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elftwink · 1 year

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been reading fanfiction at the front counter at work as of late because our fiction selection that's available to read online is sparse, there's only so much academic non-fiction a man can read especially when he's just blindly in the catalogue looking up random keywords in the hope of finding something even mildly interesting, and i haven't been able to get out to my local library to fix my library card that doesn't let me log in and possibly has no associated email to access their ebook collections. and i can't do anything at the front desk that doesn't look work-related so i've been downloading pdfs of fics and emailing them to myself to pass the yawning void of hours between the 3 whole patrons who are there during the semester break.

anyway im telling you all this because i sent a few to myself and all but one (1) fic i was like oh my GOD he Would Not Fucking Say That. but i had nothing else to do not even work related tasks so i read them anyway. woe is me. i will learn nothing from this and do the exact same thing tomorrow probably

#good idea generator #they werent even bad in fact one in particular was infuriatingly well written #i just didnt like the characterization choices. and they committed one of my pet peeves #which is so unreasonable but it's using a shortened form a characters name (usually in dialogue)#and spelling it differently than the character's actual name. like adding or changing letters #this is such a non-issue but it INFURIATES me especially when the character doesn't even get referred to by a shorter name in canon #i know this sounds like nonsense im trying to think of an example #ok like. some c/r fic authors will shorten 'jester' to 'jess' and i HATE that #it should OBVIOUSLY be 'jes'. where did the second 's' come from. who the fuck is 'jess #when i read pjo fic i used to like straight up leave fics if they spelled a shortened version of 'percy' i didnt like #and once i read a fic where someone referred to nico as 'nick' and it made me so fucking furious #fucked up that you made someone call him that at all but the LEAST you could do is spell it 'nic'#and before you say anything i do NOT care if the other letters are necessary for the name to follow pronunciation rules #names do not have to do that and this is a written medium. i already know how to pronounce it #its the normal way you'd say the first or last part only of the character's name which i already know #this also annoys me in original fiction but fanfic is also usually adding the nickname which makes it feel more unnatural #like its weird if characters refer to each other formally in the source material and inexplicably much more casually or closer in fic #but the spelling is the main thing. i have Problems

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