#also a bunch of my classmates…

[r3dblues]

Something posessed me to make this in the middle of my exam season and the worst art block ever

[spoiledmilks]

girls cant have whimsy anymore my mother just insulted me for having some STICKER PACKS on my bedside table

[lordofthesoups]

I love sitting in church yards you hear the best random snippets of conversation as people go past.

A guy with a heavy welsh accent just walked past me complaining on the phone about how his son couldnt grow a moustache

[happywitchesofnewdi]

"Hey Natsume, remember that sleepover you WEREN'T invited to? 🤪" is probably my favorite recurring bit. I hope it never dies.

[stripe-conlon]

While researching slang for a pjo fic* I realized how lucky Nico got with his generally accepted birth year even if he hadn’t been casino’d through most of the 1900’s. Too young to be drafted in WWII, too old to be drafted into Vietnam and Korea didn’t have a draft.

[paperstreetlocal]

im sorry but if you see 2 characters as having a familial relationship (im talking about friends or acquaintances/classmates) and its not canon, or really even hinted at in canon, or its just the character calling somebody a brother/sister in a way that obviosuly just means "friend/buddy", why the FUCK are you getting mad at people for shipping them. bro its just your fucking view of them . its not real

[crazyyyslots]

slowly succeeding in my goal of becoming besties with my oil painting instructor...

[spaghett-onaplate]

i'm perusing court listings and the very first case i looked into is multimillion dollar fraud 😭 they can't all be this interesting surely

[electriccenturies]

i think i made an irl friend?!? we've chatted a bunch at ASL coffee events and yesterday we talked too, and today she texted and said she'd be happy to hang out if i ever want to! she's an interpreting student and has been SO kind to me and I'm so happy she likes me enough to want to hang out!

[zincbot]

the hits stop coming and they don't stop coming

[kaluawoo]

My question is What did Belkia think the power was!? Did he think Otogiri was doing drugs in the kitchen or something

Yeah my best guess is drugs. Gun powder is black so drugs would be the most common Dangerous White Powder...

[attila-werther]

no wait one of my good friends from art school tagged me in something on instagram and when I looked, it was was a drawing of wolverine I had left on his desk back in our last year of art school as a little surprise I'm gonna cry

[elegyofthemoon]

i might be dumb as rocks lmao

[heartyearning]

smth which i feel & i don't know if it's true/real or if it's something only i'm experiencing in an interaction but .. when autistic it is so hard to take the idea of taking up space to heart. like i dont think you actually want me to do that is the thing. this sounds so 14yr old vent post (no offense to 14 yr olds you'll get it when u get it) but its not like oh woe is me everyone hates me its that i notice that i have discussions with professors which go on for way too long because i'm enjoying talking to them and i think they are enjoying it too, except i'm also hyperaware of time passing and the fact that they need to speak to many other students except *I* dont know how to end a conversation in the middle of that conversation. that seems like something teachers should have to learn to do. sort of just set barriers around time. therapists (at least mine) are good at doing this so naturally it's crazy.

anyway theres that and then on the other hand i just wanted to say the completely unrevolutionary thing that it is SO exhausting to be constantly tuned into what someone else is feeling/thinking because god forbid you say something they interpret as disrespectful and they either point it out like adults or they take responsibility for their own feelings. actually deeply fucked. just had a call with my mother btw and apparently some things have been festering & talking to her kinda made me put them into words and realise that i'm actually mad at like 3 of my teachers for making me do SO much extra work because they refuse to meet me on my level. and 2 other teachers are in this same sitch except we're sorta on the same level anyway so that helps and i really like them so even when i do heavy lifting i get so much more out of it so that makes it ok (and also theyre just New so its more a thing of getting the hang of them more than anything else) anyway now i will go to sleep and quite likely have stress based nightmares about this exact thing (again!) good night <3

[muffinrag]

Oh man. You're right. Okay -

Acclamation I can get behind. Maybe. I'd have to see it in action. But it's simple, it's clean, it's about as wide as a question mark, and it definitely gets across a bolder, more intense exclamation. It could be an acceptable alternative to multiple exclamation points. My misgivings are that the design might interrupt the visual flow of the text due to the backslash, and that the dot at the bottom might be too far out for it to flow well.

Exclamation comma is intriguing. It could work to get across a certain tone. I think it'd be interesting to experiment with. The design is simple enough that it would blend alright into a text.

Interrobang is my nemesis. I hate that thing, and it's entirely petty. It feels juvenile. I dislike the name of it, I dislike the design - imo it's too complex for a punctuation mark - and I genuinely believe that anything you'd want to use an interrobang for would be better served with a different combination of punctuation and contextualizing text.

Love point is cute, but that's it. It's far too wide; it would visually interrupt the flow of the text, and that alone disqualifies it entirely. It's also odd to me that it's two question marks mashed together, like the "love" is implied to be uncertain or questionable. I know it's trying to be the shape of a heart, but it just doesn't work.

Friendly period is an upside down whole note. I can't unsee an upside down whole note, and that unfortunately undoes the entire concept for me. An alright idea, but poorly executed. It's also too wide, and would interrupt the visual flow of the text.

Authority I'm kinda torn on. It's not the worst one on here. Again, the kerning might force the dot at the bottom out too far. I'm also just not sure about the design from a conceptual standpoint. The use of an exclamation point as the base implies a shout, anger, frustration, or urgency, with the cap on top to imply authority - but shouted authority is militaristic. Authority is supposed to garner respect. To me, authority should be calm, collected, straightforward and unquestionable, and the use of an exclamation point instantly undermines that. In my opinion, the punctuation point that most effectively expresses true authority is the humble period.

Rhetorical question mark is meh. Firstly, it immediately gives the vibe that you're writing in Spanish (although it's not facing the correct way, it still gives me that impression). Second, I don't like the period in the air. It's visually disruptive. And third, I just don't think a mark specifically for rhetorical questions is necessary. Which is, I suppose, why it's on this list of "dead" punctuation marks.

Doubt is fun. Doubt is flirty. Doubt has a little something going on. Doubt has the potential to be absolutely hilarious. However, much like many of the others here, its uses would be pretty circumstantial. It also has the potential to be easily mistaken for a simple question mark. Also, it kinda looks too much like a math symbol to work well in regular prose. I like it, but I, uh... I doubt if it'd work in practice.

The question comma is much the same as the exclamation comma. It could be subtly and cleverly used to manipulate the cadence and vibe of a piece of dialogue - that's where it would work best: in dialogue. Same with the exclamation comma. It'd be great fun to see these two well-utilized. Not terribly practical, not necessarily good for common usage, but in a novel willing to experiment with punctuation marks? Very fun.

Ultimately, there are two important things for a punctuation mark: the first is visual flow. It has to fit. It cannot disrupt the text. Punctuation marks should be virtually unnoticeable - the silent markers and rule enforcers, effortlessly signaling to the reader how the text should be read.

The second is that it has to have an obvious use. Most punctuation that we use can be used in multiple ways. They are extremely basic and versatile marks, and can work in tandem to bring out the emotion and nuance of a text. Most of these "dead" marks are flawed simply because they are too specific. The circumstances surrounding their use is too niche for them to become commonly used.

Have I mentioned that I fucking love punctuation? I fucking love punctuation

I love you dead punctuation marks.

[karmaislost]

I have crazy ideas but I have no clue if it's lore accurate so they are just going to stay as ideas