This is my life

people seem to think they can fake music AUs?
I'M IN THIS IMAGE AND I DON'T LIKE IT

XD Sadly I'm probably one of those people. TvT As much as love music and bandfic, I just don't "understand" music theory or the intricacies therein. So I try to shy away from describing things in a way that might be obviously bullshit, but I'm sure someone who knows anything about musicianship could call me on it.

I think what bugs me more is like, when it's totally clear the author did zero research on the subject. I see it a lot in legal/cop AUs, where obviously this author learned about the US justice system through episodes of Law and Order or crime procedurals. Like, I'm no expert on any of that stuff, but I know some things are exaggerated or outright made up for the sake of television (it annoys me to no end when TV lawyers approach the stand without asking the judge...).

Sometimes I give the authors the benefit of the doubt, maybe they're not from the US and assume the US justice system works the same as their own, but... TvT

TBH if the characterization and story is good enough, I can forgive those little flaws. I have to, because I'm sure I've made egregious, laughable errors in my own writing, and I would want a reader to forgive me if I've written an otherwise decent story, y'know?