#asks and answers

[bokettochild]

Mean and Protective Fable and Prickly but Kind Legend are things I didn't know I needed but I need it

Right? Their dynamic is just amazing if they're both a bit of sour and sweet. They'd both die for each other, and kill for each other, and they have! (Especially if you count CoH as their game because they both die a TON in that thing!)

They are the siblings ever and I love them for it <3

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

hey its goth ren and jaune anon, devastated when i heard the news of apropiation. is there any style/aesthetic that would do it for him? (bonus points if ren cant rock it, but no shame if he does that dude is pretty)

Ruby: Boy Band?

Yang: Everyone can look good in a boy Band.

Ruby: Rave.

Weiss: He's too much of a Dork.

Ruby: Grunge?

Blake: Too much of a Pretty boy.

Ruby: ... Electro Swing.

Yang: Hmm ... Golden Age 20's Brass Aesthetic ... push it maybe a little into Steampunk ...

Weiss: The more Earthen tone would make his hair appear Brighter without dealing too much constrast ...

Blake: Plus he definitely would listen to Electro Swing ...

_WBY: ... *Nodding in unison*

~~~~~

Jaune, Dressed in Brown Tweed pants, a white button-up undershirt, Matte-Brass vest, Dark brown Flatcap, and black dress shoes: ...

Jaune: I think most people can pull off this aesthetic. Why not go all in on the Knight-

Penny, Wearing full 1920's Flapper garb, including the headband with a single large feather coming off the side: I quite like how I look in this outfit!

Jaune: ... Humina humina humina-

[not-poignant]

Hi hi hi! This is not a question, this is a comment about the most recent UTB chapter excerpt. Um. WHAT. I’m sorry, sorry but. WHAT. I’m so stressed for Efnisien I am so so stressed for him. Can you please potentially tell me he is going to be okay? Please let Gary rescue him. Please?? I love your writing! It’s giving me really strong feelings! I’m sorry if this is a super cringey message, I appreciate you a lot. Okay thanks! Bye!

Anon, the story's fourth tag is 'angst with a happy ending' and that applies to Efnisien too! (Sometimes the tags are for more than just learning what you want to avoid, they're reassurance, too)

Also it's not cringey! I think this message serves as a good reminder to folks that like, I put whether or not the story has a happy ending right there in the tags. And, imho, it's not a happy ending if Efnisien's not okay!

[zarla-s]

I found...an issue with your skeletons.

And the font thing that kind of contradicts...yeah

I've had this drafted for a while and today is the NINTH ANNIVERSARY OF HANDPLATES (!!!!) so you're going to get... lore!!

Anyway this is correct, Sans speaks in more than one font! MS Sans Serif if I remember right, or at least that's what people thought at the time. I wanted to work that into Handplates somewhere (I was thinking here) but I just couldn't find a good place for it. It ended up in a Mercyplates script that I never ended up actually doing UNTIL NOW!

Anyway, my thoughts are skeletons can speak in different fonts if they want or learn how (except skeletons with a cipher) and some are just born with multiple font styles, but they have a primary font they prefer to speak in. Sans has a bit of MS Sans Serif in him but he likes Comic Sans more, haha. Papyrus might have a touch of Parchment MF in him but it's so similar to Papyrus that you probably wouldn't even be able to tell. Gaster only has Wingdings though, most cipher skeletons only have the one font.

Nine years... it doesn't feel like it's been that long. It's hard to believe...

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[chiisanajimi]

could you draw Shadow with Maria? please

here friend i lined some sketches for you :)

[ohbo-ohno]

FORCED NESTING??????? omg i’m so curious!! this is the first time i’ve heard of this. do you have any examples or any recs with this topic??? i’m so curious as to what this could look like

three recs here but !!! it's less forced nesting and more forced heat that then makes the omega nest, but i love the trope so much.

something about being so lost in your instincts that you don't even realize you're giving into something you've been trying to resist, and you are literally building the bed for it to happen in.... big alpha who can't even really comfort his omega because he wants her to make a nest for him, and she's so torn between being sad and being comfortable because this is right..... she's nervous to invite him into her nest bc even sunk into her instincts she's scared of him, and he just has to wait for her to be ready......... organizing soft fluffy pillows and blankets while he watches over her....... trying to snap out of it and make herself stop but she literally can't resist moving one of the pillows and he's smirking all condescending because he knows it's nearly time for her heat...... Do You See The Vision

[pixierainbows]

Pixie lost a question tumblr post and not sure exactly what was ask . took Pixie so so long time to answer . Weeks of work … So here is answer with no question . so sorry !

A few things about being actually nonverbal ( Never able use mouth words at all , ever … “going nonverbal” is NOT A THING ) .

1- AAC Very slow compare to mouth words . Can take Pixie 10 or more minutes just to give answer to “ hello how are you ?“ Longer word things , like simple blog post , can take weeks to months . people are never that patient , even otherwise good people can just not wait , not without practice .

2- being nonverbal , needing AAC to Communicate all the time , make many things much harder or not possible at all , even with help .

example -

Most medical professionals Pixie have known will not accept communication with AAC device As genuine communication . And ! also will not accept communication from someone else , what is not biological parent , unless AAC user verbally ( not with AAC device ) give permission . Or . personally fills out in writing many forms giving permission . Even then . Is not work every time .

is Same for many many other things . banks and government agencies and schools and businesses and organizations of all sorts .

3- Geting emergency services like ambulance or Police or Firefighter services require speaking . so , need someone else help by calling .

4- many programs for disabled people will not allow access to programs if person cannot *speak* independently . ( Pixie lucky have found some good programs , in big city really help have more programs to choose from )

Pixie also have cognitive disability and moderate to severe language difficulties . but ! even people what just not can speak And not have anything else disabling ( unlike Pixie ) Still need so much more help just because of not able speak ever .

[mooreaux]

do u perchance have an idea of how husk would speak? or could u give examples of greetings (hated/neutral/friendly/romanced)? just trying to get an idea of his dialogue

His speech is difficult to understand on a good day but lucky for you he tends to use clipped phrasing and is very conservative with his words. Silence is generally his preference.

His breathing is accompanied by a raspy hiss that escalates into a full on unearthly screech during battle.

Sometimes if he gets too emotional or angry he will lose the capability of speech altogether and devolve into *darkspawn noises* (essentially think back to any dragon age game during battle with them) It takes him a moment to compose himself and he's ashamed about it every time.

He's generally only a half step away from going feral at any given provocation.

Greetings:

Hated: Husk's one eye raises at your approach, his teeth clack angrily together, a hiss slipping between them. "Speak, wretch."

Neutral: Husk regards you warily. "That's close enough."

Friendly: He is sure to keep his mask in place and gloves on. He glances over you for injury. "You yet live. There is work to be done."

Romanced: Husk notes your approach with his full attention. He sways closer when you come near, hands twitching as if resisting to touch. "My only," he mumbles, eye cast away now that you are before him. "What do you need?"

Thank you so much for this ask!! He is... VERY fun to write.

OG Husk post for context

[bokettochild]

Hey look I found on the Facebook gif!

This one made me immediately think about Twilight and Legend. They surely are the best pal ever =)))

They're surely are the best pal ever =)()

You're right, they are!

(Legend's enjoying this, he just won't admit it <3)

[lookingfts]

Anthony has a beard. That is all.

Happy husband happy dad Anthony is going to kill me.

[not-poignant]

Potentially an odd question, but is there a specific site or method you use for research for your writings? Researching medical/legal/similar procedures is the bane of my existence because I can never seem to find an explanation I understand well enough to then write about.

I recently caught up to Stain, and while reading it struck me how you put a lot of detail into a wide variety of topics (the medical part of Alex’s injury at the start, therapy, Alex’s eye examination, Sebastian talking about his boss trying to underpay him, among other topics) (HUGE kudos about that by the way, it adds another layer of realism) and it feels like there’s no way one person can have firsthand experience/knowledge in ALL these things unless you’ve lived an extremely varied life.

I was just hoping you might have some pointers about how to go about researching basically anything because I feel like I’ve GOT to be missing something.

No worries if you can’t/don’t want to/don’t have an answer, I just thought shooting an ask your way is worth a shot haha.

Hi anon,

Researching is its own skillset, like writing or editing, there's no one specific site to go to, to make it easier, it's more like...taking the time to learn the constellation of ever-changing sites, books, and more in order to best learn how to learn. Because that's really what it is about: Learning how to learn.

On learning how to learn (I should say, I'm not very good at teaching, so some of this stuff might not be helpful to you, please ignore it if it isn't!):

But I do have some things that I do which might help. And some that might not.

The first thing that won't really help is I have led a varied life in a way that is convenient for the content I write, lol. The medical part of Alex's injury - I've been badly injured. The eye examination - I have astigmatism and was diagnosed late and blamed for my own eyesight issues which I didn't realise were eyesight issues. I've seen over 19 therapists in over 25 years. I've talked to bosses about pay and I've had lots of friends that have too.

Tbh the things I've had to research the most in Stardew Valley have been:

The intersection of astigmatism/myopia/dyslexia treatment and the best order in which these things should happen.

Stardew Valley - literally the calendar, the schedule, liked gifts, disliked gifts, favourite meals etc. Some I know off by heart, others I don't really remember at all.

The best way to clean a house (though my mother was a professional cleaner for most of my childhood, I just wanted to revise and see if anything had changed since then)

Cleaning standards for home laboratories

The colours that sweetpea flowers come in etc.

It's always random stuff. And to be honest, a lot of this doesn't happen in much detail in the story. The colour of sweetpea flowers was for the bouquet, and I think it was one line. The best way to clean a house has accounted for very little actual writing.

Now for actual helpful stuff:

Wikipedia is your friend. My browser search bar goes straight to Wikipedia, not google. It's amazing how much Wikipedia will explain a ton of different things these days. It's true some concepts might be hard to understand, you might need to spend more time Wiki-ing / googling / using a dictionary to start understanding those concepts.

When it comes to writing trauma, for example, I've read upwards of 20+ academic books (i.e. the kind psychologists study at university or after university in postgrad) about trauma. I wouldn't expect other people to go that deep, but other folks aren't writing trauma like I am in every single story, and it's a special interest of mine. But it kind oh illustrates that I'm not going to a single site about something.

But you could get a deeper understanding by just looking at the PTSD and C-PTSD and trauma articles on Wikipedia, and slowly reading them.

The second is that medical sites can also be your friend.

The third is that Reddit is amazing for lived experiences, with a grain of salt that some people are lying for clout. But 'what treatments helped best with your dyslexia reddit' as a search phrase is going to be way more helpful than whatever AI bullshit the google search line will give you otherwise. Deep diving into reddit threads can be super helpful for stuff that I used to find out previously on personal blogs (it's amazing how much 'what's life on an oil rig like blog' used to turn up a ton of lived experiences from firsthand encounters for example). I don't use my Reddit account for anything other than research, lmao. It's a hidden gem for lived experience and human interpretation of complex issues. It can be especially helpful for legal / economic matters, but honestly, I mostly just handwave legal stuff with caveats/disclaimers. You can do an undergraduate degree in law, and a lawyer is still going to painstakingly point out all the ways you're wrong about something. It's just better to tell the lawyers in advance that you know you can't compete with their knowledge base lmao.

(Though it can be worth looking up regional differences, because if I see another Australian writing Australian legal procedures into US law (or vice versa) I will scream - like no, Aussies, we do not have BOLOs here, we have KL04, LOTBKF and BOLF depending on your state).

A good way to start learning how to learn is to actually start outside of your stories and start with things you already love. Plug your favourite movie into Wikipedia and learn about how it was made, or what the production was like. And when you find something mildly interesting, say, about film lighting, open up those Wiki articles or plug 'film lighting process for (insert movie here)' on google, and have a look at some of the results. Learn how to learn, how to go deeper, what seems to be helpful, and what isn't. Consider making a list of articles you really enjoy - I love a website that aggregates all the different odours and flavours in the world and their chemical compounds which has been incredibly helpful for Palmarosa. The website is a bit hard to navigate, but if you plug something like 'spearmint' into the search, it'll help.

If you don't already have it, put Wikipedia on your phone. It's free / ad-free. I have my own personal server on Discord that I use to house a lot of resources (for everything, from my business, to health records, to writing resources). If you use Discord already, I highly recommend the 'private server' as a great way to aggregate everything together.

If the article formatting of online articles doesn't feel good, you can do text-to-speech, or use the little 'reader' symbol to make it more reader-friendly.

Books are also not to be underestimated for how helpful they can be (I find too many people are website focused these days, but actually, not everything can be found on websites, a lot of the best niche knowledge is still in books when it's not in lived experience tellings). Find out about your local and online libraries. A lot of people (especially younger folks) don't realise just how much information they can get access to, for free. Librarians themselves are gifts from god, who will literally help you find the books you need for whatever subject you want to learn more about, and if they don't know, they will often personally take it upon themselves to look further for you. 'I want to learn more about German composers' is - for many librarians - a very exciting question that they will want to help you with.

Outside of that, niche websites (like the odours one I mentioned), sometimes just finding sites where asking research questions gets answered. For example the free blogging site (with no ads), Dreamwidth, has a community called little_details where you can ask your niche question and people will answer and say what their expertise is in that subject. It's incredible and active enough to be super helpful. In some cases it's completely changed the course of a story.

Over time you'll also learn what's less helpful. Some articles are clearly ChatGPT written or written for ads and not accurate - so if you can get the same information corroborated at multiple sources, that will help.

And don't forget the value of just listening to people online and irl regarding their experiences. As a writer, I feel like an 'experience collector.' I like asking friends, strangers, family, etc. all kinds of questions because I think a part of my brain is always aware that something they're sharing could be a vitally grounding element in a story and it's also just interesting and people like sharing about their lives. Whether I'm asking my roommate about the process of getting a government evaluation approved, my architect friend about drug use in Australian architecture, or a friend from Bali what sort of foods he grew up with and what his comfort meal was when he felt sick, etc. Writers collect experiences, not just their own, but those of others. The greatest tools a writer can have in their toolbelt are knowing how to listen, learning how to learn (and how to love learning), and knowing what the right questions are.

None of those things can be gained with one or two websites. But they can be gained with time and curiosity, and well, that helps with your whole entire life, and not just writing. :D

[bueckersfudd]

does anyone have the clip of paige thanking her😭?

here yall go 😭😭

[zarla-s]

gasp! the original!! i wonder how many people saw the handplates version without ever seeing the original one, haha

captcha comics are a lost art...

[sleepsentry]

You have managed to find the Perfect cloud Shape in that last post. The little spikey doodle guy. I'm obsessed

Thank you! ^^ I've been drawing him like that since the beginning but I can't remember if I've posted it before.

I find it fun to boil the characters down to their essentials.

I also have bad eyesight, so my sense of detail is lacking. It's actually why some modern cloud and the gang outfits don't appeal to me as much because they're more reliant on subtler details, rather than the colours and blocky readable shapes of the 90s (especially cloud it's alot of greys and belts)

There are exceptions, but I'm pretty neutral on stuff like advent children, for example

[theecholegend]

I'm a butterfly, not a fairy. I hope that's not going to be a problem with Legend hug time. :D

Thank you @individualperson8756 @nezzpezz @callmecreative @musical-chan and all the Anons! This grumpy man definitely needing some extra hugs

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