Hate when every animal is depicted as either being a cat or dog behaviour-wise. It's not so bad when the animal character in question is something a dragon (like Toothless, who is pretty much a big weird cat), but it annoys me when real animals are 'simplified' in this way when playing around with their actual behaviours/mannerisms would be more fun/interesting and possibly even more memorable. A horse acting like a dog is cheap comedy/writing, for example.
>>404759>>404807imo 'enemies to lovers' can't work as a plot for a standalone story, it needs to be a relationship arc that takes place over a longer series (and also works better if it's enemies to friends to lovers). I say this because trying to both establish an enemy dynamic in the same book you're going to shift it into a generic romance means that it's going to be pretty toothless and lacking in the background of interactions that makes the change away from enemies more interesting– this trope works better in the realm of fanfic because, even if you don't set up the enemy part of the relationship in the fic itself, it already exists in the canon. You can't rely on that when you're publishing original work, and yet these stories are still written as though they have that backing and investment present in the reader (as if listing the trope is enough).
(the fanfic use of this trope also works better because it's using characters who weren't designed to be romance leads first and foremost, but like supervillains/heroes and shit, so they're more well-rounded and have engaged in activities other than mooning over or shagging each other)