Gothic Potato

why is “get ___ed idiot” one of the funniest sentences in the english language

get verbed idiot, the sequel to “ok nounboy”

get verbed nounboy

World Heritage Post

OH SHIT IT'S UNTUCK TUESDAY

Too bad it’s wednesday rn

happy wang out wednesday sunday

happy wang out wednesday sunday monday

this is an example of defamiliarization, where something totally normal, conventional, and ordinary - like honkwiching - is taken and described as something that sounds weird and foreign

( <= green bean

( <= chili pepper

. <= blueberry

=3 <= broccoli

● <= orange

. <= pea

• <= plum

<3< <= strawberry

<==}< <= carrot

~<O{ <= beetroot

°o8~ <= grapes

Ó <= apple

88- <= raspberry

c'ɔ <= bell pepper

cc’ɔɔ <= pumpkin

-8 <= cherries

☆{ } <= pineapple

¶\__________ <= garden hose (to water all the plants)

alright everyone good work gardening today. Let's all head inside and get some lemonade now

|■| <= lemonade

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

Things I didn’t know

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

best m/f ship dymanic is “extremely cool/likable girl who could have anyone she wants but she chooses the loserboy nerd”

what is THE worst thing you've ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why

this post is getting 50k easy

This WOULD be how humanity would go out though tbh