#reference resources

[teenslib]

Sorry to share a downer on a Saturday morning, but once again the Trump administration is pursuing its unstated goal of ruling an ignorant and illiterate populace.

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by C

[daughterofthemuse]

PJO Fic Writing Advice

This is not meant to be criticism, just some advice you can take with you on your fic-writing journey. I love seeing everything people write, and I hope this helps, but feel free to ignore me as well.

Common Spelling Mistakes

Conner, it's Connor

Selina, Selena, Salina, it's Silena

weary is tired, wary is cautious

diAngelo, Di Angelo, DiAngelo, it's di Angelo

Formatting advice

AO3

If it's on AO3, I suggest putting the fic in using Rich Text, because that does the html formatting for you automatically, then doing anything that requires specific HTML that Rich Text doesn't do (e.g. blockquote or workskins)

I particularly suggest that because I've seen lots of people have spaces between italicized text and punctuation

And if you're worried abt your formatting being lost with going from Rich Text to HTML, you don't need to. It converts it automatically

Generally formatting advice

If you can, or want to, you can have indents at the start of every paragraph (except the first one in each section)

Make a new paragraph for each new character's dialogue and/or action, but keep the same paragraph for the same character's dialogue and actions (i.e. if the focus is moving to a different character, move to a different paragraph)

Writing dialogue is a bit involved, so here's a couple of posts explaining it (if you find more, please tag me in the comments/reblogs of that post, and I'll add them)

A brief guide on how to punctuate dialogue

Punctuating dialogue

Writing Tips - Punctuating Dialogue

And there's also hyphens, en-dashes and em-dashes. They're very confusing, so here's a tumblr post explaining that

Peter Morwood

Ellipses and dashes appear more in my written dialogue than anywhere else (except perhaps Tumblr posts...) because fragmented, distracted,

[theslimeologist]

ULTIMATE Grumpus Ref Post!

This took a lot of work, but here we go! Full reference sheets for the Snaktooth Crew!

SPOILER WARNING: All of these refs contain illustrations that can show up in the final credits of Bugsnax!

I hope this helps! Go draw some muppets!

[theslimeologist]

OH yeah, sure! I didn’t realize until now that this could make a good base for OC sheets. If you use this base for anything, please credit me! (feel free to take off the watermark) Also here’s a Google Drive link to the PSD file

[libraryjournal]

Welcome to the Cat Video Research Guide! This is, by necessity, a brief, incomplete introduction to the infinite universe of online cat videos. Comments? Questions?

This library has its priorities in order.

[the027s-blog]

With one of the authors of this site just out of school and the other wrapping it up in 2011, this article is of particular interest.