What turns you off in a story?

JakeSnakeCakes

JakeSnakeCakes

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As in, what fetishes would make you want to stop reading a story? Alternatively, what tropes or other writing issues stop you from finishing one?
 
It's difficult to be objective about this stuff. Kinks are kinks, they are weird by definition. Generally speaking, most people will accept only the kink they like and shun pretty much everything else:(
 
I am far too down the rabbit hole for this lol

Excluding things that aren't allowed on the site anyway, I guess ballbusting is the one thing that just makes my dick shrivel up and die. I'm getting phantom pain every time I read about it.(Which incidentally doesn't stop me from including it in one of my stories because im just quirky like that)

Beyond that you have to come up with some really fringe shit like GILF and Snuff porn to turn me off.
 
The biggest thing would have to be bad characterisation. When a character does something too far removed from actual human behaviour without explanation, I cannot continue to enjoy the story. Everything that happens as a consequence of that character's action is simply unbelievable. It seems to quite often be an excuse to make characters have sex when the author doesn't want to write the transition or buildup to make it seem natural. There's probably a joke to be made here about writers and porn and not knowing how people act in real life...
 
Promising readers what they want only for it to be a bait and switch, politics, Mary Sue characters especially those that are established as being "better" than pre-established beloved characters, making drastic changes to characters that are not in line with their personality, skills or backstory, badly used retcons, representing personal opinions/feelings as irrefutable facts, the idea that art cannot be objectively assessed of quality, straw man arguments and needing other people to come up with theories or excuses to make the story make sense.

No, prominent child characters. It feels so weird I aged all the child characters in Persona.

Gambio said:
Excluding things that aren't allowed on the site anyway, I guess ballbusting is the one thing that just makes my dick shrivel up and die. I'm getting phantom pain every time I read about it.(Which incidentally doesn't stop me from including it in one of my stories because im just quirky like that).
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Damn, I've got a little bit of it in mine. Would it make you feel better if I told you one of the guys abused and raped his students and the girl who ballbusted the other one got spanked as punishment and had to kiss his balls better?

How do you feel about cuntbusting?

JakeSnakeCakes said:
I feel very innocent here. All I want to do is bang hot nurses.
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How do you feel about hot doctors?
 
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JohnTitor45 said:
Promising readers what they want only for it to be a bait and switch, politics, Mary Sue characters especially those that are established as being "better" than pre-established beloved characters, making drastic changes to characters that are not in line with their personality, skills or backstory, badly used retcons, representing personal opinions/feelings as irrefutable facts, the idea that art cannot be objectively assessed of quality, straw man arguments and needing other people to come up with theories or excuses to make the story make sense.

No, prominent child characters. It feels so weird I aged all the child characters in Persona.



Damn, I've got a little bit of it in mine. Would it make you feel better if I told you one of the guys abused and raped his students and the girl who ballbusted the other one got spanked as punishment and had to kiss his balls better?

How do you feel about cuntbusting?
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XD


I don't mind ballbusting if it serves a narrative purpose. My issue comes when the focus is on it with the intent to arouse me.

As for cuntbusting I let Gina speak for me

“I'm going to rip this shithead apart! I kill him! Then I kill his dog. Then I resurrect his dog to have the dog eat his decomposing corpse!”


How do you feel about identical twins that are named Mary and Sue?
 
Gambio said:
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I don't mind ballbusting if it serves a narrative purpose. My issue comes when the focus is on it with the intent to arouse me.

As for cuntbusting I let Gina speak for me

“I'm going to rip this shithead apart! I kill him! Then I kill his dog. Then I resurrect his dog to have the dog eat his decomposing corpse!”
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I think I got one cuntbusting scene though the fact I can't even remember for sure tells you arousing it was meant to be. I'll give Gina some shark girl stuff to make up for it.

How do you feel about identical twins that are named Mary and Sue?
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I would prolly assume they are Mary Sue parody characters.
 
chapters that are too short or too long.
chapters that are just one long paragraph
gay stuff
transexual stuff
femdom
 
I am not a fan of celebrity stories where they don't bother to develop her as a character. If it's Catwoman or something, I already know who she is so some of your work is done. I do not know Dua Lipa and just telling me its her doesn't do it for me.

I say with hypocrisy on display, as I've contributed to a celeb story on this site.
 
CurvyLinesEverywhere said:
What if it's used as a comedic device?

Asking for a friend...
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Thanks, I hate it. It's the porn version of guys sees girl naked, girl slaps the shit out of guy.

Have you read Gina and Marcie's review on Darklord? That story had cuntbusting as a comedic device and the reactions pretty much mirror my own.
 
Scat is not something I find sexy; violent sexual assault doesn't shift my gears either. Maybe it's just me growing older but rape in general is just something that often feels edgelord-y to me a lot of the time; I get folks have a kink for power fantasies, but a good depiction would be...traumatic.

On the other spectrum of things: really brief and poorly described sex scenes. "She ate her pussy and it was super hot." and all that. Just...put some effort into it. Relax. Think it through.

I should say abrupt changes in tone, but I'm probably guilty of that.
 
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