What are your favorite emojis?

This one: 💜

That’s because purple is my favourite colour. But there are some other emojis that I really love.

There’s this one: 🩶 the grey heart.

There are two reasons I love the grey heart. The first is because my cat Ellis is grey, so I often use this emoji when posting about them. The second is because it means I can post all the colours of the Asexual Flag in emoji heart form: 💜🤍🩶🖤. That’s the purple heart, followed by the white heart, followed by the grey heart, followed by the black heart.

I feel like here I need to take a second to inform you that for my dogs Bella and Immy I also use coloured hearts. For Bella I use the brown heart: 🤎, and for Immy I use the yellow heart: 💛. And now just because I have an excuse to, I’m going to include a picture of all three of my furbabies below.

So back to emojis. Obviously as an aminal lover I love the dog and cat emojis: 🐕 🐶🐈🐈‍⬛️😺. I particularly the black cat emoji and the panting dog emoji: 🐈‍⬛️🐶, as I think they are similar to Ellis and Bella. Then we can’t forget the paw print emoji: 🐾, which is just so cute.

Then I’ve got to say that I love the wheelchair emojis:👩‍🦼👩‍🦽🦼🦽👨‍🦽👨‍🦼. I love that there are different types of wheelchairs included in these emojis, and this one: 👩‍🦼, is similar to my wheelchair, which makes me even happier.

I also have a family member who cannot read or write, but who uses the colour of emojis as one of there ways to communicate. Which is really nice.

I think emojis are both a great tool for accessibility as well as just being a bit of fun. It’s nice they can tick both boxes.