Vocabulary rant

Is it just me or does everyone else notice too, when authors latch on to a word or phrase and EVERYONE starts using it ad nauseam?

Obsidian is a volcanic glass/mineral that is now being used to describe anything in the dark gray or black category. Unless you’re actually taking about something made of obsidian, such as a blade, there are so many other words to describe something black. And don’t use onyx, either. It’s lazy.

Cacophony is an eighth grade vocab word being used at least three times in the last five books I’ve read.

Being carried “Bridal Style” is something I’d never heard before but is now everywhere.

These are just the top three I can think of while I’m annoyed enough to post about it on my break. I’m sure I’ll come up with more later. It just seems like the same banal things are being chewed up and spat out in different order to appease the masses. Does nobody have anything original to say?

I used to love to read and I’m reaching a point of apathy. It all seems bland and boring. Nothing excites, nothing burns bright. I want something to fill me with wonder and make me forget to eat, forego sleep. I don’t want to roll my eyes every time a character describes their feelings and surroundings with the vocabulary of a 13 year old in a poorly funded American middle school.