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valtsv

touch starved not in a craving human contact way but in a daydreaming about napping under a dragon's wing way

valtsv

when i say i want to be held i'm talking about this

krocodile55

If I said "can't say I relate" I'd be lying. There's something comforting about imagining being cuddled up to a warm, smooth surface to me.

okmeat

Dungeons and Dragons but the only goal of the protagonists is to find a plate their bodies can digest and nobody told the DM

krocodile55

I'd love to use this idea, but sadly I'm a... Wait I could work with this actually.

fluffysheeps

River puppies 🐊

A backyard is just a house's butt

I'm having way too much fun with this

#rain world #slugcat #rain world modding #i like dragons

I learned a valuable life lesson at work today.

Sometimes, a big mess isn't actually a big mess. It just looks bigger because it's a mess.

#mess #krocodile55 #advice #possibly a dad joke

Tunnels are just horizontal bottomless pits.

One downside of having night light enabled on my phone is that my screen literally looks blue tinted right now.

rapidlydecayingcorpse

algebra is honestly funzies when you know what youre doing it’s like a puzzle that you feel smart for solving. however when you don’t know what you’re doing it becomes a challenge called who can turn into a feral dog and bite things fastest and brother i always win

krocodile55

Ye, algebra can be fun... Although I'd definitely fail at the feral dog part.

lowkeloki

jellybeanium124

there's a jewish story about a rich man who goes to his rabbi to ask him about building an orphanage, and the rabbi is like "yeah duh go for it!!" and then later the rich guy comes back and is like "actually I've decided not to... I was just doing it for my own image and not coz I cared about orphans" and the rabbi was like "bitch the orphans don't care why you're building the orphanage!!!" and sometimes I wish I could say that to lefties who haven't unpacked their christian upbringing. sometimes motives don't matter!! who give a fuck why a politician wants to do a good thing? bitch the orphans don't!!

stinkweed-imp

This bumps up directly against the deep-seated christian beliefs that a) actually yes the reasons do matter and if you do good deeds for sinful reasons it's just as bad as doing bad deeds, and b) charity should only be the domain of the church. eg it's all well and good for the church to run a soup kitchen, but if some wealthy pensioner who's bored after retirement does it instead? That's suspicious, he's trying to turn the needy away from god, or he's trying to inflate his own ego, or he could even be acting from the pure unalloyed goodness of his heart and love for his fellow human beings, but the devil is still working through him.

And keeping all this in mind I look at the current state of disk horse online and I'm like. huh. A lot of these folks grew up christian probably

krocodile55

Personally, I believe that motives matter just as much as the action, but should probably be considered separately unless the motive (or even the good deed itself) could have actual negative consequences down the line.

The best example I can think of is YouTube trying to roll out a system that requires you to input your ID if it thinks you are underage. While yes, protecting children is important, but it's also important to keep in mind that we're essentially giving our ID to a faceless corporation that would likely not think twice about selling it to some shady person for a quick buck.

homunculus-argument

Y'all know what? I actually actively hate the type of people who refuse to communicate what they want, need or prefer because they think that doing that shit is cute. I pride myself with being adaptible and flexible and down to being anywhere, doing anything and eating anything at least once, and it's 100% no hair off my ass to do exactly whatever it is that someone else especially prefers.

But if someone is like "no I'm ok with whatever u want uwu" and what that really means is "I am capable and willing of like 3 things and I don't want to tell you what they are, you have to guess", I can assure you I am so much closer to slapping you than either of us would like. You're not being accommodating, you're refusing to cooperate. If you actually honest to god think it's more reasonable of you to expect other people to read your mind, than using words to communicate what you'd actually want, I hope you have some sort of a sudden epiphany about how batshit that is.

Like I don't care how heroic you think you're being with going "I'm happy with anything uwu" and then making it a fucking guessing game puzzle mystery to figure out why you're sad (while you keep insisting that you're ok and fine and nobody has to care about you boo hoo and you actively fight every single step of the investigation), you are being a fucking nuisance.

"But using words to say things is haaaard QmQ" well unfortunately life is fucking hard. And you are actively choosing to make it harder for everyone else. If you think that acting like this is cute, I hope the next time you'd literally rather die than verbally set a boundary, someone takes you to a seafood restaurant because you didn't want to tell them you're lethally allergic to fish.

krocodile55

I feel almost called out but at the same time I feel like I'm a different case. For the most part, I genuinely don't know what I want or both/multiple of the options sound equally appealing.

beardedmrbean

krocodile55

Can't stop laughing about this.

theclonewriter-blog

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

onewordtest

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement.

joehywheelah

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

tenoko1

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

cj-amused

Things I didn’t know

prismatic-bell

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

jawnwats-deactivated20160713

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

notesoftruth

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

flootzavut

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

dechart

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

eddiestarchild

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

magpiefngrl

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

krocodile55

"Good to know!" he said as he slammed reblog, assuming that exclamation marks follow the same rules as question marks.