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reblog to give your headache to elon musk instead

so much care put into housing this aging spider. why are my eyes wet

(tiktok link)

slapping this badge on my blog

SILKSONG MENTION????

2025!!!!

Please please please don't click those phishing texts

I am screaming, I'm so excited for this

Hyrule Warriors:

Age of Imprisonment

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

oh ok

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “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.”

This has been going around my work and friend group on other platforms, and I thought it deserved a place here too.

The face of someone who is in waaayy over her head.

Fanart for the newest chapter of MrsMusica’s Father of Time! Malon is trying her hand at hero-ing while Link’s sick, too bad that chose the worst possible place for a first time.

not gonna lie, I had a lot of fun with this one! It was definitely a nice challenge to balance the light coming from both the fire and Tael :D

(Versions without the light + my attempt at being funny under the cut)

and

One of the most important things I’ve learned as a Real Adult™ is the importance of a job half done. 

Today I did a load of dishes, wiped off my stove, and swept the kitchen floor. Did I do the best job, or finish every dish? No! My stove still has that caked on caramel that I need to bust out an SOS pad to take care of, one of our big pots is still sitting in the sink, and somehow a kitty kibble unearthed itself while I was wiping down the stove (?? how??).. but the kitchen looks a LOT better. It’s once again an inhabitable, usable space.

Parents, bosses, teachers, even my own self, harp upon absolute perfect completion of a task as the be all and end all of a job well done, but god damn, my kitchen isn’t terrible because I took the time to improve it. Little steps, especially when you’re struggling, are important. They mean a LOT. They are a sign that you won, if only in that brief moment, and they make getting all the other stuff done so much easier later on down the road. 

Hilda by Duane Bryers

This week, over 350 rabbis, together with some Jewish creatives and activists, took a full-page ad in the New York Times to oppose Trump's plan for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.

Sources: website of this campaign (Jewish People Say No To Ethnic Cleansing), Jewish Voice For Peace, The Guardian.

My coworker asked me a question about Queer culture the other day and it was a really good question but I couldn’t think of a polite way to tell them that they didn’t have the foundational knowledge required to support full comprehension of the answer

fuck it, reblog to give the person you rb'ed this from a freshly baked buttery croissant.

YOU hates terfs

HAPPY AROMANTIC AWARENESS WEEK TO ALL THE HOTTEST BITCHES THAT CELEBRATE!!!

SHOUT WITH JOY! THE AROMANTIC BEAM BE UPON YE!!!

In recent news, the National Park Service has scrubbed all mentions of trans people from their websites. Including literally Stonewall.

I don't have much energy to make an angry post, so instead, I'll repost all of these pictures from the past summer: a trans flag waving in the back country of 5 national parks.

Yosemite National Park

Near North Dome, with Half dome in the background

Lassen Volcanic National Park

Butte Lake, with Cinder Cone and Kom Yamani (Mt. Lassen) visible in the background

Redwood National Park

Redwood Creek, near the tall trees grove, where the tallest trees in the world grow

Kings Canyon National Park

Glenn Pass, with the Rae Lakes basin in the background

Sequoia National Park

Mt. Whitney, looking West, over the Kern canyon and the Kaweahs

Enjoy the outdoors, support your parks, and support your rights.

parallel play (liking and reblogging your mutual's posts but not talking to them)

Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

Don’t listen to their books or statues.

West Indies ou les Nègres marrons de la liberté (1979), dir. Med Hondo

Idk who needs to hear this but you don't need "signs" to tell you you're a girl. You don't need it to hurt in your guts either. You can just want to try it, and you should.

In retrospect, many of my memories can be analysed as a sign of being trans. But the key point here is "in retrospect". I didn't see any of that before realising I'm a girl. I didn't even feel dysphoria before realising I didn't want to be masculine.

6 months ago, I just thought I was a good ally with every sign of being cis. If you feel like this and you love trans people and think they're so cool and think being trans is really beautiful, maybe just try new pronouns and a name online. No one who matters will be mad at you for doing it.

Had I seen a post like this, I would've figured myself out 3 years earlier

@gnome-de-official

Oh dear, I'm already on one...

Spin this wheel and tell me if you got something you need/want.

ffuck. surrounded

swifties always going on the "you just hate women" defense like first of all Taylor Swift is not a woman she's an unskippable ad