: Re: What's the name of this type of "literary work"? Character1: dialogue Character2: action Character1: ... Character1: dialogue In the context of fanfiction, they're sometimes referred to as drabbles.

I would call it a chat log. Those samples are not literal chat logs but they are written in a style that imitates a chat log.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chat_log
The web form for posting in this style on Tumblr is at the address www.tumblr.com/new/chat so clearly chat logs are what Tumblr's developers had in mind.

People imitate the style of chat logs for convenience, humorous effect, or because that's just how conversations are commonly written in the part of the internet they like to hang out (or where they hung out ten years ago... aren't chat rooms a bit retro now?).

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