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I feel the same way about Ronan/Ronon Dex

It's very easy to find the correct spelling of characters' names, and you're an idiot if you don't do it.

I have a bit of sympathy for that one, because I'd posted TWO fics before I realised that Word was autocorrecting Ronon to Ronan. ARGH. (There were only minor mentions of him in both fics, and neither me nor my beta caught it.)

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(Anonymous) - 2014-11-09 00:44 (UTC) - Expand

It's Cas not Cass and I don't care what anybody says. His name is CAStiel not CASStiel ffs.

Agreed!

I have a memory of The Supernatural writers saying at some point that it is Cass, or that was how it was written down on a piece of paper in an episode or something? I don't remember, but I am quite sure it is some form of Canon.

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Deathtoll. ;)

Here here!

Cannon!

Even worse is when it's a book fandom. THEIR NAMES ARE SPELLED RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE FFS

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Although my Spanish-speaking brain still gets warped around the canonical pronunciation of "Jaime" as "Jamie." Especially as I've got a cousin named Jaime.

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I can cut some slack for movie, tv, podcast, and other audio-based fandoms for not getting the correct spelling right. I feel like there's no excuse to misspell a name from a book fandom because, as you said, the name is RIGHT THERE.

Ha, yes!

Jesus, yes. Steve Rodgers drives me up the wall.

It's Ieshua!!!!!!

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I dunno, renaming characters just for the fun of it is pretty much in the spirit of NuBattlestar canon. It is very meta.

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It sometimes drives me crazy, too, but I have a certain amount of sympathy, also.

You know how sometimes you have a word you just can't remember how to spell? For me, it's seperate. Oops, separate. I know I misspell it a lot, and I know it's one of those two, and you'd think I could remember, but I still only get it right the first time about a third of the time.

Some people have it worse, and are just sort of... spelling-blind, I guess.

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Yes, this is such a pet peeve of mine.
(Also, Roslin <3)

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I'm guilty of this, I never wrote fic for BSG or anything but if I was ever writing or typing her name there was always a 50/50 chance that I'd spell it Roslyn instead. It's apparently just one of those words that my brain messes up really easily.

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I have some sympathy though because, sometimes, in the beginning especially, some information has conflicting information (like closed captioning, network/show websites, imdb) and sometimes the creators/writers themselves have a hard time settling on spelling.

But, Jesus, if you use AO3 and you tag the character (with the correct spelling), I'm going to wonder what the hell you're thinking.

Re: Erika instead of Erica (Teen Wolf) annoys me.

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YES. If you misspell someone's name in a fic more than once so I can be fairly certain it wasn't a typo, I will stop reading your fic.

Totally with you on this one. Though I almost did it myself recently, in a Dragon Age fic that spelled a name as Isabella instead of Isabela. Not a huge mistake, I suppose, but I fixed it as soon as I realized I'd made it.

I T A.

Agreed. Completely and utterly agreed. Especially with the utterly simple names (It's WILL Riker, not WIL Riker you idiots!)

I just can't use some of Togashi's official spellings, sorry.

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