Retrospring is shutting down on 1st March, 2025 Read more
512
Writing tips?
I am the wrong person to be asking.
Anyways, the more you pull apart a story, or even just characters, the more connected things become. Don't write like you're trying to connect pieces of cloth by sewing them together, write like you're pulling apart felt so you can mix it to get a new color.
Would Isa listen to Mitski?
character design tips?
I've been itching to talk about this one.
It's okay to make trans characters visibly transgender. I don't only mean top surgery scars or a trans sticker, I mean breasts, 5 o' clock shadows, ETC. A lot of trans people don't/can't pass, denying that reality is denying who we are. When you're designing trans characters you have to design two levels of them: What they were before and what they are now. Leave male sexual dimorphism in trans-women; give them wide shoulders, big hands, strong brow-bones, ETC.
There's nothing wrong with designing a perfectly-passing trans person, just remember that this image is unattainable for almost all trans people.
I feel like a lot of discussion about transgender people has become reactionary. Conservatives start with the "we can always tell" bullshit and then people, without realizing the consequences, start ONLY using images of people who were able to transition before puberty, with extensive surgeries, ETC. When the only picture of trans people you push is the "ideal" version you are doing almost just as much damage as the people you're fighting against. A lot of trans people are very obviously and clearly trans; no one is questioning my AGAB, it's extremely obvious that I was assigned male at birth, and there's literally nothing wrong with acknowledging that as long as it isn't being used in a way to insult/degrade me.
What are psychedelics like?
Where are the horror elements
Most obscure influences for WBEC?
how can you criticize anime for pervy shots and then write about max oogling fox legs
If it was buff men instead of women in anime you would be all about it
How big that penis
Favorite writing tropes?
Biggest writing pet peeve?
Update on Chapter 3?
Why does the jorts+tank top combo have a strangle hold over FVN women
How do you approach writing arguments? I struggle so much with them
Retrospring uses Markdown for formatting
*italic text*
for italic text
**bold text**
for bold text
[link](https://example.com)
for link