first of all! this looks really fun and i'll definitely try doing this too!
aus and tropes the COFFEE SHOP ONE OMG i feel the same way and i don't get why they're so popular. it all feels the same to me (same with the florist/tattooist) and it just gets boring rather than wholesome for me. and i generally avoid all kinds of hybrid (COCKROACHES AND MICE??? those are the creatures i hate the most irl like it's a borderline phobia). anyway stereotypes and cliches are probably what have kept me away from ao3 for a bit now. like there's 20 fics on a tag each day but somehow there's nothing. (not trying to discredit writers, it's a subjective feeling).
ship dynamics: wtf is bully/bullied? i've only seen that work in "a silent voice" and i'm not sure if they actually got together at the end? they were really cute though. i like a shade of realism in fics which is why stereotypes drive me up the wall! (so when you mention repressed teens in a boarding school with slight homophobia, forbidden relationships and the imprisoning sides of catholicism... mmhmmm) i like to feel things when i read but lately i'm not feeling anything at all.
formatting YangYang is triggering to see. i had to laugh out loud about the summaries with no summaries thing that i've seen countless times, and the tagging "this is literally a shit post with barely any plot because i'm so bad at writing omg" "this story is so cringe i don't even know why i wrote this" is not going to motivate me to read a fic that could even potentially be good. it really needs to stop for the sake of readers as well as a writer's own self confidence. for the ending dialogues with no periods, is it something like "thanks for the meal".?
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Date: 2021-11-22 06:22 pm (UTC)aus and tropes
the COFFEE SHOP ONE OMG i feel the same way and i don't get why they're so popular. it all feels the same to me (same with the florist/tattooist) and it just gets boring rather than wholesome for me. and i generally avoid all kinds of hybrid (COCKROACHES AND MICE??? those are the creatures i hate the most irl like it's a borderline phobia). anyway stereotypes and cliches are probably what have kept me away from ao3 for a bit now. like there's 20 fics on a tag each day but somehow there's nothing. (not trying to discredit writers, it's a subjective feeling).
ship dynamics:
wtf is bully/bullied? i've only seen that work in "a silent voice" and i'm not sure if they actually got together at the end? they were really cute though. i like a shade of realism in fics which is why stereotypes drive me up the wall! (so when you mention repressed teens in a boarding school with slight homophobia, forbidden relationships and the imprisoning sides of catholicism... mmhmmm) i like to feel things when i read but lately i'm not feeling anything at all.
formatting
YangYang is triggering to see. i had to laugh out loud about the summaries with no summaries thing that i've seen countless times, and the tagging "this is literally a shit post with barely any plot because i'm so bad at writing omg" "this story is so cringe i don't even know why i wrote this" is not going to motivate me to read a fic that could even potentially be good. it really needs to stop for the sake of readers as well as a writer's own self confidence.
for the ending dialogues with no periods, is it something like "thanks for the meal".?