This was a timely thread! My current story has the similar challenge of one mute character who can only communicate telepathically with her twin sister.
I've been using italics but not every site supports them and it's not that clear. This thread and replies convinced me to use <these guys!>
I've been using italics but not every site supports them and it's not that clear. This thread and replies convinced me to use <these guys!>
January 27, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This was a timely thread! My current story has the similar challenge of one mute character who can only communicate telepathically with her twin sister.
I've been using italics but not every site supports them and it's not that clear. This thread and replies convinced me to use <these guys!>
I've been using italics but not every site supports them and it's not that clear. This thread and replies convinced me to use <these guys!>
Why don't italics ever go the other way?
January 27, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Why don't italics ever go the other way?
She's leaning so heavily on that "we" that she might singlehandedly make Italics finally happen on social media
January 27, 2026 at 10:12 AM
She's leaning so heavily on that "we" that she might singlehandedly make Italics finally happen on social media
From WIP 1.
They are a necessary staple in winter
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #lesfic 🌈✒️
They are a necessary staple in winter
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #lesfic 🌈✒️
January 27, 2026 at 9:11 AM
From WIP 1.
They are a necessary staple in winter
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #lesfic 🌈✒️
They are a necessary staple in winter
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #lesfic 🌈✒️
It's been almost a year since I wrote this, and it's now relevant for like the 6th time.
Fuck Do Nothing Democrats and their incessant Complicity.
www.danwoodswriter.com/essays/cowar...
#writesky #Schumer #resist
Fuck Do Nothing Democrats and their incessant Complicity.
www.danwoodswriter.com/essays/cowar...
#writesky #Schumer #resist
January 27, 2026 at 5:58 AM
It's been almost a year since I wrote this, and it's now relevant for like the 6th time.
Fuck Do Nothing Democrats and their incessant Complicity.
www.danwoodswriter.com/essays/cowar...
#writesky #Schumer #resist
Fuck Do Nothing Democrats and their incessant Complicity.
www.danwoodswriter.com/essays/cowar...
#writesky #Schumer #resist
the name of my upcoming novel
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 AM
the name of my upcoming novel
Blast from the past, from 2004.
#BrandDem #LibertyAndJusticeForAll
#AbolishICE and Release the #EpsteinFiles
#BrandDem #LibertyAndJusticeForAll
#AbolishICE and Release the #EpsteinFiles
January 27, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Blast from the past, from 2004.
#BrandDem #LibertyAndJusticeForAll
#AbolishICE and Release the #EpsteinFiles
#BrandDem #LibertyAndJusticeForAll
#AbolishICE and Release the #EpsteinFiles
as far as I remember 4chan doesn't have italics so it'd have to be another site
January 27, 2026 at 12:08 AM
as far as I remember 4chan doesn't have italics so it'd have to be another site
Are there unnecessary italics?
January 26, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Are there unnecessary italics?
and it always goes
"The following Post was removed:" followed by said Post in italics. I can't properly phrase how funny this is to me.
"The following Post was removed:" followed by said Post in italics. I can't properly phrase how funny this is to me.
January 26, 2026 at 10:06 PM
and it always goes
"The following Post was removed:" followed by said Post in italics. I can't properly phrase how funny this is to me.
"The following Post was removed:" followed by said Post in italics. I can't properly phrase how funny this is to me.
I keep hearing from friends in the real world that I should perhaps use my Bluesky (rhymes with Russkii?) account more. I can't quite figure it out yet though. I'll maybe try italics and a picture. (Zagreb, 2016)
January 26, 2026 at 9:57 PM
I keep hearing from friends in the real world that I should perhaps use my Bluesky (rhymes with Russkii?) account more. I can't quite figure it out yet though. I'll maybe try italics and a picture. (Zagreb, 2016)
bold, italics, underlined, bright red, font size 72
January 26, 2026 at 9:40 PM
bold, italics, underlined, bright red, font size 72
Italics are an important tool! So it's boldface. I use them both in Discord because it's easy to do. Elsewhere, I use quotes for titles even though it's incorrect because that's a tool that works here. I suppose that it's fallen away because it's an actual font change instead of a character code.
January 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Italics are an important tool! So it's boldface. I use them both in Discord because it's easy to do. Elsewhere, I use quotes for titles even though it's incorrect because that's a tool that works here. I suppose that it's fallen away because it's an actual font change instead of a character code.
Double spacing and italics too. I want it all gone. I can start from square one, or use Cmd - Z if I didn’t want that but please for the love of Christ or whomever you find holy don’t just keep doing the wrong thing over and over again while I have no idea why you think that’s what I want you to do.
January 26, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Double spacing and italics too. I want it all gone. I can start from square one, or use Cmd - Z if I didn’t want that but please for the love of Christ or whomever you find holy don’t just keep doing the wrong thing over and over again while I have no idea why you think that’s what I want you to do.
are ppl collectively over italics? I‘d really love to use italics here.
January 26, 2026 at 5:05 PM
are ppl collectively over italics? I‘d really love to use italics here.
That would be nice, too. 😗
I also think it's be nice to have a rich text editor, bc sometimes you just *need* italics. 😤😤
I also think it's be nice to have a rich text editor, bc sometimes you just *need* italics. 😤😤
January 26, 2026 at 2:39 PM
That would be nice, too. 😗
I also think it's be nice to have a rich text editor, bc sometimes you just *need* italics. 😤😤
I also think it's be nice to have a rich text editor, bc sometimes you just *need* italics. 😤😤
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January 26, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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like an ant that can lift many times it own weight
the tiny particle "ja" does a lot of work in this slightly inelegant DE sentence
dictionary might give "indeed" or "certainly"
but, esp. with the italics, it might be better as
"indeed what might be called..."
2 characters replaced by 27
the tiny particle "ja" does a lot of work in this slightly inelegant DE sentence
dictionary might give "indeed" or "certainly"
but, esp. with the italics, it might be better as
"indeed what might be called..."
2 characters replaced by 27
January 26, 2026 at 11:07 AM
like an ant that can lift many times it own weight
the tiny particle "ja" does a lot of work in this slightly inelegant DE sentence
dictionary might give "indeed" or "certainly"
but, esp. with the italics, it might be better as
"indeed what might be called..."
2 characters replaced by 27
the tiny particle "ja" does a lot of work in this slightly inelegant DE sentence
dictionary might give "indeed" or "certainly"
but, esp. with the italics, it might be better as
"indeed what might be called..."
2 characters replaced by 27
okay so! do ctrl+h for find and replace.
Click in the find box, go to More > Format > Font, select Italics under font style.
In the replace box, type <i>^&</i> and it will html all your italics for you.
Click in the find box, go to More > Format > Font, select Italics under font style.
In the replace box, type <i>^&</i> and it will html all your italics for you.
January 26, 2026 at 10:38 AM
okay so! do ctrl+h for find and replace.
Click in the find box, go to More > Format > Font, select Italics under font style.
In the replace box, type <i>^&</i> and it will html all your italics for you.
Click in the find box, go to More > Format > Font, select Italics under font style.
In the replace box, type <i>^&</i> and it will html all your italics for you.
How about this?
This is from my interview with Ward Churchill back in 2002. Not quite your point, but still eye-opening.
This is from my interview with Ward Churchill back in 2002. Not quite your point, but still eye-opening.
![way. I mean, my god, Iraq's a country of 18 million people, which
gives you, what, three million people below the age of eight or ten,
something like that. 565,000 of them as of 1995 had died
needlessly as a result of the sanctions. And the ones who were still
alive were suffering acute malnutrition and various ... yeah, you're
destroying an entire generation."
[Italics:] On the role of the media: [End italics.]
"There are arguments to be made about the media, but ultimately
the media is not responsible for what it is that goes on. [Highlight:] The media
functions so efficiently in some respects because they're telling the
preponderance of the population exactly what they want to hear:
that they're superior, they're noble, they're good, they're innocent,
they're all these things which are self-evidently false." [End highlight.]
"And telling them different, explaining to them it's different, the way
Noam [Chomsky] has done so well his entire life, has no effect at
all on them. Actually, he's not telling them anything to the contrary.
He's excusing them for it, with the argument on the media, and](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4od47dvjgrd72dzdj5nahlzh/bafkreihl5zwoydzmdmyganc45r5vdtjyaptzeexxofk45vldu453rb2edi@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 7:04 AM
How about this?
This is from my interview with Ward Churchill back in 2002. Not quite your point, but still eye-opening.
This is from my interview with Ward Churchill back in 2002. Not quite your point, but still eye-opening.
I used modified BSL for merfolk communicating with humans, with a combination of italics for direct speech and description to keep reminding the reader what is happening visually (Fish! NewCon Press). Current WIP uses quotation marks - "...," she signed etc
January 26, 2026 at 6:19 AM
I used modified BSL for merfolk communicating with humans, with a combination of italics for direct speech and description to keep reminding the reader what is happening visually (Fish! NewCon Press). Current WIP uses quotation marks - "...," she signed etc
Since my book has a lot of forms of telepathic communication, which uses italics, I'm reluctant to rely on italics alone, since all three forms of communication are different.
January 26, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Since my book has a lot of forms of telepathic communication, which uses italics, I'm reluctant to rely on italics alone, since all three forms of communication are different.
For me it depends. I have written in italics in spoken grammar. But other times I will write it as it is signed, missing words and dropped articles and all.
I find that most hearing authors who write deaf characters don't often grasp the complexity and the way sign is actually works in conversation
I find that most hearing authors who write deaf characters don't often grasp the complexity and the way sign is actually works in conversation
January 26, 2026 at 5:01 AM
For me it depends. I have written in italics in spoken grammar. But other times I will write it as it is signed, missing words and dropped articles and all.
I find that most hearing authors who write deaf characters don't often grasp the complexity and the way sign is actually works in conversation
I find that most hearing authors who write deaf characters don't often grasp the complexity and the way sign is actually works in conversation