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.
grasps you ✊️ hello. I simply must say that I love the designs for rev and mara, the stardust parts are so pretty??? I simply have to chew on them like a creature.
aswell!! What app do you use for drawing ?
AHHH thank you! That means so so much tyty <333 (drawing of them for you) and I use Procreate for drawing!
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oh I was meant to do it three times, huh.
The nicking of countless doodads, whooziewhatsits, and whaddyacallthems.
Breaking into multiple buildings to scream at the inhabitants.
4st degree manslaughter.
Dubious behaviours.
Arson.
Pirating of countless songs, movies, and ancient treasure chests.
7 counts of breaking the Geneva code.
Plucking of feathers from hats.
Shitting on the shoulders of innocent victims.
Stealing the ice from the south pole to, quote-on-quote; "Create the west pole."
The kidnapping of worms from their tunnels.
And countless other crimes, some of which are not to be publicly known.
thank you archive of our own for being the sole reason I don't kill myself
me [completely out of touch with my feelings, trying to describe an emotion]: I feel, um, glittery? buzzy. like peeling my skin off
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