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a poets rant 🥀🦇✨🦕

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

1,179 suicides today. 2,114 yesterday after the election (source). please check in on your friends and loved ones, even online friends. check in on them even if they seem happy and okay. if you’re considering attempting, don’t. I know this world is fucked up, especially right now, but for what it’s worth, the fact you are still alive means you’re a fighter and a survivor. you’ve made it this far and if no one else tells you, I am proud of you for being alive. it takes fucking strength and courage, and look at you still being here. give yourself some credit because you are so much stronger than you think. yes, everything fucking sucks right now. but you will get through it even if it doesn’t look like it right now. it will eventually get better. I really truly believe that, no matter how hopeless or cruel things are right now. I truly believe you will survive and will get to genuinely be happy and truly safe. just please hang in there.

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: [phone] (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: [phone]

Trevor Project: Call [phone], text START to 678-678, or chat online.

take care of yourself and each other. please stay safe ♡

[expressions-of-nature]

by Ksenia Kudashkina

[i-m-snek]

Undyne is super good at food puzzles!

[that-whimsy-witch]

We wrote the script together, but he played the narrative that he fit best

[that-whimsy-witch]

And i cry silently in the back of your truck

But you could care any less

Id kill for you to be proud of me

Maybe a little excited about my accomplishments

I try so hard but it not enough

[that-whimsy-witch]

If you're ever feeling bad about yourself just remember your someones biggest fumble

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

rain is honestly the best antidepressant

[that-whimsy-witch]

Hey are you okay?

No

Im dead

Dying

Deceased

Put me on the ground and let the maggots feast

[null-and-void-and-gone]

me when my disabilities disable me:

[fibro-memes]

[that-whimsy-witch]

[millyrecords]

idk if thats a ravenclaw thing but i got a new book more than a week ago and even though i cant bring myself to start the fucking reading i carry it with me everywhere i go. everywhere. i havent even read the synopsis yet but i love this book so fucking much like its my child.

[wish-i-was-milena]

yea.

that's a ravenclaw.

[that-whimsy-witch]

Ravenclaws unite emotional bonding over a book but not enough commitment to crack the spine

[writingmaz]

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

✧

➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

[herstories]

omg this is so helpful

[writing-prompt-s]

!!!!!!!

[that-whimsy-witch]

[prophetic-writer]

“What if I write it and it’s bad-”

WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS GOOD? WHAT IF YOU WRITE IT AND ITS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANTED? WHAT THEN????

[that-whimsy-witch]

In a desperate attempt to be understood i would out myself about things i normally wouldn't have told

But that would only leave me without exit

Still misunderstood

But now with my secrets sprawled out on the floor looking up at me, laughing at me. How could you be so foolish

Now i only sit in silence as to not give or take. Walking on egg shells. Picking my words carefully

Pray they don't take me in for what i am and see me as different or less than because of what i have done.

[that-whimsy-witch]

Did you know your brain has more synapses at age two than it ever will again? That you're born with all the neurons you'll ever have and they die slowly like stars burning out? Dopamine rushes when we're in love but oxytocin stays when we stay. Your hippocampus holds your memories but trauma lives in your amygdala.

Your body replaces 330 billion cells a day and that means in a year, almost 98% of you will be new. Except the neurons. The ones that knew me when first saw you. They're still here. They remember. And every time see you, the mirror neurons in my brain fire like they're trying to understand you, learn everything about you, to love you again and again. Over and over every time i look into your eyes.

My cerebellum knows how to move toward you before do. My prefrontal cortex shuts off when hear your voice because logic is useless when you smile like that. And love? Love lives in the limbic system. In every fight-or-flight momentI choose to stay. In every cortisol spike when you go quiet. In every serotonin drop when you're far. And still, I want you to hold my trembling hands like they're sacred. want every cell to die loving you and every new one to start again.