Subject: There is a shorthand in Discord.
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Posted on: 2022-06-29 03:47:32 UTC

You type a greater-than angle bracket ( > ) and a space, and whatever you enter on that line is a blockquote. It doesn't work here, but the angle bracket by itself is Ye Olde Internet signaling for a blockquote anyway.

> Who remembers that email replies
> used to be full of these? {= D

Anyway, I know about blockquotes in HTML because I use them for their intended purpose: to quote long passages from badfics in my missions. I started doing that with "Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern," because there's a lot of bold and italics in the source material, so I couldn't use either of those; it was easier to find a way to offset quotations that preserved the original formatting. I kept doing it a) for consistency, and b) because I feel it's important to represent the source material as faithfully as possible, so y'all know I'm not making it up when I show you stuff like the bizarre line wrapping and spacing in "Full Metal and the Hogwarts Mishap."

This has been Trivia No One Asked for With:

~Neshomeh

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