if you are an author, please, i beg of you, just take like, a year off from italics, and only add them back in once you’re comfortable writing like that
@Lady But what if they're _so cute_?
@Lady David Griffith's Quantum Mechanics book has some of the most egregious use of italics I have ever seen
there are cases in english where italics ARE necessary or at least beneficial (case in point) but it is not in describing how CUTE somebody was