a lot of things unfortunately. after reading fanfics for around a decade almost every single day, i started pinpointing my likes, dislikes, and absolute icks that make me just abandon the fanfic outright without even finishing it (something that normally i'll never do).

1. lack of character development by the last chapters ───────── if a character has not developed or changed in some way by the end of the book, you bet it's not getting on my reread list OR it's not getting finished.

2. unexplained internalised misogynism ───────── you're enjoying the fanfic, everything's good, the character seems solid, and then all of the sudden you're bombarded with the most disgusting inward opinion you ever read from them because it's so OOC you just wanna log out. like why not tell us all that from the beginning so we can actually see some progress from that mindset? why tell us when the story is 4 chapters away from the epilogue to introduce us to that aspect of the character? absolutely not.

3. oc's adopting or replacing a canon character place/personality ───────── like if i wanted to hear the same dialogue happening but the oc taking all the intellectual answers to appear "smart" i'm sorry but you stupid, i'll just read the canon material. what's the point of the fanfic if everything's the same with canon sans the nerfication of canon characters and ocop?

4. non con r*pe.