OH DAMN i read the Robert Aspirin series when i was in middle school and high school! i haven't even seen one of those books in like 15 years, but i remember really enjoying the dimension-hopping pan-fantasy pun-based shenanigans.
i need to track down english copies, because the german translation was... let's just say inadequate.
...just me talking to myself about how much I fucking hate the word discreet. i mean. it's not past me.
I read one book from the middle of that series because my dad left it lying around the house within reach of my bored little bibliophile grabby paws when I was like ten. I believe vampire cows were involved.
my nitpicky grammar gripe of the day: "deemed as" you cannot deem someone as something that is not what that word does
this came up on twitter but any transformation in a story that tries to be "realistic"(instead of animorphs where shit just Happens in whatever way it feels like) but fails comparative anatomy? like the thing is if your characters knees are suddenly on backwards because theyre a wolf now, thats....not how canine legys go... the legy proportions are just different... and even a character shapeshifting within the same species, ive seen some dumb shit that shows the writer Doesnt understand and it makes things awkward
I blame K.A. Applegate. I drew animal knees backwards for years as a tiny child before I actually bothered to go look up a picture of a dog skeleton. Animorphs misled the minds of a generation on the topic of dog knees
Anything where it's an a/b/o fic and for some reason the pheromones all smell like food? I've seen it done well where it doesn't stick out so much, but other times it just makes me wonder what kind of pheromones make someone smell like Twinkies or whatever.
Yuri On Ice Badfic Friend once found one where the entire thing was a setup to a "Yuuri is a cinnamon roll" joke.
I mean the bee pheromones that signal "attack and kill this thing" smell like bananas apparently, so not that far of a stretch.
There's so many where it's just.... Thrown out there and never actually expounded on. Especially when it's not "warm and spicy" or "sweet and fruity", or something, it's Hostess Brand Twinkies with an order of Starbucks Blonde French Roast. I don't actually mind it as a concept, I mind that it's never brought up in conjunction with how the perfume and deodorant industry would be all over that as a way to sell shit to people.
I mean, from the level of ridiculously specific detail some a/b/o goes into about Personal Smells, it would be nearly impossible to make food that doesn't. Yankee Candle probably has a somewhat different target market in a/b/o universes.
