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Punctuating Dialogue

➸ “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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Restaurant Phantom

Danny as a restaurant owner in Gotham or something similar The thing is that, as Danny's customers are mostly villains, they are immortal beings. From Ra's al-Ghul, Vandal Savage, and even Queen Hippolyta and few others. For Vandal and Ra's, it was to taste things they had not eaten for hundreds of years and to taste the original flavor that doesn't exist anymore.

And Hippolyta saw the restaurant as she visited her daughter in man's land and didn't know why but ate in it in the end. It had been a long time since she ate those good old traditional ancient Greek dishes.

So Danny's restaurant with his assistant Dani became a pretty famous place for people who are older than you think. And with them, other people joined: Ra's group, Vandal Light, Hippolyta Amazons, a few Greek gods, and even Dr. Fate and Klarion with others.

It was more or less a neutral zone for them to just eat and maybe chat. until JL found out about it.

Danny just had fun to cook the food for them, it was fun to cook things he learned in the Ghost Zone, he was surprised people even knew the names of it.

He had no idea how Mr Savage knew it was Mammoth Meat.

Short DPXDC Prompts #176

Jason Todd gets mistaken for Jack Fenton

Oh boy, I love this! :-)

Idk What To Put Here So Uhmm Please Just Take Those *:・゚✧ Sparkly *:・゚✧ Renaissance Batman
Idk What To Put Here So Uhmm Please Just Take Those *:・゚✧ Sparkly *:・゚✧ Renaissance Batman
Idk What To Put Here So Uhmm Please Just Take Those *:・゚✧ Sparkly *:・゚✧ Renaissance Batman
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Idk what to put here so uhmm please just take those *:・゚✧ sparkly *:・゚✧ renaissance Batman redesigns

I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
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I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
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I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits
I Feel Confident Enough To Post These Now. A Collection Of All The Existing Posters After Some Edits

I feel confident enough to post these now. A collection of all the existing posters after some edits from the other post that got 13k notes! These are full size/quality. Go nuts.

You may use them for wallpapers, tabletop campaigns, whatever. Consider tipping me (do people use kofi for that or tumblr's built in system? Let me know what you prefer) or buying a print or sticker here! If you do use them, let me know what for, or send pictures!

AU where instead of “Bruce Wayne” being a mask he uses to cover up he’s Batman the Batman persona is the act and he’s just actually a dumbass himbo whenever he’s not doing Batman shit. Nobody in the Justice League knows this until one of them tells a really good joke and Batman just bursts out laughing and they all freak out trying to figure out if he got his with Joker-Toxin or something until they call the Batcave and Dick is just like, “Oh yeah that’s how he normally is when he isn’t Batman” and now they’re all freaking out for a different reason because what the fuck since when

Yet another DP AU this time Dad Pariah mainly just AU of Reign Storm where when Danny tires to attack Pariah instead of attacking him Pariah is like ‘Whose child is this? I am not killing a literally ghost infant’

Danny is offended and keeps trying to attack Pariah who is just holding him by the scruff of his neck like ‘Where are your parents?’ and then sees Jack and Maddie with literally house full of ghost hunting weapons and is like ‘NOPE! Not happening’

Pariah: ATTENTION DOES THIS CHILD HAVE ANY GHOST PARENTS?

Vlad*Raising arm enthusiastically*

Danny:FUCK NO

Pariah:…Yeah no

Vlad*lowering arm crushing under his breath*

Ends up putting conquest on hold to go see his husband like ‘Hey so we have a kid now can you watch him while I go conquer the human world’…he also brought flowers as a ‘Sorry I kind of went crazy and tried to kill you… and missed multiple anniversaries stuck in a sarcophagus’…there are a lot of flowers.

Clockwork is just there like…. well didn’t see this timeline coming but i’m not complaining, thank you dear I’ll watch Daniel please try not to get shoved into sarcophagus again and be back in time for dinner.

Danny is just sitting there with a hot chocolate Clockwork gave him no idea what the fuck is going on.

Bonus Pariah:I am not trying to kill a literal ghost infant who the fuck would do that

All the other ghosts *Awkwardly avoiding eye contact*

SWW’s Elements Masterpost:

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Primary Elements:

-The Touchables- 

The Elements that I consider make up the Primary Elements are Earth Wind Fire and Water. Typical right? Books taught these as the basics and it clicked with me that these were elements that i could interact with while I casted my magic. Fire from the candles, dirt from the garden, Water from the ocean, smoke from my favorite incense. This is why I consider them to be the Touchable Elements

Earth Moodboard Correspondences Water Moodboard Correspondences Air Moodboard Correspondences Fire Moodboard Correspondences 

Secondary Elements:

-The Untouchables-

Secondary Elements are things that still interact with us but in a less tangible way. Time, Space, Light and Dark make up my second tier of elements. But Storm how can you even classify those as elements? It’s just Light and Dark, and i’m pretty sure Time/space is science NOT magic. But they are still there and they interact with us on the daily. Light for day, Light to help the plants grow, Darkness for rest, Darkness for solitude, Time for each moment you cherish, Time for every bitter-sweet memory, Space for where you vacation to, space for the cosmos and galaxies. They still don’t necessarily physically touch us, but they still interact with our lives and act as a bridge between The last group. Personally i think that the secondary elements are a mesh between both Primary and Tertiary elements.

Light Moodboard Correspondences

Dark Moodboard Correspondences

Time Moodboard Correspondences

Space Moodboard Correspondences

Tertiary Elements:

-The Effectors- 

The easiest way to define these four elements is by the definition of Effect: a change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause. The Elements i consider to be effectors are Luck, Fate, Order and Chaos.  “A Stroke of Luck” “A Twist of Fate”  “Put in Order” “Chaos and confusion” These elements are the ones that help shape and define our overall lives. Ever carry around a lucky pencil to try and boost your chances on that test you didn’t study for? That would fall under the Luck element. Do you ever just find that thing that just CLICKS with you and you feel extremely drawn to it? That would fall under Fate as it is subconsciously calling out to you. Chaos is spontaneous, Chaos is being able to make a spell from random things you find in your junk drawer. It doesn’t make sense why a post it note and a DD battery would make for a good charging station for your crystals but it’s what you’ve got and you make it work. Order is methodical, Order is waiting until 3 am on the night of the full moon to begin your Year and a Day in Witchcraft. Order is doing things the way they have always been done. So the effectors all play a part in shaping our lives both magically and mundane.

Luck Moodboard Correspondences

Fate Moodboard Correspondences

Order Moodboard Correspondences

Chaos Moodboard Correspondences

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More links to come later 

Last updated: 5-31-18

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

Shazam concept: the justice league figures out that the entire Shazamily is shapeshifting children but they put two and two together to get thirty and come to the conclusion that Billy is their adoptive father

I do genuinely believe that the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and arguably the Zelda franchise as a whole, though i myself have played literally none of these games) is closer to fitting the description of ‘Tolkien-esque Fantasy’ than most other movies/shows/games/books etc that claim that label

Like, compare this post by tumblr user wufflesvetinari, which makes an important point about Tolkien’s worldbuilding, and also lives in my head rent free:

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and then these quotes from Jacob Geller’s “Every Zelda is the Darkest Zelda”

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and his conclusions about the messages in Zelda games are thematically very similar to the through-lines about friendship and love in LOTR, and what a lot of authors miss about what makes a fantasy story personal and memorable:

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“A world without joy and humor isn’t a compelling world to fight for” is exactly why there are so many pieces of fantasy media out there that just feel like carbon copies of each other (i’ve seen many posts that explain this better than I can though I can’t find any specific ones at the moment, just know that I didn’t invent this thesis). You’ve got the cool swords, you’ve got the wizards and the spells and the battles, but first and foremost you need the LOVE.

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