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Mass Effect Legendary Edition: ME3 (dev. Bioware) ↳ Expanded Galaxy Mod [x]

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Boy the scam bots are out in force right now. This is probably the fourth time today I've gotten super excited thinking someone wants to talk about Sam only to be crushingly disappointed by the exact same form message asking for money.

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Run-On vs. Long Sentences

We love our long sentences on tumblr, right?

Long sentences, short sentences: any length sentence is a tool in your writer's toolbox. Don't let someone tell you that one is bad and another is good. They all have their place, and all can be used for good (and for evil). It all depends on the job a sentence needs to do.

But I have seen people conflating long sentences with run-on sentences, and those are distinctly different things.

A long sentence is just a sentence that is long. It can be full of commas, conjunctions, em dashes, semi-colons, etc. etc.

A run-on sentence is very specifically two independent clauses (or two complete sentences) that are incorrectly joined together. For example:

A long sentence is just a sentence that is long it can be full of commas, conjunctions, em dashes, semi-colons, etc. etc.

The missing period between "long" and "it" to separate it into two, complete sentences is what makes it a run-on. A comma is not sufficient to join two independent clauses; it just creates a comma splice:

A comma is not sufficient to join two independent clauses, it just creates a comma splice.

These can sometimes be a little harder to spot because there is punctuation there that gives you a place to pause and catch your breath so the sentence doesn't run off without you. But because the clauses on either side of that comma are independent (a complete sentence), you need to diversify your punctuation on beyond the mere comma. Your best pal the semicolon is over there waving its arms begging to get put in the game (though you have other options, too). Conjunctions are another tool for joining two independent clauses together in holy matrimony or whatever.

Why should you avoid run-on sentences?

They get confusing it's easy to lose your reader when your sentences run together you can write long sentences without roadblocks that frustrate your reader in fact, the example I saw that prompted this post was someone claiming to have written a run-on sentence when in fact what they had crafted was a well-punctuated long sentence that wasn't confusing because it understood where to pause and let the reader catch up.

Did that hurt your brain a little? How about this?

They get confusing. It's easy to lose your reader when your sentences run together. You can write long sentences without roadblocks that frustrate your reader. In fact, the example I saw that prompted this post was someone claiming to have written a run-on sentence when in fact what they had crafted was a well-punctuated long sentence that wasn't confusing - because it understood where to pause and let the reader catch up.

Why - or when - should you use a run-on sentence anyway?

When it's the right tool for the job. But part of knowing when it's the right tool is understanding when it's the wrong one.

Long sentences aren't a sin unless you make them sinful. Go forth and be a master of long sentences if that is what makes your heart happy. But I hope you will do so with the understanding that run-on sentences are a very different thing, and knowing the difference can save a writer and a reader.

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The Weave

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nothing but respect for our troops (smut writers) but listen. i dont want to be the person to tell you this, but not every character is going to be a dom or a sub. some people. and i know this is hard to hear. but some people do have vanilla sex. and some of those people might even be The Character.

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Shout out to "i wanna socialize with my Internet friends but I don't have anything to talk about", gotta be one of my least favorite predicaments

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only thing that comes to mind today.

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OC-Vibe Game

Rules: Post pic of your OC. Add a variation of pics/a collage/anything that transports the OCs vibe. A selection of songs that add to the vibe may be posted along the visuals.

Got tagged by the wonderful @blightedbutdelighted ❤️ Tagging everyone who wants to share their OCs and their vibes!

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Aria is such a babe

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let's scale the mountain with mama

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People who hate Frodo Baggins are my enemy. "He didn't do anything and was useless"--yeah, okay, so what you're not understanding is that he was the sacrificial lamb. He endured physical, mental, and emotional torment that got worse and worse as his will broke. Everyone knew this. EVERYONE KNEW THIS. That's why everyone was devastated about it. Because Frodo was the most innocent among them, that was the entire point. He represented ordinary peaceful people being destroyed by the horrors of war. And as a hobbit he also represented some of the last vestiges of magic in what was basically a post magic apocalypse.

Frodo was basically an innocent puppy thrown into the Torment Nexus so that EVERYONE ELSE could maybe have a hope of surviving. And he did that willingly. HE DID IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, KNOWING IT WOULD RUIN HIM.

Frodo haters won't see the light of heaven

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Do any of my Mass Effect peeps have headcanons about what alien languages actually sound like? Without translators?

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reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

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There are men who struggle against destiny, and yet achieve only an early grave. There are men who flee destiny, only to have it swallow them whole. And there are men who embrace destiny, and do not show their fear. These are the ones that change the world. ↳ DRAGON AGE II  /  GARRETT HAWKE