My new peeve lately has been the way writers use eyes. People's eyes darken with lust, they change color with their thoughts, they telegraph feelings and decisions from across a crowded room. Now, maybe I know all the wrong people (or just have a working knowledge of lighting and reflection), but you can't read that much in a person's eyes. They're usually a fixed color and unless you're a total staring creeper, you'd never notice such things even if you're trying. Aksldfdjksfds, writers. Honestly

Yup. This. Eyes darkening with lust is way over used. Eyes changing color with thoughts, though? I had that idea waay back in the first bit of fanfic I wrote in the Dragonlance sandbox. When I was TWELVE. Really, adult people actually write that?

I know, writing is difficult. But there's a lot of over-emoting and over-description going on nowadays.