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The big stuff I'd usually announce is in my Fanon Con blog, so you're gonna have to wait for Friday to get the big goods.

The next Support Group meeting is next Saturday, March 25th, at 9PM EST over on the BTFF EX chat.

Submissions for the Spring 2017 Fanon Con are due today, so make sure to submit your work on time!

I've started making badge art for pages that are fairly iconic but have art too outdated to be used on badges. This should open up a lot of freedom for pages that can be featured on badges, so be sure to bring up anything that comes to mind, and make sure to check out the list of badges that still need replacing.

Most people think of the term "vacation" as a positive thing; a chance to get away from it all. One also usually associates a vacation with traveling, but in the case of an introvert, a traveling vacation can hardly be called a vacation at all if one wishes to keep the positive meaning of the term. I generally find travel to be rather boorish and uncomfortable, and would much rather spend my time off sleeping in my own bed, thank you very much.

Lesson 1: Run-On Sentences

Have you ever been listening to someone drone on and on and wishing they would just shut up already? Well, run-on sentences are kind of like that, but for your readers.

A run-on sentence, to be more precise is a sentence made up of two or more different statements, AKA Independent Clauses, that could be separated by periods. For example: Doesn't something about that sentence rub you the wrong way? That's because this sentence is made up of three Independent Clauses; one is a statement about deciding to go to the beach, one tells us they got to the beach, and one tells us they put on sunscreen. To correct this sentence, you simply need to add some punctuation like so: Note that the second and third clauses were separated by a comma instead of a period. If I had used a period, it would have interrupted the flow of words and become a Fragmented Sentence, which is basically the opposite problem and an issue for next week. Note that using a comma to join clauses into a sentence isn't always a good idea. For example: This kind of run-on sentence is called a Comma Splice. It occurs when you use a comma to haphazardly join two different statements. A comma splice is never good on it's own; however, it can be fixed by adding a Conjunction (and, but, for, nor, yet, or, so) like so: Note that if your sentence is getting too long via overuse of conjunctions, you should replace some of them with straight-up periods. On the other hand, keep in mind that a sentence doesn't always have to be long to be a run-on sentence; it just has to have separate statements forced into a single line.
 * We decided to go to the beach when we got to the beach I put on sunscreen.
 * We decided to go to the beach. When we got to the beach, I put on sunscreen.
 * We decided to go the beach, when we got to the beach, I put on sunscreen.
 * We decided to go to the beach, and when we got to the beach, we put on sunscreen.

That's about it for this week, so it's time for a pop quiz! Try to figure out which of the following are run-on sentences, and then open the Spoiler Text to see if you were right!
 * 1) I did not want to eat my broccoli I threw it on the ground.
 * 2) I didn't think highly of my neighbor, u



Art Corner

Batdrill Movie Design

By ChromastoneandTabby

New art for Batdrill in the style of the upcoming Not Applicable movie.

Some previously unseen pictures of toys for the Ben 10 reboot have surfaced, bringing to light a few new designs. Most of the new pictures show off cybernetic armor for the aliens, but one of the new pictures seems to reveal a brand new alien suspiciously similar to Rocks from the original continuity. You can find these pictures, as well as discussions about them, on this thread over at BTP.

Well, that's it for this Sunday, folks. I hope you enjoyed the forty third issue of The CaT Gazette, and I'll see you next week! Feedback and support are appreciated!