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[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Objection your honor! what the prosecution just said was Dumb As Shit

[silverserpent]

Coding is fun because most of the time your thing doesn't work is because of things like "forgor a pair of parentheses" or "you need to put this thing three lines up"

[ghl-osty]

fanfiction

i’d like to talk about fanfiction real quick because there are some issues really frequently that can make or break a story. and they’re avoidable!! and it makes me so sad when i’m trying to read a good fanfic and there’s so many errors that i have to stop.

NAMES

so this is one i see surprisingly often… please make sure you know how to spell a character’s name when writing a fanfiction. it’s usually something small like damian vs. damien or lucas vs. lukas but to me it’s so distracting and disappointing when there’s a beautifully written story with a character’s name spelled wrong.

SPELLING

this is a big one, too. when writing, some people don’t always have a spell check or an editor built in to their platform. if that’s you, please triple check your work! and here are a few frequent ones i see-

-shook vs. shock

i shook his hand

i was in shock that she did such a horrible thing

-peaked vs. piqued

-he looked like he peaked in high school

-they piqued my interest

blonde vs blond

-she had blonde hair

-he had blond hair

blonde is a gendered word. i’m not actually sure how it’s used with nonbinary people, let me know!

their, there, and they’re

-it was theirs

-she’s over there

-they were scared, and now they’re not

remember that they’re is a contraction of they are!

quite vs. quiet

she tried to be quiet, not making any noise.

they were quite bored with this whole event.

(thank you to @nathaaaan for the suggestion)

SERIES VS. SERIE

i watched a really good series yesterday

serie isn’t actually a word…

BILINGUAL CHARACTERS

please, please, please do some research if you write a character who speaks another language. even if it’s reading other fanfictions to figure out how your character’s language fits in with the language you’re writing with.

-having a character to say that it’s ’hard to switch back’ is… unrealistic at best. i wouldn’t recommend using it.

-please gender the words correctly! in most of the romance languages, words are gendered. make sure to add that in!

REPETITION

unless you’re going for a gimmick, i’d be careful with repetition. having a character say something more than once, especially in the same sentence, can be annoying and makes the dialogue sound forced.

especially the word antics…. i literally had to put a fic down because ‘antics’ was in every other sentence.

ex: “Lily sighed, annoyed. She was so annoyed!”

(yes this is a real actual example with the character name changed. don’t let this be you.)

FORMATTING

i think this can be overlooked a lot but format is important!!!

-paragraph breaks!! seeing a huge chunk of words with absolutely no breaks is overwhelming. add some space!

-“the punctuation goes inside the quotations.” he said

-i know i’m being a bit of a hypocrite, but capitalization! names, beginning of sentences, and places!! if you don’t capitalize, at least be consistent with it!

“This is how fanfiction, or really any writing, should be formatted.” Eli said with a smile

“And every new sentence should be a paragraph break,” interjected Alex, “Unless you’re going for a certain style. In which case, you do you.”

Eli sighed. “That’s true, Alex. What OP didn’t know was that tumblr has a formatting issue, so that when she posts this, the paragraph breaks won’t show! She hopes she fixed it. But it might not work!”

“We can always imagine the bullet points as paragraph breaks.”

-friendly neighborhood reminder that paragraph breaks happen when introducing a new idea as well!

-bolds and italics are important.

“I told him not to go,” acceptable, a bit dry.

“I told him not to go,” exquisite, flavorful.

and as always. please make sure they’re talking like people. not disney sitcom characters.

PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE TENSE

you would not believe how much i see this messed up. and it’s easy to get wrong. remember, you can always look something up if you aren’t sure. but stay consistent with your tenses!

past tense

She walked up to the drab, grey building, trembling. As she pulled the door open, a bell rang, signaling her arrival.

this one’s probably the most used. notice that it’s almost like we’re retelling the story, after it’s already happened (hence past tense)

present tense

She walks up to the drab, grey building, trembling. She pulls the door open, and a bell rings to signal her arrival.

we have to change quite a few words for the same sentence to make sense in present tense.

future tense

She’ll walk up to the drab, grey building, trembling. She’ll pull the door open, and a bell will ring to signal her arrival.

i honestly don’t think i’ve ever seen future tense used in a novel unless it’s used in dialogue. but it’s almost as if you’re speaking hypothetically about an event.

but please make sure you’re consistent with these! don’t use one and then switch to another!!

now of COURSE writing is a form of creation, and you can ultimately do whatever you want! if you want to write something, write it. this is just a little guide for some of the mistakes i see most often!

but all in all just double check your writing, always!!! there are so many good works out there that could be great.,… if you don’t have someone to beta read you can always send it to me or put it in word <3

[dollopheadedmerlin]

*takes one last long sensual swig of my beverage before getting up to go empty my bladder*

[1-jar-of-stars]

no like i had to unfollow certain people because of how tone deaf they are to the situation. then some girl on my timeline said people are dorks for thinking to pimp a butterfly is a good record and that maad city only has four good songs…. 💀 i check this girls page and no surprise it’s little miss country girl BYE

the amount of people exposing what they actually think abt black people during this is crazy. especially a lot of swifties. a lot of them only see kendrick as human as an extension of taylor and it makes me sick to my stomach

[haven-gum-rockrose]

God the agony- I want friends that I can just physically lean on or lay on or that I can hold for way too long like forever and just fucking butt my head against them and exist too close and always be in contact in some way and I can grab their limbs to just mess with or observe like fidgeting with their hands and that I can bite and

[sol-rambles]

okay I'm just spitballing but, could Cassandra becoming the the Nightmare King again (before Ankarna) be apart of Augefort fucking with the timelines by going back through time. Like he could have fucked something up with maybe making it so Kristen didn't save her and the timelines made it so Cassandra and The Nightmare King kinda fused through and made it so Cassandra had to fight the corruption, then Ankarna coming back made it harder to fight and she fell to it more.

[wachtelspinat]

hi wachtel! i see youre a procreate user so,, which brushes do you use?

hey there! i usually use a basic pencile-like brush and one that's more ink-like, which is called "syrup" (that one has a nice dynamic regarding the thickness)

[not-poignant]

I started reading UTR for the smut, and i stayed because i need to see Faber's facade explode like a Prince Rupert's Drop

Faber cares about that facade so very, very much.

I think honestly he will break apart in pieces. People are going to see different fragments at different times, but I already know it's going to happen in front of Efnisien and it will happen in front of Caleb in a foreign city, at a convention.

And honestly, with Faber, I think it will happen more than once!

[questionable-idea]

I feel seen

[lanotteviene]

reread the comics and came to the conclusion that w.i.t.c.h felt so relatable because most girl groups are made of an autistic girl (thriving), another autistic girl (struggling), a bisexual clown, a mean lesbian, and one sane woman  

[catwouthats]

By the way, bringing activism to fandom is not “purity culture”

Saying someone CANT like something or watch it at all bc it’s “wrong and problematic” and “deserves to not exist” is purity culture and censorship.

Critiquing media and saying they did something racist/hypocritical/homophobic/etc is valid criticism and sometimes a use of activism.

There is a shit ton of old problematic media that people still like, the thing is people acknowledge the ugly parts and point them out (and point out how it effects the plot as a whole..or at least they should). Look at aristocrats. Fun movie, what the fuck was some of that casual racism on the side? Also take example: any anime. I don’t have to explain this one. Anyways.

Activism belongs in fictional spaces.

Activism uses fiction.

See: Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Tale of Two Cities, 1984, The Color Purple, The Hunger Games, etc

It might make you uncomfortable, but oh well. Protests belong everywhere, and there is no wrong place to protest. Protests are meant to disrupt things. So stop using things like “why are you enforcing purity culture?” To shut down important conversations.

Anyways, Boycott Disney and go to your local library <3

[ivan-fyodorovich-k]

I notice journalists seem to be really fond of the verb “slammed” and I would like for someone to point them to thesaurus.com

[halitis]

im so fucking dumb. i was thinking about my blorbo and my stomach was hurting and i thought it was because i was just thinking about them and feeling sad. NO ITS CAUSE I WAS ABOUT TO THROW UP DUMBASS??

[waugh-bao]

“If I sleep with someone, I at least have the right to wear her clothes. But it really pissed off Charlie Watts, with his walk-in cupboards of impeccable Savile Row suits, that I started to become a fashion icon for wearing my old lady's clothes.”-Keith Richards, Life (2010)

[sammygender]

omg interesting dstiel ask genuinely hyped to answer this when i’m not abt to leave