Fanfic Pet Peeves, Post #293184

[kitsjay]

1. Describing clothing in excruciating detail (especially when it's fugly) and making it OOCYour characters are going to a club. Okay, let's assume that they're the type to go to clubs and do that sort of thing. Character A comes out wearing a white tank top with the bottom cut off to show off his stomach, the sleeves ripped off, a mesh shirt over

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Laughing/shamefacing right now, since I may literally have written an entire 1,000 word WIP just for the sole purpose of getting Sherlock covered in glitter (and high, incidentally). Look, I had a mental image, and I couldn't figure out how to get there!

It's pretty funny, since every time you make a Pet Peeves list, I've done at least one thing on there.

Also, since when did you watch SGA? Hello, John Sheppard's crazy hair. John Sheppard is kind of my fandom bicycle.

[kitsjay]

Lol. I have no worries if the story provides an explanation. So if Sherlock is high and in glitter, okay. If the character has a kooky, alternative friend who begs the person to put some on, maybe.

But just having him suddenly be like, "Omg, eyeliner guyz!" doesn't work for me.

afjsdklafj There's always the exceptions to the rules, dearie.

Fuck yeah! Remember we talked about this? I fucking LOVE SGA. I remember watching the very first eppie when it aired. Oh, Sheppard's hair. My friend actually has an LJ icon with a picture of me and an arrow to my hair saying, "Shep hair". Feel the love.

John Sheppard is everyone's fandom bicycle. Seriously, just... that man!

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Yes, basically Sherlock is undercover as a club kid (I KNOW) and then he takes some random pills (to keep his cover) and then someone decides it's a great idea to get that tall guy over there to take his clothes off and cover him with glitter body paint, and John is like ghajklshlgaksjdhgljasdf WHAT.

Not much of an explanation, but maybe it'll work.

I seem to have a fandom bicycle for each fandom I'm in. Jim Kirk, Sherlock, John Sheppard, Tony Stark . . . Can you if Sherlock and Sheppard got together? Most emotionally constipated relationship ever.

This story is Jim Kirk/John Sheppard and it's amazing. I know there's a kink meme fill out there that's Watson/Sheppard/Kirk/Harkness, man, let me find that. HERE JSGHAJSHDF

[implication]

I put books by professional authors back on the bookstore shelves because they don't have a summary on the back cover

Oh good, I'm not the only person who does this. I don't care how pretty/shiny your cover is, or how interesting the title sounds. There had better be a summary or I'm putting it back on the shelf.

Does this count as judging a book by its cover?

[kitsjay]

Heh. I think it's judging a book by its author--seriously, I get so annoyed when all it is consists of, "Omg, this book is sooo good!" and "This author is amazing!"

Well, thanks, but I'd rather know what the book was about, dudes.

[_celtic_rose_]

1. I immediately pictured the gay man child of Ke$ha and David Bowie

[kitsjay]

1. Which is now going to be what I picture from now on.

... thank you. :D

2. ajfksldafj Taco Bell is always the right prescription, clearly!

3. I KNOW. It drives me nuts. Not having a beta is annoying, but okay, it takes time and effort. Spell-check? DOES NOT TAKE THAT LONG. And can substantially improve fics. Oi.

4. Oooh yeah. It's like, "Um, if you need to explain what's happening in your story through an author's note, you're DOING IT WRONG."

5. Exactly. Though "Summary Unicorns!" is my new favorite thing, fyi.

[_celtic_rose_]

1. you are ridiculously welcome

5. haha, i've been using Unicorns alot as analogies.

[be_merry]

Do I even want to know what fandom the first one is from? I have a sneaking suspicion I've read it before...

...How do you confuse "disdain" and "distain"? I know most people don't enunciate anymore but come on!

To be fair to five, I have a really, really hard time coming up with summaries. I don't know why but I do and it drives me up the wall. (Though everything else you pointed out there is completely accurate.)

[kitsjay]

It's shown up in every fandom. I have no idea what it is. It's just--it's like songfics. Songs affect everyone in different ways, so either (a) I won't know the song, so it's just annoying, or (b) I don't think of the song like the way the author is, so it's annoying. Occasionally I'll see it done well, but not very often. I feel like clothes are the same way--unless it's something really common, or universally hot, then I'm not going to buy it. And it REALLY bugs me when it's OOC. Like, if Dom suddenly started wearing a suit jacket everywhere. Um, not buying it, sorry.

I HAVE NO IDEA. I seriously have seen it by THREE AUTHORS NOW. I'm just--wha?

Yeah, but even a sucky summary that actually TELLS you something about the story is better than nothing at all, y'know?

[be_merry]

I have nothing coherent to add to this except that the last sentence in the first paragraph made me think: "OMG! It's mafia!Dom." I'm amused by this idea (especially since, you know, he IS Italian...).

[kitsjay]

LIKE A BOSS, BABY.