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The sun stretched towards the horizon, casting long shadows against his home. Their home, he corrected in his head, looking at his boyfriend waiting in the car. Husband. He had a husband now.

Joe and Andy get home from their wedding, and Joe can't believe he finally got to marry the sweetest man alive.

( @bandomflufffest - Day 05: Honeymoon Phase)

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At any other time of his life, Pete would have felt right at home at pride. But now, shortly after his own coming out, he was a bundle of frayed nerves.

Pete fights off a panic attack before performing at a pride parade. Where the hell is Patrick?

( @bandomflufffest - Day 04: Festival)

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non-writers will never understand the mental illness of writing an entire conversation in your head while doing dishes and then forgetting every word the second you open a blank doc

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There was a void. I have filled it.

A poem about life, death, and living.

( @bandomflufffest - Day 03: “Wait for me”)

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you are dying.

it was inevitable.

someone hands you something as your vision fades out. it is sturdy, yet malleable. something you have cradled in your arms. you have sung it lullabies and read it stories of insects.

you have held him as your own, despite the cruelty of your life. whatever remains of you cares about him deeply.

he is your son.

he is not real.

you are dead.

it is inevitable.

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“Brendon!” / “What?” Brendon feigned ignorance. “You had something on your nose.” / “Your shit-eating grin says otherwise.”

Spencer watches Ryan and Brendon baking cookies. Well, trying to anyway.

( @bandomflufffest - Day 02: Cooking/Baking)

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Pete sighed dreamily from the couch. “Imagine if we were in ‘The Princess Bride’.”

Pete and Patrick cast their friends as characters in "The Princess Bride". Patrick thinks Pete is forgetting about someone, or rather, two someones.

( @bandomflufffest - Day 01: Fairy Tales)

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writing is like

30% outlining

50% drafting

400% trying to find interesting, non-repetitive ways to describe uninteresting, repetitive body language.

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i like tagging posts with my ocs and then never actually posting about them. i wonder what my followers think their deals are

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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Tips for writing and drawing amputee characters: Stump Scarring

This was something I had originally intended to mention in this post but felt it deserved its own separate post.

A lot of people, when drawing and designing amputee characters, draw their characters with these big, gnarly looking scars all over the stump. I get why people do this, but in reality, most amputees have stumps that look more like this:

The only scarring that is inherent to amputation (meaning most amputees have) is a very thin line right at the tip of the stump that comes from where the stump was sewn shut. After 5-10 years though, these thin incision scars will fade to be nearly invisible in most folks other than the indent it usually leaves in the skin.

Of course, there are exceptions! My own legs are covered in heavy scarring like the pictures below.

but typically, you only see this in amputees who lost their limb in ways that required them to also need skin grafts, such as from a burn (fire or acid), gangrene, some types of rapid-onset sepsis, or particularly brutal animal attacks.

For context, I used scars from meningococcal as reference here.

I think this is another reason a lot of people, particularly in 2D comics and animation, cover their amputee character's stumps, because they think all amputees have scars like the ones in the second image and I'll be honest, that's a lot to draw when you're drawing it over and over again, but unless your amputee also needed skin grafts bcuase of their injury/illness, their stumps will look more like the first images.

Fun fact: on particularly pale skin, scars can change colour depending on temperature. scars have less circulation and the blood vessels are closer to the skin, which means if you don't have a lot of melanin, your scars can turn a grey-ish purple colour like so:

This information is brought to you by an especially pasty white person in the southern hemisphere (where it's winter atm) who's scars haven't seen the sun since june lmao.

A quick final note: If you look up "burn scars" or any other similar type of large scarring on google a lot of what you get are fresh scars, so they're going to look different than the ones here. On pale skin, large scars like the ones above start out very dark red and will fade to look more like the images here. The same is true for dark skin, typically fresh scars will be much darker in colouration and will fade to be closer to the natural skin tone with time, though on both, they will always be very visible. Some types of scarring on darker skin tones can cause the skin to become lighter, but they don't usually turn entirely light pink like I've seen some folks draw. This is why it's so important to look up references of the type of scar your character has AND how that looks on their skin tone.

And as always, listen to POC and seek out the recourses specifically made by them, especially if you're drawing characters with darker skin tones. Their lived experience will always beat my "what I found through internet research and from talking to friends"

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Everyone clap for non consensual body modification everybody loves a character whose body has been altered against their will

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we need to take asab language away from x reader writers "female bodied reader" JUST SAY THEY HAVE A PUSSY! im done being nice. you are being cissexist

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Hey! So I’m a fairly new ambulatory wheelchair user with EDS writing about a character who is also an ambulatory wheelchair user. I feel like I keep using the same words over and over to portray movement though (rolled, propelled, “pushed themself,” etc) so I would love to hear if you have any more ideas for alternatives! I’ll take as many as you’ve got!

Thank you!!!

Hello dearest asker!

This is the list that we have provided over time plus others:

Moved/Moves

Went

Wheeled

Rolled

Pushed

Sped/Spun

Propelled

Pulled (by a service animal etc)

Maneuvered

Turn/Turned

Scoot/scooted

Travel/traveled

Rock/rocked

Drove

Crossed

Cut

Stroll/Strolled

Navigated

Drift/Drifted

Swung/swinged

Popped ("Popped up their wheels/chair" to get over a surface etc)

Tip/tipped (Tipped themselves over something etc)

Advanced

Migrate/migrated

Inched

Zoomed

Rushed

Hurried

Raced

Skid

Ram/Rammed

Roamed

Shift/Shifted

Slid (In rainy or icy weather)

Followed

Circled

And a lot of many other verbs that would take me a long time to list! Consider what type of wheelchair the person has, as mention Here. And also how the person moves or places their hands can be another detail to include.

If the actual definition of the verb doesn't involve the specific actions of one or two lower extremities (ex. walk, run, stepped, trot, stride) then it's otherwise good to use! Other words like Moseyed, sauntered, paced, I think depends on the writer. A particularly mischievous character may saunter of a manner in their wheelchair. And a character who is nervous would pace—although possibly tiring—back and forth. And Moseyed, well, I just particularly like this word—but, a character could mosey on by in a certain fashion. Happy writing!

(last ask about verb terminology on wheelchairs per this post we made about it)

~ Mod Virus 🌸

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the worst thing about having ocs and being insane over them is that you need to make the content yourself. unless you kidnap your friends