The Contrabass Saxophone Is Such An Absurd Instrument

born to write 20k word fanfics, forced to give up at the 5k mark

The Predator (2018) had no business making the Loonies so adorable. The scene in the motel where Casey is sleeping off a tranquilliser and the guys just put stuff around her in an attempt for her to have comfort when she wakes up to a room full of army (and three marines) guys. One even puts down a cup and saucer of what may be tea next to her. There’s a collection of little things and an alfoil unicorn.

Later in the scene they’re helping one of them who said something because of his Tourettes (played by an actor with Tourettes and the director wrote his character having Tourettes so he could tic comfortably in front of the camera) and they’re all like nah he said this and Casey’s like ?? Another adorable moment.

When they’re in Quinn’s wife’s (ex?) house and they’re all wanting to watch tv?

When Casey says the predator dog is hers now and they all follow along with it?

I knew I would enjoy this movie ONLY because of the little team they made and their adorableness. (And because I think Olivia Munn, who plays Casey, is pretty.

One night, you decide to put your phone under your pillow. When you wake up in the morning, your phone is replaced by cash totaling what you paid for your phone. Turns out the tooth fairy takes more than just teeth.

the six types of friends within found family tropes (according to me)

I came up with this in bed at 2 am... enjoy(?)

the gay one

the “I know this plan is gonna turn out bad but i’m still gonna go through with it”

the “if i don’t have a sip of alcohol in five minutes i’m gonna kill myself” 

the “i swear guys THEY'RE the one...”

the “i have underlying mommy/daddy issues and i need to see someone about it”

the “how can i scam my way out of this” 

(these can overlap)

to this day possibly one of my best ideas. someone get me a pitch meeting with the hallmark channel

YES! This is something that I often think about. Modern media doesn’t excite me that much when there’s romance. I’m a sucker for communication and I get so frustrated these days.

My taste in romance has less to do with how romantic the relationship actually is (though that is a bonus) and more to do with how interesting I find the dynamic between the couple. Which is why fluffy vanilla romance usually bores the hell out of me. I want to see how these characters dramatically affect each other and fundamentally change each other and their individual understandings of the world!!! I want to see a beautiful tie-in between the romance and the themes + messages of the story and how it all builds to a climax!!!

Did the police ever consider that McKay drilling a hole in her ankle monitor was hot and she shouldn’t be arrested for it???

I’m so mad at season 4, how dare they kill JJ? I watched it ages ago and I was so furious. I went back onto ao3 to see people’s perspectives on JJ’s death and I’m glad I’m not the only one.

Since they did kill him off - and I stand by that they could’ve done that better, having Groff be the one kill him was so awful and I could go on but I won’t.

JOHN B SHOULDVE BEEN BAWLING. THEYVE KNOWN EACH OTHER FOR YEARS AND THAT WAS IT??????

It should’ve been so much more. There should’ve been so much more emotion. Yeah I get Kie is was the girlfriend but JB was his best friend for so long they’ve been through so much together and idk but I was hoping for a super emotional death, not just John B just kneeling there.

I was looking forward to more jj and shoupe content but that won’t be happening (thanks to one fic, I’ve absolutely craved more of those two)

I’m so glad the fandom is writing about those final moments and putting so much emotion into it, I love you all

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.”

I could watch this man make chocolate forever