cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

wegh, sorry about whatever gross post was at the top of my blog??? i didn't even notice i got bot'd until just now

@eeveelinktions I was your secret Santa!!

Tumblr hates me and never seems to notify me when I get tagged anymore but THANK YOU FOR MY BOYO

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

“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. 

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

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

Things I didn’t know

“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.”

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

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

“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.

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

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

“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.”

Still working on my Mirror Mirror rough draft! Some day I’ll have something to show of it ^^;;

(Sort-of a panel redraw: it’s the scene from chapter 4, with Shadow in the tree, but pose-referencing Vio on the throne in chapter 7)

Hyrule Castle under attack… again?!? How very dare you, Shadow D:<

Happy Holidays, @rarestdoge ! I was your Secret Santa this year! Hope you’re having a good December.

And thank you very much to @imaginefourswords for hosting the event! :D

HEY @eeveelinktions I am so sorry this took so long!! A whole slew of problems arose while I did this,,, the swap hut me in the middle of a huge art block do I had to FORCE myself to draw this,, so uh. It's not very good? I hope you like it anyways,,

Ah, yes, my two idiots. <3 Don't fuss too much about the lateness, I still love it! Thank you!

HEY IF YOURE AMERICAN, WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES ABOUT THE PRESIDENT TRYING TO DEFUND THE USPS

DONT USE A FORM LETTER THEY FILTER THOSE OUT AS SPAM

TYPE IT UP PRINT IT OUT OR WRITE IT BY HAND AND SEND IT SNAIL MAIL

IF THE USPS GETS DEFUNDED IT WILL DESTROY MILLIONS OF JOBS AND MAIL-IN VOTING WILL BE AT THE BEHEST OF PRIVATE COMPANIES

Whew! I have even more respect than I already did for all the webcomic artists out there who put out a page (or even more!!) every week.

Here’s my part of the @imaginefourswords​ manga redraw! It was a lot of fun, and I think I learned some things too - studying another artists’ work up-close like this is often helpful, and I have a lot of respect for Akira Himekawa :)

Original page under the cut –

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