Kevin, just so we're clear, this is what I perceive:
A Buffista says: Why is Nilly's name inside quotes?
Kevin says: I hate nicknames.
A Buffista says: But that's her name.
Kevin says: Oh. I made an assumption. That's her real name. I'll edit it.
Some Buffistas say: Whether or not it's the name on her birth certificate isn't the issue. Whether these are the names we've chosen for ourselves, or our parents chose for us, your opinion on our names doesn't mean you get to call into question our identities when you cite us.
Kevin says: That's my opinion so tough shit.
Some Buffistas cry foul.
Kevin, while welcome to his opinion, doesn't get that he should just say, "I understand what you are saying, and when I cite a Buffista in the future, I will not make assumptions about their names or embellish them with my opinion quotes."
Which would have ended it all, 200 posts ago.
This is my perception.
I wan't included in the many
She didn't use many, either.
She didn't use many, either
You're right. My brain stuck that in there somehow. And it's not even a sentence that would be able to use that. Huh.
I'm just curious, Kevin: Why do so many of your examples include Allyson?
Allyson, I think you perceive correctly... (This really has turned into F_W material by now). The only thing I'd add to that is that I don't agree quote marks call into question an identity.
That said, I've just gone and dug through all my old Whedonesque posts, and I haven't used quotes around peoples nicknames in the past there (this is officially the dullest hour of my life), so, my apologies to everybody as I was indeed talking uber amounts of shit in the first place. I thought I had been doing.
So, if I post links to anything I gather is written by somebody here, I will check with them first, and not quote mark their nickname. Huzzah.
ETA: Clearly, Allyson is the cutest, handsomest Allyson ever. (Or, more realistically, I haven't really read enough posts by other people really. I have used ita, Jars and Kat as well - cookies in the post).
Cause Allyson's a BNF?
Can you be a BNF without being in fandom?
Can you be a BNF without being in fandom?
So if Allyson falls in the forest, and no one's around to hear her, does she make a sound?
... more importantly, WTH was Allyson doing in a forest in the first place?
ita is one of those mean girls who shoved me in a locker in high school.
I think my BNF days ended long ago, though. If they ever really existed.
