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finally followed everyone back

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im moving blogs, dm me if you want my new blog! it’s a wip rn

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god i foudn a fucking goldmine for blinkies and shit and u can ask literally all of my friends ive been scrolling thru it for at least five hours im fu

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im gonna choose team chaos.. yeet

im frankly terrified of what’s gonna happen in the finalfest but also im so excited

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splatoon 2 finalfest.. im so excited

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Inspired @connorsquarter ‘s post

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[screams into the void]

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FUCK I FORGOT ABOUT MY FNAF FANGAME CONCEPT AGAIN

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im drowning in art projects why did i put this all off until now

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happy Thursday the 20th

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drawing hands are the bane of my existence

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promo me, hehee, if u. want lol… heehee. im gummy and i draw horror and wlw and horror wlw 

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the state i live in keeps getting so many thunderstorms indiana what the fuck

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tips for writing bilingual characters

there are different types of bilinguals

the All Around: speaks, reads, and writes both languages pretty well

the Conversational: one language is stronger than the other; can speak the other language a lot better than they read/write it (a lot of kids of immigrants are this type)

the High Schooler: understands what’s being said to them in the other language, can’t really speak it

don’t have your characters randomly drop words from their other language mid-sentence around people who don’t speak it lol

languages are a mindset thing. like personally if i’m around english-speakers, i’m speaking english and i don’t really switch to my other language (which is portuguese)

so like if you’re writing a bilingual character who speaks spanish and have them say something like “hey chad let’s go to the biblioteca” to an english speaker i’ll probably spend 5 minutes laughing and then close your story lmao

exception: the character is speaking in their weaker language and forgot a word (”where are the…? uh… llaves…. keys! keys, where are they?”)

otherwise really the only time your character should be randomly switching languages mid-sentence is if they’re talking to another bilingual

like i don’t speak spanish but i’ve legit never heard a spanish speaker say “ay dios mio” to gringos lmao

conversations between two bilingual people can take a few different forms:

Pick One: they pick one language and kinda stick with it for the whole conversation (a conversation i might have with my portuguese-speaking mom: ”you okay?” “yeah, i’m good. how’re you?” “i’m fine, but your dad-”)

Back-and-Forth: someone says something in one language, the other person replies in the other (”tudo bem?” “yeah, i’m good. how’re you?” “tou bem, mas o seu pai-”)

Combo: they speak a combo of the two languages, a popular example being spanglish, though basically every bilingual has their own combo language (”tudo bem?” “sim, tou bem. how’re you?” “i’m fine, mas o seu pai-”)

when in doubt: just ask a bilingual to look at your stuff and tell you if anything sounds weird