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You're given a gun. Who are you shooting?

i cannot legally answer this on this website

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saw this cute post and now I'm not going on reddit for the rest of the day. quit while you're ahead

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FOUND A STRANGE COMPUTER!😱EXPLORING AN ABANDONED OFFICE PART 1!🤯

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Paragraphs and When to Break Them

anonymous  asked:

I always have problems with paragraph breaks. Is there such thing as too many paragraph breaks? Also, I have a feeling only fanfictions or internet fics have paragraphs when a new character speaks. Do printed books also do that? Because I didn’t see that I think.

While there is some degree of personal style to paragraph construction, there are still very specific rules about when you should start a new paragraph.

You should start a new paragraph when…

1. A different person is speaking

So, what you’re seeing in fan-fiction is actually correct. Every time a different character speaks, it should begin a new paragraph. Even if they only say a single word or a few words, it will appear on the line alone. Here’s an example from The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater:

The conversation is between Maura and “the man,” with Persephone chiming in at the end. 

Paragraph 1 (Maura) “It’s when…” Paragraph 2 (the man) “Is it more…” Paragraph 3 (Maura) “Not if you…” Paragraph 4 (the man) “Fine…” Paragraph 5 (Maura) gestured for… (and later) “Persephone, would you…” Paragraph 6 (Persephone) “Oh dear…”

2. Someone else does something

You should also start a new paragraph when someone else starts to do something. Look at this example from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins:

Paragraph 1 - Gale tosses a berry toward Katniss. Paragraph 2 - Katniss catches the berry in her mouth and eats it. Paragraph 3 - Gale pulls out his knife as Katniss watches.

3. When a character first appears in a scene

When a character first appears in a scene, whether they arrive during the scene or were already there but haven’t been pointed out yet, you should start a new paragraph. Take a look at this scene from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer:

Paragraph 1 - Bella describes the inside of Edward’s house upon arrival. Paragraph 2 - Bella first notices Edward’s parents waiting to greet her.

4. The scene shifts when something new happens

Sometimes something occurs in a scene that changes the mood or the trajectory of a scene. It could be your character starting to feel sick at a party because they’re coming down with the flu. It could be flashing lights because the police just arrived to break up the party. Or maybe the music suddenly stops because the party host’s parents are standing in the front doorway looking aghast. Here’s an example from The Beholder by Anna Bright:

When the music quiets and the doors swing open, a new paragraph begins. Now, in this case a character also speaks. Personally, I might have started another new paragraph for that, but that’s a style choice, like I mentioned earlier.

5. When the “camera” moves

If you imagine everything happening in the novel as being “on screen,” any time something happens that would require “the camera” to pan over to something else or be moved to a new position, that’s a good time to start a new paragraph. 

6. The time or place changes

Any time you skip ahead in time (for example, “Later that day…” or “The following week…”) or the setting changes (such as, “Meanwhile, two doors down, Angie was being grounded…” or “When we got to gym class…”

7. The subject changes or a new idea is introduced

If your protagonist narrator is expounding upon the layout of their village, and then they begin to talk about their dystopian government, that should happen in a new paragraph. That way, you don’t get something like, “My friend Peeta waved as I passed the bakery and made my way toward the market. The Capitol had been ruling Panem for centuries, and it was not a forgiving government.” See how that’s confusing? She’s talking about bakeries and markets, then makes this non sequitur about the government.

If you need help remembering, go to Google Image Search and type in “paragraph rules.” You’ll typically find lots of colorful graphics that lay out these rules, so you can pick one you like, print it out, and keep it handy when you’re writing. :)

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oh my god.

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two souls

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I love this idea.

baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents' hoards

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All Prophecies of Agnes Nutter in Good Omens the book and Tv show

I made a list of prophecies. Hopefully it will be all of them. I could have made a mistake, I could have missed something. Here is what I have.

Sources: Good Omens 1990, edition 2014 (Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett), Good Omens Tv show 2019

1002: He is Not that Which He Says He Is.

 1111: An the Great Hound sharl coom, and the Two Powers sharl watch in Vane, for it Goeth where is its Master, Where they Wot Notte, and he sharl name it, True to Ittes Nature, and Hell sharl flee it.

Notes:

 I tell ye thif, and I charge ye with my wordes. Four shalle ryde, and Four shalle alfo ryde, and Three sharl ryde the Skye as twixt, and Wonne shal ryde in flames; and theyr shall be no stopping themme: not fish, nor rayne, nor rode, neither Deville nor Angel. And ye shalle be theyr alfo, Anathema.

 2315: Sum say It cometh in London Town, or New Yorke, butte they be Wronge, for the plase is Taddes Fild , Stong in hys powr, he cometh like a knight inne the fief, he divideth the worlde into 4 parteth, he bringeth the storme.

Notes:

 3001: Behinde the Eagle’s Neste a grate Ash hath fallen.

Anathema’s comment: „We always thought it was something to do with the Russian Revolution.”

 3017: I see Four Riding, bringing the Ende, and the Angells of Hell ride with them, And Three sharl rise. And Four and Four Together be Four, an the Dark Angel sharl Own Defeat, Yette the Manne sharl claim his Own.

Notes:

 3477: Lette the wheel of Fate turne, let harts enjoin, there are other fyres than mine; when the wynd blowethe the blossoms, reach oute one to anothere, for the calm cometh when Redde and Whyte and Blacke and Pale approache to Peas is Our Professioune.

Notes: 2315 is cross‑referenced to 3477

  3819: When Orient’s chariot inverted be , four wheles in the sky, a man with bruises be upon Youre Bedde, achinge his Hedde for willow fine, a manne who testeth with a pyn yette his hart be clene, yette seed of myne own undoing, take the means of flame from himme for to mayk ryght certain, together ye sharle be, untyl the Ende that is to come.

Notes:

 3988: Whene menne of crocus come from the Earth and green manne frome thee Sky, yette ken not why, and Pluto’s barres quitte the lightning castels, and sunken landes riseth, and Leviathan runneth free, and Brazil is vert, then Three cometh together and Four arise, upon iron horses ride; I tell you the ende draweth nigh.

Notes:

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New Agnes‘ Prophecies in GOOD OMENS Tv show

 2214: In December 1980 an Apple will arise no man can eat. Invest thy money in Master Jobble’s thinking machine and good fortune will tend thy days.

 2213: I tell ye thif, and I charge ye with my wordes. Four shalle ryde, and Four shalle also ryde, and Three sharl ryde the Skye as twixt, and Wonne shal ryde in flames; and theyr shall be ne stopping themme: not fish, nor rayne, nor rode, neither Devil or Angel. And ye shalle be theyr also, Anathema.

 3008: When that the angel readeth these words of mine, in his shoppe of other menne’s books, the the final days are certes upon up. Open thine eyes to understand. Open thine eyes and rede, I do say, foolish principalitee, for thy cocoa doth grow cold.

 3817: The Number of the Beast is in the Revelayting of Sainte John, call hym in Taddesfield. And ye will know hym by this sign, that when ye do call hym, the Lesser Beaste will walk upon his hind legs like unto a Dancing Bear.

And Azipharale’s conclusion

 4009: Where the Hogg’s back ends the young will také the world and Adam’s line will end in fire and darkness.

 4019: The Orient’s Chariont Inverted be a man with bruises up thy bed, aching his head for willow fine

 4020: Let the wheel of fate turne, let harts enjoy, there are othere fyres than mine; when the whirl wynd whirls, reach oute one to another.

 5001: When the skies are crimson seen, then ye both must stand between the world of life and the world of war, where the iron birds lands no more.

 5004: When alle is fayed and al lis done, ye must choofe your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre.

 Prophecy for the year 1972: Do not buy Betamax.

 Anathama, of mye bloodlyne: As the Great Storme rages, the line of my murderer will hold ye tight beneath the bedde. Once and once only he will take ye, and ye in turn will take ye long-preserv’d Virginitie from his ever-untouched Man Storr. Yet the fine thrust of his great cockalorum shall bring thee to an ecstasie thou hast never yet felt. He is aye mighty, through he looks lyke someone hath dragged hym backwards through a Great Hedge.

Source: https://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/185468516531/this-was-my-mock-up-for-the-art-department-of-the

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I know the popular theory is that Caine’s line about struggling to keep track of who’s real and who’s an NPC is foreshadowing that one of the cast is secretly an NPC

But consider the alternative

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See nothing happened! EVERYTHING IS FINE EVERYONES FINE I SWEAR

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damnit caine

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Reposting this bc i decided i wanted to color it

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Pomni and Gummigoo reunite in TADC!

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Pretty sure it had to be done already but I had a need to draw it xD

SPOILER under "read more"

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they only thing my mind could conjure up after the episode