*rips hair out*

Dear Firefly fandom:

Say it with me: It's "SHEPHERD." Not "shepard" or "sheperd" or any other weird permutation of the word. It is derived from two roots: "Sheep" and "Herd." Take out one of the E's in "Sheep," mush the two words together, and you get "Shepherd."

HOW HARD IS THAT?

This rant brought to you by one too many fics where the word is egregiously misspelled throughout--one of which fics is nominated for an award and is riddled with so many other errors that I was banging my head on my keyboard. Spellcheck, people. A simple spellcheck should catch that. And if you think your spellcheck is on crack, then look it up someplace else.

No love,
agilebrit, who actually cares about spelling characters' names right. X-posted to fanficrants

*rips hair out*

Dear Firefly fandom:

Say it with me: It's "SHEPHERD." Not "shepard" or "sheperd" or any other weird permutation of the word. It is derived from two roots: "Sheep" and "Herd." Take out one of the E's in "Sheep," mush the two words together, and you get "Shepherd."

HOW HARD IS THAT?

This rant brought to you by one too many fics where the word is egregiously misspelled throughout--one of which fics is nominated for an award and is riddled with so many other errors that I was banging my head on my keyboard. Spellcheck, people. A simple spellcheck should catch that. And if you think your spellcheck is on crack, then look it up someplace else.

No love,
agilebrit, who actually cares about spelling characters' names right. X-posted to fanficrants

Epiphany...

I had an ... interesting thought while working on my FluffyThon fic (which is now on page 7 8 and sitting at over 2700 nearly 3000 words--I take my fluff seriously, dammit).

River isn't actually crazy.

In fact, she's saner than the rest of us. In fact, she's so super-sane that it looks like insanity from where the rest of us are sitting. She's so connected to reality that she can't shut it off.

Discuss.

Epiphany...

I had an ... interesting thought while working on my FluffyThon fic (which is now on page 7 8 and sitting at over 2700 nearly 3000 words--I take my fluff seriously, dammit).

River isn't actually crazy.

In fact, she's saner than the rest of us. In fact, she's so super-sane that it looks like insanity from where the rest of us are sitting. She's so connected to reality that she can't shut it off.

Discuss.