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[personal profile] shapinglight
Funny, isn't it, how you can read something over and over and not see the typos, but, when you go back to it months later, they're staring you in the face?

For instance, someone had sent me kudos on Ao3 for my story The King and She, so I followed the link back and sort of lazily re-read a few paragraphs.

Only to come across this beauty. Xander shook his heads.

Needless to say, Xander is no longer a two-headed monster.

Date: 2014-01-08 07:00 pm (UTC)
laisserais: kiss (Default)
From: [personal profile] laisserais
:D It's the worst, finding typos years after the fact.

Date: 2014-01-08 08:44 pm (UTC)
yourlibrarian: Illyria Time Warp (BUF-IllyriaTimeWarp-telltale)
From: [personal profile] yourlibrarian
It's amazing how these things can keep slipping by us (and betas) -- I've done the same.

Date: 2014-01-08 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ex_peasant441
Xander shook his heads.

Needless to say, Xander is no longer a two-headed monster.


Hee. A whole world of smutty jokes opens up before us...

Date: 2014-01-08 12:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bogwitch.livejournal.com
Happens to me all the time, even in fics that have been through a couple of betas.

Date: 2014-01-08 12:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chasingdemons.livejournal.com
:) I guess spell check couldn't have caught that. But now I am intrigued with the thought of a two-headed Xander. Plot bunny?

Date: 2014-01-08 02:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
LOL That happens to me all the time. I find editing on AO3 to be a bit of a pain, though, so I would only change it on there if it was really egregious.

Date: 2014-01-09 02:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
I totally suck at summaries. Fixing some of them would probably be more useful than looking to fix old typos. LOL

Date: 2014-01-08 07:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trepkos.livejournal.com
Why I'm constantly revising ...

Date: 2014-01-08 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ash-carpenter.livejournal.com
I reread a fic of mine recently - one which is 21 x 8k chapters long. I only intended to breeze the first chapter, but I found so many mistakes I was utterly horrified and ended up rereading (and correcting) the whole thing. I must have written the damned story with my eyes closed...

So, yeah. Feel your pain, sweetie!

Date: 2014-01-09 01:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparrow2000.livejournal.com
There has to be a story in there about Anya getting someone to make a wish after the wedding that wasn't. *g*

Date: 2014-01-10 01:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparrow2000.livejournal.com
Hmmm, I think I'd need to be on the really good drugs before I attempted that one! *g*

Date: 2014-01-10 03:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sparrow2000.livejournal.com
Laughing here :)

Date: 2014-01-09 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spikesjojo.livejournal.com
At least not in this story.....hmmm. wonder what Xander would do if he woke up one morning with...mwahahahaha!

Date: 2014-01-29 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kseenaa.livejournal.com
Considering I ran across a guy born with two fully functioning dicks that answer questions on Rediit and Twitter... Xander shook his heads gave me some very interesting mental images! X-D
Edited Date: 2014-01-29 09:29 pm (UTC)

Date: 2014-02-09 06:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kseenaa.livejournal.com
I KNOW! It's... sorta mindblowing, really. How that can even work, you know? But he is very nice and very interesting and answers questions with regularity. I found him here:

Doubledickdude on Reddit

Doubledickdude on Twitter

Obviously, there's some NSFW images on both places. :-)
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