A First Attempt After Trying Out A Few Tips.

Very useful!

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

I’m absolutely stunned by her work

I've been told that there are rumors about me using AI for my paintings. Please use some common sense, I've been posting on DeviantART since 2003 and sharing full video recordings on Patreon since 2018. If I'm a fake, wouldn't my Patrons have noticed by now? Since AI has been turning artists against each other, accusing each other of using AI, I have no choice but to share of some the Patreon rewards as proof. Here is the 10 full video recordings of me painting A Thousand Skies from scratch

I built the 3D model base for this painting in Sketchup, which you can see here

When AI was at it's infancy, I was very excited to have a new tool to help me make comics. Long time followers will know I struggled with repetitive strain injury that forced my comic making to a crawl. A decade before AI, I was experimenting with 3D backgrounds for comics.

I still remember the hate I got for using 3D models in my comic backgrounds, even though today nobody blinks at other artists doing the same. 3D is now accepted as a tool to help artists create. I even remember hate for being digital instead of traditional.

I tested out painting over AI generated backgrounds a few times in the very early stages of AI. There are a lot of screenshots taken out of context from my Discord where I share how I paint everything with complete transparency.

The only other time I've used AI in my art is for a gag scene in my comic, the full context is my character, Vance, who is a weeb and tech nerd, was objectifying women by seeing them as anime cat girls pasted over AI flower backgrounds.

If I had downloaded a flower stamp brush from ClipStudio and made a similar flower background, nobody would care. But somehow this is not okay even though it fits the theme and joke of the comic?

It's 2AM where I am now so I won't say much else other than I wish people would stop taking my posts out of context. With everything going on in the world, artists should support each other, not make up reasons to hurt each other.

an au that makes 0% sense and i 100% am invested in ; v ; )

“I might not understand your grief. Your rage. Everything that led you here… but I know all about solid bonds!!” | Happy birthday Jo @bohkutos​

HEY, GUYS, LISTEN UP. This is the most important post I’ll ever be making so please read it

@just-some-spoopy-shit said I could make them a one note a day post.

They’ve been feeling suicidal lately and could really use the support. They’re a really great person, and my new friend. I want to help them, they don’t deserve this. 

So please, reblog, like, tag as many people as you can.

THIS IS SERIOUS, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE THIS.

Tagging some people to help boost this: @thehugwizard @one-note-one-day @one-note-for-one-day 

And some mutuals: @actuallyaprilshxwers​ @more-like-reyna @whythefuckdoiexist @i-love-books-and-i-cannot-lie @i-am-a-cherry @ice-dispenser @fanvergentinanexistentialcrisis @daughter-of-hades1218 @daughter-of-poseidon-97 @crispnebula @wannabe-santiago @geekyapollokid @my-apollo-gies @thebigqueer @quevens-reblogs @themoosegoes-deanicandothis @reddish-green-personality @poseidons-baby-gurl @chaotic-and-friendly @chasing-the-persea @multi-fandoms-posts @lancetherewriter @aster-tyche @pumpkinghost67 @secret-eden @didnt-want-to-be-a-halfblood @didyouputyournameinthegobi @holding-infinity-and-a-book @damdemigodishness @stars-triumphant @alltheglowingeyess @grace-k-sterling @slytherclaw-lair @fangirling-inc @idiots-of-olympus @sarcasticallywitty15 @solangeloiscanonyay @surebutyourenotnicodiangelo @marvelpjostarwarsobssessed @the-ghost-king @padfootalltheway @awesomegirl72 @nyx-is-festive

No Love to Hide

yandere hawks x reader, past enji x reader

summary; trading one god for another is like trading poisons; hawks may be sweeter but he’s so much worse

a/n; technically this is a sequel to this fic but also like i feel like u can read this on its own pretty okay

tw; mentions of rape, kidnapping

word count; 4.2k

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The gods are selfish. They don’t mean to be, but when your existence spans millennia, it’s hard to think of how one decision will affect a mortal’s life. An ant has no quarrel with a boot.

The gods are selfish, you know this firsthand. A god stole your childhood from you, forced you from the bright flirtations of youth to the heavy responsibilities of adulthood far too soon, ripped your mortality from you like plucking a particularly beautiful bloom. 

Poseidon may have stolen your life, but you built it back. You created a haven, a safe house, an asylum for persecuted women to flee for. The refuge you wish you had been able to flee to, when Enji first came into your life. 

Another god had taken it all from you. Or rather, had taken you from it, but it didn’t really matter. Nothing did, anymore.

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Obsidian and Ivory (Part One)

(1: You Are Here!) (2) (3) (4)

Summary: As a child, Tamaki Amajiki could have grown up to be a piano playing prodigy - until one unpleasant incident in the past killed all his passion for the instrument and permanently drove a wedge between him and his demanding mother.

Tamaki swore he’d never play the piano again, that he’d never want to.

…But that was before he met you.

Warnings: Anxiety, Tamaki’s emotionally manipulative, ableist and abusive mom (I’m so sorry, Tamaki!)

Other than that, this story is mostly pure fluff!

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I find ironic is that most people often forget it was a Catholic Priest named Georges Lemaître who originally suggested the theory of the Big Bang.

Change my mind.