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based on this post by @d3epfriedangels

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I know the Clone Wars more than demonstrated that Anakin and Padme had the sublety of a Bantha on a starship, but I will die on the hill that the biggest tell is Anakin's perfectly styled curly hair. That boy spent 9 years with pin straight hair and then 10 years with a mandatory close cut and rat tail, yet he can suddenly maintain perfectly styled, notoriously difficult, curls in the middle of a war???

No way. That has Padme running-through-a-battlefield-in-full-couture Amidala all over it. There is no way she would let her man have bad hair, war or not.

Obi-Wan raised that boy. He has seen every questionable choice that Anakin has made through his awkward teen stages. He has also seen Padme go through a planet wide, life and death disaster as a teenager and still maintained multiple costume changes with full hair and makeup for her and her friends.

There is no way Obi-Wan did not see Anakin suddenly have a perfect knowledge of how to maintain the long hair he has never had before and not immidiately know that Anakin has spent an inappropriately large amount of time in a bathroom with Padme. No he took one look at Anakin and knew immidiately.

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I cannot say with any certainty that I would not sell a kidney to have Skywalkers apart be canon

how about i draw you some sw apart art and you keep your internal organs in their homes <3

(tip jar! // comms status)

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please put in the tags how many siblings you have and whether you’re a competitive person or not it’s for science

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I will die on the hill that to understand Anidala you have to accept that Padme saw the red flags clear as day and went for it anyway. Why? Because Anakin was honest with her. Because Anakin, for all his idolising and putting her on a pedestal, still saw and treated her as a human being, even argued against her at times without fear or without hiding behind clever words. Because Anakin made her feel the youth that was taken from her at a young age. She was captured by the boyish charm and the awkwardness and the blunt honesty, and so when he came to her with a billion red flags, she went for it anyway. He was a breath of fresh air to her.

To understand Anidala you must understand they are 100% freak4freak. They are both children who grew up too fast and are now in a secret relationship giggling like teenagers in their twenties. This is vital to them. Padme is not a flawless character or an idea of perfection, on the contrary she is a very human character who was put in charge of her people at fourteen, something that had a lasting impact on her, and so she is choosing her childhood joy and a fairytale romance over the red flags her husband is waving. She is the OG ‘I can fix him’ mentality. No one is doing it like her.

‘The red flags are mass murder’ and the point still stands.

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I get so used to calling one of our cats Orange Steve that I forget his actual real name until the meoment he starts bullying his siblings and my sister Makenna hollers "YOUR NAMESAKE WOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOU, STEVEN GRANT CLAWGERS"

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When Should You Describe a Character’s Appearance? (And When You Really, Really Shouldn’t)

It’s one of the first instincts writers have: describe your character. What they look like, what they wear, how they move. But the truth is — readers don’t need to know everything. And more importantly, they don’t want to know everything. At least, not all at once. Not without reason.

Let’s talk about when to describe a character’s appearance, how to do it meaningfully, and why less often says more.

1. Ask: Who Is Seeing Them? And Why Now?

The best descriptions are filtered through a perspective. Who’s noticing this character, and what do they see first? What do they expect to see, and what surprises them?

She looked like someone who owned every book you were supposed to have read in school. Glasses slipping down her nose. Sharp navy coat, sensible shoes, and an air of knowing too much too soon.

Now we’re not just learning what she looks like — we’re learning how she comes across. That tells us more than eye color ever could.

2. Use Appearance to Suggest Character, Not List Facts

Avoid long physical checklists. Instead, choose a few details that do double work — they imply personality, history, class, mood, or context.

Ineffective: She had long, wavy brown hair, green eyes, a small nose, and full lips. She wore jeans and a white shirt.

Better: Her hair was tied back like she hadn’t had time to think about it. Jeans cuffed, a shirt buttoned wrong. Tired, maybe. Or just disinterested.

You don’t need to know her exact features — you feel who she is in that moment.

3. Know When It’s Not the Moment

Introducing a character in the middle of action? Emotion? Conflict? Don’t stop the story for a physical description. It kills momentum.

Instead, thread it through where it matters.

He was pacing. Long-legged, sharp-shouldered — he didn’t seem built for waiting. His jaw kept twitching like he was chewing on the words he wasn’t allowed to say.

We learn about his build and his mood and his internal tension — all in motion.

4. Use Clothing and Gesture as Extension of Self

What someone chooses to wear, or how they move in it, says more than just what’s on their body.

Her sleeves were too long, and she kept tucking her hands inside them. When she spoke, she looked at the floor. Not shy, exactly — more like someone used to being half-disbelieved.

This is visual storytelling with emotional weight.

5. Finally: Describe When It Matters to the Story, Not Just the Reader

Are they hiding something? Trying to impress? Standing out in a crowd? Use appearance when it helps shape plot, stakes, or power dynamics.

He wore black to the funeral. Everyone else in grey. And somehow, he still looked like the loudest voice in the room.

That detail matters — it changes how we see him, and how others react to him.

TL;DR:

Don’t info-dump descriptions.

Filter visuals through a point of view.

Prioritize impression over inventory.

Describe only what tells us more than just what they look like — describe what shows who they are.

Because no one remembers a checklist.

But everyone remembers the girl who looked like she’d walked out of a forgotten poem.

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📣 NEW SUBSTACK POST: “Rewriting a Weak Scene” is up!!

hey writer friends 👋 i just dropped a ✨new✨substack post all about what i actually do when a scene in my WIP feels… limp. flat. like, emotionally dead on arrival. (we’ve all been there.)

💀 it’s not about "fixing your prose" 🪚 it’s about tearing the scene down + rebuilding it with purpose.

in this one, i break down: ➤ my personal rewrite checklist ➤ what i always cut first ➤ how i rework character movement + tension ➤ what i’m trying to do with every scene (even the quiet ones) ➤ and a real before/after example from my WIP Project Moth (aka lina's (my mc's) cursed little world 💔)

✨ there’s also a bonus bit showing how i turned a “she dies in an alley” scene into “oh no wait she says something horrifying and lina has to emotionally disassociate.” so. fun times.

read it here: post

🔁 reblogs are life!! and if you’re already subbed - ily. 🖤

also. if you want me to do a reader scene breakdown sometime?? drop a comment. i am so down.

xx rin t.

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omg guys I just had the best idea for a crackfic so what if this society needs help from the jedi order but they only want to talk to SENATOR JAR-JAR BINKS and so jar-jar teams up with uhhhhh let’s say mace windu LOL so it’s jar-jar and mace off on hijinks HAHAHAHA and this alien civilization mmmmmm they just look like Gungans but hotter—also they’re Indian. they’re South Asian they’re Indian. but I promise I’m not gonna be racist about it like how the banking clan all have big noses—anyway—so they go to the hot Indian Gungan civilization and the queen requests to see jar-jar in private and then and then and then she says “MY LOVE” and KISSES HIM FULL on the LIPS (yes I am going to ship jar-jar with a hot woman and what of it) and then mmmm idk the queen goes missing or something and there’s like a cult maybe that is stealing the force out of people and uhhh the final boss is…uhhhh….it’s mother talzin yea it’s mother talzin yea I know she died SHUT UP IT’S A FANFIC and then—

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rewatching agents of shield and the absolute GARBAGE coulson went through in the span of like four episodes 😭 finding out he was practically tortured back to life, daisy being shot, SHIELD being compromised, Ward, May revealing new EXTREMELY IMPORTANT information every other second, wild goose-chase after Fury (who is presumed dead, mind you), Fitz and Jemma almost dying, AND SO MUCH MORE? IT'S BEEN LIKE FIVE MINUTES GIVE HIM A BREAK

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stop earning advanced degrees i need you to finish your fanfiction

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So you know your rebelvengers au? (Of course you do; you're the author. Silly Snips.) Anyway, I just had a galaxy-brained idea of a similar flavor, which is that if there were to be a tcw/Marvel crossover, the clones could basically be like the Koenigs from Agents of SHIELD--an inexplicably large family of identical SHIELD agents. (I don't know if you've seen Agents of SHIELD, but you should check it out if not. It's a pretty good show.) Anyway, it could be a hilarious running gag, just like in AoS, where every time you think you've met every Agent Fett, there ends up being another one, and no one can keep them straight.

Also consider Omega being the equivalent of LT Koenig, the oldest sibling and only girl, who gets crap done and manages her many chucklebutt younger brothers.

I'm actually quite excited about this concept and I hope you're picking up what I'm laying down.

ok so I know very very little about AOS (but do I have some mutuals who post gifsets and stuff sometimes and I hope they see this and think it's hilarious) Anyway unfortunately I don't know about them, so hold on a sec let me Google them--

--ok yeah this is amazing.

OOOOH okay bouncing off that Omega thing--what if, like, it was an inversion on the accelerated aging thing??? They all age normally except Omega, who was in some sort of science accident as a child that made her age twice as slow. She's the most commanding, efficient, and professional of them all and she looks like she's 12. Her brothers make sure that new agents don't get told that she outranks them until after they've asked her what she wants to be when she grows up.

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One of my favorite pieces of canon continuity is that clones cannot lie for shit