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theres a knight in my backyard stabbing the ground with his sword trying to render my soil barren by killing the worms but luckily ive trained them all in classical ballet and they keep pirouetting away from the blade

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Sometimes when I’m chanting in church or drinking a beer with friends or lying around and staring at the ceiling I’m like hell yeah I’m doing a Human Activity. This moment of my life could be included in a slideshow of common human behaviors. I’m doing common behaviors for my species.

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Sometimes when I’m chanting in church or drinking a beer with friends or lying around and staring at the ceiling I’m like hell yeah I’m doing a Human Activity. This moment of my life could be included in a slideshow of common human behaviors. I’m doing common behaviors for my species.

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To counter those no-new-episode blues, have a silly little doodle-comic!

I think way to much about the best kept secret of the Lavish Chateau constantly escaping her minders.

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Emile Baes (Belgian, 1879 - 1953)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Baes

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so like. obviously it's an immensely tragic route to take but sometimes it's just so satisfying for a story to go "there's no happy ending this time. resistance is futile in this scenario. the 'good guys' can't win. this is a pointless last stand. so for their final act, our beloved characters are going to rock the antagonist's shit so fucking hard it makes you stare at a wall struggling to process what just happened and how you feel about it for hours afterwards."

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hello may i interest you in an Essek Thelyss in these trying times? 🤲

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“Scans show that the winds are blowing completely sideways at forces strong enough to force all vegetation to grow along the ground.”

The human shrugged and continued putting on their atmospheric suit.

“It’s cold enough that the water is entirely frozen, even when underground.”

“You’re not talking me out of this, so stop trying,” the human insisted.

“But, the debris alone will kill you! The wind will throw you around like your pet does the cloth toy! The frozen surface will make it so you cannot grip the surface!”

The human grabbed their helmet. “I appreciate you’re trying to keep me safe, but that planet might hold the greatest discovery humans have ever seen. I’m going.”

“You’ll never make it underground. The surface conditions-”

“Are no worse than Antarctica, and my great grandfather traversed that. Besides, I can’t expect you to understand.”

“It’s an underground ice cave. There’s nothing of importance!”

The human finished securing their suit. “There’s a patch of flowers by that underground lake, with a suspiciously human looking skeleton next to it. I’m going down there to figure out who’s there, why, and what happened. Now you can either help me or leave me alone.”

“Fine, but I want it known that if you die, I will NOT be retrieving your body.”

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What I imagine some snippets of Orym’s life in Zephrah

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Slack Wyrm #928.5 - www.joshuawright.net

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“Time is one of my specialties.”

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Concert interruptus

(via)

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Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

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Jonathan, looking out the window and once more watching Dracula scale the walls like a lizard: