1. Wyrd is not a calling card or a quirk. It's a misspelling, and any author that wants to be taken seriously would just spell the damn word out. Same thing goes with changing Demon and Magic into Daemon or Magyck/Magick for no reason, or changing any word back into an older spelling of it just to sound "cool". Unless the story specifically calls for it, or the word has a new meaning entirely, stop raping my favorite language.
... this is fanfic. Taken seriously?
Also, as to the grammare debate ... for fuck's sake, stop splitting hairs about a stylistic choice like it's the end of the world. If you read the story and like it, you'll ignore it. At least it's conscious choice and not 'couple dozen misspellings of the same word throughout one chapter'. He's consistent with it.
Besides, like any of the people here will tell me they haven't, on occasion, tried to introduce a wannabe-slang word or two of their own devising into the language.
2. I do not like silent narrators, period. I feel that Noel could be a much stronger character (from what little I read) if he fucking SPOKE UP once in awhile, otherwise every part he narrates from is just some weird form of 3rd/1st (2nd?) person narration and I hatehatehatehatehate it.
Yeah, that's because Noir is, you know ... MUTE. Like, say, Matt Murdock is blind, only without any sonic scream sonar to cover?
Guy's got no vocal cords. Among other things. So I can't really see how you'd want him to speak. IMO, Post did a bang-up job of trying to tell a story through someone like that.
3. Post have too much hype going for him for "These Black Eyes". There are much better authors out there in the TT and DC sections who DON'T have to write 10000000000000 words to tell a single damn story. I...I don't know. I feel like he's trying to make up quality with quantity, you know?
Actually, no. And from what you're writing, neither do you. You'd best reserve judgments like that until you've actually _read_ into the bloody thing a bit more. From what I'm seeing here, you've not, as you're nowhere near vitriolic enough to have read any significant amount of the story and gotten to dislike it through that.
TBE is not just one story. It's world is fucking huge. There's plotlines ... well, I shan't spoil it for you. I once summed it up with the words that: 'it's like a train-wreck' from a plot POV. Bad, bad things happen to people here. Punches are not pulled.
I can't rightly say that _I_ like this story. There's too much stuff in there, both good and bad, both uplifting and depressing, both heroic and horrifying. It's like a train-wreck.
But I can say, either don't touch it at all, or don't just 'take a little' from the front and slam it outright if you do start reading.
-Griever