#isaac and jeannemary both ended up looking older than i wanted

[vaunted-and-vilified]

three of the ideas for pics i have right now involve drawing kids or preteens and that is by far the worst and hardest possible thing to draw

[txttletale]

locked tomb characters as the 42 ways to type laughter on the internet

harrowhark nonagesimus: haha. = I am weary and loathe to laugh, but here, you have forced it upon me; OR: I hate you.

gideon nav: hahahaha (etc.) = What you just said was really funny. OR: What you said was only kind of funny, but I want to have sex with you.

judith deuteros: roflcopter = I am a police officer working the undercover teen drug-use chatroom circuit.

marta dyas: HA = Vengeance and/or justice has been served appropriately.

coronabeth tridentarius: teehee = I have done something mildly transgressive and I think it's adorable.

ianthe tridentarius: hah = Three-quarters of the way toward typing the most tepid indication of appreciation there is, I became too bored to continue.

naberius tern: lolz = I am Gchatting/texting with two to four other people at this time; each of them is significantly more interesting than you.

isaac tettares: lmao = That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

jeannemary chatur: lmfao = That is the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard.

abigail pent: hahaha = That was funny! I legitimately laughed, or at least smiled, and I am slightly happier now than I was before you just said that.

magnus quinn: L-O-L/L.O.L. = I want nothing more than to cry. OR: I made a joke and I'm your dad.

palamedes sextus: haha = I'm acknowledging that you've said something you perceive to be funny, though I don't find it particularly funny myself.

camilla hect: ha ha ha = Very funny, you fucking asshole. You piece of shit.

dulcie septimus: bahaha = Like "ahahaha," but less concerned with appearances.

protesilaus ebdoma: HAHA = I made an audible laughter-type sound at this!!

silas octakiseron: lmbo = I'm neither laughing nor happy, but I am arguing a point I'm pleased with in my role as a person who works on the internet.

colum asht: lol = I feel nothing. I want this sentence/conversation to be over but lack the wherewithal to end it directly, with purpose; I want to admit to a feeling but lack the conviction; I want to tell you how you've hurt me but want more to pretend I am invincible; I want to laugh, really laugh, but do not remember how; OR, maybe: that was funny, whatever.

cytherea loveday: lolllllll = I feel beneath my skin surface a brimming hysteria, an existential query both exhausting and frantic: what am I doing here? The things that amuse me now are so different from anything I could have imagined as a young child. Partway through typing I realized the absurdity, the smallness of that which made me lol, and so I held my finger firm upon the "l" key for a while, and I wondered what would happen if I held it there forever.

mercymorn the first: ha. = I knew it. I knew it. It is very tiring to be right about everything, but I live with it.

augustine the first: ha! = Clever little joke, sonny!

gideon the first: heh = I have never experienced mirth, nor do I expect to.

pyrrha the first: ha = I am actually the most furious I have ever been in my entire life.

awake rememberance of these valiant dead: haaaaaa = I am disgusted with (but not surprised by) humankind.

john gaius: lollerskates/lollercoaster = Sometime between 2000 and 2004 I was a starred internet forum poster, and someone I chatted with regularly — someone a little older, whom I looked up to, someone with lots of x's in her username — used this word, and I was overcome by impossible coolness. I am now grown, and quite serious, and typically hyper-articulate. But sometimes, when I find something a little funny, I indicate pleasure with an improbable portmanteau like this one, and I feel again that I am young, and excited, and waiting to get online.