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i talk with my girlfriend about some of my twilight princess fanfic plans and i have to be like “yeah i need to be careful not to think too hard about breath of the wild when i’m doing this because the two are really not aesthetically compatible at all”

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only having played breath of the wild is fine, good even

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i don't think i’ve ever read a breath of the wild fanfic where the author’s knowledge of the other games added meaningfully to the story

nintendo add pokémon HOME compatibility to BDSP you cowards

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i don't actually enjoy zeldalikes so i don't think i am going to play the cute furry zeldalike

an outstanding question is whether i want to duplicate the star for single‐word emphasis like ✧this, or only for ✧multi‐word emphasis✧ (which is the convention i follow with † dagger as a proper name mark, and which i think makes more sense for nonpaired bracketing punctuation)

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plus it’s impossible to use on any social media site

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for a bit i considered using # but # has a slightly different meaning i think

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i considered dotted cross ⁜, which i have used in the past, but font support is bad and it’s a pretty busy glyph

i considered ❇️ but it renders as an emoji these days, and can be quite busy when it doesn’t (as is ❈)

✧ is simple and conveys the sparkle without taking up too much space, and it’s easy to handwrite

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why not just use asterisks you may ask

well raised asterisks are used for footnotes and low asterisks are too small

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one of the questions of this keyboard design is what character i wanted to adopt for plain text emphasis and i decided on ✧

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today i learned that the following unicode symbols are classified as rating symbols:

U+1F5E1 🗡 DAGGER KNIFE
(rated for violence)

U+1F5E2 🗢 LIPS
(rated for sex; compare 💋)

U+1F5E3 🗣 SPEAKING HEAD IN SILHOUETTE
(rated for strong language)

i would ask you to please compare these characters in ⓐ Menlo, and ⓑ any sensible font

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