Snark incoming.

[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.)

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[krait]

HA! Yes!

It's completely baffling to me why anybody would take a fandom with whole alien cultures to explore... and decide that what they, and a bunch of readers, really want to see is a story about a bunch of {American} high schoolers. *facepalming*

There are already So. Many. Fandoms. where the entire cast is high school kids; just go read fic for one of those fandoms! Why is "how can I strip out every vestige of what made these characters interesting when they first appeared in canon" such a popular route to take?!

Siiiiigh.

(Heh, and I'm such a xeno-snob, too; I get annoyed when aliens are written as 'too human' as well as when they're deliberately turned into humans. It's part of the reason I was so hideously disappointed by Avatar - the idea that a bunch of telepathic aliens with biology shaped for a completely different environment would be basically people in monkey suits was just offensively poor writing... even before the rest of the offensive bits of the writing became clear.)

[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.

[krait]

Oh, man -- now I'm super happy about missing most of the HP movies! That's just awful. (I was already annoyed by the third movie, where for some reason Hermione has to run around in a stupid pink hoodie for most of the scenes! Though that was only half "stop making it Just Like Muggles"; the other half was "please stop giving me Creepy Pedo Director vibes".) DX

[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.