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[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Objection your honor! what the prosecution just said was Dumb As Shit

[silverserpent]

Coding is fun because most of the time your thing doesn't work is because of things like "forgor a pair of parentheses" or "you need to put this thing three lines up"

[deliriouslyshipping]

We need to make an award for Alex or something

[ghl-osty]

fanfiction

i’d like to talk about fanfiction real quick because there are some issues really frequently that can make or break a story. and they’re avoidable!! and it makes me so sad when i’m trying to read a good fanfic and there’s so many errors that i have to stop.

NAMES

so this is one i see surprisingly often… please make sure you know how to spell a character’s name when writing a fanfiction. it’s usually something small like damian vs. damien or lucas vs. lukas but to me it’s so distracting and disappointing when there’s a beautifully written story with a character’s name spelled wrong.

SPELLING

this is a big one, too. when writing, some people don’t always have a spell check or an editor built in to their platform. if that’s you, please triple check your work! and here are a few frequent ones i see-

-shook vs. shock

i shook his hand

i was in shock that she did such a horrible thing

-peaked vs. piqued

-he looked like he peaked in high school

-they piqued my interest

blonde vs blond

-she had blonde hair

-he had blond hair

blonde is a gendered word. i’m not actually sure how it’s used with nonbinary people, let me know!

their, there, and they’re

-it was theirs

-she’s over there

-they were scared, and now they’re not

remember that they’re is a contraction of they are!

quite vs. quiet

she tried to be quiet, not making any noise.

they were quite bored with this whole event.

(thank you to @nathaaaan for the suggestion)

SERIES VS. SERIE

i watched a really good series yesterday

serie isn’t actually a word…

BILINGUAL CHARACTERS

please, please, please do some research if you write a character who speaks another language. even if it’s reading other fanfictions to figure out how your character’s language fits in with the language you’re writing with.

-having a character to say that it’s ’hard to switch back’ is… unrealistic at best. i wouldn’t recommend using it.

-please gender the words correctly! in most of the romance languages, words are gendered. make sure to add that in!

REPETITION

unless you’re going for a gimmick, i’d be careful with repetition. having a character say something more than once, especially in the same sentence, can be annoying and makes the dialogue sound forced.

especially the word antics…. i literally had to put a fic down because ‘antics’ was in every other sentence.

ex: “Lily sighed, annoyed. She was so annoyed!”

(yes this is a real actual example with the character name changed. don’t let this be you.)

FORMATTING

i think this can be overlooked a lot but format is important!!!

-paragraph breaks!! seeing a huge chunk of words with absolutely no breaks is overwhelming. add some space!

-“the punctuation goes inside the quotations.” he said

-i know i’m being a bit of a hypocrite, but capitalization! names, beginning of sentences, and places!! if you don’t capitalize, at least be consistent with it!

“This is how fanfiction, or really any writing, should be formatted.” Eli said with a smile

“And every new sentence should be a paragraph break,” interjected Alex, “Unless you’re going for a certain style. In which case, you do you.”

Eli sighed. “That’s true, Alex. What OP didn’t know was that tumblr has a formatting issue, so that when she posts this, the paragraph breaks won’t show! She hopes she fixed it. But it might not work!”

“We can always imagine the bullet points as paragraph breaks.”

-friendly neighborhood reminder that paragraph breaks happen when introducing a new idea as well!

-bolds and italics are important.

“I told him not to go,” acceptable, a bit dry.

“I told him not to go,” exquisite, flavorful.

and as always. please make sure they’re talking like people. not disney sitcom characters.

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE TENSE

you would not believe how much i see this messed up. and it’s easy to get wrong. remember, you can always look something up if you aren’t sure. but stay consistent with your tenses!

past tense

She walked up to the drab, grey building, trembling. As she pulled the door open, a bell rang, signaling her arrival.

this one’s probably the most used. notice that it’s almost like we’re retelling the story, after it’s already happened (hence past tense)

present tense

She walks up to the drab, grey building, trembling. She pulls the door open, and a bell rings to signal her arrival.

we have to change quite a few words for the same sentence to make sense in present tense.

future tense

She’ll walk up to the drab, grey building, trembling. She’ll pull the door open, and a bell will ring to signal her arrival.

i honestly don’t think i’ve ever seen future tense used in a novel unless it’s used in dialogue. but it’s almost as if you’re speaking hypothetically about an event.

but please make sure you’re consistent with these! don’t use one and then switch to another!!

now of COURSE writing is a form of creation, and you can ultimately do whatever you want! if you want to write something, write it. this is just a little guide for some of the mistakes i see most often!

but all in all just double check your writing, always!!! there are so many good works out there that could be great.,… if you don’t have someone to beta read you can always send it to me or put it in word <3

[infernal-ism]

Saint will outright look your muses in the eyes and ask the most invasive, perverted question he feels like knowing or just feels like saying in public. he thrives like a lil rose in chaos. this is why he ends up in so much shit. Saint has no filter and no shame, but like, enjoys making people uncomfortable, angry, upset with him, just outright awkward, or even, making them question.

Saint will thrive in tense situations, violent situations, back and forth spats, and dick measuring contests. why? because he's got no shame and an unshakable, easy confidence. there's nothing anyone could say or do to disturb his peace. even when someone is insulting him, it's not gonna upset him. nah, he's excited to squabble up.

the likelihood that your muse is more bothered than he is , is extremely high. when I read certain things about like wondering or commenting on Saint being upset, I'm like “nah, Bakuna might be, but Saint isn't.” only certain situations or instances where I purposely make him tense, or react high energy, are really when he's “bothered”

[dollopheadedmerlin]

*takes one last long sensual swig of my beverage before getting up to go empty my bladder*

[1-jar-of-stars]

no like i had to unfollow certain people because of how tone deaf they are to the situation. then some girl on my timeline said people are dorks for thinking to pimp a butterfly is a good record and that maad city only has four good songs…. 💀 i check this girls page and no surprise it’s little miss country girl BYE

the amount of people exposing what they actually think abt black people during this is crazy. especially a lot of swifties. a lot of them only see kendrick as human as an extension of taylor and it makes me sick to my stomach

[sol-rambles]

okay I'm just spitballing but, could Cassandra becoming the the Nightmare King again (before Ankarna) be apart of Augefort fucking with the timelines by going back through time. Like he could have fucked something up with maybe making it so Kristen didn't save her and the timelines made it so Cassandra and The Nightmare King kinda fused through and made it so Cassandra had to fight the corruption, then Ankarna coming back made it harder to fight and she fell to it more.

[wachtelspinat]

hi wachtel! i see youre a procreate user so,, which brushes do you use?

hey there! i usually use a basic pencile-like brush and one that's more ink-like, which is called "syrup" (that one has a nice dynamic regarding the thickness)

[questionable-idea]

I feel seen

[emeraldspiral]

You know, it just occurred to me that there are stories out there about children of divorce whose parents got married to someone else who has kids from a previous marriage, but you rarely ever see the previous spouses or have one of the kids from the new relationship meet or interact with their step-sibling's other bio parent. The bio parents from a previous marriage never seem to get even partial custody and the step-siblings are never split up so that one of them can spend time with their other parent. The only time you see kids who are technically step-siblings but live with different parents is when like, one parent is estranged or presumed dead and their bio kid doesn't know they got remarried or that they had a step-sibling until the parent dies or they track them down looking for closure or something.

I feel like I've never seen anything where you have two parents who both got remarried and had step-children and the kid they have in common has step-siblings with two different families.

Like, imagine your parents get divorced, your mom remarries and you have a new brother and then your step-dad's ex-wife gets married and her new husband has a kid. And imagine everyone lives in the same school district, so you go to school together, you know each other, maybe you're even friends, and when people ask you have to explain it like, "Kevin's my step-brother's step-brother" or "Kevin is my step brother's mom's stepson", or "Kevin is my step-dad's ex's stepson". And if you're the kid in the middle you have to say, "Kevin and Tony are both my step-brothers, but they're not brothers. Kevin is my stepdad's son and Tony is my stepmom's son".

[lanotteviene]

reread the comics and came to the conclusion that w.i.t.c.h felt so relatable because most girl groups are made of an autistic girl (thriving), another autistic girl (struggling), a bisexual clown, a mean lesbian, and one sane woman  

[goldenstorm0]

you know maybe void stranger isnt worth it

maybe when it resets you do to a stupid mistake, it's telling you that you are a dumb bitch who has fallen for the same trick multiple times

Maybe having it set to a nice calm purple is wrong, and it should be red to reflect the rage that I'm feeling

Like I get it, motherhood is difficult and weirdly addicting to some people, and your multiple attempts of this game is suppose to reflect Gray's multiple attempts at being a good mother, of which lmao she keeps failing and restarting. Because, like you, she is addicted to this game and wants to perfect it. But that's just impossible to do because this game actively wants you to fail, and will throw unfair shot at you constantly and unless you have the world's best awareness, cheats, or knowledge of what's to come, you will always fuck up and the perfect game is simply a miracle or act of god

Im going to punch a wall and try again, I got this, I got to i think floor ~70 ish, this game will not defeat me

[agendratum]

okaaaaaay only took me an hour and a half to get through 19 minutes of this episode, now it's time for an ad break and an attempt to go get groceries

[postsecretsalone]