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14 November 2012 @ 04:30 pm
AUs wanted!  
This is highly unorthodox of me (but hopefully not inappropriate) to be posting so very publicly. But desperate times call for desperate measures.

I've been on some sort of an AU kick recently. It's all because of [livejournal.com profile] sarea_okelanis awesome campAU Wet Hot Avengers Summer http://sarea-okelani.livejournal.com/407093.html (I don't know how to make the title a link ): . I've been scouring this bar as well as AO3 for more AUs but it's proving difficult to find ones to my liking since up until very recently, I didn't really like AUs at all. All I seem to find are variations on the theme of superspies and assassins. Which is fine but not what I want.

So what I want is for you, fellow shippers, to give me links. I don't care what the AU world is as long as it's got Clint and Natasha in love by the end of it. With each other. I'm sure many of you are far more organised than me and have actually bookmarked stories you like or can remember if something you've written fits into my description of what I want to read. 

Also whats the policy on prompts here? Cause my head is filled with stuff I want to see our lovely OTP in but I lack the ability to write those stories myself.
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[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on November 14th, 2012 05:10 pm (UTC)
I'm also not a native speaker, and I have the same problem regarding spelling and grammar, it just irks me that so many people don't give a damn... And yes, I only go there occasionally as well, but I have found some really good writers there as well... Now I just follow those :) But you're right, it is kinda like finding a needle in a haystack...
[identity profile] jorizo.livejournal.com on November 14th, 2012 05:18 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah, I've got a bunch of writers I follow there. It's a good feature :)

I think the reason it irks me so much is that I've spent A LOT of time learning the language. And I'm perfectly fine with the mistakes if the writer says they're not a native speaker. But when someone who is, is all, I made a mitsake, LOL :P I get angry.
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on November 14th, 2012 05:29 pm (UTC)
Definitely, a wonderful feature :)

My point exactly, at least use spellcheck and have someone give it a once over grammarwise or for misused homonyms... There was this one story I read, where the author always mixed up well and while, I was so confused as they weren't always used incorrectly, but that is just plain annoying...
[identity profile] jorizo.livejournal.com on November 14th, 2012 05:31 pm (UTC)
My favourite is waste and waist. "He grabbed her waste and pulled her in to a scorching kiss." Jesus.
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on November 14th, 2012 05:40 pm (UTC)
Hells to the yes! You know, that has me scarred for life (also the use of scared for scarred) ;)
[identity profile] alphaflyer.livejournal.com on November 15th, 2012 01:11 am (UTC)
Coming late to this, but ... raises hand shyly on that "not a native speaker" bit. But at one point I got paid good money to edit other folks' papers in English, and then came the point where I read some of my old university papers in German and I went "Holy Crap. I wrote THAT???" -- so I think the graphs crossed a few years back.

As for word confusions -- I hate when people "diffuse" bombs and tension, and don't even get me started on "they're/there/their" or "he would of gone ...". (I've stopped reading stories for that last one.) Then again I just discovered a "horse throat" in Chapter 3 of Service so, blushing furiously, I'm wading in for an exfil.

[identity profile] jacedesbff.livejournal.com on November 15th, 2012 03:52 am (UTC)
The worst for me is one I swear I have seen five times in the past two weeks - one does not start a training regime. Instead, one starts a training regimen. "Regime" would imply that your trainer is going to conquer your country and set up a new form of government.

::ahem::

I've never said anything to the authors, just grumbled in silence. Thanks for letting me vent!! :D
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on November 15th, 2012 05:40 am (UTC)
Oh man, don't get me started on the "would of", it drives me up the wall! Homonyms, always the friggin homonyms... I mean it's not that difficult, right? Oh and I totally understand the feeling, I read some of my old English papers a while back and I cringed a bit ;)

Oh and jacedes, please, vent to your hearts delight, it's what were here for :D Because I for one am totally with you, it's annoying as all get out... Maybe the offending authors will read this and realise their mistake *lol*
[identity profile] jorizo.livejournal.com on November 15th, 2012 06:34 pm (UTC)
It's not like I never make mistakes (there's an apostrophe missing in my original post). But damn it I hate myself for everyone I make.

My think that many of us EFL learners learn the written language first and are therefore much more sensitive to the spelling. But our accents tend to be horrendous. I've now achieved a status where native speakers always think I'm a native speaker, just not from their country (Americans think I'm Canadian, Brits think I'm Irish). Most of my fellow countrymen speak what we call rally driver English...
[identity profile] shenshen77.livejournal.com on November 15th, 2012 08:25 pm (UTC)
Oh, I definitely agree, wholeheartedly :) I could kick myself everytime I find a mistake I made somewhere...

And yes, since the focus for most of us is first on the written word, we would probably obsess about that a little more. And my first English teacher had the most horrible German accent you can imagine... Luckily, I lost mine spending one year at an American High School... Instead I ended up with a lovely southern drawl ;) Which I have now in turn mostly lost, due to working in Ireland for two years. Americans still think I'm American, but they can't really place the accent ;) And in Ireland I worked with people from all over the world and I heard and read the strangest and the loveliest interpretations of English imaginable ;)