Em dashes and emojis
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You can pry my em dashes — which I use regularly in writing because I love them— from my cold dead hands (To be fair, I really like parenthetical statements too, could be an ADHD thing).
Parenthetical statements are so very useful (as they can denote a hierarchy of thoughts (and do many other things))! I love them.
You're providing a thought (and a bonus thought)
Yesss em dashes are my babies! They're have more versatility in breaking up sentences than commas IMO, and they don't have as many annoying rules as semi-colons.
But I also write stories as a hobby so thats the reason its something I care about
I'm with you. I used to use a lot more parentheses, but the break is cleaner. I opt for en dashes, though, because I find too em dashes to be too long. That could just be a MSWord preference because I don't distinguish on other platforms.