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please forgive me for how sloppy this is even tho this is the hardest ive locked in for a drawing in a while and forgive me for no background or fancy stuff i just ARGHHHHHH

peak ship

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where the FUCK did all the froyo places go...

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There's lots of problems with USA public education but also a lot of you were just drawing Naruto characters kissing while your history teacher tried to tell you about the Scramble for Africa

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Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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i would love if someone could explain how my dog who i adopted in the deep south who has never seen negative temperatures a day in her fucking life would explain to me why the fUCK she insists on being outside in negative nine degrees weather?? girl you're a pit bull not a husky get it together

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wine drunkkk. lords and ladies I don’t think it counts against my vow of chastity if I fuck my squire like it’s not even a big deal

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say his name three times!

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new reader here, will you ever return to your old ao3 stories?

Omg hi!!

First of all, I do plan to return to writing... I have a host of unfinished drafts I want to finish and publish before I die.

As for any specific story... some of them, I either would want to revisit (Like some I wrote more than a DECADE ago dude, so I have changed and some things i would change 10000%).

You're so sweet to ask and honestly, recently my social media algorithm has been regarding... old fics that haven't updated in years. And i think that should be my not work/physical/professional goal. I still love writing and I still love fanfic - even finishing my twenties.

(apologies for the rambling i was caught off-guard but you're very sweet to ask this. if you ever want to come off anon i do not bite!!)

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Fanfiction in the late 2000s-early 2010s was wild bc you'd find a beautifully written story with the most compelling heart-wrenching plot you've ever seen and the author's note would be like:

Author with a username like ~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Ohayo gozaimasu! ↖(^▽^)↗, I'm sowwy it took me so long to update (๑•́_•̀๑)

tsundere twink from their fic : It was about damn time you idiot (눈‸눈)

~SasukesWaifuxD~ : Hey now! It's not my fault the plot bunnies kept wunning away fwom me (╥﹏╥)

tsundere twink: W-watever, it's not like I missed you or anything (💢,,>﹏<,,) b-baka!

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Before, he was stuck in the form of a small boy for a very long time and had no money to buy a new set of clothes. In Hetalia, that means a character has a difficult economic, political, social, etc. situation.

I'm so happy that we get to see Moldova grow up and it looks like he has a much better life now 🥹🫶🏻

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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

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