forum Things You Want LESS Of In Books

Started January 21, 2019 by @evastardust groupRRAAAARRL

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Contacts make me uncomfortable, I have trouble even putting on mascara for shows so I'm sure as hell not sticking a tiny piece of….whatever they're made of….in my eye.

I think it's a form of silicon????????????????

Hydrophilic plastics called hydrogels. Which EW. plastic on my eyeballs that's weird

To each their own. I know my mom started wearing contacts because she was an athlete growing up and her vision was terrible, so it works for her, but it's not the best solution for all people, especially considering if you don't care for contacts properly, they can even be dangerous.
Oh! And if there's a character with glasses, it would be so funny and relatable to have them occasionally complain about their smudged lenses or having to push their frames up their face all the time, or even getting their hair caught in their glasses.

I kept dropping mine when I was testing them out so they gave me 24 hour ones cause I'm a KLUTZ

speaking of witch, Why the heck is 'The nerdy kid has glasses' trope a thing like seriously?

No idea.

I think it's because some people only need glasses to help them read better and reading is obviously the nerdiest thing anyone can do. Why that trope is so popular? Not a clue.

LOVE TRIANGLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I AGREEEEEE

Broody Mysterious Edgy (tm) characters who spill their tragic backstory to anyone remotely person-shaped at the drop of a hat.

Bastard Abusers portrayed as Cinnamon Roll Love Interests because they have a Tragic Backstory and are hot.

Christian Grey

1. Those makeovers where the person literally just cuts their hair and get contacts then all of a sudden they are super popular.
2. villains that have not motivation their just… bad
3. girls that forgive their boyfriend for literally anything. Did you cheat on me? that's okay, I understand. Did you sleep with me to win a bet? oh okay, I still think what we have is true tho. When this happens I just have to put the book down unless there's a reason like she's in an abusive relationship so doesn't have the same mindset as most would or any other plausible reason for staying in the relationship. I just can't deal with them just forgiving and forgetting so easily.
4. girls liking guys purely because of their appearance and vice versa.
5. charecters being LGBTQ+/coloured/of different religions just for merit. I hate it when a character is just GAY ya know. Like no backstory, no goals, no character arc just… gay

The "my boyfriend just broke up with me so I'm going to kill myself" dramatics need to stop. (Bella fucking Swan)

Edward, Christian, and Hardin are all abusive dicks that get excused because of their dicks.

When heavyset female are unnecessarily crass? It's such an odd trope and I don't quite understand why it exists, but it's like heavier girls are often automatically sidelined to comedic relief

Innacurate representations of religioua people. Like yeah, I get that they're out there but you're shedding the whole religion in a bad light

Broody Mysterious Edgy (tm) characters who spill their tragic backstory to anyone remotely person-shaped at the drop of a hat.

I can understand this if placed in a comedy show but seriously what is even the point in something that's not comedy

Broody Mysterious Edgy (tm) characters who spill their tragic backstory to anyone remotely person-shaped at the drop of a hat.

Lol yes.

Weightloss = success
One sided characters or cliche villains (like the "mean popular girl")
Less of minorities only existing to get publicity (seriously let them be their own character)
Characters only existing as a love interest

Yeah. I like it when they give villains, even if they are cliche, perspective. And the whole thing about minorities for the sake of minorities is, to me, more useless than it is meaningful. Like, if a character is a minority, totally cool, but don't make them a minority just because you think that you have an obligation to. ~ Jak

Broody Mysterious Edgy (tm) characters who spill their tragic backstory to anyone remotely person-shaped at the drop of a hat.

I can understand this if placed in a comedy show but seriously what is even the point in something that's not comedy

Anything that would qualifies as bad writing in literally any genre would work wonders in a good comedy

One thing that I don't see a lot of, but still needs to go anyways it putting major spoilers on the front/back covers of books. Like why would you do this?!!?!?!?

WHY THE HECK WOULD SOMEONE THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA?

I don't know, but it needs to stop. Luckily though, like I said previously it's not exactly a huge problem. I can only think of like 2 or 3 examples and they aren't even very well known books to begin with. But still like???? I don't understand it. Why would you put a very obvious spoiler (or hint at one in a way that's not at all subtle) on the cover of your book? Why bother reading it if you already know how it ends?

Lol there was a book I had to read in elementary school where the title gave away the ending. My 9-year-old self ripped it to shreds for that and many, many other reasons.

Which book?

I think it was called My Brother Sam is Dead?
(Also I can't believe they let us read that??? Because it was a class reading, and I'm pretty sure the way he died was like a firing squad or something. He was definitely executed, and it wasn't implied.)

OH THAT BOOK!
I REMEMBER THAT ONE!
Yeah I think it was a firing squad.
My school library had a book where the MC's best friend died after getting the everloving shit beat out of his face by a British soldier……..so yeah……5th Grade Me was lowkey traumatized lol

Yeah, they made us read some weird stuff in elementary school… Especially people in the "gifted" cluster.
(also what is it with the British soldiers?! Was that one Revolutionary war stuff too?)

Yeah it was a 'Dear America' type book I think. Revolutionary War-era.

Oh my mom used to have that. But I never read it.