This Dude Is A Fucking Legend

Well, depending on how soon Jaiden logs in THEY MIGHT HAVE TO

*everyone cheering at saving felps*

foolish: let’s do it again next week!

cellbit: NO. NO. LETS NOT.

GIMME

petition to rename the usa ‘south canada’

I have delivered🫡

Based on my HC from… literally half a day ago blasting 600 strikes on repeat can do wonders apparently

Dos And Don’ts Of Dialogue

Dialogue: either you’re great at it, or it’s your worse nightmare. Writing dialogue can be difficult, confusing, and frustrating. Here are some tips to clear the air when it comes to dialogue!

DON’T overuse dialogue tags

From the very beginning, writers are often told not to overuse “said”.  While this is sound advice, it can create the false notion that “said” is never to be used.  This simply isn’t true!

Stay away from repeating creative dialogue tags one after another, especially if it’s redundant.  For example, if there’s an exclamation point after a sentence, you don’t need to say that the character exclaimed or yelled.

Often, a dialogue tag isn’t even needed.  Just end the dialogue without a tag.

DO use “said”

Repeat after me: IT IS OKAY TO USE “SAID”!

I’m guilty of this one as well.  The urge to not use “said” too often becomes a habit of never using it and replacing it with unnecessary dialogue tags.

Just use said!  It will make your writing seem far more mature than if you used something like “growled” or “stated”.

DON’T go on tangents

Dialogue should be realistic.  If you have a character that is known for going off on tangents, then by all means do so.  If you’re going on a tangent to seem “artistic”, you might want to cut it off there.

My biggest pet peeve with modern young adult literature is that writers try to combing their need to prove they can write beautiful prose with dialogue.  Don’t.  In the end, it’s just unrealistic and a cheap way of trying to show your talent.  Leave the long-winded metaphors for your narration, please.

DO use unique speech

Everyone speaks differently.  This could mean accents, slang, catchphrases, or misused words.  Include this in your dialogue!

Colorful dialogue creates colorful characters, and allows the reader to be able to easily distinguish who is speaking (without dialogue tags!).

DON’T overuse phonetics

Though accents can be a great way to create colorful dialogue, phonetically spelling every word according to the character’s accent can get annoying fast.  Stick to spelling out the most important words.  After a while, the reader should be able to read that character’s dialogue with their accent in mind anyway.

DO show, not tell

Every writer has received this advice at one point or another, but with good reason.  Dialogue is the best way to put “show, don’t tell” into practice.  However, writers often think that dialogue itself counts as showing.  Though dialogue is a better tool than description in these instances, it doesn’t completely serve as a way to show on its own.

Telling: “Hey, calm down.  You look nervous.”

Showing: “Hey, calm down.  You haven’t stopped tapping your foot since we got here.”

DON’T repeat names too often

I too fall into the trap of constantly clarifying who is speaking.  When you’re writing, it feels natural to say things like “’How are you doing, Jim?’ ‘I’m doing well, Pam.’”, but the reality is that no one speaks like that, especially to people they’re close to.

Most of the time, you should use names in dialogue tags and greetings.  Otherwise, use names sparingly.

I know it’s been talked about, “who convinced Arthur he was dumb?” We hear Hosea and Dutch both make jokes/comments about his intelligence, and even if they’re just jokes eventually they add up, and who knows what he heard from his father and other adults he interacted with as a child.

But who convinced him that he was ugly? I know we all think he’s beautiful and I think he’s conventionally attractive, but the comments he makes are persistent. The comments he makes in the mirror, the things he says at the portrait place in Saint Denis, the “no one would have me” comment, and probably a lot of others I’m missing. I’m not sure if any other character in the game calls him ugly, in fact Tommy calls him “pretty boy” and Albert Mason takes a picture of him that he includes in his gallery.

So now I’m just curious who convinced him he was ugly because I definitely don’t think it was Mary Linton and it likely wasn’t Eliza.

Right now, I am literally a whole province from my friends even close to my age and if I didn't have the internet I wouldn't be able to fucking contact them.

Honest Posters of Our Relationship with Technology

Designer Ajit Johnson, living in England, has imagined a series of posters called “#This_Generation”. With honesty, the posters show anecdotes linked to our daily relationship with technology and social networks.

What can go wrong? The squad have everything under control!

That toke me so many hours n fixes to complete. It's silly, it's chaotic and maybe not everything makes perfect sense but it's my ultimate bby:3

ADIOS MCFUCKBOY

G O O D

Reblog if you're gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, transgender or a supporter.

This should be reblogged by everyone. Even if you’re straight, you should be a supporter.

GIVE ME SQUISHY CLARK. GIVE ME A SUPERMAN WHO WOULD GIVE AMAZING HUGS.

If I ruled the world and/or was in charge of drawing a DC comic this is what they’d look like probably