☢ What fads/trends are you so over?
SELF INSERTS. Holy shit. There are times I can get it, I get that in some senses it can be therapeutic to roleplay scenarios, but for the love of every god and devil, Please Make Sure Your RP Partner Knows. ALSO, and Sarge (@stillwater-butcher) has already had to listen to me rant about this, there are times where a self insert isn't therapeutic and is instead a form of self harm and once I realized, it's hard to unsee it. Giving a character what someone feels is their insecurities or their shortcomings, or giving them the really difficult scenarios or biases that were put against them to then play out is just plain old very terrible for their mental health. Not to mention it can then make partners INCREDIBLY uncomfortable, on top of having to try and not further traumatize the mun in question, or try to satiate the mun's needs with their replies.
✂ A fandom that you feel isn’t open and accepting?
Since I haven't really experienced fandoms, since I've always written and mostly played against OC's, canon divergent canons, or people who beefed up minor characters into mains of their own, I haven't had a lot of experience with fandoms as a whole. What I can vouch for though is the OC community isn't much better, from all the horror stories I've heard of the fandom community, with the added bonus of people hardcore self-inserting. At the end of the day, I'm okay keeping hardcore fandoms at an arms length lmao.
❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?
I wouldn't say that anyone has ruined a character or FC for me specifically, but I've definitely lost interest in certain overused FC's or found myself steering clear of interacting with certain characters when a fandom explodes with main character canon muses (did that even make sense? Lmao). I can't even tell you how long it took me to finally watch The Witcher, and I still find myself steering clear of the abundance of Geralt muses on here. Not everyone has main character capabilities (oops).