Tell me it's not just me, please. I read far, far too much fanfic (shocker), but it seems someone announced badfic week and didn't tell me. Some examples from just this last week and these are almost painful just to cut & paste:
"You don't know how much I want that magnificent mound of man meat pummelling into me"
"Sherlock slips his dominant hand over John's flaccid love truncheon" this one also featured his "thick sausage".
I just... if you can't type the word cock you probably shouldn't be writing slashfic, also how old are you and where on *earth* did you get those phrases from!?!
vicarious instead of precarious - which in context changed the sentence quite considerably and it happened repeatedly in this fic.
defiantly instead of definitely - I see this a lot and it's really starting to annoy me now.
Also, how hard is it to spellcheck things? Really? Not that hard I'm thinking. Definitely not as hard as trying to read some of this stuff...
And then there're the stories themselves:
We have the buggery without any preparation at all (actually and specifically without prep and not in a rape or BDSM scenario), which y'know, doesn't strike me as a wildly enjoyable idea, despite what the author seems to think.
We also have the massively out of character characters, where if they didn't keep mentioning the names every few lines, I would have no clue who they were meant to be, or even which show they were from.
There is more, but I can't bring myself to detail it all anymore, I'll just end up crying.
It's possible I'm just being a snobby bitch and it's true, no-one is forcing me to read this stuff, but still... I will overlook a variety of errors for a good story, but some things... I know some of my early stuff is bad, but I don't think it was ever *this* bad. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though - I'm happy to take concrit.
"You don't know how much I want that magnificent mound of man meat pummelling into me"
"Sherlock slips his dominant hand over John's flaccid love truncheon" this one also featured his "thick sausage".
I just... if you can't type the word cock you probably shouldn't be writing slashfic, also how old are you and where on *earth* did you get those phrases from!?!
vicarious instead of precarious - which in context changed the sentence quite considerably and it happened repeatedly in this fic.
defiantly instead of definitely - I see this a lot and it's really starting to annoy me now.
Also, how hard is it to spellcheck things? Really? Not that hard I'm thinking. Definitely not as hard as trying to read some of this stuff...
And then there're the stories themselves:
We have the buggery without any preparation at all (actually and specifically without prep and not in a rape or BDSM scenario), which y'know, doesn't strike me as a wildly enjoyable idea, despite what the author seems to think.
We also have the massively out of character characters, where if they didn't keep mentioning the names every few lines, I would have no clue who they were meant to be, or even which show they were from.
There is more, but I can't bring myself to detail it all anymore, I'll just end up crying.
It's possible I'm just being a snobby bitch and it's true, no-one is forcing me to read this stuff, but still... I will overlook a variety of errors for a good story, but some things... I know some of my early stuff is bad, but I don't think it was ever *this* bad. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though - I'm happy to take concrit.