Merry Crisis

okay but if you ever see a male creative who had a string of great work and then everything else he did was dogshit, go to the "personal life" part of his wikipedia and look at his relationships. you'll either find a major tragedy he didn't recover from (completely understandable) or, more likely, there was a woman in his life doing uncredited shit editing his stuff or contributing generally and she's not there anymore.

I told a friend about this phenomenon in literature and he called me weeks later like, I remembered what you said about women doing uncredited work when tim burton came up. he made a string of bangers then everything else just was nowhere near as good. the timeline matches perfectly to when he was with this german visual artist (lena gieseke). he's done some good work in collaboration, but if things were dug into I suspect we would find she did a lot more than people realise.

so yeah whenever you look around like wow women didn't work in history, or, women aren't auteurs, or, there just aren't as many great female writers - societal reasons for that aside, half the time they absolutely did.

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.

I am begging the FDA to require that companies CANNOT just put "spices" as an ingredient but have to label the spices.

"Spices" can mean "this has some oregano and black pepper in it" or it can mean "this has cumin cayenne and paprika and if you eat this you will be sick in bed in pain for a week" for me.

Seriously, this is an allergy issue and a huge oversight on the part of corporations.

Require detailed labeling of spices used in packaged foods NOW.

Malleus is great at Spelldrive. Fantastic even! So when he invited you, his Baby Sibling to watch one of his matches against Savanaclaw…

He was not expecting you to be rooting for the other team.

“KICK HIS ASS KINGSCHOLAR!” You shout from the benches, decked out in… Savanaclaw dorm merch??? Where did you get that?????

Leona glanced over at you and rolled his eyes, but there was no annoyance in it. In fact, he looked smug as hell over the fact you kept cheering for him instead of the lizard.

Malleus was ready to wipe his smirk clean off his face. Maybe if he showed off a bit, you would cheer for him.

Oh how wrong he was.

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! RUGGIE GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!”

Ruggie wasn’t even insulted, he only laughed at the entertainment you were presenting him and the team. The whole Savanaclaw Spelldrive team were also finding amusement in the whole ordeal too. But there was an issue…

Malleus was becoming more aggressive with his moves.

Every goal he made, every maneuver he made was with purpose. That purpose?

To get your approval.

Leona would usually be getting annoyed or angry by the fact that his team was about to be beat by Malleus. But instead he also found amusement over the fact that he would get all butt hurt over his Dear Baby Sibling supporting a different team.

And he found an opening.

Just when Malleus was distracted by trying to impress you, Leona skillfully gets the disc in the goal.

“YAAAASSSSS!” You fist bump the air, screaming at the top of your lungs.

This went on for two hours.

Once the match ended (it was a tie) Leona flew over to you on his broom. He raised a brow as he looked at the poor outfit you picked out to support his Dorm. “I fully support this, but I am curious… why suddenly cheer for our team? You just upset your Dear Big Brother.”

You cross your arms and let out a huff. “Horton needs to be taken down a few pegs.” Leona gives you a look. “… also he pissed me off.”

“Elaborate.”

“He ate the pint of ice cream I was saving for myself!”

You could hear Ruggie wheezing in the background from overhearing that. Leona’s shoulder shake a bit and he tries to contain his own laughter.

Meanwhile just across the field, Malleus was currently pressing his forehead against the Spelldrive goalie. Lilia snickers as he watches the young fae try to find an answer on why his own dear baby sibling would root for the other team!

Malleus was sulking like this for the next 30 minutes. You had to go down and get him.

“You didn’t support me…”

“Are you really going to continue being butt hurt over this?” You cross your arms as you stared at him.

Malleus just pouts as he finally lifts his head away from the goalie post. He looks over at you, his pout clearly written all over his face. You couldn’t help but snort.

“You laugh at my pain?”

“Hey, you did this. If you hadn’t eaten my ice cream I wouldn’t be supporting Leona and his team.”

Malleus pauses as he looks down at you. “You supported someone else because I upset you?”

You shrugged, “Call it me being petty.”

Malleus couldn’t help but let out a chuckle as he ruffles your hair. You let out a groan from the action.

“I promise to never do such a thing again to upset you.”

“You better! I spent so much just for that small pint! If it was Grim, I maybe would have forgiven him. But you! You know better!”

“I’ll buy you a new one. I’ll buy you as many pints of ice cream as you like.”

The Spelldrive game today ended in a tie, but Malleus felt like the winner knowing that his Dear Baby Sibling wasn’t upset with him.

Two weeks later, Malleus and his dorm went against Heartslabyul…

You were decked out in Heartslabyul merch, and Malleus had to figure out what he did this time to upset you.

My doctor and therapist: now with this autism + ADHD diagnosis you need to learn to unmask because masking all the time will make you burn out again and feel like shit

Other people: well it's just interesting how after getting the diagnosis you suddenly start behaving like that I mean I'm not saying you're faking it's just funny how you suddenly cannot be normal like you were before

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Three!!!!!!

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