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[–] 19 points 10 hours ago* (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 2 points 34 minutes 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.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 hours ago

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

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  • [–] 9 points 11 hours ago

    jason hate is fully legit 🥰

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  • [–] 5 points 7 hours ago

    At least anon reads books

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  • [–] 3 points 7 hours ago

    You talking shit about Tanaka

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  • [–] 2 points 10 hours ago

    Reminds me of Harrow the Ninth.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago

    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.

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  • [+] 1 point 7 hours ago