anyway i'm actually writing the Thoughts On Mastodon post for real. already at 1k words and 6 footnotes and i'm not even out of the introduction. might be a bit until it's done.
some of the footnotes would work better as Asides so i'm genuinely considering writing an article theme that lets me use them that way.
100% agree with this, I love putting marginalia in shit I write and would love to provide some better way of formatting it on here
e.g. the electronic version of "host" by david foster wallace is an essential web text to me
nicky case's nutshell is also something I've been thinking a lot about recently
incoming: new cohost feature where you can mouse-over/tap text to make a little word bubble with more text inside appear. optionally shaped like eggbug
god you don't even know how great this would be for when my two sentence musings somehow turn into two paragraphs. no more run on sentences for annababidan only triple-nested expandables
the introduction of nested asides will inevitable be used in a game design like manner, where you have to explore an arms war of increasingly complex textual space to discover the 'true lore' of a post.
this could be a fun game if done with intention and solid design.
i would also like to posit the use of " main text [{ aside text [{ aside to aside [{and another nested aside}] }] original aside continues}] main text continues" as a format of quickly implementing a markup.
Inline footnotes or expanding text [which I spent ages attempting to work out how to create in pure CSS [for an earlier post] [only to in the end be foiled by the refusal of the details and summary tags to stay in-line]] would be perfect for my sort of writing style [where I would totally overuse parentheticals if given the chance].
