sometimes you start reading a fic and immediately you’re like OH this was written by a child. okay. please know that i am proud of you but also i cannot keep reading this
“this kid is in eighth grade, and their teacher just told them that using ‘said’ is bad, so they’re plumbing the depths of the dictionary for every single other dialogue tag that exists - and some that don’t - and I’m proud of them for expanding their vocabulary, but I must depart all the same”
This needs to be like on this post for reals
But hey, remember, no matter how many different words you use for “said,” you cannot equal Frances Hodges Burnett in “A Little Princess.”
Namely: “Ejaculated.”
There are these two mean girls ™ - Lavinia and Jesse? I think? Anyway, at one point the text is all, “Goodness me,” Lavinia ejaculated, “how we can calculate!”
sm0l(but having gone through US 5th grade)! Subtilior:
Anyway. There’s a lot of ejaculate flying around those pages, is all I’m saying. Stick with “said.”
