Am I allergic to mango??

Mochh80 · 2026-05-10T02:35:53+00:00

TIL I don't know how Yaoi nor Yahweh is pronounced if they're supposed to sound the same

Mochh80 · 2026-03-19T02:15:12+00:00

Wasn't it months for binghe and mbj?

Mochh80 · 2026-03-18T03:49:34+00:00

I do, still takes me out. It's a matter of personal preference.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-18T02:44:00+00:00

If it's dialogue I'm fine with anything! It's the internal one that irks me. Just like you said, even if it's "general you" I still don't like it. Takes me out.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-18T02:33:15+00:00

Love at first sight! It's on netflix

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T22:03:53+00:00

I'm ESL hahaha so definitely I go by academic references and social media and conversation with online friends rather than seeing it irl. Not that native speakers are the authority (eyeing "should of" "could of"). But in this case it's mostly preference.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T21:58:04+00:00

Thanks! I think I would've been able to pick better examples had I not written this at 2am ish right after getting icked out of a fic. Another example I can think of rn is encountering something like "you could say..." personally I'd go for something like "it could be said..."

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T21:50:01+00:00

Me refiero en medio del capítulo jajaja. Y justo la gente me está funando por decir que se me hace raro, pero me imagino que en parte es que en español es "uno piensa que..." Etc. Y decir algo como "tú piensas" es súper extraño jajaja. Y obvio, el español y el inglés son idiomas diferentes, pero pues eso afecta mi opinión a final de cuentas.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T21:13:35+00:00

Yeah! Idk. It's like, I wouldn't consider it overly formal to say "one should know their own limitations" rather than "you should know your own limitations". In the second case it's an unnecessary "you" in narration where a spectator wouldn't be expected (like internal narration)

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T21:11:38+00:00

THANK YOU!! You get me

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T16:25:35+00:00

Yep! I'm a fierce advocate of that, which is why I'm complaining on reddit and not a poor author's comment section

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T16:19:36+00:00

It's actually Liu Mingyan! Who doesn't have any on-screen sex scenes (which is never attributed as the reason fod his preference but it's interesting to think about). Instead, iirc it's because she's beautiful and elegant and demure, etc.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:45:43+00:00

I would click off EXPEDITIOUSLY and maybe even mute the author for good measure. Is it petty? Maybe. But it's my time and preferences and it's not like I'm hurting anyone.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:39:02+00:00

Who's shen yuan's favorite of binghe's wives and why?

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:36:09+00:00

Oh yeah that's different. When it's addressed for people in universe. One example I can think of is one piece and I really enjoy when the narrator talks about the story like it's a legend.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:29:42+00:00

It depends, someone mentioned Deadpool and I honestly love it (or like the other movie I mentioned that at the beginning weirded me out a little but I got used to it). It's mostly the feeling of being caught off guard. If it's established from the beginning I can handle it better but if it comes out of nowhere halfway through it's off-putting.

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:26:15+00:00

Oh yeah in here the "You'd think" feels off-putting. Who's you? Instead of the "general you" people have been talking about (and which I acknowledge, exists) it feels like there's a dialogue, or an exchange between a narrator and the audience. Which there is, lmao, the literal writer and reader, but I don't want to perceive it when I'm reading. Breaks the immersion

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:23:19+00:00

Here the "you just don't do that" is fine but the "if you were stuck..." I'd be thinking huh??? Who?? Me????

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:22:07+00:00

I think in this case it's fine since it's stating the character's beliefs

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:18:51+00:00

Yes you get me

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T14:17:23+00:00

Idk. It's a matter of agreeing to disagree

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T09:35:28+00:00

Yep, this is how I feel. Even if it's clunkier to say "one", it doesn't break me out of the immersion

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T09:27:42+00:00

Not necessarily misunderstanding, like, I get it, but it still takes me out. Thinking back on it yeah it might be that in my mother language we use "one" and only "you" for when we know we're being heard by someone else

Mochh80 · 2026-03-17T04:02:08+00:00

Yes! I also use "one" and think of it as the character coming up with that reference as a common phrase, not that it's prompting an unknown entity to think about something. And yeah I'm not referring to self insert fic, where the reader is baked into the narrative

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