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.

[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.)

[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

[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.

[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!