a professor just used the “:S” emoji in an email
me in 30 years as a tenured professor, in an email to my 8th phd supervisee: “hey how’d the conference go :3c”
*university president walks in on me wearing cat ears*
“ Σ:3 Oh noes!! Sowwy mistew pwesident!! I can stiww has tenure fow good pewfowmance?”
*I’m escorted out by campus security*
when i first wrote this post, the power flickered, a sense of cold dread flooded my apartment, and i had a vision of this reply hovering above me like macbeth hallucinating a dagger. but i continued anyway