Bring Back The Fun

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Lance appreciation sketches! He is a good guy and a selfless cinnamon roll!! QHQ) 

@bootthesnoot OOpsiE you made my day again u precious human being-

I love and adore you so very much and now I'm inspired to get my ass back on artzy stuff <3<3<3<3<328738374737

whenever people are like “SKETCHING CIRCLES IN SAI IS SO HARD” im like

DADVOR ;3;

I keep thinking about Jesse doing something particularly reckless while out on an adventure and a very exasperated Ivor giving them an earful of a lecture while patching them up, and Jesse says something along the lines of, “Ivor, it’s not that bad; really, I’m fine. I’m not a kid.”

And Ivor just frustratedly snaps back, “Well, you’re my kid!”

And then there’s just, like…twelve seconds of heavy silence.

Just a little reminder not to check up on the toxic person you left. Don’t check their socials. Don’t hit them up to see how they’re doing. Your peace of mind is too important to get wrapped up in it all again.

how do i know when to use -, –, or —? i know the short one is for between words (like twenty-two) but i’m not sure how to know which length to use when writing it into the sentence (i hope i phrased that right??). are there rules? does it matter?

You’re going to be able to find a lot more in depth answer here. But the short of it is:

- : This is a hyphen.

– : This is an en-dash.

— : This is an em-dash.

The hyphen is used to connect words, like you say. Ex: Twenty-two, ex-boyfriend.

The en-dash is used in the context of a span of time. Ex: 1996–2018, February–March.

The em-dash is used when inserting a thought. Ex: He wouldn't—couldn't—go home.

Good question! Hope this helps 😊

This one kinda blew up on tweeter

my dad–also a writer–came to visit, and i mentioned that the best thing to come out of the layoff is that i’m writing again. he asked what i was writing about, and i said what i always do: “oh, just fanfic,” which is code for “let’s not look at this too deeply because i’m basically just making action figures kiss in text form” and “this awkward follow-up question is exactly why i don’t call myself a writer in public.”

he said, “you have to stop doing that.”

“i know, i know,” because it’s even more embarrassing to be embarrassed about writing fanfic, considering how many posts i’ve reblogged in its defense.

but i misunderstood his original question: “fanfic is just the genre. i asked what you’re writing about.” 

i did the conversational equivalent of a spinning wheel cursor for at least a minute. i started peeling back the setting and the characters, the fic challenge and the specific episode the story jumps off from, and it was one of those slow-dawning light bulb moments. “i’m writing about loneliness, and who we are in the absence of purpose.”

as, i imagine, are a lot of people right now, who probably also don’t realize they’re writing an existential diary in the guise of getting television characters to fuck. 

“that’s what you’re writing. the rest is just how you get there, and how you get it out into the world. was richard iii really about richard the third? would shakespeare have gotten as many people to see it if it wasn’t a story they knew?”

so, my friends: what are you writing about?