fanfic peeve of the week

[buggery]

Because I'm finding myself with plenty enough to gripe about at least once a week.

It's in the details, people:

Lex's desk is glass, not wood; it has metal legs and no drawers; it's really more of a table. The chair behind it is neither padded nor leather. These things are clearly visible in numerous episodes.

Or is there another show people are watching that I've missed out on? From the number of stories in which Lex swivels his leather desk chair for a blowjob, or Clark fetches lube out of the desk drawer, or someone gets bent over his heavy wood desk and grips the sides of it, I'm starting to wonder.

Comments

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[happyminion.livejournal.com]

Well, to me, the props around Lex (Lex in particular, though the same can be said for other characters too) are part of his characterisation.

I hope not. His couch is really ugly. *g*

Jack, you are going to miss out on enjoying a lot of stories like this.

[buggery.livejournal.com]

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.