#fic ick

[omegaversetheory]

because i'm really bored and need to hear screams from the void p.2

your fic ick - popular stuff

"daddy" (with the power dynamic ofc)

pregnancy (birth, announcement, etc...)

marriage and/or weddings

injuries/illness

slow burn

breakups (+ optional reunification)

periods

Voting ended onDec 6, 2025

ugh a fic ick! Pick the one you HATE the most - and if you don't hate any of them, too bad! Still vote for the WORST possible option. don't worry nobody has to know.

this is a judgement free zone, but feel free to duke it out in the comments lol.

[trashogram]

Some fanfic icks:

• Seeing ‘I’m bad at summaries’ or ‘I’m bad at tagging’

Please don’t introduce your story with what you believe you’re not very good at. Either don’t say anything or practice being better.

• Tagging every character/ship even mentioned or alluded to in your fic

You don’t need to do that, especially on AO3. It clogs up everyone’s feed and overstimulates the viewer

• Tags like ‘does not contain [insert disturbing or inappropriate content here] because THAT’S WRONG’

Babe, we know. We know inc*st, murder, sexual depravity, gro*ming, etc. are wrong. You don’t need to convince us you’re against it, we already assumed as much.

• Bashing other ships either in the tags or the content of your fic

It’s weird. Stop it. • Try not to Spoil in your tags/summaries unless the fic itself is fluff or it’s irresponsible and doesn’t sit right with you to avoid stating certain details of the plot

• Song fics

I have no problem with fanfics that include a few song lyrics or quotes here and there, especially if they’re bookending the fic (I have personally done this in my writing) but dear lord, having huge chunks of lyrics in-between paragraphs and dialogue is so jarring and I skip them every time. • PLEASE give attention to your formatting

It’s like adhering to color theory as you paint or creating an outline for your plot line based on a 3-Act Structure - these are the foundation of your creation. You can definitely play around with them, but the way you present your work should be digestible and familiar to some extent.

• Labeling platonic relationships as Character A/Character B or AxB

DON’T. DO. THIS. Especially if it’s for parental-child relationships. Just use ‘&’, I beg of you.

[obsessive-evie]

"when the more masc girls just act like men??? Stop writing them like walking straps they’re literally GIRLS"

That's the realest thing I've heard all day it PISSES me off so much like actually makes my eye twitch

see you GET IT it pisses me off so fucking much, bc it feels almost fetish-y to me

like it gives the same vibes of grown men writing teenage girls and gay girls they just miss the mark so much it’s glaringly obvious

[happilyghostlyarie]

Pregnancy fics are not my cup of tea. It's hardly ever done nicely and it reminds me of love story fics that are entirely about the crush and not the relationship.

Children aren't props.

What I like better are adoption fics. A child needs a home and love so the character provides. The child is their own person with their own struggles and now they have a support system.

Don't get me wrong this can also be done poorly if the child's struggles are just highlight how 'good' of a person the Mc is. That's terrible too.

I especially enjoy it when they kind of just end up with the kid without meaning to. (though the thought of this happening to me terrifies me)

[8unhealthy-obsessed8]

One of my biggest icks in fanfiction is when siblings are written poorly

You can just feel that the author is an only child

Sister: Hey bro

Brother: Hey sis, whatcha doing

Sister: just chilling and walking around our sweet home

Brother: love u

Sister: love u too

They somehow never flip eachother off, or get into fights over which Starwars movie is the best that end in boxing matches, they never cuss eachother out and they also never meet up to talk crap about their family at the family function

[arcadiahasdissaperd01]

🗣️ OKAY BUT ONE OF MY BIGGEST FIC ICKS???

When a character gets genderswapped solely so they can be shipped with everyone or become the perfect romantic interest for some self-insert reincarnated reader. Like. Why. WHY.

Like. Please. I am BEGGING.

And it’s always a male character suddenly being a woman or “secretly a woman all along” just to make it "less gay" or more "uwu soft and shippable" and I just??? No thank you??? For what?? For romance? For shipping? For that “teehee I’m just a normal girl who woke up as [insert badass war general but now with boobs] and now everyone wants me 🥺” vibe??

💀 I am TIRED.

Like listen—trans headcanons and full genderbend AUs? LOVE THEM. Fully support. They usually slap, have actual thought behind them, explore identity, and tend to treat characters like people, not props.

ICONIC. Inject that into my veins. But this?? This “only one character gets gender yeeted for ✨plot✨ (aka romance)” move?? NoooOOOooo.

But when it’s just one character being genderswapped in an otherwise untouched canon world, just to fit a romance fantasy?? It gets weird. It feels off. Especially when everything else stays the same except now suddenly everyone wants to bang them.

Sometimes they’re already perfect the way they are—gender, orientation, and all. 😤

Let characters just be! Let them be gay! Let them be complicated and messy and queer! Hell, let them stay straight!! Not everything needs to be warped into some idealized version of what a romance should look like 😭😭

Anyway. That’s just my opinion. No hate, live your truth, write what you want—but I’m allowed to feel ✨mildly feral✨ about it.

Absolutely feral, foaming-at-the-mouth rabid about it.

[2manytabsopen]

i've created at minimum 5 posts today that never got posted because they felt like I was oversharing either too much personally or sports wise so if u want to hear them I'll start betting at one like

[bradleybabshaw]

my biggest ick when reading a fic now is when someone calls the reader 'kitten' and the reason is entirely because of that one guy on tiktok. you know the one.