Things You Want LESS Of In Books

I feel like we don't even need any books that handle it "well" or try to like…make some point? Tbh handling it well is just not having it

@HighPockets

I can tolerate it if it's in like….a thriller about a super fucked up family and clearly shown as bad, but when it's tossed in for a forbidden love plot? Ew.

Also it shouldn't be thrown in just to prove how bad the family or whatever is, it needs to be…I don't know how to put it. But like. If you're gonna do that, don't throw it in just to say haha look how twisted and gross this family is, it's gotta be deeper than that, y'know?

@HighPockets

Yeah, it's gotta be actually handled and not just a "heehee see it's gross and twisted! look how eeeevil my villains are!"

@Althalosian-is-the-father

the best way to watch a hallmark movie is with a bowl of popcorn and a heaping pile of sarcasm

^^^^^^^^^^^

@Fangirl616

Lol in my story I have two "love at first sight" things, but neither of them actually work out

@Althalosian-is-the-father

Ah but do you go into the cultural misunderstandings of how relationships work and how that damages relationships?

@Fangirl616

… I will work on that

@Althalosian-is-the-father

You don't have to, my guy. But it would be cool.

@Pickles

Character: I'm not going to the dance. I don't like them
Character: oooh cute boy, I'm going to the dance
Me: :/

@Althalosian-is-the-father

I feel like this one could be done right. But I agree that it would be nice to have people solidly sticking to what they do and don't like.

@Katastrophic

It depends if the character's love of cute boys trumps their dislike of the dance. Like for me it's always joked that I'll eventually like sporting events cause boys will be there, but I don't like guys more than I hate sports so that would never happen. Though for typical YA, its almost required to have a shoehorned romance so boys it is.

@Althalosian-is-the-father

Exactly.

@Consider-PB_and_the_Jellies

August 01, 2020

This is media in general

But when someone who doesn’t (Or hardly) know their mother/father Gets pissed off when their parent starts dating

I was ecstatic (if I used the word right) when my mom met my Step-dad

@Becfromthedead

Yeah, I mean, its understandable if they get legit bad vibes from an individual their parent is dating, or they feel some amount of jealousy or nervousness, but cut out that "angsty teen hates their parent's SO" shit

@HighPockets

Especially since most of the time I see it the only reason they dislike them is….because they're not the MC's birth parent? Granted I'm not experienced with having divorced parents but so often it's just a slightly awkward parent that just wants the kid to care about them.

@Becfromthedead

God, I legit want my parents to get divorced, and I couldn't care less if they started dating again.

@HighPockets

I've read an unfortunate amount of books where the MC just relentlessly slutshames the father's new gf, it's so gross can we stop doing that??

@Becfromthedead

Ewww

@HighPockets

All she wants is a stable, happy relationship, and the MC is off in the corner like "I can't believe this slut has the balls to be dating my dad….my real mom would never be such a whore" and I'm like "can you just???? chill????"

@Becfromthedead

Your real mom dated your dad at some point, stupid

@Pickles

Oop sorry they wanted to be happy instead of forcing something terrible to work so you don't have to face your crippling fear of other adults

@Althalosian-is-the-father

I've probably said this before, but less sexual assault/rape. Find another way to elevate the stakes without messing in a serious matter that you need to be a very good writer in a very specific way to do right. I'm SO tired of anything resembling a rape backstory.

@vidari-is-tired-in-advance

Ugh, I absolutely agree. While sexual assault and rape are very important issues that deserve to be addressed, they’re definitely used clumsily most of the time, and a lot of authors seem to use them only for more tragedy points

@ninja_violinist