Storylines/Genres you hate

[Kelliezgirl]

The simple answer here is that Dr. Pepper is the only correct answer.

Well, if the question is
"Would Pepsi be ok?"
Then the answer is definitely "Dr Pepper".

 

[gunhilltrain]

Well, if the question is
"Would Pepsi be ok?"
Then the answer is definitely "Dr Pepper".

I prefer New York City tap water (Croton system) with a little fruit juice mixed in for flavor. It just flows out of the faucet.

water system map

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I prefer New York City tap water (Croton system) with a little fruit juice mixed in for flavor. It just flows out of the faucet.

water system map

Ended up watching an hour long documentary on the history of the NYC water system.
Strangely fascinating.

 

[RetroFan]

'Hate' is a strong word. Instead of getting a hate boner and lambasting authors for their kink choices, I simply ignore material which I don't like. Live and let live and all of that. I don't understand - for example - the LW trolls who obviously have a massive problem with infidelity, yet like clockwork they show up in the comments section of LW stories and complain about them. Umm... just don't read it?

I'm a firm believer in equality, so almost all subgenres of erotica dealing with power dynamics go right by me. Not getting any twitches downstairs when BDSM or cuckoldery is involved. Non-con? Fuck off with that. Interracial? I don't see the taboo in it. That would be like fetishizing Italians or Norwegians. And last but not least, I avoid feces and piss play like the plague. That stuff belongs in a toilet, not the bedroom.

And above all, I prefer my erotica to be story-centric, not kink-centric. That's why all the stuff I've written - more or less - is story first, sex second. Some commenters even say that my stories work as well without the sex as with it.

I agree with this. For example, I have no desire to read Hucow stories, so if I saw a new story in the Fetish story section called 'Horace Humps a Hucow' I would simply not bother reading it. I wouldn't click on it and post negative comments based on my dislike of that particular kink. Of course, if I really wanted to read 'Horace Humps a Hucow' to satisfy this fetish but was disatisfied by the story in some way - for example it had a disappointing 'it was all a dream ending', it was nothing but a list of bullet points about the various sex acts by Horace and lactating women with no dialogue, or Horace is a real dirtbag who neglects his wife and kids and seeks out struggling single mothers and uses a power imbalance to get them into bed, then I have every right to express my negative thoughts. But not about disliking the story's theme because its obvious what its about. Negative comments are also justified if a kink is just suddenly thrown in with no warning. Sticking with the hucow theme, say I wrote a serious drama set just after WW2 where a young GI assists his late sergeant's widow, this turning to romance. But when it reaches the bedroom, it immediately and without warning goes into bizarre hucow fantasies, then the readers have every right to negatively comment on this.

As for the comment about the Loving Wives negative comments, my take is that they really want to read these stories they profess to hate so they can get angry and write negative comments. For example a middle-aged overweight couple (the wife somewhat more than her husband) where she takes up with a much younger and very skinny male lover with a feeding fetish, and the husband watches it all happen and does nothing about it would likely be attacked savagely, but in reality these readers would be secretly happy the story was posted because they have something new to hate.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I hate some stories I've read, but I don't really hate storylines or genres. And hate might be too strong of a word. I am not fond of incest stories in general. That comes from my own experience with incest (in my real family, not the one I grew up in). I'm partial to horror, sci-fi, mysteries, and even Westerns. (Yes, Western's is because of my dad's influence on me. Not the sperm donor, but the man who raised me.) I like twists in stories but not constant ones. I don't require happy endings. In fact, sometimes that is just too much for me to believe when there's a happy ending pulled out of thin air.

 

[lovecraft68]

Wait a minute.. Are you Pepsi-shaming me?

Bad news for you; Lit has an anti Pepsi rule
Good news for you; they enforce it as much as they do any other rule, so drink away.

 

[NuclearFairy]

There have been things that have made me drop an otherwise enjoyable story. Like amnesia that comes up in the middle or towards the end of the story. The beginning is fine, but after that and it's just too tragic. Or noncon with a gender that they're not attracted to. Or forcefully changing someones gender into something they don't identify as. Other forceful body mods might be okay, it depends on how they're played off.

Then there are the things that only make me drop the story without finishing it if it's a stroke story, things that'd be fine normally but not when I'm trying to rub one out. Such as what seemed like a hetero or guy on guy story and suddenly there are women making out. Or a story about a big dominant guy and then suddenly he's being dominated? Or mind control out of fucking no where! Or orgy interruption. And scat, I don't like water sports either but I can ignore it. It's like, give me some warning guys, at the very least put it in the tags so that if I forget to look at the tags I only have myself to blame for wasting my time on such a story.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Pepsi, um, no, can't do that shit.

Bad news for you; Lit has an anti Pepsi rule
Good news for you; they enforce it as much as they do any other rule, so drink away.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I don't know if it's still around but there was also RC (Royal Crown?) soda that I thought was better than Pepsi

I think Royal Crown is still around.

 

[Naughtylit81]

I think Royal Crown is still around.

It is still around. Owned by Kuerig Dr. Pepper in the US and can be ordered online at Amazon amongst other retailers.

 

[Belegon]

I have issues with Incest that are mostly related to the very first girl I lived with, way way back in the early to mid 80's. She had childhood trauma related to incest and the after-effects of it affect my emotions to this day. I've occasionally tried to write something in that genre just to see if I could, but have so far been unsuccessful. The only type of familial relationship I think I could pull off might be a cousin story, and that is again primarily due to real life circumstances, as I had a first cousin with whom I shared a very close (but non-physical) relationship.

While the dynamics of sub/dom relationships fascinate me, I feel intimidated writing about them as I fear to get it wrong. I have friends in the lifestyle and I would fear to get something wrong and possibly offend them.

So while I don't think I actually HATE anything, there are certainly genres I find challenging.

 

[Belegon]

I don't like humiliation. I also have a problem with "bully" stories, though I think I could see a way to work that into a bdsm story that could work. I don't like the Magic Cock stories anymore that I like the Magic HooHa trope in romance novels (guy is a total rake and womanizer, alpha male who really embraces the "spreading my seed around is whats best for the whole human race" ridiculousness, then sleeps with the female lead and all of a sudden never wants any other woman for the rest of his life.)

But the thing I hate the most is the cliche (again, mostly in romance, especially period romances) where the MaleHero comes across, either randomly or because he was following her, the FemaleHero in the middle of a sexual assault upon her. He saves her from this traumatic experience, and her reaction five minutes later is "fuck me as a reward for your bravery, etc." Yeah, things don't work that way in real life.. Even if you stop the assault before she is injured or penetrated, it's a majorly traumatic incident for her. She's not gonna want sex immediately after an attempted or completed rape. And the idea that she will fall neverendingly in love with you because you fucked her in that situation is worse, if anything you're guaranteeing yourself a prominent place in her PTSD nightmares.

 

[jaF0]

Anything with any kind of force, manipulation or violence of any kind.

The world sucks and I don't need it in my fantasy.

 

[sister jenny]

This is just personal taste and the way my mind works, but anything over 3 pages I just lose interest right away.
Or when it says in the beginning that the sex starts in chapter 5. I just quit right there.

I am a big reader and love long massive books, but in here I want sex and action and get to it fast

 

[designatedvictim]

This is just personal taste and the way my mind works, but anything over 3 pages I just lose interest right away.
Or when it says in the beginning that the starts in chapter 5. I just quit right there.

I am a big reader and love long massive books, but in here I want sex and action and get to it fast

Oh, dear... that's not a good sign for me.

 

[sister jenny]

Oh, dear... that's not a good sign for me.

I am one person, there are tons who love long, slowburns.
I think you will lots of people who love your stories.

 

[jaF0]

I've gotten to where the first thing I do is scroll to the bottom of the first page to see how many pages there are. More than 3, I just back out without reading the first paragraph.

 

[TheLobster]

I've gotten to where the first thing I do is scroll to the bottom of the first page to see how many pages there are. More than 3, I just back out without reading the first paragraph.

There is a word counter to the right and slightly below the title, so you don’t even have to scroll. Above 3 pages is generally 10k words or thereabouts.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I've gotten to where the first thing I do is scroll to the bottom of the first page to see how many pages there are. More than 3, I just back out without reading the first paragraph.

This. It's just a me thing. I find Lit's interface really hard to read works that are several pages long, and I already have a hard time reading from a browser, even from my phone's. White websites are horrible for me, so having dark mode is a blessing, but it still leaves some issues behind. If there's categories I avoid, they would be Mind Control, Gay Male, Loving Wives, and Erotic Couplings. Nothing against them, I'm just not the audience for any of them, but with Erotic Couplings I don't understand why is that a category in the first place. I might be the audience, but I feel that is redundant?

 

[MillieDynamite]

It's a catch-all category.

This. It's just a me thing. I find Lit's interface really hard to read works that are several pages long, and I already have a hard time reading from a browser, even from my phone's. White websites are horrible for me, so having dark mode is a blessing, but it still leaves some issues behind. If there's categories I avoid, they would be Mind Control, Gay Male, Loving Wives, and Erotic Couplings. Nothing against them, I'm just not the audience for any of them, but with Erotic Couplings I don't understand why is that a category in the first place. I might be the audience, but I feel that is redundant?

 

[Duleigh]

It depends on my mood
Scat - always
Incest - depends on how it's written. Predatory aunts and uncles make me want to call the cops.
Violence - Always
LW - depends on how it's written. Married sluts is not a turn on for me.

 

[designatedvictim]

I am one person, there are tons who love long, slowburns.
I think you will lots of people who love your stories.

It was a joke at my own expense. I... I mean, my characters can get a bit wordy.

My primary WiP weighs in at about 125K-words and still going.

One chapter was something like 35K-words.

My current 'palate-cleanser' was expected to be done in a week or so and weigh in at about 10-12K-words. It's been two almost two weeks, now, and just passed 19K-words.

I wouldn't call it a slow burn, more accurately, I think of it as a not-fast burn.

 

[sister jenny]

It was a joke at my own expense. I... I mean, my characters can get a bit wordy.

My primary WiP weighs in at about 125K-words and still going.

One chapter was something like 35K-words.

My current 'palate-cleanser' was expected to be done in a week or so and weigh in at about 10-12K-words. It's been two almost two weeks, now, and just passed 19K-words.

I wouldn't call it a slow burn, more accurately, I think of it as a not-fast burn.

Haha, thats great! Good for you!

 

[pink_silk_glove]

but with Erotic Couplings I don't understand why is that a category in the first place. I might be the audience, but I feel that is redundant?

Erotic Couplings is a very bad euphemism for miscellaneous vanilla. 90% of the stories on lit are erotic couplings. It's the second-worst named category right after Loving Wives.

Getting cute or poetic with the category names helps no one. The entire point of categories is to help readers find stories (and help authors place their stories where readers can find them). There should be no ambiguity in what a category means.

Every few months someone comes into the forum asking 'wtf does erotic couplings mean?' This is a dead giveaway that the category is badly named. It should be called Vanilla or Miscellaneous Vanilla.

Same with Loving Wives. Every few months someone wanders in here and says 'whats with the LW category, I dont see much loving going on in there?' Dead giveaway of a badly named category. If the category is about swinging, hotwifing and cuckolds, it should be called ... wait for it ... Swinging, Hotwifing and Cuckolds. Or Sharing and Adultery, or Extramarital. Loving Wives is an absolutely horrible name for the category.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Erotic Couplings is a very bad euphemism for miscellaneous vanilla. 90% of the stories on lit are erotic couplings. It's the second-worst named category right after Loving Wives.

Getting cute or poetic with the category names helps no one. The entire point of categories is to help readers find stories (and help authors place their stories where readers can find them). There should be no ambiguity in what a category means.

Every few months someone comes into the forum asking 'wtf does erotic couplings mean?' This is a dead giveaway that the category is badly named. It should be called Vanilla or Miscellaneous Vanilla.

Same with Loving Wives. Every few months someone wanders in here and says 'whats with the LW category, I dont see much loving going on in there?' Dead giveaway of a badly named category. If the category is about swinging, hotwifing and cuckolds, it should be called ... wait for it ... Swinging, Hotwifing and Cuckolds. Or Sharing and Adultery, or Extramarital. Loving Wives is an absolutely horrible name for the category.

Honestly, I did have a hard time figuring out where to put my latest story: Letters & Transcripts or Erotic Couplings*? I decided on the former because that's what it was: a journal. The only reason I thought about Erotic Couplings is the way they met, but when I checked the stories in there I felt even more confused. Glad I'm not the only one, and I've been on the site for years still wondering what the hell did Erotic Couplings mean.

*Could've gone with Lesbian, but it's hard to do that when it starts with a scene that's not lesbian at all.