One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of people in audiovisual or voice-acted fandoms get overly fixated on trying to capture every little nuance of how the actors pronounce things by using italics for emphasis instead of just trusting the reader to be able to hear the voices in their head as they read. (Similar to how some fic writers will go overboard trying to describe every little detail of body language all the time instead of just a few representative actions.)

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I feel twice called out by that!

/coalie using lots of italics AND describing every detail of body language

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

You don't even have to be in an audiovisual canon's fandom for it, OTL. I'm glad I've been branching out into style pastiches for some assignments, because trying to emulate a specific written style really made me aware of how much I overuse italics. If every other word is emphasized then nothing is you dum-dum!