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Catgirl Isekai Gone Wrong

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Bleh, Zalgo text. A blight on the internet. Hate it, so much.

HiddenMaster said:
Desperation and exhaustion.
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I'm guessing the local deities are not the sort that gains power from their worshipers so they don't need said worshipers. I'm guessing that Golden Pawprints is one of, if not the only, surviving members of the local pantheon and when Gewn reached out to "anyone who could hear" they were either compelled to respond or just couldn't bring themself to not help when they could. But now, having acted, Gwen keeps asking for help and so they keep responding but if more people knew then more people would ask for help and that just gets so tiresome. Best no one else knows, for now at least. Just have to wait and see how that all pans out.

Thanks for the chapter!
 
vladspellbinder said:
Bleh, Zalgo text. A blight on the internet. Hate it, so much.


I'm guessing the local deities are not the sort that gains power from their worshipers so they don't need said worshipers. I'm guessing that Golden Pawprints is one of, if not the only, surviving members of the local pantheon and when Gewn reached out to "anyone who could hear" they were either compelled to respond or just couldn't bring themself to not help when they could. But now, having acted, Gwen keeps asking for help and so they keep responding but if more people knew then more people would ask for help and that just gets so tiresome. Best no one else knows, for now at least. Just have to wait and see how that all pans out.

Thanks for the chapter!
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Yeah, my apologies on the Zalgo test. Wanted to experiment with it, went with the minimized version. But even there I'm getting some negative reactions to it, and it doesn't add much to the text. I don't think I'll be using it again going forward.
 
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HiddenMaster said:
Yeah, my apologies on the Zalgo test. Wanted to experiment with it, went with the minimized version. But even there I'm getting some negative reactions to it, and it doesn't add much to the text. I don't think I'll be using it again going forward.
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The problem is that it is hard to read and, unless used like you did where it is in it's own line away from all other text, makes the text around it hard to read as well. It is also rather over used for "anything eldritch or unusual" so if you read a lot of fics in that vein you see it often and it just gets so, so tiresome. In my opinion it adds nothing to a story in and of itself and is visual shorthand for "something is odd". And that doesn't even come across if someone is using a text reader to 'listen' to the story instead of reading it themselves and the text reader might not even pick it up.
And and there isn't ANY way of removing Zalgo text from a story because of how it is added. You can copy-paste it in to a 'translator' that removes the distortion but there isn't a script or plug-in or any such thing you can add to your browser to just not see it.

The two things I hate seeing in stories is Zalgo text and invisitext because they add complication in actually reading the story for so little gain.

So, thank you for deciding to not use it going forward.
 
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