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[mayahart]

—Octavio Paz, Motion MERLIN ▸ The Sword in the Stone

[lunargrrrl]

THEY WEREN’T DUMMIES AND REALLY DID GO WITH MOMMY, HUH?

[little-lesbian-princess-renee]

[anasauruss]

cat falling off table

2022

acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 cm

[highlandvalley]

[rogers-carter]

BLACK WIDOW 2021 | dir. Cate Shortland

[saturnvs]

i hear the wind across the plain a sound so strong, that calls my name

[amvs]

[amvs]

same this shit rocks

[were--ralph]

this is genuinely one of my favorite videos

[evgar]

i hold death's hand in mine

1 year of agatha all along, i love these witches so much

[ncismelanie]

Agatha All Along poster inspired by Nosferatu key art 😉

[lucyllawless]

[romancegifs]

SAVING FACE (2004) dir. Alice Wu

[marveldaily]

Black Widow dir. Cate Shortland | 2021

[isuckatnicknamess]

YEAH IM NOT OKAY!

[tatsumiku1]

[ohmovie]

Y'all ain't gonna keep me from my husband.

GRACE & BO CHOW SINNERS│2025

[oamul]

[notatypicalprototype]

They all look so delicious!

[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

[nanenna]

“But if the dialogue is being interrupted-” She cut in front of the speaker to finish for them, “The dash goes inside the quote.”

“And sometimes a character goes on a long monologue, so long it may need to be broken up into smaller paragraphs for easier reading. In that case don’t put an end quote. “But do put a beginning quote at the beginning of the next paragraph.” She paused as if in thought, “Unless it’s broken up with action. Then simply carry as normal.”