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* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'': Don't suggest Anne is in love with [[LesYay Diana]] unless you want to be hit with a slate by the fandom. The two are just friends (or "Bosom Friends" as they're described in the books) and their romantic gestures with each other are strictly due to [[ValuesDissonance the books being a product of their time]], when {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between girls were considered normal at the time of writing. Despite their LesYay, Anne and Diana are both straight (having only dated men) and would ultimately be engaged to men (Anne to Gilbert, and Diana to Fred) in later books. It's worth noting that this ''only'' applies to the original books and the more faithful adaptations. Modernized adaptations (like ''ComicBook/AnneOfWestPhilly'' and ''ComicBook/AnneAnAdaptation of Anne of Green Gables sort of'') do have Anne [[AdaptationalSexuality fall in love with Diana]].

* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'': Don't suggest Anne is in love with [[LesYay Diana]] unless you want to be hit with a slate by the fandom. The two are just friends (or "Bosom Friends" as they're described in the books) and their romantic gestures with each other are strictly due to [[ValuesDissonance the books being a product of their time]], since {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between girls were considered normal at the time of writing. Despite their LesYay, Anne and Diana are both straight (having only dated men) and would ultimately be engaged to men (Anne to Gilbert, and Diana to Fred) in later books.[[note]]It's worth noting that this only applies to the original books and the more faithful adaptations, as some modernized adaptations (like ''Anne of West Philly'' and ''Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables sort of'') do have Anne [[AdaptationalSexuality fall in love with Diana]].[[/note]]

* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'': Don't suggest Anne is in love with [[LesYay Diana]] unless you want to be hit with a slate by the fandom. The two are just friends (or "Bosom Friends" as they're described in the books) and their romantic gestures with each other are strictly due to [[ValuesDissonance the books being a product of their time]], since {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between girls were considered normal at the time of writing. Despite their LesYay, Anne and Diana are both straight (having only dated men) and would ultimately be engaged to men (Anne to Gilbert, and Diana to Fred) in later books.

* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'': Don't suggest Anne is in love with [[LesYay Diana]] unless you want to be hit with a slate by the fandom. The two are just friends (or "Bosom Friends" as they're described in the books) and their romantic gestures with each other are strictly due to [[ValuesDissonance the books being a product of their time]], since {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between girls were considered normal at the time of writing. Despite their LesYay, Anne and Diana are both straight (having only dated men) and would ultimately be engaged to men (Anne to Gilbert, and Diana to Fred) in later books. To show how [[SeriousBusiness seriously fans take this]], one professor ended up sparking a media furor in 2000 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosom_Friends_affair after making a paper theorizing that Anne had feelings for Diana]].

* ''Literature/AnneOfGreenGables'': Don't suggest Anne is in love with [[LesYay Diana]] unless you want to be hit with a slate by the fandom. The two are just friends (or "Bosom Friends" as they're described in the books) and their romantic gestures with each other are strictly due to [[ValuesDissonance the books being a product of their time]], since {{Pseudo Romantic Friendship}}s between girls were considered normal at the time of writing. Despite their LesYay, Anne and Diana are both straight (having only dated men) and would ultimately be engaged to men (Anne to Gilbert, and Diana to Fred) in later books. To show how [[SeriousBuisness seriously fans take this]], one professor ended up sparking a media furor in 2000 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosom_Friends_affair after making a paper theorizing that Anne had feelings for Diana]].

* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': Similar to Warriors, fans of Wings Of Fire, will be irritated if you misuse the capitalisation rules. The tribes are [=NightWings=], [=SkyWings=], etc., however, [=NightWing=] names are ''not'' capitalised; it's Deathbringer, not [=DeathBringer=], Death-Bringer or Death Bringer.

* ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'': The title is pronounced "One Kew Eighty-Four", not "Kewteen Eighty Four" or "Eye-Kew Eighty Four". Failure to pronounce the title correctly in the presence of fans will rouse those fan's ire.

* Making serious but inequivalent comparisons concerning censorship or political (in)correctness to Creator/GeorgeOrwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' is not a good idea, but as the [[MemeticMutation meme]] "Wow, this is just like ''1984''!"[[note]]In January 2021, then-U.S. President UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump was suspended from Website/{{Twitter}} after posting tweets that strongly implied he was unapologetic for alleging that the 2020 presidential election, which saw Trump lose to UsefulNotes/JoeBiden, was rigged by fraud, which eventually incited his more fanatical supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol and riot there, injuring over a hundred people, five of which were fatal. His son compared his father's Twitter suspension to the totalitarian government in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' with "We are living Orwell's ''1984''" as if he genuinely believed it, which was co-opted and used to mock such comparisons[[/note]] demonstrates, you can get away with it if you're [[PlayedForLaughs Playing It For Laughs]].

** Don't assume that ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' have identical plots: while ''Game of Thrones'' is a reasonably faithful adaptation, it makes several changes to the source material, with many key characters and plot points being merged, tweaked, or cut entirely. And since the books (as of this writing) [[OvertookTheManga haven't been finished yet]], many fans ''don't'' appreciate the general assumption that anybody "already knows" how the books will end just because they've seen TV show. In particular: don't assume that [[spoiler:Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark are Jon Snow's parents]] just because that turned out to be the case in the show; until it's officially confirmed in the books, it's still just a popular theory.