u/aristuurtle

all my exams are over & i’m back on my wattpad streak so here goes:

1. inaccurate representation of culture (as a rajasthani, this BURNS my soul)

RAJASTHANI ROYAL ROMANCES. first of all why are all rajasthani kings also mafia mobsters? and second of all why are they all weird and lame and growly? actual royals are interesting as hell; they play polo, attend fashion shows, are chivalrous, polite. i’ve conversed with the king of jaipur (he owns the polo academy i attend) and he’s such a cool guy? he would hate these fictional raja maharajas

these authors NEVER mention any rajasthani rituals in their books. infact even the marriages in their books are inaccurate as fuck. their representation of rajasthan starts with giving their mmc a surname like chauhan, rathore, rajput and deeming him the king of rajasthan and ends with him being called rana sa.

in this sense, i think the taranya rudra yuvraaj sara book series is the closest thing to a decent representation of royalty.

before you all come at me and say shit like “oh but it’s fiction” I KNOW ITS FICTION but can we please research before writing books?

2. badly chosen names

there’s this book where the mmc is the king of rajasthan and he’s named “zayne rathore”

just…

WHY?

naamo ki kami hai kya?

and also

some books use surnames like mehra khanna agarwal to name rajput princes. like are you illiterate? SOME ATTENTION TO DETAIL PLEASE.

3. every other book starting with the fmc being tormented by her relatives

are you stuck on what you should write in the first chapter of your book? don’t worry i got you.

first take a poor orphaned fmc, send her to live with her uncle and aunt, make her work like a maid for them (so cinderella coded) and then when shes on the way to college, she will catch the eye of Reyansh Yaduvanshi Raghuvansh Suryavanshi Rathore Rajput Chauhan and then he will get obsessed with her and buy her from her family like she’s a piece of meat

this is how most desi wattpad books start.

and i feel like it says alot about how we all tend to romanticise female pain. this poor girl x rich man dynamic is milked out to the max in desi books, dramas, serials because society m LOVES seeing female pain and they LOVE LOVE LOVE seeing a man fix the woman’s life like a knight in shining armour.

why are there barely any books about a rich fmc saving a poor mmc?

4. multi couple books

I HATE THEM. the authors are almost never able to do justice to all the couples.

my suggestion to authors writing multi-couple books is that they should give each couple a separate book and start a series.

5. lactation kink

“mere liye bhi kuch chor dena” the mmc says to his new born kid whose only source of food is milk

… i don’t think i need to say more

6. mmc killing men with no remorse

especially when its for dumb reasons like unknowingly trying to flirt with the fmc, accidentally touching the fmc, dumping the fmc in the past.

so imagine you’re standing in a cafe, looking pretty as hell, a guy compliments you and your boyfriend shoots the guy

isn’t that insane? and literally murder?

and all these broody cold men in books who act like this aren’t possessive and hot, they’re just insecure losers.

7. replaced marriage

pls stop this fuckass trope i’m tired

and also how the hell does the fmc always end up agreeing with being the replacement like thoda shor macha behen? bhaag ja?

8. giving fmc a job and not showing her doing it

wattpad fmcs are always doctors and fashion designers but they’re NEVER EVER at work.

infact the only time the doc fmcs go to work is when the author wants to show her being dropped to work by the mmc.

fashion designer toh naam naam ke liye bana dete hai. they never go to fashion shows, never design clothes.

9. villainising women

99% of the time the villain is a woman:

cruel aunt

ex girlfriend

jealous woman

mother in law

10. shitty character descriptions

yk in the character aesthetics chapter, every author drops a character description

99% of them look like this

Abhimaan Singh Rajput, 35

cold, ruthless, heartless, loves no one except his family, doesn’t believe in love. richest man in the world. workaholic. mess with him and he will kill you

Prisha Verma, 19 (adding a weird age gap because wattpad authors LOOOVE that)

silent, soft spoken, loves her kahna, always nice to everyone, broken, orphaned, poor, lives with her aunt and uncle, in first year of mbbs

11. weird age gaps

what does a 35 year old find attractive about a 19 year old and vice versa.

i can’t think of any more but yall drop yours in the comments ‼️😛

16S2 WENT SOOOO GOOD (except chem,🖕🏻 whoever thought it would be wise to add so many isomerism questions)

i went home, had a BOMB caesar salad, went to the theatre, watched project hail mary, slept at 3:00 am, woke up just now

idk if it’s just me but bitsat testing experience was SOOOO much better than jee

i’m getting 152 in 8S2 in jee and got 323 in BITS yesterday with extra questions attempted. my twin brother got 298. parents are finally stressless and so am i

my brother just needs to get his marks a little up in S2 and then we’ll be freeeee and off to BITS

I LOVE BITS. no aantu jhaatu reservation pwd bakwaas, just merit (and some luck, they should add normalisation though, thoda unfair hai)