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[quiet_tiger]

I think I've posed this question before, but I was recently bombarded with examples again--

What really throws you out of a fic?

I was invested in a long fic so I didn't actually back button, though I contemplated it, when the sentence described the main character's eyes as being blue, when they are clearly brown in the movie. Brown and blue are usually difficult to confuse!

The story had a lot of other issues, but basic fact problems really are annoying.

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[quiet--tiger.livejournal.com]

Basic biology seems to be beyond a lot of people. Spend some time at weepingcock to get a real look at what I mean! I can see how people messing up what should be simple stuff is so frustrating considering it's your field of study!

I just don't understand getting canon wrong, if it's something that is very specific to the story. Like when people say that Clark and Chloe grew up together, but she only got to Smallville in 8th grade.

See, I'm afraid to write stuff that takes place in a different time, because I know I'd screw something up and have the characters be all anachronisms all the time. But yeah, Merlin didn't have genetics research. I think I read a Merlin fic that referenced toothpaste, but I could be wrong. Granted the show screws up a lot of stuff--apparently the tomatoes Merlin gets thrown at him in the pilot wouldn't have been around at the time.