I don't know how A03 works either, I'm afraid. I mean, I post my own stories on there but I've never really gone looking for stuff by other people. There's so much on there. It's rather daunting.
I'm not a fan of horror movies and have seen neither the original Blair Witch or the new one, but it would bug me too if I was a fan and the two films were set in completely different forests and you were just supposed to think they were the same one.
I get irritated beyond all reason when films supposedly feature falcons but in the bird of prey in question is actually a harris hawk, for instance. Or if - as once happened in an episode of Big Bang Theory- a blue jay turns up in California where it's very unlikely to do so. Get it right, for goodness' sake!
I don't know how A03 works either, I'm afraid. I mean, I post my own stories on there but I've never really gone looking for stuff by other people. There's so much on there. It's rather daunting.
It seems like if you don't know exactly what you're after, it's a lost cause. You can search for tags, but not exclude tags which means you have to root through loads of material to find anything. Eh, it's probably for the best, I suppose.
I get irritated beyond all reason when films supposedly feature falcons but in the bird of prey in question is actually a harris hawk, for instance. Or if - as once happened in an episode of Big Bang Theory- a blue jay turns up in California where it's very unlikely to do so. Get it right, for goodness' sake!
We never get anything right. Locations, accents, wildlife, procedures--it's all wrong. They've had it wrong so long people don't even know it's wrong anymore. To this day I cringe at Kendra's chalk outline in Becoming.
Well, you're certainly not alone in getting things wrong. Brit dramas do it too. Every drama set in a hospital or a police department or - most of all - a forensics lab. It's cringe-inducing when you know it doesn't work that way.
Which I'm not saying I do. I'm not an expert on those things by any means. But it's galling if you know it's wrong not for dramatic reasons but because people couldn't be bothered to research it, or worse still, think their audience is stupid so it won't matter.
I get confused with AO3 too I'm afraid, whenever I search through specific tags I always end up with too many fandoms that I don't care about, but I can't seem to figure out how to filter fandoms out. You'd think the advanced search page would be the best way to go, but for some reason I always seem to get hardly any results when I do it that way, putting in the fandom with the specific tags and pairing that I'm interested in. You get sooo many more results if you just click through the tags, but then there's about a billion Teen Wolf fic to skip past when you do it that way :(
it's not very user-friendly at all, but I guess the tag system is more like tumblr or a blog in that it's more for authors to archive their stuff than others to look up things. There's always pit of voles, I guess.
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I'm not a fan of horror movies and have seen neither the original Blair Witch or the new one, but it would bug me too if I was a fan and the two films were set in completely different forests and you were just supposed to think they were the same one.
I get irritated beyond all reason when films supposedly feature falcons but in the bird of prey in question is actually a harris hawk, for instance. Or if - as once happened in an episode of Big Bang Theory- a blue jay turns up in California where it's very unlikely to do so. Get it right, for goodness' sake!
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I don't know how A03 works either, I'm afraid. I mean, I post my own stories on there but I've never really gone looking for stuff by other people. There's so much on there. It's rather daunting.
It seems like if you don't know exactly what you're after, it's a lost cause. You can search for tags, but not exclude tags which means you have to root through loads of material to find anything. Eh, it's probably for the best, I suppose.
I get irritated beyond all reason when films supposedly feature falcons but in the bird of prey in question is actually a harris hawk, for instance. Or if - as once happened in an episode of Big Bang Theory- a blue jay turns up in California where it's very unlikely to do so. Get it right, for goodness' sake!
We never get anything right. Locations, accents, wildlife, procedures--it's all wrong. They've had it wrong so long people don't even know it's wrong anymore. To this day I cringe at Kendra's chalk outline in Becoming.
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Which I'm not saying I do. I'm not an expert on those things by any means. But it's galling if you know it's wrong not for dramatic reasons but because people couldn't be bothered to research it, or worse still, think their audience is stupid so it won't matter.
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it's not very user-friendly at all, but I guess the tag system is more like tumblr or a blog in that it's more for authors to archive their stuff than others to look up things. There's always pit of voles, I guess.
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