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BSV Forum - General - The Bloodshedpub Exclamation!Points Mar 23 2008 04:57 pm #1goldenusagi This is probably a dumb question, but I'm still sort of new at this. What do the exclamation points mean when you see them referring to fics, as in Vamp!Buffy or Amnesia!Spike? Obviously, I know that this story will feature a vampire Buffy or that story a Spike with amnesia. But why are they used like that? Mar 23 2008 05:52 pm #2slaymesoftly I have no idea - unless it's just a fanfic thing to alert people to the non-canon subject matter? Seems silly to me, but I'll bet there's an explanation. I'll be interested to hear it. I am not a minion of Evil... I am upper management. I thought exclamation points were just used for the fun of it. Well, and also to keep things simpler. Like, I love amnesia stories involving Spike. So, in my fangirliness, I put the exclamation point in: amnesia!Spike. But slaymesoftly is right if that's the real reason: it is kind of silly. "Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead!"--Giles, "Dead Man's Party' I think it's used to tie the words up, like the slash between Spike and Buffy is used to indecate them in a relationship. It's probably used to say more with less words. Vamp!Buffy, by itself, tells you that Buffy is turned into a vampire in this fiction without writing a long sentence. Yeah, but you could do it just as easily without the exclamation point - "Vamp Buffy" gets the point across just as well. I think it's just a cutesy/silly fandom thing that caught on. I think the description like that, with or without the exclamation point, is like naming Barbie dolls - you've got Malibu Barbie, Babysitter Skipper, Vamp Buffy and Amnesia Spike. Writing should feel easy, like a monkey driving a speed boat. Mar 23 2008 10:04 pm #6pfeifferpack Okay...I just got all silly and pictured a Malibu Spike. LOL Kathleen Mar 24 2008 01:54 am #7slaymesoftly *snort* I think you need to write about him, Kathleen.... I am not a minion of Evil... I am upper management. Spike on the beach...I think that deserves an exclamation point. (!) "Do you like my mask? Isn't it pretty? It raises the dead!"--Giles, "Dead Man's Party' | |||
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