Another little fic rant thing...

[switch842]

If on the show you are writing a fic for, the characters are seen freely saying the phrases "Oh my God" or "Thank God," why would you then write these characters as saying "Oh my gawd" thence turning them into a valley girl and me to immediately stop reading the story or "Thanks the gods" turning them into ancient Greeks and again me to stop reading the story? Seriously. If you have such offence to those phrases, pick something else entirely that's not even close. Like, "Holy crap!" or even "Thank goodness." But "gawd" and "the gods"? No. Just no.

Comments

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Oh, I hate that. Nowadays, that's a "hit the back button" word for me. *g*

[switch842.livejournal.com]

Me too. I stop right there and read no further. I just saw another one yesterday that someone had studied "Marshall Arts". WTF? Is that like, the kinds of paintings law enforcement officers do? Ugh.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Bwah! That's a new one to me. Not quite the same thing, but I was just reading something someone wrote about "barrying" a body. *g*