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Me encanta el silencio acogedor.

Me encanta la atención al detalle.

Me encantan las personas amables.

Me encantan las conversaciones profundas.

Me encanta el amor con presencia, verdad e intención.

Me encantan las personas que escuchan, sienten y lo demuestran.

— Seguen Øríah 🌹.

this may strike you as redundant but it allows for something really convenient.

when writing fiction, the convention is that both a character's internal monologue and flashback scenes are set in italics.

The whole class laughed. His joke wasn't that funny, she thought.

this works fine most of the time, but what happens if we want to emphasis a word inside text that's being italicized for other reasons? the convention is to un-italicize (romanize) it

His joke wasn't that funny, she thought.

i hate this. it doesn't feel emphatic, it feels jarring and out of place, like a single clear frame in shot with the blurry dream filter.

my initial response to this was to bold nested emphasis instead (wasn't that funny) and this is ok, though it feels a bit different.

but again. markdown has two different ways of writing emphasis, and many converters will let you nest it. importantly, html explicitly permits you to nest <em> elements, so *like _this_* becomes <em>like <em>this</em></em>

of course, the default browser stylesheet doesn't actually render this any differently from a single layer of emphasis, so this is random low level trivial, like how some people extend italics to their punctuation and some don't (which mainly manifests in whether pasting to ao3 adds spaces)

but what html permits, css can style. so a trick i use on my site and in my ao3 workskins is

em em { font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps; }

(i'll cheat and use unicode here to demonstrate, because while tumblr does allow custom stylesheets, it's only via the custom theme interface that none of you are looking at.)

but this ends up looking something like

His joke wasn't ᴛʜᴀᴛ funny

and i think that's a much nicer way to nest emphasis, much more cohesive and has that emphatic cadence to it that bolding the text doesn't properly imitate

Here's my level of dedication to House MD :')

(I know next to nothing about coding btw I'm just too consumed by my hyperfixations <3)

I made a small plugin for Obsidian that helps convert underscore-style Markdown formatting to HTML tags.

The plugin scans notes for patterns like _text_, *text*, or **text** and converts them into <i> and <b> HTML tags.

It can:

scan the current note or the entire vault

show a badge next to files that contain problematic formatting

generate a report with all affected notes

convert formatting directly from the file menu or report panel

Markus the markdown bird thing. a proposed mascot for the markdown markup language

Design and artwork licensed under CC-0