no one wants to see a lumberjack dance the cooch

[recrudescence]

Pet peeve time!

1) If you do not run your fic by a beta, please do not announce it in your author's note. What's the point? I can't imagine it's going to get you any readers.

2) PHASE vs. FAZE, omg. You go through a phase. You may be fazed by it. I see this mistake so often I almost started to doubt myself.

3) Criminal Minds, you're already on my bad side for what you're doing to JJ and Prentiss. Can you at least throw me a bone and make Garcia's lipstick a little less garish? I'm trying to find something to be pleased with, but you're really making me work for it.

4) Glee, Jacob Ben Israel is expendable and don't you forget it.

5) Inception, it really kind of irks me that every main character except Yusuf gets one of those big nifty mosaic-framed promo shots. Or if he did get one, I've certainly never seen it. Chubby brown guys need to get repped, too.

...hi, I'm a little cranky. I think I'll go finish S1 of Carnivale.

Comments

[rainbow-goddess.livejournal.com]

I saw a fic announcement on an LJ comm I belong to, and I fully intended to read it until I came upon the part that said, "I didn't use a beta reader and I don't care about spelling and grammar mistakes. Deal with it." And there was a spelling error in the LJ-cut text. Guess what I DIDN'T read.

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that isn't off-putting in the slightest. Having a cavalier outlook on your work is one thing, but some tidbits are better left unsaid than advertised, you know?