#fic ick

ugh a fic ick! Pick the one you HATE the most - and if you don't hate any of them, too bad! Still vote for the WORST possible option. don't worry nobody has to know.

• Seeing ‘I’m bad at summaries’ or ‘I’m bad at tagging’

Please don’t introduce your story with what you believe you’re not very good at. Either don’t say anything or practice being better.

That's the realest thing I've heard all day it PISSES me off so much like actually makes my eye twitch

see you GET IT it pisses me off so fucking much, bc it feels almost fetish-y to me

Children aren't props.

What I like better are adoption fics. A child needs a home and love so the character provides. The child is their own person with their own struggles and now they have a support system.

Don't get me wrong this can also be done poorly if the child's struggles are just highlight how 'good' of a person the Mc is. That's terrible too.

You can just feel that the author is an only child

Sister: Hey bro

Brother: Hey sis, whatcha doing

Sister: just chilling and walking around our sweet home

Brother: love u

Sister: love u too

When a character gets genderswapped solely so they can be shipped with everyone or become the perfect romantic interest for some self-insert reincarnated reader. Like. Why. WHY.

Like. Please. I am BEGGING.

And it’s always a male character suddenly being a woman or “secretly a woman all along” just to make it "less gay" or more "uwu soft and shippable" and I just??? No thank you??? For what?? For romance? For shipping? For that “teehee I’m just a normal girl who woke up as [insert badass war general but now with boobs] and now everyone wants me 🥺” vibe??

💀 I am TIRED.

Like listen—trans headcanons and full genderbend AUs? LOVE THEM. Fully support. They usually slap, have actual thought behind them, explore identity, and tend to treat characters like people, not props.

ICONIC. Inject that into my veins. But this?? This “only one character gets gender yeeted for ✨plot✨ (aka romance)” move?? NoooOOOooo.

But when it’s just one character being genderswapped in an otherwise untouched canon world, just to fit a romance fantasy?? It gets weird. It feels off. Especially when everything else stays the same except now suddenly everyone wants to bang them.

Sometimes they’re already perfect the way they are—gender, orientation, and all. 😤

Let characters just be! Let them be gay! Let them be complicated and messy and queer! Hell, let them stay straight!! Not everything needs to be warped into some idealized version of what a romance should look like 😭😭

Anyway. That’s just my opinion. No hate, live your truth, write what you want—but I’m allowed to feel ✨mildly feral✨ about it.