Not knowing much about code, or web accessibility, I didn't even know there was an em tag (which I have no idea how to make show up without italicizing everything). Thanks for enlightening me!
I find people marking up thoughts in italic excessively annoying for some reason.
It seems to me that many people who like to italicize thought make many of the thoughts in characters' heads occur as actual interiorly verbalized thoughts, which I was discussing above (with femmenerd, I think). Since thoughts don't often occur as full sentence or even conscious words, I find this annoying. And for the rare times such thoughts do occur, quotation marks, or even (my personal preference) no marks at all but rather a signifier, such as "he thought", seem sufficient.
But I must be one of the worst offenders in fandom when it comes to fancily marked up twittery within the text. The Telegram I used in Wild Demonic Fauna being probably my most excessive example. But there are others. I've had snippets of newspapers, a hand written card, book contents, extracts of letters... What can I say? I like writing the code.
I've bookmarked the fic, as it looks interesting, and I'm interested to see how you use this technique. As I've stated elsewhere on replies to this post (and I suppose, in the post itself), I generally have issues with excessive formatting and the like within the text, but I've definitely seen exceptions in printed format. And it was pointed out to me elsewhere that the internet allows for all kinds of visual and audio possibilities that published print does not provide, something I hadn't considered at all when I stated above that I preferred fic text to look like published fiction. Thanks for the link and your opinions--this topic is really fascinating to me.
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I find people marking up thoughts in italic excessively annoying for some reason.
It seems to me that many people who like to italicize thought make many of the thoughts in characters' heads occur as actual interiorly verbalized thoughts, which I was discussing above (with
But I must be one of the worst offenders in fandom when it comes to fancily marked up twittery within the text. The Telegram I used in Wild Demonic Fauna being probably my most excessive example. But there are others. I've had snippets of newspapers, a hand written card, book contents, extracts of letters... What can I say? I like writing the code.
I've bookmarked the fic, as it looks interesting, and I'm interested to see how you use this technique. As I've stated elsewhere on replies to this post (and I suppose, in the post itself), I generally have issues with excessive formatting and the like within the text, but I've definitely seen exceptions in printed format. And it was pointed out to me elsewhere that the internet allows for all kinds of visual and audio possibilities that published print does not provide, something I hadn't considered at all when I stated above that I preferred fic text to look like published fiction. Thanks for the link and your opinions--this topic is really fascinating to me.