u/archivefuck

I have this pet peeve and I am genuinely curious if it’s just me.

People using “creative” alternatives to the peoples names:

“the lycanthrope”
“the dog animagus”
“the former prisoner”
“the escaped convict”
“the dog of a student”
“the brunette”

When it happens more than three times in a row, I just close the fic.

I think it bugs me that the point in many of these fics are to portray them as multifaceted people, ultimately for them to be narrowed down by this one defining (sometimes unflattering, sometimes rude, mostly pointless) feature.

Anyone else orrrr?