Being A Symbolism Enjoyer Should Humble You Because At The End Of The Day No Matter How Eloquently You

"This story is a tragedy because it didn't have to end this way."

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"This story is a tragedy because it was always going to end this way."

The thing that gets me about book 7 is that what pushed Malleus over the edge wasn't just "Losing Lilia." Of course, that was a lot of it. Losing the person who raised him, who's been in pretty much all of his memories– that would affect anyone, really.

But that wasn't the final nail in the coffin. What was the last thing that happened before he overblotted?

Silver broke down. It was the moment he saw Silver cry that he made the choice to cast that spell. It wasn't just about Malleus losing his parent guardian, but Silver losing his father, and anyone else losing the people they love. That's what got him.

Contrary to how it may seem I do have designs for all the ocs I post about here it's just that I have no drawing skills to speak of and no patience to gain them so I use a particular app and I have various bad experiences with posting my use of this app

I may be peak cringe but actually seeing me at true peak cringe is reserved for friends. Do I really want to post this on Tumblr. Do I actually care

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.”

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who called him UGLY? your baby Malleus is beautiful and I love him so very much. He is just a little guy! A single brain cell bounces around in his little head and when it hits a corner he has one (1) single thought!

lilia agrees he is a dapper little lad.

Quick reminder that it's always morally correct to punch nazis.

I need to know what Aha's thought process when blowing up the Astral Express was. They spent, what, a year on the train before it happened? That takes planning. That takes dedication. Did Akivili do something to anger them? Aha had to assume that would attract THEIR attention, right? Did they just think, as they often do, "Oh, this is gonna be so fucking funny," and then dedicate a year to this prank? I need to know what was going through their head.

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