Along with the things others have mentioned-bad grammar, spelling, lack of capitalization, walls of text, MarySue characters, etc there are two things that bug the crap out of me.
When someone uses the word wonder instead of wander. Emily wondered around Hotch's apartment, picking up a photo of Jack and Haley taken at a happier time.. I want to reach through the internet and smack the writer about the head for that one. It is almost as bad as when they have one character rap their arm around another character's waist (or waste in some cases.).
Excessive Britishisms. They jerk me right out of the story. I can overlook the spelling differences-color/colour but when I start seeing flat instead of apartment, lift instead of elevator, it really takes me right out of the story, even if it is well written. It is the same thing with Doctor Who fanfic (in the opposite sense-if I see excessive Americanism, it jerks me right out of that story).
I do like a well written AU universe. There are several authors on fanfic.net that have written some different AU fics that are fantastic and well written. Slightly skewed to wildly skewed from canon but still manage to stay within character.
As for pairings? I don't really read slash pairings in CM fanfic. They just don't work for me. (OTOH, slash pairing are all I read in Numbers fanfic). I tend to read Hotch/Prentiss, Rossi/Prentiss or Morgan/Garcia although I have read some really good Reid/Prentiss fics lately. I tend not to like JJ fics much. I like JJ as a character on the show, not so much in fanfic. Do NOT want Gideon or Elle fic AT ALL. And no RPF whatsoever (not that I have seen it in CM fandom-pretty much only in the SN fandom *shudder*-that and Wincest? *double shudder*)
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When someone uses the word wonder instead of wander. Emily wondered around Hotch's apartment, picking up a photo of Jack and Haley taken at a happier time.. I want to reach through the internet and smack the writer about the head for that one. It is almost as bad as when they have one character rap their arm around another character's waist (or waste in some cases.).
Excessive Britishisms. They jerk me right out of the story. I can overlook the spelling differences-color/colour but when I start seeing flat instead of apartment, lift instead of elevator, it really takes me right out of the story, even if it is well written. It is the same thing with Doctor Who fanfic (in the opposite sense-if I see excessive Americanism, it jerks me right out of that story).
I do like a well written AU universe. There are several authors on fanfic.net that have written some different AU fics that are fantastic and well written. Slightly skewed to wildly skewed from canon but still manage to stay within character.
As for pairings? I don't really read slash pairings in CM fanfic. They just don't work for me. (OTOH, slash pairing are all I read in Numbers fanfic). I tend to read Hotch/Prentiss, Rossi/Prentiss or Morgan/Garcia although I have read some really good Reid/Prentiss fics lately. I tend not to like JJ fics much. I like JJ as a character on the show, not so much in fanfic. Do NOT want Gideon or Elle fic AT ALL. And no RPF whatsoever (not that I have seen it in CM fandom-pretty much only in the SN fandom *shudder*-that and Wincest? *double shudder*)