pet peeves / lil stuff you cant stand

[Yoshi155]

Okay, so I was obviously referring to Sonic fans when I was writing this, but I guess it can be generalized.

Anyway, if you used to be a fan of a series, but you don’t like it anymore because it’s strayed too far away from what you originally liked about it, then that’s fine. But I can’t stand it when instead of just growing up and accepting the fact that they don’t like the thing anymore, they do nothing but hate on everything new from that series and say that anyone who still likes the series are blind fanboy “meatriders” (but then they’re the ones who waste their lives making social media posts and YouTube comments/videos about how much they hate something so… who’s really the meatrider?). I don’t get it. You’re only hurting yourself and it’s just unhealthy. You’re just making yourself miserable by making your personality hating something when no one will care about your opinion if you do that. I don’t think that there is a single Sonic game that doesn’t deserve criticism. Most people who like Sonic games don’t think that either, because they acknowledge that nothing is above receiving feedback, besides the minority that really are blind fanboys. The fact that even the people that like something can admit that it can be improved proves that there’s better ways to go about criticizing something you don’t like. If you explain rationally why you don’t like it anymore and understand that other people can like it, people will listen to you, but if you can’t do that, then **** off and let people enjoy the thing you don’t. Jesus.

 

[QueenCobra]

Tired of all the "reimagined Greek myths" books. Greek mythology is good, but it has been done to death. (usually it’s the Persephone myth) Do an Aztec or Slavic mythology-based book already!

(Maybe I'm biased. One of my OCs is an Aztec half-snake, half-humanoid demigoddess named Ticualtzincoatl. She's Quetzalcoatl's daughter by a human mother, and "heals" people through sacrifice.)

Other book pet peeves:

A bunch of titles like "The Monocle Maker's Daughter" or "The Ice-Cutter's Wife." The "wife" and "daughter" titles were fine for a while, but they've been overdone.

Lack of thicc boys in romance novels. It feels unfair. There are some with thicc girls, but what about the boys?

The book's movie or TV series poster on the cover.

Too many pop culture references.

Romance novels where the male love interest is abusive but has a "dark past" that somehow justifies it, and the girl ends up "fixing" him.

Any "not like others girls" stuff.

Real people on the cover. I don't know why, but it ruins the imagination aspect for me.

Failing to do basic research or editing. (One author copy and pasted a Zelda recipe into a historical fiction book...I'm not evening kidding! Even mentioned Lizalfos and everything!)

BookTok in general. I hate TikTok so I'm VERY biased that way lol.

 

[lonely_bunny]

people who make jokes about serious topics

 

[Dim]

I hate when I drop something and it disappears into the 4th dimension.

 

[lasagne_of_death]

People who act like their good deeds needs to be known by everyone. Especially when these people are horrible to anyone they know and are just generous to people who don't know them to satisfy their need to be seen as a saviour.

 

[chocovelvetcake]

The amount of intergenerational bullying I see on the internet is pretty depressing, especially when it comes to gen alpha. The same thing will happen to them beta, as they're now the youngest generation cohort.