Fic! :: Handwriting meme :: Parody rec

[pauraque_bk]

This is one of the looniest things I've ever written.

Title: Open Secrets
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Ron/Peter/Dumbledore
Notes: For the pornish_pixies Threesome Challenge. keladryb jokingly suggested this combination; she should know better than to make such jokes!

Peter puts his hands out blind in front of him, and there are wooden chess pieces in a box, clicking together and pinching his fingers with carved-smooth edges...

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wootsauce mentioned wanting to see me do the handwriting meme, so I shall oblige.



Maybe I'm weird, but I also like to experiment with handwriting and signatures for characters I write. Some of them are quite distinctive.


Hm, that's hard to read, isn't it? It says, "This is Snape's handwriting. It seems right for it to be really cramped. Snape writes often and expresses himself in writing well. However, he does not like others reading it."



Am I totally nuts for figuring out stuff like that? If anyone else does writing/signatures for their characters, I would love to see that in a meme.

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And because a couple of people have asked, here are the links to Harry Potter and the Guy Who Left Jail and Stuff by plausive, an in-progress cartoon tribute to the PoA movie.

Part One (That dog is wiggin me out)
Part Two (Thats Prof Lupin! Liek DUH.)
Part Three (Slumber party!!!!!!1111)
Part Four (sceen cuts away before teh hot sex0rz.)

*staggers away, giggling madly*

Comments

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

Oh man, the character writing is an added bonus. I also have a child-style of handwriting--curiously, for a character in an old comic of mine. Must post on that when it is not 1 am....
At first glance, your self-note writing is very similar to a friend of mine's, who is also interested in making writing systems and so forth. Cuuurious.
Snape-writing is totally teacher writing. Awesome.
I can tell my roommates are irritated with me being up so late, so I must curtail my commenting for the moment, alas.

[pauraque]

I almost did the lettering on Daddy Snaip "in-character" for each speaker, but I thought it would be too hard to read. I'd be interested in seeing your character-handwriting... this stuff is way cool.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

The problem is, it's all for original characters who don't even write in the Roman alphabet, with the notable exception of the child-style I mentioned. And almost none of my non-roman alphabets are sufficiently developed to be fixed enough for this sort of excersize.
I wish I hadn't thrown away the hilariously stupid alphabets I made as a kid!
Now I raelly want to go fool around with calligraphy and handwriting, when I SHOULD be finishing a research paper.

[pauraque]

I wouldn't mind if it was nothing I could recognize... I just think handwriting is really cool.

[theatresm.livejournal.com]

No, I obsess over handwriting fonts to use for character "letters" on the website version of fics. You're normal.

Oh, wait. I'm not normal. You're screwed, Bub.

He switched back later, but isn't comfortable either way.

You know, given some of your recent posts on Peter's sexual ineptitude, that's an interesting observation. (As a general characteristic, not necessarily sexually.)

[pauraque]

No, I obsess over handwriting fonts to use for character "letters" on the website version of fics.

Right, you do have that. The American versions of the HP books use handwriting fonts for letters too, if I recall correctly.

You know, given some of your recent posts on Peter's sexual ineptitude, that's an interesting observation. (As a general characteristic, not necessarily sexually.)

*nods* It's related to how I think of Peter as having difficulty communicating, even (perhaps especially) with himself. He really lacks self-insight, which is something I associate with being able to write well. He doesn't understand himself, so he can't order his thoughts and get them down the way someone like Snape does.

[webbapettigrew.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I thought I was the only one who actually tried to come up with handwriting samples for Peter. I've totally got to scan mine so you can see it...

Our opinions do vary significantly in the examples, though. My Peter writes his P's very large and flourishy, but the rest of his writing is extremely small and neat. All of his letters that can be closed, like a's, g's etc. are closed tightly, which means that he doesn't say everything thats on his mind or take at face value anything anyone else says--an inability to communicate what he wants. The "t"s in his name have a downward stroke on the t-bars, which is indicative that he's not pleased with something.

Peter's script when I write it is very angular in nature; he doesn't round much of anything. This means someone of a quick thinking nature and who makes decisions and carries them out--meaning they'll be successful but on their own terms. Maybe some consider this the antithesis of Peter, but he has definitely shown that he can think on his feet very quickly when its necessary...

Handwriting analysis is something I do on the side...I'd love to try and analyze yours...I don't know you well, so it'd be neat to see what I can do.

~webba

[webbapettigrew.livejournal.com]

Another question, as I look at the samples--I'm interested in why you chose to write Peter's example on lined paper as opposed to free-writing it on blank. It brings up an interesting insight into your possible take on Peter.

See, whenever someone has to confrom to using lined paper when they write has a greater need for guidelines in what he does. Also, any irregularities you see on the baseline of the handwriting has to be taken more into consideration than non-lined paper. As I look at your Peter sample, some of "his" words tend to fall underneath the line slightly--it means that the guidelines he's currently following are not making him happy--he is uncomfortable.

Interesting idea, yes?

Either that or you just had lined paper lying around.

[pauraque]

I don't know much about handwriting analysis; my attempts at writing like characters are purely intuitive. I'd be really interested in anything you can tell me about the way I/they write. And please do scan your version of Peter's writing, I'd love to see it.

I like to write on unlined paper so that I can easily draw and write at the same time. If I do use lined paper, I ignore the lines; they're never the width I want.

I also wrote Snape's sample in my unlined sketchbook, thinking that he often doesn't write inside lines either, but rather in the margins, marking student work.

I actually went looking for a piece of lined paper for Peter's... He's self-conscious about the way his handwriting looks, and would want a sample to be as neat as possible. He doesn't trust himself to write in straight lines.

[exbentley]

I also do character handwriting! Mainly Luna...

I must note, that I could read every word of that. Snape's is really good, though, and yours reminds me of mine in that there's no "lean to the left, lean to the right, or standing straight up" - it's just all over the place.

Oh, and I adore Peter's signature. :D

If you enjoy character handwriting that much, you should use it in your fics. Write series' of letters or something.

[pauraque]

Mm, epistolary fic. Good idea. It would be cool to see Luna's handwriting, if you have a scanner.

[wolfie-thu.livejournal.com]

If you enjoy character handwriting that much, you should use it in your fics. Write series' of letters or something.

I definitely second this.

[wootsauce.livejournal.com]

You could even recruit other people for their handwriting styles!

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Working with computer graphics quite a bit, I've gone searching for handwritten fonts for the characters in my fic--not all the characters, but the main ones. It tends to open another little window into them when I come across a font that strikes me as a good match.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hannelore/]

I'm always fascinated by seeing people's handwriting, so it's wild to see the character samples as well. I can certainly see both Snape and Peter in those samples, too. My handwriting is completely illegible to most, my co-workers joke about trying to read my notes. My attempt at neat handwriting comes out looking something like Peter's.

[asphodeline.livejournal.com]

hee, I'm not alone!! I too make up different scripts - I love looking at different styles. Yours is not what I expected, although not sure what I was expecting! and right-handed I'm assuming? Peter's is clever and Snape of course would a have tiny, cramped up sort of a script which would make reading his comments on your work *so* frustrating!

[pauraque]

Snape of course would a have tiny, cramped up sort of a script which would make reading his comments on your work *so* frustrating!

Yes, that's just what I thought. :)

And yes, I'm right-handed, though not very strongly. When I was first learning to write, I occasionally wrote left-handed and backwards. Over the years, that ambidextrous tendency has lessened, but not completely gone away. When I take a right-side shot in pool, I always shoot left-handed rather than behind the back.