Things that get under your skin.

[Kantarii]

When you are reading a story on this site or a book at the house, is there something about it that gets under your your skin or on your nerves in particular?

I can deal with a few punctual or grammatical errors, but what really bothers me is to read a story that doesn't flow well, or dialogue that just doesn't, well, seem natural.
Kant

 

[lovecraft68]

A- beaten like a dead horse Tropes

B- unrealistic-even for fiction-scenarios-and

C- cold male insecurity driven misogyny.

Examples

A- family member walks in on another family member masturbating. Incest immediately ensues. We're coming up on the season of mistaken identity Halloween costume stories.

B- The shy wallflower girl who is a virgin due to her shyness. Then loses her virginity in a gang bang with five guys and she's fucking like Jenna Jameson.
or

The middle aged every day guy who is suddenly beset upon by multiple barely legal teens who can't get enough of him.

C- women acting like mindless cum dumpsters whenever they see a cock.
All women want to be raped
All women are submissive.

I wonder how the C crowd can even type with the hooves they have at the end of their wrists.

 

[NOIRTRASH]

A- beaten like a dead horse Tropes

B- unrealistic-even for fiction-scenarios-and

C- cold male insecurity driven misogyny.

Examples

A- family member walks in on another family member masturbating. Incest immediately ensues. We're coming up on the season of mistaken identity Halloween costume stories.

B- The shy wallflower girl who is a virgin due to her shyness. Then loses her virginity in a gang bang with five guys and she's fucking like Jenna Jameson.
or

The middle aged every day guy who is suddenly beset upon by multiple barely legal teens who can't get enough of him.

C- women acting like mindless cum dumpsters whenever they see a cock.
All women want to be raped
All women are submissive.

I wonder how the C crowd can even type with the hooves they have at the end of their wrists.

All females are two headed cum cows

 

[MLClifton]

The info dump at the beginning of a story will have me hitting the back button immediately.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Hapless dude realizes his life long dream of being in a Girls Gone Wild video. He's so "nice," almost a boy scout, and somehow, maybe because they assume he's gay, or because he's their best friend's Dad or they play a game, or (fill in the blank), five or so girls end up going WILD for him! And they're jumping on and off, on and off, and they're all coming like crazy all over him, with some bi-action tossed in of course. There's all kinds of implausible scenario's, but the insta-harem really gets under my skin.

 

[OliviaM]

I have peeves but I'm not sure anything really gets under my skin. I think the worst is when characters are handled poorly. If I don't connect with the characters, there's no reason for me to read. It doesn't matter if it's well-written or has a compelling plot. That doesn't necessarily mean the characters have to be likable for it to be good. There just has to be some reason for me to want to follow them.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hapless dude realizes his life long dream of being in a Girls Gone Wild video. He's so "nice," almost a boy scout, and somehow, maybe because they assume he's gay, or because he's their best friend's Dad or they play a game, or (fill in the blank), five or so girls end up going WILD for him! And they're jumping on and off, on and off, and they're all coming like crazy all over him, with some bi-action tossed in of course. There's all kinds of implausible scenario's, but the insta-harem really gets under my skin.

Right.

The middle aged every day guy who is suddenly beset upon by multiple barely legal teens who can't get enough of him.
.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

I find some of the stuff that's been mentioned above annoying too, but for me what really gets under my skin is stories that are not really worth being called stories at all. Stories that are just one or multiple sex scenes stringed together with as little "unnecessary" interference as possible.

Those parts that the writer finds unnecessary are what makes it into a story that I enjoy reading. I hate stories that have poorly developed characters or unbelievable plots. And I don't mean unbelievable like having sex with an alien or such, but unbelievable or illogical in the world the story takes place in. Girls that flock to totally average guys who aren't even trying, or a little innocent accident (like falling on top of each other) that immediately turns into full-blown sex. Now don't get me wrong, those little accidents can really help to make a person fall in love or lead to a kiss or something, that happens in movies all the time. What annoys me is if it happens to two complete strangers and they end up having sex within the next 15 minutes or so. That's just not believable.

Stories that have a bad flow or clunky dialogue are almost painful to read for me as well. Those will have me stop reading really soon too.

 

[Kantarii]

I, myself, started out reading the Transexuals and Cross Dressers category on Lit. There are things in that category that immediately get on my nerves.

When the first page is dedicated to walking the reader through the entire process of transforming themselves from a male to being one "hot looking bitch" ( first attempt with makeup) No, the fuck they didn't.

Or, it was the first time they dressed like a woman and they liked it enough to want to be fucked in the ass by an immediate opportunity acting like it was the best experience in their lives being ass fucked the first time.

Or, they go out of their way to convince the reader they aren't "gay". Those type stories are bland. As far as incest stories go, I got tired of a family member discovering the 18 yo. dressed and sex happens at the discovery point. That got old, too. Kant

Damn, I forgot to mention when the author describes the length of the other guy's dick. It makes me think there's a number tattooed on the cock somewhere - haha

 

[GoldenCojones]

Boring

I hate boring stories. I don't read to be bored. If I wanted to be bored, I'd watch TV.

I want the story to engage me. If it does, I'm in. If it doesn't, I'm out. I don't have time to be bored. I don't have the patience to be bored. I don't have the maturity to be bored. And I'm perfectly happy without those three things.

One other thing that does piss me off is reading a story I'm really getting into and then it takes a hard right into a kink that leaves me feeling like I really need a shower. Now, I'm not a sensitive type of guy but I don't like Rape or Non-Con at all and when I'm reading this really hot sex story and everyone is willing and then suddenly there is a new, not-willing character and they all just force her to do something she does NOT want to do. Yeah, that heats up the old temper and I'll admit to slamming a 1 on a few of these. Usually though, I just back click shake my head and read a different story that doesn't piss me off.

 

[FelicityJohns]

For me, it's definitely stilted or forced dialogue. And usually if I see an exclamation point, I'll move on. (unless it is an appropriate addition to dialogue, but in the narrative, nuh uh.)

I won't get into a story if the narrative isn't pretty natural. If I feel like I'm being told the story, I'll also move along.

Faster than anything though? I need realistic feeling character names! lol If they sound too fairy taley...

 

[Handley_Page]

If the story flows, I'm usually in;
but
personally, I'm really not keen on the "exact dimensions" type of description ('he had a 9 inch cock' or 'she had 36DD tits').

 

[Hypoxia]

What got under my skin: parasites in Guatemala, You do NOT want the details.

In stories: bad writing coupled with a bad story. I can take a badly-written stroker better than a well-written snorer or stereotypical shitter. I jump away from blocks of text and 2nd person POVs. I despise major technical / medical / geographical errors -- and tales of dominant bulls and wimpy wittols. My realism fetish leads me elsewhere.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Mean-spirited authors who use stories to express RL hatreds. Most often that's of women, but can be other things too.

+ some other things already mentioned by earlier commenters.

 

[GoldenCojones]

What got under my skin: parasites in Guatemala, You do NOT want the details.

In stories: bad writing coupled with a bad story. I can take a badly-written stroker better than a well-written snorer or stereotypical shitter. I jump away from blocks of text and 2nd person POVs. I despise major technical / medical / geographical errors -- and tales of dominant bulls and wimpy wittols. My realism fetish leads me elsewhere.

Oh yeah, 2nd person. That is a immediate back click for me too. No I didn't unsnap my bra as I breathlessly stared at your crotch. Trust me. I didn't do it!

 

[LadyVer]

When you are reading a story on this site or a book at the house, is there something about it that gets under your your skin or on your nerves in particular?

I can deal with a few punctual or grammatical errors, but what really bothers me is to read a story that doesn't flow well, or dialogue that just doesn't, well, seem natural.
Kant

1. Too much back story, especially at the beginning.
2. Odd terms for genitals. Snake and flower are really weird to me.
3. Repetition of words, especially snake and flower.

 

[Harryasaboy]

Things that are annoying on Literotica?

1) People who post lists of things that annoy them.

2) People who reply to them.

3) Me.

 

[CharlieB4]

Pretentious people who bag others for trying to write a story.

If only we could all be perfect.

 

[EverLux]

My biggest pet peeve is when I'm thoroughly enjoying a story--love the writer's style, the characters, the build up of the relationship, etc.--but then some impediment in the relationship comes along, and the female protagonist turns into an idiot.

It goes something like this, every fucking time:

*They meet, fall in love, everything is fantastic
*Their love is threatened by some outside force, or the woman misperceives a situation, or she thinks that she's hindering his life in some way, or something along these lines
*Instead of being honest or having an adult conversation about it, she freezes the guy out and ends up making shit worse
*The reader has to suffer through a few chapters of unnecessary misery

What sucks is that you're a third of the way into the book by this point.
I even mock this in one of the chapters of my EC series.

 

[CyranoJ]

When you are reading a story on this site or a book at the house, is there something about it that gets under your your skin or on your nerves in particular?

I don't have much in the way of particular tics or pet peeves about style or content -- and I try to make allowances for a wide range of writing abilities on a free fiction site, much as I appreciate the really well-developed writing talents.

Biggest criterion is that I like to see a story succeed at what it's advertised as doing. An erotic story should contain erotic content (sublime or ridiculous, crude or sophisticated, original or cliche, whatever, as long as it commits*); a comedic story should be funny; an action story should contain action and so on. And an erotic story that's also able to sell itself as comedy, mystery, or action or something else into the bargain does get extra points from me.

* To quote an infamous bit of sex advice from Cosmopolitan magazine, I look for the writer to show enthusiasm. Sometimes an author's idea of sexy will work for me or sometimes it won't, but what is guaranteed to put me off is if I don't feel the writer's heart (or junk) is in the "erotic" part of their erotic story, or if that part of the proceedings feels tacked on or perfunctory.

 

[Jay321]

on the forums: self righteousness. I am a little guilty of it occasionally, but I try to minimize it. Some on here bathe it in, extrude it like it's a normal thing. Anonymity of the internet just makes it worse.

Stories, and again I stand guilty of a couple of these:
the 9 3/4 penis and the 36HH tits.
Mom that looks like she belongs in high school.
"perky"[\b] HH tits
horrible grammar, I'm OK with bad, but horrible makes me shudder.
unnecessary rolling crap in a story line. I made the mistake of trying to read "Zoo" from James Patterson. I stopped after the first 100 pages or so. That much could have been on 20 pages if you cut to bare minimums, 50 would have been about right.
too much/too little description. Thing is you have a HUGE window to play with. "It stunk in the room" doesn't get my olfactory involved. "It smelled of stale piss in the room." right in the sweet spot. I know what I am smelling now. "The rank smell of piss was like someone stood in each corner soaking the drywall. It was a strong ammonia smell. We wanted to run to get away from the stank." is over the top.
Repetition. even the words "He" and "She" drive me up a wall after a while.
Long winded bitching, kind of like what I just posted.

 

[OliviaM]

My biggest pet peeve is when I'm thoroughly enjoying a story--love the writer's style, the characters, the build up of the relationship, etc.--but then some impediment in the relationship comes along, and the female protagonist turns into an idiot.

It goes something like this, every fucking time:

*They meet, fall in love, everything is fantastic
*Their love is threatened by some outside force, or the woman misperceives a situation, or she thinks that she's hindering his life in some way, or something along these lines
*Instead of being honest or having an adult conversation about it, she freezes the guy out and ends up making shit worse
*The reader has to suffer through a few chapters of unnecessary misery

What sucks is that you're a third of the way into the book by this point.
I even mock this in one of the chapters of my EC series.

Oh-ho-ho man. You are not gonna like what I'm currently working on. lol

Okay, in all fairness, I know the trope you're talking about and at least the girl isn't doing that. The guy, however, does need a good smack upside the head. Don't worry, he gets one. The stupid lasts for, like, a page or two.

 

[Haulover]

Sex scenes that are so long that I wind up skipping whole paragraphs. These scenes often repeat an action that was described a few paragraphs back. I like detailed sex scenes. But I don't want them to go on forever! Some of the best writers here tend to do that I'm sure there have been threads about "how long should a sex scene be". I'll look them up...

When a woman claims to love being someone's slut. What f***ing BS. In my experience It's a rare woman who aspires to being anyone's slut or would ever call herself that. And if a guy likes her calling herself a slut, or if he likes calling her a slut, then he's a f***ing half-wit. It's just stupid and unrealistic.

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For me, it's definitely stilted or forced dialogue.

^^This.

I'll drop a story if the dialog isn't realistic.

No one says "I am coming" ... they say "I'm coming". Stilted, ridiculously formal dialog that is unlike real life speech is my biggest turnoff with so many stories on this board.

 

[EverLux]

Oh-ho-ho man. You are not gonna like what I'm currently working on. lol

Okay, in all fairness, I know the trope you're talking about and at least the girl isn't doing that. The guy, however, does need a good smack upside the head. Don't worry, he gets one. The stupid lasts for, like, a page or two.

Apparently, I have a double standard when it comes to this, because I'm perfectly ok with the man being the idiot... briefly. lol

(And of course I'm going to like what you're working on. I'm waiting on bated breath!)

 

[OliviaM]

When a woman claims to love being someone's slut. What f***ing BS. In my experience It's a rare woman who aspires to being anyone's slut or would ever call herself that. And if a guy likes her calling herself a slut, or if he likes calling her a slut, then he's a f***ing half-wit. It's just stupid and unrealistic.

Oh my god, this. I have never heard of a woman wanting to be called a slut. Maybe it's a thing but I've sure never encountered it.

No one says "I am coming" ... they say "I'm coming". Stilted, ridiculously formal dialog that is unlike real life speech is my biggest turnoff with so many stories on this board.

Haha, yep

Apparently, I have a double standard when it comes to this, because I'm perfectly ok with the man being the idiot... briefly. lol

(And of course I'm going to like what you're working on. I'm waiting on bated breath!)

Phew! I admit, my writing is sometimes all about the angst. And yay! Then you'll be glad to know I'm going to sleep at 14429 words.