Back button offenses
Nov. 15th, 2012 10:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What are your back button offenses in fic? Things that will make you hit the back button and stop reading, no matter how promising the premise/summary/pairing?
A really big one of mine is the use of epithets for characters. No, seriously: a single instance of "the blond Slytherin" or "the detective" (or god forbid, "the older man" - especially from said older man's POV!) and I'm out of there. I can put up with too many adverbs, overuse and abuse of dialogue tags (meaningful glance at JKR here), and even every other sentence starting with a gerund (though I mentally restructure the sentences after a while), but not character euphemisms.
In my decade of reading fanfic, my experience has been that epithet use is typically a symptom of a larger problem and is almost always accompanied by a whole host of other writing problems that will distract me from the fic to the point that I don't enjoy it. At all.
So I back button. :-P
You?
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Edit: I finally got home from work and got everyone fed and had a chance to sit down and check email, and y'all have been having a whole huge conversation on here! Carry on, then. :-P
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Date: 2012-11-15 11:40 pm (UTC)And Mulder/Krycek, I can totally see that! I loved that the actor who played Kycek appeared in that one episode with the sex crazed alien or whatever he was and barely survived, but nobody EVER referred to it later. XD
Yeah, we do have boyscouts, but no girlscouts and there's no cookie selling culture either. We do have summer-camp like things though. I never went to one, so I honestly have no clue what's going on there.
The epitome of boy scouts for me were always Huey, Dewey, and Louie (hehe, had to look that up, we call them "Tick, Trick and Track" XD), they were prepared for everything and if not they always had that Junior Woodchucks Guidebook (again had to look it up, our names translates backwards to English as "the smart/brainy book", which I much prefer). Steve/Tony, it's ridiculous how much of a thing I have for the two of them. Rewatching Captain America has made me fall in love with Steve even more than I thought possible, because the first time round the movie and I just didn't really spark. Same thing happened with Despicable Me though, each time I watch it now it becomes funnier :)
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Date: 2012-11-16 02:19 am (UTC)