Throwing down the gauntlet (smileyface deleted)

[afuna]

I am going to challenge myself to use no emoticons for one week (<3s excluded, because <3s are not emoticons, they are A WAY OF LIFE).


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I am imagining the next seven days without emoticons. My fingers itch already.

Comments

[niqaeli]

*giggles; taunts as well* (Are you swearing off star-encased actions, too? ^_^)

This actually kind of tempts me to try a gauntlet of my own, that being avoiding internetisms for a week. I think I might go crazy within a day but it'd be a fascinating exercise.

[afuna]

(Are you swearing off star-encased actions, too? ^_^)

Not all of them, I think. Just the ones that aren't complete words. And I will try to minimize those even then, but they are enough in the gray area that I shall insist on being able to use them, else I go insane.

(My next plan: to avoid using "hmmmm" and other such expressions in my comments)