#I often just skipped through it

[muka-rapak]

Krabat das 4. bis 6. Jahr

I think I spent like. 20+ hours reading it .

7.5/10 raven feathers

[msbarrows]

Argh... so I've been reading in Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (SVSSS) fandom recently. And it's given me a new pet peeve about formatting and TTS. A bunch of the authors in that fandom are using black lens brackets to indicate the 'system' voice, 【like this】, because the original novels do, and, yeah... unfortunately that's not always compatible with TTS (definitely not with google's TTS engine, and testing with various other online TTS engines gives mixed results).

Guess how I know they're called black lens brackets.

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Go on, guess.

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YUP! They get read aloud! Every. Single. Time. They. Appear. Open black lens bracket like this close black lens bracket.

Please resist using the novel's formatting and just use regular square brackets instead! Which do not get read aloud unless there's a space in a bad position, [ like this ]. If you want to be fancy, maybe use <tt>...</tt> formatting or a monospaced font such as courier to make it stand out more as something mechanical.

[Like this]

Which reminds me, another bad formatting choice I've bumped into multiple times (and I can't remember if I've mentioned this one before) is where authors use something <like this> to indicate things like speaking mind-to-mind, or that someone is speaking a foreign language (despite the actual text still being in English). Cool. Neat. Also not TTS compatible, unless you like repeatedly hearing less than and greater than mixed into the text. But guess what - there are already perfectly serviceable ‹single› and «double» angled quotation marks that could be used instead - and since they're recognized as actual quotation marks, they don't get read aloud! Shocking, I know.

Those angled quotation marks could also be another decent option for indication of things like the system voice, obviously.

«Like this»

Thanks to everyone who is already using more TTS-compatible formatting, and to anyone who decides to make some changes to theirs after reading this :)

[cookinary]

Okay, I get it now

Thanks @mileikcin for making me curious about this game like god damn I've been missing out

[icewindandboringhorror]

I have a big google doc thing where I keep track of media and stuff (putting everything in loosely ranked categories), which is mostly just for my own reference so I know what tv shows I've already seen before, etc. and I never really look back through it, typically just a quick "okay, watched two movie in the past 8 months, need to quickly slap them somewhere in the lists. okay. done. save document. exit". But today I was actually reading through some of the old notes and there are like... MULTIPLE places where my comment is basically "It would have been good if it were about elves" or "I wish there was a fantasy show made in this same style" or "It's well made, but I just keep thinking about how I would like it more if everyone was an elf or was in old 1700s costumes" or etc like...... lol.... Most biased media ranking system on earth blatantly made by someone with an extremely hyperspecific range of narrow interests. It'd be like if a food reviewer only had 5 foods they actually liked, so they'd just go to a pizza place and be like "eh, the pizza was okay, but I just think it would be better if it was cereal instead. :/ ...2 out of 10"

[cowboysmp3]

watching naruto post ep 143 is soooo... whatever

[gloireceleste]

Gotta love when your 6000+ year crush kisses you and your brain can’t work quick enough through the panic while your former boss / creepy stalker the metatron is watching from outside.

[anaalnathrakhs]

...i'm starting to wonder if i wasn't actually pretty often failed by the adults in my life as a young kid tbh.

[abimee]

quite literally there is too much to say and pick apart about Tock in endwalker and the fact that her bullshit lore i just made up for the sillies wounded up aligning with canon concepts and therefore what went from ''silly child with accordion hears the songs in others heart'' became ''entelechy child singer of hope meets with the singer of despair at the end of the universe and gets through to her in a way that nobody else ever could"

[tunedtostatic]

I may have found a new no-skip album

[aro-aizawa]

i swear the absolute HEIGHT of total happiness is when a long fic wraps up with a wonderfully happy ending

[tillman]

you made me start playing limbus corp for rodya thanks

YAY YAY GOOD !!!!!! Rodya my dear

[frosteee-variation]

nothing brings me more joy than dressing up every occasion that I get and being able to go out in public

going to an irl session with some friends and like. it’s our first session, right? So I go and use whatever I can to dress like my character — which is to say, vaguely sci-fi-scrap pilot with as much metal jewelry as I could grab — and we swing by a comic shop beforehand just because we’ve been wanting to go for a while and we’re out and about. and I get a compliment and it just??

it’s great!! it’s so fun!!! shaking things up a little! It’s comfortable, it’s gender, it didn’t take much effort, etcetera etcetera etcetera but like

I’m not sure if it counts as whimsy but I’d certainly recommend it

[seriouslydidijustdothat]

me, trying to recall an actor's name: omg, it's whats-his-face from whats-it-called

[dmclemblems]

yes im still backed up in asks which is why i haven’t reopened my ask box lol

[slippery-minghus]

oof. going to the gym today was the opposite of helpful for my pain levels. gah

[larkawolfgirl]

Skipping a "commitment" for no other reason than wanting to finish my show lol and because a dog is sleeping on me.