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How to use Em Dash (—) and Semi Colon ( ; )

Since the ai accusations are still being thrown around, here's how i personally like to use these GASP ai telltales. 🦄✨

Em Dashes (—)

To emphasize a shift / action / thought.

They're accusing us—actually accusing us—of using AI.

To add drama.

They dismissed our skills as AI—didn't even think twice, the dimwits—and believed they were onto something.

To insert a sudden thought. Surely they wouldn't do that to us—would they?

To interrupt someone's speech. "Hey, please don't say that. I honed my craft through years of blood and tears—" "Shut up, prompter."

To interrupt someone's thoughts / insert a sudden event.

We're going to get those kudos. We're going to get those reblogs—

A chronically online Steve commented, “it sounds like ai, idk.”

Semi Colons ( ; )

To join two closely related independent sentences / connect ideas.

Not only ChatGPT is capable of correct punctuation; who do you think it learned from in the first place?

Ultimate pro tip: use them whenever the fuck you want. You don't owe anyone your creative process. 🌈

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Shuichi redraw

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Some context to remember: nothing's changed compared to canon except the minimal parts of Trial 4 development required to plausibly warrant such an outcome. There certainly was a room for that. Till next time!

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TCFSR deluxe is fucking me up. I can HEAR Bert screaming? Ray’s riff in the Jetset outro??? Mikey ACTUALLY played on this album and now we have proof you can hear him!!! I can kind of understand Keith Morris??? Thank You For The Venom somehow sounds even MORE petulant?? The guitar in Hang ‘Em High?? The backing vocals in Fashion Statement?? GHOST OF YOU????????????

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What did you think about v3 ending? Personally I like it but there is a clear division in the fandom about it, so I'm curious about your thoughts

hmm for me this is somewhat a tough question. when i first completed the game, i was admittedly slightly disappointed and felt unsatisfied. i felt like the twist at the end came out of nowhere and the whole “no one is real,” to me, felt like it invalidated the characters from the other two (three, technically) games. as someone who has a soft spot for the d2 cast, it hurt a bit knowing their struggle and fight for survival — esp the efforts hinata and the others went through to wake everyone up from the neo world program — were invalidated. it didn’t matter anymore. which, granted, these are fictional characters and technically none of their struggles were real to begin with, but i think the whole “yeah these characters don’t even exist canonically within their own game universe” was so weird and hard to wrap my head around.

however, i have since changed my mind. if i’m being so fr, coming to understand ousai/saiou has honestly helped me understand v3 as a whole a bit more. that, on top of also just sitting with my feelings for a couple of months now.

i genuinely don’t mind the v3 ending, for more reasons that one. it’s not a perfect masterpiece, but deserves kudos. firstly, it’s a nice commentary imo on the concept of violence being used as entertainment. here we are, players and audiences to a game about students — children, really — killing themselves. there’s this sick fascination we as society have had towards media like that, whether it be via books, tv/movies, or video games. we are confronted with how sick and twisted it really is when saihara and gang realize the truth. people are watching them. and it’s not us, granted, but fictional people within the dr universe, but the point still stands. we are watching people kill and be killed. and we enjoy it.

this is why i don’t think there will ever be another danganronpa game. i love those games dearly — they’re so ass and so peak at the same time. but the message for v3 was clear: we’re putting an end to danganronpa. which is both sad (no dr4 ☹️) but also it’s waving in your face “hey, hey, pay attention! violence shouldn’t be glorified like this!!!”

but back to what i was saying about saiou helping me determine my feelings on the ending. if you’ve read my saiou analysis, then you know i really enjoy the whole truths vs lies theme for v3. it not only serves as a fun dynamic between saihara and ouma (and also just saihara and the game in general) but also engages the audience to think about truths and lies. in chap. 6, saihara, harukawa, and yumeno all have a mental breakdown over the fact nothing of what they knew was real to begin with — not their memories, not their personalities, not their characters. but… you can’t really fake your emotions. sure, maybe maki was written to fall in love with kaito, but does that really invalidate her feelings? she felt something, didn’t she? she cared, didn’t she? yeah, it’s sick and twisted to think someone manipulated her to feel that way, but the fact she felt such a strong emotion nonetheless doesn’t make her emotions and feelings unreal. at least, i don’t think so. and the creators of v3 agree. their message, as far as i’ve deduced, is that no matter what’s real and what’s fake, you ultimately choose your own truth to live by. shuichi’s past was overwritten by his new personality that was horrified at learning what danganronpa truly was. but he took this, despite the pain and horror, and claimed it as his own. despite everything, he is still saihara shuichi. there are lies sprinkled in there, but there are also truths.

if everyone agrees that the sky is blue, that is a universal truth. the same logic can be applied to lies. so, if everyone universally agrees the sky is green, that is also a truth. except — the sky is not green. not unless we want it to be. we as a society mold and bend truths and lies to make our reality clearer to ourselves. to help us understand the world we live in. but how do we know for sure what is real and what isn’t? is the sky really blue, just because everyone says so? perhaps we have been lying to ourselves the entire time.

tldr: this is why i think i’m satisfied, in the end, with the v3 conclusion. it not only confronts the audience with the sick and twisted reality of violence being used as entertainment, but additionally leaves us to dwell on themes of lies and truths. of choosing our own reality to live by and choosing what kind of person we want to be. because in the end, who truly decides whats real and what’s fake? you may not have the power to change the public’s opinion on what color the sky is, but you can certainly decide who you want to be and build the most truthful, honest version of yourself.

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I started crying at my nephews elementary school production of the Lion King. It was 20 minutes long, you could barely hear the kids, I had to stand the whole time, it was in a cafeteria, the director fed the kids half their lines, and the whole cast was on the stage for the whole show.

And it was fucking beautiful.

I think there is something special about theatre. There is something special about storytelling. It brings me to tears. It’s the only thing I want to do. I want to tell stories. I want to write them and let people see them. People ask me if I have a backup plan - I’m going to school for a drama degree - and I don’t think there’s a single answer in this whole world that I could give them that’s true. I don’t care if it’s a community theatre, a high school gymnasium or a theatre on Broadway, I’m gonna be on stage until the day I keel over. I don’t care if I suck now, I’m gonna improve. And if I can’t, then I’ll sit in the booth, or stand in the wings, or write or direct or sew until my fingers bleed or paint until my arms fall off. I’ll pour my entire heart into it because when you really love something, you don’t do it for yourself, you do it to make it happen.

I guess things haven’t been going as exactly planned. I’m realizing I might not be as talented as I thought I was, but what better motivation to improve. And maybe my desperation is just the spark I need to finally get over the fear that’s been holding me back.

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more pages designed for my mini book/zine. trying to finish 15 more pages tonight lol. not in any order

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Stolen from reddit kjjjj

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I dye my hair blue and suddenly the only song I want to listen to is Little Dark Age. BOO! The masses cry. WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! They call. KINNIE! They jeer.

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Robert Sean Leonard as “George Gibbs” in Our Town (Aug 28 - Nov 30, 1991) at Shaftesbury Theatre in London, UK.

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"i don't comment on ao3 because i don't wanna be annoying or weird" skill issue + you greatly underestimate the power dynamic here, writing multi paragraph comments is like feeding a bunch of deeply insane and possibly starved ducks at the park and watch them go completely mad over having received a piece of bread

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Them but with gorillaz's cover 🕺

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Feel good inc is the craziest thing that can happen to a fourteen year old

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i hate when you google a word and some fucking company comes up instead. Do you think you are more important than the english dictionary you piece of shit corporation

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— natalie wee, never been kissed (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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spur of the moment zine. zine that caught me off guard. zine that told me what it would be about and zine that gave me instructions. zine that has individual page closeups after the "see more" button.

"Home on the Hill"

page2: my home is on the hill. Now, the hill I reside on is not Mt. Olympus. But it could be!

page3: my home on the hill sits there by itself. It's just me and my family.

page4: I do wonder if there are another set of homes on (other) hills. There is not a path down though. I love my family so I do not mind.

page5: things are quiet at times, loud at others. Lonelier. There is no path down this hill. My home is on this hill... but... Is this the hill I'll die on?

page6: I don't want to die on this hill, I came to realize. Paving pathways is proving difficult, I'm learning. That will have to be okay though.

page7: I left my path paved. I won't go back up, but my family can come down.

page8: I like my new home, down my path, and with my new community.