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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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will the owner of the goalpost out in the bailey please move it down the slippery slope towards the middle ground where a strawman is currently begging the question. we have a bandwagon waiting to help you, unless youre too much of an uneducated dipshit to handle any of that, in which case we can circle back to a true scotsman who will be able to appeal to our authority.
Alysanne "Black Aly" Blackwood HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.02
I like that Supergirl says it’s okay to kill someone’s abuser so long as you don’t let the thirteen year old do it and I like that Supergirl says vengeance will not solve things but neither will allowing a cycle of violence to continue
mentally taking a drag of my mental cigarette because I don’t smoke but life has been very smokable lately
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.
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.”
Reblog to save a writer’s life.
This will save my betas precious time !!
Gonna have to star using this!
THE DASHES GO OUTSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS?!?!?!?!?!
no they don’t????
personally i follow the same rule as commas: first dash inside, second outside
“I don’t know what that person is talking about—” they paused for dramatic effect— “and I think my way is more aesthetically pleasing.”
Non-standard, personal choices in punctuation are something you can invent for yourself, because nobody owns language. You can choose to put your em dashes inside the quotation marks for dialogue broken up with inserted action. You can choose to not use periods at the ends of sentences. You can do whatever you want. But doing so does absolutely break the rules of standard usage. Know the rules so you can break them deliberately rather than accidentally.
“An em dash is used for dialogue that gets cut off by a sharp, sudden break, like—”
“An ellipsis is used at the end of dialogue that falters and sort of trails away, you know, kind of like…”
“When someone’s speaking in starts and stops—speaking excitedly, even!—showing abrupt changes in thought, it gets broken up by em dashes.”
“A different… mood is evoked if… if… the writer uses ellipses for… hesitant speech that shows a speaker is confused or… insecure.”
“But the rule is”—she brandished the seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style—“that em dashes go outside the quotation marks.”
Is full good. Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller
you ever just click on a fanfic and read the first word and go “shut up” and exit
#yes#furthermore this is a skill#you need to cultivate this skill to survive fandom (dsudis)
The whole controversy of AO3 “needing” a dislike button can be summarised with this post btw
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I’m telling this story again b/c fuck it but anyways I was playing D&D and one of my friends went “brown bear brown bear what do you see” and on cue three of us turn to him and like, death metal screech “ALLLL”.
The dude goes completely pale faced. I saw true horror in his eyes.
He didn’t know the joke.
So apparently dude just had three of his best friends demonically screech at him for no goddamn reason.
I do not think I will ever cause that level of sheer terror and confusion ever again in my life.
i love being single except every few months when i want to be loved so bad that it eats me alive and makes me physically ill for two weeks but like the rest of the time im chill
Paarthurnax seeing you ignore the mainquest for the 100th hour
Holy shit guys I just duck duck went Moby Dick and THE LOGO TURNED INTO AN UNHOLY HYBRID BETWEEN A DUCK AND A WHITE WHALE????
I can't get over DuckDuckWent as a past tense of using duckduckgo as a verb. Like yes youre right BUT
i will never understand the insane takes against having games be more accessible
“does every game NEED to be accessible to disabled people? 🤨” yeah, actually
also the pissing and shitting over difficulty settings. just play the game on the normal difficulty dumbass it’s not for you
Same with stuff like screen shake, particle effects, flashing/lightning effects: “But the game would look terrible without them!”
Then Just.... Don’t turn them off then, dickface...
Meanwhile, *having the option to turn them off* would greatly increase the number of people able to play the game.
''what if you regret it'' then you will expirience regret - a normal and unavoidable part of the human expirience.
the more you twist yourself into a pretzel to avoid regret the harder it will hit when it eventually catches up to you.
Supergirl dir. Craig Gillespie | 2026
