Writing that triggers your fight or flight instinct

[joannekwan]

Used platonically I'm fine with as it's just vernacular at that point.
But I've read it mostly between couples in the webnovels I've come across.

[DiegoPalacios]

Noelle rolls her eyes. I think her breasts roll in synch with them. Girl's breasts are so amazing.

Biology teachers will now be like:

"and kids, that is why you pay attention to biology classes, i am saving you from embarrasing yourselves in front of the world"

[indagold]

I read a sex scene that referred to part of the act as "sneezing"

yeah

[BreeBree]

This is hilarious XD

[BreeBree]

I once read a book where they described a guy on introduction in such detail I thought is was the love interest. It was the main characters younger brother. I stopped reading.

Other things that let me know I'm in for a cringy book

Rippling back muscles (Why why are they rippling???)
When the female goes on and on about a dudes eye lashes
When they start describing the texture of fabric he wears (just why?)

[Maps]

We sneezed all night long, baby!

That’s truly awful.

[indagold]

That sounds better than how it was described pukes

[Kann]

When the "feminine one" in the ship is an adult person, but they're written as they were a kid. Like, it's emphasized how their body parts are smaller and they act all child-like...

[DiegoPalacios]

that`s a thing????????!!!!!!. just when my faith in humanity was sort of recovering...............

[Kann]

I saw it mostly in fanfiction and bad yaoi manga but still... x.x

[Maps]

ALMOST EVERY YAOI. Whyyyyy?!

[joannekwan]

UGH yeah.
To push it even further, this is why when I'm writing sex scenes with my main character, I deliberately avoid using one of her common epithets, 'the girl' and only use her name and 'she/her'. Since I want to avoid that whole infantilization grossness.

[Drewbie]

One thing I have found common in a lot of new writers (And i'm talking like barely have written anything new) is that they double use words or phrases.
EX: I cut into his body in a rapid blitz, his body hurtling backwards.

[DiegoPalacios]

was guilty on this one until i learned the basic art of double checking my dialogue XD

[Drewbie]

I still make the mistake sometimes. No matter how much experience someone has things like this just kinda appear lol

[DiegoPalacios]

i may still do it deliberately for some comedic scenes tho

[punkarsenic]

when people are incapable of using the word 'said'

[Drewbie]

people really get such a false assumption that "Said" Is a beginners word

[winterpenwell]

Where people will go out of their way to find anything to say besides cock

“She yelled at my cockerel. My young rooster was frightened. I should never have let her touch my chicken.”

Ha. If I’m frowning at a sex scene, I just skip it, no problem.

I do get uncomfortable when the protagonist (usually female) makes snap judgments about people (usually female). Like: girl + appearance + she breathed near the love interest + what is he doing with her?! + that [redacted]!!! + oh, it’s his sister.

[Nika]

I really hate when the story's author decides to show up or possess a character so they can tell you what they think or what they believe. I read lately some interactive book and in the middle of the conversation with some character suddenly there is brought up the subject of people writting interactive books. It was mostly cringy, with the whole 'yeah, people that do that sure are amazing! Remember to be always nice towards them..' The whole scene took a couple of paragraphs and just felt kinda cringe.

The other one for me is mostly personal. I hate when there is unique character that know what they want but it is not conforming to the lifescript.txt. Things like being childfree for example. Instead of supporting this character people around just bully them into changing. I love strong female characters that say they don't want children but usually in fiction by the epilogue they already have two, just because they met the Right Man™.

Also! Authors that write their characters to have some unique or slightly niche hobby or job, but they don't understand how it's like to have that certain job/hobby/interest irl. Like, I couldn't finish one book that had its main character as an artist because the author just didn't understand how artists are like. He just made the main heroine extremely pretentious and called it a day. (She wasn't supposed to be read as pretentious and no other character acknowledged this they just thought she was extremely artsy, even her coworkers)