Don't apologize for not having a beta. I mean, have a beta, definitely, but if you can't find anyone or if you're just impatient, can you not advertise that? I am ten times more likely to hit the 'back' button if I see you say it's unbeta'ed. (I'm guilty, too, I just don't announce it to all and sundry.)
Massive OOC. Now, I am just as guilty of this as the next person (vampire!Hotch, anyone?), BUT. Either label it as an Alternate Universe or create an OC. If you turn Hotch into an emoting crybaby, I will want to smack you. If you tell me Reid's a closet video-game rock star, cool. Just give me a good reason or tell me flat-out so I can brace myself. Consequently, Reid could totally be an arcade junkie -- the eidetic memory would help him know when the bad guys are coming and what moves to make.
Sell it, sell it, sell it. Ed Bernero has STATED that he does not intend to ship in canon - ever. So if JJ and Morgan have decided to have a clandestine affair, that's all well and good, just give me a good reason why.
On that note, most het squicks me right out. I have no idea why, I just know I cannot read het without making faces and gagging noises. And then it's not so much 'reading' as it is 'skimming'.
Hey, speaking of het! Hotch was married at one point. Rossi was married at three points! Can those of us in the slasher section of the stands please not forget that? It really is okay to have bisexuality in fanfic (just, please for my sake? Not so much in the same fic).
REID! My BOY! What is UP with this habit people have of making him a virgin?? That boy was in college for, like, his entire puberty, and he was most likely unsupervised for it. Do you REALLY think he managed to escape without at least ONE sexual encounter? Consider the kissin of that one girl in the pool. Did that look like the kiss of someone inexperienced? No, it did not. I'm just sayin.
Also, his mom? Kinda sick and mostly incapacitated when it came to things like making her kid dinner and checking his homework and making sure there were no monsters in his closet. In fact, he took care of her more than she took care of him. Can we NOT FORGET THAT?!?
Holy crap, it's like we need a damsel in distress, and hey! Reid's got long hair and he's pretty, so let's stick HIM in the dress. Don't do that.
That boy is an intelligent, capable agent and I'd really like to see him written that way more often. He DID have to go through the same FBI Academy that everyone else had to go through and if he hadn't passed (theoretically), he wouldn't be where he is now. Doesn't he also have a psych PhD? Doesn't that mean he's made it a point to study people and their actions and motivations? Wouldn't that make him LESS CLUELESS THAN YOU THINK HE IS?!?
Also, I have a delicate constitution and a vivid imagination, and I don't believe in violence for the sake of violence. I kind of avoid h/c fics for this reason. Why do they have to be hurty boys (and girls)? Stop whumping on them, it's not very nice!
...I should probably be done, I can go on for days otherwise...*sheepish*
Late to the party --
Massive OOC. Now, I am just as guilty of this as the next person (vampire!Hotch, anyone?), BUT. Either label it as an Alternate Universe or create an OC. If you turn Hotch into an emoting crybaby, I will want to smack you. If you tell me Reid's a closet video-game rock star, cool. Just give me a good reason or tell me flat-out so I can brace myself. Consequently, Reid could totally be an arcade junkie -- the eidetic memory would help him know when the bad guys are coming and what moves to make.
Sell it, sell it, sell it. Ed Bernero has STATED that he does not intend to ship in canon - ever. So if JJ and Morgan have decided to have a clandestine affair, that's all well and good, just give me a good reason why.
On that note, most het squicks me right out. I have no idea why, I just know I cannot read het without making faces and gagging noises. And then it's not so much 'reading' as it is 'skimming'.
Hey, speaking of het! Hotch was married at one point. Rossi was married at three points! Can those of us in the slasher section of the stands please not forget that? It really is okay to have bisexuality in fanfic (just, please for my sake? Not so much in the same fic).
REID! My BOY! What is UP with this habit people have of making him a virgin?? That boy was in college for, like, his entire puberty, and he was most likely unsupervised for it. Do you REALLY think he managed to escape without at least ONE sexual encounter? Consider the kissin of that one girl in the pool. Did that look like the kiss of someone inexperienced? No, it did not. I'm just sayin.
Also, his mom? Kinda sick and mostly incapacitated when it came to things like making her kid dinner and checking his homework and making sure there were no monsters in his closet. In fact, he took care of her more than she took care of him. Can we NOT FORGET THAT?!?
Holy crap, it's like we need a damsel in distress, and hey! Reid's got long hair and he's pretty, so let's stick HIM in the dress. Don't do that.
That boy is an intelligent, capable agent and I'd really like to see him written that way more often. He DID have to go through the same FBI Academy that everyone else had to go through and if he hadn't passed (theoretically), he wouldn't be where he is now. Doesn't he also have a psych PhD? Doesn't that mean he's made it a point to study people and their actions and motivations? Wouldn't that make him LESS CLUELESS THAN YOU THINK HE IS?!?
Also, I have a delicate constitution and a vivid imagination, and I don't believe in violence for the sake of violence. I kind of avoid h/c fics for this reason. Why do they have to be hurty boys (and girls)? Stop whumping on them, it's not very nice!
...I should probably be done, I can go on for days otherwise...*sheepish*