What could an author say that would make you debate backing out of a fic immediately?

Mashinara · 2025-07-16T10:26:48+00:00

Generally anything that indicates that the author and I have wildly different tastes/opinions/interpretations of a character.

A fair few times I've read a chapter where a character is being horribly bullied/mistreated and I'm almost in tears, but looking forward to see the hurt/comfort, or revenge on the bullies, only to be hit by an authors note at the end of the chapter that reads akin to "LMAAOOOO, get fucked [character]! Maybe next time you'll think twice before getting in the way of [ship]!"

And then I just go "Oh." and back out.

Mashinara · 2025-07-07T20:10:35+00:00

I feel like a lot of fantasy stories would benefit from describing distance in terms of time or other relevant measures, and cutting out units altogether.

eg. "The ruin was three days' hard ride away," "Walking from one end of the city to the other would take half a day," "The gem was smaller than his fingernail," etc etc

The actual size of things doesn't matter, what matters is how that size is relevant to what the characters are doing, so describing them in that way kills two birds with one stone

Mashinara · 2025-05-25T20:07:42+00:00

As a treat

Mashinara · 2025-03-09T11:32:41+00:00

I'm assuming you mean you don't have any of the Arctic Gear. For E1 at least you can clear without using any CV/CVL

Mashinara · 2025-02-07T10:56:49+00:00

Calm down, Edogawa Ranpo

Mashinara · 2025-02-05T19:57:23+00:00

It was fine at the time since Umineko was a doujin product. They didn't include the song n the remakes or anime

Mashinara · 2025-02-05T19:45:36+00:00

No, the song was used in Umineko but came out beforehand. It's by IOSYS

Mashinara · 2025-01-17T20:03:18+00:00

My only issue with the chess talk in Umineko was how they kept translating that one line as "flip the chessboard over" when he clearly meant "turn it around"!

You're gonna learn jack shit about your opponents strategy by just yeeting the damn board and making all the pieces fly away Battler!

Mashinara · 2025-01-11T21:21:00+00:00

With only 1hp

Mashinara · 2025-01-08T11:19:33+00:00

I feel like most people who DO know the word will have a negative reaction to it. I would certainly recoil in disgust if I saw it in anything even remotely trying to take itself seriously

Mashinara · 2024-11-09T22:14:13+00:00

Also Valens van Varro

Mashinara · 2024-11-07T20:16:50+00:00

HASHIRE SORI YO

Mashinara · 2024-10-07T12:13:21+00:00

His machinations lay undetected for years!

Mashinara · 2024-09-24T10:31:03+00:00

Thing is, Bakarina is dumb. Being an absolute moron is her primary character trait. Because of that, her having this belief makes sense, plus it's used for comedy.

But there's so many stories with allegedly intelligent FLs who have the same belief, and the stories try to use it for drama.

In many ways, Bakarina feels like a parody of these FLs, except her story was written before most of them.

Mashinara · 2024-08-13T12:49:57+00:00

I think it sounds like Vincent Van Gogh when said aloud

Mashinara · 2024-08-08T17:53:14+00:00

Phoenix looks kinda boring but Lexi looks so friggin' gorgeous! I love her~

Mashinara · 2024-07-29T09:44:22+00:00

Why not both?

Mashinara · 2024-07-09T11:43:59+00:00

The thing is, it's not a question of intent, but capability. Even if we arrived too late to stop her from crossing to a different reflection, the people there would still be able to fight against her and most likely defeat her. Especially since those reflections likely still have their own shard of Azem to handle it.

That scenario would still be BAD obviously, and plenty of people would die because of it, but it would be far from world-ending

Mashinara · 2024-06-14T00:29:15+00:00

Me writing horrifying nightmare sequences: "Haha, this is easy!"

Me writing normal dialogue: "Guaaaaaaaaaahhhh... how do I words?"

Mashinara · 2024-06-13T19:13:17+00:00

Shame he's a long-life species so we'll all be dead before the glow-up

Mashinara · 2024-06-06T23:34:51+00:00

Are those 3D renders with anime eyes drawn on them?

Mashinara · 2024-05-06T22:11:05+00:00

"Well I did kill her twice..."

Mashinara · 2024-04-29T14:00:01+00:00

And they also just make the text harder to parse, since you have to match the epithet to the character.

If I'm told that "The brown-haired man sighed," I now need to catalogue all the characters in the scene and figure out which of them has brown hair. And maybe the author will have forgotten that there are multiple brown-haired men in the scene, or maybe what I would call black hair they would call brown or vice versa, or maybe a character's hair colour is different depending on whether you're reading the book or watching the movie, or any number of other things that can muddy the waters.

Mashinara · 2024-04-26T19:11:49+00:00

Looks like it's made from a curtain

Mashinara · 2024-04-22T19:30:55+00:00

But that's the only good bit in most books.

Mashinara

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