But what one person finds as out of context, another won't. You're not going to please everyone. There are some people who'll get really angry and nitpicky if a story doesn't adhere to everything established in the EU, but there are some that will love a mention of going to uni or eating a taco.
So, it's okay if someone can't suspend their disbelief over a detail in a fic, but they shouldn't demand or require a writer fix that mistake just for their personal preference. Other people may be easily able to suspend their disbelief for that same detail.
The author would be limiting their audience to people who don't care about the setting/characterization/world then, which is fine if the author is okay with alienating or annoying a large section of the fandom's readership and making it less likely that those readers will trust the author's name when deciding whether to give a story a chance or not.
Seriously though, write what you want. People are here saying that the details are off because the fic in question is damned good and it kind of hurts that it has this element of unintended crack that makes it far harder to get into the story and take it seriously. It's a beautiful, resonant story, but the detail being that far off is like a fart in a sonata.
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Re: TFA fics versus other fandom fics
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)But what one person finds as out of context, another won't. You're not going to please everyone. There are some people who'll get really angry and nitpicky if a story doesn't adhere to everything established in the EU, but there are some that will love a mention of going to uni or eating a taco.
So, it's okay if someone can't suspend their disbelief over a detail in a fic, but they shouldn't demand or require a writer fix that mistake just for their personal preference. Other people may be easily able to suspend their disbelief for that same detail.
Re: TFA fics versus other fandom fics
(Anonymous) 2016-01-31 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)Seriously though, write what you want. People are here saying that the details are off because the fic in question is damned good and it kind of hurts that it has this element of unintended crack that makes it far harder to get into the story and take it seriously. It's a beautiful, resonant story, but the detail being that far off is like a fart in a sonata.