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quil12 · 2 years

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I went to my mom's today to grab some stuff because I'm moving on Monday and I had stored things with her and I found this book that my elementary school did where everyone in the school wrote something and they printed it. This was mine:

End of the first paragraph makes absolutely no sense, but the lines after it feels kind if like a poem. Like it doesn't quite rhyme, but almost

"...she only groaned."

"...I said in a cheery tone."

I don’t know wtf I was on in 4th grade lol

#it ends so abruptly too #mine was also the first one on my class's page #my last name starts with an L #so it wasnt alphabetical #it makes me think that they looked at it and went 'yes this is the first thing we want people to see when they go to this class'#dont know whether or not to be flattered by that or not #i also want to know if i was the one who did double spaces after periods #or if the person formatting the book did that #cause i definitely dont do that now #i do not like how that looks #i know its like a leftover from typewriters though #punctuation is also not the best #dont know why a teacher didnt proofread it lol #needs more commas

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semi-completely-original · 7 months

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i usually don't post art here, but i'm unfortunately shadow banned on my normal apps since i reposted too many palestine updates. oops! i'll try my luck here instead

there's a fem!haikaveh takeover lead on twitter rn and one of the loudest champions of this is my lovely mutual who inspired this outfit by giving me femveh brainworms :3 she is a WOMAN IN STEM!!!!!

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creacherkeeper · 6 months

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say what you will about gender, money, time, race, borders, or any other enforced social construct ... NOTHING in the world is more made up than citation styles

#grad school gang join me in group weeping #sorry dearest students at the writing center no i DONT remember which style needs a comma before the year and which doesnt #i dont care i dont care *weeping* it doesnt matter i dont wike it #let me just sit with you while you read my essays and then i will take your hand and gently lead you to my sources as friends. maybe more.#feeding you my sources from my cupped palms #makes a moodboard for all of my sources with images full stolen from pinterest #anyway i feel normal and fine #i am being so brave about this 25 page research paper

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lonely-dog-draws · 1 year

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girlfriends from a post by @shiftythrifting

image ID: a drawing of 2 people standing close together & kissing. One is a pale chubby person with long, curly, pale blonde hair. They wear a dark tuxedo & a flowing pink ribbon in their hair. The other person is a pale, thin clown with short, straight, dirty blond hair. They wear white clothes, including a ruffled collar with gold trim, a baggy gown & pants with lace trim & ruffles, and slippers with gold balls on each toe. On their face, they have navy stars over their eyes & cheeks, as well as a gold nose & lips. The two figures have their fingers laced together at waist level & their eyes are happily closed. The tuxedo person is standing on their toes in order to kiss the clown. 2 concentric periwinkle starbursts placed behind the couple's heads break up the grey paper background. End ID.

#traditional art #shiftythrifting #clowns #lesbians #image described #lonely dog draws #i freaking love drawing when someone posts two dolls/toys/figurines together and says they're girlfriends rrrghgggh #gary i NEED to work on giving my image descriptions more diverse sentence structures but it's so hard #i love ampersand and comma so much ;_;

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lepusrufus · 7 months

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This is for all the fic writers/ younger writers who think their works aren't good enough to be taken seriously or to be published someday.

The number of boomers who have nothing better to do at 70 or 80 and think they're The Shit and decide to publish autobiographies, walk around with their elementary school grammar thinking they're some writing gurus, can't properly space out paragraphs, form sentences like they swallowed a fistful of commas and spat them all over the document, abuse of the bold and italics like their lives depend on it, have zero understanding of properly putting spaces after punctuation marks, is absurd.

So please make yourself some tea and give yourself a pat on the back for honesty being a better writer than the vast majority of boomers with an ego the size of Jupiter who publish their bullshit.

#I'm not even exaggerating when i say most fics I read by people writing for shits and giggles #are a billion times better formatted than 99% of the books I edit #what are paragraphs?#what is putting a space after a comma or period?#what is not abusing of quotation marks?#they have no fucking clue #i swear fic writers need so much more credit than they're given for being so careful about proper formatting #yes I'm totally writing this after having to deal with one too many shitbags at work

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cosmicsodacan-art · 1 year

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Get your own bauble! Sheesh!

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vmbrq · 5 months

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if you’re a tall(er) girl who’s been pushed into a masculine, dominant stereotype by society because of her height and secretly wants to let go and feel small, this ethan landry fic i’m working on is about to be for YOU🗣️

#this is about to be so self-indulgent i apologize #but i need SOMETHING #however comma #i still have more general fics in the vault too

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separatist-apologist · 2 months

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Reading my erina wip like damn this is good.

#i love a run on sentence though #also does it need more commas???

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1o1percentmilk · 8 months

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actually. put in the tags what your texting style is like (as far as capitalization, punctuation you tend to use, abbreviations, etc.) and whether you think it's accurate to the way you speak

#thinkin abt ellipses post #i had this post in my drafts for a while but i guess i deleted it? huh #but me personally i tend to use a lot of abbreviations. some punctuation as needed. the cool double space i use instead of commas #sometimes there's emphasis in caps for when i raise my voice #um... change it up as needed to mirror whoever im talking to... not a conscious thing i swear #anyways its more prominent in chats bc im more laconic there but yeah i type how i speak #very monotone and generally not much at once #and oops! accidental homestuck post alert #actually thinkin abt it more im more expressive online in person its the monotone for me

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emotional-fandom-soup · 1 year

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Still thinking about Tuvok and Vorik.

Like, I now really wish that the series had an episode where Tuvok seeks him out and tries to give him tips for how to keep your vulcan logic and emotional control in tact while being on a mostly human ship. And Vorik follows them to a T...only to completely mess up.

Like he just instantly gets into a fight with Belaana, accidentally insults Tom Paris, etc.

Eventually he concludes that nope, this is not helping, and he starts acting more himself again. (I headcanon that he's from a less traditional vulcan family and that's why both him and Taurik joined starfleet)

And he realizes how the humans actually respond better to him if he lets his emotional shields down. Which I can imagine might be exciting for younger vulcans who maybe don't really understand the importance of them yet? (Like how we see with child Tuvok in one episode, even though yk...vorik's clearly older than that.)

So throughout the series we get to watch Vorik slowly turn from your average cold vulcan into someone who's almost openly showing his feelings (as much as he's able to anyways)

I can imagine this would make things between Tuvok and him a lot more akward too since I believe Vorik would subconsciously still look up to him in a way, even if he doesn't feel the need to practice emotional suppression as much anymore.

So it'd probably come to scenes where Vorik's just chatting with a crew member and having a very slight smile on his face, only to turn 😐 again once he spots Tuvok walking past them.

#💚original post💚#I have so many headcanons about vorik and I will spam his tag with them cuz...there need to be more posts about my boy #man I just wish they'd involved him in the general plot more in the series #like he didnt even have to do smth big. just let him get his lil moments from the beginning and a few episodes #throughout #startreck #startrek #vulcans #star trek #vulcan #vorik #voyager #solok #oh also most of these thoughts are inspired by that short moment where they both get uh rematerialized #after those alien dudes search the ship for telepathic species #and vorik rematerializes next to tuvok and tuvoks not bothered but vorik nods. steps back. and fixes his uniform #(man i hate that tumblr wont let you use commas in the tags)#anyways yup I'm making up entire Backstories on those lil interactions don't judge me

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bivampir · 1 year

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if Louis is only drinking from men because he's gay..... Lestat kills men and women because he's non-discriminating in both violence and sexuality........ then Claudia kills men and women because........... b-because.......................!!! (collapses and dies on the steps of rolin jones' house)

#i will be bi claudia truther til the day i die i need MORE terrible toxic bi rep in this show.#however comma. lesbian Claudia truthers i support and love u<3 #claudia de pointe du lac #louis de pointe du lac #lestat de lioncourt #claudia de lioncourt #iwtv #amc iwtv #interview with the vampire #amc interview with the vampire #my posting #iwtvposting

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rainesol · 3 months

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First generation changeling encounter 💥

Hiii I’m gonna be brave and share a few paragraphs from an oc fic I did :)) (For context this was set multiple centuries before Polly’s creation/the canon storyline. You don’t need to know anything about anything though because it’s mostly long winded descriptions.)

(Cw for mentions of mild body horror)

The creature stood at eight- no, ten feet tall. It staggered back and forth on legs too long for its body, claws digging into the damp earth. The once-white fur on its legs has been stained taupe by the ground. Its blank, featureless face twisted and stared around like an owl, before pausing, head tilted up into the rain. It faced the beams of sun for several moments with its arms reaching ahead for balance, before pulling itself into a stance that seemed almost human.

The beast twisted that porcelain visage upon the group, and then a sickly feeling settled in his stomach. A prickle of magic ran through the air and the monster's skin flexed and rippled before that wretched thing lurched forward and fixed its eyes down at them. The skin around the edge of its unreadable countenance stretched and bulged outwards, he could have sworn, as if there was something underneath left to ferment trying to burst out. Nothing happened. The feeling of unease remained, but the thing had achieved no goal from its attempt at glamoring its bastardised features. Or at least they thought, as a woman’s voice clawed its way out of the animal's chest.

“Help me…”

It was toned like that of a scream, some desperate plea for help, and yet was so quiet that he had to strain to hear it over the pattering of the rain on the brush. The creature stared down for a minute longer as if daring them to speak up about its cruel mockery. After an agonising pause, it turned and reeled out of the clearing, then back into the woods. Nobody dared speak, and he took some time to gather himself before it vanished once again into the thicket completely.

#twst needs to play into the idea of monsters more I love spooky creatures #please be nice I had to remove like 500 commas </3 #apollyon belladonna #twst oc #twisted wonderland oc #oc fic #oc fanfiction

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things-that-make-sa-happy · 2 years

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tsitp | 1.07

#The Summer I Turned Pretty #tsitp #tsitpedit #Jeremiah Fisher #my beautiful boy!#Conrad Fisher #Steven Conklin #MORE OF THIS DYNAMIC PLEASE?!#I love this!#sa loves tsitp #sa makes gifs #CONRAD'S FACE IS SO PRICELESS AS HE'S SAYING NO!#omg that's why I had to make this whole exchange!#I may have added in one too many commas into Jere's line... I'm a comma happy person- I regret nothing #I was starting as my normal Jere Bear solo shots but I couldn't help it!#and you best believe that tomorrow or the next day I'mma make those solo gifs cause he's too cute not to in this scene!#but for now this is it- I need to go to bed- I have work tomorrow and I don't wanna #again with these dark scenes though- I don't care for them- I don't necessarily like how they come out in my gifs #I wish I were better at making them look nice #goodnight all! Sweet dreams!

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fun-fact-generator-3000 · 2 years

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Rise of the TMNT Donatello Headcanons

(Based on things I or people I know have experienced.)

Long post ahead.

Donnie is a huge puzzle lover and every time he finds a new puzzle game to play, he rants/explains it to his brothers. (Leo tunes him out every time.)

On one such occasion, Donnie was ranting about the glorious creation of RegEx Crossword and Leo told him it seemed boring, so he's taken to writing Leo insults in RegEx shorthand.

When he was younger, Donnie would mess with his brothers by eating something that tasted disgusting and not reacting at all, then saying, "that was good," and giving his brothers the food to try.

Unfortunately for Leo, Donnie would usually go to his twin to infodump about a new topic, but it made Leo very good at gift-giving to Donnie.

Donnie is definitely touch-averted, but the kind where he will not tolerate touch from anyone at any time unless he initiates it. When he does initiate it, it is hard to get rid of him. (And in those cases it is rarely ever hugs, more like attacking Leo.)

Donnie frequently uses words like "hath," "doth," and "thou."

Donnie hates the phrase "me neither," and will get annoyed when his brothers say it. (It's NOR DO I or NOR HAVE I)

When Donnie is working in his lab, he gets very frustrated at any noise, even ambient noise, so when people walk into his lab during one of these moods, he will get very snippy with them.

When playing games like Headbanz or 20 Questions, Leo gets very annoyed because Donnie is way too specific. He will ask questions like "am I a vertebrate?" or argue semantics like whether ketchup is technically a fruit/fruit based. Eventually, this leads to both of them asking questions like, "in a nutrition label, would a fruit be one of the first three ingredients listed?"

Donnie is insanely curious and will constantly ask questions. Splinter used to lecture him about whatever topic he asked about when he was a child, but as he grew older he resorted to google or the library. (He is constantly bringing out his phone to google niche questions like, "the volume of a typical human body when fully liquefied including connective tissues.")

If he is into a task or project, he physically cannot sleep because his brain is thinking too much, and will stay up for hours without realizing it, but if he does not want to do something, it will take him literal days to do it, if at all.

He loves documentaries and video essays.

However, he also is a huge fan of any and all TV and movies. He has a list of movies he has heard people talk about that he wants to watch.

When watching sad movies, his brothers will periodically look over at him, trying to "catch" him crying because they cannot believe he does not cry during movies. Despite not crying though, Donnie gets extremely into movies and has to sit for a while afterward to process and then rant.

Donnie chews on things when he is preoccupied (especially because softshell turtles typically have a strong bite). This can be things like bottle caps, pens, and especially the hem of any shirt if he is wearing one. As such, all of his "human" clothes have holes in the collars.

Donatello is a very fast reader when he is interested in a topic, but if he is not interested, it is almost impossible to read because he just starts thinking about something else.

Similarly, he cannot read aloud because he reads too fast for his mouth to speak. This also causes him to frequently stutter or stumble when info dumping because his brain is going too fast to convey through spoken word.

He is extremely pretentious about grammar. For example, he constantly annoys Leo by pointing out any dangling participles.

Donnie is a very adept sarcasm user, but he frequently misses other people's sarcasm, especially Leo's.

He is a major perfectionist. When things go wrong or he is not immediately an expert at something, he gets very frustrated and snaps at those around him.

Donnie loves coffee, of course, but not to wake him up. He drinks coffee because it slows down his endless stream of ideas and plans enough for him to think. However, too much caffeine makes him sort of dazed or spacey.

Donnie is the type to be super organized and neat, but as soon as he starts a project, that goes out the window and his workspace becomes his own version of organized chaos.

Both he and Leo sign swears and insults at each other from across the room.

He loves cryptograms and fictional languages and will write messages in writing systems like Anglo-Saxon runes or alien languages (like from Jupiter Jim).

He LOVES drawing blueprints. He is decent artistic already (as shown by the chainsaw-made snow sculpture), but he really enjoys drawing blueprints with a straightedge and ruler and ends up hanging his favorites on the wall.

Donnie has a very high pain tolerance and would do things like poke needles through his epidermis to freak his brothers out.

He is a collector of junk. While most of it is sectioned off and organized, he also has bins of spare wires, screws, and tubes.

When he was young, he took apart everything. Nothing was ever safe. Radios, music boxes, flashlights, etc., all would be taken apart and strewn about to be studied.

Donnie is a proud Oxford Comma supporter!

He cannot use the same dish twice. If it is out of his sight for a minute, it is automatically contaminated. (Splinter hates this)

He loves nerdy science songs or science parodies of songs.

However, he also loves musical theatre and does mini performances of soundtracks.

He is constantly over-prepared. He keeps a first aid kit, flashlight, swiss army knife, pen, pencil, etc. in his battle shell at all times.

Because Donnie is much more flexible than his brothers due to his soft shell, he often sits in weirdly contorted positions that they cringe at.

When he was 5, Splinter wrote "good job" on a slip of paper and Donnie has kept it ever since.

He talks like an old man. For instance, he complains about "punk youths" and the state of the younger generations, despite being one of the said punk youths.

This is all for now. I always think of more, so I may make a second post of this with new ones I think of. Most of these are just from my own childhood.

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 1 month

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Not gonna get into it on the post because discourse™ but I too enjoy Shaun's YouTube videos but find his views on voting etc a bit iffy. I didn't actually come across them on his twitter but I watch his streams sometimes and it comes up there too.

Like to be clear my own plan here is like. Lie to my local Labour MP about not voting for them if they don't get their shit together, but when it comes to it vote for them anyway because what else can you do. Like there's a very real additional human cost to the least awful guy not getting in so I can't really morally justify actually witholding my vote. But I CAN justify pretending (to them) that I'm considering it. And it seems like he's one step further than me on the extremity scale in that he advocates for actually witholding your vote and it's like. Look I get all your reasons. Labour in the UK/Democrats in the US are complicit in some truly awful things right now and I'm absolutely furious about it. But what could you achieve by witholding your vote that you cannot achieve simply by lying about it?

To be clear I'm absolutely one of the most truthful (honesty is a different matter and I don't feel qualified to comment on my own, but in terms of literal truth-telling I CAN claim this) people I know. But this is one of the few situations where I'm like. I think the most ethical thing to do is to lie actually?

Yeah no I'm in total agreement with you there.

At the end of the day, actually withholding your voting or voting for the Green Party as a protest vote are the most useless political actions you can take. Your intention with it doesn't matter when the outcome is the Tories or Republicans getting more power and enacting more of their policies that are going to hurt the vulnerable people that you care about.

It's very LARPy. You insist you're doing something principled and meaningful and acting like a "good leftist", but you're not. Intentions don't automatically equate to outcomes and in this case, we know that they are not synonymous.

Meanwhile, things like directly threatening to withhold your vote can do something, especially at a local level where the candidates are much more likely to actually hear that threat.

I mean, in general, there's a lot more you can do politically at a local level. Local politicians can better hear your demands and are much more likely to meet them. You can often communicate with them one on one and because a lot of people are barely bothered to get involved when the Big Election rolls around, you can get shit done because no one else is there to oppose you.

It's one of the things that really irks me about the withdraw-your-vote crowd because they act is if electoral politics is useless, and completely ignore the very existence of local politics.

Also one of the things I find very frustrating is the way critiques of the labour party or of the democrats are almost never followed up with any action. Like if you want to shift these parties further left, get involved with them. Starting your own party is not gonna work because you won't be able to get the votes or the seats or whatever to have any real power as a party. Good thing there's two nominally left-wing, already existing parties that you can very easily get involved with and push for more leftist policies within them.

When people like Shaun talk about genuinely abstaining from voting and from electoral politics in general, I feel the exhaustion seep into my bones. They're basically advocating for us to hand political power over to the right wing on a silver platter because well, the platter itself wasn't of perfect quality so let's just give the whole thing away, ay?

#a-commas-a-pause #genuinely lying to your local MP about withdrawing your vote is one of the better political actions you can take at this point #youre actively doing something with a set goal in mind and a plan as to how to achieve that goal #meanwhile just withdrawing your vote does nothing to further your cause and is not a good avenue to communicate a cohesive message #sure you think youre telling biden he needs to withdraw support for israel but is that message actually getting transmitted to the dems?#or are they gonna think that they arent appealing to young leftist voters and shift their attention towards more centre right voters who #oppose trump but are still right wing

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displayheartcode · 1 year

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2K into this newest fic 😭 😭 😭 😭

#i'm still debating on what level of slowburn that i want #but hey it still needs 1000000 billion more scenes #it's more like a loose collection of scenes and only my overuse of commas and em-dashes are keeping it together #unrequited love switcheroo heeeeeeeeere we go #rachel in real life

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