The finer points of emoticons and English punctuation

[foxfirefey]

highlyeccentric has a crucial question for the internets:

As I'm sure you know, O Internets, there are strict rules of English punctuation. Some of them, such as those governing the relationship of punctuation marks in series, can be a matter for heated debate.

So I must ask you: in a well-constructed sentence, shall the smiley face be placed before, or after, the full stop? If one places a smiley face inside of a parenthetical statement at the end of a sentence, how does one deal with the resulting overdose of punctuation (your sentence will look like this :))?

Please deliver a rule at once, the ambiguity is causing me distress :(. (?)

Making the Yuletide completely paranoid

[azurelunatic]

dhobikikutti is being stalked by the Polar Bears of Paranoia:

• I misread tentacles for tendrils and now they’re stuck with five pages of Entwives PWP.
• They have passionate and articulate and completely friends-locked posts about how endnotes are vile and every fic should have footnotes at the end of each paragraph and I went and gave the 10 K fic endnotes.
• I wrote a three page sex scene where their favourite character licks nutella off of their other favourite character and my recipient has allergies to nuts. And chocolate.
• I made a meta-reference to fandom_wank and acafans and my recipient is an acafan. Who has featured on fandom_wank more than once.
• I just asked for more details because I’m paranoid like that and Elyn says the recipient says they meant “something like underwater Olympics” which in hindsight would make way more sense in mermaid!fic but now there is gratuitous watersports in the fic.

Context's list is longer.