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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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yapper in chief 📣

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1D OMEGAVERSE NONCON was what took out AO3

so, we all suffered through ao3’s recent downtime:

so i got curious, because i was bookmarking things when the site went down and wouldn’t it be funny if i was the one who broke it lmao (😔no it wasn’t me but i helped)

https://archiveofourown.org/bookmarks/2147483647 is this

absolutely iconic 10/10 no notes good job team 😂

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SHOUTOUT TO MY LOCAL CITY BUS LINE FOR ADDING AN ANTI TIKTOK/NO HEADPHONES ANNOUNCEMENT

"please be considerate to others, loud continuous or repeated noises can be a nuisance"

LETS FUCKING GO PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANER EARTH

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the jams are trans

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dead body magnets

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getting an ao3 comment is like getting a kiss from an angel

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Male writers writing female characters:

“Cassandra woke up to the rays of the sun streaming through the slats on her blinds, cascading over her naked chest. She stretched, her breasts lifting with her arms as she greeted the sun. She rolled out of bed and put on a shirt, her nipples prominently showing through the thin fabric. She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards.”

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i love lydia and allison so much

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You are SO correct! Mel is a goddess among men but she's not the HOTTEST. Those are definitely Sevika, Ambessa and Vi

Mel is the most beautiful woman ever animated and i will stand by this statement HOWEVER if u were to ask about hottest that is a very different question

Sevika is for sure hottest IMO but ambessa Vi and Cait are very close runners up all of them are very hot and could do physical violence on me

Im glad u see my vision 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Hottest Arcane Character, season 2: Preliminary Poll 2/4

This is the women's preliminary, main character edition. I defined "main character" according to the list on the season 2 Arcane Wiki. This poll will determine how the brackets are seeded. Find other preliminary polls here.

Propaganda is encouraged! Reblog for sample size!

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Don't know if it's obvious that ive got weird brainworms about Isaac Lahey bc he's similar to Stiles in that he has chemistry with all the other characters in the show and the possibility for rly unique relationships also his life was sad and fucked up which is always important for a boy

Obvs he's puppy pals with Boyd and Erica bc they were all turned together and had to fight lizard jackson (rave sequence??? Hello???)

And Derek is the guy who saved you from your evil dad which is the basis for something super healthy and not codependent at all when u live together in an abandoned train depot

THEN his long lost sister shows up and she's kinda hot and kinda mean but you guys really only have each other when things get really weird and scary

EXCEPT Derek kicks you out bc he's broody and emo so you go hang out with that weird nice kid you know from school who just immediately accepts you into his family??? Why is his mom so nice???

And his kinda-sorta-girlfriend is like... Also very pretty and scary and yeah she stabbed you that one time but everyone in your life has hurt you in some way so whatever

Also their other fucking annoying little shit best friend is there and he keeps making fun of you but also you keep making fun of him but you'd totally risk your lives for each other you guess

And finally! Another adult in your life! And it's your new kinda-sorta-girlfriend's(yeah... The same girl from earlier who stabbed you) scary dad who might have also tried to kill you before? But now he's kinda cool?

Also Peter and Lydia and the sheriff are there too??? Kira??

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teen wolf is fr show of all time. their commitment to using edm makes it work. introduce the most dog coded character and go this is a werewolf. scott genuinely thinking lycanthropy is a disease. the asshole jock character is that way because he's adopted and his best friend is a gay guy who btw everyone likes. scott being shocked allisons family are werewolf hunters versus jackson immediately going “it makes sense. argent in french is silver” jackson hating scott so bad because hes suddenly good at lacrosse that he genuinely tries to murder him. scott not caring that there might be a serial killer on the loose bc he just wants his inhaler back bc those things are like 50 dollars. scott also not caring that hes a werewolf bc hes got work and homework and lacrosse and a pretty girl to impress. and his genius sarcastic best friend has adhd. and all of this happened in the first season.

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a fictional man calling another fictional man baby like he‘s gonna shatter into a million agonizing pieces if he doesn’t is the height of romance actually