Judging from this fanwriter's specific tics I'd guess she's from Appalachia

[conuly]

The trouble is that her* characters are English.

Now, most people with the needs washed construction have no idea it's regional, and I can see how both "come with" and the plural prounouns who all and what all snuck in there without notice (but not any form of a plural you, so I guess she caught that one herself!) - but I'm a little surprised that nobody ever told her that "drug" is a nonstandard past tense.

(Why don't people with "needs washed" ever recognize that it's a regionalism?)

* Well, you know what I mean. The characters in the fanfic.

Comments

[cimorene]

Brit or American picking is pretty rare nowadays with all the younger fandoms I've looked at in the last five years or so. I'm not sure how much of the cultural shift is carelessness/technical illiteracy (they're writing in the ao3 window, few are comfortable with a word processor) and how much is decaying fandom public spaces leaving many young writers without people to ask to beta read and unwilling to go looking.

[frandroid]

> they're writing in the ao3 window, few are comfortable with a word processor

!!!

[conuly]

I would say it's minimum standards, but I can't even convince Hollywood that NYC doesn't have alleys, so.

[cimorene]

Same. But depending how desperate I am, I do sometimes read them anyway. I wouldn't publicly bookmark them, though.