I really think that maybe running a spell check or checking google or looking at a screencap or poster so that you correctly spell the name of the badass covert operations headed by Nick Fury wouldn't be very hard, but since apparently it totally is, here is a handy mnemonic device to help you out ( Read more... )

If you consistently misspell the name of the main character, not only won't I read your stuff, but I will judge you.

Mockingly not at all yours,
moi.

eta: Rest assured, if a writer I am actually friends with were to do such a thing, I would IM them or leave a comment instead of posting about it here.

So I just finished reading The Janus Gate trilogy by L.A. Graf, and it has some of the most wildly inaccurate back cover blurbs I have ever seen on a Star Trek novel, and that's REALLY SAYING SOMETHING.

So I'm gonna talk about it! (Under the cuts, this post is huge.)

( Book 1: Present Tense )

Dear writer of "Bruce Wayne - the road home: Batgirl" -- Bryan Q. Miller, apparently -- you need to learn to check your sources. "Stephanie means 'hope' -- and there's room for hope in Gotham" is cute and all, but Stephanie means CROWN.

FYI, it's explicitly stated in TOS that there are no regulations against crewmates of any rank getting romantically involved. Even the captain and a yeoman or ensign. Hell, Kirk officiates a marriage at one point. It's just considered unprofessional for a line officer to have casual affairs amongst his crew, and generally acknowledged that people ( Read more... )

Having saved a copy of a fanfic I like so that I can read it when I'm not online, I am now going through the file I have saved, for the pleasure of reading it and to make sure the formatting didn't go all weird....

...and I am fixing spelling and grammatical errors as I go....

In the 2009 movie, from the end of Act I onward, Chekov is 17*, and McCoy is 31. Subsequently, a lot of the McCoy/Chekov ficcers out there have McCoy agonizing about having to wait until Chekov's 18 to make any kind of move on him (and several artists have made this a not-very-funny running gag ( Read more... )

( so it's all under the cut. It involves beagles. )

You know, I love the SGA episode "The Shrine", I really do, but there's one nit I have to pick that would have basically not have it happen if the writers had stuck with their own logic. The Stargate can't engage if there's something blocking the inner surface of the ring, so it has been said. I'd like to think that all that water would have

Trying to watch the JLU episode where John, Bruce, Clark, and Diana get turned into kids. I'm not even to the theme song and there's already a HUGE flaw in the premise dancing in it's skivvies.

Mordred used the magical amulet to get rid of everyone older than him. I repeat older than him.After having pointed out that he's centuries old, and his ( Read more... )