join the club & king gizzard the lizard wizard
well see it can do the work of the colon, the semicolon, or the parenthesis with more speed and less formality than any of these, plus you can use it to capture the stream-of-consciousness effect of a comma splice with much less loss of clarity. sort of an all-purpose punctuation for the casual yet elaborate written construct.
I believe in the em-dash because the em-dash believes in me
my idea for a new disney world ride. please signal boost this so that this ride can be at disney world.
Here’s that horse again
*in the tone of a estranged grandmother*
You love horse
Horse was always your favourite what happened?
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
- It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
- Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
Working at an aquarium will have you saying things like “this is my favorite scallop because he’s sassy”
Could we please see the sassy scallop? 👀
Yeah this is him (he made a child cry once by shooting water in their face)