Fanfic Pet Peeves

[Falcon Horus]

Start a poll?

Nah, I'll make a list from things said in this thread... and go from there.

[Sparky She-Demon]

Nah, I'll make a list from things said in this thread... and go from there.

Don't forget Trolls being a pet peeve!

[iiradned]

But why read a fic with a pairing you dislike? Why do you want to do that?

Almost all such fics I have read were not labeled as to with pairing the author was going for. And it was a few years ago when I was still new to SG-1 fanfics.

[iamdragonrider]

But moaning about a pairing or character being in a fic, when said fic was marked with it? I don't get that.

Or moaning about the lack of particular pairings. I remember getting all sorts of those types reviews when I first started posting my stories. I guess people really enjoyed my story or style of writing or something, but I would always receive a handful of hopeful "you should get Sam and Jack together" no matter that I hadn't even hinted at any sort of pairing, or that it would be physically impossible or psychologically improbably given the scenarios I tended to write them into. Like, oh, Sam's a child, and Jack's an adult, or Sam's a cat, and Jack's human. I mean, can you imagine? But yes, even then there were at least several requests that the situation eventually lead to them hooking up. So I guess there are those who are just never completely satisfied unless the story has their particular ship with a happy ending, no matter how disturbing it might be for it to come about.

[fems]

Or moaning about the lack of particular pairings. I remember getting all sorts of those types reviews when I first started posting my stories. I guess people really enjoyed my story or style of writing or something, but I would always receive a handful of hopeful "you should get Sam and Jack together" no matter that I hadn't even hinted at any sort of pairing, or that it would be physically impossible or psychologically improbably given the scenarios I tended to write them into. Like, oh, Sam's a child, and Jack's an adult, or Sam's a cat, and Jack's human. I mean, can you imagine? But yes, even then there were at least several requests that the situation eventually lead to them hooking up. So I guess there are those who are just never completely satisfied unless the story has their particular ship with a happy ending, no matter how disturbing it might be for it to come about.

Yeah, don't these people know Jack's a dog person?! Or was that not the issue about the situation/pairing?

[iamdragonrider]

Yeah, don't these people know Jack's a dog person?! Or was that not the issue about the situation/pairing?

Hmmm.... it might have been like cats and dogs. But what's a little interspecies pairing between die hard shippers right?

[brendini]

Hmmm.... it might have been like cats and dogs. But what's a little interspecies pairing between die hard shippers right?

I'm so glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that! It would have ended up all down the front of me lol

[Indigo]

Unless it's just my computer (pretty sure it's not), it seems ff.net did something that makes it so you can't use your mouse to hi-lite text in the story. It still works for the header information above the actual story text, just not in the story itself. I assume this is an anti-plagiarism thing meant to make it difficult to copy other people's work? Though it is probably pretty easy to get around, perhaps just by turning off javascript.

Whatever, is really annoying. I have a lot of trouble keeping my place on a big screen of text, so I tend to hi-lite the paragraph I am on, or a portion of it if it is big or a couple if they are very small. Whatever, I hi-lite the section I am reading. Now I've been reading on ff.net anyway despite not being able to do that, and it is giving me a headache.

[Amara D'Angeli]

Yep - it's one of the new features. Supposedly we'll be able to turn it on and off for our own fics later on, but last I heard there was no word on when that might be.

[Whytewytch]

Hmmm.... it might have been like cats and dogs. But what's a little interspecies pairing between die hard shippers right?

A friend shared this video the other day. PUT DOWN THE COFFEE OR OTHER DRINK THAT COULD BE A POTENTIAL CHOKING HAZARD. Then click "play".

[Falcon Horus]

That's brilliant!!

[Samantha-Carter-is-my-muse]

Very catchy

[Raelis]

The vid is great, and it gets extra points from me for featuring one of my favorite characters!

[AmberLM]

It's more of a personal thing rather than a huge peeve but I hate it when I'm reading a fabulously well-written ship fic and then bam! It veers right off canon into OOC land. No warning, usually just a subtle undercurrent of smouldering UST and posturing about reg-breaking and then suddenly Sam or Jack says "meh, screw the regs, wanna do it on the table/in a storage closet/in front of Hammond?" And they get away with it just because Jacob and/or Hammond has a quiet word about discretion or they turn a blind eye.

One of the things I like about that pairing is that they would *never* do that until it was legal and above board.

[Falcon Horus]

...in front of Hammond?" ... Hammond has a quiet word about discretion or they turn a blind eye.

That's going to be one hell of a blind eye, I imagine.