Apparently A Lot Of People Get Dialogue Punctuation Wrong Despite Having An Otherwise Solid Grasp Of

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.

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Links to my free sewing patterns! - big manta ray - smaller manta ray - monster friend (those monsters with horns I’ve been making lately, but without horns) - pie slice - Fred, the Fish of Minimal Effort - tiny cat (aka Jiji) - mini mothman - whale shark/donut whale shark - juggling frog/toad (aka my smallest, simplest frog pattern of the three I’ve made) - large frog - tiny hedgehog - minecraft bee - minecraft zombie - blorbo - Strawberry Hearts quilt pattern - starfish - little octopus - canvas tote


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Love The Colours Used In This Game So Here You Go 🐴🚀🪓 Enjoy
Love The Colours Used In This Game So Here You Go 🐴🚀🪓 Enjoy

love the colours used in this game so here you go 🐴🚀🪓 enjoy


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For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain
For Autism Acceptance Month, I Felt The Urge To Focus On Quinn’s Terrible Experience With A Certain

For Autism Acceptance Month, I felt the urge to focus on Quinn’s terrible experience with a certain type of therapy that many autistic children were/are subjected to. For Quinn, this lead to masking, self harm, and overwhelming stress growing up. Because of her need to protect Claudette from this abuse, she was finally able to understand that her own autism wasn’t a bad thing and taught her daughter the same.

Misinformed and ablest societies are the reason why autistic people call for acceptance rather than awareness. We don’t need a cure, we need understanding and resources that actually help us rather than those that stigmatize and try to change us. 

Read more here: https://www.spectrumnews.org/features/deep-dive/controversy-autisms-common-therapy/

Who is your favorite transformer to turn into lobsters?

Soundwave. He was fun to draw

Who Is Your Favorite Transformer To Turn Into Lobsters?

I gave him a shrimp Laserbeak


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Gonna be honest, chief. I thought this was rock

Like...real big geode

When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping
When You’re Out Surveying For New Fungi In Your Local Area, And You Find This Lovely Spook Creeping

When you’re out surveying for new fungi in your local area, and you find this lovely spook creeping over a dead tree in the forest.

What’s fascinating to me is that this isn’t even a fungi, it’s a slime mold. This plasmodium stage of development only lasts a short time, so I feel super lucky that I got to see this in person.

Definitely gonna be including this beautiful organism in my art and world-building project.


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