Author writing in their notes: This chapter is all dialogue and chit-chat, I’m so sorry about that. I’ll try to have something interesting happen next chapter.
Me reading their chapter: Nonsense! Your wonderful character dynamics are exactly what I read your story for! I could never get bored of reading your characters talking!
Me, writing my own fic: gOD… why is there… just so much talking… my readers will be so bored… I feel terrible just subjecting them to this… gotta make some.thing EXPLODE…