In reply to the guest comment from Ree, yeah I agree that American Evangelicals are not a monolithic group without any variation (basically the whole point I was making earlier). It's a stereotype, some Southern Evangelicals are absolutely lovely people, but tolerance kindness and enlightened thoughtfulness are not… Necessarily, the first attributes that spring to mind when a layperson is asked to describe members of this particular religious denomination.
Being super pedantic about the finer points of an essay about not being super pedantic is kinda missing the point by a mile.
Talking to everyone more generally, it's absolutely exhausting when you are already low on energy and momentum to deal with pedantry about minute details that anyone outside the autism spectrum wouldn't even notice. This year in particular I just don't have the energy. I had a nervous breakdown around new year due to burnout trying to juggle work, writing, family and life. Got a new kid on the way now too and things are just stressful in general. It has taken me months to regain enough energy to write anything at all and I have very little momentum.
All that pedantry does is give an autist a feeling of peace and comfort getting all their toy trains lined up to soothe their bottomless need to make a chaotic confusing universe strictly ordered. It's utterly *exhausting* for everyone else to have to deal with. It comforts the feelings of one single person at the expense of everyone else who has to deal with them. Pedantry (outside of academia or something) is ultimately selfish and (in the case of autism) is motivated solely by the selfish desire to feel a sense of peace at the expense of other people's sanity.
Nobody in their right mind cares if some little plastic toy soldiers in a story worship Slaanesh or undivided, "normal" people care about the story being entertaining and enjoyable. The *only* reason anyone would give enough of a crap about lore *in a fanfic* to be pedantic is (in my opinion) because they are trying to soothe their autistic unease, even the autist doesn't (if they're honest) give a shit about the "facts" of the lore for their own sake, they only care about that horrible terrible feeling of anxiety they get when one of their toy trains is very slightly off the tracks.
It's just exhausting. I just want to take their train set and throw it off a cliff so that they can never ever find it again so that they will never be pedantic ever again. Embrace the chaos and confusion of living in a chaotic and unpredictable universe, for the sake of everyone else around you.
All anyone who writes for a hobby wants to do is maybe entertain a few people and bring some joy to their lives sharing something you made. None of us are professional writers on this site, we certainly aren't writing anything canon. It's all just for fun, and pedantry makes it not fun.