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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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Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 12:03 pm (UTC)May I ask if that is your cat in your user icon? SO lovely! I love cats myself.
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Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 12:07 pm (UTC)We recently adopted him a little sister, Maisie. She's a cute little tabby. It was rough at first, but within a week they were playing together!
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Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 12:13 pm (UTC)How nice of you to adopt his little sister too. I´m sure they appriciated it.
I have 7 cats and I love them all to pieces. They are my babies. Cats are the best.
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Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 12:20 pm (UTC)Maisie's cute. She belonged to a friend of a friend who needed to find a home for her. I figured Cookie could use a friend, and the rest is history!
For a while I wondered whether I'd done the right thing -- it was tough at first, but now they're good buddies!
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Date: Jan. 4th, 2010 12:32 pm (UTC)I grew up around cats and dogs so I don´t think I could ever live without cats, at least.
Two of our cats weren´t ours from the start. One belonged to a relative, but the cat prefered to stay with us, so we got to take her. She´s amazing. She wouldn´t even hurt a fly! Never scratches or bites, but she´s not too fond of the others, though. The other cat is a little foundling, as I like to call him. He just turned up on our balcony one day in december 2008. A tiny little kitten with no collar- and SO hungry. So he decided to stay with us. Now, he´s a BIG cat of about 1½ years old.