Let's Talk Fanfiction!! {Closed}

Oh my God, not again.

This is it.
After this I'm done.
Sayonara.
See ya.
Bye.
Zip, squat, whatever you want to call it. I'll finish the three rants I've promised and then I'm leaving.

But you're not here to read about that, so if you're interested as to why I'm officially calling it quits, then read to the bottom.
Otherwise, hurry up, finish this, and get the hell out of here.
Thanks.

I still have so many rants I want to do, but I have no time and no motivation to do so. At this point, it feels like anything I say on here is just kicking a dead horse.

I've already covered the basics. It's been a year, I have more reads than I ever dreamed of getting.

There's literally no point in me continuing this book.

So here's a mess of a rant before I officially close this.

•Names

Stop it with the long names, or the names that translate into bullcrap like "beautiful" "love" "soul mate"–

Look, it was cool as a 12/13 year old because we were all into cheap adventures and repeated love stories then. Names like that were like a cliche bonus.

But I find names like that annoying, not original.

•Pets

I was really excited to do this rant.

Fun fact: I'm a sucker for animals. I work at an animal clinic, I own four cats and five dogs, and I'm that annoying kid in Chemistry who holds a funeral for the spider everyone else was so bent on killing.

So I was extremely disappointed as both a writer and an animal lover to find that pets aren't very important in stories. They're only there as a possible comfort if the character is feeling low, or they're not there at all.
Why can't a dog actually eat your homework? Why can't your cat be awful and chew up your earbuds? Why can't the pet rat be super possessive of its owner every time someone new comes by the house?

Those are all really bad and probably cliche examples, BUT hopefully you get the point.

We need animals back in writing. And not just the werewolf stories. What if in Warriors, there was a fanfic about a kittypet dead set on protecting his owner's life from the "vicious forest cats" and ends up killing a clan deputy because they got a little too close for their liking? And then the other clan cats can't kill the kittypet because he refuses to come out of the house and they're all like "lol we'll just kill your twoleg, then", so this poor cat goes to these awful extents to protect his human and—

Yeah.
Somebody write that.
Please.

•Gay stereotypes

Look, not all gays are super into rainbows and unicorns and know their way around fashion and crap. And not all gays are bullied about their choice of sexuality. And it's not always awful living with a religious family. Take it from an actual lesbian living with an actual super religious family. Yeah, it's a struggle keeping it under wraps, but my family is 100% worth it and they always will be. It's not easy, but it's not a living Hell to deal with every day.
So stop making this cliche.
ALSO where are my other spectrum buddies?
Where's my Aces?
Aros?
Pans?
Greys??