#incorrect ffviii

[tifamex]

新年快樂 !

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[emi-chan674]

Zell: Can you cut me some slack, Squall? I’m sort of in love.

Squall: I’m sorry, but that’s really not my problem.

Zell: I’m in love with you.

Squall: *blushes* Oh. That brings me in the loop a little.

[strayheartless]

Squall: *speaking to himself in the bathroom mirror* your not autistic, your just a little silly… and you have deep internal anxiety attacks when people perceive you but that’s unrelated!

[ima-chickenwuss]

Squall: Someone will die.

Rinoa: ...Of fun!

[megpie71]

I can basically agree with this. I have a weird little quirk of my autistic!brain which means I really snag HARD on incorrect spelling, word choice and grammar; I see it all over the place in fanfiction; and have done for at least twenty years now. About the only thing you can really do about it is offer beta-reading services to the author, and point them in the direction of actual print dictionaries and grammar manuals, because the online ones these days are now so crowd-sourced as to be completely useless.

However, I will leave you with this information: I have yet to see a fic which has yet eclipsed the worst ever fic for spelling, punctuation, grammar and word-choice errors that I have ever run across (in FFVIII fandom, from the early 2000s). I still have a copy of that atrocity on my hard drive, just to remind myself how bad things can get. So overall, I think things are slightly improving.

I don’t want to sound rude but I’ve read that some people prefer to read fics from older fandoms and I agree because younger people are alarmingly illiterate. The too vs to, chose vs choose, lose vs loose, there their and they’re are just scratching the surface.

Genuinely I don’t want to be rude but I can’t read from writers who do not know how to read and write themselves. And I don’t mean EASL because I have no issue with these fics because despite the grammar clunkiness a lot of those fics are still well written by a writer who is clearly well read and able to write a good story in a way that someone illiterate in their first language just can’t.

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I am sorry to inform you that choose/chose and its brethren are an eternal nuisance. The current crop of young fools might be worse about puritywank, but they're exactly the same as every other generation when it comes to bad proofreading.

[incorrect-squall-quotes]

[Seifer and Squall arguing]

Squall, starting to leave: I need to get some air…

Seifer: There’s air in here.

Squall: I don’t want your air!

Seifer: What’s wrong with my air?!

[incorrect-strife-quotes]

Cloud: You fill me with anxiety

Squall, who just jumped onto the smallest ledge possible: Oh?

Cloud: Don’t do that again holy shit.

[irishais]

discussing squall as successor with @zesimi and she's ruined my life

[the-herdier]

Squall: Well, well, well, if it isn't the feelings I've been trying to avoid.

[sailforvalinor]

Rinoa: “Oh my gosh, Squall, you had a crush on me? That’s soooo embarrassing.”

Squall: “…Rinoa, we’re married.”

Rinoa: “Yeah, but still.”

Squall: *looks into Selphie’s camera like he’s on the Office*

[ff-incorrect-quotes]

Rinoa: If we're in a relationship, your clothes are my clothes too. Don't ask me why I have your shirt on, this is OUR shirt.

Squall: When I come strutting in with your leggings on I don't wanna hear shit.

[queenandani]

Tifa: It sounds to me like you are trying to jump straight to solving the problem instead of processing this emotionally.

Cloud: If I solve the problem, then I won't have the emotions anymore! Thats how you deal with emotions right?

[emi-chan674]

Squall: I like your new pants!

Zell: Thanks, they were 50% off!

Squall: I’d like them better if they were 100% off. *winks*

Zell: The store can’t just give away clothes for free.

Squall: Thats’s… not what I meant.

Zell: That’s a terrible way to run a business, Squall.

[uselessmateria]

Parks & Rec quotes as Final Fantasy VIII characters. 

[the-imperial-nuisance]

[The Warrior and Fray are speaking together in the midst of a massive battle.]

Fray: You want to wreak some havoc too, don't you?

WoL: It's a good opportunity to test out my training.

WoL: Thanks to you, I feel like I can take on anyone. Even if they do fight dirty, like you.

Fray, turning away: ... You'll thank me when the time comes.

[shockwavepulsar]

Quistis: I can't believe I just slept for 15 hours. What did I miss?

Seifer: this dick

Quistis: Oh, thank God. I thought I missed something big.