::contemplates action-marking formats in text some more::

(I find I've slowly been transitioning away from asterisks and toward brackets through a combination of so many chat mediums these days treating asterisks around anything as markup tags for bold or italics, and the influence of closed captioning using brackets around non-dialogue sound effects, thus often phrased as [horses running] or [dramatic music plays] in a way similar to the action-pose in chat rooms of yore.)