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Do you like looking at the stars when the night sky finally hits?

ohhhh i would love to; unfortunately, where i am, light pollution is extremely bad and its hard to see anything up there during the regular night

the only times i've gotten to see the night sky and all of the stars has been when the power goes out, but even so its still difficult...

my dad has a telescope that we sometimes bring out to look at the planets! its not a very powerful one, but we can at least see saturn's rings and jupiter's red spot through it :]

WOOOOOOOOO

Happy first anniversary, Love of the S*n!

Love of the S*n released last year on this day, January 31st.

The Room

HI since you're a fellow writer [from what i've read, hah, WRITER PUN- anyways], HOW DO YOU PROPERLY WRITE DIALOGUE TAGS. like the. "Hello," she picked up a coffee mug and took a sip, "my name is Kaley." or the "BACK OFF!" They screamed in unison. like... am i doing it right or 😭 this is something that always pesters me whenever i write cause i have no idea to ask google about it

HI THERE YES HELLO THSNK YOU FOR ACLNOWLEDGING ME!!!!!

i LOVE dialogue tags because you can do so much with them and they inherently have so much variety—but they can be difficult to get the hang of, especially cause there are a ton of TINY annoying grammatical rules that go with them

as the CEO of tiny annoying grammatical rules i am HERE to HELP

SO!

“Hello,” she picked up a coffee mug and took a sip, “my name is Kaley.”

this would be totally correct IF the “picked up a coffee mug and took a sip” was replaced with said or mumbled or barked or whatever, BUT you’ve replaced those possible dialogue tags with an action

a big mistake i see a LOT is writers treating actions like they’re interchangeable with dialogue tags, and, in turn, giving them the same punctuation when they’re used with a pause in dialogue, but they are NOT!!!!!!!!! the same thing

the action is separate from the speech—she didn’t say hello by picking up a mug that emitted the sound for her, she said hello AND picked up a mug, then continued with her sentence.

since closing the dialogue with a comma denotes that the following text is supposed to be a dialogue tag, you’d use em-dashes for actions interrupting the speech instead!

“Hello—” she picked up a coffee mug and took a sip, “—my name is Kaley.”

alternatively, you could include a dialogue tag and connect it to the action with a conjunction if you wanted!

“Hello,” she said as she picked up the coffee mug, “my name is Kaley.”

(i omitted the “took a sip” part from this example because she presumably can’t speak while taking a sip from her cup</3)

AND!

“BACK OFF!” They screamed in unison.

this one’s almost perfectly fine, but remember not to capitalize any words that come after dialogue unless the end of the dialogue ends the ENTIRE sentence. since “they screamed” is the tag for “BACK OFF!”, and thus continues the sentence, you would leave “they” lowercase.

this used to trip me up for a while because often times, you’ll have a piece of dialogue where the speaker’s sentence is over, but the actual entire sentence isn’t—and that’s what you have here, for example! in this scenario, you wouldn’t capitalize the dialogue tag.

“BACK OFF!” they screamed in unison.

you WOULD keep it capitalized if it was an action after the speech (in a new sentence)!

In unison, they screamed, “BACK OFF!” Then they both punched you in the face at the same time and you died. Or something.

and—side note—if this weren’t an exclamation mark, it would be a comma, not a period, even though it’s still the end of the speaker’s sentence! a period at the end of the dialogue ALWAYS ends the entire sentence, so if a dialogue tag is coming after it, the period must be replaced with a comma.

assuming “back off” is the entire statement said by the speakers, “Back off.” They said in unison. would be incorrect, while “Back off,” they said in unison. would be correct!

(exclamation marks, question marks, and other punctuation marks can basically function as both a period and a comma)

THATS ALL I GOT !!

trying to google punctuation rules is So Annoying BUT i hope i helped at least a bit!!!

i know i tend to talk in circles because i love talking about writing rules to an excruciating degree but i hope i got my points across and everything 😎

also i love your art💔

hey guys whats your favorite object characters? [not even sure if anyone will see this LOL]

You will be found.

mouse :3

Predictions for TPOT 17? 👀

predictions? PREDICTIONS? YOU'RE TELLING ME TO PREDICT WHEN IM CLUTCHING THE EDGE OF MY SEAT IN FEAR... IN HORROR AT WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN TO US. my friend, i am rocking back and forth anxiously while chattering my teeth because i am in fear... in Grave, grave fear for my fellows and their mental states... when this thing drops. its Over. my prediction: We're cooked. OR>.. maybe we're not cooked,,,,.. and its going to be happy. Everything's fine its okay! <3 OKAY FR THOUGH. actual predictions: in the teaser image, the room that's lit up is two and gaty's hangout room [yknow, in TPOT 9 when gaty was concerned for two and sat on the couch up there?] this is Bad. Very bad. This could only mean a few things.. and those few things are NOT GOOD another thing that's actually a prediction for TPOT 18- i feel like three is going to appear in tpot 18 since 18 is a multiple of 3! just think about it.... 6*3 = 18... tpot 18.... 3..... YEAH

uh. twogaty is fine everything's fine! tpot 17 is going to include two and gaty and everyone else super happy and eating cake and stuff and everyone dances and OH YEAH one gets sent back to the moon TRUST 🙏🙏🙏

Can you draw Puffball?

she's planning devious activities!!

Can you draw my comfort characters Minka Mark and Madison Spaghettini hanging out with my oc Discovery Family please?

here ya go!

hourfal image dump because i said so