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Please accept me Fannibal Community

Is there a specific rite of passage to enter into the Hannibal Fandom of tumblr? Because I'd do anything (well, anything that doesn't include swallowing endangered Ortolans) to enter and be accepted into the Fannibal Community.

*wispers* I secretly hope joining this fandom wouldn't be as banal as following some accs and tagging my posts.

Not to be rude, but I find the twitter community tiring in its often purely physical appreciation of Hugh and Mads. Tbh I faced the same thing with the sherlock fandom- there's honestly a lot more to the show than good-looking actors? Pretty pics of them everyday on my tl don't satisfy me, I need unnecessarily deep analyses of the show and its characters, so henceforth I declare myself as a Fannibal!

Dude why was this the first thing I saw 😭😭😭

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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Last time I encountered a beetle, it flew away. I think that's an omen of some kind.

Happy Leland Melvin Day!!!