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Discussion: Reading fic. What kind of things will stop you from finishing reading a fic?
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Discussion: Reading fic. What kind of things will stop you from finishing reading a fic?
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Date: Friday, August 9th, 2019 04:22 (UTC)I'll second the commenter mentioning childish nicknames - and the one mentioning really obvious bad details (poor research or anachronisms). Like, I was reading someone's fic once, and the way they described the plane crash that they had in it was just all wrong, felt like they'd watched some terrible B-grade disaster film. (I've seen tons of Air Crash Investigation documentaries and read quite a few books about air crashes; one of my side interests.) And usually people who can't write worth beans also don't spell-check properly or whatnot, so I can avoid their fics just by reading the summaries, but occasionally I find one that they managed to make look good - until I read partway into it, and found it was so terrible - OOCness, as another one mentioned, is a *huge* factor for me.