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tryp0phobia · 1 year

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I totally get it! And honestly there are so many things I wanted to write down in my post before, but I just wasn’t quite sure how people would react if I made it much longer then it already is 😭😭

And especially the role that genders have, whenever people are writing x Reader. Like sometimes people write genderneutral!reader, and somehow still manage to describe them as if it was a male or female reader.

The standards that they tend to describe the reader with, both in the way they look and act is so frustrating. It’s always the “tiny waist, plush lips, thick thighs, doe eyes, and petite small body with an innocent smile”. It’s almost like they’re saying “if you don’t look like this, you can’t fit the standard role of the reader”. WHICH IS COMPLETELY UNTRUE. The way a person looks doesn’t define the way they act, and the way a person acts doesn’t define the way they look, it’s actually pretty simple.

And of course, a lot of the times where the reader is described, it tends to make the actual reader uncomfortable. And it makes sense, it’s like a bunch of standard suddenly being put on oneself, and then it feels weird to read the fic because like, “i don’t fit these standard for this, this is literally nothing like me.” And it really makes the fic way less enjoyable.

AND HONESTLY, can we please stop tagging things as “x reader” WHEN ITS A LITERAL OC. Like it just doesn’t make sense to be literally writing about one’s OWN character, and then calling it “x reader”. LIKE IT JUST DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. If your going to write “x reader” then don’t describe them. Or at least put some disclaimers such as: the reader is shorter then the inserted characters, the reader personality is based off of (insert thing). Stuff like that really gives people a different way of viewing ones content, and makes it easier for people to tell if they actually want to read the fic. 😭😭

Warning!!: personal opinion.

so, I have read so many x reader fanfics, and this one thing honestly really annoys me.

Can we stop describing the reader? And by that I mean saying stuff like; her plump lips, silky hair, smooth skin, rosy cheeks, big doe eyes, plush thighs, big t*ts etc.

I mean,it’s supposed to be “x reader” right? Then why are we describing the reader?? It doesn’t make sense, because not everyone can relate to that so called description of “reader”. It almost like your just putting beauty standards into your fic and what you expect the reader to look like.

It would be fine if you said something like; their (hair colour) hair, their (eye colour) eyes etc.

By doing that it’s way easier for the reader to relate to the fic and actually enjoy it, because most people probably wouldn’t want to read a fic that they can’t relate to at all.

So please stop directly describing the looks of the reader, thanks <333

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