Aughgjsjsjk I Love It @queen-of-hobgobblers 😭 I Don't Know Enough Of Most Of Them To Truly See How

my cat Meatball’s hanukkah sweater started kinda coming off, so my girlfriend went to fix it, and as she did so she said to him, in her most tender and maternal voice, “aww, is your shirt coming off? whore”

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This was also for fluff week Day 3: Milestone || Domestic Fluff || "You'll always have me"

kicking a hornets nest.

for lady hestia

Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

So, my business class has a group chat, and we have like a fake business, so we were all going through names and positions and this one dude just pops up with, I'm not supposed to be here... The person who made the gc can't delete him bc she's out, so what do the morons across from me do? They call him. Also, he may have been drunk/high. Just very funny and random

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

Bruh why'd you call me out like this 😭 but foreal, I love that

can u tell siblings being insecure when the balance of power is skewed heavily towards their other sibling is my absolute favorite type of emotional angst. can u tell that the hc of tommy shepherd sometimes feeling like he only exists bc billy wanted a twin haunts me to this day. or do u guys think im normal.

i really wish the United States had a robust high speed rail system so it would be trivial and cheap to see my girlfriend who lives on the other side of the country

(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!)