thank gif!

Graphics Interchange Format. GIF for short.

Note: click on ALL the images in this post to see how they react to your click.

I haven’t discovered them recently. I’ve just discovered my manic love for them very recently. I think they’re really much underused. I mean come on! This is the glorious digital age. An age for ebooks and Kindle and YouTube and everyone’s fifteen minutes of fame.

An age where every format is overlapping the other and evolving into something new.

And if Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Bad Kitty can have cartoons doodled all over their pages and still be classified as 'literature' and of a good kind too - surely ebooks MUST use GIFs to express an author's true state of mind...?

Just think! One wouldn’t have to explain expressions that probably take up an entire paragraph and still don’t even come as close to if you actually saw someone do it. 

I may want to write this:

But only be able to word this:

Or, on a second try, this:

And as the circumstances may warrant, sometimes in the heat of the moment, the readers may read this:

When what I really meant was this:

I’ve seriously decided on inserting GIFs for every comment in writing that displeases me. My personal favorite for the task:

Which if I wrote down, many would read as:

Well, more power to me and to writers in general. I just might take out a GIF loaded novel in the near future...