butterfly wingss (nina)

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[butterfly-wingss]

!Dead On Main Master Post!

I realised i have a master post for hearth phoenix but not for any other fics soooo here we are.

Hearth Phoenix & tumblr

Jason Todd Phoenix Knight, the red hood, avenger of the unavenged, protector of the forgotten, right hand of the ghost king himself.

Danny Phantom High king of the infinite realms, ghost king, defeater of tyrants, guardian of the vile, embodiment of balance, rumoured ancient in the making.

A Fool for Gold

'Batman and the Justice League have a bunch of watchlists: up and coming inventors, heroes, villains, dangerous groups, humanitarians, etc.

Seems pretty fucking up to divide people of interest up as heroes and villains preemptively. May as well separate them by postcode or gpa at that point. Fucking profiling asses.

But hey Jason is happy to scoop up all the fun people that make those prissy fucks uncomfy.'

OR Jason finds gold looking through Batmans rubbish

Wake Up Call

Jason has absolutely no weird feelings for his inventor. he's definitely going to the guys apartment solely for inventions and nothing else.

Or Jason's brother ruins his day before it even starts. and he maybe has some revelations.

(A fool for gold and Wake up call are completely separate fics they're just similar ideas, i have a lot of inventor danny ideas okay...)

Pulled Apart and Thrown Back Together

Danny’s parents bring his to Gotham for the annual mad science convention and hears an oh so familiar voice.

His online friend who dropped off the face of the planet two years ago.

(then so much other stuff happens this was the hardest fic ever to do a summary for omg just read the tags)

Pulled together chapter 3 art

[butterfly-wingss]

kinda fucked up all my disabilities line up like what do u mean my period is overstimulating me and thats giving me so many panic attacks and all these panic attacks plus cramps means i can’t write or draw and bc i’ve gone so long (abt 2 weeks bc travel) without consistent creativity i have art/writers block which is giving me anxiety…

like i just wanna make my little gays kiss. i have so many to choose from but alas i am dying.

[butterfly-wingss]

back in melb for the first time in years for my sisters wedding and i just need everyone to know i will be giving Gotham trams, signature coffee (gotham smog), joker seasoning (aka chicken salt), and simply the general vibes. and weather.

Also went to the Cartier exhibition on right now and it was gorgeous but i was thinking about how much Selina would want to break in and what hings she would steal

[tenitchyfingers]

“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”

— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

Note the date, people:

That’s 1972

29 years before AVEN was started online,

and 47 years before the present.

And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.

So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.

[queerhumanbeing]

supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this

[freyjawriter24]

It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.

[nitashinori]

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[mossbawn]

people on here are always saying “we NEED a story where the art of storytelling is abandoned” like ugh literary devices are soo annoying like that wouldn’t happen in real life that only happened to further the story (why is there story in my story) why would orpheus turn around when he was explicitly told not to why would icarus fly so close to the sun romeo&juliet catcher in the rye why are they so earnest why pour your heart and soul into anything why bother why cant all art be quippy logical monotony like my marvel movies there’s a void in my heart bc i refused to fill it and the curtains were blue

[mossbawn]

“i hate poetry its so pretentious” but then you reblog a quote or a throwaway line and say “why does this go so hard” you are desperate for poetry you are starved for it and u dont even realise you’re hungry

[butterfly-wingss]

what i nerd is a teen romcom about a class studying rome&juliet and they’re all like ‘this would never happen’ ‘i would do x,y,z instead’ and between classes we see romeo and juliet playing out right in front of us. and all these modern teens falling for the same traps as the characters.

and i don’t want it to be like 16 yr olds i want 13 yr old juliet posting some suicidal shit on her socials so people don’t go looking for her when she runs away to be with romeo but she didn’t tell romeo and by the time he sees it she doesn’t have service/ her phone died so he can’t get a hold of her.

tybalt is her cousin, romeo does fight him, they get suspended. mercutio gets hospitalised and it’s the first real sense that this isn’t cute and fun anymore.

i need a budget and to reread romeo and juliet again PLEASE

my fave part butchered and made teen movie;

R: so i had a dream

M: me too

R: what’d you dream about?

M: that you’re a bitch— oh wait?

R: … so like what if through a series of strange event me being at the party damns someone to die… so i probably shouldn’t go to that party right?

B: … i think that’s called anxiety man

[sorensouls]

My lest favorite thing in dp fanfiction is when people forget some of Danny's quirks

These are just the ones I see people egnore or forget the most often these ARE Canon

1. danny hates Christmas and even if he mellows out he will never love it and the idea he'd visit or even willingly be around his parents that time of year is stupid they are the reason he hates the Holliday

2. danny hates toast

3. danny wants to be an astronaut he's a star nerd (but can't become one after the accident for obvious reasons)

4. tucker and val are the only ones within our main cast that have a healthy normal family, Sam's parents are overprotective and hella pushy, and Danny's parents are also overprotective and VERY self absorbed/negligent

5. tucker is a furry

6. Sam's hair is most likely died (both her parents are blonde)

7. Danny has been tortured by both vlad and Val. Canonically, he is a torture victim

8. Danny is canonically attractive, described as "cute" and "handsome." he's an outcast not for his looks but because of his interests, friends, and his parents

9. Sam is new to town and most likely only met the beginning of that year it's also implied that they have known each other since 3rd grade (but she doesn't know things about him like him hateing Christmas so I'm going with she is new)

10. Danny is a people pleaser and an empath with low self-esteem

11. In Outsiders, Pov danny is seen as a delinquent,

12. Danny is a victim of grooming and sexual assault (spectra) he is also a stalking victim (vlad)

13. Danny didn't want to be a hero but stated, "I have the power to help, so it's my responsibility." If someone is screaming for help, I can't turn away"

14. Danny isn't expecting a thank you or people to like him he's doing this because it is the responsible and right thing to do

15. Danny's crush on Palina is short it lasts for a few episodes, and he gets over it quickly it's the hot, popular crush that we all go through as teens

16. He judges actions, not looks sticks up for the Lil guy/ distrusts authority

17. His sister is the most important person in his life

18. The Fentons have a torture dungeon under the basement

19. Danny is responsible for cleaning up his parents' experiments, the lab, and the portal, and has been for years (wtf)

20. Danny likes wordplay/puns, is a prankster, and is willing to steal and manipulate if a situation calls for it or as payback

21. Danny showers after gym only when everyone has left/is shy of his body (scars/trans headcanons go nuts)

22. Danny is constantly being taken advantage of by his ruges and friends and will egnore toxic behavior/crossed lines at times to keep the person happy and avoid conflict, especially if it's friends or family

23. He has a staring habit

24. His ancestors were witch hunters that went under the name nightingale

25. Bloodblosoms (red roses) that are deadly to ghosts and by extention him

26. Danny is incredibly protective of his sister

27. Sam basically murdered danny with a smile on her face in the "what if I'd never met you episode"

28. Danny has an aunt from his Mums side who lives out in the country and owns a farm (can't remember her name)

29. Danny is described as "taking after his mother" and "just like his mother"

30. The ghost zone is also known to as the infinite realms to the beings living there

31. Ghosts are dead people /pretty obvious/ but was forgotten/changed after s1 [because it was too dark] fanon saloution = multiple types of ghosts

32. Danny's eyes glow green when he's very angry

[reggiemess]

Sometimes people think they're dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something's a Jumanji but oops it's a Torment Nexus.

[reggiemess]

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you'll have yourself a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can't help you there.

[reggiemess]

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn't about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn't a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like "children shouldn't chew gum." There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it's not a trap, it's not a Chocolate Factory.

[ospreyonthemoon]

So a saw trap is a willy wonkas chocolate factory and the twilight zone is a jumanji?

[butterfly-wingss]

Artificial Amity

Okay but what if Amity park is an artificial town.

What I mean by that is what if in like the 50s it was a science experiment to see what happens if you put a bunch of people from a bunch of different places together. (its so diverse for a small town in the mid west. also it's called *Amity* Park.)

Most the people there or at least most who stayed are the kind of people who would up root their lives for science as such it is a very smart community, a community quite literally based in science.

After the first generation of kids is born the organisers of the experiment were asked if they tell the children what this town was made for or not.

They did not.

I’m thinking Danny’s gen is 3 or 4. the Fenton’s were outsiders who moved in because this small town just happened to be possiblly the most ecto dense place in all of America.

They were straight out of collage, they didn’t care about all the papers they were made to sign to stay there. They have ghosts to hunt after all.

When the GIW get to Amity Park because of all the ghost attacks and are met with far more red tape than they thought they would. They are able to operate there and deal with the ghosts however they see fit, however certain buildings are under certain protections and they are not to disturb the people of Amity, they are not allowed to purposely sew seeds of doubt and distrust in the community.

The GIW know Danny Fenton is somehow tied to Phantom, likely working closely with him, giving the ghost all his tech and teaching him how to dismantle theirs. But they can never get to him let alone question him because he keeps enacting all these stupid rules for the experiment!

Danny knows nothing and is just living his life but he’s glad the GIW at least stays away from the school and the library.

[dafuq-is-sleep]

Prompt idea where Danny goes back in time and meets Wonder Woman. It could be on Themyscira during the infini-map situation but I’m personally partial to him meeting Diana during the World Wars.

The basics of it is that for whatever reason, one of the speedsters, a random time traveler, a ghost, or because Clockwork needs Danny to learn something there, he sends him into the past and he quickly ends up meeting Wonder Woman and helping her. He decides to stay with her until he’s finished whatever mission Clockwork’s sent him on and she ends up all but adopting him.

She’s teaching him all her sword tricks and how to fight without relying on his powers as much. The end up getting closer and closer and quickly get to the point where Danny starts subconsciously seeing her as a mother figure. To the point where he accidentally calls her mom, to his eternal mortification. Diana takes this all in stride though, secretly happy that her little warrior called her mom.

Things happen and eventually Danny has to go back to his own time period and his actual life. It’s a very tearful goodbye but it ends with Diana giving Danny a golden wreath crown as a moment of her and her mentally promising to find her little warrior again. She’s fairly certain now that he’s going to be born some time in the future. She doesn’t have much to go off of but gods damn it is she going to try!

Cut to some years later and Diana has become one of the founding members of the Justice League. She still has not found her son but she doesn’t say anything to the other members because she honestly can’t be sure if he’s even been born yet. This all is thrown out the window though when one of the JL members bring up reports of this ghost boy in this little town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. She sees a picture of it an yep, that’s her little boy! He’s even wearing the wreath so that mean he’s met her! She can go see him without risk to the timeline!

She practically sprints all the way to Amity only to find that he’s not here? None of the townsfolk know anything but when she starts instead looking for his human persona she isn’t able to find anything. It’s only when she investigates his parents that she hears, holy shit he’s whimpering in the basement!? She bursts in, ready to defend her baby but the scene she come in on is worse than anything she can imagine. There, on an operating table, is her baby boy. Opened like a gods damned high school science class frog! She can see his organs and knows some of them have been removed.

She does her best to sew him back together and hopes to the gods that his healing will be enough to get him to the Watchtower, all the while he’s crying and calling her mom and saying it hurts, when his parents come back into the lab, guns blazing, ready to fight whatever ghost dared to take their specimen. They were not, however, ready for a very angry and protective mama Wonder Woman who’s fully ready to kill at this point.

[butterfly-wingss]

love love love

[sillysiluriforme]

Improving your art skills isn’t easy; it takes a lot of patience and dedication but it is extremely straightforward. It’s all grinding until you understand 3d shapes, light, color harmonies, and composition ratios. I got good at the process. If I wanted to focus on improvement instead of making comics I could go back to that at any moment.

My issue is that I can’t figure out a good equivalent to that kind of practice with writing ? Like idk. Do I do a bunch of object descriptions ? Do I do a scene with a restricted vocab ?? I don’t knowwwww

It’s hard finding useful advice because online creative spaces are full of self taught “just have fun and be yourself” type people and it’s like. I will have fun later. Right now what I need is to figure out the writing equivalent of filling a page with cubes at different angles.

[wisteriasymphony]

I think the people responding to this with some equivalent of "read more!" are missing the point a little. That would be closer to going to an art museum and looking at Old Masters paintings and trying to think of what you like about their styles—Which can be valuable, yes! But it isn't grinding.

Grinding would be word sprints. NaNoWriMo was killer for this before their whole operation went to shit, but the good thing about that is that they never had copyright over the concept of writing fast. The numbers you go for can be a little arbitrary at first as you figure out what specifically works for you, but 15 minutes is usually the average from what I've seen? Maybe you can get 500 words in 15 minutes. Maybe you can only get 200. Either way, you're exercising the muscles that get ideas from your brain out onto paper.

Here's some other ideas I came up with for more specific exercises:

Wordsketching for Settings

Go outside (or stay inside?), practically anywhere. Sit down and angle yourself in a way that lets you get a good view of where you're at, and then pick the first things that jump out to you about the place you're in and describe them in 2-3 sentences. Then, figure out what you're drawn to next and write sentences about that. Make sure you add what you feel in that moment (Is the atmosphere uncomfortable? Is the place hot or cold? Humid?), what the place sounds like (People talking, or cars, or animal noises...), so on and so forth. This is very similar to the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique, so you can even work off of that structure if you'd like, but this is specifically to help you get better at describing settings.

As far as fanfic is concerned, I think the genre as a whole skimps on atmosphere and setting a SHIT TON. If you want to elevate yourself, let the pacing of your work slow down for a second and dedicate some time to really orienting your blorbos in a specific space. It does a lot for the tone of the work, and... if you want to play ball with the big boys you need to start thinking about things like tone and atmosphere when writing.

Transcription for Dialogue

This can entail you writing down what your family says at the dinner table like a creepy weirdo, or transcribing movie dialogue or anything of that nature. The purpose would be to get used to how conversation naturally flows between two or more people (turn-taking, interruption etc.), and furthermore getting a sense of how human beings naturally talk to each other. I've written down things I've heard people say in public before for no better reason than thinking "Oh! I could totally see [X Character] saying that!". Whatever hangups you may have over this sick linguivouyeristic perversion are much less important than the tragedy of filling your work with Incorrect Quotes -style unreadable garbage. It's like eating your vegetables.

Wiktionary Challenges for Word Choice

Just spamming the "random word" button on Wiktionary will give you instances in every language Wiktionary has in its database, so this one requires a little more work to be helpful, but in lieu of that you can look through stuff like Categories or Thesaurus Entries!

Let's gather a few fun words to demonstrate.

Okay, this should be more than enough for some sentences describing a setting out in nature! Blunket is making me think this takes place at twilight... And I like alliterating, so let's mash it to make the semi-redundant phrase "blunket-blue" just for some flair.

The copse laid still. On the bank of the meandering creek, the rabbit flattened herself out against the soft grass, her luculent eyes darting back and forth over her surroundings. What she could see of the copse looked mostly the same: Twisting shrubs the color of ash, blunket-blue grasses, an invisible wind brushing over all that stillness and pressing flat everything it could. Her nose twitched. Until the last blushes of rose drained from the evening sky, the rabbit would keep herself fixed in that spot on the riverbank and wait.

Boom! Those words are suddenly in your arsenal to use whenever you want, and you additionally have a reference point to remember what they mean if you forget. I think the only thing I could add from here is that reading your work aloud can help you monitor the way you chunk out your sentences and clauses, but that's more closely related to editing help and, again, not grinding exercises.

[butterfly-wingss]

these are amazing and much more helpful than i’m about to be BUT!!!

how i improved in drawing was adding small elements of what i was learning to something i was good at. adding cool lighting to a character design, add ing one or two background elements like furniture it a pose.

how i do that in writing is in fanfic! i’m good at internal emotions and at body language but i’m bad at describing a space so i started writing form things with strong visuals like movies and anime!

harry potter has horrible politics and character but thanks to the movies very good visuals so i get to play with politics for dessert and my veggies are describing the visuals.

bnha was great for very emotionally dense fights, the fights (at least early seasons) were short all things considered but full of emotional conflict. emotions and hero design for dessert and fight scene for veggies

i mostly write dcxdp and i can just write a fight scene no prep now.

fanfic specifically helps because you only need to focus on what’s important. there is an unspoken rule in ff that if u didn’t talk about it it happened as cannon which means you can shift focus with worrying about the story, world, themes as much

ALSO! i started writing for hp when i was working on MY magical school, i was writing for bnha when i was writing MY teen hero, there is almost definitely some form of media you like that you can use to practice for your passion project!!!

[oakorri]

An odd stranger

[butterfly-wingss]

Dead On Main Prompt #12

Danny meets Lady Gotham and her robin (jaybin of course) at his coronation, as teen vigilantes/ghosts they promise to brawl sometime.

that sometime ends up being post revival, Jason is actively the Red Hood.

it would specifically be hilarious if Danny just shows up in Gotham and starts fighting Red Hood on some random rooftop and the bats are worried. hood is fighting like his life depends on it and this strange, very powerful entity is laughing!

AND HE SOMEHOW KNOWS HE WAS THE SECOND ROBIN?! FUCK!

[baba-fett]

Reblog to bonk your mutuals on the head every time they start thinking negatively about themselves

[paranormal-taters]

specifically this kind of bonk.

[lionofchaeronea]

Bonk.

[pinkvbay]

Smoking my bigarette

[fruitcakebro]

Hello! This is called a cigar. Hope this helps!

[butterfly-wingss]

well now i need someone to make a bigar

[chapter56]

🐈

[sakuravalenp]

Jason's cat is so cute. Hilarious he found a cat that looked like him.

[nevion]

Jason who is touch/affection starved (for obvs reasons) but flinches from others or is unsure of how to initiate hugs or smth due to everything he's gone through (e.g. Bruce in gen (batarang, beating him up, the 'failsafe', etc), having to care for an adult as a kid, being independent as a kid, not having a good support system as a kid AND as an adult, and etc)