Laughable Fanfiction Mistakes
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- Have you ever read a fanfiction where you knew a lot about a certain subject involved, but clearly the author didn't? Have you seen your job, hobbies, or other interests misrepresented due to lack of knowledge, and you just couldn't help but laugh about it? Here are some examples from Reddit. I'd love to hear your own experiences in the comments!
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It really pisses me off when smut writers use the "they're saying no but their body is reacting a certain way, which means they enjoy it" trope. No, no, no! Bodily reactions to sexual stimulation are NOT a reliable indicator of what the person wants. Stop gaslighting rape victims! It's not sexy!
IKR THIS IS LITERALLY A TEXTBOOK VICITM BLAMING THING WHY DO POEPLE THINK THIS
AND THAT, MY GOOD FELLOW, IS NOT CONSENT.
Like just write direct non-con and state very clearly that your work contains non-con so people can put the book down/fanfic away faster
I actually like that…. 😅
@@milla5454 get some help girl
@@milla5454?
It annoys me how in all art school fics, the MC falls in love or gets turned on by the naked model in their figure drawing class. Y'all, figure drawing class is not sexy. I blame Titanic 😭
Figure drawing is genuinely one of the most unsexy classes you could ever be in. You're drawing either super fast gestures or slow and precise life drawings, in a cramped room full of equally stressed-out art students, with a highly critical teacher circling behind everyone until they stop to hover over your shoulder to point out about 8 mistakes you made in the last 5 minutes. You're tired yet wired on caffeine and covered in charcoal, sitting there for 2-3 hours just trying to make the chin look right before class is over. The models are usually A: incredibly average fellow students getting some extra cash, B: weird creepy old dudes with saggy junk, or C: random women with the most interesting life story you will ever hear in your damn life.
As a now high-school student, last year (8th grade) we had to paint a statue of David and even though I'm gay, I was not turned on because I was more focused on why my painting had the anatomy of Miguel O'Hara instead of a normal human being.
I got an A on it though.
“DO NOT BLOW THE CHARCOAL!!” And any nude model I’ve ever had to draw has been pretty…. Unsexy looking. It’s FOR DRAWING. Who CARES how they look?
Now I want a comedic art fic where the nude model thinks the artist is into them but the artist is just getting frustrated over the drawing 😂
I want an art fic where a student is desperately trying to draw the figure in front of them, on the verge of tears with charcoal on their everything. and said figure, is their crush/love interest but the artist is so distracted and focused (and distressed) they don’t even notice till they are looking at their pictures later on in the day.
Not a fanfic but these videos i once watched. A character randomly began losing her hair and her family took her to the doctor. She had cancer. But cancer doesnt make you lose your hair... The chemo does!
i remeber watching a similar video. the character had like super long air and it started falling out and she suddenly had brain cancer? i couldnt keep watching it
This sounds so gacha life lmao
@@moonoftheblood Probably because it is gacha life 😅
@@ZooomieMoth AHAHAHAHAHA NO WAY I KNEW IT
@@ZooomieMoth I must watch this..
The only thing that comes to mind for me is this infamous Warriors fanfic that spelled "shapeshifter" as "shapeshitter."
Shapeshitting: 🤎🟤🟫
Oh DEAR
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Starkit’s Prophecy my beloved
HHAHAHAHAHA
if you ever feel bad about making a writing mistake that feels obvious, remember that Shakespeare's famous "exit, pursued by a bear" scene takes place on the shores of Bohemia, aka the Czech republic, aka a country that is very much landlocked. we've all done it.
Shakespeare also wrote the entire play "Merchant of Venice" without ever knowing about Venice's canals or that it's an island surrounded by water. He only mentioned it once being a "land", and boats or canals never are important. All he seemed to know about the place is that it was a center of trade with a lot of rich people.
@@japanpanda2179 As someone having to read this for school, he also likely never visited the Ghetto, so his writing for the main antagonist is interesting!
He’s also extremely inconsistent in Twelfth Night regarding whether Orsino is supposed to be a count or a duke.
He makes a similar mistake in "Taming Of The Shrew"! The character Tranio uses the phrase "come ashore" when he and several other characters have arrived in Padua...which is a landlocked city. Between that and him accidentally using pounds at one point to signify money, I suspect that Shakespeare legitimately never left his home country.
@@titledgoose866 The Merchant of Venice was HELLA antisemitic. Shylock didn't even get defeated because he's a shitty person but because he's Jewish.
I once read a fanfiction author who *consistently* had all pregnancies last 6 months. All of them. Never described as unusual, none said to be premature. The comments were wild.
oh my god this one got me
With normal human characters? I mean, I could get it if the author worked with animal/non human characters, or some modified biology as the abo system.
Babe what were the comments I suddenly need to know
They just grow up so fast 😭
i looked it up and the only animals that have pregnancies around 6 months long are non-human primates. if i ever stumble upon one of this author’s fanfics, i’m gonna picture all the characters as monkeys lol
not so much my special interest or job or anything, but i once saw a fic involving heinz doofenshmirtz where he didnt know what sex was. for reference, he is canonically the father of a teenaged daughter and is divorced. i didnt even read the rest of it because i didnt trust the author with his character after that sentence
Yeah, I’ve seen something similar. I once read a fic where a character who was happily married and had multiple children with his wife needed it explained to him when another character mentioned procreation. One could argue that he simply didn’t know what the big word meant, but given that the author literally wrote “‘What does that mean?’ he asked, the picture of innocence,” and described his eyes widening in shock when it was explained…
maybe Vanessa is a robot
This is the same guy whose mother didn’t show up to his own birth, I think we can safely say there must be some weird reality bending loophole that would allow for him to have a daughter and still not know what sex is
Charlene be looking sus!
Maybe in the Phineas and Ferb universe babies are brought by Storks wearing fedoras.
Yeah
As a fic writer I either do to much research or none at all. In the end I just go “fuck it we ball”
Same 😭
as a fic writer, I have 2 sides:
Overthink every little thing, spend forever on research, double checking if words mean what I think the mean and end up with an extremely weird and suspicious google search history
"Fuck it we ball"
I personally go for "f*ck it we bal- wait how do i spell this, oh i got this fact wrong, imma fix that rq"
At this point I'm starting to question if I _can_ write something without doing needless amounts of research! It's usually such overkill but for some reason I am determined to not make a single mistake a human-and _especially_ my target demographic-would ever notice 😂
Me, fanfic writer in the Hamilton Fandom:
*stares intensely at a black n white Peggy Schuyler portrait* You had brown hair I assume.
Doing research sounds like a chore but not doing it and ending up in a comment thread of shame sounds much worse.
Not really a skill, but as a Polish speaker i was once reading a smut fic where one of the characters was Polish as well. The author clearly had no knowledge of the language but decided to put in some machine-translated phrases into the dialogue which is all fine and well by itself. But when the characters actually started going at it and the Polish one said "shit"... Instead of an exclamation of pleasure they used the term for actual, literal feces. It took me out of the moment so hard i couldn't finish the fic due to giggling uncontrollably whenever the scene crossed my mind.
So, monolingual authors, always double check the meaning of the words you're translating when writing a multilingual character. Especially during highly emotional scenes 👍
Czekaj, czyli dosłownie powiedział gówno?
@@spocony.krasnolud I'd assume so, yes. If "gówno" isn't used as an exclamation, what might be an equivalent Polish one?
I'm French. The ammount of Google translated shit I see everywhere...
Can we please stop punctuating everything a frenchman says with "oui" ? It just doesn't happen.
@@japanpanda2179 shit may be translated to "cholera!"
I tried to translate a Polish fanfic into English once and got the sentence “he pulled the sword out of his vagina”
Half the reason i take so long to write something is procrastination. The other half is research because I need to make things accurate. Still mess up though.
AMEN TO THAT, MY GUY
I once did a mildly concerning amount of research on, get this, kitchen pantries for a bit of RP I was doing. How do pantries open? Do they have locks? How large are they typically? Do professional kitchens have walk in pantries? Just. Pantries.
Same. I have so much research on different types of wood now bc of one throwaway line about a coffee table.
I spent hours reading up on the do’s and don’ts of soapmaking for a bit of worldbuilding that isn’t ever gonna be brought to the attention of the main POV character.
@@a.n.9800 I once spent hours looking up the origins of a teacup for a fic that never made it to light😭😭😭
"He just had some broken ribs so it didn't hurt too much" when his crush accidentally jabs him into the ribs.
Broken ribs hit like shit. I couldn't even get up alone for 10 days, and it was always with excruciating pain. I had to lock up my cat who I usually sleep with because her weight on my torso would've been unbearable.
"just some broken ribs" ?????
@@darkacadpresenceinblood Trust me, it took all of my willpower to not rush to the comment section to HMM ACTUALLY
You have better self control than me, I couldn’t have held it back lol
Wait does that mean she broke his ribs with like a little poke? Did he have glass bones and paper skin?
@@appelofdoom8211 His bones broke from a prior incident, so it was like "it doesn't hurt too much if your broken bone gets hit again" (yes it does)
Now we need the opposite of this: fanfic writers going above and beyond for research that surprises the people of those backgrounds.
Yes please!
She already made a video on this topic
I did this before with a smut oneshot because I needed some worldbuilding (it was based off the premise of Twilight). When I stopped because I eventually lost interest, I already had 6k words and I hadn’t even written any smut yet.
Me being a musician with a special interest in music theory and singing😅
A diabetic character who stopped having diabetes as if it where a disease like the common cold. Like they made no changes to their lifestyle or diet, not even taking any diabetes related medicine. Just one day they have it, the next day it's gone.
I've met real life diabetics who claim that's happened to them.
people are crazy
@Ripthischannel7895 Yes but it doesn't ACTUALLY go away.
Hey, when I asked to have medication that would need to be renewed every few months, the lady at the other end of the phone said something along the lines of: "For how long? Because your diabetes will go away sometimes, right?"
😂
I blame Wilford Brimley. He stopped doing Liberty Medical ads, so he must have stopped having diabeetus.
I have type 1 and it’s especially annoying when it “comes and goes out of nowhere”. Ma’am if it comes out of nowhere it isn’t going away I’m sorry to break it to you 😭😭😭
I can't read anything where a psychologist or therapist has sex with their client. It's such a deep violation of HIPAA and makes me (a grad student) so viscerally uncomfortable that i genuinely can't continue
Holy shit as someone studying to be a therapist that's a massive breach of APA ethics
I feel like most people know it's not realistic though, they just think the dynamic is hot 💀
As someone who wants to be a psychologist in the future, the levels of consent are questionable at best and non-existant at worst.
Trying to put religious imagery in my stories is super funny because I’ve always been atheist.
It took me literal MONTHS to remember that priests aren’t allowed to have kids
The vow of abstinence is literally the hottest part about priests (in fiction)
@@NekoChanSenpai Fleabag show be like:
Tbf it does depend on the denomination
It used to be if you didn't have a wife and kids you were seen as not trustworthy enough to be a priest. I forget when that changed though
afaik that's only in Catholicism. Orthodox priests are allowed to have wives and children, as are Protestant pastors.
its so annoying to me that if a character has depression and multiple suicide attempts, the hospital will just go: oh you silly goose, not again!!! be careful. and just send them back home????? what??? also not sure if this is a common thing i just read it once and was hella confused
edit: okay now i’ve found out that this is an actual thing that happens according to the replies, and that’s just not cool :/
tbf, i have multiple friends who’ve been to the hospital for suicide attempts/threatening them and that’s exactly what the hospital did
Happy to know that you're unsure whether this is real. Unfortunately, this is exactly what Doctors do in the UK.
Yeah that’s happened to me and friends of mine. Sadly it’s accurate in the uk at least
Can confirm it’s accurate in the US, too. I have severe bipolar and mental health crises are a nightmare to navigate. The hospital is only staffed for emergencies, like active suicide attempts, and then they try to refer you to community services for follow up treatment, because mental health recovery is the work of a lifetime, and you need long-term support. Sometimes, though, that referral consists of “follow up with your provider” and then they turf you.
Unfortunately, suicidal people rarely follow up, either because they can’t access treatment due to wait lists or rural understaffing (psychiatrists are in huge demand in most countries) or won’t navigate the process, which is, admittedly, about as complicated and obnoxious as it’s possible to be, because they’re too depressed to take care of themselves.
The key to good mental health is-unfairly-to have support services set up while you’re stable. I’m a firm believer that everyone should have a therapist at all times, even healthy people, because you don’t have to go see them more than once a year or so after you set up that relationship, and you can just blather about work or whatever for an hour, but then that contact is there and ready if you ever need it. I learned the hard way to plan in advance for episodes and stress. Whenever I move to a new area, the first thing I do is put my name on multiple waitlists to see a bunch of different providers. That way I can eventually end up with someone I like and trust out of that group (different people like different things in a doctor), and I can always cancel. A lot of people wait until life gets bad, and that’s just not going to keep you alive with our healthcare system. If you’re reading this-even if you’re 100% fine-consider at least taking a look at the services in your area and know how to find someone if you (or a family member or friend) might need one.
@@rainewhispers739thats awful. guess i had too much faith in the mental health care system :/
Once read a smut scene, and the whole time I couldn't focus, cause they were ON A BEACH. THEY MENTIONED LAYING ON THE SAND MULTIPLE TIMES! the whole time I was thinking "the sand is gonna get everywhere. Why."
something something anakin skywalker
@@REDACTEDbox it gets everywhere! XD
Yeah, at least use a towel!
Beach sex is bad, only followed by anything water sex. The amount of times where fanfic chars get it on in the shower/bathtub/hot/ocean and i'm sitting there, eyes twitching and wanting to die.
The "writing about religions you know nothing about" thing sets my teeth on edge. I'm writing a book where the main characters are Jewish and Muslim. I have put _so much effort_ into research over the past few years and gotten so much help making sure I'm portraying them well. But I'm genuinely almost afraid of the book getting popular because I just know if it did it would spawn some truly ignorant fanfiction, especially with the state of the world right now.
It sounds like a very interesting book, I hope that if/when you publish, I find your book. It sounds like a fun read.
as a muslim, we get misrepresented SO much in the general media and its one of my least favorite things ever. im really happy that youre at least trying to represent us correctly
i know what u mean by being afraid of it getting popular, thats like my worst fear for my own story
@@Zitronen_ if mine got popular, people would IMMEDIATELY see its inspirations; some would even jump to the conclusion that im copying.
@@smal5504 that's so real bcuz one of my stories shares a lot of similarities to a very popular show (it wasn't directly insp but they have similar plot points) and i imagine that wouldn't go well for me 😭
Avengers fanfic that had a scene where Tony was doing shirtless arc welding. And I don't mean just popping down a couple of quick spot welds. It was a project that would have required hours of work. Imagine the worst sunburn you've ever had, then make it like fives times worse.
Just learnt about arc welding recently and YIIIKES. I cringed from that description 😬😬😬
Yeah, but can you honestly say Tony _wouldn't_ do that?
@@TheFansOfFiction “Sir, welding without a shirt isn’t recommended.”
“You only live once and life is short, Jarvis.”
*a couple hours later, after welding and he’s taking a break from working*
*slumped in a chair* “Auuagh! Why didn’t you tell me this would happen, Jarvis?”
Jarvis, used to Tony’s attitude: “it must’ve slipped my mind, sir.”
😆don’t know if this is 100% accurate, but it’s what came to mind, lol
Writing tip! If you make clear your characters are in the Netherlands don't say they walk into a 'coffee shop'. In the Netherlands 'coffee shop' is a place where you buy drugs. I've only come across this happening twice but it makes me laugh so much.... Just say they're going to get some coffee, not going to a 'coffee shop' lol. Unless they are gonna get drugs, that is🫣
I go to the coffee shop every weekend
@@suspiciousshadeofgreen name checks out
Started reading one about Ducktales and one of the characters gets pregnant, which would be fine if it was a human AU but they specified she was a duck in the first chapter. So idk why she's experiencing morning sickness
Ducktales fics with any pregnancy is always complicated cause they’re kinda anthropomorphic. Like in the pictures of Della’s eggs they’re so big that I can’t imagine they lay regularly? So I kinda understand giving them some traits of human pregnancy leading up to the laying. It’s all a little strange to thing about lmao
To be fair, do we KNOW whether ducks get morning sickness? Don't think we ever asked them how they feel before laying an egg! 😉
@sleepysera it's hard to ask when we don't speak the same tounge..
@@randomwolfygirlwack
it's so weird because in many sources Disney ducks lay eggs
once read a fic where a character impaled someones hand with a knitting needle - like straight through and everything. Later in that same fic, a crochet hook got caught in someones skin like it was a fishing hook or something... both times it was an accident.
What kind of fics are you reading?? Why are they knitting and crocheting to the point where they're stabbing themselves?
How were they even holding them so they could so much as poke themselves? I... what?
HOW AGGRESSIVELY ARE THEY KNITTING / CROCHETING HOLY FUCK DUDE
Oof. I can see using a knitting needle as a weapon, but to stab someone it would take enormous force. My guess is they never actually picked up either of those items.
I crochet and there is NO WAY a crochet hook could stab someone. It’s basically a narrow blunt weapon if anything. Idk how a knitting needle works, but the way you hold a needle makes it INCREDIBLY difficult to stab you self with it
Fun fact: on tv if you are showcasing someone with a government related job then something has to be wrong with the costume or you might be charged with impersonation of a government official. My dad who was part of the military is always pointing out whatever small detail it is. In one show the ensignia on a soldiers hat was upside down.
"something has to be wrong with the costume or you might be charged with impersonation of a government official."
I expected nothing, and yet I am still disappointed. 😞
I think FBI is spelled wrong on the badges in the x files :)
I guess on Stargate SG-1 the mere fact that the USAF were fighting alien gods from space, did the trick. 😂
only in live-action, right?
as a flower nerd who also loves fanfiction, i live in a constant state of rage. i once read a fic where a character pressed a whole uncut peony perfectly flat and nearly started screaming at 3 am
just. flattened an entire flower?? i don't know anything about flowers but just like. common sense and physics should tell you that would work, no?
@@darkacadpresenceinblood most of the time, flowers can easily be pressed with enough weight. flowers that are thick are generally considered unsuitable for pressing without modification. peonies are CHUNKY and as such pressing is not recommended unless you cut them vertically down the center, which can be rather difficult to do :)
Aren't peonies like a dense mass of petals?? Unless you've got a hydraulic press you wouldn't really be able to FLATTEN it would you??
Peonies are one of my favorite flowers. My grandmother grows them in her garden. Reading this comment made me widen my eyes and shake my head a little. I have actually pressed a peony before, and let me tell you it was h a r d. I needed my grandma’s help through basically the entire process, and even then we agreed that it was not gonna work well like the clematis we pressed a day before had. I think the only flower harder to press than a peony for me was when we took a crack at these little hydrangeas that grew along the side of the house. That poor iron...
I can only imagine they got them confused with poppies or smthn cuz flattening a peony sounds HARD
The one where 20 year olds all have top jobs kills me every time!
[Totally not an excuse to infodump] My favorite visual novel, Cool Kid Cody, DOESN'T do this! Characters aren't 20, but most of em are around 18 and I think that's close enough.
Some characters are cameos from the devs' other visual novels. Most of em are background characters right now, but Brownie from Purrfect Apawcalypse, along with Patches and Olive get speaking cameos!
...Although, some of the PA characters are gods. Literally. Social class system type thing. Lowest is losers, then Cool Kids, then Gods. Gods are powerful n stuff tho.
Olive is the God of criminal reformation, and they're 17 in CKC. They're disguised as a Loser, and are named Coffee Shop Barista.
Brownie is a Cool Kid named Luna's Coffee Shop Barista. She's 17 as well. Has a gf named Coco.
Patches is a Loser named Vintage Boutique Worker. He's 18.
Im bored, so here's my favorite scene featuring one of em. You don't gotta read this, it's just really funny.:
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Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: Next!
Pizza Boy approaches the barista and stubs his toe the counter.
Pizza Boy: OW!!
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: We don't have ''OW''. The drink was discontinued after putting twelve people in the hospital.
Pizza Boy: S-sorry! W-what I meant to say was, uhh... I'd like to order, err... W-w-what's it called again?
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: We don't have ''err... W-w-what's it called again.'' That drink's seasonal.
Pizza Boy: N-no! I just forget what it's called. Liquid Tranquilizer? Lunar Nyquil?
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: Loser, we don't have your drink.
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: Here's a tip, don't waste a Cool Kid's time like it's our job to carry you. Come back when you figure out how to order like everyone else.
Pizza Boy: HUH?!? I-I don't need a Cool Kid to carry me!! I used to be as cool as you, y'know. W-way past cool even! S-s-so d-drop the attitude, p-p-p-punk!
The barista is unconvinced. Surrounding Cool Kids stare.
Pizza Boy: I'll show myself out.
Pizza Boy approaches the exit and stubs his toe on the Holden.
Holden: One Lunar Tranquility please! And a dark roast Black Hole Coffee and Starberry Lemonade while you're at it.
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: Size?
Holden: Planet!
Luna's Coffee Shop Barista: Name?
Holden: For this fella here, Peter I believe.
Peter's drink appears in the blink of an eye with the name ''Lououszyerr'' written on it!
Holden: And here I thought you'd improved your spelling.
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Coco I love you and your gf, but you gotta teach her how to spell girlie...
I've got a story that I'm working on where there's one guy in his early 20s who's a CEO of a major tech company. But he's something of a special case since he's secretly a reality-bender who used his powers to create free energy devices and secure faster-than-light communication technology. So his whole company is based on technology that nobody else can replicate.
The only way this can work is either a serious case of nepotism or some alternate reality where children start working as soon as they turn like 5.
in one of the Heroes of Olympus books, one of the characters transforms temporarily into a fish. While reading it aloud to us, my mom was very irked by "goldfish" and "koi" being used interchangeably. What kind of fish is he really? They're not the same thing!
I’m an equestrian and HATE when fanfictions say ‘they pulled on the reins to make their horse to go faster’ like NO!! Two seconds of research will tell you that that’s how you slow down.
Oh man I am sorry. Even knowledge of English phrases would save someone from that mistake. ‘Rein it in?’ ‘Hold your horses?’
Hope they’re having a good day, wherever they are
Even I know that but I’m not an equestrian!
how do you even make that mistake? this may be my texan showing but I think it's prolific enough in media that pull = stop
Holy shit you're from Equestria!!!!
You kick the horse to go fast it's that easy
6:16 I really like this one, because, last I checked, "dilate" means to "open". Which is just the cherry on top of the wrongness sundae.
As a biology nerd, it’s surprisingly not a mistake.
Our eyes have a dilator muscle, which contracts causing the interior of the iris to be pulled outward, which exposes the pupil and makes it appear bigger.
In simpler terms, the hole/opening in the iris dilates.
@@jamie594 yeah, but cat eyes don't dilate to slits. they contract to slits. it's like saying "Her eyes dilated almost to the size of pinholes" or something
@@consumingkazoos Yup. In simplest terms, dilate means something grows larger. Contract means something grows smaller. A slit is smaller than a circle, so it contracted.
10:50 to answer how so many people don’t know basic gun safety, not every country lets people own guns without a license, so if you didn’t live in America and have grown up around guns or just took up gun stuff as a hobby, it’s completely reasonable for someone to not know what they consider basic gun stuff.
FORREAL did bro forget that like most first world countries have banned guns? I live in Australia and I've never even seen a gun irl and the only time they're mentioned is to do with hunting which only the indigenous people are allowed to do anyway so...ofc people dont know how a gun works 😂
I was reading a pregnancy fic that had a trans guy character who was on T, i am a trans guy on T, and it said that both it was impossible to get pregnant on T, not true, and that the fact the character did was a whole "how is this possible" thing, like T isnt a contraceptive or something that makes you infertile
are you by any chance a Khonjin House fan?
If the character got pregnant when they thought they weren’t supposed to be able to, maybe the point was that the character was wrong? Like, I’ve read stories where the characters think they’ll be fine if they use the pull-out method, and then they get pregnant because the pull-out method isn’t a reliable form of birth control. Maybe it was a case like that?
Sure, it wouldn't make pregnancy impossible, but testosterone is definitely a contraceptive, similar to how estrogen is commonly used as a contraceptive: both make the pituitary think that there are enough sex hormones present, so it suppresses the ovaries or testes. This is why athletes who take lots of testosterone usually have fertility problems. Read about it here if you want: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6305868/
Fr? That’s funny because I know a trans girl who somehow managed to get her girlfriend pregnant. I figured she became infertile a long time ago lol
@@hunterlawrence3573 i thought so given its a pretty common misconception but the way it was written felt very like the writer themselves thinks that and the charcter never has a moment realising they were wrong, that could always be the case tho
One of my pet peeves about surgery fics is when writers don't even say a word about the after effects of morphine/ wound care/ PT because I had surgery on my legs when I was 16 and you can't just go home after surgery if you need to have a morphine IV drip for days after. Also, write about chronic pain for years after
12:53 this has always bothered me. I asked my dad once and he basically said "if they kill you you're dead, but if they just bite or scratch you, you become a zombie" I still don't like it, but it's the only thing that made sense.
I like the logic of the Walking Dead. Everyone is infected and being bitten just speeds the process. You become a zombie no matter how you die.
One of my favorite visual novels has zombies.
They either do stuff like this [The zombie character is the one named Zombies]:
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Amidst the products is a small first aid kit!
Olive: I w-wonder why she needs this. C-can't she just heal Angel and Brownie using magic?
Sparky: Oh right! I'm not sure what the extent of her abilities are. I guess, if she could heal she could've just healed Angel's body instead of giving him Patches'...
Olive: ...
Sparky: Oh. Oh no. I-I don't think she can undo death... But she promised the zombies she'd fix their bodies!
Olive: B-but, that means she's going to break her promise!! And they'll all be sad!!
Sparky: I think they'll be more than just sad. We can't tell anyone about this, or else the zombies will freak out!!
Olive: Do you think th-them seeing the first aid kit... They'll g-get suspicious??
As the two speak in hushed whispers, the bathroom door opens. A zombie peers in.
Zombies: OoOoOH SORRY. WILL KNOoOCK NEeXT TIME. NICE FIRST AaAaID KIT.
The zombie slowly shambles away.
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...Or the zombies maul a lesbian black cat named Coco who killed them while trying to kill a serial killer gay dog named Patches.
There's a webtoon called hooves of death which about the four horsemen of the apocalypse. People become zombies because death wasn't doing his job properly.
@@WooperSuper hey i remember that game. Apawcalipse? Or smth like that. I heard there's a sequel (and propably that's the one you were quoting?) but only saw the first one where stuff happen in school.
I often am bothered by the fact the zombies are violent and "attack everything that moves" but they aren't violent against ine another. Like, they just know they're the undead/infected and they're automatically on the same team.
What?
I guess it can make sense but what about the "rabies" versions? These infected fellas should fight between each other, not form teams even to the point where they are perfecly synchronised and and can get on top of each other to form ladders and bridges to get between places.
Why don't they fight each other and how do they communicate?
My favorite example of this is from my favorite fic of all times. The main characters traveled the Europe in 2012-2014 in search of supernatural stuff. They had to do it the cheapest way, so they used trains. Author did incredibly good job describing western Europe, it was super engaging and fascinating, but also they at one point mentioned the fact that characters were passing through one Russian city near Belarus border. And trust someone who had the privilege of being on the cheap train from Minsk, the capital of Belarus, to said city, Smolensk, ones in the same years. It is not a romantic road trip, and those soft french boys wouldn't survive it. The experience of russian railroads is excruciating and will change you forever.
love the marquis de lafayette pfp 🙏🙏 that’s my favorite portrait of him
i've been through 5 days experience of the cheapest option russian railroads in that exact time period (traveling with family across the country), i just lived through it again with this comment. 💀
@@king_tutankhamun omg thanks, love the guy ❤
@@spacedisaster9923 you are welcome. Respect to all who survived multiple days of that shitshow, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger
hahhah, yeah, pr much everyone here hates to go anywhere by train, esp if it takes a day or multiple days. Thing that's the worst for me is the toilets. Granted, they've improved over the years, but they're still fuckin FILTHAY, goddam!
I do remember reading a book that was basically a glorified smutty Don Bluth Anastasia fic in printed book format where the author REALLY did not get how Imperial Russia worked. She literally kept calling Anastasia a Tsarina, for a start. And her hemophiliac brother apparently was healed by being fed on by vampire rasputin. Like how DO you reach adulthood and not get how royalty or blood works?
Don Buth Anastasia?
@@Mr.Brothybear the animated Anastasia movie?
I'm an adult, I don't know how royalty works, and I've gotten along fine
@@sundown6806 yippee for you.
She is the Grand Duchess!
5:47 I agree with this one severely, I remember once reading a fic which had two 5 year old characters interacting and their speech was similar to a teenager's and as a person who worked in a daycare lemme tell you, they are NOT that linguistically skilled. Every now and then they'll pull out a sentence that'll have you stunned, but that's mostly out of surprise at the complexity of what they said, and not what they said itself.
I work at a kindergarden and I'd say even professional writers sometimes seem to fail at depicting young children. Looking at you Kohei Horikoshi. Realistically speaking the most dangerous job in the MHA world would probably be a kindergarden teacher. Having to make sure kids won't do anything stupid is difficult enough without them suddenly getting superpowers that may vary from invisibility to straight-up making things disappear out of existence.
@@aino-kaisav5504ive thought about tgis in EXTENTION. imagine how scary it is to be a kid at 4 years old. you shit your pants one day and all of a sudden you can evaporate yourself. absolutely bonkers
It's complicated, because children can differ SO much in their development. I've known two 5 year olds in my family, and one was able to hold a conversation like an adult. At some point you'd realize that there were some basic concepts she had no clue about, but just based on her speech patterns, it was no different from talking to a grown-up. The other one was still wearing diapers and struggling with 2 word sentences... both of those aren't normal, but like, that's actual real life people. I don't find it weird in fanfic if I see crazier stuff in reality 😅 So as long as it's physically possible, I'm pretty open to unusual development for any age.
@@aino-kaisav5504
Or simply Eri.
Like, I know she's been through a lot, and might have a lot to catch up on, but iirc, there was one quick shot of Mirio looking after her while she was drawing with crayons!? I do remember it being crayons, but I'm not sure about the memory itself being real to begin with. But, like, at her age (6-7), it should be pencils already.
But yeah, what the 4 years old kids were saying, from what I remember, it should normally be the level of what Eri would say instead (vocabulary complexity wise i mean)
Yeah. Like how my family will tell me stories how when I was a baby I would say “god bless you” but they also said they pieced it together from realizing I frequently said something like “gobby-doo” after someone sneezed. Small children might say something that shows clear understanding, but they don’t usually have a wide vocabulary, and mispronunciations are very common in children under 6.
Likewise, they’re more likely to come up with something completely off the cuff that may terrify or confuse adults, due to typically not quite understanding what they saw or heard!
There was one story that was very evocative, with so many feels… but they had chocolate. In an ancient Egypt setting. Chocolate is from the americas, along with vanilla, corn, avocados, and potatoes. Like if it’s in a fictional setting, I can overlook that, but setting it in Ancient Egypt really broke the immersion
There was a fic I read where one of the characters was a kindergarten teacher and not only did all the kids have phones during class, but the teacher was sharing their love life with them. It was a cute fic but I just could not stop thinking about how quickly fired he would be when one of the kids went home and told their parent how their teacher was telling them about his 'sleepover' and also was letting said kids call businesses in the middle of class because he gave them a hint at who it was he was seeing.
I confused Naginata, the weapon, for a fighting style. Granted, the fic doesn't exist anymore, and nobody really noticed or pointed it out, but I only found out my mistake years after the fact and I still think about it on occasion.
This point probably doesn't apply here since it's japanese, but european martial arts are often named after the weapon being used (I practice longsword).
There’s a Sonic game called Sonic and the Black Knight which is basically “Sonic gets isekai’d into Camelot” and there’s a character named Caliburn who’s like a grumpy but secretly affectionate swordsmanship mentor to Sonic and calls Sonic “knave” which I thought meant a knight in training but actually means idiot and long story short I had him basically say “Sorry I killed your parents dumbass” in a fanfic I wrote
It’s also long gone now and nobody pointed it out but man just thinking about it I both laugh and cringe
Oof. My weapons-geek self would’ve cringed so hard at that. I’m glad you didn’t get picked on for it.
@@lindseylindsey9200To be fair, in most contexts where I’ve seen “knave” used, it is perfectly reasonable to guess what you did since it’s archaic and fairly interchangeable with some other concept if you’re not aware it’s kind of rude.
A 1st person Gladiator game (also available in PC but I don't remember the title) has a Ninja shout NAGINATA before tossing random arrays of *SHURIKEN*
Of course all characters speak English, not just that ninja and the Chinese miniature Kung Fu master
XD
I’m not kidding but I’ve seen a fic where the character was in an au where it was a realistic au where they grew up hyper religious. They got EVERYTHING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY wrong. I’m a Christian with a special interest in theology. This pissed me off so much :,)
This goes back to what the pagan said as well, as a Christian myself I've noticed it with other religions and it is so annoying, because people can't just do research.
Bear in mind that some of the more extreme hyper-religious sects of Christianity often have fundamentally different ideas about theology then other Christians. In fact, such major differences exist even between major branches. There's the whole trinitarian vs unitarian debate for one, and faith vs works. I've heard that at least some forms of Celtic Christianity reject the concept of original sin. Then there's of course the young-earth creationists. And then all the ways that Mormonism is different from basically all of the other branches.
All this to say that, while I can't be certain due to being ignorant of the full context, from the knowledge I have it's entirely possible that the version of Christianity portrayed in that story could have been based on a real sect.
My morbid curiosity
One of my biggest pet peeves. I try to avoid any fic with religion involved just in case now because I hate how Christianity gets portrayed sometimes.
@@SugarSpice07Felt, not even as a Christian but as a history enthusiast to because a lot of the times it's just plain wrong.
I read a fic once were a doctor pulled an arrow out of a patent right outside the hospital. Not even waiting for them to be brought inside. There was no reasoning.
Edited to clarify. The patent was dragged by his friend to the hospital and was lying on the ground outside. The doctor walked out, pulled the arrow out of his stomach, THEN called for people to help get him inside fir medical treatment.
the mental image of this is making me laugh so hard like imagine having a literal arrow sticking out of you so you go to the doctor and they literally just grab it and rip it out without hesitation😭😭
@@darkacadpresenceinblood If u remember correctly he then followed it up by saying something along the lines of "You're in good hands" or "Don't worry, we'll take care if you." 😐
He pulled. An arrow. The projectile with a famously barbed tip so it reopens the wound when you try to pull it out.
@@deadend3520 suuure. very good hands indeed. "good" if your goal is to die at least💀
@@darkacadpresenceinblood Yea, wouldn’t trust someone who starts pulling things out while you're on the ground outside, especially if it's an arrow in your stomach. Should have been a part 2 with a police report.
a persona 3 fic where akihiko ‘sprinkled’ protein powder into his water and drank it straight away, no shaking or anything. absolute madman
To be fair, I think my dad would do this.
I do that, I do not recommend it
I have a good amount of characters that would probably do crazy stuff like this. Thanks for the idea
never going to forget the fic set in venice italy where the phrase “dinner at olive garden “ was actually spoken
that said, i don’t blame people for minor cultural inaccuracies in fic. usually, the things they misinterpret are so commonplace in their country that you’d never think it’s different elsewhere. for example, in france, restaurants are closed between lunch and dinner, but in the us this would never happen, and no american author would actively imagine that something so mundane and commonly accepted is different elsewhere
If you lesrn anything about France that's probably one of the obvious things, everything being closed during lunch.
@@SilentProti yea im french the restaurant schedules scare me whenever i visit
@@slytherinlady3907 my brother has been living in France for a few years now, he's still pissed the lunch time is basically a wasted time for him
This is why I try my best to research things I write about or stay away from things I'm not familiar with. For example, I had to research the US government & military, the vice president's house, places in New York, legal systems, psychology, Krav Maga, mockumentaries, Russian history, and more for my big shared universe of Steven Universe stories I finished last year.
I tip my hat to you, fellow SU fan.
If you had to guess, about how many mess ups did you make?
@@coolDude-sx6weOutside of getting Red October mixed up with the murder of the Romanov family, I think I did pretty good.
It was in a Sci-fi fic. The author wrote the words “vegan tobacco” my friend, tobacco is a leaf
Edit: As some people very kindly informed me, I was wrong! It’s like vegetarian cheese. As in, though the products used to make the tobacco itself are of course plant based, there might be meat based substances used in other parts of the manufacturing process. The more you know!
Hi, so, I love bullying vegans as much as the next guy but I would like to inform you that most tobacco products are, in fact, not vegan as they use animal products as filler or were tested on animals or were grown with chemicals that were tested on animals/harm the environment. So "vegan tobacco" is probably a borderline incorrect way to quickly say "it's American Spirits but not" because, yeah, the leaf itself is vegan but to use it for human consumption requires some extra steps. Was there any context denoting it wasn't literally just dried tobacco leaves or something? It's an outrageous line to consider, for sure, but it's not technically incorrect.
🌟🌈the more you know🌈🌟
It’s like vegan wine. Yes grapes are vegan but a lot of wine is made using fish products (isinglass) or egg white.
doesnt the "-fi" in sci-fi stand for fiction? i know a fic is a specific type of literary work, but i feel like any other synonym would have sufficed to avoid redundancy (i am extremely autistic if you could not tell)
I’ve seen someone who said they saw “vegan apples” that came from trees that were manually pollenated instead of bees doing it, maybe that’s what it was referring to
Of course, I think people who think that bees doing what they have done to get food before humans even existed is some form of animal cruelty are whack jobs, but it is apparently a concept
@@AssortedMold268The “-fi” does stand for fiction. I might have phrased a comment like OP’s differently, but in this context it’s not unreasonable to be redundant. They’re discussing a work of fanfiction, so “fic” ends up being a noun, while “sci-fi” is an adjective.
Medical stuff. I'm not medically trained by any means but I am the child of an A&E nurse and a paramedic who made sure to hammer as much practical medical knowledge into my head as they could when I was a kid. CPR, the recovery opsition, joint dislocation, wounds that need stitches, the himelich, animal bites, people in labour, car crashes, house fires, vehicles in water, allergic reactions, that kind of stuff. Basically how to deal with emergency situations that I have a chance of encountering at some point in my life. I've also absorbed some less useful medical knowledge through osmosis. Like what actually happens if you light someone's fart on fire or what happens when you get shot in the boob with a pellet gun.
It means I'm prepared for basically anything but it also means that I can spot medical innacuracies in what I'm reading. The most egregious one I ever found was a fic that described a woman "loosening up" downstairs during sex as her "dilating". Which is just.... so many different kinds of wrong. Made me click off it instantly. Dilation refers to the cervix, which is at the top of the vagina and is basically the door between the vagina and the womb. Like the knot in the neck of a balloon. If it's dilating, she's pregnant and going into labour. Not horny.
gotta love people who don't understand basic anatomy lmao
Most time a fanfic has a therapist. People just don't know how to write therapists and most of fanfic ones are very unprofessional, bad or at very least a bit quesionable.
as someone who has had a lengthy string of unprofessional, bad, and questionable therapists...they don't even write bad therapy correctly, lol
I’m a osteo-archaeologist (an archaeologist who specialises in bones) in training and let me tell you, I’ve never seen a single funeral pyre done properly in any media.
Firstly you need a shit ton of wood to actually burn a body, and it’s not a one and done thing after you’ve lit it, someone has to watch and add more fuel as it burns for several hours.
Secondly, bodies don’t stay still unless they’re weighed down. You know those bodies from Pompeii? When bodies are exposed to extreme heat they begin violently contracting and usually end up in a kind of dead bug pose with their legs pulled up under them and their arms raised in the air.
And thirdly, a simple wood fire is not enough to reduce a body to ash. Even most modern crematoriums don’t burn hot enough for that, what you end up with after a pyre is a whole bunch of burned fragments of bone usually still very much recognisable. (In case you’re wondering the “ashes” you get from crematoriums are bones that have been ground to a powder.)
There are a whole bunch more pertaining to fire and skeletons but this is my main one.
As someone studying classics, all the PJO fics who try to take their story deeper into Greek myth without knowing how the fuck Greek myth works. Like Rick did it fine with just using the characters from the myth and their scenarios without directly retelling the myths itself. Rick didn't write PJO to be anything other than a fun story that takes Greek myth characters and translates them into his story as his own characters.
It kills me every time someone characterizes Zeus as a horrible guy in their "closer to myth" fics and then turn around and build Poseidon up as a great father and a loving husband and oh so gentle. Like if you write Zeus as a bad guy, you should write Poseidon as one as well, since Poseidon was arguably worse. He literally personified everything a civilized and controlled man shouldn't be.
Omg or when a character learns a language in under a year and is automatically fluent and their accent is perfect and they never mess up the inflections or tones. LIKE?????? I've been casually learning Latin for almost a decade, and seriously studying it for half a year and I'm nowhere near fluent.
Or when a character fluently and poetically translates an ancient artifact in Linear B or Middle Egyptian in 30 seconds when it'd take weeks of back and forth and parsing to even get a messy translation. Combine that with the fact that no ancient word is going to translate perfectly into English AND THEN RHYME IN ENGLISH. Drives me insane.
It irks me when people take random ancient terms and misuse them as well, especially when it relates to ancient religions like Druidism or Historical Greek religion or Old Norse religion. Like they find a term, read the wikipedia blurb, and then make up information about it because they can't be damned to read more thoroughly on the word and religion to properly recreate it or write it.
Also honorary mention of Lore Olympus because that story is so fucking bad. It bastardized Greek myth to the point where the characters just share names with the gods they're supposed to be. And the characterization of Apollo, which directly contradicts his position in Greek myth as one of self control and mindfulness, is so disgusting. The story completely ignores the fact the Persephone and Hades are very much not a love story, but an allegory on how sometimes young women die before marriage and it's not something their mothers or fathers can control. Even if you take the Homeric Hymn to Demeter at face value (which you shouldn't), all it does is hammer in how miserable Persephone is down there and how much she misses her mother. Sure, if you want to take it as romantic, go ahead, but like... it's odd to me when there's other better love stories, like Orpheus and Eurydice, Aphrodite and Adonis, Iphis and Ianthe (Trans man x girl relationship, come on people!), Odysseus and Penelope, and so many others. Just lay Hades and Persephone to rest, i'm begging you
Eros and psyche!
So, I did Latin for a very long time and my final exam in school was actually about the rapture of Proserpina. Not to go against your comment because I agree with a lot of points - especially the mentality of "oh I want to do it more acCurAtE tO tHe oRigINaL mYtH" irrcs me the fuck out. But I'd still say people should do their own thing with ancient mythology because this is what this was always used for. Myths change a lot over time and get used for different symbolism in different periods. That said: although it wasn't for me as well, because it _is_ very very far off from the homer and Ovid adaptations of the myth and I did too much goddamn research on that one, "Lore Olympus" still has it's place to stand as an adaption because retelling myths to process a new world structure or to represent new thinks has a long history. What irritated me so much was the comments in the story stating that "this is how the story AcTuAlLy is" because??? Bro, y'all have never read other versions of this myth and it shows. Thinking there can be "True adaption" is wrong in and of itself. So yeah, people fundamentally not understanding what myths are and thinking that there is a single original story you can interpret right or wrong is also my personal ick
@@BookWyrmOnAStringThank you! Eros and Psyche is my favorite Greek myth and I was heartbroken to not see it as an example in OP’s comment. I also like Dionysus and Ariadne, but given Dionysus is not the best guy in Greek Mythology... y e a h-
When I read about relationships with unrealistic emotions.
Yeah, you may have only known this dude for 3 days and he just did something that goes against your values but it's okay, forgive them immediatelly and cater to their flaws.
I read a book which is an adventure book that obviously mostly focused on the ongoing mystery, but since it was a fantastical reimagination of the author's and his lover's time at some place, there had to be romance between the two main characters shoved in.
Picture this, a family consisting of the mother, the daughter, and the son move in to a town/village in france cause they found a job there.
The daughter (the MC, which represets the author's lover) meets a cousin of her best friend, both fall for each other immediately.
The girl is 15, is described in the book multiple times to "be very attractive" and nice. That's her personality. The guy? He's a loner that likes boats, even rides one which he named after some greek word.
Perfect match.
The bestie leaves them alone so the guy can give the girl a ride home. Then after that they plan a date "on saturday". Then there's a few days time skip, which ig they don't interact with each other otherwise it wouldn't be skipped.
Then they go on a date and decide to go to some spooky island which they visit a lighthouse then have a picnic and kiss each other.
So the author is telling me she knew this guy for few days, presumably interacted with him ONCE and the next time they meet they're already dating!?
Not to mention all the scenes where she, a 15 year old was sexualised....
The book takes place in 1930s around the times before the war. Times were different back then sure, but jeez that was not fun to read.
I reaaaally wish this one was unrealistic. unfortunately a lot of people really are like that. it's not ~romantic~ tho, it's a recipe for abuse.
@@Pinkstarclan I mean the ones where there isn't even a hint of annoyance or negative emotion. Without those the romance feels pointless.
@@PowerSpirit50 sadly, that also exists... I agree it feels pointless and isn't fun to read tho.
not fanfic but published work, i once saw a character who could crochet with knitting needles. quite impressive
in a pinch you could probably knit with two crochet hooks but i genuinely can't imagine how the other way around would go
"roller skates" and "rollerblades" used as synonyms. in my experience at least, 'Roller skates' are the old classic 80's quad skates, while 'Rollerblades' are the inline skates. not the same. one is more likely to be found in a retro themed diner.
I once read a Mario Kart (specifically, Mario Kart Wii) fanfiction that I couldn’t finish because it got everything wrong, lol. Five laps in one race (if it was Super Mario Kart, that’d be correct, but Wii? No), Coconut Mall being in the Shell Cup instead of the Flower Cup (the Shell Cup is a retro cup. It’s for retro tracks, not a nitro track like Coconut Mall), the racers were eliminated if they fell off the track instead of Lakitu picking them back up, I’m pretty sure there were more than twelve racers on the tracks, etc. The Coconut Mall one was what made me stop reading, lol. Even in Mario Kart 7, it’s not in the Shell Cup. It’s in the Banana Cup in that game.
TBF while it's bad for gameplay, eliminating racers is good for narrative.
But the rest... If they like Mario Kart Wii enough to write a fic about it, you'd think they'd have a copy they could boot up to check some things.
@@LuckySketches I don’t see how that’d be good for narrative since this series doesn’t actually have a story, but ok.
Also, they said that the Blue Shell never misses, which I actually get. I understand portraying it as something to be feared…but you can literally dodge it with a Mushroom in Mario Kart Wii and onward. Also, if you happen to have gone through a cannon in Mario Kart Wii while the Blue Shell is above you, it’ll miss every time. They fixed that in the later games, though.
There are plenty more ways to evade it in the games, too.
@@LuckySketches Oh, and they also called the Blue Shell ‘prestigious’… Basically, prestigious means respected… Most of the fandom literally hates it. That’s the opposite of respected, lol.
@@thediscodevil0949of they respect it...
They respect it's authority over whether they win or lose, nobody messes around when it comes to blue shells.
@@frostbite_1244 I respect it tbh, lol. I’m glad it exists, considering how much of a pain it was to catch up in Super Mario Kart because it didn’t exist yet.
Mine is most portrayals of nerodivergency in most media. I was tested for autism and adhd and I find it hard to relate to most depictions of either. Granted I'm on the higher functioning end of the spectrum and I'm unsure if I have both or if there's more overlap between the symptoms than I thought, but I've been around others with autism and adhd and Media just can't get it right. It's mainly a single movie which has so many problems, but I have notice most Hollywood depictions of it describe it as a superpower instead of something people actually struggle with
Honestly, I think some of the best neurodivergent representation I’ve seen is from characters who weren’t intentionally written as neurodivergent. The characters from the farce “Noises Off” all feel like real neurodivergent people, even though that’s probably not what the writer intended.
@@tsifirakiehl4250yeah some of my favorite neurodivergent characters the writers had no intention of making them neurodivergent. It just comes about when writing a socially awkward intelligent character. For me, Luz from Owl House, Wednesday from Netflix's Wednesday, and Marcy from Amphibia. Also Zuko from Avatar: the Last Airbender and Peridot from Steven Universe. For a life action show, when I was younger I'd used to watch Bones a lot with my family and Dr. Brennan is very clearly either coded as autistic or it's just writers of these kinds of murder mystery/police procedural shows always have a character who's super smart but socially awkward/obvious to social cues to play off the less intelligent but more street smart/socially confident character. That or people just think all intelligent people are autistic/socially awkward
Alright, so, fellow writers, follow along with me
“Your majesty” is just for kings and queens
“Your highness” is just for princes and princesses
Really, I’ve seen lots of royalty au’s that get this wrong
One time a fic mentioned that avian hybrids(it was a fantasy world) couldn’t eat meat. it made me so mad because no???? What about hawks, falcons, eagles and various other birds(even songbirds!) that are carnivorous??! Carnivorous bird erasure I tell you.
Likely a reference to the Origins mod. Avians can't eat meat there, and I think the author must've been trying to be accurate. I think it's ridiculous there too though, so I agree
This is so funny to me... like... beyond just birds of prey. Did they forget how many birds are insectivores??? Aquatic birds that eat fish and crustaceans and such?? How many scavenging/carrion birds there are? SO many birds are opportunistic omnivores. (My PARROT chews on bones and noms on hard boiled egg.)
It's extra funny when you remember that birds come from the branch of dinosaurs who, quite famously, evolved to EAT MEAT.
@@ihatehandleswtf exactly!
@@SugarSpice07 h- how did you know this was about mcyt Fanfiction… 😅
@@catpartyfor1 just looked it up. While I can't find consistent numbers, the general consensus is that truly herbivorous birds are actually quite the minority! The majority of birds are omnivores.
It seems obvious when you think about it, but I think the mistake here stems from the whole "cutesy and harmless = herbivore" idea that most people have baked into their head about animals.
I once read a fic taking place around the Viking era (so around the 8th or 9th century), and one person (Character A) gifted some parchment to another (Character B). Character B, who was a monk, proceeded to doodle on it with some coal and, after finishing his drawing, burned the parchment in the fire.
Now, if you don't know, parchment is made out of animal skin, and it was VERY expensive to make. So much so that monks would scratch a thin layer off used parchment and write over the scratched text.
And you want to tell me a MONK, whose job would have been to write books by hand, doodled on actual parchment and then burned it??
No. Absolutely not.
Also, coal was not used to write on parchments, because again, it was animal skin. It didn't penetrate the parchment the way quills diped in ink did.
Funniest part was that everyone praised the author for historical accuracy. Using old timey words doesn't make something historically accurate!
Whenever someone writes a fashion designer as a snooty, uptight, Devil Wears Prada-type with no artistic ability 😔 they dont know how weird we really are, and how most of us actually hate the spotlight and just want to sew silly clothes
Edit: also, artists being completely inept yet savant-type genius. Like we haven't learned how to present our art or describe art verbally. That's the best part! We get to verbally vomit about the art !!!
One of my biggest peeves (not just in fanfic, but all media) is when the writer doesn't understand how EpiPens work. Someone with a life threatening allergic reaction can't just get stabbed in the leg with an EpiPen and walk away. They still have to go to the hospital. They still might die.
A much more specific one I ran into was in a published book. It had some pivotal scenes take place on a stretch of highway that I grew up on driving along all the time, and it was clear from the writing that the author had never been there or even consulted google maps for the description. Took me right out of it.
isnt that taught in schools..? that you have to go to a hospital? even after using an epipen?
2:15 this LITERALLY is a pet peeve of mine not even with fanfiction, but with people in general. So many people who are shy or have social anxiety say they’re introverted. That doesn’t mean you’re introverted, especially if you crave to be social but are too scared to be. Being introverted means to have a social and mental battery run out quickly.
THANK YOU. I'm so done with people treating being an introvert and social anxiety as the same thing.
There was this one fic I read where a gluten free character couldn't come within a 10 foot radius of bread without having an anaphylactic reaction. I laugh a little every time I think of it
i mean some people with nut allergies are like that but i don’t know if i’ve ever heard of it with gluten (someone can correct me if i’m wrong)
@@REDACTEDbox I'm gluten intolerant! I don't have celiac or anything but gluten intolerance isn't a kind of allergy that can be airborne. It's only if you consume something.
@@sileylav my bf has celiac and it's not fatal at least for him, he just gets a bad stomach ache and tells me to brush my teeth before kissing him if I eat bread 😂
As someone whose mother is technically 100 pounds overweight, what you eat is not at all a 1 to 1 ratio to your weight. She barely eats ANYTHING, because of her chronic diarrhea. I am the same way, though I'm only 40-60 pounds overweight.
My mom is pretty much obese. She barely eats anything, but she's not losing weight because she doesn't exercise. Meanwhile I eat a ton, but I do tons of walking every day. It really depends on each person. I'd say that what you eat absolutely will affect your weight, but it's more like a 1-5 ratio. The other factors being deliberate exercise (working out in certain ways with the intention to lose weight), unconscious exercise (just walking your dog or biking to work), the foods you eat (how high in calories vs nutrients are they), and genetics (your metabolism, health defects).
If that fanfic character was eating that amount every day but not exercising, and didn't have a strong metabolism or were on the older side, they'd be far more than 100 pounds overweight.
Every time it's been tested, it's been found that people either lie about how much they eat, or if they submitted to observation every one loses weight.
@@rustyjones7908 Source?
I got one, one character gave some astronavigational advice to another character, though if they were to follow the advice it’s make them do I giant 180 over a few hours
The thing is I wasn’t even reading this thing voluntarily, I darn hate English class
Software engineer in the making here, and I concur with 6:22. I've read programming be so grossly misrepresented so many times by even supposedly professional authors (Dan Brown you know what you did) that I'm numb to it at this point. I've given up.
Digital Fortress? Yeah, that one's pretty egregious.
My mom is a goddamned fanfic. The next day she "felt off" so she told her friend she was pregnant and her friend told her to quit being stupid. She was pregnant with me lmfao
There was a episode of the goldbergs with Adam, Erica, and the other family where they tried to do Phantom of The Opera but they couldn’t because of the rights and tried to do a knock off version but that didn’t work.
i remember that One
THE PHANTASM OF THE GYMNATORIUM
As a trans man, I kinda dislike portrayals of trans men, even if the author is trans, because so many people forget that a lot of trans people do actually transition and aren't usually ok with being referred to with feminine terms
hey you know my favorite visual novel features a trans guy.
It's Pizza Boy/Pizza Boi/Piss Boy [this one is from a joke, I thought it would be funny to add. Basically water gets spilled on his shorts, and his best friend (*COUGH* boyfriend, they're so fruity like just kiss already) said "Whoa, Petey Boy, why d'you look like you've pissed yourself? Lookin' a lot like a Piss Boy right now, I tell ya what." and then it's just "Piss Boy drags Cody further down the hallway while explaining why his addiction to nicknaming everything is ruining lives." OH SHOOT I INFODUMPED AGAIN SORRY]/PB/Peanut Butter/Public Banking/Peanut Brittle/Poor Baby/Pocket Book/Paper Boy/Thatmeddlingpizzaboy/Peter from Cool Kid Cody.
Also he's demisexual.
Basically, he's born a Loser... IN THE VISUAL NOVEL THERE'S A SOCIAL CLASS THING. LOSERS [Green eyes] ARE LOWEST, THEN COOL KIDS [Blue eyes], THEN GODS [Pink eyes]. COOL KID + LOSER BECOME BESTIES = AVERAGE DUDE [Gray eyes, technically all the colors moving so quickly that it's just gray.].
Currently, he's average.
Here's a random scene with him [Context: bro fell down stairs. owie]:
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Doc DokiDoki: And a full skin remewval, to make the purrfect gift for the purrfect boy!
Peter: ... Whatever you have to do, just get it over with Doc.
Doc DokiDoki: Furst, let's discuss the pawspital bills!
Peter: I suddenly feel completely fine.
Cody: Well I feel like crap!!
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There's also a non-binary character named Juvie. They commit arson /hj.
Here's a scene with them:
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Kitty's phone is pinged!
Kitty-chan: Oh w-what's this?? Must be a text from my dad!
Juvie: Huh, that's awfully suspicious... I never heard of anyone having a dad before.
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PLEASE LET ME INFODUMP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEA-
I’m nonbinary and currently writing a genderfluid main character, but he’s masculine for a large majority of the story, and on god I am so worried about writing his dysphoria wrong. He’s stuck wearing a dress for a lot of the fic and really hates it, to the point of having a small anxiety attack after having to say that his pronouns are she/her. I based it off of my own dysphoria and the occasional wish to delete my curves and impulsively chop off my 2+ foot long hair, but I’m not a trans guy, so I’m definitely going to include in the tags/author notes that MC’s dysphoria-as well as his ADHD and autism-is based off of mine. I hope I did at least passably well ._.
This is probably gonna get lost in the comments and people are definitely not gonna care, but it’s my birthday today!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DUDE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! mines tomorrow ;)
@@eeeeee8829 HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY WOOOOOOOOOO
mine is april 28th
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!!!
I once read a fic about my favourite character from this show and it had the character talking, a lot, and that character barely said anything vocally in the show, especially about himself. I'm pretty sure most of the dialogue was telling you his backstory
My friend read a fanfic where the characters and/or narrator talked about how rats don’t have bones. This wasn’t corrected for several chapters.
I'm writing a fanfic with a non-OC character as a chemist. Ever since starting it, I've never been more invested in researching about dangerous chemicals than I should. Chemistry is one of my major subjects in my course, so I'd be embarrassed if I did chemistry wrong in a fic even if it *is* a fanfic.
Something I can actually contribute to!
So I was reading a fanfic based on a popular law video game series, but had a lot more supernatural elements.
There was a chapter detailing how the main character had been horribly abused as a child, and their parents had found them as a 30-something year old in order to make their life hell. A sticking point in the ending was that nothing could be done due to the statute of limitations having already run out.
Now to give the writer credit, they were not from the country where it’s set, but I am. Given the scene where this happened, there were still a lot of criminal charges and civil torts that could be levied against them that would completely change the state of affairs.
I informed the writer of this (which is how I learned that they weren’t super familiar with this country’s laws), and those may get put into play or get considered for the future, so all’s well that ends well!
Ace Attorney fan spotted 🫵
@@ihatehandleswtf *fUCK*
I love watching true crime and know a lot about murder and how disposing of a body works. I once read a fic and the MC was a serial killer and I lost my MIND at the rookie mistakes and just doing things that didnt make sense at all!!!
If you wanna know, he: got blood on his carpet but "since its black no one will notice" (Does the author realize blood has a smell???); left phone call evidence making him the last known person to see him alive; leaving all sorts of DNA without covering it or cleaning it; not making any sort of alibi on it; and DONATING HIS COFFEE TABLE THAT HAD BLOOD ON IT BECAUSE HE "couldn't scrub it off"??!?!?!
Anyways... I was in AWE at how this man wasn't caught sooner. Somehow, he miraculously got away with all of it and no one noticed.
I mean, that's kinda accurate to real life serial killers. They can get away with it for ages if they're charismatic white men because the cops tend to be incompetent
hey you know one of my favorite visual novels has a serial killer character, Patches.
I mean, he's only technically a serial killer in certain endings but I think that counts.
Also, all the characters are animals. Brownie is a corgi (also worth mentioning that she has a broken leg during this scene. She would easily be able to overpower Patches since Patches had a whole body swap thing with a really weak cat, but Brownie is poisoned and has a broken leg, so...), and Patches is a dalmatian, although he's swapped bodies with a White Siberian cat who is also his ex-boyfriend, named Angel! Yeah he killed Angel. Angel became a ghost and possessed his body. Yeah.
Anyway, here's a not really silly scene:
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Brownie is hacking up blood into the sink.
Brownie: Ughh.
Patches: You should get that checked out.
Brownie: !!! What did you do... What did you put in the cake?
Patches: Your favorite thing! Chocolate!
Brownie: !!!
Brownie hacks up more blood.
Brownie: C-COCO!!
Patches: Hmm, did you want me to get Coco? I don't think there's much she can do for you. Ginger might be able to bring you back as a zombie... But, not if your body is damaged beyond repair.
Patches takes Brownie's apron.
Brownie: What... What are you doing?
Patches: I can't go the rest of the school day with a stained shirt.
Patches grabs Brownie's hair, And slams her head into the corner of the bathroom counter. She struggles, but is weakened from the chocolate.
Patches: Jeez, if only I had a knife.
He slams her head again and again. She coughs up more blood, and is growing even more faint.
Patches: This is taking a while huh, Brownie? The novelty has definitely worn off. Let's change things up!
Patches shoves Brownie into a bathroom stall and submerges her head in toilet water. After a few minutes she stops moving.
Patches: Not the most graceful kill, but I'm glad I could make do!
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A lot of the characters have actually killed others before. COCO KILLED OVER 1000 DOGS TRYING TO KILL PATCHES [Patches killed Angel, Coco's younger brother, so Coco wants revenge.]
Pls let me infodump pls pls pls
@@WooperSupergo ahead and infodump! :)
that sounds like something you’d see on one of those shitty facebook marketplace memes “coffee table and rug set, weird smell, only slightly used”
@@REDACTEDboxLMAOO 😭
As a studying engineer, it bugs me so much that inventions always seem to work first try. Like sometimes that happens, but it’s usually a miracle or at least a surprise.
Usually, there are days or weeks or months of horrible hair pulling rage inducing frustration between a first prototype and something that somewhat works as intended.
Like, I’d love to see a villain’s plot fail spectacularly and have them scramble to cover up an underwhelming flop or a much worse explosion than expected, or a army of rouge prototypes in various stages of functionality causing everyone problems.
A clichè but getting the slangs wrong for the times the fanfic is set in COMPLETELY sets me off for my read
There are 2 things that come to my mind rn:
1. In general, authors completely ignoring how psychology works. Both in fanfics and in published books. Characters will have something extremely traumatic happen to them and be just fine afterwards. What especially annoys me is when a character is freed after being held captive alone, in a single room, for several years... and they're completely fine. Like, i don't even know that much about psychology, i just did a bit of research on this topic, and you don't want me to list all the negative effects that this actually has on people...
2. I still don't get how this could happen. It was in a published book. A character was entering Berlin - like, they were at the city limit, they had been surrounded by fields literally a minute ago - and they could see the Fernsehturm. I'm from Berlin and i can tell you this is absolutely not possible. The worst part is that the author of this book also lives in Berlin?! Like, sir, have you never left the city center?!?
I need a coffee shop AU where the gang are minimum wage workers at a Starbucks and its just about them arguing the whole time there like one big dysfunctional family.
I have a condition called turner syndrome. Whenever a woman has the disease, they always get it wrong like for example, in SVU they portrayed as a disease basically means that you’re a kid forever, but it’s not exactly the case because with specific treatments we can become like anybody else. It bothers me a lot to see my condition portrayed so wrong. The best one if you want to know more about the effect of Turner syndrome is called what stars are made of.
HUGE SPLATOON FAN here, was reading a fic that had a really, REALLY good plot line. Basically, in Splatoon there are Inklings and Octolings, and this fic explores the idea that they have to be taken care of differently when sick. It also shows how oftentimes the character that got sick would just go home by herself. So now there's a fun conflict: They want to take care of this character but don't know how. Another character, an Inkling, got brainwashed into Octoling society (Splatoon 2 is a plot) so she understands how to take care of Octolings.
The laughable mistake? Using the wrong location for where the Inkling got brainwashed.
Can you elaborate? I’m actually pretty curious as I’ve played the game
@@Zhavari Callie, the Inkling that got brainwashed, got brainwashed at Octo Canyon, where Splatoon 2 takes place. They said she had been brainwashed at Octo Valley, where Splatoon 1 takes place.
I see, thanks for clarifying
I have lit the wrong end of my cigarette twice, which isn't a lot but--- also only one of those times was in the dark. I don't smoke anymore but that is laughably accurate if you, at least, have ADHD and are easily distracted by the sounds of the hamster wheel spinning in your head. Also, some of these are a bit 😬like don't even make sense in response to the topic. Tropes and stereotypes aren't necessarily "wrong" as they exist because of their frequency. Maybe less so these days but shy people can be florists. I'm a shy artist. Some of these answers are almost offensive in that sense. Like "I don't agree with this so it's wrong" kind of thing or "I didn't experience that so I want to ruin it for someone else." People care about these responses because it's input a writer can't normally get anymore now that no one will give criticism or help improve an author. Most people are just not worth listening to because they don't even know what they're talking about😤
Fanfic writer here, and I admit I'm quite guilty of this. I try to do better, but I look back at one of my early fics and wonder why I felt the need to make one of the characters Jewish when I knew next to nothing about Judaism as a religion.
anything where (mostly american) people try to write scottish or English school systems (idk much about Wales or NI, the idk much about England but I have a vague idea)
like there was one fic I read where a character got into uni but needed to take art to graduate high school and its just like, no if you have your basic qualifications you're good and also there's no big thing of graduation in the uk, you're just done
A fic that has a café with a tip jar *in Japan*
I wrote once that my character got fired for 'getting too much ice-cream in the sink' at an ice-cream shop. Then I worked in one. 😂 You don't get fired for that! You get told to do that on a semi-regular basis 😂😂
Not fanfiction, but I put together lockers for about nine months and the way they show lockers in Spider-Man: Homecoming irritates me to no end, because they are not strong enough for him to lift like that.
Likewise, Madame Web's portrayal of CPR. You can't do one-handed CPR unless Uncle Ben has the proportional strength of a spider.
Great Gatsby story where they cover the missing scene with the hydroplane. The author wrote it as a real plane; it's a boat.
i remember reading a fic where the main character was an ice skater and she "wowed the audience" of the competition she was participating in by doing a backflip.. on ice skates... which was a move banned in the 70s
To be fair, I would be wowed if an athlete performed a banned move without hesitation. Mostly at the gall to do that.
i have a special interest in trees and the dryad one got me bc WHAT?? just… “oak”??????? 💀
I don’t know very much about what teachers do, but I have a fanfic where a character is busy at home with his baby writing lesson plans for the next year while the baby is asleep, only to get interrupted because of the neighbor falling.
But wow I need to show a character recovering from a major emergency abdominal surgery. With severe illness.
Edit: 13:44 this is ridiculously complex, as someone who spent hours a day making myself interesting complex meals following my dietician’s planning while home recovering from major abdominal surgery and extreme weight loss.
14:00 im a female whos 100 pounds overweight. i rarely even eat breakfast and when i do 9/10 its an omelette lmao. its like they forget that you gain weight over time not all in one go
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Yeah I broke my hip at 9 years old and couldn't walk normally for like a year, let alone exercise and I gained a bunch of weight in that time and it just sort of never went away? Even when I got back onto my normal exercise routine, it's not always so simple
When "his voice lowered several octaves" like the human voice usually has 1 - 2 octaves. I'm a trained singer and I am close to 4 octaves, but I can't lower my voice even 1 octave from my normal speaking voice. Singers tend to have around 3 octaves.
Unless he speaks in a very high falsetto constantly and has a superhuman range at this point, HE PROBABLY JUST SOUNDS LIKE HE'S THROAT SINGING
9:26- I was in a coma for 5 days after an…accident with some pills, and when I woke up they didn’t let me try and stand up for 2 days, first I got to sit up, then sit at the edge of the bed, then they put a sturdy belt thingie around me and two nurses and my mom lifted me out of the bed…the stress of which made me puke and almost pass out.
(They also didn’t clean up the vomit for days until my parents complained about it. I was treated as sub-human. The treatment of s*icide attempt survivors is so horrible in hospitals)
I, an American, sometimes use British English phrases in my writing just because I happened to pick them up from British video games and movies I watched and played as a teenager and they just stuck and became part of my actual vernacular, so sometimes I wonder if I ever confused someone when I randomly throw them into my writing despite the fact that the rest of my writing is clearly from the perspective of an American.
I still have vivid memories of a fanfic where they went to Australia for a holiday. They first went to Sydney, then DROVE to the great barrier reef. Later they caught a bus and went to a club in the FLINDERS RANGES. A mountain range in the outback which would take DAYS to drive to, and would not have a nightclub. Still haunts me
google maps could have saved them, and yet...
Nothing to do with with fanfics or writing but:
Cat breeds. Oh my GOD people only base animals off of dogs i swear
What they said about oaks in this video? That’s accurate to cat breeds: they don’t have one by default, they just are cats, and some special breeds were made for beauty. Technically they’d be called “domestic shorthairs”, but that just means they are breedless. Additionally, calico and tuxedo are NOT breeds, they are just the pattern/color the cat has!
The worst part? Nobody EVER listens to me when i try to correct them
Oh- and additionally: cats rolling over on their backs, showing you their tummies… that means they trust you enough NOT to touch it!! If you try to give them a belly rub, that’s a violation of the trust they’re trying to show!! Some cats might like it, I’ve heard of it, but don’t just assume the one you meet does. Oh and also they don’t inherently hate water, they just hate being drenched without their consent, and understanding of what youre trying to do. The more i type the more shit like this is think of so i’ll stop
yeah -- my cat likes belly rubs under certain conditions, but my grandma's cat doesn't like them *at all*, it really depends on the cat!
also there's a common misconception (though not that i've seen in fanfic, though i don't read much fiction centred around animals/that mentions pets that much) that cats are inherently untrainable -- again, that's down to the cat! My mum managed to train my cat to sit, give her paw, ring a bell, and stand up on her hind legs, and everyone's always super shocked when i tell them or show them a video of her
@@hiihavebrainrot so true
Thanks for sharing!
Siamese cats are a natural mutation, but probably overbred by humans.
OH MY GOD I FEEL YOUR FRUSTRATION SO HARD!!! someone in some video's youtube comments tried to "correct" me that Russian Blues can be black "bc my friend has one!" and I was like, dude either you're friend's lying, dumb, or got scammed. then they accused me of "smooth shark"ing them for telling them to check the official breed standards. we're truly suffering.
One of the most common and infuriating errors in all fiction is people getting military radio transmissions wrong, sure not everyone is well versed in the jargon and such, but 'Over and out' and 'repeat' are particularly bad
Over - done speaking, awaiting response.
Out - done speaking and ending transmission.
Over and out - Done speaking and awaiting response and ending transmission???
and repeat is never to be used outside of asking for an identical call for fire support as had just been shot, you'd use 'say again' or 'I say again'
Not even military, I just know what it is and what a disaster it would cause were those terms to be used improperly
5:13 I have read this one! It's a Batman x Spider-Man crossover set in Gotham. Maybe with Bruce Wayne's fuck-you amount of money funding, the library can afford its weight in printer ink. Idk, still breaks my suspension of disbelief 💀
Sounds like Bruce Wayne needs to divert his money from all that printer paper to something usefulfor the city. Either that or one of his subordinates at Wayne Enterprises is embezzling again.
... I would never be as brave as you to out my tastes in fanfiction. Kudos to you.
And yeah, it's probably batman's 'fuck you' amount of money that let's the library do that.
As a translation student, I've learnt to turn my brain off whenever languages are involved in a fantasy/sci-fi setting. In the writers' defense, a lot of stories would be unimaginably boring and tedious with realistic contact linguistics.
Ive met many a florist and there are 2* kinds: 1, the snobbish pros, they know how shit works how to get shit done and have 0 patience for any kind of tomfoolery they come off as hardasses and puritanical snobs but its only because they really care about flowers.
2, the warm and calm, this person also knows their shit. Theyre more likely than not going to be an old lady who has the worst sailormouth strong enough to make satan blush, but you wont hear it unless youre being a dickweed in her store. At any other time theyre gonna be a ray of direct, honest, sunshine.
*overall, a spectrum exists
I see multiple medical innacuracies in many fics, but my favorite is when a dude got scurvy and was instantly cured by a single orange.
I love birds dearly and always love any time birds show up in fics. I’m always tickled when someone describes a bird that very much does not show up where the story takes place, like seeing hummingbirds in Europe.