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Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

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I've seen a few letters where people have typo'd a character name (do you look at your own letter at all before/after posting it?) And one where San Francisco is misspelled, in which case I wonder why their browser doesn't have spell check built in.

Yeah, there was one letter I really like (and still kind of desperately hope to get assigned to) that misspelled my favourite character's name. It's a common misspelling of that name and not a big deal, but I still kind of winced because, between the typo and the way she was only mentioned offhand in one parenthetical in the middle of an "any" request, it suggests that the letter writer probably really doesn't care about her all that much.

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I listen to audiobooks a lot, and I have to remember to go check spellings before I request. Last year (or maybe the year before?) I nominated Camicazi from How to Train Your Dragon as "Kamikaze", because that's what I thought I heard, and only realized it once signups were underway. I was too embarrassed to request it after that, lol.

And if it's a common misspelling, it could just be a brainfart.

Well, it was the kind of misspelling that changes the pronunciation of the character's name, which is what makes me think that the requester didn't care about the character. Think the Jaime-->Jamie mix-up that happens in Blue Beetle fandom all the time; it's the sort of thing you generally only mix up if you don't know how to pronounce Jaime. (Not that it's a big deal in the grand scheme of things if random Yuletide participant A doesn't care about my favourite character, it was just a bummer.)

Point definitely taken about the brainfart, though. And having tried to listen to an audiobook of Ancillary Justice, I know what you mean about having to remember to check spellings.

Oh, God, need to go check my letter now.

one year I completely got someone's name wrong in my letter despite having read the ridiculously long canon 5+ times and really liking that character. she probably just wrote her letter late at night.

Don't feel bad, in one of my fandoms, canon actually screws up the spelling of the character's name at one point. Further, at one point IMDB disagreed with official scripts on how to spell another character's name.

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My brain has been trained to ignore spellcheck squiggles in fandom because so many fannish terms/names aren't in the dictionary and I can't be assed to add them all.

/coalie who checks her letter obsessively before and after posting it, however

Hee.❤

sa

Lesson learned: Do not try to meme on phone.

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