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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Make sure you use a smart search and replace tool, though. I still remember many years later reading a story with a protagonist named Virginia, and then hitting a scene with a bunch of commentary about a character's "vaVirginia". It was memorable both for the "suddenly pornography" element of it and also the "ah, in an earlier draft of this story the protagonist's name used to be shortened to Gina!" realization.

[–] topherclay@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

Its kind of the other way around, but it reminds me of the D&D handbook version where they scrapped the name "mage" and instead went with "wizard" but were lazy about the find and replace process, so you had weapons doing "1d6 piercing dawizard" on a successful hit.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Doing a dumb search for " Gina " then " Gina's" with case sensitivity turned on then doing an interactive search for "Gina" would have prevented that tragedy, and doesn't need to be a 'smart' tool.

Also, feeding the text before and after into Diff can give a pretty good indication if there were fuckups. Revision control is always good.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago

OK so we know OP in the screenshot isn't named Jason or Tanaka. That narrows it down.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 days ago

At least anon reads books

[–] ArfArfWoof@europe.pub 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

jason hate is fully legit 🥰

[–] CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 6 points 4 days ago

This is how people get cursed by the Greek gods

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

You talking shit about Tanaka

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Hey stupid it would be much faster with control h.

[–] lacethespace@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

Yer a wizard, Gizzard!

[–] greenskye@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I've done this in some fanfics. I can't handle fics that make Harry Potter a girl and don't bother to change the name.

[–] Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

She's👏called👏Harlot👏Potter👏and👏she's👏trans!

[–] DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I read a book with a diver named Cove once. It was mercifully rare for her to be addressed by name.

[–] Klear@piefed.world 4 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of Harrow the Ninth.