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[kiffie]

I was happily browsing some fanfic archives.

And I even found a story whose summary sounded interesting.

But if, within one paragraph, you horribly misspell "Noonien Soong"? And continue to misspell it throughout the entire fic?

I'm not going to read it.

Comments

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I don't understand people who spell it several different wrong ways in one fic.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

"LOLERZ. I dun kno wut i am doing, so let's try them all!!!1!11!"

Perhaps? XD

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Yes, it could be.

Is it so hard to spell a name that's in the OPENING CREDITS of the show being ficced for an entire season? Is it? If you like the character, why don't you spell her name right, huh?

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Oh, lord.

I call them people "speshul".

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Speshul like a kick in the head. 9_9 What gets me is sometimes these stories are reccommended to me as being really rather good and a fairly sensitive portrayal of a character usually either ignored or villainized by the fandom. (The example I'm thinking of is the ex-wife of the main character in a series popular with slashers and also with people who write "gen-fic" which has supposedly platonic naked bathing and french-kissing of men. Yes. WTF, I say.)

Then there are those who spell it some non-canon way because they like that way better. -_- Even though the way they spell it would logically be pronounced differently. Talk about disrespecting the character.