PET PEEVE TIME!
location: mi casa
mood: 
frustrated
music: Silverchair
Recently, I've noticed an upsurge of a few pet peeves in fanfic. Is it the fandoms I'm in or is it indicative of the new/young writers on the block? I don't know and I don't care, I fucking hate it, anyways.
Pet Peeve #1: no-caps writing, but otherwise grammatically correct. this means that the writer is avoiding caps specifically as a style, not because of laziness, i.e. sms text writing. ao3 even has a tag for it: lowercase. (see what i've done here?) HATE HATE HATE. ARGH, WHY?
Pet Peeve #2: Speaking of tags: excessive tagging. This one has long been a pet peeve and I've complained about it before. But my mother always said, "The best defence is a good offence."...or was it, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts." In any event, this must be dealt with before the tags themselves become stand-alone fics.
In the beginning, there was author-notes. Some authors had the most amusing notes and summary blurbs and warnings that were almost as entertaining as the story, itself. Eventually those morphed into tags (on social media, on LJ, on AO3), ostensibly for "search use".
But now, particularly with unseasoned authors (who perhaps don't recall a time when there were NO tags, no spoilers and no reason to put #cuddling and snuggling, & #i warned you all, or #insinuated smut, or #some characters only make a cameo), they are useless, superfluous, annoying, spoilerish, tired, trite, and so unfunny they likely prevent many folks from clicking on a story even with a good summary. ARGH. Yup, still mad.
I beg you to go back to your fics and clean up your tags.
Despite this reason for popping by, I really miss the lot of you and hope you are all well, or getting by at the very least. ♥ This entry was originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Comment here, there, or the other place, it's all good.
