Things that Writers Often Get Wrong 

Not anything big but once someone put in a fanfic that it took 4 hours to drive from NYC to California and it made me laugh so hard

Water. This isn't Minecraft. Falling into water does not suddenly cushion your fall. Because of the surface tension, it would actually be very much like landing squarely onto concrete, and if that didn't kill you then your broken bones preventing you from swimming out of the water will as you slowly drown. Or if you land legs-first like a spear, your fall will take a very long time to slow down and if you didn't land in a very deep body of water then you could break your legs hitting the bottom, and once again be stuck drowning You're much better off falling into some trees than a body of water. It'll hurt, but hitting the trees and branches will take away *some* momentum of your fall without stopping you completely and killing you, so by the time you *do* hit the ground you'll be severely battered, bruised, and probably have broken bones, but you'll still be alive. And you won't be drowning!

lava, being melted rock, is a loooot more dense than a human body, meaning you will not sink if you fall into it. you'll stay on the surface and burn to a crisp. a lot of people (not just in fanfic) treat lava as if it's hot glowing water. very different substance! also, neurodivergence. i once read a description of a character that was "she has adhd but it doesn't really affect her other than her energy" and a part of my soul died

my problem is, I KNOW I’ve clicked out of a fic because of an inaccuracy. but I cannot think of one for the life of me.

13:30 Apparently, a lot of telecom companies have gotten savvy about that. Dialing your emergency number(999, 111, 119, 911) could still redirect to the appropriate one for your location. Still, if you are traveling, make sure to double check that.

Characters with ADHD or autism like yes there are types of high where it makes life hard but ADHD isn't always you can't focus for longer then a gold fishes attention span and autism dosent always mean you have a special interest/talent

Broken borns hurt years after you've broken them every time it rains. The arm I've broken when I was 12 still mildly aches because of weather. I don't know why people think that bones don't hurt while they're healing.

I once read a fic where someone died of ADHD

The corset one bothers me SO MUCH I LOVE wearing corsets! They're so much fun and they look so cute! Hut the way they're treated in media as these horrible things that are soooo restrictive and horrible to wear is just FNJSVAVFJDJSGA

For me, it was how wattpad describe pregnancy, some people (and me, when I was just starting to read the site) truly believe that the moment that the girl character the next day she does sexual relations, she immediately gets all the symptoms and quickly finding out that she's having a baby, years later, I find out that makes NO sense.

9:59 OMG I thought I was the only one!!! I have noticed this in some fanfictions where minor/underaged characters were traveling without an adult. It was weird once I grew up and realized how could they afford a cruise unless they won a contest which usually happens in fanfiction. But overall this would be imposible without an adult, and minors working on a ship is completely illegal. I could go on about maritime laws and ship info, but I'm glad to hear someone else pointing it out than me. :D

6:35 If you see all the bullets, it's a clip. If you only see one bullet, and that's before you put it in the gun, then it's a magazine.

Blood remaining red LONG after it's stained or splashed onto a surface. Blood oxidizes and turns brown after a certain amount of time, so having bright red stains on clothes, the floor, a wall, a blade, etc. years after the fact is kinda laughable.

Detroit Becomes Human fandom gets Detroit’s geography wrong constantly as well as language, slang, history, etc.. I am from Detroit, lived there 20+ years. It’s not even me being in my high horse about it. There are no salt water beaches in Michigan, we are surrounded by lakes. But i have seen that mistake a lot. Michigan is in the Midwest, our slang is midwestern, so “pop” vs “soda.”

the piercing one is so real.... i have several piercings on the lip/mouth area. that stuff just tastes like spit

VENOM AND POISON ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS!!!!!!!!!!

5:10 I am guilty of writing someone with a 110 fever in one of my fics that’s still up 💀 there was a person in the comments like, “bro we need to go to the hospital!!!1!”

As someone with friends with kids, I swear to you, kids are so insane. They are completely unpredictable. Also just want to say that a damn anime told me that if you get stabbed, keep the blade in to slow down the bleeding. Only one anime. It was Blood plus. EDIT: Back again to say that the Korean Age thing was terminated by the government a few years ago. Some go by the Korean age thing, a kpop idol I know says he's 30 when he's really 29 (we're 12 days apart birthday wise), but it's more of a social thing now.

Hearing that you can't taste the metal on the piercings is quite sad for me. I love the taste of metal after all lol. I suspected it though, pretty sure some people wouldn't like to have metallic taste in their mouths 24/7.

for me its when its a vampire fic and they bite the other persons neck in a sexy way…. the veins in your neck are under extreme pressure and would burst at any puncture wound lol

Women back then *never* would have tied a corset tighter than they could handle. Because not only is that super bad for most everyone's bones but *being skinny wasn't hot back then* . Being proportional was though. Your hips needed to be this much bigger than your waist. If they weren't, it's much easier to add padding onto your hips than to tie your corset thinner around your waist. The only people who ever would've tied their corset tighter were people with more fat on their bodies. Because clinching down harder on fat isn't a problem because you're just moving fat around a bit. Skinny people would never do that because you'd have no fat to push, and you'd be trying to crunch down your bones. Which hurts and is stupid so no one did it. They're just old timey bras you guys, I frankly prefer them to bras because they feel so nice and it keeps my back from spasming, keeps be from having panic attacks and I can hide my phone in it. So I have way more pockets than if I don't have it.

Brothers and sisters usually don’t sincerely refer to each other as “bro” or “sis” unless they’re purposefully being cheeky. Also, having autism rarely means you are some cute little genius with all these delicate little quirks that make you shy and adorable.

THE CORSETS ONE!!! The amount of grudge I have for that rumour. Like, it's not meant to hurt you! Corsets are made to support women clothing so Idk why they make it so it hurts, it only hurts when you actually tighten it too tightly.

GERRY KEAY FROM TMA MENTION!!!??? love my goth king

I think one of the things I notice a lot that fanfic authors get wrong is the lore/worldbuilding of whatever universe they are writing about. I mean, I have no problem with AUs existing when they are labelled as such, and it's nice sometimes to see various headcanons that different authors include in their works, but some people need to have a refresher on canon because it's clear they have spent way too long in fandom circles and have forgot or misinterpreted things that are glaringly obvious if you just finished the canon story. I think the biggest example of this is Undertale, because it has a combination of a bajillion AUs, so many conflicting headcanons that don't reflect the evidence presented in the game itself, and characters who are so OOC because people spend so much time in fanon that they forget what the characters are actually like in the game. It's really difficult to read good Undertale fanfics because I'm personally not a fan of the AUs and there are so many fics out there with horrendously bad characterization. I have found many good ones, but it's still a struggle.

as someone who has had many a migraine in the past as well, i've gotta say, most of them are just like "ah dang it my temple hurt and my eyes feel weird" and then i go get the migraine medicine and it's gone in 30 minutes. now what REALLY is a pain are sinus and tension headaches. because you can't just go "oh im having a headache" and take the designated headache medicine you have. also headaches can be like WAY worse than most people would think, it's awful. i wish my tension headaches didnt feel like i was being grabbed by the head with tongs they really need to make an over the counter sinus headache pill (no the allergy pills do NOT work) i can't keep turning my bathroom into a sauna the gnats are learning how to fly around and not bother me at this point

This is very specific to the LMK fandom, but baby monkeys are NOT called cubs. It took me one google search to find that out, they’re called infants, just like baby humans. Heck, I even double checked that baby macaques are also called infants(they are) since our two main monkeys are supposed to be macaques(I mean one of them is even named Macaque-). I know a lot of people will be like “I’m just calling it a cub because it’s what I headcanon baby demons being called” but then they turn around also do that with the normal non-demon baby monkeys-

A lot of people are unaware of exactly how many times they eat and drink in a day. They have no concept of every little snack they just casually chomp now and then. They have no notion at all of how much weight that much food and water would amount to. And they're out here going "Babydoll packed enough food for a week" then have Babydoll sprint at full speed for prolonged periods. Babydoll is having a hard time standing up with a week's worth of food, never mind sprinting out of the way of a troll or whatever.

10:32 clearly never been to Europe xd

On corsets hurting, if it's your first time putting one on (especially if you don't have help) it's _really_ easy to over-tighten it, or even under-tighten it, so if you're preparing to write something, try one on, and it hurts because it's not on properly... My personal pet peeve is mechanical stuff and gun stuff, clicked off of one because a 'prodigal gunsmith' compared the power of a .22LR to 50BMG...

I hate getting ads before videos

As a woman who’s a virgin, I thought we were all secretly pringles? That’s just me?

That historical royal figures who were well documented humanitarians and actually had very little personal pocket money especially in wartime (like couldn't buy paper and perfume without saving up kind of budget) were drapped in diamonds (and their ceremonial velvet robes and heavy crowns) on the daily and eating bon bons while their people starved. Like, dude, freaking no. They wore very well made clothing but it was ordinary clothes. And goddamn bon bons? They couldn't even get cake at tea time because plain black bread was the traditionally served option. Yes, the youngest family member, who was frequently ill and so a touch more pampered, did have the one incident where he stopped his tutor's lesson to demand a chocolate, and got it (before the tutor told him that wasn't allowed in the school room) but I'm pretty sure this was not a regular occurrence. 😂

The hair loss thing is just way weirder than people expect. Lost my eyebrows and eyelashes but my body hair is mostly intact. Can still grow a beard but it's see through. Thankfully I had my last session, so now I just have to pray I fall in the 90% who are cured after. Another thing common in fiction is the infinite alcohol budget. You'll see a bunch of wine moms drinking together at restaurants while their houses are being foreclosed. It would be one thing if they were portrayed as alcoholics ruining their lives, but it usually isn't treated as a factor.

Hey, If you’re still doing Letterbox reviews, here’s some video suggestions Disney Direct to Dvd sequels Despicable Me Star Wars (more specifically the prequels) Sonic the Hedgehog Shark Tale Toy story or Frozen the Chocolate factory movies (For laughs) Trolls or Boss baby

Reminder from a fencer: you can see someone's face even if they're wearing a fencing mask

Heroin is NOT a stimulant. It's an opiate, ffs.

The suppressor thing actually bleeds over into the legal side of things, where lawmakers are really harsh on suppressors, out of fear of them being used to more discreetly kill people, when they won't hide the noise of the gunshot much at all, just sparing your poor eardrums from being damaged

Omg okay. There is a published romance novel (from a pretty well known Publisher btw) that's set in Iceland. The main character describes how she's with her romantic partner outside and watches the puffins. It's December and so romantic. Later they drive down the Autobahn (still in Iceland) and she starts to guess the license plates of cars and she's bad at it because she doesn't know Icelandic Cities. OKAY. Puffins migrate during winter. They arent even THERE! All of them are GONE during december! And Iceland doesn't have an Autobahn either! Because there aren't many cars and this is the reason THEIR LICENSE PLATES have RANDOM NUMBERS AND LETTERS ON THEM! They can basicly put whatever on there, they aren't an indicator for the cities because there are only like 10 on Iceland! Bruh BASIC RESEARCH! I can't deal with this! This is so EMBARASSING! 😫

For some reason, so many writers seem to have no idea how hormonal birth control works. I’ve read fics where the characters say “Oh, I don’t need to take my pill tonight because we didn’t do PiV”???? Sometimes that could be explained by it working differently in sci-fi/fantasy settings, but a ton of writers get things wrong even in realistic settings: 1. For birth control pills to be effective, you need to take it at the same time every day. You don’t need to skip it completely to get pregnant. 2. You don’t need to have sex on the same day you messed up your birth control to get pregnant. Did you have sex the day before? Too bad, sperm can usually live for a couple days. Can you have sex the next day? Most people wouldn’t (knowingly) risk it. I get accidental pregnancies are inherently more interesting stories. But writers tend to make the most extreme scenarios possible. It’s always “I completely ran out of pills the same night I slept with my partner!” instead of “One day I forgot my pill and took it two hours later. I thought it’d be fine, but it wasn’t.”

I once managed to get an author to stop writing a fic by just by asking about how two eleven years olds were 5 foot 9.

**slams cup on table twice** Another!

Corsets back then were also a bit more flexible than they are today Modern corsets use metal, but back then they were made from baleen (generally)

For me it was when a full grown man said and I quote "nothing would change If I yeeted myself off the bridge" clicked out so fast

the fever one got me :P

The only exception to the point made at 10:41 is Demoman from Team Fortress 2, who canonically drinks so much that when he gets normal food and water, his body thinks it being poisoned. Otherwise, completely true!

This is stupid but on the lines of the piercings i have a very specific, but similar, situation I have an oc with cybernetic implants (like, some futuristi cyborg kind of guy), and they have metal pads on their palms and fingertips that they use as taser if necessary And i have this friend who occasionally writes fics about them, and for the life of me i do not have the heart to tell them that the oc's metal pads are not cold, they are body temp at the very least and maybe even slightly warmer on occasions since they conduct electricity lol

I see it less in modern fanfic, but there's still a tendency to write extroverted characters (especially young males) as having Hollywood ADHD, while introverted characters (especially females) who are a bit clumsy and easily distracted are just shy ditzes, but still generally neurotypical (or they have an anxiety disorder). I wanna see more accurate depictions of inattentive ADHD in introverted female characters. It's also worth noting that while introverts and women are more likely to get a late ADHD diagnosis, introverted/late diagnosis ADHD does not automatically come with depression or anxiety. Yes, these are commonly co-occurring conditions, frequently triggered by having one's symptoms dismissed so consistently when young. But they are not universal. In fact, a lack of depression or anxiety can lead to a patient not being able to get an ADHD diagnosis from a medical professional at all. They have to do their own research, compare patient experiences, study the diagnostic criteria and symptoms, and use all of that to self-diagnose. Especially since psychological diagnoses are a lot more expensive than physical medical care, and aren't always covered by insurance or national healthcare policies. And even if the government does cover that kind of care, they pick and choose who can receive it, as that is the universal, inescapable nature of government-controlled healthcare. Meaning that if you're considered worth the government's time, they'll pencil you in two years from now. All because you can't focus to save your life (except when you actually have to save your life), yet you also have never had the urge to down an entire bottle of Ambien, so the government doesn't believe you when you describe your symptoms anymore than anyone else did when you were young.

people often get small historical details wrong and it so easily takes me out of the story. i once read a fic set in the 70s where a character answered a phone while driving,, mobile phones weren't really commercially available until the early 80s, and were certainly not convenient nor something a middle class person would own, much less just have in their car! in general many things are much newer than one would think, and at least with tech, just because something was available didn't mean that everyone owned it. in short; please just look up when things were made please (and when they were popularized, that's important too)

When someone's writing an autistic character or one with ADHD, and it's clear they looked up the DSM-5, made a list of all the possible symptoms, and checked each of them off in the writing process. While I'm sure it could happen, the vast majority of neurodivergent people don't have EVERY symptom, and certainly not to an extreme degree.

Saw a story that thinks pencil lead is ACTUAL lead. Sure, if it takes place in the past, that's fine, but modern pencils are made of graphite (because it's not as dangerous to touch/ingest as lead is).

Usually it's the "oh, this writer is American and didn't do research" that gets to me (doesn't have to be American, but some of the points are easy to connect). The 911 is an obvious one (also fyi, some countries have different emergency numbers for different departments). Medical care and expenses, too. Guns everywhere in countries where they should be restricted and/or illegal. How different places count the school years (both the amount of years spent in elementary/middle/high school, or how each grade is called). Drinking age is different in a lot of places. It's usually just a small enough detail to not bother me too much. I just tend to notice this when I venture to fandoms set in different countries. I don't always have the answers myself, especially if I never got into any Fandom from that country before, but I look up any question I could have when I start writing or obsessing about the fandom, so I find out pretty fast. Even if I don't know the answer I can tell when an answer is not right... Research is important, and on a lot of these points, pretty easy to find the answers.

I think the only time I've seen a character doing a medical procedure wrong and that having actual reasonable consequence in fiction was in the first Hunger Games book. Not only did Katniss openly admit she had no idea wtf she was doing, Peeta nearly died from the infection and had to get his leg amputated. When my relatives in the medical field pointed out that the medicine she'd have had to use is some of the most science fiction-y thing about the film I explained that and they said "Oh so they just didn't have the budget to give him a prosthetic fake leg, then".

reminds me of when I was a kid and wrote a story set in somewhere in America and the characters all drove to Hawaii in like 2 hours. I based that off my own knowledge of going on holiday in the UK not realising that America is massive and Hawaii is a bunch of islands lmao

People get DID (multiple personality disorder) incredibly wrong. 1- It's called Dissociative Identity Disorder, not MPD. It's called "alter", not personality. At least medically speaking, ofc, people can also name theme parts, headmates or any other names. 2- It's really rare to have an evil alter that kills people 3- Child alters are not 100% accurate toddlers and won't always behave like they are. They often know a lot more than a normal child, and have gone through a lot more than a normal child. We have 8-year-olds that are more conscious and "evil" than our oldest alters. 4- Having DID isn't a "get out of jail free" card. If one of your alters messes up, the whole system pays. You can't just break the heart of 3 women, kill a friend, make enemies with the mafia and then say "it wasn't me that was Steve's fault!" when the consecuences come at your door. It's not your fault to have a disorder ofc but the world just doesn't work like that 5- Two alters inside the same body can date and in some cases can even fuck in the innerworld. It's not selfcest or incest or anything like that, they're not Sans AUs, they're people. At the same time, two alters inside the same body can consider each other family (siblings, parent-child, grandpa-grandchild, etc), and their feelings are valid too (unless they wanna date, then it's weird af) 6- People act as if DID's only symptom is having alters and a bad memory. DID comes along with depression, anxiety and PTSD, it's not as simple as it looks. You have to face dissociative amnesia, DPDR, intrusive thoughts, flashbacks, splits, etc. 7- DID isn't diagnosed over 2 sessions. It's the most complex and severe disorder to come as a result of trauma. It's not something you can just get with one test and 2 therapy sessions, the diagnosis process can last even years. DID can be confused with so much other things, you need to be reallt careful to diagnose it I could go on and on about this all day. This happens with most mental illnesses in general but this is the most absolutely wrong I've seen

Honestly? Radiation. It's my main hyperfixation so when any media mentions radiation I'm automatically at full attention and So Many get it wrong in full confidence. I know sometimes it's just taking creative liberty but radiation does not produce useful mutations! And it dosen't visibly mutate the one affected, it affects their children. An irradiated area won't produce super frogs, it'll just kill them and the ones who do survive would likely produce entirely unviable offspring. Two heads or one eye or more limbs *sounds* cool until that animal is actually real. None of the mutations are supposed to be there so they will, in most cases, produce a horrible quality of life in the long run as they're not adapted to have that sort of body. Also, if someone's exposed the first thing that's probably gonna happen is that they start feeling nauseous or they start barfing (sometimes from both ends unfortunately). Radiation poisoning isn't fun and it sure as hell isn't clean. It's probably one of the worst things that can happen to a living thing which is probably why media dosen't portray it realistically actually because realistic radiation is just terryifying and depressing tbh. One good series (my favorite books actually!) that depicts it in a mainly realistic light is called "Gone", by Michael Grant. He does take liberty in the mutations, but those are also being affected by Unknown Forces that are really cool and well written and I don't wanna spoil it! I'm going to stop now before this comment turns into a 3k fanfic! Radiation!

6:30 All I could think about is Moist Cr1TiKaL, giving this lesson in the most intimidating way possible in response to Sneako...

I read mostly fantasy and it really pisses me off when a character who's powers usually react to sudden/surprise attacks is 🍇ed. I'm sorry, but if the character can blow out windows because they get knicked when a knife flies by them, wouldn't worse happen when someone's forcefully removing your clothes?

The born-the-same-year shebang in kpop. Lemme tell you about wonderful group DAY6 where 2 dudes have 11 month age gap (within the same year) and one been calling the other hyung for pretty much 15 years by now. Some people just go with their own flow

2:47 I'm someone who has also had some very not fun experiences and I won't say anything is demonstrably false about this post, but my experience differs a bit from what they described. CW: attempted murder It might be because I had a knee on my throat rather than someone's hands gripping my throat, but I didn't pass out for the 1 minute and 7 seconds I was suffocated, and I know it was 1 minute and 7 seconds because the whole thing was recorded. I did feel like I was about to pass out and my vision was blurring towards the end. I also wasn't 'uselessly scrabbling instead of kicking them', I was very much repeatedly trying to kick my assailant off me, and I'm alive today because I was able to :'D

i want to die every time people write braces like an accessory it is metal, pulling on your teeth, you need to go get them tightened monthly/bi-monthly and experience 2 weeks of struggling to eat anything but soup and bread, plus you lose your ability to eat food you like (popcorn, caramel, taffy, etc.) because they'll harm your braces i once had to spend 5 minutes out of class trying to get gauze off of my brackets because a bracket started making my cheek bleed and i didn't have any wax on me!

1:35 If I recall correctly, corsets are a lot newer than people think. They did have garments like that in the 15th-16th centuries, but they looked differently than what modern people imagine a "corset" looked like, and I don't think they even called them corsets until like the Victorian era?

I read a warrior cat fanfic where where a was pregnant with three kits for nine months. Last time I checked cats are pregnant for two months not nine months or nine weeks. Also, just because someone is blushing, does not mean they like you or flattered by you I really don’t like how people just accept that as fact

Not the author but I was reading a fanfic where a character had their spleen removed and people said “oh no, he can’t live without that” not knowing what a spleen was. If you get your spleen removed the liver takes over most of its work but you’re more prone to getting sick.

9:32 - The snake comment is difficult because actual snakes, yes and a few animals can't do human actions too (crocodile tears anyone?), but it is a sliding scale thing I guess? A snake with arms couldn't blink but a Naga with a human top probably could. Meanwhile me with my snake robot winking a few times... 15:52 - This whole farm talk reminds me that vets and zookeepers have similar misconcepts. "You get to see animals all the time, that's great! :D " then they have to handle tons of animals with their own special needs with hardly any time to beeathe and that isn't acknowledging all the heartbreaking stuff you'll see. I considered being one when I was younger, but I knew I wouldn't be able to handle it so I heavily respect anyone in a field actively working with animals.

Never been so early, It's so fun watching the view count go up!

I hear TMA, I am FOCUSED

Adding on to the one about people underestimating the healing time/severity of wounds: if you cut open your palm, you can't just put on some bandages and be good to go. My palm got cut on accident once and the bleeding was incredibly strong and needed a lot of pressure and time before it stopped. Then the whole hand is completely unusuable afterwards. Putting on any pressure or even moving or jostling it too hard might re-open the wounds or otherwise damage it, preventing healing. I needed around a week before I could start using it normally again, and that was in my teenage years and during the best possible rest conditions. Whatever adult is doing weird blood rituals might need even more time depending on their age, health and outside circumstances. The scars are gonna stick around for much longer either way.

Well, unless it's specifically mentioned that snake-people are closely related to snakes, they don't owe anything to anyone. It still may be a cool detail if they never blink, especially if it works with a character, but "snake people blinking is biologically inaccurate"... Well, as much as them existing in the first place, I suppose?

my biggest pet peeve in fanfics and books in general is when siblings call each other things like "sis" or "big brother" etc. I promise you nobody talks like that.

Not a first responder, but those medical/firefighter shows piss me off no end. Field blood transfusions? Making a water heater explode through a door? Chasing a flaming Zamboni on ice skates? Lifting a fire engine off a person? What if a person tries to respond to a fire/medical emergency using the bs they learned from that show?

I just realized how much this girl sounds like the RU-vid animator shgrr 😨

figure skating AUs, a lot of people don't know what goes into the sport.

1:18 Skyrim guards would like a word with them

5:59 Ive noticed this in a lot of video games too! It annoys me *COUGH COUGH PERSONA 5 COUGH COUGH*

I'm concerned about how much these people know about this stuff

First ig?

Horses. Just, horses. I cannot list all of the ways I have seen people do horses wrong, because it is EVERYTHING. I guess I'll go over some of the most common though. 1. Horses are actually pretty intelligent, they're easily comparable to dogs. There are some things dogs do better than horses, but the reverse is also true. Horses have excellent memory (dressage horses memorize some very complex routines), a great sense of direction, and are brilliant at reading human expressions and body language, which is a part of why service ponies are a thing (yes, like dogs, horses can be service animals, and I mean REAL service animals). Horses also have personalities, and preferences. 2. If you have never ridden a horse before, you will have a very hard time riding at any gait above a walk, you will get very sore, and even if you have someone telling you what to do, you will struggle to guide the horse. And I do mean guide, not control, you do not CONTROL a 1000+ lbs animal, they choose to cooperate with you (or to not do that, if they do not trust or respect you, and respect is a very different thing from fear). Riding is not even a little bit as easy as most people think it looks, it's actually a LOT harder and more physically demanding than driving your car, and you need muscle to do it, particularly in your core. 3. Ethically, a horse can only carry so much weight, including tack (saddles are NOT light). The weight on a horse's back should never exceed 20% of its weight, it does not matter what breed they are. Weight distribution is also very important, because only the strongest part of the horse's back should bear any real amount of weight. All of this to say, two people on one horse is not okay, unless perhaps one of them is a small child! And mounting should be done gently, stop having characters vault onto their backs, that hurts! Believe it or not, horses aren't actually made to carry you on their backs, so if you do it wrong, you can easily cause them a lot of pain and injury! Also, bareback riding should always be done with a barebare pad, it's better for the horse's back. 4. If you are going to write about horses to any degree, at least do the barest amount of research to understand basic terminology, like: Mare, stallion, gelding, filly, colt, foal, pony, tack, saddle, bridle, girth, stirrups, halter, lead rope... 5. When riding horses, you cannot simply get on and go from 0 to 100, they need to warm up just like you do before exercise, and need to be cooled down / walked out afterwards. While horses naturally travel great distances in the wild, it's a lot harder on them to carry riders for long distances, especially if they have not been trained and conditioned for it. Riding horses are like athletes, and need to be cared for as such.

One thing that bothers me a lot and that is in almost every media I watched is, when a character is stabbed or impaled and the first thing they do is remove the object that stabbed them and this is something THAT CAN ONLY BE DONE WHEN YOU ARE ALREADY IN A HOSPITAL!!! When you remove what stabbed you it will accelerate the bleeding which will result in YOU DYING FASTER!!!

Ok

GUP

So much stuff in college AUs is painfully unlikely. I'm a junior in college currently so I'm quite close to the source and can tell you that being best friends with your randomly assigned roommate - and especially dating them - happens maybe once in ten blue moons. Most of the time we're, at best, just compatable coexisters who are considerate of each other and sometimes get lunch together. I don't know anybody who met a best friend or partner through being randomly assigned roommates in college. Also, college students having their own room or bathroom...goddamn it, that is rare...especially in America. Making it through college just on scholarships - NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE. Also, all this stuff about roommates from hell is super unlikely: having bad roommates happens, but almost never to the degree I see in most media. They might leave their shoes in the middle of the room and not do the dishes, but becoming an active enemy of yours is extremely far fetched. Ugh.

Glad to know I have only been guilty of a handful of these in my years. But then again, I was the freak fanfic writer asking my RN grandmother for a merck manual (medical book) at 14, not because I wanted to pursue a career in the field, but because I like *realistic* whump...

High schools being able to do just off (or even still on) Broadway musicals. I’d just like to read a fic where the characters are forced to suffer through doing Suesical. /j Or heck, even give me a crack fic about a high school theater teacher trying to put on a illegal production of Hamilton or Beetlejuice

4:57 I know someone who actually knows multiple languages, not sure how many but its more than 3. They probably arent fluent in any of them besides their first one, struggle a bit more than normal with finding the right words for things, but can still easily hold a conversation. Its still really impessive even if you cant make it absolutely perfect, it took me around 10 years just to get good at english (not saying I cant make mistakes sometimes still)

On the 3-5 year old thing, it depends a lot. Not sure on the tantrum side, since those happened a lot in my family, but I learned how to read at 3. So did my 2 younger siblings. And they definitely could hold full conversations at that age. Their knowledge and ways of expressing themselves were really limited, but they were like...sentient. And this isn't me not remembering due to also being super young. I was a teenager when my little sister was 3-5.

Albino characters are almost never accurate. I have albinism, and I've only read one fic that got it right. They got it right because I explained my experiences to the author before the stuff was written. Albinism is a disability, that causes light sensitivity, sun sensitivity, and poor vision.

I was watching a movie and the characters lived in southern california. They took a 13 hour flight to costa rica (specifically mentioning it's 13 hours and being exceedingly jet lagged) It's not even half that in real life...

The PTSD one is honestly more broad than just veterans. Most people get PTSD wrong or boil it down to the same handfuls of symptoms and it's not representative of the actual experience. There's a lot more seemingly unrelated stressors/triggers than someone would expect.

7:25 I wouldn’t know this because I’ve always had a very high pain tolerance my broken wrist stopped hurting after about, 5 minutes with some bandages on. It didn’t hurt so much that I walked around for 2 WEEKS with it and then it started to hurt again

One of my pet-peeves in fics/media is the kind of treatment prosthetics are given. While i’m not an amputee myself and don’t have any personal experience, I am aware generally of the limitations of prosthetic limbs. So I always like if there’s some bit about a prosthetic malfunctioning, breaking, or causing more trouble for the character. Especially regarding complex, sci-fi prosthetics that have more components and need more resources to keep functioning.

Kind of the opposite, but I remember reading a creepypasta where a gun barrel was hot to the touch immediately after the gun was fired. I’m no gun expert, but from a google search this seems to be accurate and something not many people/writers consider

I am certain that somewhere on the internet there is a list of British slang that claims "bloke" means the same as "dude". I think this because of the number of times I have seen fanfic writers try and use the word "bloke" the way you would use "dude" when writing fanfic set in the UK. It... doesn't work like that.

i bit through just underneath my lip when i was younger. like right through the lip 😅. was rushed to the hospital and took a month or more for it to scar over and to this day its still got a noticeable scar . Your face heals quicker yeah but when you go right through thats gonna spew blood everhwhere and your gonna be impaired for a while

Another one that isn't exclusive to fanfics is amnesia. There are multiple different types of amnesia and most can't be fixed by hiting them hard on the head. Do resurch before including amnesia in your fic.

13:40 idk about otger countries but in the uk if you call 911 (and i’m sure other countries’ emergency numbers) it’ll route you to the uk emergency service My source: I tried calling 911 for the american emergency services in the uk and got routed back to the uk emergency number. This is a whole story though

for the second one about piercings not feeling cold: for most body piercings that’s correct, however for a septum piercing in cold weather it absolutely does feel cold both to me and to my partner when it touches them

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I don't have anything at the moment but I'm glad I can use these comments later for writing.

Magnus Archives jumpscare right at the start lmao