@BodaahL Aha it's no prob

@reddoll123 Jesus. You mean that's a thing?! It is been bugging me for a loooong time. Guess I'm just a bit of a control freak? My brain to mouth filter is far too strong, I never let words slip
Guess I owe a lot of authors an apology, lol. Thanks for warning me, though?

@BodaahL Ah really? I think it's happened to me before. I dunno sometimes it's like a brain/mouth disconnect imo.

Personally, there is a really small detail that bugs me. You know those scenes in which a character is thinking something and accidentally says it out loud? I absolutely LOATHE that. It is simply not something that happens in real life, unless maybe if you have some mental disorder. It may (probably?) not apply to everyone, but for me it's something that ruins the narrative. The story simply stops being credible (?) to me after that.

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@goopeculiar I laughed hard thank you

Since I'm the type to mostly read rated M fics, I find that s*x without lube is pretty ridiculous. Especially if the top guy thinks that using lube for 'making love' is unnecessary and fake because it's only supposed to be for 'ing'.

First of all, *ssholes (LOL) does not lubricate itself (unless it's a hybrid au or wolf au) no matter how aroused the person is & saliva and spitting do not work just like how it does in fics that are most written because it freaking DRIES quickly. You try your fingers so wet and rub it on your thighs.

I feel so awkward whenever I read the part where the top guy inserts his thing after stretching the bottom guy with his fingers that have been coated with saliva because IRL it dries just after the first plunging. Maybe eating out does the trick but still. it's saliva guys, not lube.

@mirrue Ha, that reminds me of something unrealistic I've seen: Random trauma happening to a character and they experience no PTSD whatsoever from it. It's basically like the scene could've been removed and it wouldn't have affected the plot whatsoever.

Basically what Mirrue, Emilieee, AceJulia, Iambarbiegirl and goopeculiar said. They really hit the nail on the head for most unrealistic fic tropes. I'd like to add people being cruel or jerks, but suddenly becoming good people or bubbly nice people after falling in love. Habits don't die that quickly. Some people do change, but not that quickly, or some people may not change at all. Stop treating relationships as if they're a cure for personality disorders and the only thing that can make someone change or be happy.

@hamsicle It makes me so mad, which is why I stopped reading bullying stories altogether!

#wheresthelube

Something like you're an introvert-shy type of person, and then you befriended with this one guy and quickly get along with his bunch of friends. And then girls around you will get jealous and threaten you to stay away from their oppas~ You'll get sad and distance yourself from the boys and then angst happened lol

@Armyster this killed me... Now I am really itching to write a story with an explosive diarrhea doggo, hahahahaha

@AceJulia I agree with 1). It's not very common but not completely unrealistic. Thus, Stockholm Syndrome. When victims are treated cruelly and then shown a small act of kindness by the abuser, they cling to it and they start seeing the abuser as less threatening, friendly, even. And when there is no one else defending the victims, they'd come to believe that the abuser is their only friend.

Everything _always_ ends well. Or well, usually. Your crush loves you. It's OK to your mom that you go to badass party with some random guys you just met. There's not that often stuff that happens in real life, like you forget your book or drop your phone or you have that goddamn flash on when you try to take a secret picture of your crush. Someone photobombs you or your dog has a diarrhea. Find me a fic where the main character comes home and finds out his/hers dog has the worst diarrhea. Only the people who have faced it know how it feels. I have a very sensitive dog who likes to eat crayons.

I think that beacuse it's a fictional story, it can't be that realistic even if it's in a 'slice of life' genre. If everything is just the same as real life, nobody will read it. And even if it's based off of real events, the author will exaggerate it in order to show how dramatic it is and to captivate the readers' attention.

1) A relationship after bullying. And not the teasing kind of way, but the full blown bullying and harming the OC mentally and physically and annoying her and humiliating her because of a stupid reason. I just can't stand that.

2) The OC forgiving her friends and her 'love-interest' directly after they apologised. Like they ignored her and didn't help her when she was bullied severally, and yet they turn back into the greatest friends after only 2 chapters.

And some other scenarios. But they are all distinctive. I wouldn't have anything against bullying stories, if the bullying was done in a not harmfull way, e.g teasing, annoying a bit etc. And the 2) would also be okay, if the friends really did something to get forgiven. It just irks me, especially when I am the only one who seems to have a problem with those things. When a story gets so unrealistic, I stop reading it completely.

@princesselena It could just be because you don't take them off a lot then. Becuase I've known people who every time i see them they're in their glasses. I mean every time. So to me it becomes like part of their face and if they took them off it would never look right again LOL That's not me though. I cant wait to get rid of mine. People see me in them but i mostly only wear them when i have allergies or my eyes are tired or i'm bumbling around the house uselessly lol

@badgirlfanfics No i think u misunderstood me. What i was saying is people who r usually used to seeing me with glasses will find it wierd without my glasses. They dont necessarily come upto me and say 'hey ur hot' or 'i never saw u earlier' or something lyk that. I have seen people saying that to many other specs-wearers around me as well. Well anyway maybe ur one of the rarer species who looks hot with glasses off. Lol. Lucky you

@princesselena So what you're saying is.....you're not hot in glasses or out of them? LOL I was really hoping you weren't saying that but it totally sounds like you are! lol That's a whooooole different problem than mine. I have stereotypical clark kent problem. In glasses I get underestimated or ignored and brushed off as a nerd, then I take the glasses off, let the hair down and get "hello, whats your name?" and I'm just like "you truly never saw me here? For the past 7 YEARS?" LOL And they're just like "Nope. So what's your name?" lol Either way, we can agree on one thing: glasses aren't usually doing anyone favors.

@badgirlfanfics As a person who wears glasses myself i dont really believe in it. Yea glasses are not beauty items, they dont usually make u prettier. But taking them off doesnt make u ' hot' either i think. Wht i have seen is when ppl around me, including myself removes glasses other people would look at us and say 'ur looking wierd without theh' LOL

@badgirlfanfics I mean, in a lot of stories I've seen, the girl is considered a nerd with her glasses and by taking them off she suddenly attracts boys, and that's definitely not something seen often (or from personal experience, ever). I really doubt that happens a lot of people. I look better without glasses, but that doesn't mean I'll start looking hot when I take off my glasses. It's the exaggeration that I was talking about that doesn't happen in real life.

@badgirlfanfics well there aren't LOL. no one around me suddenly looks hot when they used to be "ugly" with glasses. consider yourself lucky.

@Fangirlno0174 Maybe I am. I told my optometrist I was NOT going on a date in my glasses because men find me ugly in glasses and she laughed so hard. But i think secretly she knew what i mean. I mean I really I think there are a lot of people like me, whose looks are greatly brought down by glasses. In most cases they minimize your eyes and maximize your nose. That's never good. In my book, they're not exactly "beauty's biggest supporter" LOL

@badgirlfanfics LOL if you can take your glasses and suddenly become hot then consider yourself special and lucky

@Emilieee Well now you know someone like that. Me! When I wear glasses I just look like very plain or like a dope. When I take them off guys treat me totally differently. Its not the frames, because I have attractive and expensive glasses. It's just that glasses in general don't do my face any favors. They hide my eyes, which are my best feature. Once I take them off, I can get attention easily. Some guys look y in glasses but some don't, they have the same problem I do where glasses greatly decrease my looks. They make my eyes look smaller and nose more prominent. Its disaster. For the past two years I never wear my glasses. I only wear them at home. I had a date and I ran out of contacts and couldn't get any in time, so I rescheduled the whole date. There was NO way I was showing up in glasses and having him think "uh, i thought she was pretty. waht was i thinking? she's ugly after all" LOL

@badgirlfanfics Well... I personally go between glasses and contacts and I don't all of a sudden look extremely prettier with my glasses off. A lot of the people around me also wear glasses -- there's no one I know that can look "ugly" at first with glasses and then all of a sudden "hot" when their glasses are off. Especially the way that transformation is described.

@Emilieee as a person who wears glasses, yeah it does. lol

Honestly, the biggest inaccuracy is when parents are mentioned for like a minute and then disappear for the rest of the story. This is really common in those stories where they're somehow okay with their 14 year old daughter going off to live with an year old man they don't know. Even if the person is heading off to become an idol and don't get to see their parents again for years, it's probably important to mention them just the slightest bit, because most people experience homesickness at some point? I dunno, this always bothers me.