Oh, for crying out loud.

[conuly]

Your protagonist does not live in, was not transported to, has never even heard of a world that's mid evil. It's not halfway evil. You mean medieval.

(Actually, about half the time they mean "roughly Renaissance-ish, give or take", but they think they mean medieval.)

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Comments

[sallymn]

I still giggle over the writer in one of my older fandoms who flatly said at the start of more than one story (pre-Ao3) Warnings: My English, my grammar and my current apathy toward both. Horrible. She was also the one who continually muddled up things like 'carnal' and 'cardinal', 'lose' and 'loose' and 'shudder' and 'shutter"... which, fair enough and like 'med evil' would not be caught by Spellcheck (but a quick readthough is too hard???)

PS - And on another story she wrote Notes: All mistakes, errors, misspellings, poor grammar....Are mine, All mine. Any words you don't recognize...I made up (for lack of a better excuse). Well, at least she's honest...

[conuly]

So she didn't believe in having a friend do some light proofreading?

[sallymn]

I don't think she believed in herself doing any light proofreading. Her stories were... it's hard to describe but they could be oddly readable even though she did go in for some serious bashing/woobifying at times as well. And I suspect that at the time she wrote, the fandom wasn't very critical of grammar etc or bashing/woobifying.