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princessofgeeksOkay, I'm quite forgiving of typos in fic and even minor grammar errors, and I personally barely used a beta in my life, but seriously people.
ETA: Rydra wong sent me to the dictionary, and what do you know. She is right. I can stop noticing this and get peeved about something else. As Emily Litella used to say, NEVER MIND. LOL
CALLOUS adj
CALLUS noun
Two different words.
that is all.
(In general the stories I am reading in this fandom are just top notch. So many great writers are gravitating here; I feel so so lucky. Just some amazing stuff. An embarrassment of riches.)
(I have no problem at all with people not using betas. I desperately needed betas to help me with learning how to do an A plot and a B plot in the same story, and to attempt to write darkfic, and I knew when I was in over my head and asked for help. But it's fanfic! If people want to write and post quickly, all by themselves, why not! I don't even know why people put a disclaimer to say the story is unbeta'd. Absolutely the last thing I look for in the metadata.)
ETA: Rydra wong sent me to the dictionary, and what do you know. She is right. I can stop noticing this and get peeved about something else. As Emily Litella used to say, NEVER MIND. LOL
CALLOUS adj
CALLUS noun
Two different words.
that is all.
(In general the stories I am reading in this fandom are just top notch. So many great writers are gravitating here; I feel so so lucky. Just some amazing stuff. An embarrassment of riches.)
(I have no problem at all with people not using betas. I desperately needed betas to help me with learning how to do an A plot and a B plot in the same story, and to attempt to write darkfic, and I knew when I was in over my head and asked for help. But it's fanfic! If people want to write and post quickly, all by themselves, why not! I don't even know why people put a disclaimer to say the story is unbeta'd. Absolutely the last thing I look for in the metadata.)
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Date: 2026-02-03 04:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2026-02-03 06:27 pm (UTC)ETA: they do have a shared etymology, as you may already know, so the idea is that being callous in the emotional sense means you are insensitive (to other people's feelings) like skin that has been toughened and thickened by wear.
It's just that American English dropped the "u" from the noun version, whereas British English sometimes keeps it (over here I think either spelling for the noun would be considered correct).
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Date: 2026-02-03 06:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-03 06:34 pm (UTC)As Cookie Monster said to Tom Hiddleston, Thank you for teaching me that!
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Date: 2026-02-03 07:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-03 08:45 pm (UTC)i'll wait here.
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Date: 2026-02-03 09:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-04 03:03 am (UTC)THIS HARD FOR MONSTER.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING ALL DAY.
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Date: 2026-02-03 07:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-03 07:18 pm (UTC)lol, I was like ".......this is how I'd write it have I been wrong all this time?! D: "
but........I was educated in British English and these days, my English is all over the place between BE, US and bit of Aussie English from spending years in Farscape fandom 😂
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Date: 2026-02-04 03:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-04 07:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-04 12:06 pm (UTC)Merriam Webster online has callous as a variant spelling for the noun.
I have decided it's not a hill I am going to die on.
But I will never give up on hating "irregardless."
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Date: 2026-02-04 09:40 pm (UTC)Very wise. There are bigger, more deserving hills :-D
But I will never give up on hating "irregardless."
That, I can ignore. Just don't get me started on discreet/discrete ::grr:: Gets my wild up every. Single. Time.
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Date: 2026-02-04 09:48 pm (UTC)Another pet peeve of mine is uninterested versus disinterested.
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Date: 2026-02-04 06:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2026-02-03 08:46 pm (UTC)I hope people eventually get affect/effect too, but that one does jolt me, it's so common.
But I am happy to stand corrected and let something go! Like split infinitives!
(I still haven't made my peace with irregardless, though.)
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Date: 2026-02-04 01:16 am (UTC)*hides*
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Date: 2026-02-04 03:04 am (UTC)Or defiantly for definitely. That one is a spellcheck error though.
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Date: 2026-02-03 08:52 pm (UTC)On the subject of betas - that's an interesting question. Someone (someone you knew as well but I won't name her) told me back in the day to never tell anyone that I didn't use a beta because not using a beta was frowned upon. That might have been just her perception of fandom conventions as they were then but otoh - she and I were the only people in my fandom corner who didn't use betas so perhaps she was correct. I could see why someone then might have been embarrassed about it - I wasn't - but I'm not sure why anyone would be now since not having a beta is common. I'm sure things vary from fandom to fandom but I've noticed that in my fandom 'no beta' often means 'this is crap but please don't hurt me'.
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Date: 2026-02-03 08:58 pm (UTC)Because of my editing background I confidently never used a beta for proofreading and I didn't care if people thought getting a beta was a must.
However, I did seek out and diligently learn from several betas when I needed help learning a new skill with my writing.
Rydra Wong, Stultiloquentia, Paian, JD Junkie among others were extremely generous and helpful when I was in Stargate and trying to figure out plot and test out different kinds of writing than I had started with.
If people don't want to use a beta, my opinion is, who cares, but honestly whether or not someone uses a beta is no guarantee of anything at all. Some betas don't help much.
I basically tagged along behind some of the writers I admired in Stargate and asked them for help when I saw them do things I couldn't do and wanted to do. Everyone was so generous. I feel very lucky to have been in that fandom in its splendid third wave.
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Date: 2026-02-03 09:15 pm (UTC)Mini-rant over.
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Date: 2026-02-04 03:10 am (UTC)I am stupidly ignorant about Canada, to my chagrin. Maybe this fandom will help me learn things.
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Date: 2026-02-04 03:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2026-02-04 09:17 am (UTC)I write short fics, and mostly don't use a beta, and I do not understand why people tag it, just makes readers more aware of any mistakes I would think.
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Date: 2026-02-04 12:08 pm (UTC)*dies laughing*
I am so stealing that; thank you.
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Date: 2026-02-04 09:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2026-02-04 12:09 pm (UTC)But if I could I would ban the phrases "better access" and "reach around" from gay sex scenes.