English accents (as in accents from England as opposed to the rest of the British isles) tend to be non-rhotic, meaning that r isn’t pronounced except before vowels. In HP and Discworld, er definitely is the same sound as uh.
ye, i knew about like, the -er ending of words, but my brain didnt draw the connection to "ok literally those same letters on their own Also make the uh sound in this dialect" :D
Fair. Definitely doesnt mean summoning demons though appearantly late medieval scholars used it that way. Imma fite them.
The idea was that, clearly, you can't talk to dead people in Christian tradition, so that means they have to be demons in disguise.
I think I picked up "skive (off)" from Asterix comics, where it was a thing Roman soldiers would occasionally do.
This fic centers on a healthy, loving, and realistic bdrm relationship and it's great; HOWEVER, the characterization is spotty at best and the dialog is heavily contrived, to the point that it's almost not worth reading. I'm still reading it, because virtually all the other bdsm fics for this pairing have the roles the other way around, which in my opinion isn't as interesting. Still.
Late but I actually use this for both books and fanfic. The style of the summary usually gives me a pretty good idea of what the story will be like, or at least whether I’m likely to enjoy reading it. I’m sure that for books at least this is usually intentional. I noticed pretty fast in the YA section of the library that the style of the blurb would tell me a lot about what to expect. For instance, if the blurb had exactly one swear word, the book was going to be mostly about porn but probably also uncomfortable with sex. (YA didn’t really seem to have any specific meaning at my library. It was like a wild mix of books marketed as YA and seemingly completely random books that weren’t.) With fanfic, if a summary is awkwardly vague and uses a lot of indirect descriptors, I’m probably going to get the impression that the author is inexperienced, quite possibly young, and going through a flowery phase. The nice thing about AO3 is that the tags usually give me more information about whether it’s the kind of work where I will want to go out of my way to support an up and coming writer even if they haven’t quite hit their stride yet. I’m pretty relaxed about stylistic quirks as long as they’re reasonably consistent. It’s just the way the story is being told. I remember reading a fic where the author regularly used words that were not right, but felt related enough that I understood exactly what was meant. It was easy to make the leap even though the word was unexpected. I got a feel for it pretty quickly and then it became a headspace just slightly removed from anything else. It felt special. No other author would tell the story quite the same way. No other author will ever tell any story quite that way. It was very idiosyncratic and I found it increasingly charming as I got used to the rhythm. It made it possible to convey meanings that couldn’t have existed inside stricter rules of vocabulary.There were literally no words for that, unless you could harness words that didn’t quite fit and use the entirety of the logic required to make them fit as part of the message. I don’t even remember what the story was about, but I treasure the memory of reading it.
look, a beta reader isn't always necessary if you're decent at self editing, and normally "no beta" isn't going to put me off from reading something. but when your proudly un-beta'd fic has a misspelled tag, well, i'm not exactly filled with confidence there.
Could be a purposeful misspelling. I've seen "ragrets" used as a jokey/meme-y word pretty frequently.
more seriously, though-- i HATE when people get judgey about the kinks they're writing. when people have notes or tags like "don't look at me i'm so gross" or "this made me feel so nasty" or whatever. i've been seeing this a lot lately for some reason*, and it really bugs me. i don't feel gross or nasty for enjoying my kinks! don't put your baggage on me! *ok, the reason is probably that i've been reading a bit of Eddie/Venom lately, and i get the feeling that symbrock is a lot of people's first monsterfucking ship. and i too have had the "i can't believe i wrote that!" reaction to things i've never written before! but like. the "eww this is so gross" language is a major buzzkill.
