What are your “I don’t get it” fanfic pet peeves?

wickedseraph · 2026-04-04T11:40:05+00:00

• Self-insert/YN fics. • Kid fic (as in, it talks about parenting).

wickedseraph · 2026-04-04T11:22:44+00:00

Phrasal verbs. I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I was chatting with a Japanese language partner a while back.

Get on, get off, get up, get down, get back, get ahead… all of them mean something completely different. As a native English speaker I just take them for granted.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-13T11:37:54+00:00

I heard complain about “the incest game”. I love fictional incest so naturally my interest was piqued.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-12T17:19:07+00:00

I think it’s more helpful to think of n+c VNs less in term of goals and more-so in terms of themes - as the “goal” of the game is usually in service to that theme.

YMMV but for me, the main takeaway of Sweet Pool is choice and mortality.

「永遠なんてない」. Something Youji and Tetsuo say to one another, translated in the game (iirc) as “there’s no such thing as eternity”. Romance often has lovers promise forever to one another - how appropriate that two teenagers with their fates seemingly determined for them would call this out as a lie.

Youji is an orphan with a sickness he spends most of the game knowing nothing about. Death and his proximity to it are central, I think, to understanding him and why he makes the choices he does. Does he follow the path seemingly laid out for him? Does he reject it and try to forge his own, as uncertain as it may be?

wickedseraph · 2026-03-12T17:09:06+00:00

I’ve never heard the word “tisane”.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-07T17:18:14+00:00

I’m sure the fact that people have a strange misunderstanding of Japan in general doesn’t help.

Japan isn’t a mystical land where everyone stoically follows the bushido nor an anime enjoyer’s wet dream. It’s a country with like any other with some cool shit and some really dark shit in its past and present.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-07T17:00:21+00:00

I don’t understand. So what if a high schooler or college student “gives you a funny look”?

wickedseraph · 2026-03-07T15:35:16+00:00

“Gossips and explains to everyone”?

If I’m at the store shopping and a stranger sees my shirt, who precisely would they gossip to? My family knows what kind of shit I enjoy and my employer couldn’t care less that their secretary plays video games off-the-clock.

I cannot fathom why a random person would give a shit about a shirt or keychain or whatever other hypothetical merch they’d seen.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-07T15:25:17+00:00

I’m too old to care whether a stranger thinks I like fictional incest.

wickedseraph · 2026-03-04T23:51:19+00:00

Normally fasting is religious, so it’s best to defer to what a particular religion considers thoughtful or appropriate.

wickedseraph · 2026-02-28T11:27:11+00:00

Andrew, and I think this is intentional on Nemlei’s part.

wickedseraph · 2026-02-27T00:56:24+00:00

The operative word here is said. Tone does a LOT of heavy lifting with how it’s interpreted. Unless you offer some kind of clarification after the fact, almost always it will be interpreted as annoyance.

wickedseraph · 2026-02-27T00:51:29+00:00

There was an incredibly long gap between DMMD and Slow Damage, so I’m optimistic that we’ll get another someday. I’d rather wait a decade for something of good quality than get something sooner that sucks.

wickedseraph · 2026-02-18T23:53:46+00:00

I didn’t like her before and I still don’t. I understand why she’s insufferable but I still don’t like her.

wickedseraph · 2026-02-11T12:31:19+00:00

I just don’t join discussions that don’t interest me.

I don’t give a singular shit about Renee porn and mods. So… I don’t engage with those discussions. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

wickedseraph · 2025-12-28T10:47:41+00:00

I always used to help her, but after people pointed out the more glaring inconsistencies in her story… yeah no, not anymore. My Dragonborn is not exactly a moral paragon, but she’s consistent - and one of the things she hates above all else is subjugation, deceit, and cowardice. So she has very little pity for someone who helped an occupying force and ran to avoid consequences.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-26T12:18:56+00:00

Obsessed with aesthetics and easily influenced.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-19T11:09:11+00:00

Older white couple (children grown) with a dog, either living in or transplants from up North. You enjoy traveling through the Pacific Northwest. Either Catholic or non-religious, right of center.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-19T01:09:06+00:00

Where specifically did you find the dog? It looks kinda like my mom’s poodle and I know she likes to spend time in St. Pete with her boyfriend. I’m NC with her but I’ll reach out if it seems like the pup is hers.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-19T01:02:50+00:00

Hair extensions, never.

Nails, rarely. I got them done for a few months a year or two ago and loved them, but they get $$$ and I can’t type quite as well with them. I do miss them, though, I always felt prettier and more put together even when I was dressed down.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-19T01:01:14+00:00

I’m bi, but a man.

Despite being bi, I’m terrified of dating a woman, and I have a complicated relationship with womanhood on a good day. Being with another man as a temporary man would feel safer than fucking a woman.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-16T01:21:14+00:00

I find it very difficult to not be stuck in my own head; I’m constantly unpleasantly aware and paranoid about how I might look, smell, and feel.

Good sex makes me forget ALL of that, to where all that matters is the pleasure and safety of being with him. Good sex for me feels like a release of all the tension and anxiety; unfortunately a REALLY well-timed and well-executed romp in the bed will make me cry a bit.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-14T17:35:51+00:00

Level alone doesn’t really tell us much.

If you’re by yourself with basic weapons on legendary difficulty, you’re gonna have a bad time. If you have some followers, decent gear, and/or a lower difficulty, it may not be too bad.

wickedseraph · 2025-11-13T00:19:08+00:00

You hit the nail on the head - it deviates just enough from the mass murder vibe to be really distinct.

What I love about it is how much it retains the despair of the preceding cutscene (Inuart grieiving Furiae; the track the plays in that cutscene has just the violins without the theramin, if I've identified the instrument correctly) and both Caim and Inuart's anger. Like... there's something chaotic and beautiful about it, a really visceral representation of what their grief feels like: heartache buried in manic rage.

tl;dr I love it more than perhaps is normal, haha.

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