Nov 11, 2025
When I’m writing something and I get to authentically use a semicolon and it makes grammatical sense and maybe this is what writing is all about ; ; ; ; ;
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When I’m writing something and I get to authentically use a semicolon and it makes grammatical sense and maybe this is what writing is all about ; ; ; ; ;
Semicolons
Punt them into the Sun?
PUNT!
Don't punt!
getting flagged for AI use on my fuckin IB essays because I use semicolons. god forbid a girl be indecisive between a comma and a period. 😐
I fear I am meant to write in the sentence structure of a victorian letter. Modern society shuns this and asks me to eliminate commas 😔
How I look every time I add a semicolon to a sentence:
Punctuation Hot Take!
Semicolons do not belong in fiction! They are reading speed bumps that bounce you out of the story!
it’s like when a movie director decides to show off, and zooms in on a window until the camera apparently passes through the glass. Suddenly, instead of enjoying a story, you're aware of the camera. You're just watching a movie. That's what semicolons do. Instead of your story's movie playing in your reader's head, they hit that speed bump and suddenly they're aware of the book in their hands. They're just looking at words on a page.
“Oh, but they show two sentences are closely related!” You know what else does that? Putting the sentences next to each other! Semicolons do nothing but distract readers!
Raaarrr angry writer noises!
i love semicolons
since people keep claiming that people using semicolons or em dashes is generative ai
im going to start using them even more now in my writing
out of spite.