Three quickie rants

[vethica]

Dear A Lot Of Writers:

Writing out accents and dialects. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it can give things a cultural flavor. (Case in point, Cross the Heartland, an excellent Kingdom Hearts/Disney AU fic.) A couple 'Eys and 'Eres here and there can be fine. But when your fic or RP starts looking like I've accidentally crawled into the Apostrophe Forest, I hit the back button posthaste.

Dear Jumanji:

It is in fact spelled "posthaste". With one e.

Dear A Certain RP:

Why would you have a bodyswap where the characters take on the speech patterns, vocabulary, etc. of whosever body they're in? That seems like it would defeat the purpose a little.

And on a related note, I'd like to plug hogwarts_hocus, in my opinion the best multifandom RP around. If you like to roleplay, I urge you to check it out.

Comments

[hoyvinglavin64.livejournal.com]

What if Hagrid is a major role in the fic?

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Sometimes it works. If you can do it well, more power to ya.

[riicchan.livejournal.com]

I don't even know who you are, but I really want to hug you right now.
I'm the author of Cross the Heartland, and I'm glad beyond words at the mention.

Thank you. <3

[vethica.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're welcome! You write some of the best AUs I've ever read. ♥