mara in while you’re at it?

I get that George Lucas started the whole “small galaxy” trend, but really, it’s not that small.

 

Guilty of that. Guilty beyond belief.

 

@Raissa Baiard, I both know what you mean and yet also get plot bunnies resembling that remark. Because I want the crack to be made sensible or at least entertaining once it occurs to me. Guilty of at least one count of "all the Jedi redheads are related"!

 

Something I have found myself problem with is people using the f-world (or similar) in settings where that would not be appropriate, f.ex. Spider-Man Noir (who's from the 30's/40's) using it or My little pony characters (I get having people swear to show of how bad the situation or how strange the AU is but the f-world in MLP just don't fit, at least for me).

 

Too much slang (ie, yeah, like, wanna, gonna, etc) in dialogue between almost all the characters, especially if it's not actually needed for any good reason, doesn't fit the setting, and isn't actually a story meant to be funny. Maybe it's somehow related to the above, I don't know.

 

Lack of variety, in these forums particularly. Like 98% of stories here are about EU and OC characters. As in, not for me.