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What are some funny errors you've seen authors make in their writing that are immersion breaking or weird continuity errors or anachronisms in historical/fantasy writing, fanatic or generally?

Brought to you by some extensive "Jesus fucking Christ" cursing in a Baldur's Gate fanfic I read recently.

Quite a few authors tend to lose track of where which limbs are/what positions the characters are in in their smut scenes. I often go "... wait, wasn't that person on their back just now, how is the other character behind them?". Always takes me out of a smut scene if I have to ponder which pretzel shape on the Twister board the characters are in. /(insert lady with math equations meme here)

Related to the topic immediately upthread: Read a fic where the author obviously used Find+Replace to change all instances of a character's nickname back into their actual first name, then posted without proofreading again, or enough. The nickname was also a regular noun which the author had used a couple times elsewhere in the fic, so there were some sentences where this proper name was just THERE randomly out of context.

Thats hilarious

I see a bunch of little things, examples:
"He went to Westpoint on a boxing scholarship." No. US military academy are all free (you pay by working as an officer) you would not get a sport scholarship.

Other military mixup like conflating captains in the Army with Navy captains or assuming all officers were enlisted first.

"He was hungry but had no money for food until payday." Fine except he's a waiter at Dennys. A) many tips are in cash and B) eat the fruit sides no one ever touches because honeydew is gross. And sure you wouldn't do that irl (ew) but the character was minutes from passing out from starvation.

Common wishfulfilment stuff like college professors being really well paid, small business owners having tons of free time, service workers having remaining faith in humanity, etc.

a character's name changing in the middle of a short story.

I am so easily annoyed by anachronisms it's not even funny.
But my favorite example would be forever: "He decided to take a warm shower and set it to 25°". I was like: "wait, 25 (Celsius) is quite cold for a shower" —> "wait, this fic is happening in USA, they would use Fahrenheit" -> "IS IT SNOW SHOWER?!". My friend and I still call snowing weather "25° showers"

That one is really hilarious.

The downside to being focused as I read fanfiction on trying to figure out what the author was trying to tell me, even though English may not be their first language and they're obviously writing about stuff they've made up (sometimes more believably than others), is that I just forget most of these minor gems of momentary confusion after I get what they must have meant.

AYRT
Yeah, I forget almost immediately too. I either power through and forget or drop the story.
This one I remember mostly because 1) it's hilarious 2) I went to my friend to ask if 25 is cold for a shower 3) I had long discourse on twitter if we should write about USA realities in Fahrenheit (miles etc) or Celsius since we use Celsius (the results were mixed)

Okay that's really funny, but also, are there people out there setting their showers to specific temps? Am I living in the past just combining the hot and cold until its feels right?

I've seen some showers with temperatures marked on the dial but that's definitely not a common thing.

I think author was going for "fancy" feeling - character was a rich man. But ended being our local meme.

I remember a fic where the author was obviously quite young and/or had zero experience with alcohol. One of the characters (regular human) drank, idk, something like four bottles of hard liquor and was a bit drunk afterwards. Unless that's a really seasoned alcoholic, that's a hospital trip, darling.

Leaving aside Britishisms in fic for Supernatural and Stranger Things...

In Stranger Things, the second biggest thing is when there's something REALLY modern in a fic that's not a modern AU.

In a fic I read recently in a completely different fandom, one character's house was described as having only two bedrooms... which would be fine, if it was not LITERALLY a mansion, and a particularly famous historical one from my mother's hometown. I know for a FACT that house has six bedrooms. And it just yanked me RIGHT out.

For a while I was keeping a running list of all the anachronisms in Stranger Things fic I read.

I think my favorite was the person who assumed the video store Robin and Steve worked at was renting out DVDs.

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