For your ask game you created, 26 and 30, please!
26. What is your biggest pet peeve when it comes to written works?
Biggest peeve when it comes to written works, hmm... This is a tough one, because I have a lot. There's the usual culprits like spelling and grammar, of course, but those are sort of common among peeves.
I want to say my biggest peeve is the significant, pointless overuse of adjectives, descriptors, or "poetic" language to tell your story. I'll be frank about it. It's poor storytelling. Whenever I see this kind of content, it immediately gives me the vibe of an author who's trying to sound like they're intelligent and high-falutin' and fucking look at me and my high vocabulary, when in reality, you're losing a lot of your ability to tell a story.
In many cases, you lose parts of characterization that are very key to your story: things like body language, facial expressions, tone of voice, habits, quirks, little things that tell us about the character, about what they're feeling, why they're feeling certain things, and characterization is really important in a story. Characterization is what draws your readers in, makes them invested with the characters, makes them feel and understand things. If I'm sitting there looking up every second word because I don't know what you're saying, and I am a fluent English speaker, I have spoken it and only it for my entire life, then you are breaking me out of that immersion. Now, does this mean you should never use it? Not at all! You can use it once in a while to create emphasis, to build a scene, to make something stand out as really, really important. But not over your whole story. It has to be carefully selected for its use.
tl;dr Don't sound like a scholar when writing fiction. Sound like a storyteller.
30. What types of ships will you never write, and why?
So I'm pretty open when it comes to what ships I write, generally it's just... if I enjoy it, or I want to maybe explore the idea, or that sort of thing, I'll write it. I tend to lean more to writing either f/m or f/f ships because I'm more comfortable writing women, so I don't know if I'd write anything focused on a m/m relationship just because it's not my jive (I'm very, very new to writing male characters in general, but that's not to say I won't write it.)
But going on that point, things I won't write:
01: Pedophilia (& Incest). I'm sorry, I just can't do it. I can't bring myself to write content that glorifies the sexualization of children or between closely-related family members. Please note, sexual content between two minors doesn't count under this, although I don't/won't write that explicitly either. I'm already uncomfortable with large age gaps. If there's age gaps, they have to both be consenting adults. Period. I do not think it's okay to depict this content or glorify it (most incest ships I see are things like Naruto/Kushina, Sakura/Sarada, etc, and it makes me want to vomit).
02: POLYAMOROUS SHIPS. I know these are really popular. I know they jive with some people. Let me clarify I have nothing against polyamory. However, in the past I had a very creepy, very uncomfortable personal experience with my former friend's husband, who was polyamorous, tried to groom me into a relationship, and when I backed out because I was far from okay with it, I was gaslit, kicked out, and almost left homeless. I dealt with being gaslit by this guy because he was jealous I was in a committed monogamous relationship, he did things such as assume that I must be attracted to him because I was attracted to his brother and they "look very alike" (they do, but attraction is not all looks, personality is a very key role). As a result, I can't bring myself to write this content. In fact, it makes me very personally uncomfortable when people even ask for it. Please, if you're following me, don't ask me for polyship content. Please. Just please.
