Grumpy McGrumpypants moment

I wish there was a way to automatically filter away any story featuring "Anon".

ANON IS NOT A CHARACTER! IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A SELF-INSERT TO BANG PONIES OR WHATEVER, THEN PUT IN THE MINIMAL EFFORT TO GIVE THEM A [BUY SOME APPLES] NAME!

So yeah. I'm feeling slightly peeved.

Comments

[djthomp]

No kidding.

[Isseus]

Oh my Celestia I couldn't agree more. Anything about Anon and Anon-A-Miss is an immediate downvote from me. Self-insert proudly! (tehee.. self-insert)

[Darkstarling]

By this point Anon is basically their own character, the hapless cynical jerk/deserving victim of shenanigans. Still can't stand them.

How did this nonsense start anyway, writing something easy to find-and-replace with your own name?

[KitsuneNoYomeiri]

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/mlp/ and 4chan (and other chans) is the reason why. 'Anon' describes basically every purveyor of /mlp/ who write (or inspire) most of the "anon" fics.

[Metemponychosis]

I can live with all sort of 'bad habits', up to, and including, the typical black and red alicorn who happens to be related to Celestia and Luna, has a big scar over his eye, a broken horn, is a giant jerk and everyone loves him, and he keeps screwing main characters when he's not saving Equestria on saturdays. But 'anon' is too much.

Seriously. I've found interesting self-inserts, I've even found reasonable alicorns and Celestia's sons, adopted Luna's sons, Rainbow Dash's brothers... But I never found a Anon that kept me reading a fic.

[horizon]

Well, the good news is: now that there's a specific character tag, you can add "-#anon" to the end of searches and they'll vanish from the search results.

Filtering tags sitewide, alas, is not yet a thing.