Least favorite tropes

[krytella]

This was going to be a Twitter thread, and then I was like... maybe I would like this to be findable in the future, like if I ever do an exchange? So that trope sorter was going around a while back and it was fun but I can tell you exactly what I like and don't so here are the tropes I normally do not read:

1. De-aging. This trope makes my soul want to depart from my body. It squicks me more than any sex-related thing that could be in a story, even when it's 100% platonic as it usually is. I have no idea why and I can't really explain it! But I have literally never read a de-aging fic all the way through, that's how much it doesn't work for me.
2. Fake-out character death: when a character dies, is mourned, and then turns out not to be dead. Give me actual major character death over this every time.
3. Amnesia where people around the amnesiac character know things about them they don't know themselves and the amnesiac knows they have amnesia. It's like constant embarrassment happening or waiting happen.
4. Jealousy as proof of love/sudden desire for monogamy and lack of desire for other people as proof of real lurve. As a person who prefers to be non-monogamous this is kind of self-explanatory. Jealousy as a signal that there are unacknowledged romantic feelings for someone is fine.