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I couldn't put it with four other homophone substitutions. It needed its own post.

Nightmares are old friends, flashing terror that’s been all too real in his past, in gorey, traumatic scenes that leave him feeling as wethered as an old soldier.

wether /wĕᴛʜ′ər/
noun

A castrated male sheep or goat.

Is there a word for the type of error (or, well, violation of the rules of standard usage) caused by a rule of standard usage that's different for written than for spoken language (ie inadvertently non-standard because the writer isn't aware that written usage is different)? I tend to think of this as a "doesn't read enough" error, but there could be a real name, couldn't there?

and a surprisingly pleasing palate of silver and deep purple

light, tinkering laughter

eyebrows escalated satisfyingly

She was irradiating confidence

the horde of junk surrounding him

put down his book and rubbed at the creek in his neck

entered the club, cautiously pickling his way past the couples and threesomes

clamored up on the stool

continued to trash around, shouting obscenities

the taste of ash and pile sitting heavy on his tongue

🌱his lunges suddenly reminded him he needed oxygen to survive

🌱bringing peace to a war torn plant

🌱Obi-Wan’s only solstice was that he had at least been assigned separate sleeping chambers

🌱only for their best laid plans to end up in disaster. As best laid plans are want to do.

🌱The damn holding back his emotions finally burst,

🌱put through the ringer

The phrase "idiots to lovers" has gained so much popularity that the majority of users don't realize that it means that the pairing are supposed to be idiots (about the romance).

I wouldn't have guessed a population existed anywhere that would be capable of that level of linguistic misunderstanding, but here we are in the wide, wide world of fandom - the young 'uns keepin' it fresh.

§ not one of the many miraculous hidden talents in his repartee.

§ Their race had brushed past that social stigmata

§ annunciating every word

§ following the events of "The English man and the son of the dessert"

§ the chill trying to warm its way under his clothes

§ They’d passed by each other, orbiting each other but their ecliptic planes never lined up, they never collided for more than a few minutes at a time.

§ sends his organs plummeting through his feet

a swing of gin straight from the bottle

mentally created a taxidermic catalog of his best friend's smiles[😂😨]

feeling the heat rise in his cheeks, gaze everting Steve's.

Gritting his teeth to tamper down all of that misery

he slurps ludely

the drivel they called coffee there was subpar,

He turns to Steve after, fixing his smile on him,

It donned on Steve

she said with a pittance of pity in her voice.

They come to some crazy, but not so far off concussions.

Then he’s tinged by annoyance.

1. He crooks his head,

2. she flinched back hard, before shouting amenities and striking Mike with her cane

3. couldn’t stop the phone call from circling him all night.

4. a long over dew reality check

5. clambering for Steve’s attention

6. "I’m trying to regale the horrors of the video rental industry.”

1. the pious shepherd would lecture

2. The abnormally pale adolescent

3. glaring down at the man in the lounger.

4. What was really excruciating, however, was realising he was falling in love with the man who had waited by his bedside.

5. The dirty blonde with the stupidly perfect hair approaches the bar,

6. The babysitter shrugged it on in front of his mirror.

EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS bad epithet for the kitchen counter:

7. she only has her knees on the laminate surface,

wouldn't know a good haircut if it held him down with a pair of barbershop sheers

half-shrowded

sent a baseball bat whaling into a demogorgon

A viscous curl of jealousy began to form in Steve's gut

"We need more calvary,"

He slurps ludely

flirting with Hawkin's [sic] former-jock-turned-babysitter

start to get over the boy who ripped demobat heads off with his teeth and carried kids through hellgates in his free time

The reformed jock had never wanted to sink his hands into someone's hair so badly

an Ozzy Osborne song the latter male had shown him not too long ago

songs that the ex-jock didn't know

hallows his cheeks

seeds to be sewn

Shoots and Ladders

couped up

about yay-high

"Suite yourself!"

it was a stock difference [ed: stark*]

another line of smoke filed out the window

Steve stepped back, his heart dropping to his ass.

blood littering his teeth

as he wrung Eddie up

predator turned pray

"Didn't peck you for an Elvira fan"

Eddie waddles his napkin and chucks it at Henderson's head.

the mob of black hair on his chest

in the thralls of passion

fingers adjourned with rings of silver.

She didn’t even complain, just shrugged and trounced back to her friends waiting at the entrance.

wrecking his mind for what it was he needed to do.

Since the Queen of England just died and a storm of memes and retreaded debates about colonialism resulted, it's perhaps an apropos time for this collection of the spoils of fic spelunking - I tried to post them earlier this week and was stymied by a server hiccup, but it feels much more timely now!

Suggested subtitles: This Is What American Pickers Are For or perhaps An Incomplete Revenge for Decades of Harry Potter Fanfiction By Americans.

take the mickey; get a wriggle on; does a runner; looked a wreck; all kinds of plaids and quilts [ed: blankets]; unmarked essays; straight away; "I'll whack it into [place]"; good at maths; the whole bleeding lot of them; scarpered; in the same year [ed: grade]; the lino in the kitchen; whilst; daft; "she fancies the bride"; the Buckley residence's lounge; "I daren't"; piss about; "No worries"; theatre; a plaster [ed: bandaid]; torch [ed: flashlight]; haven't got a clue; Hurt like buggery; get his kit off; drive about; rubbish; "Are you still on about that?"; paid any mind; "Yes mum"; naught but wire; to sort out; drawn and then rubbed out again; on family holidays; cinema

the wild-eyed metalhead folds his hands beneath his chin,

the disturbingly cheerful jock

going crazy over the hyper-active, long haired metalhead who wore nothing but black and played the same little nerd game as his kids,

strict eye contact with the ex-basketball player

until the long-haired man was ready to tell him

The mischevious metalhead ducked under the water,

the boy invading his thoughts (nothing new) has been gone a little while

he was slightly jealous of the funky man.

He had to contentiously stop his mind from going down these roads.

"Oh contraire,"

terns his car off

a full proof way to cool off

a small chuckle at his earnesty

underneath the hospital gown that Eddie now dawns.

... and also, is there a concise term for "slightly misusing a word due to misunderstanding its precise meaning"?

None of these are from stories that are visibly a part of a challenge, exchange, or other date-dependent occasion.

This isn't the edited version so I will be going back later and fixing things after getting back from vacation.

No beta because I write this shit at like 3am and publish it immediately.

I wrote this headache fic with a headache so please forgive any typos

i read my writing once after i have written it and that is IT, so any mistakes will be staying. that's just how it be.

wrote this in a frenzy and its not beta read so. it probably sucks my bad

anyway i didnt really feel like editing this one so apologies for any errors,

any mistakes r my own haha i wrote this at 5am again sorry guys.. forgive me v_v!

not beta read bc i just need to PUBLISH THIS DAMN THING

No Beta, no heed towards canon. :)

also did not proofread this bc i have no energy so XX

#4 is actually doing a lot more proofreading than what seems like a plurality of the fandom I've been reading, so props I guess?

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This error has everything: drama, pathos, the word flashing, sheep/goats, unintentional castration
Obviously the wrong place to ask, but I couldn't think how to google it offhand
No indication if the horde are his allies or enemies though. Maybe he's the Hordak
My Little Malapropisms
Some fun homophones
Bemused to report on another tagging trend
Fic spelunking: gems
(near) homophone substitutions and a fantastic invented spelling
"drivel" is actually my favorite of these and I'm not even sure what kind of error this is
Trying to regale the horrors of malapropism
It's Bad Epithet Day, I'm afraid
House of Malaprop
I FINALLY collected a fifth wild epithet!
Homophones, eggcorns, and whatever orderly and obedient particles of smoke are
Ass and other malapropisms
House of Malaprop: Waddle & Mob
Egregious Britticisms: Bits of Regionalization Error Collected in the Wild from Stranger Things Fic
Bad Epithets
Eggcorns, homophones, thesauritis, and funky back formations...
A selection of author notes in the trend of Post The Rough Draft!

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This error has everything: drama, pathos, the word flashing, sheep/goats, unintentional castration

Obviously the wrong place to ask, but I couldn't think how to google it offhand

No indication if the horde are his allies or enemies though. Maybe he's the Hordak

My Little Malapropisms

Some fun homophones

Bemused to report on another tagging trend

Fic spelunking: gems

(near) homophone substitutions and a fantastic invented spelling

"drivel" is actually my favorite of these and I'm not even sure what kind of error this is

Trying to regale the horrors of malapropism

It's Bad Epithet Day, I'm afraid

House of Malaprop

I FINALLY collected a fifth wild epithet!

Homophones, eggcorns, and whatever orderly and obedient particles of smoke are

Ass and other malapropisms

House of Malaprop: Waddle & Mob

Egregious Britticisms: Bits of Regionalization Error Collected in the Wild from Stranger Things Fic

Bad Epithets

Eggcorns, homophones, thesauritis, and funky back formations...

A selection of author notes in the trend of Post The Rough Draft!