paraka | (no subject)

I'm reading this fic right now, and actually it's the second one today that's done this, and it's driving me crazy. Whenever the author wants to emphasize something they CAPITALIZE it. I'm sorry, but caps just make me think of yelling. And while I suppose the character might be yelling, it's really much easier on the eyes to just italicize. If you don't know how to italicize, or are on a page that doesn't accept html tags asterisks work just as well. It's just hard to take a fic seriously when they're writing things like: "John was so ANGRY. How could Rodney DO this?" Or whatever (that's not an actual quote, just the general feeling). *le sigh*

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Ugh, I HATE those kind of stories. :-/

I am right there with you. The only person I know who can get away with even IMing back and forth with me in all caps is my mother because I know some of the programs she uses need all caps and it's just easier for her to leave it like that. But in a fic? Definitely a faux pas.

The worse thing is, it was done intentionally. I mean if you accidentally do it, or as you say are in a chat and turn caps lock on by accident, then fine, but to intentionally include it?