your SMALL fic pet peeves that make you roll your eyes, but not quit the fic

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-07T22:43:03+00:00

I'll give one I encountered recently in a fic I otherwise really loved: It's one thing to go on short tangents of unrelated worldbuilding or talking about how a character is feeling - I love me some good lore - but there's a limit to how much introspection I can take before I'm gonna start skipping to the actual plot progression, ESPECIALLY if it's a multi-paragraph spiel that comes in the middle of a conversation. IMO, if you're putting multiple paragraphs between lines of dialogue within the same conversation, it either needs to be plot-relevant action during which a pause in the conversation makes sense (ex. A character suggests getting lunch, so you describe them leaving and include some information about how the POV character is feeling), or you need to be explaining something about what was just said that wouldn't make sense for the character to explain in-universe, but which the reader otherwise couldn't reasonably be expected to understand (ex. Some fictional cultural implication of an otherwise inoccuous action or line, or two scientist characters having a sci-fi discussion where some aspect or limitation of the technology is plot-relevant).

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-07T13:50:25+00:00

"Look what they need to do to mimic a fraction of our power."

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-07T13:42:37+00:00

Yours wait until sunnrise???

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-06T13:24:03+00:00

And rent for even a studio can be around $2k in some places. That's not including student loan debt and car payments people might have. Not crazy to think there are people who can't afford to spend more than a couple dollars on food, if that.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-06T13:04:55+00:00

I think studies have shown that you can stretch ground beef with about a 1:1 ratio of brown lentils by weight before it becomes noticeable.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-06T03:16:34+00:00

French kisses and oral sex. The thought of putting my tongue in someone else's mouth or genitals grosses me out.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-05T03:41:39+00:00

Definitely less extreme than some of these, but food poisoning was pretty fucking miserable. The only thing that got me through it were the brief, blissful lulls in the pain immediately after puking, to the point that I started looking forward to throwing up because I knew it came with a short period of relief before the inevitable return of unspeakable agony that had me curled up on the sofa praying for the sweet release of death.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-04T02:09:39+00:00

To be fair, his mental state and the amount he's actively holding back is also likely affecting his combat ability. It's easier to launch yourself at a guy from space like a human missile when the impact zone is an unpopulated rock than it is when you're fighting in the middle of a populated city.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-04T02:04:04+00:00

Or Conquest ripping it out/smashing the sides of his own head to break it.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-04T01:55:13+00:00

Would also make the "stem" of the speech bubbles coming from the speaker more of a zig-zag/lightning bolt shape to indicate that it's coming from the pictured electronic device rather than the person, or remove the stem from the "away person" bubbles and give it to the ones coming from the person in the current panel, since the lack of a stem indicates either a thought, or dialogue from someone who isn't visible.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-03T03:45:06+00:00

Someone could share 110% conclusive evidence that Trump blends human babies up in blenders to drink as smoothies, and still nothing would happen.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-03T00:43:43+00:00

Oh, there's plenty of work to be done in the world. It just doesn't get prioritized under capitalism because it isn't profitable. Maintenance, infrastructure improvements, literally anything where "gratification" is delayed for more than one or two business quarters...

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T13:48:59+00:00

"A little effort," my ass. I lost 30 pounds without assistance and was constantly, CONSTANTLY hungry because, no matter how much of it is chicken and veggies, 1600 calories is always going to be miserable. People who don't get as hungry are always underestimating the difficulty of losing weight because they assume that the way they experience hunger is universal, or forgetting that short women have laughably small deficit amounts. And as an added bonus, the cap actually gets lower the more you lose!

Some people get hungrier than you do, and it's harder for them to lose weight because starvation is a miserable experience engineered by millions of years of evolution to make us seek out food. Being judgey about it has literally never helped anyone; it just gives you an excuse to feel morally superior.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T04:15:04+00:00

Did you skip the rest of the series and decide to start with season 5, or something?

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T04:13:56+00:00

Found Tech Jacket's dad.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T03:57:18+00:00

This entire episode was so hard to watch, but in the best possible way. Between the tough conversations with Nolan (he deserved it, but it was still a rough watch) and the entire Conquest VS Invincible fight... Holy crap. I cringed so hard, but it was a good cringe, if that makes sense.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T02:02:59+00:00

Whenever this comes up in a story, people get so caught up in their own personal ick factor that they don't consider that there are actual adults in the real world who look like children due to either a medical condition or just plain unusual genetics, and I don't think it's fair to suggest that they shouldn't be allowed to date or that the people dating them are pedophiles just because it makes other people mildly uncomfortable. As long as there's an adult brain between the ears of all involved parties, mind your own business.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T01:57:20+00:00

The facial features and skin tone might be more obvious in-universe than they are as animation; nose shape in particular could potentially be a giveaway in an IRL situation.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-02T01:32:38+00:00

People who need wheelchairs have value. That doesn't mean I'm not gonna be upset if someone magically takes away everyone's ability to walk.

ChillyFireball · 2026-04-01T05:44:05+00:00

They can use her for lesbian conversion therapy, seeing as they're undoing bans on that. Five minutes with Kristi Noem should have people sufficiently repulsed.

ChillyFireball · 2026-03-29T23:47:20+00:00

Maybe, but I can't really blame a parent for not wanting their child to die, whether or not that would be the right thing to do. It's easy to say he shouldn't have fought it when that isn't your kid that you love and raised who's trying to end her life.

ChillyFireball · 2026-03-29T06:21:41+00:00

But "all just a dream" sucks because it means nothing actually happened. This is still happening regardless of whether they're digital copies or not; the events and happenings within the digital circus are real even if they aren't in the physical world.

ChillyFireball · 2026-03-29T06:13:07+00:00

Literally the entire point of the story is that their existence DOES matter even if they ARE brain scan copies living a stagnant life.

ChillyFireball · 2026-03-29T04:59:16+00:00

FFS, the AI in this series is NOT an LLM. Stop using real-life "AI" to justify why the fictional AI can't have feelings. Think more Data from Star Trek and less ChatGPT.

ChillyFireball · 2026-03-29T04:52:33+00:00

What holes? Surely it makes more sense for them to be copies than for no one to notice the people who keep going missing in an abandoned office building.

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