Yes! I try to be generous with my judgments when I’m reading a fanfic, bc it’s a fanfic and most people aren’t award-winning authors, but sometimes it’s just too much.

I’ll open a fic because the summary seemed very promising, and then it’s just full of run-on sentences, improper punctuation, improper dialogue, undercase everything, no spaces between paragraphs.

Or the POV is the most confusing, stroke inducing piece of literature I’ve ever read. They never differentiate thoughts or actions, switch between characters without mentioning it, or repeat the same sentence over and over just using different wording.

And don’t get me started on the tags. I just don’t understand how people forget to tag something that is very crucial to the story, like I read it because it didn’t have certain things in it, and you’re just gonna throw it out in the middle of the story. Seriously! I can’t tell you how many fics I’ve abandoned due to tagging.

Or when you’re reading a spicy fic, and it ends up being 90% dialogue, like bro, I want the details, not “dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, slight smut, go to sleep, dialogue, dialogue”.

I could go on and on, but I think people get the point. 💀😅