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criminalxmindsthis 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.
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.
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Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 05:11 am (UTC)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*
Re: Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 05:15 am (UTC)but yeah, there are lots of chicks like me who'd gladly take the virginity of such a cute boy. i'd be surprised to find out the boy really was a virgin in canon.
don't like het in most fandoms either. can't explain. i can totally go for slash, but throw a vagina in there and i'm all grossed out.
Re: Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 05:28 am (UTC)Although I do need to make a caveat to my CM slash non-leanings. I have a strange desire to read many, many fics featuring Hotch/Prentiss/Rossi.
what can I say, my first true internet fandom was The Doctor/Rose/Jack
Re: Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 05:06 pm (UTC)Well...My first kiss went something like that. :o
Lol. I'm not saying Reid's a virgin. I actually agree with your logic (I'd never thought of that before~). No to mention, before the show had even started we're made to believe they had been working together as a team for 3 years prior. Something tells me there's no way for a guy friend of Morgan's to remain a virgin for that long. Just sayin.
Anyways. But yeah. A first kiss/inexperienced can go like that. ^^;
Re: Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 05:09 pm (UTC)Some people are just born knowing how to work it. *g*
Re: Late to the party --
Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 06:08 pm (UTC)