Girls Like Girls Like Boys Do.

Nothing new.

[lakevida]

gonna go ahead and decide that not liking pineapple pizza is homophobic. oh you hate having more fruit in your life? yeah i bet you do. tell me more about the fruits you don’t like. am i one of them

[inkskinned]

Actually life is beautiful because the sound I make while trying to breathe around hot food sounds like my dog trying to eat an apple. When I yawn my cat tries to put his face in my mouth like a little dentist man and when he yawns I put my finger in his obligate-carnivore trapzone and we both know he will not hurt me. When I do not fold my clothes, they do not hold it against me.

I am demonstrably sad, and lonely, and full of fear. But there are other people who will hold my hand, who will point out the hawk overhead, who will give you That Look in a public place. The other day at a coffee shop a child said "look! It's snowing!" so all of us strangers went to go look out the windows. It wasn't the first snow and it won't be the last but wasn't it lovely, like that?

How wonderful to live in a world where birds and frogs both say beep! How wonderful to have an ocean of beautiful sharks with their dinosaur teeth! How wonderful the moon and her changing face, how wonderful the bees and their dancing to communicate, how wonderful shrimp and their forbidden layers of vision! How wonderful, you, and what you will give the world! The way we love things enough to spend entire blogs devoted to them? How people will let me explain my Pokemon team to them? How we will both jump at the scare in the movie, how we laugh so loudly, how it feels to give someone your baking? How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting.

This is the process of getting better. With wonderful people and wonderful strangers and wonderful friends: I am getting better, slowly. Thank you, whoever you are. In some way, you've been wonderful, and left a wonderful place in the world to ripple out to me. In some small way - isn't it beautiful - I promise, you've been helping.

[adarkerbeamoflight]

"How wonderful to be alive. I am sorry for forgetting."

[symbrock]

i'm losing my shit at this the delivery is absolutely flawless

[yourdadsghoulfriend]

this has better acting than most movies

[crazy-pages]

The musical timing is amazing too

[whitepeopletwitter]

[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.”

[bronzetomatoes]

“Neato,” she said, impressed by the easy-to-follow formatting.

[enigmatic-mystery-777]

*reads in awed silence*

[toastbutteregg]

[studentlifeproblems]

[splerben]

Sometimes it’s nice to get the reminder that I’m not the only one and it’s okay to not be productive every day.

[tar-mairons]

tumblr is great because I know the plotline of at least fifteen different tv series without ever having seen an episode

[oodlenoodleroodle]

I dont know any plotlines i just know which characters are gay

[nikkigotthis-deactivated2012022]

[mcmxcviiikid]

Powerful statements like these, that juxtapose the condemnation of such a simple and pure thing as love with the honour and worship of violence and death, always hit me hard and stay with me for days

[aphony-cree]

This is the tombstone of Technical Sergeant Leonard Philip Matlovich, the first gay service member to intentionally out himself in order to fight the ban on gay people in the military. He hadn’t only served for Vietnam, he was a career Air Force member in good standing who would have liked to continue his career even though he knew coming out would most likely make that impossible. He’d also been an elder in the LDS church but was excommunicated

He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine

He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later

His name doesn’t appear on his tombstone because he wanted it to be a memorial for all gay veterans

[iamhannalashay]

[chrishemsworht]

May the Fourth be With You (Happy Star Wars Day!)

[splerben]

All these entertainers doing news shows from home during this pandemic are giving me a strong Laura Hollis vibe. I think it’s time we tag Carmilla YouTube episodes as news and watch as the world freaks out thinking Vampires are real, War of the Worlds style.

[adhighdefinition]

self care is so damn difficult when you… don’t… care… about your own self

[nerdishpursuits-deactivated2024]

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”

— (via goodreadss)

[soft-butch-cassidy]

reverse fake dating: very in love couple has to pretend theyre not actually together

[eroticlizardfiction]

This is just what it’s like to be gay

[camoolla]

baby yoda comes on screen:

me: now that’s a boy i can get into

[isnt]

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