let's discuss!

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

this if for those of you who read fanfic, which is hopefully most of you.

what are your fanfic pet peeves? is there a pairing or genre you won't read? do you hate mistakes in canon?

for me it's more about grammar. i get irritated with bad spelling (use spellcheck!), poor use of punctuation (besides commas because there are about 40 rules. you should know the basics), and capitalization. in posts i don't bother with caps. but when i publish i try to make it as correct as possible.

other things are the use of certain words. there/their/they're, we're/ were/where, bare/bear, lie/lay/laid etc., i/me, overuse of italics and bold. to me italics are good for emphasizing certain words that should be stressed, either in dialog or narration, sounds coming off the television/phone or written words read by the narrator or out loud in dialog, musical lyrics. it just makes it easier to understand that it isn't normal sounds. i only use bold in my author's note, disclaimer, and warnings.

also, i won't even read a fic that has all the text bunched up because someone didn't press enter. or something with only about 200 words.

also, when you address someone it should be like,   Person, blah blah. with the comma there. that just bugs me.

for specifically CM i won't read Morgan with anyone but Garcia. i don't know, i just think they belong together and i love that Garcia is one of very few average sized women on television. in spite of what hollywood wants us to think, most women are more Garcia's size than JJ's.

Comments

[djan31.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, I am a grammar nazi, too. Drives me absolutely nuts. And, also, about the short fics. I think there's really like, a minimum limit where you can actually get in a story.

I haaaate when a story progresses unbelievably fast. Does that make sense? Or when the entire story is told in dialogue, and there's no narration. So bad.

As for pairings, I cannot read any CM femslash. It has nothing to do with sexual preference, it just does not work to me. I never really see that much of relationship built between the girls on the show, but maybe that's all me, cause I know I have not seen every episode.

I also hate fics where they make little mistakes where you can tell they don't really watch the show all that much. Like I read one the other day where they kept calling Reid's mom "Diane" instead of "Diana." I don't know why, but that made it almost unbearable for me to read, haha.

-takes a breath-

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

you know, i can only read slash pairings in most fandoms. i will only seek out het in a few and mostly just in Twilight. i don't know why. the books are aweful, but the fanfic is pretty good. never femslash for me.

[djan31.livejournal.com]

I'm actually pretty much the same, I usually only read slash. I don't know why.

[drasticbarbie.livejournal.com]

yeah, as soon as you through a woman into a sex scene i'm a bit uncomfortable. don't like regular porn either.