What's your least favorite character trope?

So…… yeah.

Okay someone mentioned the “girls who hate eachother because they like the same guy” trope and I’d just like to say that my best friend and I became best friends because we liked the same guy and continually supported eachother and encouraged the other to ‘go get him!’ and ask him out, and have eachother guy advice, all for the SAME GUY

this whole “you like my man I can’t be friends with you” thing is completely realistic, loosing friendships because of a guy is stupid, and also you can’t ecactly control who you like!

Second, can we just have some casual LGBT+ representation? Where their sexual or gender identity is made out to be a big deal (not that coming out stories are bad obviously! Coming out and discovering your sexuality can be extremely hard, but it would still be nice to see some of the flip side after the characters have figured out their sexuality) and it’s not the main driving point for the plot

Also, if you’re going to have a soft smol guy in your story please don’t make him like EVERH SINGLE OTHER SOFT GUY IN EVERY YA BOOK EVER

Finally, if people could include popular girls/guys who are legitimately popular because they are nice and people like them because of their personality who are not a b*tchy clique, that would be great

Exactly! There are living examples of this at my school

Also, unrelated but:
Can we have some POC goths??? All goth people I’ve read about in girls are pasty white with black hair and dark lashes and it’s getting really tiring

I know! My friend is a goth (Wont admit it though) and they are darker skinned

I hate how powerful women are masculine in some cases. Isn't the point of women's empowerment supposed to be prove that being feminine is strong in its own way? Oh, and I hate how now tomboyish females are automatically gay or trans men. Don't get me wrong, representation is important, but it's based off of a stereotype that you want to be 'manly' for being independent.

yessssssssss

Also: CAN WE HAVE SOME DISABLED LGBT+ CHARACTERS???? I'VE NEVER SEEN AN LGBT+ PERSON IN A WHEELCHAIR IN ANY BOOK< AND DON't EVEN GET ME STARTED ABOYT HOW UNDEREPRESSENTED AUTISTIC CHARACTERS ARE IN GENERAL??

yasssss obvi!
demi representation all the way! also, there's not nearly enough healthy poly representation

Yes! for both there's not enough gender representation

Another trope that annoys the heckity heck out of me:

please stop making all your bad boy types the exact same

I know!

and also, if you're going to have bratty popular girls please give them actual personalities
most bullies have been bullied before or have crappy home lives
maybe the girl who ruins your protagonist's life in highschool has an abusive mother
maybe her sister was murdered
maybe she's depressed and contemplating suicide
obviously these don't excuse bullying, it's terrible to bully, but they provide a background story or reason for it

YES!!!

omg I'd pay to read that
how much will the published copies cost?

me too

I totally don’t do that ever~
just kidding I do

Doing that rn

m o o d

Has no idea how to start the book, but has written a bunch of scenes

big same

tip for writer's block: just literally choose the character you're having difficulty with and put hem through like twenty personality tests
if it's the plot that's sticking, then idk good luck

The one trope that always pisses me off is the Nice Guy™. oh wow! the bad boy (and the only character with an interesting backstory) was being evil and manipulating the heroine the entire time! Good thing there's a wholesome, FDA-approved, gluten-free, one-dimensional Nice Guy™, who was there all along!

I wanna make a story where it turns out the nice guy is actually evil and the heroine and the not-so-bad boy have to work together to stop him. Its just that this type of story encourages toxic behavior and entitlement. if y'all don't believe me just go to r/NiceGuys on Reddit

There's this one trope where the main character happens to be great at, like, EVERY fighting style. Just… no! People can be proficient in whatever fighting style they want, but if they pick up a rapier even though they've had 15 years of arming sword experience, they're not gonna know how to use it properly! Likewise, not every sniper is going to know how a machine gun works and why you can't just hold the trigger down. Why is this fifteen-year-old girl kicking the crap out of an experienced fencer with a dagger?!

LMAO