Licks & Squicks Survey

[catscradle]

Got from babaca

Your top 5 fanfiction kinks. The plot devices you just can't resist reading and/or writing:

Dear god, five?

1. I love to write a little madness into my fics. I've got a real things for characters slightly unhinged.

2. NCS if done well. I can't read it if it's the average bodice ripper. In fact, I like it more if the violated character is unsure of their own role in the NCS act. And it's got to be believable and well written.

3. Threesomes if the chemistry is there for a triangle.

4. Well-done camp. Though traffic accidents can be amusing, it's the Rocky Horror types that get my attention.

5. Buddy-fics. A good story on friendship. They're rare.


Top ten fanfiction squicks or dislikes:

1. Epics on part 57 and still counting. Nothing needs to be that long. Cut them up into a story arc or get a new idea. 457 pages of the same thing needs to stop.

2. Breakup fics to get your favorite character in bed with someone else. In most cases the pairings are fanon - you don't have to break them up to get them to go out with someone else.

3. Mpreg.

4. Romance. I'm all for slash and characters in love, it's the genre I abhor.

5. Crossovers. I think X-files is one of the few series that can actually lend itself to this type of fic well. The rest. . . no.

6. AUs where the otherwise normal human characters are now magical beings.

7. Melodrama. When the world crashes down on a character - everyone mistakenly hates them for all the wrong reasons, it's raining and their dog dies. . . too much.

8. OTP readers. I don't mind the authors, they write what they like. But the readers that send e-mail about being distraught over you not writing what they feel is the OTP - they need to die. On the same vein, fangirls that can't cope with writers that write believable characterization rather than two dimensional mary-sued characters.

9. Scenes with alcohol written by people who have obviously never had so much as a glass of champagne at a wedding. They either give their characters toxic shock by having them drink 12 bottles of 151 Rum, or they give them the equivilant of a shot of Robitussin. The character is technically either dead or cured of congestion.

10. Bastardized characters. Unless it's explained and the reason is actually reasonable, character bastardization is what's going to get me to delete faster than anything else. With the exception of mpreg.


So then I did the googlism thing:



Googlism for: catscradle

catscradle is written for language
catscradle is written for professional language translators
catscradle is copyright
catscradle is the freeware software used by translators to translate web pages
catscradle is buried under a pile of blankets on the bed
catscradle is quiet for a long moment
catscradle is a web page editor designed specifically for language translators
catscradle is written for language translators
catscradle is sitting
catscradle is standing
catscradle is comotose and ser motormaster did not have the chance to make better his
catscradle is standing next to megatron in a hovering
catscradle is a program to translate html files
catscradle is curled up in front of her usual console
catscradle is perched on her usual spot