krait: a sea snake (krait) swimming (Default)
[personal profile] krait
Possibly one of the most useful features of a sci-fi/fantasy fandom: it's really easy to weed out fics you don't want to read, just by checking to see which ones can't spell the fandom-specific made-up words correctly. Kismesitude? Paidi Aiji? Valdemarian? NOPE, sorry, no +1 hit count for you!

(Also useful in these fandoms: excluding "human AU" from your search results; but that's another rant for a different day.)

Date: 2014-02-24 11:45 am (UTC)
tropicsbear: Tadashi carrying Ainosuke bridal style (Default)
From: [personal profile] tropicsbear
I think this is generally applicable across any fandom. I mean, if you can't even spell "masturbate" properly, that does not bode well for your smutfic.

Date: 2014-02-24 04:46 pm (UTC)
blnchflr: Flying Spaghetti Monster (Touched by his Noodly Appendage)
From: [personal profile] blnchflr
Excluding "human AU" seconded!

Date: 2014-02-24 06:13 pm (UTC)
blnchflr: Remus/Ghost!Sirius (Mpreg)
From: [personal profile] blnchflr
Yup - it's also why I was so disappointed in the later HP books: In the beginning, the wizarding world was so delightfully other; later it was just regular world with a magic!lol spin. Cf. also movie!HP with Death Eaters in Muggle leather jackets.

Date: 2014-02-25 06:31 am (UTC)
blnchflr: Remus/Ghost!Sirius (Mpreg)
From: [personal profile] blnchflr
Oh, be glad those missed those bits indeed! But be a little sad you missed platonic!Harry/Hermione dancing BADLY in the last movie. Against my will, I was thoroughly charmed.

Date: 2014-02-25 12:58 am (UTC)
cheyinka: An ateva riding a mecheita through the snow. (atevi)
From: [personal profile] cheyinka
Thirded - especially in series where part of the appeal is that the aliens aren't humans with funny masks and weird names. I don't want to read Hilfy Chanur angsting over having to start her own iteration of her family's chain of restaurants or Jago wondering whether it's okay to ask her boss's secretary out on a date, not that I think there is a lot of human AU Cherryh fanfic.

Date: 2014-02-25 02:31 pm (UTC)
cheyinka: An ateva riding a mecheita through the snow. (atevi)
From: [personal profile] cheyinka
I can't picture it even as a joke except for that one summary, and that took me a good five minutes to come up with. I mean, I've read "everybody is a normal human on earth" AUs for Stargate Atlantis, and some of those are okay, but their aliens are humans, just humans who weren't born on Earth. Anything with nonhuman characters? Nooooope. (Both the "no human AUs" and "spell canon terms correctly" rules work for Babylon 5 fanfic, too, not that I expect they wouldn't.)

Date: 2014-02-25 10:55 pm (UTC)
pebblerocker: A stern elderly alien woman. (Aiji-dowager)
From: [personal profile] pebblerocker
I would friggin' LOVE to read about Banichi in his equivalent of college, studying to be an incredibly good assassin. But only if it's set on his world, in his culture.

AUs that take people in a mundane setting, like a cop show, and put them in a magical fantasy or on a spaceship, can be pretty amazing. I don't get the impulse to make things LESS interesting.

Date: 2014-02-25 08:30 am (UTC)
unsettledink: (Default)
From: [personal profile] unsettledink
Unfortunately the last one is only good if they actually tag things. :(

(Due to my frustration at HOW MANY DIFFERENT TERMS TO I HAVE TO - TO MAKE YOU STOP SHOWING UP ARG)

Date: 2014-02-28 01:01 am (UTC)
unsettledink: (Default)
From: [personal profile] unsettledink
And it works (or doesn't, frustratingly) in the opposite direction. I cannot begin to say how many times I've searched through a certain tag and found very little, only to find something that's perfectly that not tagged as such. TAG BENEFIT EVERYONE AUTHORS.

Said as someone who is terrible about tagging beyond the basics at AO3 at least. >.>

Date: 2014-03-01 02:58 am (UTC)
unsettledink: (Default)
From: [personal profile] unsettledink
Oh man, I keep thinking about going back and making my tags a little wider, but so much effort. o.O

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