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Bad geography is a common feature of badfic, and pretty much always a charge. The Department of Geographical Aberrations was created specifically to deal with it.

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  • Bad geography is a common feature of badfic, and pretty much always a charge. The Department of Geographical Aberrations was created specifically to deal with it.
  • Bad geography is a common feature of poor quality fanfiction. Common examples include setting a story in a particular city without bothering to consult an actual map, thus placing locations that are actually nowhere near one another quite close by, underestimating the time it would take to get from one to another, and sometimes transplanting whole landmarks from somewhere else entirely. Lack of knowledge of regional climate can also be glaringly obvious. A mountainous landscape in Colorado should not look like a backlot in California, but it all too frequently does.
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  • Bad geography is a common feature of badfic, and pretty much always a charge. The Department of Geographical Aberrations was created specifically to deal with it.
  • Bad geography is a common feature of poor quality fanfiction. Common examples include setting a story in a particular city without bothering to consult an actual map, thus placing locations that are actually nowhere near one another quite close by, underestimating the time it would take to get from one to another, and sometimes transplanting whole landmarks from somewhere else entirely. Lack of knowledge of regional climate can also be glaringly obvious. A mountainous landscape in Colorado should not look like a backlot in California, but it all too frequently does. Bad geography might not be obvious to anyone unfamiliar with the locale in question, but anyone who lives there will spot it right away, and when it's bad enough it can destroy the believability of the entire fanfiction.
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