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FINALLY COMPLETED!! My first full-size pixel art illustration, based on a screenshot of the Svalbard data center from Pantheon. This was an idea I've been stewing on for the better part of a year, and only recently got the confidence to go for it! I was very inspired by the style of 8pxl, especially how they do clouds!

“For most dialogue, use a comma after the sentence and don’t capitalize the next word after the quotation mark,” she said.

“But what if you’re using a question mark rather than a period?” they asked.

“When using a dialogue tag, you never capitalize the word after the quotation mark unless it’s a proper noun!” she snapped.

“When breaking up a single sentence with a dialogue tag,” she said, “use commas.”

“This is a single sentence,” she said. “Now, this is a second stand-alone sentence, so there’s no comma after ‘she said.’”

“If you’re breaking dialogue up with an action tag–” She waves her hands back and forth. “–the dashes go inside the quotation marks. This cues the reader that a pause happened in the speech.”

“Whereas if the speaker isn’t pausing their speech,” she continues, putting her hands on her hips, “you would use the commas and keep it as one sentence, with the action verb in the middle formed into a present participle. This cues the reader that speech and action are happening simultaneously, rather than sequentially.”

after some thought on the matter i have come to this conclusion

yes blaseball the sim is no longer running. but blaseball is not just the sim, but also the community, AND the stories we tell about it. we're only done with ONE of those 3 things

i dont know how many of you are, like myself, also dr who fans. but fun fact! the most prolific incarnation of the doctor is actually the one with the LEAST tv appearances!! because you know what??? after the tv movie came out in 1996, fans took the 8th doctor and just MADE stuff: novels, audio dramas, comics! theres a whole name for that era, even (the wilderness years)!!! and then in 2005, another fan convinced the BBC to let him reboot the series!! the most recent showrunner was a member of the dr who appreciation society all the way back when he was 16 or so in the 80s! and two of the main series incarnations of the doctor (david tennant + peter capaldi) have been fans of the show since they were kids!

and even outside of official stuff, dr who fans have been known for our efforts to catalogue and share stuff for a long time now — there are lost episodes from the 60s that we still have audio of because people watching recorded it! even within dw tumblr, if you say, hey does anyone have anywhere to watch / read / listen to this specific thing, you can get like 3 links from 3 different people within an hour!

what we need to do is we need to make like dr who fans. tell all our favorite stories! and make everything we want to! its a brave new world — but we already have a start in cataloguing and in just HAVING the communities we do

60k people inspired by this little splort.

as much as we all joke that we do not mention homestuck in the community, and as much as I don't think they are anything alike in content, i do think that they are alike in the way they have inspired so many people.