Urg, I hate name misspellings, especially if they're consistent throughout the fic. Once that your spellcheck and beta overlook, okay, forgivable. But if you're writing a fic about this character, shouldn't you care enough to find out how to spell their name?
Back in my Vampire Chronicles days there was this one author who had the worst spelling ever, combined with a tendency to run spellcheck and accept every correction without bothering to see if it corrected it correctly... Half her fics featured a character named Lester, which is apparently what MS Word thought Lestat should be... I'm sorry, but the Vampire Lester just does not have the same ring to it!
Sort of related, I recently created a sock puppet journal and deliberately misspelled things in the interests... "albus dumbledor" is an interest of one comm and 7 users, all of which are RPG characters. "ewan macgregor" (instead of McGregor) is an interest for 6 comms and 468 users!!! How can you be a fan of someone and not even know how to spell their name!? *weeps*
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Date: 2004-12-29 07:36 pm (UTC)Back in my Vampire Chronicles days there was this one author who had the worst spelling ever, combined with a tendency to run spellcheck and accept every correction without bothering to see if it corrected it correctly... Half her fics featured a character named Lester, which is apparently what MS Word thought Lestat should be... I'm sorry, but the Vampire Lester just does not have the same ring to it!
Sort of related, I recently created a sock puppet journal and deliberately misspelled things in the interests... "albus dumbledor" is an interest of one comm and 7 users, all of which are RPG characters. "ewan macgregor" (instead of McGregor) is an interest for 6 comms and 468 users!!! How can you be a fan of someone and not even know how to spell their name!? *weeps*