by Emmery on Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:05 pm
Grammar Mistakes
Ugh. I absolutely hate when someone doesn't take the time to proofread and there are errors littering the entire post. It drives me crazy! What's even worse is...
Text Talk While Roleplaying
Sometimes I just want to smack them with a dictionary and make them retake third grade. It's so freaking annoying, not to mention disrespectful. They're basically saying, "Oh, yep, I'm roleplaying with you but I can't be bothered to write like a literate human being."
Mary Sues/Gary Stus
Oh man, if you thought that I was done ranting, you thought wrong. The all too perfect characters piss me off. Give me a flaw! I want to see chinks in their armors! I want to know about the fact they are extremely nerdy and not beautiful, or heavier set, or just not perfect!
Connected to the Mary Sue bullcrap is the overly tragic history. "Yada yada, my parents were killed in front of me and my brothers and sisters and their murderer took me in and taught me everything he knew until I ended up killing him." JEEZ! They're annoying, cliche, not to mention just completely melodramatic in a bad way. Every good story needs some sort of problems, but the characters should not be the things wrong!