kiffie: Star Trek's Enterprise-D. (Enemy Ace)
kiffie ([personal profile] kiffie) wrote2006-11-08 10:49 pm

To Fantwits

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.

[identity profile] kiffie.livejournal.com 2006-11-09 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, lord.

I call them people "speshul".

[identity profile] eliyes.livejournal.com 2006-11-09 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
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.