Things That Irritate Me In Fanfic, part n+1

[cdybedahl]

1. Writing without capital letters or punctuation.
2. Use of creative typography to indicate thoughts.
3. Total failure to consider consequences (Excuse me? Voyager has a sodding Stargate on board?!)
4. Misspelling of common names (her name is Fraiser, not Frasier. It says so right there on the screen in every episode she's in!).
5. Switching scenes without any typographic indication whatsoever, not even a new line.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

With you on 4, which is my all-time pet peeve. I tend to put 5 down to the blank-line-eating capabilities of incompatible pieces of software, but perhaps I'm getting generous in my old age.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

#2 does jerk me out of a story - it used to be a common way to show Cally's telepathy, or Zen's 'bongs'.

#5: fanfiction.net helpfully strips out lines of asterisks when you used them to mark a scene switch.

[twisted-badger.livejournal.com]

*Laughs at the Stargate on Voyager*

*feels your pain*

[seaya.livejournal.com]

6. Misuse of you're and your as well as they're, there, and their.
7. Writing in a language in which your fluency is highly questionable.
8. Failure to make a simple 30 minute google search for fact checking of a historical or medical detail.
9. Having doctors in the story say that it's not good to be vegetarian and pregnant.
10. Using British slang in the utterances of American characters, or vice versa.
11. Writing out the accents and inflections of what you think the speech patterns are of deaf individuals, immigrants, and minorities whose cultures you personally are not a part of while you are personally not Mark Twain. Just write out what they are actually saying and say they have an accent. It's better that way, really.
12. Using babelfish and bad memory to write Spanish dialogue that is ridiculous and meaninglessly incorrect, and not changing it after I write you a 4 page email of corrections.
13. Blackface is never funny.
14. Blackface is never funny.
15. Blackface is never funny.

I could go on, really.

[cdybedahl.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah. The ones I listed were just the ones I ran encountered today while pretending to work...