Oi'. I've got a few.
Length and language conflated for quality: The manner by which a statement can be crafted is indeed numerous in the significant number of editable linguistic paradigms by which unique dialect and slang can be composed and wielded for such purposes as to create an aesthetically motivating but ultimately benign and superfluous expression of the artistic talent that one possesses through the utilitarian utilization of a thesaurus to demonstrate the irrevocable truth of how incredibly perplexingly elongated this particular journalistic entry is thus perpetrating my own superiority through a vitriolic vomit-inducing verbiage spree.
Translation: Wanting to look smart by taking a simple statement and inflating it is like eating ten times as much because you think the extra nutrients will help you. They don't, they just make you fat and unappealing. Like your paragraphs.
Spellcheck: Use it. dis dun mak gud werds guvna.
Antisocial Whatevers: With a few exceptions, antisocial characters tend to disinterest me at best--irritate me at worst. Unless the entire narrative is built around the antisocial character, their presence rarely adds anything, and often just distracts from other, more important things. No, I don't care that Korusaki Ichikawa is brooding in a corner; Godzilla is blowing up the city right now. That's more pertinent.
Confusing plot and premise: Happens all the time. All the time!
- A premise is the basic idea of a work. "The knight saves the princess from the dragon with his sword."
- A plot is the series of events within that work. "The knight starts out in a little hamlet and learns of the princess's fate, thus he springs into action by travelling to the King, who then talks to him about..."
[Blank]x[Blank]: Like I'm supposed to know what to do with this, sweet summer child. It's alright to not really know what kind of premise you want to do, but don't just drop a list of 50-something pairings and expect me to know what to do with it.
YOU HAVE TO BE SEMI-LITERATE!: What the actual
fuck ferret does this actually mean? Literacy is not something you can measure, reading and writing comprehension is. Literacy is literally the ability to read and write. So is someone who is semi-literate only able to read every third word, or something? I mean if you want to go there, shouldn't you be using grade school level reading and writing comprehension levels to give someone a more accurate idea of what you're looking for?
Four paragraphs per post required: Read this.
The Invincible Man: Yes, it sucks to lose. Boy does it ever... But, it's a character's
greatest source of growth potential, period. Characters sometimes need to lose--lose the girl, lose the house, lose a valued possession, lose a battle, lose an argument, et cetera--so they can learn their faults and grow from them. Besides, joy and victory are hollow without having known the bitter taste of loss and sorrow too. So whenever I see the character that just never loses, I tend to be turned away pretty quickly by these.
I mean, the same is true for perpetual losers though. Characters that exist purely to be pitied don't entertain me for long either.