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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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Dumb sketch from twitter

How to create an atmosphere: Train Station

Sight

people patiently waiting for their trains, lost in their phones

passengers running down the platform to catch their train

someone struggling with all their baggage

small children running around

people waiting for their loved ones

a sad, but sweet goodbye

an excited and happy hello

people drinking and eating on the platform, waiting for their trains to arrive

people getting confused at the ticket vending machines

passengers waiting in line at the service desk to complain or to find a new route

people routinely checking the time and arrival of their delayed trains

Hearing

passenger trains arriving and leaving the station

the beeping of the doors opening and closing

the whistling of the conductor when the train is about to leave

a freight train speeding through the station, making it impossible to hear anything else at all

announcements of trains arriving, being late or being redirected to another platform

announcements about being careful to not let their baggage unsupervised and to only smoke in designated areas

pigeons flying around

passengers running down the platform, screaming for the train to wait for them

Touch

the stickiness of the floor

the gush of wind when a train drives through

Smell

that specific smell of every train station, that can't be pinpointed

the smell of fresh pastry from the bakeries inside the station

the smell of fast food and old oil

the smell of pigeons living inside the train station

that specific smell of train tunnels

the smell of cigarette smoke coming from the designated smoking area

Taste

stale air on the roofed platform

overpriced coffee or tea to go

sweet kiss goodbye

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here's a bunch of spongebob titlecards i hoarded

List of 40 character flaws

Stubbornness, Unyielding in one's own views, even when wrong.

Impatience, Difficulty waiting for long-term results.

Self-doubt, Constant uncertainty despite evident abilities.

Quick temper, Excessive reactions to provocations.

Selfishness, Prioritizing one's own needs over others'.

Arrogance, Overestimating one's own abilities.

Trust issues, Difficulty trusting others.

Perfectionism, Setting unreachable high standards.

Fear of change, Avoiding changes.

Haunted by the past, Old mistakes or traumas influencing the present.

Jealousy, Envious of others' successes.

Laziness, Hesitant to exert effort.

Vindictiveness, Strong desire for revenge.

Prejudice, Unfair biases against others.

Shyness, Excessive timidity.

Indecisiveness, Difficulty making decisions.

Vulnerability, Overly sensitive to criticism.

Greed, Strong desire for more (money, power, etc.).

Dishonesty, Tendency to distort the truth.

Recklessness, Ignoring the consequences of one's actions.

Cynicism, Negative attitude and distrust.

Cowardice, Lack of courage in critical moments.

Hotheadedness, Quick, often thoughtless reactions.

Contentiousness, Tendency to provoke conflicts.

Forgetfulness, Difficulty remembering important details.

Kleptomania, Compulsion to steal things.

Hypochondria, Excessive concern about one's health.

Pessimism, Expecting the worst in every situation.

Narcissism, Excessive self-love.

Control freak, Inability to let go or trust others.

Tactlessness, Inability to address sensitive topics sensitively.

Hopelessness, Feeling that nothing will get better.

Dogmatism, Rigidity in one's own beliefs.

Unreliability, Inability to keep promises.

Closed-offness, Difficulty expressing emotions.

Impulsiveness, Acting without thinking.

Stubbornness, Reluctance to accept advice.

Wounded pride, Overly sensitive to criticism of oneself.

Isolation, Tendency to withdraw from others.

Let's Talk About Pacing Our Fight Scenes.

For Fast-Paced Parts:

Short words with single syllables. Immediately > at once/ endeavour > try/ indicate > point at/ investigate > check out.

Short sentences, the shorter the better.

Partial sentences to blaze through multiple senses and actions within a few lines.

Short paragraphs

Lots of verbs.

Few adjectives and adverbs.

Cut down on -ing form of verbs, as it can make words longer

Use simple past tense

Avoid conjunctions and link words.

Avoid internal thought - your characters are irrational, ruthless and in the flow of pure action.

For Slow-Paced Parts:

Use medium/long sentences

the paragraphs are longer: three lines minimum

Include longer words with more syllables

Use adjectives and maybe a couple of adverbs.

Insert the thoughts of the PoV character.

Words for Action Scenes

act, alter, attack, avert, back, block, bang, bash, battle, beat, beg, belt, bend, best, bite, blacken, bleed, blind, blister, blow, blunt, boil, bolt, boot, bore, bow, box, brace, brag, brash, brawl, break, breathe, brush, buck, bulgde, burn, burst, cackle, call, can, carry, cart, carve, catch, check, chop, chuck, clack, clank, clap, clash, claw, clear, cleave, click, cliff, cling, clip, close, club, cock, coil, cold, collar, come, con, connect, corner, cost, count, counter, cover, cower, crack, crackle, cram, crash, crawl, creep, crinkle, cross, crouch, rush, cry, cuff, cull, cup, curl, curse, curve, cusp, cut, dart, dash, deepen, dig, deep, dip, ditch, drive, drop, duck, dump, ede, effect, erect, escape, exert, expect, feint, fight, fire fist, fit, flag, flare, flash, flick, fling, flip, flock, force, gash, gasp, get, gore, grab, grasp, grip, grope, group, hack, harden, heat, help, hit, hop, hurl, hurry, impale, jab, jar, jerk, join, jolt, jump, keep, kick, kill, knee, knock, knot, knuckle, leak, leap, let, lever, lick, lift, lock, loop, lop, plunge, mask, nick, nip, open, oppose, pace, pack, pain, pair, pale, palm, pan, pant, parry, part, pass, paste, pat, peak, peck, pelt, pick, pierce, pile, ping, piss, pit, pivot, plot, pluck, plug, plunge, ply, point, pool, pop, pose, pot, pound, pour, powder, pray, preen, prepare, prey, prick, prickle, print, probe, pry, pull, pulp, pulse, pump, punch, pursue, push, quarry, quarter, quest, race, raise, rake, ram, rap, rasp, rear, retreat, rip, riposte, rivert, roar, rock, roll, rope, round, rouse, run, rush, sap, scale, scalp, scan, score,scream, seek, seep, shake, shape, sharpen, shock, shoot, shop, slap, slap, slash, slice, slick, slip, slit, smash, snap, snare, snatch, snipe, sock, space, spar, spark, speed, spike, spill, spin, spit, splash, spoil, spring, spur, spurt, spy, squirm, stand, steert, step, stick, strap, strike, stuff, suck, support, swat, sweat, sweep, swingm tack, tag, take, target, taste, team, tear, tent, test, thrash, throw, thrust, thud, tick, tide, tilt, time, tire, top, toss, tower, toy, trap, trick, trigger, trip, triumph, trouble, trump, try, tuck, tug, twril, twitch, weaken, wet, whip, whirl, whirr, whoop, whoosh, whop, work, zap, zip.

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glasses anniversary, only this day!

Something I just realized:

A Hufflepuff does what is fair.

A Ravenclaw does what is wise.

A Gryffindor does what they think is right.

A Slytherin does what is necessary.

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚝 𝙻𝚒𝚜𝚝

1. "You make me want you in the most rawest ways possible."

2. "Falling isn't what I would call this—this desperation I feel toward you; this feeling is unlike anything I've ever known."

3. "You don't need them, you need me."

4. "Why won't you talk to me? Am I not good enough? What did I do wrong? Do you not want me? Tell me before I lose my mind."

5. "If only you knew how much I loved you."

6. "What do you want me to say?! That it's over? That there is no more hope for us? I can't lie to you—I never could."

7. "This is all for us. We make the rules."

8. "What a picture perfect moment."

9. "I've loved you since the day I saw you."

10. "I'm highly suspicious of your sudden urge to be sweet, you know? Very suspicious."

11. "I take you to be mine."

12. "It's dark a-and cold and I don't know where I am."

13. "Payback's a bitch." - "Isn't the saying karma' s a bitch?" - "Shut up and let me enjoy my moment."

14. "You're really gone this time, aren't you?"

15. "I let my guard down for you—I told you my worst fears and you laughed in my face."

16. "I'm simply one helluva motherfu—"

17. "Only fools rush in, honey."

18. "How can you be in love with me when we barely know each other?" - "That's the magic of soulmates, baby."

19. "Take my hand."

20. "She gets everything. The house, the cars—everything."

21. "I don't want it—this life. I don't want it if you don't get to share it with me."

22. "Aw, you got me flowers?"

23. "I just got friendzoned."

24. "Fall apart if you need to. I'm here and I am not going anywhere."

25. "Please don't panic. If you panic, I panic."

me when i'm with other people: i am loved 😌

as soon as i'm alone: but am i 😰

black and asian vikings 100% definitely existed (also, saami vikings)

you know how far you can get into eurasia and africa by sailing up rivers from the baltic and mediterranean seas? pretty fucking far, and that’s what vikings liked to do to trade

then, you know, people are people, so love happens, business happens, and so ppl get married and take spouses back home to the frozen hellscape that is scandinavia (upon which i’m guessing the horrorstruck new spouses went “WHAT THE FUCK??? FUCKING GIVE ME YOUR JACKET???????”)

and sometimes vikings bought thralls and brought them home as well, and i mean, when your indentured service is up after however many years and you’re a free person again, maaaaaaaaaaaaybe it’s a bit hard to get all the way home across the continent, so you make the best out of the situation and you probably get married and raise a gaggle kids

so yeah

viking kingdoms/communities were not uniformly pure white aryan fantasy paradises, so pls stop using my cultural history and ethnic background to excuse your racist discomfort with black ppl playing heimdall and valkyrie

100 Fluff/Angst Challenge - Gotham Edition

Inspired by the 100 kinks challenge. List created by the lovely @becausefanfictionthough

Inbox me a character and number(s)  LIST AFTER THE BREAK

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Brook & Taylor’s Angst Challenge

Who doesn’t love a good heartbreaking fic? Angst appreciation day is around the corner so why not make a challenge out of it?

Rules:

Send either me or @wayward-oneshots an ask to join (reblogs/replies/messages don’t count)

All fics must be posted June 23rd (Angst Appreciation Day)

Must be reader insert (no ships please), characters and actors welcome

Two people per song/prompt, first come first serve

No word limit but please use a ‘Keep Reading’ if it’s over 500 words.

Songs:

I’ve Given Up On You - Real Friends - @super-not-naturall

All I Want - Kodaline

Lay Me Down - Sam Smith

What We Ain’t Got - Jake Owen

Try - Pink - @deanjensengirlmaggie

What Hurts The Most - Rascal Flatts - @luciisthebest // @damnandriel-in-hell

Better Man - Little Big Town - @impalapiegirl67

How Not To - Dan + Shay

Not About Angels - Birdy - @green-days-american-idiot // @jana-corleone

Poison & Wine - The Civil Wars - @wideawakeandwriting // @bulletscrossbowpie

Dancing On My Own - Calum Scott - @scarygoodfanfics

You Promised - Brantley Gilbert - @deanwinchesterforpromqueen

Losing You - Aquilo - @cenagirlsrda

The Drugs Don’t Work - The Verve - @magicalunicorn84 // @torn-and-frayed

Champagne - Niykee Heaton

Prompts:

“You have all these walls up, just fucking let me in.” - @luciisthebest // @percywinchester27

“What if I had lost you?” - @deasamnator // @whovianextrodinare

“If we don’t make it through this time, then what?” - @i-dont-have-a-harp

“I didn’t say I loved you. I never said that.” - @highonpastries // @sabigmart

“You broke me. You can’t just show up, try to stitch me back together, and expect me to be okay.” - @ohwritever // @little-red-83

“When this is over, we’re just friends, got it?”

“My brain can’t handle thinking about you anymore. It’s too much.” - @wideawakeandwriting // @bulletscrossbowpie

“Not like this. I can’t lose you this way.“ - @supernaturallymarvellous // @siriusly-inspired

“You told me to go to hell. Well, this is it - my life without you.” - @u-snavi // @revwinchester

“My heart will never forgive me for what I’m about to do.” - @iwantthedean // @torn-and-frayed

“Loving you isn’t as easy as I make it look.” - @paigeinastory

“Do you know how many times I’ve tried to get you out of my life?” - @insane-hamilton-imagines

“I just need a new start.” @super-not-naturall // @impalapiegirl67

“I’m trying so damn hard not to fall for you. You’re nothing but heartbreak.” - @itswitchcraft-not-googlemaps // @twdjunkie2

“Say it again, but mean it this time.” - @wayward-girl // @siriusly-inspired

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Assorted writing prompts #8

1.“Yes, you look great in my shirt. But I kind of need it back.”            

2.“Go ahead, leave, I am not going to stop you.”    

3.“That hit hard, are you okay?”      

4.“The amount of alcohol I am going to need to forget this is going to kill me.”

5.“How did you get pen that high up the wall?”

6. “I am madly in love with you.”

“Why?”

“I don’t have a clue.”      

7.“You’ll come crawling back to me.”

“Never.”  

8.“Please breath, please… oh god.”  

9.“I may have… mildly panicked?”

“You shot at me!”          

10. “Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t vomit on me. Please don’t… You vomited on me.”

11. “Kiss me. Now.”        

12. “Please don’t say that, I don’t think I can take it.”          

13. “Did you get shot?”  

14. “You drank my coffee? Why must you hurt me in this way?”          

15. “How many coffees is that?”

“You try having a toddler who refuses to go to bed.”

misc angst sentences.

“It… I … it wasn’t supposed — to be this way —”

“If I could take it all back… I would.”

“You have no idea how far I went — to save you.”

“Even if it means giving up my life, everything I’ve done, I’ll do it for you.”

“There are no limits when it comes to you. I’ll do anything to keep you safe.”

“Close your eyes — I don’t want you to see me like this.”

“It was — it was supposed to end differently! It was — supposed to — no!”

“No — No, no, no, no, no — ! Not like this !”

“Let — go !”

“ Com— come back ! Don’t you dare leave me here !”

“I refuse to die here! I’ve come too far!”

“ Why do I have to be strong all the time? ”

“ Look at me! How can you call this dependable? ”

“ This is the exact reason why everyone I love leaves!”

“ There are so many sides to me that you don’t know. ”

“ All I ever wanted was to live a happy life… I wanted to be fine!”

“ There’s this thing about solitude. It gets to you. It eats you alive. ”

“ And sometimes we just gotta give up. ”

“ There are burdens on my shoulders that I can’t shake off. ”

“ Have you ever felt suffocated? ”

“ It’s the world is crumbling beneath me and I’m in free fall. ”

“ What I wouldn’t give to go back to the time where I had no concerns. ”

“ There’s this darkness in me… I don’t know how to explain it. ”

“ I’m hollow. ”

“ And then there’s this sadness. This raw, awful sadness that you’re too good to see. ”

“ You don’t deserve someone like me. ”

“ My past comes back to haunt me, and I can’t chase the ghosts away. ”

“ So many things went wrong in my life, and they keep on coming. ”

“ I don’t know how much longer I can endure this. ”

“ It hurts… every god awful day it hurts. More and more. ”

“ I can’t seem to outrun this. ”

“ Do you ever just wanna… give in?”

“ Should’ve gotten life right the first time. ”

“ They keep saying that this is all going to go away, but I don’t know about that. ”

“ Life is a god damn ocean and I have no idea how to swim. ”

“ It just doesn’t feel fair. ” 

Today, I decided to take on the task of making a post about the structure/staff hierarchy of UA High School in Boku No Hero Academia. While its structure is similar to a lot of schools in general, there’s a few things that are specific to Japanese high schools that are a little hard to miss if you’re not familiar with the way things work. 

I’ll be discussing here where, according to Japanese school hierarchy and what’s shown in the canon materials, each staff member falls, as well as an explanation regarding the different departments/classes of students. 

this is going to be a very image heavy post, since I made graphics for each part of the UA staff breakdown, so once we get to the heroics class, I’ll put things under a readmore. 

To start off with, this is the most generalized version of the hierarchy. We’ll be getting more specific, but this is to show that even though there’s different departments, there is one staff member that precedes over everything else.

Here, I’ve broken things down into different departments. The four departments of students that kids (and staff) in UA are divided into are heroics, general education, support, and business. All these departments are on the same level as each other and though the show focuses on the heroics department and UA is billed as a hero school, each department is just as important as the other. 

This can be thought of in terms of say, majors at a college, or even departments at a college. Students are supported into different departments like humanities, liberal arts, physical sciences, and each department/major has its own set of staff, but the hierarchy at the college remains the same general structure throughout each department.

There’s also staff that do not fall into any of the departments. We’ll get to them after each of the departments, but these are staff members like the medical staff at the school and the administrative staff.

And like in a college, we have our head of the school–Nezu. Nezu is referred to as the principal and for all intents and purposes, he’s the absolute authority at the school. Theoretically, everything has to go through him and be approved by him. 

At UA, there doesn’t seem to be any second in command or vice principal, so we’ll move down the structure. 

Because heroics is focused on the most at the school, it’s the only department where we have the full departmental hierarchy.

This is where things start to differ and run into territory where if you aren’t familiar with the Japanese school structure, you might not realize what’s going on. 

In Japanese schools, homeroom teachers are seen as the head of their students. The subject teachers work under them. They are the heads of their students and anything that regards their students will go through them, whether this is in regards to academics or anything having to do with their individual students. This is the same in BNHA. 

For reference, I wrote a big post about homeroom teachers’ role in Japan and how that relates to BNHA here. If you want to get the full understanding of why I listed Aizawa and Vlad King as the heads of the heroics department, I suggest reading that. 

Next down are the regular subject teachers. It’s unclear whether or not they teach other students in their relative subjects besides heroics department, so I just listed them as heroics teachers. As of note, Midnight is both the modern art history teacher and the person who subs for Aizawa. Ectoplasm is also the head of the security department. Mic is weird and we’ll get to him later.

Below the regular teachers are the student council members. These are essentially the students who are the liaisons between teachers and their class. Student council is important in Japanese classrooms. For class A, Tenya is the class president, with Momo as the vice president. In class B, Kedou is the class president and the vice president is unknown. 

After that are the rest of the students.

Broken down, the hierarchy for singular departments is principal–>head of department (homeroom teachers)–>regular teachers–>student council members–>students. In class A, that chart goes Nezu–>Aizawa–>teachers under Aizawa–>Tenya and Momo–>Class A.

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This is the best explanation I could come up with for why it takes me so long to do updates sometimes when, at other times, I’m typing them up like clockwork.

Hey so I know there is so much bad stuff going on rn with the Amazon and people trying to use the Spiderman stuff to take attention away from it, but over the past week The Florida Aquarium in Tampa has been able to successfully help coral reproduce in a lab. Which is amazing news because this ciuld literally help our oceans with the rising temperatures and bleaching of the corals. This could help bring back native corals and help our oceans thrive again.

this is the most sophisticated phishing e-mail I have ever received and if they had sized the logo correctly and actually proofread the fucking thing I probably would’ve clicked that button

A legend says that Rengar hunted khazix and with his pieces he made a necklace for his beloved nidalee

“I like drawing hands. I give them a lot of care because, besides the face, I think that hands are the body part most capable of showing expression and character” - Horikoshi