OMG yes! That's one of my guaranteed turnoffs, and you see it a lot with fannish authors going pro. What works in fanfic where your audience is pretty much your friends/community and which tends to be written in the moment and the here and now does not translate into pro fiction. And it horribly dates novels. (In a way that I don't mind in fanfic, bc the source text already dates the fanfic in a way?)
That's why I grudgingly enjoy Rageprufrock's Merlin fic Drastically Defying Protocol but absolutely hate Casey McQuinston's Royal Red White and Blue. (I think the former is actually better written too, but the in-jokes are tolerable in fanfic when they really aren't in pro fic).
And all of that is BEFORE you get into SFF. Like WTF? (I read a lot of SFF and YA SFF and one of the worst things is...what is reverse anachronism? Like homophobia in the Star Trek universe kinda stuff... I know it's tough to create completely alien things, but going back 200 years and going fwd should create similar differences, right?)
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That's why I grudgingly enjoy Rageprufrock's Merlin fic Drastically Defying Protocol but absolutely hate Casey McQuinston's Royal Red White and Blue. (I think the former is actually better written too, but the in-jokes are tolerable in fanfic when they really aren't in pro fic).
And all of that is BEFORE you get into SFF. Like WTF? (I read a lot of SFF and YA SFF and one of the worst things is...what is reverse anachronism? Like homophobia in the Star Trek universe kinda stuff... I know it's tough to create completely alien things, but going back 200 years and going fwd should create similar differences, right?)