Some of those uncertain summaries, I just want to take those fledgling writers and cuddle them and tuck them up with tea and a good dictionary/grammar guide. Some of them I just want to shake and say "Complete sentences, dammit! And the word SHIELD actually obeys that rule you should have learned in school!"
Y'all see the man hanging out of the spaceship with the really big gun? Now I'm not saying you weren't easy to find. It was kinda out of our way, and he didn't want to come in the first place. Man's lookin' to kill some folk. So really it's his will y'all should worry about thwarting.
Mal ,'Safe'
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Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2013 1:02:24 pm PDT #8707 of 10434
brillig
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2013 1:07:06 pm PDT #8708 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But S.H.I.E.L.D. is not a word!
(I am going to be so tired of typing that in...6 days, I predict, if not sooner. Like now.)
Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2013 1:09:43 pm PDT #8709 of 10434
brillig
Well, if you're going to be pedantic and insist on periods in your acronyms. I belong to the No Periods sect.
Dana - Sep 18, 2013 1:14:09 pm PDT #8710 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's been a subject of debate in online publications (and I guess offline ones), whether they have to use the periods.
Consuela - Sep 18, 2013 1:16:43 pm PDT #8711 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I reject the periods.
Connie Neil - Sep 18, 2013 1:25:40 pm PDT #8712 of 10434
brillig
"Someone really wanted our name to say SHIELD."
§ ita § - Sep 18, 2013 2:10:45 pm PDT #8713 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm just going by the name of the TV show [link] One can spell it how one wants, but it is only correct one way.
Amy - Sep 18, 2013 2:14:16 pm PDT #8714 of 10434
Because books.
I'm pretty sure neither the Chicago Manual of Style or AP style would use the periods -- we don't anymore for things like USPS, etc.
Then again, the asterisks in M*A*S*H stuck around all those years.
Dana - Sep 18, 2013 2:24:16 pm PDT #8715 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's been a whole style guide fooferah. What about initialisms? What about M*A*S*H? What about the right of the internet to express itself any way it damn well wants?
DebetEsse - Sep 18, 2013 3:21:26 pm PDT #8716 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.
What about the right of the internet to express itself any way it damn well wants?
As a denizen of Tumblr and a Tag Wrangler on AO3, I'm going to say that there's not a power in the 'verse that can stop the Internet from expressing itself any way it damn well wants.