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

Re: Ode to the Hotel Mini Bar

[sassyinkpen.livejournal.com]

That would be one of those things where - although I know you are totally right - I'm still willing to forgive because it IS plausible, and it IS a device that's not only common in CM, but often used on TV and in movies as well.

Well stocked mini-bars are no longer a part of our cultural life, but they are still present in our fictional lexicon.

(And I'm a huge sucker for hotel room fic)

Re: Ode to the Hotel Mini Bar

[kuriadalmatia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know it's a common plot device and is used everywhere. But it's the stupid details that get to me, like having six bottles of gin (doesn't happen unless you specifically order it) plus knowing that those little bottles of booze are $5-7/each... yeah. If it shows up, it's not going to necessarily kick me out of a fic but if it's abused, then... yeah. I sigh. And I want to write: mini-bars don't work that way:)