"Dictionary? ...What's that?"

[soliandxpyne]

If you don't agree with me, you probably haven't plumbed the depths of ff.net lately, but I think it should be made illegal to purchase a thesaurus without concurrently purchasing or offering proof of ownership of a dictionary.  D:<

Note to the 14 yr old fangirls writing awful fic out there: You don't seem to realize that synonyms are not just '

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[soliandxpyne]

Ah, well, I never said it wasn't a guilty pleasure. I go purely on the psychological conditioning concept of 'random reward.' For every, let's say 15, times I torture myself my visiting the site, I'm rewarded with a fic that will mildly hold my interest. :p

It was mostly intended to be a post about how much I love my dictionary, but then kinda went downhill from there, haha. Because I love that feeling of searching for just the right word, going through a few of them in the thesaurus without luck, and then finding one, double-checking the precise meaning in the dictionary, and getting this huge stupid grin on my face like, "Yeeeeaaah."

[eyesofshinigami]

Ha ha! You know, that's something that I forgot to mention? XD Oh well, I think you covered it for me.

First of all, a comma makes a HUGE difference. 'You're' is not the same as 'Your'. You cannot use these things interchangeably.

Cornflower is NOT a shade of yellow. Unless you want Sanzo (or another blond character) with BLUE hair, don't use it.

Orb should not be used to describe eyeballs. That makes me think of someone with eyes like a BUG. An orb is like a crystal ball.

Spit is not a suitable lubricant. If you've never tried it, then you don't know what unimaginable pain you are putting your couple in.

Spell check is NOT always right. Just because it says the word is correct, does not indicate that it is indeed the correct word to use.

I could go on, but I think I'll spare you. XD But, I totally agree with you. *waves Soli-chan flag*

[soliandxpyne]

Buwahahahaha!!1one Well said.

Yes, I could have gone on (and on and on...) about all my pet-peeves in fic writing, but like I told Mosh, this was intended to be a post of love, lol. As I was typing this I actually sat there writing a ready-made example of a couple sentences written straight, then written with only Word's suggestions for synonyms, then written with the help of the dictionary/thesaurus team, but I thought that would have been a bit much. I wanted to keep it short and sweet so I wouldn't clog up the friendspages of our flist.

Spit is not a suitable lubricant. Ohhh lord, don't get me started. I only have characters do it in extreme (as it, I can't avoid it XD) circumstances. Not to mention the fics where they have one character dry fuck another! O_O For all those authoresses who think spit makes comparable lubrication, let's suggest a little trick I'm sure all of us experimented with in grade school (because it served as a nifty way to (sort of) clean our hands after ten minutes on the monkey bars

[eyesofshinigami]

That's probably one of my biggest pet peeves in fanfiction of any shape and size. >_< Most of the time it's written by people who have never had sex, and probably won't be for a while. You know?

We want them to have skin on their penises, people! If they don't, they can't have hot wild boy smex anymore! And let's not even go into what that would do to the poor little uke, whoever he is. *feels sorry for him already*

Well, you got your point across, at any rate. And it amused me. XD I just wanted to have a little fun of my own. The descriptors really get me, too. Vermillion is RED, not BLUE. (Someone argued with me on that in a review...can you believe it? Wait...yes I'm sure you can.)

[a_mael]

AMEN.

[soliandxpyne]

lol, THANK YOU.

glad to see you're back. ^.^