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

[hannahrorlove.livejournal.com]

Hi, I'm anxious for no good reason. Wanna hang out?

[jibrailis.livejournal.com]

I know, what's with them not giving Yusuf a character promo shot? *is grumpy about it too*

[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.

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

ITA on everything. Especially the Glee and CM ranting.

(God, I need to re-watch Carnivale.)

[sorrynotsorry.livejournal.com]

1. LORD YES. There was one I saw the other day with an unbeta'd warning and I was really offended by it for a variety of reasons.

5. Yusuf never gets enough love. D: D: D:

[elliptic-eye.livejournal.com]

3) I'm hoping bitterly that the "there's plenty of big, strong men around here" line was intended by the writers to be every bit as pointed as I construed it to be.

[valiant.livejournal.com]

I feel the need to say "This has not been betaed" aka "jsyk, I am aware it is a mess, there is no need to inform me" so people will be less likely to give me a non-con beta in a comment, which has happened to me. If that means they don't read it, whatevs.

[dementedsiren.livejournal.com]

Yes to unbetaed warnings(I'm of the strong belief that if you feel the need to apologize upfront for the quality of your fic, then you probably shouldn't be posting it, though I'm sure I've done it in the past as well).

I can't say anything about Glee because I'm wondering whether I actually want to watch 2x02. I really don't like where they've gone, and I don't know if I want to trust them enough to see where they're going.

Re. Yusuf: This icon. It was the 2nd icon I picked up for Inception and seriously. What bothers me the most, I think, isn't just that he's rarely the "star" of fic. It's how he's generally treated in so many of the fics he's in (comic relief, silly, always eating sloppily, etc.). Gr.

[the-samosaurus.livejournal.com]

I want to see a lumberjack dance the cooch.

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

I'll generally put an "unbeta'd" in the notes, as a sort of notice to readers that it's find to let me know if there's a typo or some egregious error I've managed to miss. Generally my feeling is (and I could be wrong) that people are less likely to point that stuff out if the fic has been beta'd because they don't want to step on the beta's toes. That's how I feel, anyway. So instead of throwing myself open to beta by gangbang, I'll just put the note in there and that way people can bring stuff to my attention without feeling like they're taking liberties.

YMMV.