"What's the Worst Typo You Wrote in a Fic?" (r/FanFiction)

[@GloomyFish]

I read a fanfic once that is literally full of typos. there's so many but my favourite would always be that one character who "crossbred his arms"

[@GloomyFish]

some other favourites from that fic are "cried fragile tiaras" "squid saidward" "He was surrounded by bottles because he'd been driving" and just this incomprehensible line: "I for be protect con mint"

[@itwasntuna]

@@GloomyFish 😭😭😭😭😭

[@shyguymike]

This implies he managed to have arms of different ethnicities. Impressive.

[@princesserika9899]

@@GloomyFish Squid saidward 😭

[@veenu_1853]

@@shyguymike Imagine if the character was a frankenstein. One arm from an asian and the other from a latino.

[@deen7530]

I once mispelled "adopted" as "aborted"... multiple times in a row. I was like twelve and didn't even know what abortion was yet. "How come you didn't tell me I'm aborted?!" "Please listen, Harry. The day we aborted you was the happiest day of our lives." "When we signed the abortion papers..."

[@sarahrahaman8001]

I'm sorry son, but you're aborted! wait wha -

[@veenu_1853]

lmao

[@stuartblittley3531]

💀💀

[@ghostytunes4712]

@@stuartblittley3531 Quite literally

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@ghostytunes4712 NO-

[@FloatyyBrain]

I tried to write “He tipped the waiter” but accidentally write “He tripped the waiter”. I kept it like that and simply changed the whole plot of how those characters met.

[@CrzzyCat]

Oh haha! Sometimes a simple misspelling changes the whole story!

[@iniratagen9740]

Lmao

[@Evortless]

Accidents can be beautiful.

[@ketaminepoptarts]

"there are no accidents" -master oogway

[@scarlettsoldier4196]

this is how an epic love story begins

[@Loqque2k]

"Without hesitation he fell through the floor" My MC was only supposed to fall TO the floor, he was not supposed to go further-

[@fezcrystal9]

Noclip

[@VectorJW9260]

backrooms mometn

[@johnynoway9127]

more cheese sir?

[@bugtypeeevee]

I will never forget "She shit her eyes". It was meant to be shut.

[@omorinintendoswitchedition]

IVE DONE THAT TOO LMAO In a really old fic of mine, didn’t notice until I reread it out of boredom and also died laughing, especially since it was during a sad scene

[@cat-fuck1ng-a-handbag]

AHSHSHSHSUSUSHSSGGZ

[@depressoespresso5904]

IM DYING

[@trxuvallix7620]

congrats you made someone laugh

[@neoqwerty]

a classic, once I wrote "he shits down on his chair" and my beta made diaper jokes about that character for a whole month I now double checks all "sits" and "sat"s religiously before sending them off to betas just so I don't get another month of poop jokes.

[@oliviawilkerson2801]

"It seems my apartments approve of you." I meant to write, "It seems my parents aprove of you."

[@stuartblittley3531]

landlord x fem!oc / enemies to lovers / 4K words

[@LeoparDusk]

I’m picturing an entire apartment building leaning down to sniff someone like a dog.

[@demian_demand]

"My apartments have very high standards, just so you know"

[@GloomyFish]

when you live in a sentient apartment

[@timealoukota1687]

@@GloomyFish Sounds like a fun concept. Time to write a new story!

[@gaymedievaldruid]

I once had a character put their shoulder around another character's arm. I didn't catch that one for a hot minute.

[@amyanastasiavondrarren]

I had to read this 5 times before I got the mistake.....

[@stuartblittley3531]

me drawing (i don’t know anything about anatomy)

[@freshcupofangst]

Tbh it took me a second to realize what was wrong with that...

[@lightningstrikesthegaurd]

Imagine watching someone’s shoulder literally dislocate and wrap around someone’s arm😭

[@genesisIV]

@@lightningstrikesthegaurd *wobbles*

[@ruinparadox4812]

Once, I wrote "reminiscing in hoe" instead of "reminiscing in how" and forgot to change it. Once it was pointed out to me, I went to go change it, but apparently it's become such a meme among my readers, I just left it there.

[@sarahrahaman8001]

So me I love reminiscing in hoe, my favourite past time activity

[@stuartblittley3531]

THIS IS SO FUNNY GOSNSJS

[@Lewis_McCartney]

Please! lmaoooo!! I need that on a shirt Hjgunhuvghsjdnjd

[@sarahrahaman8001]

Wait I MAY HAVE READ YOUR WORK WAIT, I just realized why this phrase sounded so familiar, I saw the exact same thing on an ao3 fic

[@guardianfish7718]

I neeed to read that fic please I wanna be part of that community

[@stargazer31]

I once read a fic where the writer put "pooped himself next to you" instead of "popped himself next to you"

[@gretavonpancake]

I can’t stop laughing at this

[@stargazer31]

@@gretavonpancake You're having a romantic evening with your boyfriend then he just drops a log

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@stargazer31A LOG??

[@LENNARD2ns]

Oh god he shit himself

[@gretavonpancake]

@@stargazer31 He got nervous

[@bearerofthecurse69]

The character meant to “give his head a slight cock,” but he accidentally “gave his cock a slight head.” I ended up completely cutting the sentence in editing, but “HE GAVE HEAD TO HIS COCK?!?!?” has remained a running joke with myself throughout my writing process

[@comradewindowsill4253]

just a slight one

[@messofabeing9392]

the fact that the wrong sentence is also a theoretically usable sentence elsewhere is really sending me

[@catergamer1]

yoga

[@kaysrandomchannel4618]

This got me dying.

[@c0zmozys]

@@catergamer1 I SHRIEKED

[@starxolotl]

“That brat is a part of the USSR!” It was supposed to be plan. The brat is a part of the plan. The fic took place in 2044 and the USSR was canonically long gone.

[@evangelinewood3325]

How do you even mess up that badly??

[@lalas181]

Absolutely cackling at this! How did that typo even _happen?_ lmao

[@starxolotl]

Autofill likes to mess with me sometimes. At least it makes for a good laugh between me and my friends!

[@GloomyFish]

literally how

[@timealoukota1687]

Sounds like a big plot twist lol

[@shartboy666]

somehow autocorrect corrected "i kissed him" to "i kicked him" 😭

[@stuartblittley3531]

opposite ends of the spectrum 💀

[@shartboy666]

@@stuartblittley3531 frl 😭 it was so funny though

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@shartboy666 lmao 😭

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

Enemies to lovers or lovers to enemies maybe? 🤷

[@shadowisinsane845]

Usually it's the opposite for me She looked at the man who murdered her entire family, and she kicked him, right in the balls. But actually... She looked at the man who murdered her entire family, and she kissed him, right in the balls.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

"Breast friend" could well be used as a modern version of "Bussom companion".

[@chocolattefeverdreams4228]

Bosom friend

[@stuartblittley3531]

bosom ? 💀

[@GippyHappy]

Bazonga buddy

[@伏見猿比古-k8c]

I think you mean bosom buddy.

[@CrzzyCat]

I once wanted to write 'he fought her with a sword' in a rp, but because it was the middle of the night and I was really tired I wrote 'he forked her with a sword'.

[@rosykindbunny1313]

Haha, one time I accidentally called a character in a rp "Connor" because I was listening to the Dear Evan Hansen soundtrack at the same time

[@sand__witch]

That would be a much more brutal sentence than the intended one if you were writing The Good Place fic

[@pablozanoto5801]

​@@rosykindbunny1313 Reminded my friend in geography class. We were talking about Heathers (film/musical) and we got so distracted that instead of them writing "it's a form of globalization" they wrote "it's a form of Chandler".

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

To be fair that just makes it sound like those terrible and weirdly violent descriptions of sex that fanfics get a bad name for. "He pulled his long sword out of its wet sheath and thrust it into her throbbing cavern", etc. It's probably been unironically written before. 😬

[@wozaow]

​@@pablozanoto5801yessss my favorite movie

[@mapleshadeeatscats]

i have a character in my story named “Finnegan” and once, somehow i accidentally said “Finneganagain”

[@stuartblittley3531]

there’s Finnegan, and then their twin, Finnegan _again_

[@mapleshadeeatscats]

HELPFHDHSJAKAJKAAK 😭

[@timealoukota1687]

Lmao this kinda sounds like a different character tries to tell say "Finnegan, again! Do it again!" because they did something and whatever they did was actually working so they tell them to repeat it, but they speak too fast

[@icchasaki]

HELP 😭🤣🤣

[@Morhan_Jehnez]

There was an old man named Michael Finnegan. He grew whiskers on his chin-agin. The wind came out, and blew them in again. Poor old Michael Finnegan-agin. There was an old man named Michael Finnegan. Had some boots made out of tin-agin. When he walked, he made a din-agin. Poor old Michael Finnegan-agin. There was an old man named Michael Finnegan. He grew fat, and he grew thin again. Got big wrinkles in his skin-agin. Poor old Michael Finnegan-agin. There was an old man named Michael Finnegan. Played a tune on his violin-agin. Lost his place and had to begin again. Poor old Michael Finnegan-agin.

[@jonarbucklefan1]

i was writing a fanfic and my autocorrect changed 'he sat next to her' to 'he _shat_ next to her' i have no idea why my autocorrect did that lmao

[@chocolattefeverdreams4228]

Your autocorrect might be into something

[@stuartblittley3531]

this is so common i’m 🧍🏻

[@peterhickman9082]

For the longest time I read "Canon Compliant" and "Canon Complaint" as in complaining. Those mean like opposite things.

[@stuartblittley3531]

canon compliant: 🙂👍 canon complaint: UHM, EXCUSE ME…

[@NekoChanSenpai]

Omg me too

[@ray4613]

ik so i always thought those "canon complaint" fics were another of the canon divergent fics. id see them, read the fic, then go "what the heck this isnt what i signed up for?"

[@LettiKiss]

WAIT IT'S CANON COMPLIANT AND NOT COMPLAINT?!?!! holy shit my life is a lie

[@delphinium4987]

I follow a very sweet and mild mannered author on tumblr, so you can imagine my surprise when I saw the word "shit" in the opening line of her fic instead of "sit."

[@veenu_1853]

It's like the innocent friend swaering for the first time

[@stuartblittley3531]

one time i had a dream i confessed to like, a catholic priest or something, that I wrote “Can I shit here?” instead of “Can I sit here?”

[@pascuala.]

@J.B. i love that character now.

[@Evortless]

@@stuartblittley3531 "Yeah bro, just make sure you have some toilet paper"

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@Evortless THE PRIEST SAYING THIS?? 😭😭😭 i’m in STITCHES

[@FayePhoenix13]

One time I fell asleep while writing a Greek God fanfic And when I woke up, I woke up to a screen full of "😍🥰😳" emojis in 40 ish size font and the mysterious phrase "owners, which was thankf all I'll you you see the, th, e,, u yoully the the" A sentence that haunts me to this day I even screen recorded me scrolling through all the emojis cuz there's alot

[@ballpitwater]

I had to reread this like 4 times cuz I couldn't stop laughing

[@FayePhoenix13]

@@ballpitwater gahaha, thank you so much, I'm glad someone found it funny :}

[@pinkpoundcake]

lmao 😭 my parents were looking at me weird cos I kept smiling so much at this

[@oxy6753]

you got possessed bro

[@anushasridhar4111]

Can you pls send me that recording 😂

[@disjectamembruh4033]

i once read a fanfic with the phrase "his bussy eyebrows"

[@Curry.Muncher101]

Mmm them bussy eyebrows

[@ieatalgae]

His eyebrussy

[@moocake057]

@@ieatalgae STOP LMAOAOAO

[@artsintheam]

his WHAT

[@ieatalgae]

@@artsintheam YOOO SPONGEBOB PFP

[@sand__witch]

5:27 Kind of related: in my native language, "stretching your legs" is a euphemism for dying. And I SWEAR I've heard people accidentally say "spread" instead of "stretch" in that context, turning a sad story into a rather joyous one. Bonus round: the words for "hand" and "elephant" are just one letter away from each other in that language. I'll never recover from reading a story where a character at one point started crying into his elephants.

[@gratedshtick]

Wait what language?

[@sand__witch]

@@gratedshtick Polish! But I'm pretty sure "stretching your legs" is also a thing in a couple other Slavic languages. Also, if you're curious, the words are "dłoń" and "słoń", respectively.

[@GippyHappy]

I'm so glad to know this is a universal problem xD

[@Andreaa_-_]

@@sand__witch It's also a thing in italian! We say "stirare le zampe" (literally "stretching your paws but eh close enough)

[@bbangsajeu]

@@sand__witch and it's also a thing in spanish!

[@GippyHappy]

I wrote "he looked at her discompassionately" but apparently even though "discompassionate" IS a word, adding an ly at the end makes it suddenly not a word, which led to my autocorrect to think 'ah, I know what you meant!' and change it to _disco passionately._

[@KiKi_Kaiju]

help i have been laughing at this for two minutes straight i cant breathe😂

[@natsumeyuna4171]

Well that's certainly a mood change🤣🤣🤣

[@comradewindowsill4253]

I'm just thinking, are you *sure* you didn't mean 'dispassionately'?

[@GippyHappy]

@@comradewindowsill4253 I’m sure

[@catergamer1]

she DANCED

[@sapphire_dragons6121]

This was actually during a text but I accidentally wrote to a friend “bitch hiker” instead of “hitch hiker” And I remember my friend writing “demon butter” instead of “demon butler”. We ended up trademarking that name from then on lol

[@SuperUmizoomi]

>demon butler were you talking about kuroshitsuji

[@sapphire_dragons6121]

I think so, all I rlly remembered was them going on a rant about a show

[@伏見猿比古-k8c]

Sounds like the start of a very interesting fanfiction.

[@cassyngakasi]

I once wrote a message "itchy bitchy spider" instead of "itsy bitsy spider"

[@sunarintarou4494]

Ah, yes. Sebastian Michealis, the demon butter.

[@krow5455]

Recently I read a fic that said "satan couch" instead of "satin couch" not once but two times.

[@shadowisinsane845]

Read that as Satan Crotch..

[@lamppost3520]

Does Does no one realize that Satan has become a couch??? /j

[@janvesely1087]

​@@lamppost3520 Thank you for adding /j to your comment. When I first saw this, I was horrified. How could anybody say something like this? I immediately began writing a 1000 word paragraph about how horrible of a person you are. I even sent a copy to a Harvard professor to proofread it. After several hours of refining and editing, my comment was ready to absolutely destroy you. But then, just as I was about to hit send, I saw something in the corner of my eye. A /j at the end of your comment. Suddenly everything made sense. Your comment was a joke! I immediately burst out in laughter at the comedic genius of your comment. The person next to me on the bus saw your comment and started crying from laughter too. Before long, there was an entire bus of people on the floor laughing at your incredible use of comedy. All of this was due to you adding /j to your comment. Thank you.

[@girlleavemealone--]

@@janvesely1087 ultimate sarcasm 101

[@lilylohmann614]

I was writing this super serious scene at like 4 am and there’s this tense moment where the main character just goes “Sir.” It autocorrected to “Dirt.” I immediately took a screenshot and every time I remember I can’t stop laughing

[@lamppost3520]

Imagine being in the middle of a serious situation and your lackey/disciple/whatever the main character was just calls you “Dirt” I’m dying

[@lilylohmann614]

@@lamppost3520 😭😭😭 no cuz that was the vibe

[@janTesika]

I'm just imagining "pardon me, are you Aaron Burr, dirt?"

[@lilylohmann614]

@@janTesika actually crying imagining every single use of “Sir” in Hamilton being replaced by “Dirt,” I can’t handle this

[@janTesika]

@@lilylohmann614 you really want some fun, replace every use of "Hamilton" with "Hammy Ham." 🎶 Dear Mr. Hammy Ham! Your fellow federalists would like to know how you'll be voting!

[@yeyo3659]

Not a fanfic writer but I was in charge of putting together all the research we made for my thesis short for my team and we had to add specs of computer parts and a general glosary of terms as part of protocol of whatever. So we used the short "PC" a lot to explain some process and I had to put the meaning of the term. So there I go, half asleep, drunk on Xanax and just recently coming back from hospital and I get a call the next day from my DIRECTOR of school (we were in evaluation as the academy at the time). I go and one of people of the examination comitee is laughing his ass off while my director is not amused and he points to the glosary and I see the disaster I made them read "PC: Personal Cuntputer." And that's how I put cunt in my thesis project and how they think to this day it was intentional.

[@Who_evenamIanymore]

That’s fucking hysterical, I’m still laughing.

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

Haha that reminds me of a story my mum told me about from when she was a nurse on the night shift. She was writing up a report and meant to say that an elderly male patient "passed a large faeces" (aka shit) but she was tired so instead accidentally wrote that he "passed a large foetus (baby)". She didn't know until her colleagues pointed it out later and they all laughed about it.

[@scarylol1447]

​@@tinyblueunicorn7807😭

[@stuartblittley3531]

i don’t think i’ll ever forgive myself for the time i was writing in Google Docs and i misspelled “tomorrow”, so naturally, it’s changed to “tommy owo”. also a typo that dealt a fatal blow to me was when i was reading an article on Elliot Page and it said “…when he came out as transfender”.

[@rat8296]

naturally??? 🤨

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@rat8296 lmao sarcasm 😭 i don’t know anyone named tommy….i don’t say owo…but yeah, that definitely makes sense! 💀

[@deen7530]

I was assigned bumper at birth, but I've come to realize I'm transfender

[@aliciam6145]

I started laughing at this so hard my chest hurt

[@rosykindbunny1313]

Elliot Page is a transfender icon

[@diamantXdrache]

Worst autocorrect in a smexy fic I've ever read was "Forcing her [redacted] to intrude into her [redacted], breaking her Hyundai."

[@YourLocalAnonAccount]

That's car shrex gone wrong- I hope the driver has car insurance 💀

[@Ambipie]

There is no censorship to mask what you read.

[@stuartblittley3531]

this deals psychic damage 💀

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@YourLocalAnonAccount SJSHWKWKAJ

[@demian_demand]

Poor Hyundai

[@harmless_spider]

i once wrote “creamed with laughter” instead of “screamed with laughter”

[@snaining2054]

I once read a fic that went “after a few exquishiatihgly long hours” and to this day that is my all-time favorite typo

[@tess4518]

EXQUISHIATIHGLY IM SOBBING

[@justafreak8790]

WHEEZING RN

[@trxuvallix7620]

IM CRY NG

[@Plommatype]

HOW LONG WERE THOSE HOURS

[@snaining2054]

@@Plommatype exquishiatihgly long

[@coelacanthtrench7]

I wrote "A cold child hung in the air..." it was meant to say: "A cold chill hung in the air .." that typo changed the meaning of the surroundings from eerie to just plain messed up

[@GloryofGore666]

💀💀

[@lizanna6390]

may never had have the chance to meet him. I typed eat him. The worst part was it was a Hannibal fanfic so non of my loyal readers who would normally point out typos realized it was one.

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

That honestly just sounds like cheeky wordplay lol. They probably assumed it was intentional. 🤷

[@itwasntuna]

“You’re adopted!” “🤢🤮🪑”

[@Jade_West2010]

lmao

[@c0zmozys]

man i hate when i vomit up a chair when im told im adopted

[@thelearningmethod]

5:57 Hahahahahaha

[@binbag324]

“…, desperately trying to hide the desperation in his voice.” So… not too bad, but I was definitely tired when I wrote that one 😅

[@TheBritishDragong]

Why did I have to read that multiple times to see the problem

[@voidbite]

It makes sense though.

[@davileite780]

Honestly as an one-liner this is fine.

[@theownerofthisaccount2521]

Not the worst error but was the only one called out for(and jokingly made fun of for). It was a scene where the group had to choose someone to sacrifice and I accidentally made one of the characters say her own name instead of the sacrificial person, making her sound like a caveman in an otherwise serious scene.

[@stuartblittley3531]

i can see this so clearly lmao

[@theownerofthisaccount2521]

@@stuartblittley3531 found it!(was an EtN fanfic): Julia Confessional: “I feel so guilty voting for Julia, but it had to be done.”

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@theownerofthisaccount2521 THIS IS SO FUNNY HELP SJAHBSJX

[@melissamartinez6776]

My classroom once made a play that happened something similar. The witch was supposed to say to the prince: "Take me and kill her", intead, the actor said: "Take her and kill me". All the other actors had to hold their laughs during the scene. Fortunately the spectators were children, so they didn't notice

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@melissamartinez6776 the visuals here are so strong LMAO

[@sprout-undercover]

This is exactly why everyone who writes fanfic needs to copy and paste their drafts into a text reader, it's a game changer and will help point out hilarious mistakes

[@pannaalmaberente9966]

Works only if the language you are writing on is english or some very well known and speaken one. I remember trying text read to find errors and bilt in text to spech for writing in my native language. I spoken like 3 sentencase and could not for the life of me make out what was the original sentance suppose to be.

[@HiBuddyyyyyy]

Meant to write ‘kick the sh*t out of (character)’ but wrote ‘lick the sh*t out of (character)’ instead.

[@disunityholychaos7523]

thats some jojo scene i can imagine.

[@elbereth2738]

@@disunityholychaos7523 the taste of a liar..!

[@伏見猿比古-k8c]

Well.....I mean you can still use it, just in a R18 fic.

[@imaricyeah12]

Turned from angst to smut.

[@mivv.theasker]

Enemies to lovers // 104,935 words, slow burn, no beta we die like men, heavy smut, hurt/no comfort, angst

[@freakda96]

I had a character named Avo. I'm a native spanish speaker so the autocorrect would constantly change It for Avión (airplane), avísame (let me know) and my personal favorite ABOGADOS (Attorneys). Some times I didn't proofread and those ended in the final version. My readers found It hilarious tho

[@c0zmozys]

ah yes, the character who's name changes every paragraph

[@tinyblueunicorn7807]

​@@c0zmozysNothing will ever beat "Ebony's name is ENOBY!"

[@Krixwell]

I recently started a new chapter with the following: _Having done her business, washed her hooves and splashed some cold water in her face for good measure, Party Popper picked up her precious protective pouch from the neighboring sink and stuffed it back in her pocket. Hoof to her chest, she drew a long breath, then let it out slowly._ _She had to fuck._ It was supposed to say "focus", so the fact that the slip made me lose mine and stop writing for the day is deeply ironic.

[@Krixwell]

The character is also very very stressed so it probably wouldn't hurt to get a little action of a variety that doesn't involve facing her traumas head on.

[@yanderegirl0666]

Well, when you gotta do it, you gotta do it I guess lol

[@trxuvallix7620]

is your character a horse

[@Krixwell]

@@trxuvallix7620 She is, yes. It's a My Little Pony fanfic.

[@trxuvallix7620]

@@Krixwell oh cool didnt know those existed

[@FloatyyBrain]

Sorry to comment twice but. I was reading a fic with a character named Scott, but the author accidentally wrote scoot and it just collectively became an inside joke for that fic. Every time he’d do something dumb everyone would yell “GOD DAMN IT SCOOT!” It has now carried over to other fanfics.

[@twilightfuntime6631]

Not a fic, but in a Drawception game I wrote “A bra is better than Zubat” but meant “Abra is better than Zubat”, it really changed the whole game 😂

[@deen7530]

You kidding me? Zubat provides waaay better chest support than a lousy bra.

[@Me-zz5zy]

@@deen7530 yeah but bras are super effective against a ton of Pokémon types

[@twilightfuntime6631]

@@Me-zz5zy It was a Size D too

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

@@deen7530 I like my bras to be be Modest. But prefer my Zubats to be Adamant.

[@H1N4_N1NJ4]

THE SPACE

[@emiplayz91]

One time I spelled (Mikan) Tsumiki as tsunami so the sentence was something like "I saw tsunami walking towards me." Sounded like personification in my 6th grade poetry class.

[@princesserika9899]

Hey fellow Danganronpa fan! 😄

[@Pandie2828]

Turned into a Wings of Fire crossover XD

[@stuartblittley3531]

😀 natural disaster just, sauntering over lmao

[@jettsteel7305]

Ey- Danganronpa fan here XD That's hilarious

[@jettsteel7305]

Me and one of my friends had some weird autocorrect fails when just *typing* their names 😭 Wasn't even for a fanfic, just normal messages Toko - Tokyo, Tomorrow Kyoko - Kyoto Taka - Gala Monokuma - Monocular Taeko (Celeste) - Taejon And somehow 'him' when we were talking about Nagito became 'bunny'-

[@cloudriilejion4589]

I was working on a ScarVi fic recently and instead of saying Crushing Avalanche, I accidentally wrote 'Crushing Alabama'. I can't believe Alabama broke a man's leg oml

[@Mothpuff]

Alabama, the most dangerous place to live.

[@70sman]

Taking an Alabama Slammer to a new level

[@That_Micah_Dude]

HOW DID I FORGET WHAT ALABAMA WAS AND PICTURED OBAMA 😭😭 Anyways, who Obama crushing on 🤨🤨🤨

[@ur4niumpineapple941]

I once read a fic where the author wrote something like "[character] sh!t the car door..." Instead of shut. Pretty sure later in the fic the same character sh!t another door and the comments said something like "here they go again sh!tting doors All over the place..." And i couldn't stop laughing XD

[@lamppost3520]

HELP AM I ACTUALLY IMMATURE FOR WHEEZING AT THESE KINDS OF MISSPELLS PLEASE TELL ME I CANT DO THIS💀💀💀

[@mkgaca8721]

"She wiped the eyes from her tears"

[@ashb998]

I was trying to say "he quickly ducked into the alleyway" and ended up with "he quickly f*cked into the alleyway" and haven't changed it since because it's just so funny

[@Anonymous-jz7xz]

I too like to thrust into the alleyway, f***ing the cold stone walls, feeling every bump and ridge

[@Anonymous-jz7xz]

Im sorry that was just flat out stupid XD

[@Curry.Muncher101]

@@Anonymous-jz7xz Jesus why is it so detailed 💀

[@comradewindowsill4253]

@@Curry.Muncher101 clearly they're an inveterate smut writer

[@leeshajoi]

I remember, ages ago, reading a Ruroni Kenshin fanfic in which a character was armed with a katakana.

[@rockinrootbeer1795]

This almost works with the whole "The pen is mightier than the sword" adage and feels unintentionally punny.

[@darkacadpresenceinblood]

the way i didn't notice the typo at first💀 my brain just decided to block out a whole ass syllable and i was like "wait, is it... weird to wield actual weapons in this fandom??"

[@darkstarr984]

If it was a Gintama fic that would sound natural, even expected. In Rurouni Kenshin? What, are they an author or something?

[@peedrinker5000]

PUT THE MONEY IN THE BAG I HAVE A KATAKANA 💪😡ポ 🦵🦵

[@natsumeyuna4171]

@@darkacadpresenceinblood I deadass thought that a Katakana would fit since it's the name for the shorter swords Samurai were wielding and maybe another alternative to the Sakabato Kenshin uses...a wakizashi...I was thinking of a wakizashi. I literally confused a sybillic writing system with a sword...and I almost didn't realize it either

[@stickynote-slumber]

I made an Ao3 book of headcanons. I wrote that two characters often argued about shower thoughts, and listed one as an example: “What language do blind people think in?”

[@Hewasnumber1]

A valid question.

[@GippyHappy]

🤔

[@voidbite]

Did you mean "What language do deaf people thing in?" with that one?

[@Cinnaschticks]

I am in shambles. Oh no.

[@wingsthebright]

I READ THAT AS “What blind do people language in?” IM CRYINNGG

[@ChrisJohnstonVA]

my dad runs D&D campaigns and he meant to give his players a bronze gong, he mistyped and now they're carrying a bronze bong around

[@paigeepler]

Well, if your dad's setting is based on China during the Qing Dynasty, by any chance, he apparently has full historical precedent to put a bronze bong in his game.

[@Beatle_Babe]

Once the word started autocorrected to stated in an angst fic so yea a character stated crying. I find it funny to imagine an emo ginger child getting in front of the whole country and saying "crying" then just sashaying away like nothing happened

[@stuartblittley3531]

i don’t understand this but that part about the emo ginger kid has me in STITCHES ☠️☠️ edit: i just finished re-reading this comment, finally realizing what the first part meant, and laughing so hard i almost wet myself. transported me back to being 3 years old. you should be a comedian

[@Hewasnumber1]

Sashaying is a word I forgot existed.

[@Beatle_Babe]

@@stuartblittley3531 the emo ginger kid was the one crying

[@stuartblittley3531]

@@Beatle_Babe the comment was extraordinarily funny to me because the author meant to write “Emo Ginger Kid started crying” but accidentally wrote “Emo Ginger Kid stated crying” like a statement 💀❌ i was crying too-

[@veenu_1853]

"random dialogue" Emo ginger kid stated, crying

[@Not-A-Tree]

I read this fic and instead of saying "he darted out the room" it said "he farted out the room" and usually I look past spelling errors but when I was the AMOUNT of comments on that one line- I had to read them and oh my god they were so funny

[@AmokinWonderland]

That probably doesn't translate too well, but when I was a teen I used to read fanfictions in my native language (German). The words for "stair" and "mare" only differ in one letter, so "He climbed the stairs" suddenly became "He climbed the mare" and sounded an awfully lot like he was.... well, doing things to a horse. Someone pointed it out in the comments and it was eventually corrected but I still laugh about that typo lol

[@emberdragon3436]

Not a typo, but some very bad writing... '...And after a few larger cups of tea was on his feet' This is why commas are important, guys

[@stuartblittley3531]

commas are important people

[@noyz-anything]

And after a few, larger cups of tea was on his feet And after a few larger, cups of tea was on his feet And after a few larger cups of tea, was on his feet none of these make sense

[@noyz-anything]

@@stuartblittley3531 commas aren't people

[@emberdragon3436]

@@noyz-anything I mean, technically true.

[@fluffystuff500]

@@noyz-anything I'd assume that it's half of a sentence and is some variation on "After he drank a few larger cups of tea, he was on his feet."

[@Thingumadoodle0518]

Once I meant to write, "He rubbed his temples, thinking of a solution." Instead I wrote "He rubbed his sides." Not as bad as some of these, but it produces a *very* different mental image than what I was going for and I think that's pretty funny.

[@CrzzyCat]

Oh haha! Tbh, it could make a cool character trait, because I know some people that rub their sides while thinking.

[@shyguymike]

I was once writing a short Mario and Sonic fan-fic when I was, like 10 I think. Found it recantly on my PC. Using Eggman Nega with my dyslexia was not the best of ideas. *Chapter 2: Imperial empire* "And who are you?" Prinse Ludwig point at an character that suspeciously looks like Ivo. "What are you soum kind of Wa Eggman? Dark Eggman? Lu-egg-igi?" "The name's Dr. Eggman Nega." "Yeah, you do sound like a N**a". I don't even know what I meant there. I didn't even know OF slurs. -_-

[@Ambipie]

That's funny

[@freshcupofangst]

Oh god...rip

[@EternalTheMandarinGoddess]

💀

[@pannaalmaberente9966]

Okay but the Lu-egg-igi joke actually craked me up!

[@darkacadpresenceinblood]

oof💀 but also Lu-egg-igi is iconic

[@emd4361]

Two years ago I read a badly-written fix for laughs. There's this one snake in the series the fic is for called a "Dragonbite Viper," but in a more "serious" part, the author wrote "dragon viber"

[@turtlespeedrunner]

Dragonbite viper? Was it about WoF?

[@emd4361]

@@turtlespeedrunner yup

[@thirstys]

thats the eeby version. just silly poison snakes that totally wont kill you

[@wingsthebright]

Sounds like a name for one for dragons who keep them as a pet

[@Smoldragoncat]

Sounds like an animus-touched snek

[@thealtpandapng]

I had been writing fanfiction for about a year when I learned the difference between weather and whether. Weather or not my readers caught it is a mystery to me.

[@thealtpandapng]

I’d also like to add that the only reason I learned the difference is because my history teacher kept correcting it on my warm-up questions. Google docs wrongly assumed that I knew what I was doing.

[@scarylol1447]

Nice pun

[@panwitch8548]

When I was a kid and first started writing, I was writing a scene where a character comes back after a battle with wounds all over her body (this was in a Gravity Falls/Undertale crossover fic but that's not important) The character came back with, and I kid you not, stretch marks Not cuts or bruises or wounds or even scratches But Stretch marks I was probably trying to write scratch marks, but I wrote stretch marks??? And it's weird because I have stretch marks and I still made that mistake???

[@freshcupofangst]

Lmao. Like ur pfp btw

[@panwitch8548]

@@freshcupofangst Thank you! It's not my art, I just really like Mettaton-

[@zemyla]

At least it's not "starch masks".

[@aliciam6145]

@@zemyla was literally about to say this

[@thediscodevil0949]

@@zemylaIs that a reference to ‘how is prangent formed’? Lol.

[@ItsMadyAgain]

I wrote a Home Alone fic where someone ran their hands through their hands once

[@c0zmozys]

im actuallt cryigg HRKMLN

[@Joetino]

Sounds like an AI image

[@nadillasakinah950]

I once mistyped Sanu’s name as Sans and everyone in the comment section couldn’t stop quoting Undertale It was a Beastars fanfic

[@PhantomReeper]

Not a fanfic but when I was writing a story for my ocs I managed to write “scool” instead of “school” and never correct it until my friend commented on it

[@cooperino]

2:10 "ten people died in the bronx last night due to a fire that killed ten people in the bronx last night during a fire."

[@dutch_asocialite]

Mine is, "For as is said by men wider than me, the most convincing lies are the most true." I meant to write _wiser_ but my dumb ass fingers got confused. However, it worked out in my favour as it was entirely in character to a point that when pressed on it the character doubled down, even going so far as to bring up Plato. I then spent the rest of the day patting my back.

[@comradewindowsill4253]

lmfao why does this sound like one of shakespeares incomprehensible jokes

[@calcalcalcio]

Fan of this

[@StarLightShadows]

I love how weirdly specific that seems.

[@spirirsstuff]

My autocorrect used to hate me (now sometimes it autocorrects to the name) but I've written a character named Geno before, and multiple times has my phone attempted to convince me that his name is "Hemp."

[@stuartblittley3531]

bro’s a grain ☠️❌❌

[@freshcupofangst]

UT AU fan spotted? 👀

[@spirirsstuff]

@@freshcupofangst maybe maybe ;]

[@evangelinewood3325]

I'm sorry, you write fanfics on your PHONE???

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodbi6207]

@@evangelinewood3325 XD is that unusual, I'm writing (read: procrastinating on writing) fic on my phone rn. Also it's good for when you're bored at school.

[@aliciam6145]

Even before I worked as a copy editor I was pretty conscious about typos, so I don't think I've had any egregious mistakes, but one time I read a fic where it said "[character] beans" instead of "beams" and it still cracks me up

[@MewLime]

Not a fanfic, but I wrote a story that had the word “infested” (in reference to bugs) within the first few paragraphs. About two years later I went through the story again to edit it and found out I had typed “invested” instead. 😅 Pretty embarrassing to have a typo that early on.

[@paradox9478]

I once read a fic where a character's last name was just the f slur in my language

[@crabapple.]

Any chance the character's last name is 'Ewe?'

[@ada3110]

I once wrote "And she (a dragon) put her hands in the girls nose".

[@ellatherepersons8673]

I once saw shrek instead of shriek "It squeaked out a little shrek"

[@OminousBro]

I’m dying lmao

[@Scatterbrained_Watching]

Not necessarily the same, but I once mistagged a bunch of relationships from platonic to shipping on ao3 by mistake. I was new to fic writing and didn’t know the difference 😭 Someone very kindly corrected me about it like “hey haha idk if you meant to do this but,,,” and NO I DID NOT. In fact, they were supposed to be family. Not in love. Gosh. I went like two or three chapters without noticing. It was awful, I was so embarrassed haha. Never made that mistake again

[@VectorJW9260]

Meanwhile me: "Sojourner&/Tenebris" (i dont know if this relationship is platonic or romantic and I'm 5 chapters in help)

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

Somehow I accidentally typed my character’s name as Queen My Dishes

[@sand__witch]

what was their actual name? i need to know

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

@sand__witch Queen Galaxystar (it was for a warriors troll fic)

[@icchasaki]

Did they ever queen those dishes?

[@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754]

@@icchasaki she was a cat so probably not

[@MOUSEBRAINED_MUSHR00M]

@@ms.fukawa-hanamura3754 warrior cats?

[@sapphireBunny]

I don't know if it counts but I sometimes forget I'm writing a sentence in the middle of a sentence and just write the sentence again like : "I was talking to Ada and I was talking to Ada and she said to eat rocks" I have on the rare time I have done the same with entire paragraphs, nothing altered between the original paragraph and the rewritten stuff, just stupidity.

[@hyrulegamer796]

i hate it when the main character is stabbed by a digger. a fanfic i read once made that error

[@OminousBro]

At least “digger” is better than… “******” If you think what my dirty mind is thinking…

[@FirstnameLastname-bp2pg]

I saw a Mario fanfic where Mario was brainwashed and ordered to kill Luigi but the author put “Kill Mario” accidentally.

[@gabrielho1874]

One less plumber either way

[@c0zmozys]

so mario got brainwashed and got an order to wahoo off of a bridge

[@lovingheart4848]

One time I accidentally typed "My brother, your father" by mistake instead of "My brother, your uncle". I was immediately creeped out by what I accidentally typed and erased the mistake immediately, but the typo still haunts me to this day.

[@skookiecat_29]

Not a typo but I was trying to figure out how i wanted the first scene to go, and I was writing multiple things next to each other. Woke up the next morning to find, “ Ah! Is that your father?” the girl said, you earlier. he says. seen talking with his son. “ WHERE ARE YOU”. I ended up not finishing that one lol

[@WeirdWimp]

Godzilla had a stroke trying to read this and died

[@laejah_the_nerd]

sad to ruin 69 comments but i once was talking about rain and how it was to be an obstacle. the sentence auto-corrected to '... Floris, looking out to see their next very damp testicle.' i am so happy i fixed it before publishing...

[@stuartblittley3531]

I AM IN STITCHES HELP AHAHSj

[@sweetlemonadartanimations369]

My best one was when I was writing a fic and gave it to my tutor to edit each chapter (checking it for grammatical/spelling errors). One day I got my chapter back and as I was going over it, with friends, I read the words “She had auburn hair wrapped in a turquoise banana.” TURQUOISE *BANANA* ! I was trying to spell “bandanna”! (My tutor caught this and wrote a note on the side) My friends and I died of laughter. I died of embarrassment over my tutor reading THAT spelling error.

[@Smoldragoncat]

Mmm yes turquoise banana wrapping around the hair

[@chimebell8237]

I'm WHEEZING- 💀

[@cinnamonbaked]

I accidentally wrote in a fic that he buried his face into the grass, out of embarrassment from the other character next to him. Forgetting about the fact that both characters were laying down. On their backs. Man broke his neck.

[@sumthnunreal5502]

I wrote 'cut her pants away with an axe' I meant 'cut her plants away with an axe' I'm terrified of what I didn't catch, and there must be a lot, because Google Docs is not a good processor and I'm not very perceptive.

[@Joetino]

Tonight on “Horror Movie Sexual Experiences”

[@oliveriscoolerthanu7834]

i started writing fanfic recently and i haven’t done anything too severe, but i usually have my friends check for errors before i call something finished. on multiple occasions oliver has just completely gone from first person to second person, or second to first, or third to first, etc. without even thinking about it

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

I see what you did there.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

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[@dragonwolftmaer5]

My partner once wrote “the plan is to GET his ass” instead od kixk, we have never stopped joking. If one of us says “so what’s the plan” we reply “the plan is to get his ass”. There was also a time she was describing a character getting into a bed behind another as “he got in the behind”. I’m sure I’ve had some too.

[@StarLightShadows]

If this "him" in question is currenty running away I think that phrasing works perfectly.

[@dragonwolftmaer5]

@@StarLightShadows You know… thst’s a fair point!

[@gaychelthereader373]

I have so many misspellings from my drafts to the final work because for some reason my writing skills are best at three m when I’m half-asleep. I once wrote the entire synopsis of a fics of mine at three am, and I’m still using it to write my story. In any case, the drafts will often have things like “excerpt” for “expect” or “off him” for “often”

[@lilylohmann614]

The 3am grind is so real lol

[@comradewindowsill4253]

OFF HIM

[@ladyrendarkstrider2398]

I had my fair share of oopsies in my fanfic writing time. Fortunately, not so often. I remember one now-I misspelled General Grievous' name in one of my Star Wars Elder Scrolls Online Crossovers. Browser Spell checker was offline.

[@kovuska2749]

How'd you misspelt it? We need answers

[@Dressup_Doll]

“She’s still knocked up.” It’s supposed to be “she’s still knocked out,” and that’s what I get for not going with “unconscious.”

[@ChalkEater9000]

"he put his fungers on her neck"

[@wren_.]

fear and hunger reference🔥🔥‼️⁉️⁉️‼️🗣️‼️⁉️🗣️🗣️🔥

[@Franky-qk1cn]

Being dyslexic means this is day-to-day life for me

[@DawnFire05]

It’s just in my notes app but this is way too hilarious. “Unlock” autocorrecting to “lick”, somehow. “Isaiah groans as he slumps over and sits down on his butt and begins to lick his locker”. Didn’t catch it until I went back to the note to write the scene, I just can’t get over the imagery of him sitting there tongue cleaning the damn school locker while everyone else carries on as normal 😂. Skipper watches Isaiah in horrified concern. “W-what are you doing…?” Isaiah pauses, staring at the now shinier-than-before locker door before him, growing lucid of his current action at the realization of his iron-tasting mouth. “Uh… it must’ve been a typo in our story…. Let’s forget this ever happened.”

[@kathrynk2184]

Not a fic, but a fan game. I accidentally wrote "fork frok" instead of "fork from". Someone downloaded the beta before i realised the mistake and i hope they didnt notice

[@EeveelutionStorm]

Autocorrect said "He was sharked" instead of "shocked" Glad I have an editor or else that fict would've been very different.

[@LettiKiss]

I once wrote "the snow was white as snow". To be fair, it was like 3 AM, and I also caught it before publishing, but I still remember it years later. Ouch

[@dewmilk7266]

Accidentally wrote "She vored and left the ballot room" instead of "she VOTED and left the ballot room"

[@Joetino]

She’s basically Kirby at that point

[@thepersonwiththepanels5351]

Thank you, comment section, I’m now crying trying not to wake up my family with the amount of laughing I’ve done

[@Smoldragoncat]

Same lol, hiding in the bathroom attempting not to screech my lungs out

[@nohintshere]

"a sudden ping of built hit their chest"

[@Ifmdvjgoo]

Autocorrected "she stared at her with utmost adoration" to "she stabbed at her with utmost adoration"vand um

[@gabrielleisabellawilinski8951]

I had read a story in the past where the author put a note of one of their typos they somehow made (and corrected it before posting). The sentence was supposed to be 'the group gasped' and they actually wrote 'the gasp gasped'.

[@VTPPGLVR]

3:09 Cowincidence - when you and a bovine decide to walk in the same direction

[@unaestheticfrog11]

I was writing a wings of fire fanfic and wrote sadwings

[@unaestheticfrog11]

@@oddballjake229 yes, yes it is

[@turtlespeedrunner]

Ah yes, my favorite tribe

[@unaestheticfrog11]

@@turtlespeedrunner ✨s a d w i n g s ✨

[@turtlespeedrunner]

@@unaestheticfrog11 The power of ✨ s a d n e s s✨

[@unaestheticfrog11]

@@turtlespeedrunner yes

[@PantherCat64]

These hurt and feel like a call out, I'm dyslexic so sometimes a word or entire sentences will change for a split second while reading just about anything. So, even the giant bold letters that are supposed to say "T-shirt shop" could end up looking like "KMart Stop" to me for a millisecond and I'll think I made an error when really nothing was wrong and I'll end up going insane looking for that error that doesn't exist, while simultaneously not realize I spelled "weather" instead of "whether". Searching for typos are a fricken nightmare. It feels like I'm playing a game of TTT except with every single word and sentence in whatever I'm writing. But either way my grammar and spelling looks like it was made by an eight grader. I love my dyslexia for the bizarre words, sentences, and even sometimes entire paragraphs I've seen, but man, I could not be an editor or proof reader for anyone.

[@UnholyMinty]

More funny, but at English tests we sometimes have to make some little stories, I once tried to write pavement and sidewalk at the same time. Came out as pavewalk and I didn’t notice it until we got the test back