[scramratz]

Sleep well Marjane Satrapi. You were a huge influence on me and my work in a way that cannot be understated. You will be missed but your work will carry on for generations to come

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Montana opening up some incredible possibilities here. imagine the chaos you could cause by filing a fraudulent marriage certificate for two random people who've never met

[verdancy-hime]

Yeah why not ruin someone's life and they don't even get to have sex first and they don't understand why no one will ever be nice to them again and everything is going wrong and they're becoming ugly and depressed and tired and miserable. Fuck you.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

'tis with a heavy heart I announce that my silly post has gotten popular enough it's finding the people who think I'm serious

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).

[bloodmech]

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

You want to study abroad? Show us proof that there is a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Oh, an average monthly salary in your country is $400 and you plan to work when you arrive? You can't do that, silly, a student visa only allows you to work 2 hours every third Wednesday, and if we find out that you're working a second more we will deport you.

You want to work abroad? Better be a programmer, then of course you are welcome. Doctor, scientist, white-collar or, god forbid, blue-collar worker? You can fuck right off, your visa application goes straght into trash.

But if you marry one of our first-world citizens, then fine, you can come. Because we can't upset them, after all, they are a real person, unlike you.

[xantissa]

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

You will have to prove that you can afford a guest, have some income and also usually take responsibility for possible deportation cost.

But if you really are inviting a friend over, they will give you a formal document you can send to your friend. Then the friend applies for a visa while attaching the Very Official document with it. They will get the Schengen visa and most probably will get it expedited too.

It's some effort, but if it's for a friend it's worth it. And it's way less costly than the ridiculous loops the friend is being forced to go through and pay for multiple 3rd party services just to get a freaking visa for a month.

[koobiie]

i feel strongly about this

[ailurinae]

[sanzoline]

I hate the auto generated ones. They are often inaccurate, go by too quickly, and not formatted well. Plus usually the people who do have proper subtitles include funny things in them. Shout out to Good Mythical Morning, Smosh, and especially Viva La Dirt League for the best subtitles I have encountered on YouTube

[mobius-m-mobius]

Blanc and his Watsons 🔎💕

[pealeii]

[whatagrump]

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

[thewritinggrindstone]

And!

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag”—she waves her hands back and forth—”the dashes go outside the quotation marks.”

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

Reblog to save a writer’s life.

[jaydove-writes]

Thank you

[localcanadiancryptid22]

Oh my god thank you. No wonder grammarly keeps complaining about my punctuation when I boot my writing up into word counter

[openhandsanyway]

Wait a fucking second… This is different in English than it is in German! I’ve not been doing it wrong my whole life (but I have been doing it wrong for as long as I’ve been writing in English lol). I did a sanity check with my copies of Lord of the Rings, and look:

Same line, but in English the comma is inside the quotation marks, in German it’s outside.

[golongbyjoannanewsom]

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[athanza]

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[mawofthemagnetar]

What do you mean “chat” is now referring to ChatGPT and not twitch chat? What? What? What the fuck? No?

When I address chat I am speaking to a presumed Greek chorus of real human people shitposting on their lunch break, not a machine that devours lakes to covert electricity into slop.

[artemisfowlcodex]

It’s funny reaching the end of the first Artemis Fowl book and the epilogue is like “Fowl was a massive pain in our collective arses for decades and Holly became our foremost expert in defeating his many evil schemes, and she never stopped hating him”.

And then like. Three years later. She’s at his house sipping tea and gossiping. Artemis has become an actual consultant to the LEP. Butler’s sharing military humour with Holly’s commanding officer and is serving eco-friendly snacks.

[artemisfowlcodex]

I’m sure we’re all aware of our struggles for book-accurate character depictions in the Fowldom. Well, I found one… in a completely different story.

The best screen depiction of Butler is actually a version of the most iconic butler of all… Alfred Pennyworth. Inexplicably, his appearance in the 2013 animated series Beware The Batman is nearly dead-on accurate to Butler himself, in terms of appearance, role, and demeanour.

Unlike most depictions of Alfred, this version is not a refined old man, but rather a large, well-built bodyguard who wears his military past on his sleeve. His appearance, with a bald head and distinct blue eyes complementing his bulk, is a spitting image of Butler, as is the fact that he is always packing a firearm under his suit jacket.

I would jot this resemblance down as being purely coincidental were it not for one thing: a few years before this show's production, the classic and quintessential version of Alfred was shown to be fond of Artemis Fowl, even shown specifically reading The Eternity Code.

I can only assume that ol' Butler is a sort of power fantasy for Alfred there, given that he's a manservant who had taken on the task of being a pseudo-father to a young orphaned boy with dark hair and piercing eyes, who then turned out to be a bit... difficult. So, taking this into account, there is a possibility that Beware The Batman's version of the character was deliberately based on Butler's character. And that's just plain neat.

[artemisfowlcodex]

Police officer: Hello, little lad, are you lost? Five year old Artemis: I am no child! Butler! ...Uppies please. Butler: Of course, Master Artemis. (Butler hoists little Artemis onto his shoulders) Artemis: (Glares down smugly at the now rather intimidated officer)

[gifharbor]

You seem to have all the answers, Doctor. Why don't you tell me? ARTEMIS FOWL (2020)

[artemisfowlcodex]

This is the only scene in the entire movie that is accurate to the book and it’s not even the right book.

[ionlymadethissoicouldleaveanask]

I feel a very distinct need for someone (not me) who has actual artistic talent to recreate this image but with Foaly catching Trouble and Holly.

[valhelos]

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

Shdjjdjfjfjff I love this …. And couldn’t scroll past without giving it a quick sketch too

[bertysbrotbox]

I finally tried drawing my two babies again

I'm never satisfied with how I make them look but I wanted to put them out there for the Fowldom to see!

[leigh-mccoy]

So growing up with the AF series i LOVED the Gnommish code, but it always took forever to write/draw it well. As i got older, i thought that the gnommish we see in the books makes sense for printing/technology, but wouldn't be very practical for hand writing. And while the fairies are pretty technologically advanced and would therefore type most things, i believe there'd not only be a point in their history where they would have written in a simplified gnommish, but there's also still practical uses for it even in a technologically centered era.

So, bored at work, here's my take on simplified Gnommish

I wrote out the original gnommish to the best of my ability, then workshopped the simplified below. Some of the letters look similar, but as far as i know that's common in many written languages.

Then, in my practice, i determined that double letters would overlap, because why not

The J can be a loopy squiggle or three neat hoops depending on the fairy's handwriting imo