#multiple punctuation

[anbaisai]

It's not even actually their birthday

(Based on a conversation I had with a friend + Jamil's 2024 birthday present to the player)

[teenytinycoffeebean]

I'm making stickers! :3c these are just mostly-done wips but I think I want to do maybe one more design

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

if. “visible disabilities take more seriously!!!!1!1!1!1!!!!😫😭” actually true!!!!! wouldn’t have to learn stuff like muscle biopsy EMG nerve conduction study exist from FUCKING INTERNET instead of DOZEN DOCTOR went to. FOR MUSCLE WEAKNESS

still screaming abt this!!!!!!!!!!!! losing my mind!!!!!!!!!!!!

if visible disabilities taken more seriously!!!! would have diagnosis already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! would have got tests and doctors would suggest tests!!!! would suggest maybe something NEUROMUSCULAR go on!!!! and TEST IT!!!!!!!!

LOSING MY MIND

[beauzos]

If I had a nickel for every time fans of a game that has a clearly India-coded fake nation in it insist the country is supposed to be China, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice

[coquelicoq]

In talking about Chaucer (p. 74), I said that, in general, puns and verbal connections of sound were unimportant and not to be sought out; and now, you will say, I have been using them to explain cruces in Shakespeare. Alas, you have touched on a sore point; this is one of the less reputable aspects of our national poet. A quibble is to Shakespeare [Johnson could not but confess] what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire. It has some malignant power over his mind.... A quibble was for him the fatal Cleopatra for whom he lost the world, and was content to lose it. Nor can I hold out against the Doctor, beyond saying that life ran very high in those days, and that he does not seem to have lost the world so completely after all. It shows lack of decision and will-power, a feminine pleasure in yielding to the mesmerism of language, in getting one's way, if at all, by deceit and flattery, for a poet to be so fearfully susceptible to puns. Many of us could wish the Bard had been more manly in his literary habits, and I am afraid the Sitwells are just as bad.

William Empson, 7 Types of Ambiguity, ch 2 pp 100-101

i'm sorry this is so fucking funny. that pathetic loser shakespeare who loved puns so much it cost him everything, except of course his status as the most famous, most read, most immortal english-language author of all time. but everything else, he lost and it's all because of how weak he was to resist a pun :/ pouring one out for my sad little girly man who could have had it all if only he was better at writing, the thing he is the most famous guy in the world for.

even empson, who disagrees with johnson that shakespeare "lost the world", is like, too bad our favorite poet is susceptible to the thing that made him famous :/ really tragic that the guy whose wordplay we've been talking about for 300 years likes wordplay :///

also i can't get over writing a book about the types of ambiguity and NOT INCLUDING PUNS?? sorry but puns are ambiguous! that's where their juice comes from! imagine liking ambiguity so much you write a book about it but never mention puns except to dunk on them. imagine being a POET and POETRY CRITIC who looks down on sound-based ambiguity! could not be me!!

[evansbby]

not me going through the steve rogers x reader tag and i find a post that’s like “pov you find a fic with amazing smut but it has daddy kink 👎” LMFAOOOO

i wonder if anyone’s read my fics and just immediately exited out as soon as they see the word “daddy” bc it’s in like EVERY SINGLE ONE of my fics 😂😂

[thepals]

:D

[littlestlilies]

I am a firm believer that any fanfic can be decent — good even — no matter how cringe or wish-fulfilling it is as long as there's good grammar, punctuation and structure.

[stormbreaker-290]

The tags are one of my favorite parts <3

Hsgsjsgs same- I don't know why but it's just so fun to leave nonsense tags XD

[writhe]

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[i-am-beckyu]

The annoying thing about life and being a writer is having ideas and motivation and to write, but life getting in the way saying: hahaha no

[kaywavy]

vriska has one of my favorite typing quirks because it’s the one you can use most stealthly

[matches-only-burn]

love the episode of that tv show geared towards children where an actual fifteen year old gets shot through the chest and dies on screen

[madstheteenagewitch]

i know a boy who embodies a hurricane

everything he touches is thrown into chaos,

and when he storms off he leaves a myriad of destruction behind.

he's the grey skies and the harsh winds that make trees whip around every which way

his voice cracks, his fists tighten, his shoulders tense; the calm before the storm.

(trust me when i say that the "calm" does not last long.)

his glare is static electricity; his voice is the clap of thunder

he could flood streets and cities and the way his lightning strikes puts zeus to shame.

hurricane season snuck up on me and god damnit, i thought i lived in a safe zone.

when the storm suddenly halts, everything is still - the silence is deafening

the angry clouds don't leave, they loom above me, blocking the sun

everything is in ruins; i'm surrounded by rubble.

is this the part where the construction workers come to repair everything?

i look around. it's just me and the wind, sending chills down my spine.

it's my problem now. i'm the fucking construction worker.

[beauzos]

I am defined by my incredible ability to never watch any movies or tv shows. I’m a YouTube bitch primarily. I’ll put on a 10 hour video before putting on a movie for some reason

[coquelicoq]

i've gotten so used to my daily practice of reading french aloud that now when i have to read something boring in english for work i default to reading it aloud. which takes way longer and also i feel like i retain even less information than i would otherwise, somehow. the upside is that my oral reading cadence in english, even of dense scientific articles, is rather excellent nowadays. i could read scientific articles out loud for a living, if that was a thing people needed me to do. which they do not, because screenreaders are a thing. maybe i could read crusty PDFs out loud for a living? but anyway all this is to say shoutout to my man alexandre dumas and also my other man victor hugo for training me to read run-on sentences in my second language. after that, dry journal articles in my first language are easy peasy.