Digital artist who infrequently can scrape enough energy to create stuff. I like to escape with art and draw cute anthros.
It depends on the keyboard, and the software. I’m using HeliBoard on my phone right now, and all I have to do to make an em dash is hold the dash key—that’s it. It’s actually quite trivial to add em dashes in various cases, and I wish folks wouldn’t pretend otherwise.
I also make use of other characters, like my beloved interrobang. I actually have that pinned to my clipboard, so I can paste it when it’s appropriate.
“You care about writing enough to use special characters‽”
“Yes.”
It was actually my bra’s trap, the trap that turns you into a bra. Easy to make that mistake.
You’re welcome, but you still gotta edit the source link in your comment!
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The solution is actually to become a bird, as their tongues do not perceive that sort of spice.
Is it too late to ask the host if the catgegory is tools, or toys?
I just use the combine key, then tap dash a couple times—boom, em dash. On mobile I just hold the dash key, like it’s genuinely pretty easy to insert them.
Should’ve tried harder, like one of the two people from my instance who were blocked that…idk…drew some Sonic characters a couple of times and posted them in relevant communities? Should’ve been a real rebel like them!
If that fails, remember you always perform under pressure…about 1 atmosphere of it.
I was looking for this answer before I wrote the same thing. If a part of my body has to be shot, why wouldn’t I be trying to rules lawyer my way out of serious injury? Take one long hair, tape it on something that can be safely shot through at effectively point blank range, feel nothing, success!
I’ve mostly heard it as a term of personal identity, not explicitly outward to a fandom. As in, “you’re furry if you identify as one,” and that’s about it. That’s about where I stand, as I’ve been furry before I even had a word for it as a little kid, and also have never concerned myself with “the fandom” really.
I’m not even sure what that entails; I communicate with other folks who identify as furry, but not really to discuss some centralized culture like I would in something like a show or sport fandom. I make and appreciate art by folks who do—and don’t—identify as furry, but that doesn’t feel like participating in fandom either. To me it feels akin to saying I’m in the bisexual fandom or something; it doesn’t feel right even though I identify as it.
Yeah, I don’t get it. It doesn’t really seem like a meme or something relatable as much as it is general furry art.
I may remove this for breaking that rule if OP doesn’t respond to your ask with it being some reference I don’t know or something.
Bravo, that was a real treat to read! I wish more folks ran with their inspiration in the comments like that, the net would be a much cooler place. As appreciation, have my (far shorter) writing about eating crutons “gay style” from last month lol.
The link does work as expected once I set my home instance! I didn’t know about this, thanks!
Be careful where you put that hand. Remember, if the immortal snail touches you, you die.
…maybe worth it?
The daddy issue: “I don’t have a daddy.”
The solution:
Happy birthday to your friend, that’s so sweet of you to make art for them!
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Artist: AboWoofers via XCancel.
I imagine it must be weighing a lot on you!
I suppose it is a woefully underutilized glyph, isn’t it? I consider it very important, and make sure to check any typefaces I download, to ensure it’s designed before using them in creative projects. While it didn’t become mainstream, I love letting people know it exists through writing when an opportunity arises.
Exactly, they’re usually pretty easy to add if you want to. I totally understand most folks don’t talk so formally when in informal settings, but the em dash thing is hardly the smoking gun paranoid people want it to be. A lot of the “tells” by themselves are just punching at competent writers; it’s the same thing that happens to visual artists, or musicians, or anything else creative. You can try and find several tells at once—and sometimes you do—but it tends to boil down to glorified witch hunting, rather than something of substance. People want desperately to be able to just know something is AI generated on vibes alone. It’s not always going to be that easy, and most aren’t the sleuths they believe they are.