Almost 200 People Were Murdered In Armenia In 3 Days And Y'all Are Still Ignoring Us.

Apparently a lot of people get dialogue punctuation wrong despite having an otherwise solid grasp of grammar, possibly because they’re used to writing essays rather than prose. I don’t wanna be the asshole who complains about writing errors and then doesn’t offer to help, so here are the basics summarized as simply as I could manage on my phone (“dialogue tag” just refers to phrases like “he said,” “she whispered,” “they asked”):

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“There’s no dialogue tag after this sentence, so end it with a period rather than a comma.” She frowned, suddenly concerned that the entire post was as unasked for as it was sanctimonious.

Proving a point to my boyfriend.

PLEASE REBLOG if you (male or female) believe it is perfectly okay and natural for a guy of any age to cry

YEEEAAAHGGG MOSSY ROCKS

Something a little different today – mossy rock studies!  I have a few paintings coming up that feature a lot of moss and I realized I wasn’t quite sure how to render that in real paint…and so I practiced!  Not sure if people are interested in my roughs and studies, but I thought I’d show some today! 💛

@carnagecritter

Swamp QUEEN.

You can only wear the two randomly assigned colors* for the rest of your life, ( trying to wear any other colors the items will change to one of the two other colors) how do you feel?

*Different tones/shades of the randomly chosen colors are allowed. Pastel, neon, etc. will also fall under the base color and are therefore allowed.

Spin the wheel to find out which colors you must wear

Pouring molten metal into water beads to make a sculpture

https://medium.com/@katelynburns/im-a-trans-woman-and-i-don-t-know-how-to-do-this-6958817a29b7

we’ll never even know how damaging it is that most of the images we see of women have been altered. like not even talking about photoshop, but makeup as well. how the fuck did women’s natural faces become unprofessional and informal. and both of those words really just mean that in certain contexts our faces are unacceptable. and those contexts have been broadening over the years, now seeming to encompass daily life. too many times have i heard women hesitant to go outside because their faces aren’t ready. i’m so annoyed

@salmonjaws me

peak philosophy in ao3 tags