"What in fanfic DOESN'T annoy you?" (r/FanFiction) 

6:23 I read a fic recently that had a character who was known for talking quietly in canon, and to represent this the author wrote all of his dialogue in lowercase. I didn’t even realize until later in the fic when the character became loopy from medication, started shouting, and the fic described it as “which was concerning, because he was speaking at a volume high enough to warrant capital letters” Absolutely sent me, one of the funniest fics I’ve ever read XD

I never got why “deviation from canon” annoyed people. Isn’t that the point of fan fiction?

I'm personally a big believer in not just ignoring canon, but also filling in gaps in canon. Like when the protagonists explore a tiny bit of the fictional world, just use your own imagination to flesh it out. This also applies to characters who don't get much personality. Write them with whatever personality you prefer. Is it correct in canon? Probably not. But it fills out your fics in a believable way.

I love the idea of two characters meeting and interacting when they don't in canon, even if you have to make up events or even completely break canon for it.

i personally live by the tumblr quote "you come into my house uninvited and tell me how to arrange my furniture?" because like you *chose* to read/watch the content. the world doesn't revolve around you and your prefrences. like it's so damn easy to find the content you like so why waste time to indulge in the content you don't?

Honestly? I love song lyrics as titles. I know many people get annoyed. But I don't listen to a lot of popular music on my own and those titles actually make me hear new songs every once in a while

Agree with the person talking about the word "smirk". Few words give me a clearer picture of an expression

i ADORE silly tags, long authors notes, no romance, and canon deviation. *ESPECIALLY* no romance

I feel like fandoms have forgotten the concept of different people having different tastes. I personally don’t like when characters are OOC, but some people in this thread love it. I love short fics, but there are a lot of people who won’t pick up a fic unless it reaches a certain length. None of us are wrong for our opinions, and just because you don’t like something doesn’t necessarily make it bad. Write what you want to write, read what you want to read, and don’t be mean to people whose tastes don’t match up with yours.

as many squiks as I might have for writing styles and execution, I find it near impossible not to enjoy a fic where you can see the author is just... overwhelmingly fond of at least one character. They're aren't doing it to be smart, or funny, or give a balanced narrative - they just really, really like this one guy. I feel like it adds a lovely rose tint to any fic

Second person POV is either the best, most introspective fic you will ever read or something so incomprehensible it could be considered a man-made horror.

For me, it's short/unfinished fics. Because if I didn't like them, that'd make me a hypocrite because I never finish mine.

I really don't mind OOC as long as it remains somewhat plausible. In fact, I really enjoy the type of OOC that expands on a character, like even though the character isn't shown in canon to behave a certain way doesn't mean they never would. OOC can often times actually just be character exploration. Canon divergence is most of what I read. I love the canon, but I'm not reading a fic to relive those exact events.

I love AU fics purely because i like seeing how plot points in the original canon have been changed/referenced/inserted into the new universe its always so interesting to see! I also think it serves as a really fun way to do foreshadowing. Oh youve introduced the villain, who we the audience know was originally the villain, but the cast dont know that and we dont actually know what theyre going to do

Fanfiction is love, fanfiction is life

my favorite thing is when fics dont take themselves seriously and can be silly while telling a good story

Tonal deviation. Some people don’t like it when really serious movies and stories get silly, stupid fanfics written about them. I don’t care. If I wanna read a story about Arthur Fleck and Bruce Wayne sword fighting in a Denny’s parking lot, I’m gonna.

1st, 2nd, or 3rd person narration is fine by me. I've been in some communities where the members chased out anyone who wrote in a certain POV the community decided they didn't like. But different fandom communities insisted on different POVs. It got to the point where I felt like I was being gaslit no matter what POV I chose to write in. Once witnessed a fan try to shame another fan for writing in 1st person because "nobody publishes books in 1st person! 😡" (yes 1st person, not 2nd, which would have made more sense), but this person was ADAMANT no publisher would ever dare publish a book in 1st person... which is... a hot take... I guess?

Personally I really like 2nd person. I've heard alot of people say that they don't like it but for me I love it and love writing in it I think it mostly has to do with the fact I write Undertale fanfics and since it's a video game it's very fitting to write it in 2nd person, y'know when a video game is like "You found a gem!". I try to achieve that sorta style with my writing

a lot of people dislike love triangles, but you know what I like? love triangles where it ends in polyamory. why choose one when you can have both (or MORE?)

For me it's ocs and self-inserts. I think the creativity is really charming. Also, passing mentions of taboo topics. I couldn't care less if condoms, periods, or other things like that are mentioned in a SFW fanfiction. Apparently that's an unpopular opinion as I once saw an author get crucified for mentioning a condom once.

Purple prose is so cool, I'm a sucker for it as a reader and also as a writer (although my prose was definitely more purple when I was a teen). I also love the much loathed gemstones to describe eye colors! Nothing better than emerald, amber, sapphire, amethyst and so on irises while I read, as well as literally any other metaphor you can use for someone's eyes. Love them so much and again, guilty of it as a writer too :'D

This might be a common one but I think first person can actually be great if it's done right. It just gets a bad reputation because it can be hard to do well.

I have been writing a long time(not fanfiction just in general, although I have been getting into fic writing recently) and one of the first projects I did was a collaborative project with friends. In one paragraph, I misspelled “Remember” and “Rember” in a really dramatic scene and people I wrote that with who I’m still friends with now STILL mention it. I will never escape the Rember.

A lot of people seem to think chatfics are cringe, but I really enjoy them because they're funny (at least the ones I read). I also read lots of unfinished fics, even if they don't have a regular update schedule, when the premise interests me. Oh and funny tags make me more likely to read a story if they aren't overdone and have enough other description for me to understand the plot of the fic. Some of the other things listed in here I don't particularly care for, but I think it's great that people do, because there are just as many kinds of readers as there are writers, and there should be something for everyone. No one should be shamed for liking a certain trope or writing feature.

I usually am quite peculiar about grammar, but if bad grammar adds to the comedy of the fic I am absolutely obsessed with it

1:10 I agree with this person I LOVE AUs (as long as they go along with my vibe). In fact I didn’t even know this annoyed people because AUs are kind of _encouraged_ in like, almost *_every_** fandom **_ever._* I mean I knew people might not like certain types of AUs, either because something happened that they didn’t like, the AU was actually problematic, or they were just being a little b-word about it bc it exists. But I’ve never heard of people being mad about ANY/ALL AUs existing _at _*_all._* 😐🫥 1:23 I also agree with this because my favorite show only has two fracking seasons 😠😠 I won’t say I like AUs _more_ than the canon, but sometimes the AU is just better 9:04 ALSO AGREED (my baby boys are to be protected) 😤😤

THERE IS WORSE OUT THERE THAN ORBS??? I have officially learned true fear

its absurd how “dont like dont read” has ESCAPED fandom somehow, like i dont wanna read incest, so i wont! not that hard!!! i dont harrass people for writing it!!!!

Original Characters. As long as they suit the setting or scenes, I find them refreshing. besides, I like reading about them when they have a specific role no canon characters can fill. First Person Perspective. The amount of emotions and internal thoughts a good writer can fit in this perspective is insane. some of my all-time favorite fics are written in first person.

Honestly, I love it when books or fanfictions have lengthy descriptions of the clothing the character is wearing, a la Ebony d'arkness Dementia Raven Way. I have a special interest in fashion, so I just love imagining all of the outfits the characters could wear in different situations, but it also helps me imagine the character better for some reason. It keeps me in the story, ya know?

I don't personally agree with/like most of these but I can definitely see where people are coming from! It's nice to know that communities like the fanfiction community are not hive-minds, people have their own opinion and even if I write something I think most fanfic readers won't like, there will be some that actually really do :D

Hurt no comfort. I don’t mind just pure, plain angst 🤷

As a writer who is so hellbent on sticking as close to cannon as possible, to the point where my goal is that that my fics feel like actual episodes, it is super refreshing to hear that some people love AUs that are nothing like cannon. I always put myself under so much stress with trying to stick to cannon. "Would this character say this? Do I have to rewrite this dialog to make it more in character? Is this action OOC? Would this be a storybeat that would actually happen in the show? Would this character actually do that in the show? Does this concflict make sense considering the characters traits, flaws, mannerisms and stregnths? How do I keep this character's mannerisms in character?" And honsetly it gets very stressful thinking about all of that when writing lines. Sometimes even one line. I'm so afraid of being OOC or making a story that doesn't line up to cannon because since I started writing fics I've always preferred cannon-like fics, and so that ended up making me write that way as well. And the better I got at writing like cannon, the harder I got on myself and the more I stressed about every little thing. There was a fic that I wrote where I wanted a character to get into an arugement with their adoptive father. Typically they have a very healthy relationship, and in the show the character comes from an abusive background with the main villain being his abuser. So this character is very afraid of upsetting people and often backs down when getting scolded. So I was really stressing about this whole arugement seen being OOC for the son. That was until I realized that back in a real episode, when the kid was still in his abuser's background, he stood up to his future adoptive father to save his new friends. And this was back when the father openenly disliked him and if the main villain found out, the son would be in huge trouble. That made me realize that the kid is willing to stand up to authority if he thinks its best for his friends. So him arugung with his adoptive father makes sense, since they were aruging about something the kid was doing for his girlfriend that the adoptive father didn't approve of. If you thought that was a long, drawn-out explanation and I completely agree. That was an example of just HOW MUCH I stress about cannon compliance. This was literally one fucking scene in one fucking chapter of a 7 chapter fic and it really really stressed me out about not being cannon compilant until I realized it could work. Another thing about my stress about cannon compliance is that older fics I made back when the show I make fics for were still airing eventually became irrelevant as the show went on. And, despite the fics actually being good for what they are, I honestly lost a lot of my liking towards them simply because they became irrelevant to cannon. And when the show was still going on, if I was writing a fic and the show came out with an episode that made the fic irrelevant, I'd IMMEDIATELY lose interest in the fic. (This goes for my comics, too). And never finish it. Tbh, I think the reason I ended up so worried about cannon compliance is because the online friends I made as a kid were all so adamant on keeping things cannon compliant, and that reflected on me, and as an adult I ended up becoming so hard and strict on myself about it, never really letting myself divert from cannon. And even in the AUs I have made, I still try to stick to cannon as much as possible. But seeing that people are there actually LIKE completely non cannon complianct stories honestly really makes me feel better about that. I honestly might try making AUs that aren't even close to cannon now. I always thought that most people hated non-cannon compliance fics, but seeing people like them really honestly made me have such a huge realization that I NEVER would've have if I never saw this video. Lone redditor out there, and youtuber who made this video, I must thank you.

I love reader inserts and ignoring canon fanfictions! Always a joy to read 😁

As a person who just started writing, I can confirm that not getting much interaction from readers and or not that many readers definitely makes me feel like what I'm writing is bad, and with me being very insecure already it possibly makes it worse. And I have also been feeling very unmotivated. I also write 1st and 3rd person and have no problem with 1st person

I don't know much about the fanfiction/reading community, but when I see "dead dove: do not eat" in the tag, that's my green light

I enjoy when the oc’s are like small characters that the main characters meet. Like, a shop keeper but you can just SMELL the lore behind them and it’s great!

I love unifinish fics, every time thats finish i can unlease my creativity trying to continue or creating a ending for me, it's satisfactory because it's basically my bed time stories.

One thing I see a lot of people hating on for some reason is "Starting by describing the weather" I really don't get why people dislike it but personally, I put a *lot* of importance into visualising what the fic is describing, that's like 90% of the experience for me- So I actually kinda like it when authors start a fic off with describing the weather or season or setting etc, cuz then right from the get go, I can already imagine the scene and sort of get a feel for the background even if it doesn't add anything to the story or character itself

This video actually got rid of my 2 month long writer's block! Oh I have so many ideas for my fic I can actually write again

I have a thing for writing stories with only friendship in them. I'm not into romantic relationships, so this stuff doesn't come up in my stories. I appreciate fics that keep friends as friends, or what was romantic in canon as just friends. I love fanfics that follow up on the story of role playing adventure games. Because the characters stories are continued. I've started writing one for one of my Fable 3 playthroughs, but through the eyes of characters from a different land, mentioned in a side quest. It's been a fun ride so far, but haven't had a lot of time (until recently) to write more. The characters get powers from the Guild Seal that aren't seen in Albion at all, so they have to earn the trust of the people of Albion. They're also dealing with the trauma left behind by the events of ending of 2 and all of 3. And it's written from all of their perspectives, to help people understand motivations behind their actions.

4:26 this is so reassuring bc I will literally spend hours researching something just for one scene. sometimes its not even a whole scene, its just something mentioned once or twice and usually its not even that important. yet I will spend hours freaking out about the plausibility of a single sentence. the stupidest part is that I don't even let other people read it

I completely agree with canon deviation! It makes it more exciting in my opinion, especially if you're making an au. And even if you're leaving some things canon, if you don't like what happened, you can just change things. Another thing i personally like are shorter fics. Not to say i dont like longer ones, but i hear many people say they don't like or prefer short fics but i honestly enjoy them.

“Cross-posted from Wattpad” Also, on the topic of canon divergence, I’ve recently gotten into musicals (I was watching a Book of Mormon slime tutorial before watching this) and one musical that is in my top 3 is Be More Chill (I’m basic, I know). So the plot is that the protagonist, Jeremy, takes a pill with a supercomputer in it to become popular and get with his crush, Christine. However, things end up going horribly wrong. Now, in the fandom, the most popular ship isn’t Jeremy and Christine; it’s Jeremy and his best friend Michael. And I just have to say; I _LIVE_ for the Boyf Riends rewrites of the musical. I love them SO FREAKING MUCH.

i didn't know some of these were commonly hated, like purple prose? cannon divergence? rambling notes? lack of romance? short fics? whats there to hate about any of these? i can understand disliking some of the things mentioned in the video, to each their own and all that, but hating especially these ones just fully confuses me

Those jokes that were like Inuyasha: wait why am I here (•_•) Author: CAUSE IT’S IN YOUR CONTRACT! **revs chainsaw** They’re so endearing and legitimately funny.

Deviations from canon are FROWNED upon?? That shit slaps

For me it's a side character being the portagonist of the fanfic. Like mha is a bit infamous for being crowded with characters so it's nice to see a fanfic focus on let's say shoji instead of deku,shoto or bakugou because we can see what the side character life is like because we don't really see them often

Massive crossover fics. Even when the source choices don't seem to make sense. Dug from Up meeting the Phantom of the Opera, Rabbit from Steam Powered Giraffe, Mondo from Danganronpa, and Hollyleaf from Warrior Cats in the middle of the Hunger Games is definitely something I'd read. It sounds absolutely wild and honestly I love when people take characters they enjoy from different things and just play with them like they're a kid in a sandbox having their Power Rangers action figures and their Star Wars action figures fight each other. So what if it doesn't make sense that Luke Skywalker and Cecil Palmer would be having a conversation- the whole point of fanfics is that they aren't canon! What are you gonna do? Tell the fiction cops on me for having the Doctor show up in places he logically shouldn't? Have fun with that, I'll just be in my corner watching my favorite characters exist near each other.

I love long rambling notes! My favorite author TrashcanWithSprinkles always has the longest notes and it’s so fun to read, especially when the grammar is improper and the writing is silly, it shows their personality and you get to see the authors authentic self. I personally find them just like an extra to read from the story. Learning their thought process, planning, etc is interesting and fun to read

Honestly, the things said about unfinished fics is so true, as an author on ao3 who has never finished any story, it's quite refreshing to see people comment positively on it instead of hating on us or rushing us to finish it! The 'when are you going to update' comments get annoying after a while and it can push you deeper into burn out, it's quite unfortunate that authors can't catch a break. But it's aways good to know that supportive people will always exist to give advice, help or just in general give criticism, it's a bittersweet feeling, being an author is a strange experience. Especially if you're working for free with only your passion for fandoms fueling you, no money, nothing. Just passion. And i sort of find that bittersweet as well, it's so sweet that people are able to form a community in the comments or join writing servers, yet will that ever be enough for the lack of respect writers get on the internet or even the lack of payment, the time spent and more? That's a question i'll never get an answer to! But i sure hope it sparked a discussion!!

i love 2nd person when the "you" is not actually me. something about it just feels so raw and real to me.

I like second person fics. I think they're immersive in the way video games are. I'm going on an adventure, not simply witnessing the adventure. What I don't like is named main characters and OCs in the "Reader Insert" tag. If the main character has a name, really specific experiences, and unique traits, that's not a "reader insert" fic. That's just your OC that you wrote in second person. There's a difference.

Unfinished, abandoned, and/or dead fics. It's less that I'm not annoyed and more that I just learned to deal with it. I frequent niche and obscure fandoms like Kantai Collection and Hot Wheels Acceleracers, and there's not a lot of completed fics that satisfies my already niche tastes; most of the time I just have to suck it up and deal with fics that stopped dead right in the middle of a climax or something like that. You learn to smile because it happened instead of crying because it ended early.

OCs in fics! I love to see people putting themselves into their writing or putting their characters into their writing. I think it’s fun!

One of the best fics, if not the best fic, that I’ve ever read was written in first person. It worked really well and made it way more impactful.

As a Danny Phantom Phan, we have to fix so much of cannon that if you’re not paying super close attention, all the fannon stuff looks like cannon. We have ghost cores, obsessions, tripped on a wire, those never happened in cannon but they’re so intrinsic to phandom culture and lore that we don’t care that they never existed in cannon cause in truth, we don’t like cannon. We got the og show from 2004 and said “Fuck you Butch Hartman, we’ll take it from here”.

Reader inserts. I adore them, favourite fanfic genre. There are good, serious y/n novels, and there are some fun crack y/ns too. I love them sm, and they make up most of the fics I read

I really like 1st person,like I feel like the character is telling me a story or I am in their mind it is just nice

i dont know if people avoid this but authors putting their own thoughts in parenthesis in the story.

I love it when characters cry just like cry and scream and vent to another character or they cry so much because they’re so happy it’s just so interesting! I love it when the writing gets a lot more detailed during serious moments it’s like I can picture the scene perfectly which makes it even better! I LOVE short fics! I don’t know why but there’s some monkey part of my brain that loves reading short stories Also something that doesn’t have to do with fics but still something I love is when the story purposely leave off on a cliff hanger because that’s what make’s fics happen!

I also really love short fics, writing and reading.

Some of the best Fanfics I know were written before the series in question was actually finished, so they can sometimes be radically different from Canon. I feel like creativity is somewhat limited as a series gets closer to being finished, so it would be nice to see more fics that just completely disregard canon past a certain point.

I personally love purple prose because I am SO FREAKING BAD at describing things. I will write three chapters and suddenly realise I never even said where these people are at, so reading some beautiful description of something is like heck yeah!!! Wish I could do that as well as you!!

Multi fandom crossovers. I don't see a reason for my hyper-fixations to not interact. Also it's funny when completely different characters and tones mix!

5:43 My personal favorite instance of this happening in a fic was where the character knew about the original version but the fanfiction was of an adaptation that they didn't know anything about, so some things were still just as surprising to them as to the canon characters. The fic is an Ultimate Spider-Man (2012 cartoon not the 2000s comics of the same name) fic and the oc knew a lot about the 616 comics, and iirc the fic is called Ultimate Symbiote Adventures if my comment piqued anyone's interest.

My answer would be "the shorter one" or some other descriptor instead of the name. Would I prefer it to just be the name of the character? Absolutely. Do I mind enough to click off? Not really.

I have like random reading bursts so short fics are my everything. once I get bored I don’t have to worry about coming back to it or it rotting in my tabs like I do with longer fics.

i LOVE miscommunication, yes sometimes they can seem implausible but you would be surprised just how easily miscommunication is irl. (example: Trash Taste washing machine/fridge bit. if ykyk). long author notes explaining lore and thoughts about the fic. there's this one author i read that names all their fics after poems and they always explain exactly where it's from and why they named their fic after it. it's so fun. also citations! I've read two fics where tje author has added citations and it's so nice to either learn more about the thing or little detail they couldn't add into the actual story. (for actual books that include this, Good Omens, mwah) crossovers, I love crossovers especially if the two fandoms have nothing in common. also, when it's obvious the author has a fixation on both of the fandoms and manage to intertwine both worlds, gah, it's so good! extreamly rare pairs, they have like three fics and one fanart and the authors are always absolutely amazing. i do not care if the characters have never met or don't make sense, it's fun!

First person fics, I love them so so so much it puts me in the characters shoes and i feel in the story instead of watching

I love cheesy tropes (like kissing in the rain or making a public declaration of love) especially when characters are self aware that what they're doing is cheesy but still continue to do it because they think it's cute. It is cute. I also love ephiets, names just feel too redundant sometimes and if I can tell what character they're talking about then writers can use them as much as they please. There was a fic i read that always used names and it just felt too repetive because theres other ways to convey who you're talking about.

I like reading unfinished fics too! It's especially fun when the story isn't that far along when you first pick it up. As well as when the author updates it regularly. It like watching your favorite TV show and getting excited when a new episode gets released!

Multi fandom fics are actually something I don’t mind, I would just rather have it if they told us which fandom in the title of each chapter

I love reading new stories or unfinished works, some of them are so good! It also feels great to comment and telling them how you like the story so fair, it helps push people to keep writing and not give up because not many people are reading it, It always feels great when you know someone like your story and writing, as well as gaining new ideas from it as well! I always try and leave some love to hopefully bring a smile to their face even if I'd never know it did

i think a lot of people don't really acknowledge the fact that a lot of the time fics are more for the person writing them than anything else. sure, they are on a public site, but also it's not stuff published by professional seasoned authors a majority of the time, they're just people wanting to get something they've created out into the world and show off their silly little guys. i think sometimes people expect too much from fics that are free to view and more often than not are just written for pure enjoyment, not for anybody else. it's fine to not like certain things, but i've noticed a weird...entitlement, that a lot of readers have sometimes

i love short fics i do not have the attention span for anything longer than like 10 chapters lmfao

purple prose, all lowercase writing, 2nd person, rambling in the tags, are all stuff i personally do, and adore to see in others works

Personally I’m a massive fan of AUs! I adore seeing people take these characters and morph them. As for pov, while I can’t stand first person in fic, I’ve grown a lot more attached to second person ever since I started reading homestuck fanfic.

5:01 "2nd person. Sometimes whole fandoms are built around it" Let's not be coy, here. The fandom built around it is Homestuck. That's what we're talking about, and let's just talk about it in the open. (Honestly, I adore 2nd person and I can't get enough of it. It's probably the brainrot...)

I love in-progress series, especially as someone who likes to interact with writers. I didn't even know people avoided them lol. Fanfic is a labor of love and it's something special to follow its creation, yknow? I like to speculate about the new chapters and point out my favorite bits etc., and it's so sweet how excited the authors get about engagement. Even in simple or poorly written fic s, it's so much fun to just gush back and forth about every new development. It just makes fandom so much more engaging idk lol

There's so much infighting over what's a good or bad thing in fanfic, but honestly, it doesn't matter. The author should be writing for themselves, what they like, what they want to read, anyone else liking it is kinda a bonus. Personally, I'm very picky when it comes to fanfic, but just because I can't stand reading first person or main character oc or Y/N fics, doesn't mean anything to someone else. Read and enjoy whatever you want to, the only wrong way to read or write fanfic, is to read or write something that you don't want to.

I'm honestly so glad that you made this vid! :D I had to hear that part, about canon divergence, as I'm currently working on a fun (for me) little side project for FNaF, where I retell the story, but inaccurately, even cutting some stuff I couldn't fit in with the timeline I had planned out so far. I was worried that people were absolutely gonna hate me for it and lost motivation to work on it. The "if I wanted a canon retelling, I'd open the source material" comment was what pushed me to get to planning the whole thing again :> Thanks a lot!! 💕

I totally agree with the "no romantic pairing" one, and while I am totally in love with romantic pairings, sometimes you just want to read about two characters being best friends and having each others backs, there doesn't always have to be romance.

this isn't just in fanfic, but i've always loved a good love triangle. tis one of my fave tropes.

This video was so nice! Beyond the usual pleasantness of listening to you reading things that interest me, this video was so positive. It was steeped in joy and enjoyment and celebration of fun for the sake of fun that I don't see as often as I'd like. Thank you for compiling it, and reading it so elegantly (and doing all the other invisible things that go into this style of video making).

My issue is I’m comically picky, lol. Most of the common complaint points will irk me from time to time. As for what I give a pass… honestly a good OC can do a lot of good for a story. Some fandoms make a lifeblood off of the main cast wandering over to the writer’s in-universe OC, and asking ‘so, what!s your deal?’ And that can be a lot of fun! I have a slight soft spot for ‘cast reacts to the story they’re in’ fics too. Like I always get a kick out of at least the first few chapters.

For me, I like characters slightly going OOC and being actually sweet. One time I was unwilling reading a Sonamy wattpad fanfic, and I somehow really liked this moment where Sonic and Tails were hugging because Amy was in the fucking hospital and dying. There was this nice group hug after and the sweetest part was that Shadow joined in first.

Chatfics! I always enjoy seeing things like those, as they seem to give a more varied insight into how characters would interact who maybe wouldn't (or couldn't) in canon. Also, over-descriptiveness. When done right it can show a lot about how characters view one another (like someone with a crush analysing their appearance, or an enemy calling their hair stupid) and can be somewhat entertaining at times.

I love. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Redemption arcs that are heavily connected to romance. Beauty and The Beast type stuff. It's the peak of "To be loved: is to be changed". When a character manages to get under a villain's skin in the best way possible and gets them to really start reconsidering things it's really *chefs kiss*.

A few actually! -OoC doesn't really bother me as long as it fits the story -Authors putting in their own thoughts (I do that for my stories too. I don't interrupt the story, I just give information. Basically what I'm currently writing is built like notes you find of an story idea that gives key information for how the story progresses but the details are up to you) -Modern AU is alright, but I don't like it when characters that aren't human are turned into human. -Highschool AU only works for certain fandoms for me -Mpreg is only okay in my eyes in fanfics about my favorite rareship if, in my eyes, the right one is pregnant. For example I can't imagine the more ruthless and cold one of the two be pregnant, because it wouldn't fit his character to be submissive -Short fics are adorable! And they are so wholesome most of the time! -Incomplete stories. Sad that they are discontinued, but my fantasy gives me ideas how they could have ended. -In progress is also great! Sometimes authors put in an idea a reader got! This just shows that some actually listen to feedback! -Children for my ships! As long as they fit the parents and aren't just self inserts I like them -AUs that bring my favorite dead characters back to life (Nathan Pandit's death from the mobile phone game series Criminal Case will forever be non-canon in my eyes!) -AUs that give me what I actually wanted in the canon story (There's a reason why Age of Calamity is my favorite Switch game and why Tears of the Kingdom is the second most disliked Switch game for me!)

I have this reader who REALLY engages with my story. They tell me their ideas, and get really excited when I post. Once, I posted a chapter, and they told me what a certain character should have done. I loved their idea so much that I wrote it in the next chapter. It’s now one of my fav things in my story

Unrelated, but i love your voice. It's very soothing and calming. I could listen to you talk for hours :))

Ik it isnt too rare or anything but i love short fics too! I honestly don't have the attention span for a longer story lol

I like ooc if it makes the character more fitting to the story, but not enough to be unrecognisable and make you mad

OCs and second person POV are something that I personally quite like (though not necessarily go out of my way to find). Like I go into a fic to read a cute story about a ship from the original media but come out loving the author's OC so much, they become my fave character. And all of the second (and first) POV fics that I've personally enjoyed tend to be really angsty (usually Hurt/No Comfort or Unhappy Endings) and it just puts you directly into that headspace.

I actually love fanfics written in first person, mainly beacause I can somewhat experience the story in the main character's perspective, and instead of a neutral narrative, I can read the story throught the protagonist's eyes and with their thought

It's a tie for me between reading the same cliched situations in different ways and xreaders/reader inserts. The second one mostly because that's what I've mostly been writing.

I loooooove OCs/Fan characters. One of my very favorite things to read and to write. I love to compare and contrast their OCs to mine and feel like OC writers don’t get as much love as the average strictly canon character writer. It’s good to give somebody’s OC the love it deserves. Even ones that’d be described as cringe. One of my most favorite things I’ve ever read on AO3 is a quick, less than a thousand words fic called, “Angels Don’t Only Come From Heaven,” about somebody’s cherub/Cupid based Deltarune OC having a sweet, domestic life and cuddling with Spamton. From the outside, it sounds self indulgent and lame, but while it is certainly the former, it isn’t the latter. It’s a wonderful story, a great pick-me-up read and Spamton stays in character the entire time. 10/10, will read over and over again and cannot sing it’s praises enough

I LOVE 2nd person narration! I have Homestuck to thank for that lmao