It's So Funny How I Got Into Anthropology In College, Frequently Talking About The Importance Of Storytelling

we could go back to telegraphs instead of social media. send your mutuals unspeakable strings of morse code at 4:30am

Late night stroll

If I died 5 years ago, my parents would have buried a son. It wouldn't have been my name on my tombstone. Who would have grieved for me? Who would have looked at the tombstone of that boy and wept for the woman that was buried beneath that ground?

It wouldn't have been my mom. Not my father. It wouldn't have been my brothers. I doubt my now ex even would have grieved for the real me. A handful of souls would have grieved for the woman that they lost, while a service was held for a dead boy in a suit.

The world would never have known me.

They say there are three deaths. When your body ceases to function, when you're consigned to the grave, and when your name is spoken for the last time. What if your name is never spoken? What of the woman who never heard her name spoken from another set of lips?

I see you, nameless ones. I may never be able to speak your name, for I do not know it, but I will grieve for you. You will not be forgotten for as long as I have tears to shed.

No joke this vine has a better understanding of transmisogyny than 40% of this website

D: Oh beautiful lady of my heart, will you-

D: *sees Chuuya* Excuse me *immediately stands up*

Woman: Wha-

D: *tilting his head with a charming smile* I'll be right back pretty lady. *kisses her hand*

Woman: But we are in a date-

D: *not listening and walking towards him* Chuuya hasn't grown an inch.

No matter how much you dislike your own writing, I promise you it’s better than AI

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.

Guys, I found this while cleaning my room:

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Whoever lost it, please let me know so I can give it back.

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