A 2017 Classic Updated For The New Game.

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You'll notice that people do this in multiplayer games for much the same reason!

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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.

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.”

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did some silly little Sonic characters redesign/redraws

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