#...the lack of sleep probably sways my text comprehension as well lol

[paskuda-lynx]

The problem with reading fandom stuff while not being a native English-speaker is the constant need to check words for credibility

There is a ton of made up words in ATLA and it's fanfiction, and my vocabulary may be pretty vast, but it is certainly not all-encompassing, so I often have NO IDEA if that is a word I just have never encountered before or is it invented by the dude who wrote it.

Lumberjack sounds like a made up Avatar animal. It sounds like jackbird. Or JACKRABBIT, dammit. That one clearly sounds like a hybrid. You know. A hybrid of a rabbit with Jack, whoever that might be. Why not just use the word hare for an animal which is an American hare? Wtf is with all the JACKS in the language anyway??? Is it such a good name people just cram it in everything??

I once lost an honour hour of my life trying to google a macguffin called 'restless steel' which, uh, somehow reacts to high temperatures, I didn't really get it, but it sounded like a real type of specific metal. You know, like stainless steel?.. The search resulted in ball-bearing shop pages, of all things, leaving me confused until I gathered the brain cells to check the comments on the fic I was reading.

And then there are puns, like Buzzard Wasps, because 'buzzard' is simultaniously a bird and a sound, and you need to be familiar with both meanings to get it, and oof.

If being honest i had similar struggles in The Owl House fandom sometimes, but puns there are usually a bit more obvious as they are heavily halloween-themed, like. SPOOKETTY WITH EYEBALLS. And such.

Fanfiction is an educational hobby, you see... very frustrating as well x,D