#scaffold parts

[tianjinwellmadescaffold]

Support Toe Board Coupler for European Standard Ringlock Scaffolding Sys...

[bitchfitch]

being a writer is fun because sometimes you notice a trend in the stories/themes/characters that you work with, and then make a connection between them and your life and or self.

And then you magically know what you're talking about in therapy next week.

[garaviel]

Seeing how far i can get in shattered throne lmao

[sysig]

Perfect comedy routine (Patreon)

They love each other <3

[squidaped-oyt]

Can't find the OP again for the life of me but someone said that Elgar'nan and Ghilan'nain don't actually escape until after Solas stabs Varric with the lyrium dagger, and since I played the intro again looking for it ... yeah, that's what it looks like to me lmao

[july-19th-club]

how to make a character who sucks so bad and nobody likes him but he is genuinely a good protagonist (good as in interesting, maybe on a rare day good as in decent but also, just like, an incredible jackass) . i need to make him worse i need to make him MEANER!

[sammyloomis]

having to do these health and safety videos for this new job is reminding me of when, at my last job, i apparently hadn't secured the hand rail on a set of scaffolding properly and i got knocked back after a sign we were removing hit me and i fell into it and almost fell a storey backwards onto the fkn concrete 🤪

[bluastro-yellow]

I see some of the place I live in Martinaise. of course the situation is not the same, and it's not as bad, but this part of the city is a shithole on the beach with so much potential to be great left to rot on its own (it has an even worse fishing "village" too)

but still. the sea and pinewood forest are so beautiful and full of life, and there's still people who're trying to live their lives and change the situation. "but I love it nonetheless. It belongs to me as much as it belongs to you" is changing my perspective

[tbosasgunsandroses]

snowjanus week 2: ‘crack’

(btw coriolanus is cremello and sejanus is bay roan 💕)

[molloytheboy]

This book is getting more and more homosexual with every page ngl

[lulabo]

“I’m 33, I don’t care about anything that happened to me when I was 19”

Ma’am explain Would’ve Could’ve Should’ve

[fishthegenderwitch]

I legit thought it was nearly 1am. It’s past 3am. Lol.

Been building this in Minecraft, because I like a challenge

Maybe I should figure out where this is, too.

This is absolutely worth spending time on. Because it’s fun.

[screambirdscreaming]

One time on the bus I sat next to a visibly very stressed and exhausted middle-aged woman and, upon offering basic social niceties, recieved an absolute deluge of information about everything that had gone wrong with her day

During the course of which I was gradually able to put together that she worked in middle-management / marketing (?) for a candy corporation (?) and had spent the day at a fair in which candy was marketed *to be marketed* (???)

Like. The attendees of this fair were candy corporations, presenting new candy-brand ideas, and grocery corporations, deciding which of these new candy types they would stock at their stores. Which she did not tell me, exactly, so much as rattled off a bunch of incomprehensible things about trends in candy marketing which I was somewhat able to put together were not about *customer* marketing, but about marketing to other corporations about what you thought their customers wanted - or rather, would want, once you'd made other entirely different marketing campaigns to convince them they wanted it.

There was however a person-sized standee of an m&m. Not an insignificant portion of rant time was devoted to logistical problems involving the standee.

She had with her a grocery bag full of candy which she ate pieces of, semi-compulsively, between sections of the rant. She did not offer me any.

I guess it's not that hard of a job to describe, but, it tops my personal charts for "job I would not ever have been able to predict existed," and also "job for which I cannot begin to imagine the day to day work experience". And also for that matter, "job which I can't really see the point of having exist", although that last one is a pretty hotly contested category.

[tianjinwellmadescaffold]

Kwikstage Return Transoms - British Standard Steel Kwikstage System Com...

[valeriehalla]

(a realization about dialogue formatting, from a comic artist turned novelist.)

One of the first things a novice writer learns about speech tags is that they’re part of the “scaffolding” of prose. They should be largely invisible to the reader: use them when necessary, omit them when not, and be sparing in the application of verbs other than “said”. They serve only the function of clarifying who is speaking when it is necessary to do so.

Except:

Sometimes you might want to use a speech tag in spite of the redundancy. The fact that the reader’s eyes slide right over them is an exploitable property. By slicing a line of dialogue in half with a speech tag, you can force the reader to perceive a meaningful pause between two utterances—and the effect is much stronger than you might get out of an ellipsis or an em dash. Developing an intuition for when and how to do this is a huge part of learning to write dialogue, I think.

(And yes: if you ever wondered, this is exactly same the reason why comic artists sometimes “double bubble” their speech bubbles. Same end, different means!)

[space-writes]

clawing my way to the end of chapter ten today and ouaghhh the middle of this book feels like such a mess TT_TT

it will get better but graaahhhh