Speaking as someone who has "friendly reminder" wordreplaced to "passive-aggressive assertion," I highly recommend it, for the humor value if nothing else.
inhales deeply. i adore fics making an effort to include dave's weird passion for dead shit. but oh my fucking god. 1) wet specimens are sometimes fixed in formaldehyde or formalin, but the jars are full of isopropyl alcohol or ethanol, they don't just fill entire jars with formaldehyde. 2) if they did, and a jar full of formaldehyde broke, dave would have watering eyes; burning eyes, nose, and throat, and probably a skin rash if he's been moping in a room with that much formaldehyde sitting loose in it! he'd also probably be nauseous and having some trouble breathing. not having a fucking nap! 3) he would definitely get cancer from a cup of "mummy juice" (a wet specimen is not fucking mummified) and he would fucking know that if he worked with formaldehyde or formalin at all.
B-B-BONUS ROUND he broke the fucking jars on purpose! he was just so mad he had to Do A Smashing (because that sounds like dave fucking strider) and deliberately pulled down the shelf holding his specimens! wet specimens can get fucking expensive, especially if you're not preserving them yourself (and he doesn't seem to be), why would he break an expensive collection of treasured one of a kind items and subsequently poison himself??? like, the only logical conclusion i can draw from that is that he's having a suicidal breakdown, and i, uh. don't think that was the author's intent. >>
you don't need to put the pairing in your fic in the title of the fic on fucking ao3! it's unnecessary, redundant and fucking annoying!
Am I the only one who gets actively turned off fic where the author feels the need to explain at length in the notes how much they disapprove of the things that happen in the story, how x thing (noncon, underage, abuse, whatever) is terrible in real life, how they don't condone it AT ALL blah blah blah? Like, I get that people are trying to avoid being attacked by the rabid shrieking weasels that infest fandom, but it's not gonna work anyway and it's just…kind of annoying.
It just seems like a very "those who matter don't mind, those who mind don't matter" kind of thing. People who are gonna give you shit for writing fiction aren't going to be dissuaded by any amount of disclaiming, and normal people don't assume authors approve of everything they write. (I mean, we've all read stuff where the author gave the very strong impression that they did approve of whatever awful shit was happening, but that's a whole 'nother issue…)
Dear Nanoha fanfic writers, The fucking Intelligent Devices are characters and both Fate and Nanoha have close relationships with their devices. Stop forgetting some of the major cast.
Spoiler: nsfw and kinda vent-y me: [reading smutfic] author: this character is wet/hard which means that they liked what was done to them no questions whatsoever and we aren't gonna challenge this assumption at all!!! me: [gets out machine gun] say that again I dare you I wish people would fucking stop writing this godawful cliche in. it makes me so damn angry. there's better and less potentially-abusive ways of showing that a character likes what's done to them and if nothing else it's so overdone! it's boring!! get some new material!!! (I think the worst case I've ever encountered was one where the author knew this but still put the cliche in and never challenged it because...??? and it was a fic revolving around a sexual abuse victim's healing too, like fucking hell, you knew better and yet you still chose to do this and for no good reason! [tears hair out])
Agreed, but it can be kind of tricky to pull off. They're kind of vaguely characterized and... not particularly assertive. Knowing what level to go with their interactions is something I have a lot of trouble with myself...
I read that as "High School AU" which is somehow my biggest fanfiction gripe. WTF kinda nonsense have I been missing out on since I stopped hanging out on FF.net?
I unno, man, I’m mostly on Ao3. If you wanna get a sampling of our various whines you could probably backread some of the thread, though.
i don't know what i dislike more: "i'm going to make this feminine but canonically male character a (cis) girl because gnc people just don't exist apparently (because this fic was written in the early 2000s, when we weren't quite sure homophobia was bad yet, or knew trans people existed)" or "i'm going to make this feminine but canonically male character a trans girl because no gnc person has ever not been trans apparently (because this fic was written in the 10s and we're Woke now, and i'm probably going to call you a transmisogynist if you disagree with me)" ETA: i'm not talking about personal headcanons, which are harmless even when wrong, i'm talking about "it is literally impossible for this character to be a boy because he looks too feminine and if you point out that he said he was one i'm going to call you stupid" and/or "this character is literally a trans women and if you point out he identifies as male i'm going to call you three different kinds of bigot"
I was pretty much talking about backreading. Holy cheese. Maybe it was just the LOK fandom, but the only thing you needed to warn for was "smut" and the lack of female characters meant that it was either an OC or gay. There was one canon couple and I don't think that I've ever found a romance/smut fic about them. Well, there was a female that could have gotten with the main character, but no one liked her.
Legacy of Kain. Gray and grey morality, vampires that don't feel remorse on the same level as humans, no one really has empathy for individuals... Basically if there's any fluffy or cute moments it's not accurate to the characters.
I dunno if the previous discussion of adverbs in dialogue was in this thread or one of the other ones, but since I found this gem in a fanfic, here it goes: “Thank you for coming,” he said, his tone grateful, Note how avoiding the adverb "gratefully" still doesn't make it any less redundant.
