Jack, you are going to miss out on enjoying a lot of stories like this.
If I actually deleted (or in my case, just didn't finish reading) stories that bugged me in some way, yes, I'd miss out on a lot. But I do my level best to read everything that's posted to an archive, personal site or blog, and of the 1,000+ stories Smallville has thus far spawned, I've only stopped reading 2 or 3 because they were so bad. (That's not counting stories so illegibly formatted I couldn't read them, but even those aren't enough to bump me into double-digits, IIRC.)
I can put up with a lot -- and as someone who notices every misspelled word and misplaced punctuation mark, I do, whether I'm reading fanfiction or mainstream publications -- while still enjoying a story, but that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated, or that I don't notice the same errors spreading from author to author. If nobody points things out, like the fact that one "reigns over" but "reins in" (to use a recent example addressed by someone other than me), lots of writers will never realise that they're making a mistake, and it will just be perpetuated.
And yes, the couch is ugly. (You're referring to the yellow leather one with the metal trim?) I haven't made my mind up what I think yet about why he'd pick such an ugly thing, or whether it's one of the furnishings that came with the castle.
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Date: 2002-08-17 10:45 pm (UTC)If I actually deleted (or in my case, just didn't finish reading) stories that bugged me in some way, yes, I'd miss out on a lot. But I do my level best to read everything that's posted to an archive, personal site or blog, and of the 1,000+ stories Smallville has thus far spawned, I've only stopped reading 2 or 3 because they were so bad. (That's not counting stories so illegibly formatted I couldn't read them, but even those aren't enough to bump me into double-digits, IIRC.)
I can put up with a lot -- and as someone who notices every misspelled word and misplaced punctuation mark, I do, whether I'm reading fanfiction or mainstream publications -- while still enjoying a story, but that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated, or that I don't notice the same errors spreading from author to author. If nobody points things out, like the fact that one "reigns over" but "reins in" (to use a recent example addressed by someone other than me), lots of writers will never realise that they're making a mistake, and it will just be perpetuated.
And yes, the couch is ugly. (You're referring to the yellow leather one with the metal trim?) I haven't made my mind up what I think yet about why he'd pick such an ugly thing, or whether it's one of the furnishings that came with the castle.