I don't know where it's from or what it's called, all I remember is the logical intersection of power tools and genitalia and a number of people who somehow missed that fucking hell aaaaaaaaaaaa
Great, now I'm remembering the Darwin Awards and one that went to someone who read that you could make a sex toy by hooking a cow heart up to an electrical current (which... already seems like a bad plan) and then used house AC.
On the other hand, deliberately changing one thing in a scene and exploring how that difference pans out, or getting to a scene with changed premises and exploring how these changed premises affect the scene can be an interesting thing. On the topic of punctuation, my excuse is that I'm ESL, my first English teacher was subpar, spell checking is the fucking devil, and now I'm doing punctuation and capitalization the way it makes sense to me whiiiich is pretty German. Conversation punctuation is fucking weird and makes no sense. Where does the damn comma go, and how does it interact with other punctuation. I think it eats periods?
"DIY sex toys" is reminding me of a Something Positive strip where Aubrey was explaining to an injured employee why her worker's comp claim got blocked; "We are nerdrotica.com, not fuckingmachines.com. You may not modify any sex toys for any reason. Affixing a dildo to the business end of a gas-powered jackhammer counts as modifying."
Yeah, it's just a replacement for a period when there's a dialogue tag. e.g., you'd say: Since a period reads as a much longer and harder pause than a comma, if you used one there, some people will parse it as if it's two separate thoughts- ...and it sounds disjointed and weird. Commas also get used when you're interrupting a sentence with a dialogue tag in the middle: The commas are there to quarantine off the non-dialogue bits as something that's a related part of the sentence, but not quite the same stuff. Other end punctuation goes in more sensibly: ENGLISH!
Thank you!! It appears I remembered some wrong. What you showed off makes a lot of sense. What I had thought was the rules (aka what I've seen around...) made a lot less sense and frankly looked very weird. Starting with the comma always being there, and behind the quotation mark.
Punctuation for dialogue is always inside the quotation marks, but that's less "people will read this as a different thing" and more "people will see the thing that's against established convention and be pulled out of the story because it Looks Wrong." I've also seen people make other mistakes with it, like putting a comma before something that isn't a dialogue tag. e.g. ...means she said "[Thing]," and then smiled. ...implies that she spoke by smiling. Again. ENGLISH! :::PPP
One of the Legendary Badfics in which Sawney Rath yelled at Tagg for breaking down in a puddle of tears made me think that Tagg had finally become so out-of-character that even the other also-out-of-character characters had noticed. I love it when that happens.
... REALLY wish band fandoms would mark their bloody RPF as such, so I could just filter for RPF instead of having to add each individual band name every time I do a tag search for a porn trope. I am not comfortable seeing ABO fic and all it implies pop up attached to the names of actual living human beings. Not gonna tell you not to do it, not least cause I know it won't work, just gimme an easy tag to filter plz.
When the same author's portrayal of the same character becomes a completely different person and/or has a completely different appearance in fics with different pairings just to better fit with seme/uke stereotypes.
Or, more recently, Alpha/Omegaverse. Also known as fem!Tony Stark would not actually happily wander around being the er... Consort of the rest of the (conveniently not gender bent) Avengers
Addition; especially when neither of the author's depictions fits them. Severus Snape is neither a fragile tiny femboy nor a giant muscular hairy gorilla. Princess Kurda is neither a fainting virgin nor a gigantic hobag.
I was thinking of the author of Little Miss Mary who did another fic with uke!Snape somewhere or other. The portrayals clashed badly. Not quite as bad as the guy who got a character's dialogue equally OOC in two entirely different ways within three sentences of the same story, but yeah.
The character, who canonically is a stoic sensible non-tantrum-throwing type in a children's book, was yelling at a friend who had done something he thought had ruined his reputation; he called her behaviour "utter cow-skite" and then two sentences later casually dropped in "fuck". I love abrupt tone changes, don't you?
