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

When a simple typo or writing mistake completely changes the meaning of your fic...

[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"

[bugtypeeevee]

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

[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.

[deen]

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..."

[oliviawilkerson]

"It seems my apartments approve of you."

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

[stargazer]

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

[Loqquek]

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

[gaymedievaldruid]

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

[ruinparadox]

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.

[coelacanthtrench]

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

[EcclesiastesLiker-pyts]

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

[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'.

[disjectamembruh]

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

[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.

[mapleshadeeatscats]

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

[delphinium]

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."

[peterhickman]

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

[lilylohmann]

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

[shartboy]

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

[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.