Things You Want LESS Of In Books

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• Characters who have really weirdly colored hair/eyes in a setting where they shouldn't
• Characters with pets that we don't ever see them taking care of
• Characters who hate school with an irrational passion
• Characters who are in NO extra curriculars. Everyone I know is in some form of extra curricular activity, so Mary Sue should be too
• Sports games that play out like this: 'It was the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs, bases loaded, and we're four runs away from winning. Mary Sue is up and she's never hit the ball in the whole seaso-OH MY GOSH! SHE HIT A GRAND SLAM! WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP YAAAAAAY!!!!!'

Okay, for the top one…. my guy was genetically modified so much that the crimson hair is just a side effect of screwing with the genes so much. Is that okay?

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• Characters who have really weirdly colored hair/eyes in a setting where they shouldn't
• Characters with pets that we don't ever see them taking care of
• Characters who hate school with an irrational passion
• Characters who are in NO extra curriculars. Everyone I know is in some form of extra curricular activity, so Mary Sue should be too
• Sports games that play out like this: 'It was the bottom of the ninth with 2 outs, bases loaded, and we're four runs away from winning. Mary Sue is up and she's never hit the ball in the whole seaso-OH MY GOSH! SHE HIT A GRAND SLAM! WE WON THE CHAMPIONSHIP YAAAAAAY!!!!!'

Okay, for the top one…. my guy was genetically modified so much that the crimson hair is just a side effect of screwing with the genes so much. Is that okay?

If it's in a setting where they have the tech to screw around with genes, they can probably dye hair. I'm talking more like purple eyed-pink haired girls in a medieval setting.

Where the main character is asexual (either directly stated or heavily implied) and they meet another character that "cures" them. Tf

they meet another character that "cures

Is this actually a thing?

Yeah. I've only seen it once, but I've seen posts of people complaining about it

I was reading the kiss quotient and oh boy. It was awful. It had that thing as literally the whole plot, it was not well written at all, it kept flipping viewpoints to the point where it was hard to keep track of, and it made me hella uncomfy

It's about a girl who wants to get better at sex so she hires this guy to teach her and they fall in love. In hind sight I should have realized I wouldn't like it. Didn't even finish it lol

I think she was made fun of and she froze up every time she had sex. It was very confusing

Wait, I think I've heard of that book. I haven't read it, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, I think the MC (as well as the author) is on the autism spectrum. I feel like that's kind of an important detail? Although, as someone else on the spectrum that premise sounds… dare I say cringey.

Wait, I think I've heard of that book. I haven't read it, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, I think the MC (as well as the author) is on the autism spectrum. I feel like that's kind of an important detail? Although, as someone else on the spectrum that premise sounds… dare I say cringey.

Yeah, I think she was, but…. I feel like I'm still missing something

but…. I feel like I'm still missing something

• The fact that people with autism often have difficulty showing emotion
• The fact that we sometimes have difficulty interpreting what other people are feeling or thinking
• The fact that people with autism have a hard time picking up on things like body language
• The fact that we sometimes are more sensitive to certain sounds, feelings, smells, etc.

I'm with you guys that the premise of the story is not that great, but as someone on the autism spectrum I feel like the fact that this character is having a hard time with sex/relationships seems reasonable, and pretty much everything listed above could play into that. Someone who is neurotypical would likely not be having these problems, or if they were, would probably be able to work through them a little easier. Hence, why I say that this character having autism is kind of important. She might not even realize that hiring someone to teach you how to have sex is weird.
I'm not saying I would ever hire someone to teach me how to have sex (or that it's even a good idea), but I guess I do sympathize with this character, and at least can see where she's coming from. Sorry for going off into essay mode like this, but it kind of came across to me that you maybe don't know that much about autism or maybe are a little misinformed (sorry if that's not the case, please refer to bullet point #2).

Wait, I think I've heard of that book. I haven't read it, but if it's the one I'm thinking of, I think the MC (as well as the author) is on the autism spectrum. I feel like that's kind of an important detail? Although, as someone else on the spectrum that premise sounds… dare I say cringey.

Yeah, I'd considered picking it up because of the mc being autistic, but then I read some reviews and nah. I agree, the premise sounds…not good…

Boy meets girl. Boy rescues girl. Boy and girl fall in love.

Bad self-inserts of the author, who is completely self-unaware and thinks they're perfect (lookin' at you onion boy)