This part will be difficult to address because I have lost my drive for this thing and because these are nonsensical or are the cliches that you simply ignore because you don't give a fuck anymore how stupid or pointless it is. (My exact feelings when I got to some of Maria's cliches and I don't get what she means by them). Many are repeats or added points to previous and future cliches.
28) Having too much money- cliche
I feel like this is a repeat of richness, which doesn't make sense since Maria said both of them. I guess this could mean that the rich person is always spending their money like it grows on Trees. Fun Fact, the American dollar is made from cotton, so it is actually does not grow on trees. I might add onto this cliche later just like I added onto the crossdressing (#10) point in the first part.
29) Random and/or Extreme Rage- Cliche and illogical
Please remember this previous rant...
A trait I see in characters all the time is unexplainable rage. Like, throwing chairs, breaking glass, bitch slapping FOR NO REASON other than jealousy or self disappointment. I understand the abusive relationshipswhere the guy gets a little overbearing or tries to rape the girl because he is horny like that, it actually happens, not like it is written, but in some sort of comparably close way to how we have imagined. I understand the mock angerlike "I am going to take a sledgehammer to your fucking face." Because I say that all the time. There is often areal rage in everyone that comes out unexpectedly, but not without real reason.
The only time someone should get overly dramatic with their rage where their anger is unprecedented is when they have a mental disorder that causes them to lose control of their emotions.
Any other time they get angry beyond belief, there NEEDS to be some sort of explanation why.
30) Life taking illness- cliche
While the idea is very realistic in no one knows for sure what their health status is and tomorrow you can wind up having cancer, the presentation of terminal illness comes off very cliche. I can very easily run through a typical disease storyline to different scenarios.
Boy meets girl and they fall in love, but it turns out the girl has a life threatening disease and will die in... three months. He tries to make her last months the best possible and it seems like her health is getting better, but one day all her symptoms come off stronger and she pretends to be fine. Then one day he shows up at the hospital (or visits her room if he is another patient) and discovers she is dead (or was a ghost) and becomes really sad and promises to cherish her memory forever.
I personally like this idea and with the right details it would be a wonderful fic because I haven't read that many fics where the person has an illness. I did see a movie once where the guy was sick and he loved a girl, but he knew he was dying and tried to help her and the guy fall in love, but she loved him. He told her that he was going to die and he wouldn't love her back so that his friend would get a chance with her. When he died the two were both extremely sad after they had gotten together. Then it skips to 10 years in the future and the guy is telling their children how they fell in love. It was so sweet, sad, and romantic.
But there are many flaws that even I, someone who really sucks at anything to do with the human body, can recognize. The idea of suddenly having an illness is not wrong. When I was 6 I lived a normal first grade life when one morning as I was getting ready for school I suddenly had a shooting pain in my stomach. I passed it off and went to school. This continued throughout the day and I ended up lying in the nurses office in agony after throwing up a few times (four). It turns out I had a tumor in my... Everything just suddenly happened one day so the immediateness of diseases are not an overblown joke.
However the time frame of actually having the disease varies depending on the person's age and body type as well as the type of illness. Because I was young, because of the location of the tumor, because of my normal health, the tumor affected me quickly and I was constantly in pain. If it was an older child or an adult the problem might not have arose or been as severe.
Really what I mean is, unless you have done proper research the medical details will sound very off to the readers. I wish people wouldn't write these stories without actually learning about the disease.
Even then, what makes illness stories so tragic is that we don't have to focus on the illness, it is just another detail added to the plot.
31) Cars- illogical
There are many issues I have with cars. One of them being that high school students can not drive to school. In Korea the driving age is (correct me if I am wrong) 19. I assume this is the 19 in Korean years making it 18 in the worldwide years.
Speeding is illegal anywhere, so the moments when it is an emergency or he is mad or going along those lines and he sends his car over 100 Km then something is wrong. Every time I read one of these high speed get aways I wait for a cop to pull them over or for them to crash and die.
Having a car means you have money to buy/ rent one and pay for gas. While it is common in America for college students to have a car or even high school students, in Korea I believe it is more common to only have one car if any at all per household. Now if they are rich then cars are perfectly normal to have.
Cars aren't really great places to have comfortable sex.
Cars need to be parked somewhere, keep that in mind.
There are cars in music videos a lot. I always find that the best parts of any SHINee MV are the cars. But a lot of other groups use cars too.
32) running someone over/ hitting someone- ... illogical
Maria will get this more than others.
Yes losing control of a car is very easy do, let's not try and hit anyone Taemin.
33) rehab- ... unused cliche
I have never read a rehab fic. Never. Why is that? I do believe that drug abuse, alcoholism, eating disorders, metnal disorders, abusiveness, (not a word). I believe this lack of rehab is a cliche...
I didn't say it, Maria did.
34) Rain (weather)- cliche
This seems like a movie thing more than a fic thing, but rain is often if not always used to represent something sad and tragic. It does seem like our moods are dampened along with the gray skies, gloom does that to us, but that doesn't make tragic events happen. The feelings yes, the events no.
If you want to put rain into a sad moment, add rain to other days like a pleasant one. Make something good happen on a good day, please.
35) Angst- cliche (god damn Maria, these are a little confusing!!)
Angst is a wonderful way to give deeper emotions to a fic, but often times in a normally stupid comedic fic one action will lead the protagonist to be depressed and suicidal and cry for hours, eat ice cream out of the bucket, watch sappy movies, curse the ex love, then get super pissed when they try to make it up. Stupid Not really well written.
Angst should be written in two ways. 1- Deep and emotional with heavy details and description. or 2- poetic and with less description but focusing on important themes and details.
I want to write a really crappy example, but I'm not in the mood.
36) Jessica/ Tiffany/ SNSD- cliche
These girls have recieved enough hate. While it is super fun to tease them and plainly be haterz, the Jessica whore, the tiffany whore, the SNSD group whore is overused. It is probably the biggest cliche of all.
The girls are usually plastic and have gotten surgery.
They are usually rich and hate the protagonist.
They'll usually do anything in order to get their love's heart, even inhumane things.
They're usually the one that pulls the girl to the school roof or into the bathroom ofr a fight.
They're usually the one that surrounds the guy and flirts openly with him to piss off or emotionally harm the girl.
They are usually extremely beautiful (and brag about it) with high fashion standards.
Skank, hoe, whore, slut, bitch, diva, should die, get a life, learn your lesson, want to smack her.
I feel like all this hate comes from the real girls from being so pretty already, you just want to hate them.
You ugly? Jealous? Well eat my heart out, like I give a fuck. Stop being haters because Jessica was able to change from the troll she was to the new and improved beauty she is now. Feel happy for her instead, she was able to be beautiful while you will forever be ugly. Ha ha ha -ha ha. You ugly fat ass.
And even if that isn't the case, using Jessica or Tiffany or another SNSD girl just because almost everyone knows of them and they are easy to relate to whatever idol the fic is about, they are so overdone that they should simply never be used anymore.
37) suicide/character death- cliche
Someone once told me that ending with character death shows poor planning and plot development. (I felt pretty bad after this because I had just killed off all my characters...) They are completely right. Those accidents the protagonist gets into where they are on the brink of death are simply stupid. If the the lesson learned during recovery from the accident can be learned from maybe breaking a bone or having a fever then it is better than almost killing the person and getting into an accident. This is a matter of writing well, but the actions leading into near death moments are often not enough for funeral planning.
Killing of a minor character like a dad is okay.
Killing of the love interest is not good, unless leading actions are worthy of it.
But once again, if character death is written well then it is doesn't come off as the same old cliche.
Seriously though, characters dying every other chapter is messed up.
38) (M)pregnancy- cliche and illogical
Fics based on pregnancy or where pregnancy happens are cliche themselves, but the idea of getting married to have a baby or that a week after having sex they are automatically pregnant is overdone and actually doesn't make sense.
You realize the pregnancy symptoms don't appear until weeks later, right? And some women don't have morning sickness, right? Also, morning sickness lasts throughout the whole day often.
Okay, I'm not a baby expert but some of the things you read in pregnancy stories are downright ridiculous. Like those terrible moodswings. I suppose to some extent pregnant have bad tempers or feel really sad, but come on, we've all read those fics where we think she is a little insane.
I hear this from my teacher all the time, when you get pregnant you should try to exercise because it will be better for your figure after the baby is born because your hips separate and your feet swell and your arms become fat. Let's not forget the stretch marks. And these perfectly skinny girls, most of them are athletic, sit on their asses all day picking out furniture for their babies and stuffing their mouths like they think it is good for their babies to be fat.
Let's go through a scenario (hehehe, from THE BIG BOTTLE OF CLICHE)- Go to club, get raped, go "home", week later feel nauseous and faint. Doctor says she is preggers. Baby bump in a month, then her best friend becomes pregnant as well, then they have the baby on the same day. Story over. Happily ever after. There was a marriage in there to her rapist somewhere and being shot and miraculously walking that very same day in there somewhere, but those are minor details.
This is the best one- they meet and fall in love and date and go against their parents and have support from friends then get married after all the drama. Epilogue- I'm pregnant???? Even better, a sequel!
I love pregnancy stories because I love (the) children and babies often make couples closer and cuter. But often the idea of them being pregnant is too much and spoils the story.
Oh, and Maria doesn't understand Mpreg. "Where are the babies born from, their ass?" I do believe so.
39) Taecyeon- ?
I had no idea what Maria meant by this, but evidently in a lot of fics she read Taec is always a bully. I wouldn't really know, but I suppose this is a character cliche that he will have to live with.
"He is ALWAYS THE BULLY! Him and the rest of 2pm!"
So once again these were those cliches that you don't think much of.
I stopped right before the best ones. Here is what to look forward to!
#40- Onew's obsession with chicken.
#42- Keyva/ Kiva (Key/Kibum + Diva = Keyva/Kiva)
#44- Jonghyun is a whore
# 49- random SHINee in fics
# 50- SHINee Se Kyung Vs Jong____ (blank for nameless girl)
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