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I'm Penn, she/her, 28, just having fun and being a nerd. My art blog is penn-dragon

[rosenkranz-isnt-dead]

is it just me or have people really stopped writing tags under art reblogs

[rosenkranz-does-things]

WE'RE ON TUMBLR! BLEED YOUR HEART OUT!

[snowstories]

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

[mossbear-minese]

I don't remember where I saw this piece of advice so I can't credit it, unfortunately

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[erisivy]

[amygdalae]

As a bisexual person I'm keenly aware of how such stereotypes are inevitably harmful to us, but unfortunately when I see bisexuals in fiction who are Evil and stylish and fuck like champions I can't help but go "oh work" for a sec. It's a difficult conundrum

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

[cheaphalloweencostume]

you are not going to believe what they did with Books

[parkchanwoohoo]

"A wall of text" baby that's a curb at best

[cheaphalloweencostume]

these are the people you have to share a highway with

[cheaphalloweencostume]

genuinely what is the alternative here

[cheaphalloweencostume]

also i cropped the image but the thing they were using as an example was the nut allergy in Hereditary

[gaycop]

[hungry-skeleton]

Asexuals were always part of pride and it really fucking shows when people think it's a recent term.

[hungry-skeleton]

Although not going by the term "asexual" yet, asexuality was spoken about alongside homosexuality as far back as the 1890s. Asexual history is just as vital to queer history as any other term and I'm so tired of watching us being treated like a new thing

[hungry-skeleton]

This image is so so fucking important to me

[hungry-skeleton]

Reblog this, cowards

[purplepenntapus]

I love the concept of shipping Grace and Blood covered Markiplier just for the idea that the Eridians find the Irong Lung and open it up and Rocky goes “human!! Oh second human friend!! Human companionship for Grace! Rocky can bring new human to human friend Grace and then best friend Grace can have a human mate like Rocky’s Adrien!” With the implication that the only two humans he’s ever seen in his life will not only get along but somehow be romantically compatible and inexplicably he’s right.

[purplepenntapus]

I watched Project Hail Mary with my family last night and I need everyone to know that about 30 seconds after meeting Rocky I said, verbatim, “I wouldn’t want to leave my new alien friend, I’d want him to bring me back to his home planet and build me an aquarium to live in.” And then continued to make references throughout the film about Rocky building Grace an aquarium/bioactive enclosure on Erid so they could stay together.

[purplepenntapus]

Stories about the universal need for connection and companionship you will always be famous

[purplepenntapus]

I watched Project Hail Mary with my family last night and I need everyone to know that about 30 seconds after meeting Rocky I said, verbatim, “I wouldn’t want to leave my new alien friend, I’d want him to bring me back to his home planet and build me an aquarium to live in.” And then continued to make references throughout the film about Rocky building Grace an aquarium/bioactive enclosure on Erid so they could stay together.

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[crimsonservbot]

If I told you I wrote this while thinking about the dangers of being visibly trans vs never trying to transition at all, happiness followed by a bright, burning end, smacking hard against a concrete ocean vs playing it too safe and never flying high, dooming you to a cold, crushing end from drowning, You'd believe me, right?

[frownyalfred]

me, quietly whispering to the ao3 page of an author who doesn’t even know I exist: I am obsessed with you

[newskyillusion]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who hasn’t updated anything in four years: I think about you often and I hope you’re alright

[azrielgreen]

me, whispering to the ao3 page of an author who wrote one life altering banger and nothing else: I hope your pillow is cool and your skin is clear and you find money in a forgotten jeans pocket

[jezebelgoldstone]

me, whispering to every single person on this post: please leave one singular comment saying literally any of that

[fairycosmos]

big life tips dont be neurodivergent dont be poor dont get in any sort of situation and dont let yourself need or crave

[fairycosmos]

not getting good reports back on your progress with this guys

[stjohnstarling]

No… not the serum *I start slowly and horribly transforming into an unspoiled wetland*

[sluttynurse]

if you're viewed as a conventionally attractive woman you're punished bc you need to be knocked down a peg for thinking you had any inherent value and if you're viewed as unattractive you're punished for daring to exist without permission but that's how it is innit there's no winning when the system was designed to make you lose in the first place! 🤣

[stjohnstarling]

People on the internet love to criticize work by Some Guy with zero institutional power like it's made by Disney Studios, and talk about Disney movies like they're made by their personal friend Amy, who is just trying her best,

[von-leg]

Based off this tweet and some of the replies lmfao.