Ren Writes Stuff

Ren. Lady-person. This is where I post stuff I write. And reblog A LOT of Mass Effect. Without tags. I am the worst. I ship everything. Cover image by @fishbone76, icon by me.

[ptitsa-poh]

I always felt bad for poor planets

[luna-azzurra]

Quick Tips for Writing Food

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) TEXTURE MATTERS MORE THAN TASTE!! "it tasted good" tells me nothing. "The crust shattered into a thousand buttery shards" or "gummy, like chewing a tire" NOW I'm there. Crunch, slime, melt, chew, squeak (yes some foods squeak and it's horrible)

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) Food is memory!!! your character doesn't just eat chicken soup, they eat the chicken soup that tastes like being home sick from school, like their grandmother's kitchen, like the last good day before everything changed. FOOD CARRIES STORY!!

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) Temperature is a character!! scalding coffee that burns your tongue, ice cream so cold it gives you a headache, room-temperature pizza at 2am that tastes like regret. Temperature changes the entire experience!!!

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) The SOUND of eating reveals character. Do they slurp? Chew with their mouth open? Cut everything into tiny pieces? Eat standing over the sink? These tiny details tell you who someone IS

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) Describe what it does, not what it is!! Don't say "the spicy curry" say "the curry that made her sinuses open up like floodgates and her eyes water and why did she think she could handle this"

(๑ᵔ⤙ᵔ๑) Use WEIRD comparisons. "tasted like chicken" is boring. "Tasted like what I imagine a leather couch feels like" or "sweet in that chemical way that makes your teeth hurt" get SPECIFIC and strange.

[storybookhawke]

My dragon? Aged.

My mass? Affected.

[storybookhawke]

turned this post into a badge ribbon for an upcoming convention

[fiddlesticksss]

Healthy coping mechanisms all around.

[adeninee]

beginning of the end

[milkywayes]

[anna-antoshchenkova]

Archangel

[thatwildwolfart]

If everyone's drawing mass effect alien babies, this is my contribution :)

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the best fanfic is the one the author had fun writing actually.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

the second best is the one the author used to work through some issues.

[mikkeneko]

the third best is the one the author wrote out of spite due to some really dogshit discourse going on in their fandom

[nika-draws]

another shep

[baldurians-deactivated20230226]

[atanertheartist]

✋💫

I’m Commander Shepard and you should talk to the hand.

[kc-the-artist]

My sweetie pie Liara T’soni 💙

Would it be funny if I said glyph pissed me off while drawing and coloring him?

[ale-tie]

So... Everyone seems to be choosing a species to draw babies. Idk, I can do salarians..?

*proceeds to draw ugly ass tadpole*

nevermind, I'll stick to nsfw

[ale-tie]

as requested — baby salarian

[pentapoda]

Every time someone comments on my old fic, i feel like I'm an old actor getting paid residuals. Appreciate you, old-fic-commenters. Key source of emotional income, tbh.

[atanertheartist]

last thing you see before dying

[kc-the-artist]

EDI appreciation art 💙