Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because theyāre used to writing essays rather than prose. I donāt wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesnāt offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (ādialogue tagā just refers to phrases like āhe said,ā āshe whispered,ā āthey askedā):
āFor most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and donāt capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,ā she said.
āBut what if youāre using a question mark rather than a period?ā they asked.
āWhen using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless itās a proper noun!ā she snapped.
āWhen breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,ā she said, āuse commas.ā
āThis is a single sentence,ā she said. āNow, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so thereās no comma after āshe said.āā
āThereās no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.ā She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.
I had a dream last night that involving a genus of spiders colloquially referred to as āNasty Spidersā (I think the genus name was tyrannoaranea or something like that). Basically they were spiders that were like 10 times more horrifying appearance wise than normal spiders and were extremely aggressive, often biting people for seemingly no reason. Their bites were rarely deadly, but did have some strange side effects/symptoms, like there was one species whose bite made your fingers swell up and turn different colors for a short amount of time.
The one that I encountered was a species that was normally native to Australia called the ādugdugā. They were as large as dogs and infamous for actively chasing people in order to bite them (often several times) for no reason other than their own apparent amusement. Being bitten by a dugdug infects the person with what I can only describe as a temporary form of lycanthropy, causing them to turn into a werebeast the night after being bitten (or multiple nights in a row if they were bitten multiple times, 1 bite being equivalent to one night shifted). The type of creature you become seems to vary depending on the person, and can even include fictional creatures/monsters as I was soon to learn.
I remember me and my family being chased by a whole hoard (pack?) of dugdugs, even though we donāt live in Australia and it was the middle of winter, when most normal spiders would be either dead or hibernating. I ended up being bitten TEN FUCKING TIMES while my younger brother (whoās 4 years younger than me) was only bitten once. He became a stereotypical werewolf for his one night while ended up as a were-version of (CRINGE INCOMING! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!) Fake Peppino from Pizza Tower for some fucking reason, which is how I found out the hard way that you could had the possibility of becoming a fictional creature from a dugdug bite.
Oh gosh.... Bro what if the temp were ness form was based on what character you were thinking about that time...like a certain mewgenics protag that has a spoiler attached to them ... Oh gosh I can only imagine.....
DO NOT PIRATE ANYTHING. NOT SHOWS/MOVIES. NOT GAMES OR SAFER GAMES. AND CERTAINLY NOT BOOKS. AND DO NOT DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE VIDEOS. AND NEVER EVER EVER WATCH MUSICALS WITHOUT GOING TO THEM AND DONT USE ADBLOCKERS/OTHER ADBLOCKER TO AVOID ADS AND VIRUSES PIRATING IS VERY HARMFUL TO THE CORPORATIONS WHO WORKS VERY HARD TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE AND THEIR MONEY. ANYONE WHO PIRATES IS BAD. BAD PIRATING. EVIL. OH AND THIS
the new content filters and the flagging system require every reblogger to appeal independently from the poster.
What is happening?
With the latest tumblr content filter updates, every reblog is flagged independently from the original post without the OP knowing. This means that if your post is reblogged by someone and that reblog is flagged, you won't know. The note count will go up, but the note is hidden: you can't see it on the rebloggers blog or any other reblogs branching from the flagged post.
What should I do?
Every reblogger needs to appeal for their own reblogs. Thankfully the review time on Tumblr's side has been fast, usually in a couple of hours they restore the post. If you can notify the OP, grand. If you have time, leave a support ticket, choose feedback and tell them why you think this is a bad model.
Why and how should I do it?
We all know the latest and contested change about the note counts that was thankfully rolled back, but its ramifications are still in use. Tumblr now considers every reblog a post in its own right, as you can see from the new banners for the same post as above:
The turn this website has taken regarding the ownership of posts is at best discouraging and at worst a massive disrespect done to all the artists, creators, gifmakers, fic writers and meta writers out there, making fandom fun and alive. If artists, writers and gifmakers don't get autonomy over their own art being shared on this website, how is a reblog different from a repost, something tumblr actively discourages from doing? How can the OP appeal for a post if they don't even know it's flagged? Why are we taking away ownership of the art from the artist, the human behind it?
How do I appeal?
Tumblr has this very useful feature, both on the website and on the mobile app:
You can find all the flagged posts on your blog either by going to the relevant blog>right hand menu, below Posts, Followers, Activity>Review flagged posts on the website OR by going to Settings>Review flagged posts on the mobile
Then you click on Appeal, and write a very short reason why, describing the post. You can even write this:
This post has nothing that is against the User Guidelines.
Hey @gamegem92 I've noticed that you followed me a bit ago and I wanted to thank you by posting a fan art of your take on werewolf peppino. (I hope you like it like I did!)
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