Snowflake Challenge Day Three
Jan. 6th, 2023 05:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logans_girl2001Challenge #3
In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I didn't think I had anything to rant about when it comes to fandom, and then I remembered the fic I'm currently reading.
Dear fic authors,
If you are writing for a fandom based in a country that you are not from, please have someone from that country read it to make sure you're using the correct slang.
For example: the fic I'm currently reading is in Teen Wolf fandom (which is based in a high school in California) and is obviously written by someone NOT from the US.
For those who do not know, in America we call our mothers 'Mom', not 'Mum'. It is very jarring to have an American teenager calling his/her mother 'Mum'.
Also, Americans call their gym shoes tennis shoes or sneakers (some call them gym shoes or basketball shoes, but they are usually older), not trainers. It's a 'sweater' not a 'jumper'. And American high school is ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades (also called freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years) so if your character is home schooled their freshman year, then joins their classmates for sophomore year, they will be the only one of their classmates to not know their way around because the rest of their class would have learned the layout of the school the previous year (unless they were also home schooled).
So, in closing, please dear fic authors, if you are not from America and are writing in a fandom set in America, have someone who speaks American English read it to check your slang and that you are not using any phrases that an American would not use.
Whew, who knew it would feel so good to rant about that?
In your own space, Scream Into the Void. Get it all out. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I didn't think I had anything to rant about when it comes to fandom, and then I remembered the fic I'm currently reading.
Dear fic authors,
If you are writing for a fandom based in a country that you are not from, please have someone from that country read it to make sure you're using the correct slang.
For example: the fic I'm currently reading is in Teen Wolf fandom (which is based in a high school in California) and is obviously written by someone NOT from the US.
For those who do not know, in America we call our mothers 'Mom', not 'Mum'. It is very jarring to have an American teenager calling his/her mother 'Mum'.
Also, Americans call their gym shoes tennis shoes or sneakers (some call them gym shoes or basketball shoes, but they are usually older), not trainers. It's a 'sweater' not a 'jumper'. And American high school is ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades (also called freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years) so if your character is home schooled their freshman year, then joins their classmates for sophomore year, they will be the only one of their classmates to not know their way around because the rest of their class would have learned the layout of the school the previous year (unless they were also home schooled).
So, in closing, please dear fic authors, if you are not from America and are writing in a fandom set in America, have someone who speaks American English read it to check your slang and that you are not using any phrases that an American would not use.
Whew, who knew it would feel so good to rant about that?
