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Slight book of Bill spoilers!

Him being a pathetic ex was not on my 2024 bingo card....

VIRGIL SAYS THE NEXT EPISODE IS COMING OUT SOON AHHH

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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this is me reading a fluffy fic

This just popped up on my feed and it's surprisingly interesting! Thank you OP!

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

The pain is real

Are you ever reading a completed fanfic, and then you notice how a chapter in particular ends on a gigantic fucking cliffhanger, like the mother of all cliffhangers, and you need to take a moment to remember all those people that read this when it was still a work in progress. RIP friends

❤💞💓

>:) For the title thingy: "Space ain't for me, love, but you're worth it."

*Wiggle wiggle* Let’s do this!

Stephen went on a mission. Like, weeks ago. Unlike some of the missions in which he disappears for long periods, Tony knew this trip was supposed to be a fairly short one, and was in this dimension - so there were no time shenanigans at play. 

After about a month of Stephen being absent, Tony’s finally talked himself into it. He’s going to space. He’s finding his boyfriend. He’s tired of a cold bed and a lot of worry. He enlists the Guardians to help him, since they’re in contact with Carol - whom Stephen’s on his intergalactic trip with.

Being aboard the Benatar again totally freaks him out at first, and when they reach out to Carol she seems really surprised to hear from them all, doing her best to try and wave them off of everything and trying to send them home. Tony doesn’t know what’s up, but this is making him even more anxious to see Stephen - he doesn’t like that Stephen’s hiding something from him.

Of course, as soon as Stephen realizes Tony’s trying to find him, he portals his way to the Benatar itself and berates Tony for getting himself all worked up and asking him why he came to space to begin with. Tony plainly states that he missed Stephen and was getting worried - Stephen had been gone for a long time!

Stephen makes some comment about day-night cycles, but Tony dismisses that in favour of asking what on Earth took him so long, and what was so important that he needed to be gone for so long without contact.

So Stephen pulls out an odd box, presses a button and lets it open up.

Inside is a ring made of a metal Tony’s never seen, and a stone on it that seems as though it encompasses all the stars.

“I needed to find you the perfect ring. You could have any ring you wanted in all the world, so I had to get creative.”

Carol’s all grins, and Quill hoots and hollars a bunch - even Rocket is uncharacteristically pleased, though Tony suspects it might have something to do with the other engineer’s distinct interest in the metals and stone. Tony can relate. But he’ll deal with that, later.

He needs that ring on his finger. Now. And to somehow not start crying in the process.

I was crying tears of joy during the whole wedding scene❤👌

Steven Universe just made history once again with the first ever lesbian wedding between two main characters in a children’s show on screen 

What is happening?

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