currently losing it (but, like, with style)

they/them, 24 | atp it's really just the man from u.n.c.l.e interspersed with linguistics and germanposting | and the odd bit of music | and some art (actually a lot of it) | and

[augustsgrass]

don’t think i can call it a hyperfixation anymore fam im afraid im just long term insane about this piece of media

[tromroan]

Accidentally turned this red and I love it

[genderoutlaws]

Gilbert Baker helps hoist one of the two original rainbow flags created by the decoration committee for San Francisco Gay Freedom Day | 1978 | ph: James McNamara, lead seamster of the flags

[gelayev]

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[cheaphalloweencostume]

every day of my life i read someone being like “why doesn’t this story just solve the problem immediately and casually? they just drag it out and make it an issue” well. because that’s the Story

[sexchangewerewolf]

[ghostlycoyote0]

Everyone passionately defending the em dash from being stolen completely by AI has also had the side effect of teaching me that I’ve been using it wrong. I was doing this - with a normal-sized dash and spaces between - rather than the larger dash with no spaces. So that’s cool I guess

[karl-von-moor-official]

it's actually called em dash because it's meant to be the width of an M. There's also an n dash which is meant to be the width of an N.

normal dash is for in-between words, like in in-between!

n dash is usually for numbers, like when you're saying, "I did 4–7 things today."

m dash is for interjecting a sentence to add context—extra information or thoughts and lists of things—without making said context seem less important than the rest of the sentence (which would be the case with brackets).

on mobile keyboards, you can usually hold down on the dash to make the other dashes appear

like so.

and while it's not incorrect to use em dashes with a space before and after the dash — this definitely done in published writing too! — it's less common than using it without those spaces, especially online.

[anasabdin]

Blue Hour Inc.

[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[sorenkingsley]

Starsky + his 🌈 suspenders

[agere-stitch]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

[tromroan]

pfffffft

[sashkatz]

powered by sheer, uninhibited academic panic, I wrote 16 pages (font size 11 pt) in less than 12 hours. chatGPT could never.

[animentality]

[3rabbit]

milky way of lilium japonicum - flickr 2013

[classicalcanvas]

Skull (1887) by Vincent van Gogh