For those that are interested.
Age: I am 25 years old.
Gender: Male. Are surprised? What? can't a guy write a female genderbent story? Sexist! Sexist I say!)
Location: Belgium (though don't talk to me in French; I am absolutely terrible at it.)
Real name:. . . not telling, sorry. Najex will have to do.

I leave you with two quotes by one of my favorite fictional charackters, Varric Tethras from Dragon Age:

"And a good story. Well, that's about hurting good characters and seeing how they react." and "If you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!"

Does that quote make you afraid? It should! muhahahahaha!

I have decided to make a list of all the tropes that I don’t like in fanfiction. If a story has these, that doesn’t mean I will instantly dislike it, but they do make me shake my head. (List is new and will probably be added to as new tropes occur to me.)

HP:
Goblins: Ever read a fic were the MC shows the goblins some basic curtesy, causing the goblins to instantly go out of their way to be helpful? Yea, me too, far too many of them.
Worse, these same stories also give the Goblins some BS Goblin magic that can remove the soul shard out of HP’s scar. This is a MASSIVE copout. All of Dumbledore’s plans were based around the assumption that there was no way to remove the horcrux safely. If there was such an easy way, then Dumbledore would have simply done that instead.

Magical oath’s (swearing on life and magic): Again, it is a copout to solve a lot of problems.

House elves needing a master to survive: With this it largely depends on why the author includes this little fanon trope. I think that a lot of the time, it is simply included so that our MC doesn’t have to feel bad about having a little slave working for him/her. Dobby was free and wanted to be free. He didn’t want to be bonded to Harry Potter; he wanted to help people purely because he was a nice little bugger, while remaining free.

Naruto:
The civilian council: a fanon creation that doesn’t exist in canon. For variety, I would like to read a story were this so called ‘civilian council’ is actually the voice of reason instead of the pathetic bunch of antagonists that only exists to make the MC look good.

All:
Bashing: I don’t mean showing all of the characters flaws. If a character is pathetic, by all means show that, but you don’t need to invent new flaws to make an already easily-dislikable character even more so. It is like the Legolas-effect in reverse. The main victims of this phenomenon are characters like Ron Weasley and Sasuke Uchiha.

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M/M Slash: Sorry. I just can’t get into it (no pun intended). There have been a few fanfics that I liked that did have a M/M romance in it, but I ended up liking those despite those elements, not because of them.