Things I Am Crotchety About, Rant #2

[cesperanza]

So my last mega-fandom was SGA, and the thing is, I could pretty much go anywhere with SGA, because in a way, the characters were paper thin: you tell me John Sheppard is a robot, I say sure! A dogwalker? Fine! A barista--with that hair, absolutely! He wears lingerie under his uniform: makes perfect sense. And Rodney--you could do anything with

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[rhuad]

I so agree with you!! It distracts from the story, and I just can't get past huge historical inaccuracies. Poor spelling - no problem. Grammar all over the place - no problem. Totally AU - love it! But Steve's mother taking lots of pictures of wee Steve and Bucky - it was the 1930s, people, get real!

[cesperanza]

Seriously, what I was complaining about wasn't EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THAT LEVEL OF STUPID.

[cesperanza]

I"m still OMGing.

[hafital]

hahah - you are reminding me of all those stories with Tom Paris listening to Nirvana in his quarters.

[dhrachth]

I think my biggest peeve is all the Steve & Bucky on social media fics. They're certainly smart enough to figure out how Instagram works and might do it a little for PR reasons, but I just don't buy someone from the 40s (especially someone with a covert operations background) really embracing social media. I grew up in the 80s and I think people who put all their personal real life stuff on the internet are nuts.

[cesperanza]

LOL - right. Especially with Steve's ideas of privacy, and Bucky being a GHOST.

[pir8fancier]

Of course, I agree with you entirely about SGA. You can push John and Rodney pretty much anywhere and they just trot along side you with goofy grins on their faces

[jackycomelately]

It’s a much more superficial thing than what you’re referencing, but I was totally thrown out of a story once by Steve pouring his unfinished milk down the drain. No! He just wouldn’t. Even putting aside all the depression stereotypes, he was a poor kid. At the very least he’d put his glass in the fridge and drink it later.