Hey, sorry about not updating the story. I am working on the next chapter but it is slow going. In the meantime, I have an add on to the Pet Peeve List
I've just got all up-to-date on Faustian Hopscotch, so came browsing through your other posts. I do like these pet peeves. I agree with most of them, and have one of my own to add: use of technology before it was invented. I was reading a story a while back, that had 12 year old Sam using the Internet to research his school work. By my calculations, Sam was 12 in 1995. Internet explorer v.1 was released in August '95, so is it really likely that a small backwater school would be all linked up? It's the same with cellphones; in the early 90s the boys wouldn't have had them; they were too big and expensive. Pagers maybe. Cameraphones didn't exist until after 2002. Little things, they can throw a reader right out of a fic.
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I do like these pet peeves. I agree with most of them, and have one of my own to add: use of technology before it was invented. I was reading a story a while back, that had 12 year old Sam using the Internet to research his school work. By my calculations, Sam was 12 in 1995. Internet explorer v.1 was released in August '95, so is it really likely that a small backwater school would be all linked up? It's the same with cellphones; in the early 90s the boys wouldn't have had them; they were too big and expensive. Pagers maybe. Cameraphones didn't exist until after 2002.
Little things, they can throw a reader right out of a fic.
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