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Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

OP here to inform you motherfuckers that it's not apologism, it's apologia

Also double line breaks between paragraphs. Does anyone have css to collapse those dudes using a site skin?

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/389365-ao3-remove-double-spacing/code

Would a script work?

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

I use the 'ao3 tweak formatting' script which is at https://greasyfork.org/en/users/36620 and can do lots of stuff - remove line breaks, insert line breaks, change *word* to word and other things. So useful!

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

apologism
​noun​formal
DEFINITIONS1

1
a defence or excuse, or these things collectively
The book has been criticized as a work of naive apologism.
In many cases the apologism around these crimes benefitted future perpetrators.


apologia
​noun countable ​formal
UK
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/ˌæpəˈləʊdʒiə/
Word Forms
DEFINITIONS1

1
a statement in which you defend or explain something such as an idea

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

are you sure?

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

all those porn clichés like "he whined at the loss".

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Meanwhile, I could eat them all up with a spoon. Give me all the porn clichés, please!

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

How does one write smut without the cliches though

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

It's "by accident", not "on accident".

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Yes!!

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't that a US/UK thing?

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

It's a regionalism, prescriptivist coalie.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry to say, this one is a regionalism.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

"by accident" sounds wrong. Pretty much everyone I interact with uses "on accident" both in speech and in writing, why would I use the weird sounding version when there's a perfectly good normal sounding version right there? It's not like "could of" where it really is grammatically incorrect, it's a difference in word choice for a phrase.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

make do not make due
A person may is a dominant not amdominate
Clothes not cloths for things people wear

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

What happened to your second one?

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

I just want someone to have a discrete affair that's actually discrete.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

When you're betaing and the person starts to work in the Google doc resolving your comments at the same time and you both are therefore playing Moving Carpet Tango with the text

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

This is sort of the opposite, but I'm old enough that I learned to type on a typewriter, so I automatically hit the space bar twice after every sentence. I've had betas go through and remove. Every. Double. Space.

In a 10k story.

By hand.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Mixing up lose and loose. It's less anger and more that I wind up dissolving into laughter every time some character winds up loosing their mind.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

"Would of," "could of," and "should of" make me want to throw things. It's "would have," "could have," and "should have." (Or "would've/could've/should've," which is where the original confusion comes from, I guess. :P)

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

He smelt of old, soft leather, tobacco smoke, apricots, and something that was uniquely himself.

Or insert your favorite example of the above.

I'm sooo over it. It was cute the first 100 times, ngl, but now it's booooring.

Re: Writing pet peeves that make you feel irrationally angry

[(Anonymous)]

Can’t stand it when something was written on google docs and it has that gdocs-to-AO3 problem where any bold or italicized word has a space inserted after it.