permanently conflicted over whether or not to capitalize “god” when i write “oh my god”
When I’m writing fiction, it heavily depends on the character, if that helps. Believers get “God”, non-believers “god”, with an additional layer for who the…
Oh yeah, those IRL exchanges – I usually stick with no capitalization because I’m, you know, kind of a Nietzsche girl.
Let me wank on this for a minute: In my VC fic (because it’s a ridiculous metaception of a novel that is – potentially – being written by one character and edited by another), the writer attempts to show his love by not capitalizing god as a nod to his existentialist boyfriend who is also the editor, even though he himself is a devout Catholic but then sort of the point is that you might not be entirely sure that the writer is actually doing that or if the boyfriend is editing it or if the boyfriend editing is even really doing that or if they’re silently edit warring over it or what.
In the Battlestar Galactica one, the series has an actual Deus Ex Machina, and the use of capitalization and plural on the part of the perspective character is reflective of his relationship to god at that time (is he angry? Trying to be scientifically accurate, in that he has a certain amount of proof positive that there is one god who is kind of okay with being called God? Really drunk and/or depressed and reverting to his childhood pantheism? It’s all there in the spelling).
I really thought about this a lot, it’s kind of ridic tbh.
“the writer attempts to show his love by not capitalizing god as a nod to his existentialist boyfriend who is also the editor, even though he himself is a devout Catholic but then sort of the point is that you might not be entirely sure that the writer is actually doing that or if the boyfriend is editing it or if the boyfriend editing is even really doing that or if they’re silently edit warring over it or what.”
#ALL THE FEELS *cries*
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