#this is incredibly inflammatory in tone but only bc you asked me abt peeves

[rozaceous]

Top 5 fic pet peeves?? Idk or maybe pet peeves in general

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LET'S GO. I HAVE GRIPES.

1) not every kick is a roundhouse kick and not every punch is a right hook. fucking stop. I WILL die on this hill and by god am I taking you all w me. I'm not a trained martial artist by any means but I have done self-defense and kickboxing and I HATE THIS.

first of all, if you're dead set on a hook, you want a LEFT HOOK bc most ppl are right handed, means your stance is left foot forward, means your left arm is forward and has more reach to get in/behind someone's guard. if you're looking for more power, just do an overhand. scariest punch I've ever heard make contact is an overhand (w a mitt, to be clear. but it like, reverberated.)

second, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG W OTHER KICKS. axe kick! front kick! gimme a knee ffs! I love a good roundhouse like anyone else but also wtf I need some variety. (my favorite kick to do is a jump front kick. not terribly practical but SO fun)

2) 'hesitance' isn't a thing. HESITATION. PLS. (so much spag stuff where I have to remind myself that we're hobbyists and providing art for free. I don't need or expect perfection but we're talking abt peeves.)

3) look shit up. like just. do some research. GLANCE at a wikipedia article, I beg. this applies to anything, from foods in a particular region to naming schemas to how injuries work to cultural norms. esp the last one. kicking a hornet's nest by saying right out that the lack of cultural awareness and the lack of care for having cultural awareness is why I didn't stay/burned out on mdzs fandom.

4) the character flattening, reducing all nuance and interesting traits into a cardboard cutout of their canon. makes me wonder if ppl can fucking read bc it def makes me feel like we did not engage w the same material. also it's BORING.

5) telling me a character has x quality while there is nothing in the fic that supports this. oh, they're 'x' huh? are they REALLY?????