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Introduction & Credits

Who Are We?

The 100 Parody Twitter Tips project is a community project in which hundreds of members of Parody Twitter and Roleplay Twitter combined their knowledge for anyone to access, all for free. We hope that wherever this document finds you, we have aided you.

When you’re ready to look through this project, start with the Fundamentals.

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-Kurt Waldheim

100 Parody Twitter Tips: 2026 Edition

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Fundamentals

Section 1

Fundamentals

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content”

— Helen Keller

WHAT IS THIS?

The fundamentals are the basics of the community itself; it revolves around photo editing, effects in any image, writing, and many other subjects (such as text design).

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

It helps you understand how each part of editing works; even the simplest step can sometimes be difficult to get to work on the first try.
Categories

Effects

Lighting

Photo Editing

Text Design

Writing

Effects:

what to do and what to NOT do when editing. (mostly just how to edit like me)

By: Knight (@80sRedSuperStar)

Don't be scared to make your own effects.

By: cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

How to overlay!!!

By: Ari!!! (@ABaby_BirdBrain)

Lighting:

Blend Modes: The Three Lights & Color Burn

By: MegaTPM (@kappas_forever)

Lighting/Editing for Beginners! (IBISPAINTX)

By: Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Lighting trick with an airbrush (On Ibis Paint but any airbrush will do)

By: Catalyst (@falsestr1ngs518)

The Basics: Simple Shading

By: Sadie (@TheDemonicDuo72)

Photo Editing:

RP Style Layouts

By: Jae

Making a drive

By: Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Cutting PNGs (PC edition & Mobile)

By: thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

The Modern Prometheus

By: thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

Text Design:

Diegetic Text vs Non-Diegetic Text

By: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Font Sourcing

By: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Typesetting & Typography Fundamentals

By: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Cicero's Manual of Style, and Why You Should Read It!

Written By: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Text Design End Goals

By: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Writing:

Muse Research

By: Kaon (@ImpGalvatron), Maddie (@rudepurpledino), and Kyle (@E51RoboTeach)

A Clean Vision

By: Green Beacon

OC Parodies

By: Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Always Plot

By: Submitted by donut (@viperscat)

Powerscaling

By: Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Writing YOUR Parody (The Basics)

By: Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Why NOT to give your muse broken powers too much

By: zondel

Experiment!

By: cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Portraying Muse Different From Canon Is NOT Bad.

By: Ender

Planning Ahead

By: nocc (@SorrowedSword)

The Punchline

By: Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

Covering Actions in Writing

By: Toats (@KING0FMONST3RS)

It's OK To Lose!

By: P0l

Back Ways To Be Creative

By: Purple Eggman

Selecting (& Getting Creative) With a Character

By: Zip (@Safe_Future06)

Uniqueness is a Gem

By: Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Takeover Tips: The Basics!

By: Neto (CV01_VOCALOID)

Creating a Backstory

By: Kaon (@ImpGalvatron)

Effects

EFFECTS

“Magic is like special effects live, and I love to perform, so it sounded like doing magic tricks were a good way to entertain people.”
— Michael Carbonaro

WHAT IS THIS?

Effects are visual additions to an image or edit, usually used by parodies to showcase and/or amplify the feeling or mood of the situation in the image.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?

Effects can very well set the tone for every edit. A well-done edit has effectively added visual effects that make it look like the environment is alive and that the characters aren't just PNGs slapped on top of a background or image.

What to do and what to NOT do when editing. (mostly just how to edit like me)
Submitted by Knight (@80sRedSuperStar)

1) if you are going for something like your character in a place (like gm_construct, gm_flatgrass or etc), try to look for a lensflare that MATCHES with the background and that doesn't cover at least half of the edit (lower the opacity at least).

2) if you want to mimic a specific style coming out of a game (specially paper mario), try to look for a paper texture, it does the trick.

3) I usually rely on quantize to make rp layouts, it's what gives it the charm for me (it's a paint.net plugin, found it on a plugin pack in one of the forums).

4) It's not bad to rely on a drive with a ton of effects, using a drive with a lot of effects helps me a lot.

5) if you want to make your pinned look fancy, go crazy, but don't make it too fancy to the point the character is barely recognizable.

6) RELY ON BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO EDIT YOUR CHARACTER ON A DARKER AREA (USE OVERLAY AS WELL) (oh right and reduce the opacity to 108).

7) if you DON'T know where to find backgrounds, use noclip.website, it MIGHT have the background you are looking for, if not, look for some forums or a wiki that has said background.

Don't be scared to make your own effects.
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

This one saved my ass too many times to count.

I run an Itadori parody, and I really like the animation techniques used in My Hero Academia/Gachiakuta, i.e. the glowing floor when Rudo fired off the last nail to destroy Bundus' jinki.

Making effects not only benefits you, but others, too.

The orange/white underneath Sonic's feet is an effect I made MYSELF, simply by taking a white dot, scaling it, and using mono color on a duplicated layer, turning it orange and stretching the png, for example.

Sometimes, that one specific thing you might need for an edit is something you've yet to create.

This mostly falls under experimentation, but it's vital enough to be it's own thing, imo

How to overlay!!!
Submitted by Ari!!! (@ABaby_BirdBrain)

So, you've heard about overlays during your time on Parody Twitter, right?

If you haven't:

an Overlay ( In general ) is something that is used to cover / coat an object, much as how a light source used in your edits add brightness to your edits ( Such as Lens flares, gordays, or beams and blasts! )

But in the terms of editing , it's like an effect that's used to add contrast to your edits depending on the image that you use as an overlay!

For example!

Let's say you want to edit a character of your choice into a background, you'd obviously want it to look pretty and all that.

So, my way of making it turn into a "pretty" edit is using light sources, and obviously..

Overlays!!

What I'll do is I'll:

1. Set up the character using a specific png of them, and the background I'd want to use!

2. Pick the effect/s I'd want to use to enhance the quality of the image!

and then, step 3 is tricky if you don't have the *look* that you'd want your edit to be in.

What I mean by this is the *style of editing* you're going to want!

But before we go there, step 3.

3. Pick the specific overlay I'd want to be using to enhance the contrast and overall look of the edit!

So, let's start off with step 1.

For this demonstration, I'm gonna edit Looping The Rooms Miku in a background that fits the aesthetic of the song! ( LISTEN TO IT, IT'S VERY GOOD... )

Now that we have the PNGs alligned in the places where we want them to be, we'll start with either duplicating layers of the character above each other, with each of those layers having different opacities and blending options set to them.

Personally, I just like to put a black layer above the character and blurring the layer so it can act as a sort of "depth balance", such that the character doesn't become a white png..

Or, the second option: Skip all the mentioned above, add light sources, and adjust the character's depth all by yourself so they can match the color scheme of the background / aesthetic!

After all that, comes the whole importance of this thread.

The Overlays and which ones to pick.

Now, the thing that varies overlays and other effects is that Overlays can be any picture / image that you have saved!

The only way to know how is by simply testing!!!

Use different images, modify them, blur them, do whatever you want with them!

The only end goal is : Will this overlay majorly amplify my edit?

If it did make you reach the goal, then consider yourself a winner!!

Now get out. /J

And if you didn't , then try again!!

Remember, editing is more trial and error than blitzing through an empty corridor.

There will be obstacles while editing, so you'll have to climb them by simply testing!

And hell, maybe you'll find your own touch of editing while at it!

Anyways, back onto the topic of editing.

Now that you have a specific overlay, let's take this one for example:

REMEMBER TO ALWAYS PUT THE IMAGE YOU WANT TO USE AS AN OVERLAY DIRECTLY ABOVE EVERYTHING ‼️‼️‼️

And put it above your effects as well!!!

Now that you've understood everything so far ( Hopefully.. ) , let's put all of those effect together and:

Tada‼️‼️‼️

A straight-forward edit, that looks slightly, or much better than the previous attempt!

Also, here's what happens when you do put the overlay first.

Lighting

LIGHTING
“To me if there’s an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it’s because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece.”
— Roger Deakins

WHAT IS THIS?

Blend Modes: The Three Lights & Color Burn
Submitted by MegaTPM (@kappas_forever)

Usually when you'd work on effects, you'd apply the Screen and/or Linear Dodge (Add) to make them all bright and flashy. Which is good of course. But I've found that using these three other blend modes have been really helpful when making effects look a certain way, especially when working with fire. Those being Soft Light, Hard Light, & Vivid Light.

Let's take this edit of Mecha being burned alive for example. Sure I used Linear Dodge for a fire PNG behind him & the background stuff. But Mecha himself & a second fire PNG layered over him use Hard Light. Hard Light is definitely the way to go if you want your effects to look strong. It’s heavy, and has depth to it. I've been using it for fire effects for awhile now, and it works wonders.

If I only used Screen & Linear Dodge, it'd just be a chunk of light.

Vivid Light is kinda like Hard Light’s sister effect. It can also make effects look strong, but it takes a more distorted looking approach. How this affects the edit depends of how you use it. The first image is how it looks when both PNGs use it, and the second is if you stacked Vivid Light on top of Hard Light.

Now of course, these can't replace Screen & Linear Dodge, especially if you're working with PNGs with black backgrounds. What I am saying is that all five of those blend modes can be combined to make some really cool looking things.

Ok here's an extra little thing before before I run out of time: Color Burn! Now admittedly, I haven't had too much of a use for Color Burn, BUT I have found it works best with Color Overlay. Let's go back to burning Mecha real quick. I used an orange Color Overlay effect with Color Burn applied to it. Then I used Hard Light on the whole sprite.

Without the Color Burn, he'd be a silhouette. This is fine if he was standing at the back of a massive fire, but not up close (imo at least). The Color Dodge adds a nice burned effect to the edit. It really depends on what you think works.

To put it simply, Color Burn helps give color overlay some depth if needed, mainly for special lighting conditions & effects that engulf a PNG. You don’t have to use it, but I'd play around with this blend mode too.

Anyways, that's enough outta me. Hope this helps some of ya'll out in the future. Especially with fire. Figuring these out makes editing fire really fun.

Thank you, and good night! Happy editing!

Lighting/Editing for Beginners! (IBISPAINTX)
Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Soo.. you want to learn lighting? I’ll show you!

First we need our Base

We’ll be using Paper Mario!

For starters click the image button on the top right of your phone (or pc) and search up natural light

After overlaying your image above your background and png You have two choices

Overlay

To find these open up layers and click on the “Normal”

ADD

if you want a full on lighter experience with less darkness i recommend using Add!

OVERLAY

If you’re looking for a more moody look with fewer lighting I recommend using Overlay!

You can also tweak the visibility with the opacity bar in Layers

And there you have it! A basic tutorial of lighting on Ibis!

SHADOWS

mini section

there are many ways to do shadows But I recommend these ways the most

I used Airbrush (Trapezoid 60%) and made it transparent by 47%,

I morphed the png of Paper Mario to line up on the floor and made it Transparent by 47%

OVERLAY
now you may see some clean pngs from time to time and wonder.. how do you do that? Well i am here to help!
First you want to duplicate your png and change it from normal to Overlay

Then click on the bottom left arrow to secure your overlay layer

Next you wanna open up the brush menu and select filter

Then go to the Blur category and select Gaussian Blur

Usually i use 50% but any matters!
And there you have it! A clean overlayed sprite!

Lighting trick with an airbrush (On Ibis Paint but any airbrush will do)
Submitted by Catalyst (@falsestr1ngs518)

Now most people use lensflare or many, many layers of edits to make the perfect lighting, though sometimes doing the simpler option is just as effective. The airbrush tool. Simple lighting, yet effective if used properly.

First I isolate the character I am using from the background. Make a blank layer afterwards

Then on a seperate layer I use a paint bucket to make a sort of mold around the png. This is important (The canvas here is white while the paint tool is the light orange)

Next thing you do is to hide the character png to reveal the canvas underneath (remember to not have anything underneath the mold and that all objects are hidden otherwise it will just be more of a hassle.) make another blank layer

Using the wand tool you will want to select the white areas of the canvas, aka the mold you made, examine the lighting of your background and the direction of where the light is coming from and where its not.

Using the airbrush (20% works best in my opinion given it feels more natural to me but you can use any of the paint brushes available)

(Make sure to use the colour relating to the light sources in your background you are using. The black area shown is not needed, but its an extra touch you can do to make it feel like that area of the body is receiving less light then where the light is shining.)

You can now delete/hide the mold you made with the paint bucket and unhide your muse and background, revealing your final product without the use of lensflare.

The Basics: Simple Shading
Submitted by Sadie (@TheDemonicDuo72)

Have you ever wanted to start shading but you don't know how to pull it off/feel like it's too clunky?

Well I gotcha covered!

A tip I've learned from a friend regarding how to do simple shading is to make a special multiply layer with 50% opacity using a red color, and applying it to some basic areas that feel like could work for shading (e.g. Neck, Shadows given due to the hair, etc.)

You could also try another color like blue, for instance. Black can work too in some artstyles, but otherwise it makes the colors feel a bit washed out

That's all I got, hope it's worth the help!

Photo Editing

PHOTO EDITING

“The picture that you took with your camera is the imagination you want to create with reality.”
— Scott Lorenzo

What is photo editing?

Photo editing consists of making layouts, cutting images/removing their backgrounds if your muse/character is there, etc.

Why does it matter?

It organizes your drive, makes it easier to spot your muse in any edit, and is the basic and first thing that you learn on Parody Twitter.

RP Style Layouts
Submitted by; Jae

Do You Ever Wonder How RP Accs Will get their layouts to look grungy or How their colors pop to a certain extent?

We’re gonna show you how to do that!

Resources Needed! (These can be used in conjunction with each other)

IBISPAINT OR IBISPAINT X

PHOTOSHOP OR PHOTOPEA( a website alternative for photoshop! )

POLARR (App)

Now first of course you’ll need a layout Pre-Made or a layout made in photoshop or photopea. I’ll make a simple one now!

Now we’ll do the polarr route first!

First step of course download that thang:

Create your acc and all that good jazz

Now for step 2!

Go to discover and search something of a keyword for a filter!

I.e Red , Dark , Blue , etc

Or search a user like Kyriettes , Sladestrokes , theosateri are some good ones

Step 3 Find a Filter you like!

If you preview it and you don’t like the look you can find a different one! Once you’ve found one that looks good then you can export it. And Voilà!

Now onto the photopea/photoshop method!

1st: Open photopea on a device that is widescreened for viability to see.

Then import your layout into photopea

To find a coloring this time you'll go to deviantart.

Search psd or psd coloring for them usually!

( some psds you have to pay for!, keep that in mind )

then just export!

Photoshop is the same since photopea is again just a web version of photoshop!

Making a drive
Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Im gonna do my best to explain the basics of making a drive

Because it can get complicated

It does soulfully depend on how you function but make sure you have the basics like

- PNGs

- Spritesheets (Fighting, Casual, Etc)

- Backgrounds (if related to your character)

- UI/HUD of your Muse (OPTIONAL)

If i had to make my own suggestion, try to put effort into cutting out your sprites and pngs

Don't just leave the backgrounds in them because then it’s more effort for you than others.

Also (if it's your thing) organize your pngs and sprites for easier use! :)

Thanks for reading!

Cutting PNGs (PC edition & Mobile)
Submitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

PC: Two options.

One, https://www.photoroom.com/tools/background-remover. Very good, I personally prefer the mobile version, but good nonetheless.

How do you use it? Drag and drop or click the shiny blue button, add your uncut, and wait. Remove something you actually did want, or vice versa? Press edit cutout below the image, and then press it again on the right. Magic brush or manual as you please, and it's done. Hooray!

Two, Photoshop (ibis probably works but it's been a while since I've used it). Press L to use the lasso tool, and circle whatever you're trying to cut. Doesn't have to be good. Then, right click the area, and new layer as a copy or cut. Touch it up a little so there's not a piece of the bg in your png, and save. Hooray!

don't use remove.bg. awful quality. please.

Mobile: Again, crossroads.

Photoroom is back! On mobile, cutting is way easier. Just choose a photo, wait a sec, and make any changes you need. Ta-da! You've got a limit of 250 a month unless you go premium, so don't go hog wild unless you know this is all you'll be needing.

If you're on iPhone, look up Eraser in the app store. It's by handyCloset Inc.

This is personally my preferred method for cutting, but you'll get ads after every cut. Just like Photoroom, you can use an eraser and restore tool, but this has the added benefit of cutting specific colors and a smart eraser that can tell the difference between a character outline and a background. Be warned though, they will look a little choppy if you rely on this, and your png may have slight traces of the background on any angled part of them. Like a sleeve or gap between the arm and chest.

Now, why is this better than a pc? Because you're gonna be bored! Sure, it's gonna take a while for you to cut 300 pngs, so don't do it all at once. Spread them out. Long car ride? Cut. Got a 15 minute break? Cut. Spread it out so you don't go insane from the workload. That's the smart fella way of doing things.

The Modern Prometheus
Submitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

So. You want to put your muse in the golden freddy pose, but you don't have that perfect png! Oh no!

Let's start with this: Visualize it. When you see your muse in a certain pose, or over a meme, what pngs do it resemble? Take them, and put them on the cutting board. Individually or at the same time, doesn't matter.

Now that you have your building blocks, cut away! Use the lasso tool to take specific parts of the png and either make a new layer from it or invert it and cut everything else. Really just depends on if you're taking multiple parts from the same one or not.

Next, rearrange! Do the hokey pokey with your lego pieces! Don't forget about perspective and have fun!

With your finished product, post it! Or use it in an edit! Or really, just send it to your friends if it's funny. Now, don't be afraid to do this more. You'll only get better at it, and soon enough you'll start building a collection. If you'd like an example of what I mean, please have a look at the attached image or this drive (of which is entirely custom made sprites!) https://drive.google.com/drive/u/3/folders/1gmskZdkj21E8HtYHKM9qTyUZDX_GBE6F

Text Design

TEXT DESIGN

“Fonts turn words into stories.”

— Sara Hyndman

Text design in editing is what makes or breaks an entire composition. You can have the most gorgeous effects, the most eye-catching choreography, or art so good it’d make Leonardo da Vinci cry, but all comes crumbling down if the text within the edit, whether diegetic or non-diegetic, isn’t accounted for. The difference between a good parody Twitter editor and a great parody Twitter editor is how the text is designed.

Diegetic Text vs Non-Diegetic Text

Diegetic text is text that is spoken or readable by the subjects in your edit. i,e. dialogue, sounds, signs, and anything that “fits” within the world you’re creating, unlike non-diegetic text, which is text that cannot be perceived by the subjects in your edit. Non-diegetic text would be narration/inner thoughts, stylized SFX text, basically, anything that aids to a viewers interactive experience with your work. In some cases, Parody Twitter editors can make use of these concepts to have them uniquely interact with each other, like transitioning between panels, a character physically interacting with non-diegetic text, etc.

Diegetic and Non-diegetic text comes from the concept of Diegetic and Non-Diegetic sound, which you can read more about here:

Diegetic vs. Non-Diegetic Sound: What’s the Difference?

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/diegetic-vs-non-diegetic-sound-guide-75566/

What is Non-Diegetic Sound – Definition and Examples
https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-non-diegetic-sound/

Font Sourcing

There’s only so much you can accomplish with built-in text on your devices and apps. Here’s a great list of free font websites and paid font packs you can pick up yourself.

Chequered Ink All Fonts Pack

https://ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

Google Fonts

https://fonts.google.com/

Open Foundry

https://open-foundry.com/

Open Source Publishing

https://osp.kitchen/

Colettivo

https://www.collletttivo.it/

Indestructible Type

https://indestructibletype.com/

Fontshare

https://www.fontshare.com/

Uncut.wtf

https://uncut.wtf/

Velvetyne

https://gitlab.com/velvetyne/velvetyne-libre-friends/-/blob/main/README.md

Dafont

https://www.dafont.com/

fontsquirrel
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

Typesetting & Typography Fundamentals

Text design in itself belongs to a much, much larger practice called typesetting, and it is a artform that you interact with every single day. Think of your favorite website, the lock screen on your phone, the UI of whatever messaging app you have, and the UI of your favorite game. If it has text involved in it, that text is likely following the rules of typesetting and typography!

I heavily encourage you to read the following to have a better understanding of typesetting. Please read these, and think heavily about how they apply to text in Parody Twitter editing!

What is Typesetting? The Unsung Hero of Book Design

https://www.foglioprint.com/blog/what-is-typesetting

Basic Typesetting Guide

https://www.sheltonography.com/resources/Articles/Typesetting_Guide.pdf

What is typesetting?

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud/design/discover/typesetting.html

Understanding the Basics of Typesetting

https://www.publishingpush.com/blog/understanding-the-basics-of-typesetting

Understanding typography

https://m2.material.io/design/typography/understanding-typography.html

Cicero’s Manual of Style, and Why You Should Read It!

Cicero’s Manual of Style by CiceroCiceronis is a fundamental pillar of how modern English translations of Manga operate, it’s even used in Tuxedo Time, a translation project created by Seed of Might authors. For anyone looking to understand typesetting even further, even if this is only for Manga, its application uses in Parody Twitter styled text editing are extremely useful.

NOTE THAT THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT APPLY TO PARODY TWITTER AS A WHOLE.

Due to the sheer length of the document, you can access it on a different document, which you may read here.

Text Design End Goals

You must have a clear goal in mind when you’re designing your text in edit. Is it going to be next to somebody? A place? An object? How will it interact with the main subject, the supporting subject, the viewer, and more?

Without an end goal, text in edits is aimless and would detract from the edit itself. The very presence, color, size, and shape of your text will significantly influence how a viewer feels about your scene, whether it's in the caption of the post itself, in any variant of a dialogue box, or superimposed behind a character.

When you’re designing your text, always, always, have an end goal in mind, no matter how small. Text is, in my opinion, the most influential variable of an entire edit, and should be treated as such.

Writing

WRITING

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
— Jack Kerouac

What is writing?

Writing is the main focus of a parody account or a roleplay account. It emphasizes anything like actions, expressions, or even simple interactions.

Why does it matter?

It helps the other writer identify what your muse did or how they are feeling. Even the slightest bit of happiness present on your muse in an interaction makes it easier to spot it.

Muse Research
Submitted (mixture) by:

Kaon (@ImpGalvatron), Maddie (@rudepurpledino), and Kyle (@E51RoboTeach)

When choosing a muse, try to do research on the character so you have over a baseline knowledge of the character. My personal choice is fandom wiki's (https://www.fandom.com/), though any page that goes over the intricate details of your desired muse would work.

Whether you plan on staying true to their original depiction, completely bastardizing them for comedic effect,

(Galvatron, a known genocidal, insane dictator, taking Shockwave, Cyn, TPFCD, and Primus to Bojangles IN THE ALL NEW 2019 CHEVY SILVERADO because it's frickin hilarious)

or somewhere in the middle, it is important to know where you're starting in regards to your muse and their world.

Research can be as simple as reading their wiki page or watching a YouTube summary, or as complex as engaging with the source material itself - playing the game, watching the show, etc.

(Susie from Deltarune)

If your muse happens to be an oc, try to finish a backstory of sorts for them before you get into rp. This can be as detailed or bare bones as you'd like, just try to get a foothold of information you can build upon later.

This information will let you have a higher understanding of your muse, allowing you to get into character a lot more, understand their thought process, and rp them better overall.

Regardless, getting at least a basic understanding of your character is the most important step in improving your ability to write them, no matter what you plan on doing with them.

Furthermore, if your character is mainstream and has something new to them, it's probably best to have a backstory as to why they have said things.

Like Jolt's Megatron having the Reality Stone.

Or Kaon's Galvatron having the Absolute Solver.

Try to keep a doc on your drive to go over what or why your parodies have what they have helps give whoever is interacting with you a bit of backstory.

A Clean Vision
Submitted by Green Beacon

Before doing a new character/muse I try to get a clear vision on who I want them to be. I would usually write down "oh I want to keep that Logan drinks" or "oh I want him to have this deep insecurity about being called names" and the list goes on. So, I would advise doing that so you get a clear understanding on how you want your muse to be. ❤️

OC Parodies
Submitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Parody accounts, by their nature, sell themselves by presenting a character people already know and enjoy, but that's not to say Original Characters can't get popular! They're just, truthfully, at a disadvantage. But here's a way(in my opinion) to sell people on these characters, or make a character people will like.

Condense the character into a single sentence description.

This is the "Selling point" in question.

I recommend this for people wanting to make characters in general, but it's especially important for characters that need to sell themselves to an audience on their own, devoid of any attached world or storyline (if you have a world or storyline you want people to see with your character, keep in mind you need to sell people on the character in order to get people to participate in the storyline.)

Trying to sell someone on a character that appears complicated can get people confused FAST, meanwhile seemingly simple concepts are much easier to understand. Giving people a one sentence description to ground themselves in and understand the appeal of a character is an excellent way to sell an audience.

That isn't to say OC parodies can't be complex, that's completely untrue, you just need to sell people on the character before you can introduce those complex ideas.

Examples:

A heroic robot with incredible close combat capabilities inspired by SMBZ
A powerful dickhead skeleton in a hoodie
A simple looking god that thinks he's "Lawful Good" but is actually "Lawful Evil"
If Reddit was a robot and became an anime villain

Whatever pinned comment or first post this character has should entirely embody and communicate this one sentence descriptor. Their appearance and dialogue, likewise, should also communicate this idea as effectively as possible.

Always Plot
Submitted by donut (@viperscat)

By writing a plot, you can plan out interactions quickly, while keeping them natural!

You can plan out how it would start, and end while keeping true to any characterization without writing too much!

Powerscaling
Submitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Powerscaling has had an iron grip on the results of fights, but I've also been in a lot of fights where my opponent doesn't care who wins at all, so here's the thing:

You probably know that one Stan Lee quote "the winner is whoever the writer wants to win." By that he doesn't mean to throw out power consistency entirely, there would be no stakes like that. He's just saying that the winner of your fight should benefit your story. Especially in parody twitter, where power levels can vary so wildly, this rings true.

Now, I would like to restate, Powerscaling is an important tool in establishing stakes. For a viewer to be invested in a story, they need to understand how it works. When a deviation from the viewer's understanding happens, the writer needs to explain why that happened.

Establishing Person A is stronger than Person B, but then not elaborating on why Person B destroys galaxies and Person A fails to pick up a teddy bear damages the consistency with which the viewer sees the world, and can damage how invested they are in the stakes of your story.

Ultron

(from the What If…? series)

If the result of a fight does not help whatever story you're trying to tell, that's a problem, but the thing is, Powerscaling is a part of Storytelling. Not more important than it, not unimportant to it. It is a part of it.

Writing YOUR Parody (The Basics)
Submitted by Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Hello peoples!

The name’s Icyblitz or Icy for short! I write Super Mario! Though, I decided to make mine more unique! Here’s how you can do that too! :]

First:

The basics! It’s really simple! Grab your favorite character and a Twitter/X account! As an example for this I’ll be using the character Squidward Tentacles! Now most of the time Squidward is a self centered, arrogant, mean guy. But he has his rare moments where he is honestly a pretty nice guy!

Two examples would be: Band Geeks and The Krusty Krab Pizza episode! This shows that 99% of the time he may be a mean and sometimes brutal guy, but under the surface he’s just a man who loves music and has a secret soft spot for others!

9.9 times out of 10 Squidward absolutely DOESN’T care about the other folks of Bikini Bottom! But like I said before! Squidward DOES have a soft side! He’s just not really keen on showing it around others! One of the greatest examples I found of this is when Squidward is either A: Painting! Or B: Using his Clarinet! Though, do not that Squidward isn’t really skilled at using said Clarinet. So? To answer the question,” How do I make my Parody stand out?” It's simple:

Make sure your character respects the source material, but also make them feel unique in one way or another!
The character has to feel ALIVE! Make them do some interesting things! Like participating in events, going to occasional hangouts or meetings, and other stuff!
HAVE FUN!!! Being a Parody is more of a hobby! PLEASE don’t take it seriously! It’s all for fun! No need to make it serious!

Why NOT to give your muse broken powers too much
Submitted by zondel

You found someone to parody as, so, you may have a question: "How do I make it enjoyable for me and other people around me?"

First off, pick which ability you wanna give your muse, for this I'll use an example like: Domain Expansion. You should make a sketch of what you think the domain will do, you don't wanna make it too broken because you'll be a total joy killer. Giving an ability/power too strong will make less and less people want to collab with you. Which is a big no no.

Pro tip: discuss it with friends or parodies alike, that helps a ton with figuring out what you wanna do for it!

Second, make it make sense. Make a story or an idea of how your muse got the ability/power. Getting it out of the blue seems unreasonable and pathetic to some.

Third, once you get what it should be like, try it with or on someone. Always be mindful of their boundaries. PLEASE COMMUNICATE with someone before actually doing that. I had tons of issues with people in the past outright refusing to communicate, which is the most important thing in ptwt.

Fourth, and last, don't be a sore loser. If you lose or if someone refuses to edit with you, don't harass them over that. Please.

With all of that, you should have something nice and cool, be proud and show it off to everyone‼️

Experiment!
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Always remember, parodying is about fun.

Experimentation is a MUST!! Especially considering you are a WRITER, first and foremost.

Experimenting brought me to where I am today, if not for the ability to experiment and explore my own creativity, I wouldn't be here!!

- cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Portraying Muse Different From Canon Is NOT Bad.
Submitted by Ender

Hi, I’m Ender. Someone who you may know as the Dad Vox. I feel as if being too scared to muse someone new, but that’s okay! But you don’t need to make it perfect unless you want to! And from a helpful parody friend, benny (@ScryberTechno). Do your own take on a character!

It doesn’t have to be canon 10000% accurate, make it your own take!

It’s still the same character, just with your own unique flair! Don’t be afraid to try new things!

Planning Ahead
Submitted by nocc (@SorrowedSword)

You JUST made an account. And it’s a complete desert…

You have no idea what to do with it and it stays abandoned…

UNLESS you have an idea of some dream goal.

For example, when I created my Katana Man account, I aimed for accuracy AND popularity. This meant that I would alternate between character-accurate posts and then once every so often upload a post that slanders Chainsaw Man. Posts like that gave me a lot of attraction because people were in on the joke that Katana Man HATES Chainsaw Man.

However, for my (now late) Makima account, I focused much more on the accuracy of my portrayal instead of my popularity. So what I proceeded to do was upload interaction baits, get engaged with professional writers within that community and read and reread the manga whenever I felt unsure on something, to make sure that my accuracy did NOT drop.

Having a scope will allow you to plan ahead and maybe even create a couple draft posts that you can upload when needed. It works very well in taking some of the stress off of you.

What I will recommend is that accounts for smaller fandoms should attempt to focus more on writing rather than popularity, as posting on the topic of their smaller media is less likely to become a banger. HOWEVER NOT IMPOSSIBLE- DO NOT LET THIS STOP YOU.

Most of all, believe that you can achieve that goal once you have defined your scope. You got this.

The Punchline
Submitted by Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

A lot of you parodies aren't funny. I'm sorry to be the one to break it to you. Not because of your humor itself, but from how a majority of you tend to deliver your jokes. The most common mistake I've seen is how a lot of you tend to rely on Random = Funny as a way to get a laugh, which rarely works and tends to make you come off as a massive cornball.

Before I dive deep into this, I would like to preface that humor is subjective and there's multiple different ways of making people laugh. What I'm going to tell you is how to effectively set up a punchline, not how to be funny. What I find funny you may find insufferable and vice versa, so do not take this advice thinking you'll come out a comedy professional. With that said, let me define two words that you need to know.

Set-Up: The first part of the joke, providing the context you need to know beforehand.

Punchline: The final part of a joke, working off the context provided to reveal how it concludes.

REMINDER: YOU CANNOT HAVE A PUNCHLINE WITHOUT A SET-UP!

Without a set-up, a punchline is just a random statement with no real merit and reason for anyone to laugh aside from the statement possibly being funny itself. However, that's not a joke, that's something you said that just so happened to be funny.

ANOTHER REMINDER: YOU DON'T NEED TO DRAG A SET-UP FOR THE PUNCHLINE TO WORK. A set-up can be simple as a one sentence post followed up by the punchline or as complex as requiring another person for it to land. Set-ups can be as short or as long as it needs to be just as long as it works in preparing you for the inevitable punchline. If you think you're doing too much or too little, ask yourself "Is this enough information for the joke to land?" By then, you can figure out what to do next on your own.

EX:

Goku and Vegeta

Batman I-be-profen

Covering Actions in Writing
Submitted by Toats (@KING0FMONST3RS)

When you're writing a storyline, whether it be for an event or some casual RP, knowing how to tell what is happening is very crucial[unless you edit].

I'll be talking about the three main parts of writing actions in this thread to hopefully help understand them.

## Part One - Grammar

Grammar is essential to writing good action and context, so making sure to have good grammar is a surefire way to make your int sound a bit more professional, and not like a side hobby that you do for fun.

## Part Two - Hyperbolics and Overstatements

Knowing how much to exaggerate is good in all situations. A good example of this can be presented here.

[Will be using they/them pronouns in examples.]

### Example One

"* They were JUST about to finish that crossword puzzle, like a SLIM margin away from finishing it. No wonder they're being all pissy."

Now, this would be an example of an overstatement because it expresses tone and mood without sounding absurd or cartoonish.

### Example Two

"* They're so extraordinarily happy at this current moment, they might even be more gleeful than a baby on a sugar rush."

Now, this would be an example of a hyperbole, due to it being cartoonish and childishly humorous.

## Part Three - Drama

Drama is a key aspect in writing, especially in events, arcs, and storylines. Drama can be conveyed in three ways, those being Anger, Sadness, and Seriousness. Sadly, you cannot be joyous in a Drama because that's not how it works. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Xera Finding. . . Home.

It's OK To Lose!
Submitted by P0l

When fighting someone on Parody Twitter, you should remember; IT'S FICTION!

This is something I've seen some people forget (cough cough, younger me included) that this is all for fun, no need to get too serious about it! See, how a fight would normally go is, someone fights another someone, they both get their hits in, and they get to the end. Now, what to do? There are normally three outcomes.

ONE

Go to the person's DMs! Be sure to ask them who they think should win. If the two parties can't decide, they could spin a wheel, or...

TWO

Make it a draw! You don't always need to win, but if you and the other person are fine with it, and don't want either party dying, make it a draw!

THREE

Just go with the flow, and look at the current situation and think to yourself if it would be appropriate to end the battle with a victory or a retreat. What I recommend is to do whichever seems more appropriate in the situation!!

Now, why do I bring these three things up? Well, for people new to fights, there is a chance they probably won't do these things, and if you are one of those said people, here are some tips I recommend!!

ONE

Please remember that you don't always have to be the strongest guy in the room, because if people see that's your mentally, they probably won't want to fight you.

TWO

Don't drag a fight! They lose all meaning if they go on for too long, and feel more like a chore to complete!

THREE

Finally, remember that losing a fight doesn't ruin your reputation, it's simply something that happens to everyone, so don't beat yourself up if you do lose.

I hope my tips helped you improve how you fight! And again, I cannot stress it enough, you don't need to be the strongest person in the room!!

Back Ways To Be Creative
Submitted by Purple Eggman

Use gmod! (Yes it is a game) it has many free models from the workshop and it is easy to make a scene using some simple mods like Low quality camera sweep and Camera Tool to record stuff you want to make as an action!

Don’t be scared of drawing something out of spite!(that’s literally how I got here)

Make good ideas on who you wanna interact with!

Have fun🥹📈📈📈

Selecting (& Getting Creative) With a Character
Submitted by Zip (@Safe_Future06)

If you want to become a parody account, then you should think about the character you wanna parody as before making the account.

First things first, the character can be one you like a lot, or any character at all, there's a lot of them to choose from; It's ok to stand out if it's a character that isn't really well-known (my second ptwt character, Endou, is an example), and make sure that your decision is final.

If you want, you can also get creative with how you wanna write them, either by giving them a story arc, making them learn new things (like special moves and stuff, better way to do so is throughout an arc, look at the example) or anything else you prefer!

(Example: in my Silver's arc, he might learn new ways to use his Psychokinesis). And if you ever feel like giving up on the character or their arc, then remember to never give up and believe in yourself, hope this helps somehow.

Uniqueness is a Gem
Submitted by Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Don't feel bad about being different. Appeal comes in all sorts of ways. If you have an idea for your parody or account that you find fun, shoot for it. The worst that can happen is you merely have to go back to the drawing board.

Takeover Tips: The Basics!
Submitted by Neto (CV01_VOCALOID)

So you've hit a specific follower goal and/or you've been wanting to parody another muse juuust for a little bit, what do you do? A TAKEOVER, of course! ✨

Here's some personal tips I want to share for any parodies planning a TAKEOVER of their own!

Time is... Ehh — You can really just start and end one whenever, there's no real pressure on doing so! Hell, it could even last just for half a day if you want!

The Usual — Make the muse, make the views! The layout, the bio, all WILL change! It IS a takeover after all, so don't hold back! Well, maybe a little.

A Temporary Pin — Be sure to show off your takeover, either from a new post or a recent thread that you made for the start of the takeover!

Last but not the least;

YOUR Idea — Just like your main muse, it's up to YOUR interpretation so you might as well have fun with it! Stay true to the source, or play around a bit! Or get chaotic and completely derail it!

Creating a Backstory
Submitted by Kaon (@ImpGalvatron)

Do you have a muse? Perhaps one that has a backstory but you wanna write your own for them for why they turned out that way?

You can make your own story!

This is parody twitter. YOUR muse is YOURS to write how YOU want to write them. That also includes giving them a backstory that you want to give them.

Example below:

(Kaon's Megatron)

Advanced Fundamentals

Section 2

Advanced Fundamentals

“The day you stop learning is the day you begin to die. Lack of knowledge is the fundamental principle for killing “alive and kicking” dreams.”
— Israelmore Ayivor

WHAT IS THIS?

Advanced Fundamentals are a subset of Fundamentals in which the topics are more specific than the ones in Fundamentals, mostly consisting of editing tutorials.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Advanced Fundamentals matter because there are many parodies who are ambitious on how they wish to work their parodies, yet lack the proper specific knowledge to fulfill said ambitions.

2D Art:

Not everything needs to be flashy!

Submitted by: Maddie (@rudepurpledino)

How should you make original 2D Art PNGs for your drive?

Submitted by: Snomvish (@SKELETON_MAN69)

Drawing Your Muse!

Submitted by: Unfuni (@FATH3RS_S0N)

DRAWING TIPS AND TRICKS!!! (IBIS EDITION)

Submitted by: Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

MANGA COLORING!!! (BY CUBE!)

Submitted by: Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

Use Shapes and Silhouette

Submitted by: Benny (@ScryberTechno)

3D Art:

How to make renders for dummies!!

Submitted by: DARTH VADER (@Darth_vader_65)

Make a Blender setup to make renders of your character!

Submitted by: Submitted by Moro The Grass Eater (@Cryomeltdown)

How to make custom PNG’s with MMD

Submitted by: Tatious (@AlienSpaceCop)

Choreography:

Study ANIMATION.

Submitted by: cosmic. (@TrueBlueRush)

Choreographing Basics: How to choreograph an edit!

Submitted by: Silencio (@mightygodkiller)

ANGLES MATTER!

Submitted by: zondel (_)

Color:

Colors with impact [By Dane]

Submitted by: Dane64 (@DaneParsons80)

Composition:

Transferring Photography Skills into Edits!

Submitted by: JJH (@DBTheStrongest)

Guiding Lines

Submitted by: Reimers (@___)

Video Editing:

Noelle's Video Editing (Mobile)

Submitted by: Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

2D Art

2D ART

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
— Pablo Picasso

What is this?

2D Art is the basis of drawing. Art is anything involving drawing hands, skeletons or even a stickman.

Why does this matter?

It gives classes on how to draw your muse, how to color anything coming from mangas, how to make reference sheets, etc.

If you believe that making any render or working on blender can be a hassle, then i’m sure you will be invested in this category.

1. Not everything needs to be flashy!
Submitted by Maddie (@rudepurpledino)

This one's honestly really broad and doesn't fit into one category, and it applies to editors of all skill levels, but I feel it's important enough to bring up that I'm gonna.

Not everything needs to be a spectacle!

It's okay to have some panels that look a little boring. In fact, you might WANT to have more "boring" panels, because it'll make your more spectacular ones more impactful! If the scenario doesn't call for intensity, don't give it intensity. It's a simple rule, but it's much more impactful than I feel people give it credit for.

2. How should you make original 2D Art PNGs for your drive?
Submitted by Snomvish (@SKELETON_MAN69)

Any way!

As long as it's low stress, you can do it fairly fast, and you are decent at the medium. I heavily recommend you make pngs in whatever medium you're most comfortable in, and, unless you've got incredible self discipline, don't push your medium or personal style (You'll already be pushing yourself by creating so many different poses).

Whatever your workflow is for making pngs for a drive, ensure to yourself that you can not only repeat that process with minimal changes 20 times minimum. You should also make sure whatever character you're making pngs for is a character you can draw constantly without getting tired or straining yourself. Before starting on a drive where most of the pngs are comprised of custom artwork, make sure you are comfortable drawing that character from any angle, with any pose, and with any expression.

3. Drawing Your Muse!
Submitted by Unfuni (@FATH3RS_S0N)

Do you wanna draw your muse?

You have a cool pose in mind for your muse to hit, and believe it would be badass? Then first you gotta learn how to draw your muse! (or you could commission someone but if you do that GIVE THEM CREDIT!!!)

I usually start by drawing my muse (take Gohan for example) in my sketchbook.

Or sometimes drawing on anything, even little doodles. You aren’t gonna start off as a pro instantly, but practicing it makes it better! Sometimes you can sketch your muse digitally aswell but I prefer doing it on sketchbooks & paper cuz I’m more used to that.

In most cases, when I draw a pose of Gohan that I like, I’d take a photo of it and then trace over it in my editing app so that I can transfer it onto digital. Once I do that then I just color it in (usually using a reference for colors & stuff)

Once that’s all done with you got yourself a png for your drive that you can use whenever you want because it’s yours!

4. DRAWING TIPS AND TRICKS!!! (IBIS EDITION)
Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

Heyyyyyy! Cube here, I’m not that well known tbh but I wanna give my honest opinions and ideas on how to make some art for parody twitter (digitally)!!!

THIS WILL MOSTLY BE IBIS BASED TIPS BUT THIS WORKS FOR MOST!

Advice number 1!

-Getting your basic tools!-

From my experience, best way to get started is to find what YOU want as an artist, like brushes, style and shading! First, experiment, use brushes and doodle wildly, try lighting and overlays! My BIGGEST recommendation for getting brushes would be Pinterest as they have SOOOOO much to offer! They have brushes with funny effects and good for line work, coloring or even lighting!

Advice number 2!

-perspective and proportions with a side of reference!!-

I honestly would reccomend beginner artists to use references to trace or use on the side! This is to warm up your skills before you take on any real challenge! I like using Pinterest or Websites that give you models or pics to use! That way you can practice your character’s proportions and angles! BUT PLEASE REMEMBER TO ACTUALLY BUILD SKILLS ON YOUR OWN! Figure out how to do anatomy or weird shapes without a trace, just try using squares and circles, then just draw a body using those! I’d also recommend leaning angles and facial features, which do keep in mind depends heavily on style you’re going after. It can be: realistic, simplistic, doodle, anime, chibi, painting-ish and even mix of some I’ve already said! But at the end of the day that’s up to you and your choice! Also Pinterest is great for getting ideas or concepts you wanna draw with this character or that media!

Advice number 3

-Shading!!!-

When I think of shading, I boil it down to TWO categories, sharp and blurred. Of course it also depends on preference and material you’re drawing but my point still stands! You can also mix these two! Two ways of doing this is as follows! Sharp shading: normal lines drawn with a darker palette to bring out shadows and features Blurred shading: same premise but now with an added blur to make it blend in and fade with the colors of the base character! I think it depends personally on lighting and what you’re in the mood for, but mixing both is also excellent! Just remember to make these shades stick out and look actually shaded! Not too light but not too dark! If something looks shaded too darkly, then a simple slide of the opacity setting will help! Multiply or layering effects also help depending on your way of drawing!

Advice number 4

-Getting used to drawing your character!-

What I mean is that you should try drawing your muse or character a TON of times to perfect the craft and get between simplified and too complex, this is in order to reach a level that feels natural yet works to make the character recognizable! Pretty sure this has been explained by someone else but in simplest terms! Make it easy to draw yet recognizable, take away minor features and add your own! This isn’t necessary but it can help for some, personally I don’t take away features but I do try to simplify without ruining a feature! My skills are hot garbage when it comes to art but I still wanna give my advice from personal experience!

Advice number 5

-equipment and tools!-

This is honestly optional but I do think equipment is important, drawing on ibis is as easy as using a finger, but I would recommend getting a digital stylus! Whether you draw on iPad, phone or computer! A stylus is HEAVENLY in digital art! Nothing fancy is necessary but I just wanted to give my thoughts and advice on why a Stylus is so important! But at the end of the day, everyone has their own styles and ways to bring to the table!
Advice number 6

-combining your talents-

One thing I love about drawing is combining by skills which is for example drawing and editing, this turns into executing a really cool concept of making edits of your muse with YOUR ART! That’s why drawing is so nice, lets you create amazing PNG’s to use and edits to make! Plus, making edits with your own drawing is fun and honestly cool as hell to do!

Also just a tip!

OVERLAYS ARE SO GOOD TO USE ON YOUR DRAWINGS, HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

Advice number 7

-My final words!-

Remember to always watermark your art because you never know who wants to try stealing it! Art stealing is sadly a common threat to artists and watermarking is very important nowadays with how much reposting people love doing without consent! And also, don’t compare your talents to others, your art is amazing no matter what people tell you! YOU made this, it is art because YOU put passion into it! And that’s what matters the most!!

MOST ESSENTIAL TIP EVER NOW!

And that is in the number 8 spot called…..

LISTENING TO MUSIC OR YAPPING, IT HELPS SURPRISINGLY A LOT WITH DRAWING AND BEING CREATIVE! Aaaaaaaaand- That’s my advice by Cube™️ Hope this helps to an extent, maybe I will add more stuff to this later on, will probably dump some art here too just for a showcase of how different styles and shading can be used!

5. MANGA COLORING!!! (BY CUBE!)
Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

Sooooo hey there again! Now let’s say hypothetically you wanna try coloring a character exclusive to manga! Because let’s be for real, coloring is fun and it’s a good way to make a manga exclusive character look more appealing in some edits!

Step 1

Grab a PNG cutout of your manga character! This is so it’s easier to edit the coloring and such

Step 2

Grab official art or color palettes you can use off the top of your head and get creative! For example, I used Rudo’s character sheet PNG for his colors!

Step 3

Any brush works, I usually use a normal one then blur it later. You can also use bucket to make it go faster!! Just remember to have colors be multiple layers and not mashed together!!!!!

Step 4

Add shaded darker colors of the palette to bring out features and make it look nicer. I usually use airbrush for this and blur it out too!

Step 5

Now multiply your manga cutout, place one over the colors, and one underneath the colors, then use multiply on the top PNG which only adds the line work. That way colors won’t be outside, also use multiply on the colors too because it won’t ruin the line work there too.

Step 6

Enjoy!!! If you followed these steps correctly you should get a pretty good colored manga PNG crafted all by yourself!

(Also, thank you Random for teaching me the basics back then, I owe ya a lot!)

More examples for visual understanding will be shown!

Okay so if you’re confused on layers and stuff

Then let me show you a quick pic on an old coloring I have to show how it works

Basically, you can link layers to another layer!

That way you can make something only be in that specific thing

This is perfect for when you are coloring

And shading

And you can also export your coloring work and then edit on top of it with an overlay and so, like I did.

Multiply all colors and layers except the base PNG, that’s in short terms my tip

(Coloring can also be very fun when you’re bored!)

Also here are my most commonly used brushes when I color

Anyways uh hope you all like this thread so far! 🙂

6. Use Shapes and Silhouette
Submitted by Benny (@ScryberTechno)

The Importance of Shapes and Silhouettes

If you're an artist, USE SHAPES! Don't be afraid to draw you characters very round, square, pointy, smooth, etc. Unlike the original character, create your own style (Or use the original, but in a way that suits you). This will help you stand out more and make the silhouette recognizable.

It also helps with editing and composition: it will give you a reference for how much space you have to add or remove things. The important thing is that the character is RECOGNIZABLE and a MAKE the eye FOCUS ON THAT.

You main focus SHOULD BE:

The character + The pose is making

The second focus is:

The object or what is pointing out (Another character, a building, etc.)

And then:

The surroundings.

The image attached is a good example of silhouette in characters, the art was made by @ShermCohen on Twitter

The important of colors in Shapes and Silhouettes

The human eye is always drawn to bright colors first, then to dark ones. Here's an example:

In this drawing, thanks to the bright yellow, the eye is immediately focused on the character's face, and then on the yellow, gold, and dark background. This allows the character's shape to be identified quickly and easily, even in a very simple drawing or "same tone" palettes.

Like this banner, use this to your advantage when drawing and making edits!

Why do people put the grayscale first and then the colors?

This is a good example of why the grayscale will greatly help you understand the positions of:

Where to place the silhouette
How the shapes work
What colors and tones to use in the drawing/edit
Whether the tone used is the same as or different from the background.

Thanks to this, you can balance your palettes very well and ensure that the human eye perceives your drawings and edits correctly and as you intend. Images credits: @MacSmithArt on Twitter

3D Art

3D ART

“To Infinity and Beyond!”
— Toy Story (1995)

What is this?

3D art consists of making renders or custom pngs for your own character, even if it’s a single pose or for a simple interaction.

Why does this matter?

Learning how to use blender or even MMD to make renders can be a little hard at first, it does help on getting any more resources for your muse if they don’t have that much content to work with.

1. How to make renders for dummies with Prisma 3d!!
Submitted by DARTH VADER (@Darth_vader_65)

Some of us dont have laptops or powerfull pc's

I have something simple for beginners

Prisma 3d

(how to put models in prisma 3d)

1 : search for 3d models I mainly use sketchfab

WARNING : if you want it already rigged than search the thing with the word RIGGED

2 : when trying to open the model it should be showing you with which app you want to open it (IMAGE 1 FOR EXAMPLE)

3 : saving the model Go to the export button then click SAVE TO PRISMA LIBRARY

4 : lighting Change the skybox to make perfect scenes and use light makers or whatever they are called

Thats all Shahong shuu (yapdollar 2024)

2. Make a Blender setup to make renders of your character!
Submitted by Moro The Grass Eater (@Cryomeltdown)

This will cover stuff from how to import and transform items to blender, to most importantly lighting and easy transparent backgrounds

3. How to make custom PNG’s with MMD
Submitted by Tatious (@AlienSpaceCop)

Sit tight fellas, this will be lengthy.

Addendum: The links appear to be very inconsistent, so I’m just pasting the link to playlist made for this section and praying its functional until I figure out WHY the links keep breaking. - Moses, @MetallixLily.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8LwSS0ppPjuybEH1aeipHWAQB9tG8dSW&si=NMR_GtPxk7XsO_jx

CONTENTS:

-INTRODUCTION

-INSTALLING AND SETTING UP

-FINDING A MODEL

-EXPORTING THE PNG

-EXTRAS

If you came here, that means you're either :

A. Sick of cutting pngs from various sources with various levels of quality and wanted to find a source that's more reliable and consistent

B. Wanted to give your parody muse more range of pngs with custom poses

C. Blender and sfm are too complicated for you, and wanted something more beginner friendly and less taxing on your computer

D. Just like me (all of the above). Well good news, you're in the right place.

Heyo, the name's Tatious, and I'll teach you how to make custom pngs with 3D models using MikuMikuDance.

INTRODUCTION
For starters, MikuMikuDance (MMD for short) is an animation program similar to blender and sfm, originally produced for the Japanese Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. The program was developed by Yu Higuchi (HiguchiM) and has gone through significant upgrades since its initial creation in 2008. As someone who used MMD since 2021, I personally find it easy to understand, while also still a versatile 3D software (to me, at least). Ranging from animations, renders, and for the topic of this tip: PNGs.
INSTALLING AND SETTING UP
To download mmd, we can simply head to google and type in "MikuMikuDance". The first result should take you to a site to download MMD. Incase it didn't, here's the link: https://learnmmd.com/downloads/

Searching mmd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVmJdUKsFQ&list=PL8LwSS0ppPjuybEH1aeipHWAQB9tG8dSW&index=1&pp=iAQB

If you scroll down, you'll eventually find a link to download the program. (I recommend the 64 bit version)

Downloading mmd

Now, after it finished downloading, do not open it just yet, as there are extra things you need to do.

Scroll down a bit, and you'll find 6 download links for Microsoft visual C++ packages and directX. One half for the regular 32 bit, and the other for the 64 bit.

Depending on which version of MMD you chose, you will need to download these packages, as opening MMD without these installed will result in an error.

Additionally, you can scroll down further to find an extra link to download directx incase if the other link fails.

addendum

Side note:

If you use Windows 11, there's a chance you might come across an error message when you try to open up the C++ programs. "The app you’re trying to install isn’t a Microsoft verified app." In the case of this happening, I suggest you turn off S Mode.

For more information, you can head to this link that will explain things more clearly:

https://learnmmd.com/http:/learnmmd.com/windows-11-s-mode-the-app-youre-trying-to-install/

If you did things correctly, you should be greeted with an interface like this.

Welcome to MMD.

It might look like a pilot's cockpit as of now, but rest assured you'll eventually be familiar with them. Let's start by moving the camera.

Hold Right click: Rotate the camera

Scroll Wheel: Zoom in and out

Hold scroll wheel: Move the camera

Alternatively, you can look for these icons on the corners of your display screen to move and rotate the camera.

Now, before we get to finding a model to use, let me quickly cover the controls at the bottom of your screen and what they're for.

Model Manipulation
-for loading and deleting models

Camera
-to change the FOV of the camera, along with allowing you to attach the camera to a model

Light Manipulation
-to change the direction of the light and its color

Self Shadow Manipulation
-to turn shadows on your model off and on, along with modifying the range, and its detail

Accessory Manipulation
-to load and modify special effects, mainly used when making a full render or an animation The rest of the controls could be ignore for now, since they're mainly used for animation work.

FINDING A MODEL

With that out of the way, let's get ourselves a 3D model. But where do we get to find one? While there are admittedly quite a handful of sources to pull from (Bowlrowl, pixiv, nicovideo, etc), I personally find DeviantArt to be the most reliable source for finding MMD models for you to use. For example, lets try to find an MMD model of Denji from chainsaw man.

finding a model

There it is.

Now when downloading a model, usually you'd find a download icon under the image, but it's also not uncommon to find a download link at the description below.

downloading a model

Usually when you download models, you'll get a zip file in your downloads folder that you'll need to extract.

Extracting a model

See that PMX file at the end of the video? That's your model. MMD only accepts models and files in PMX format. Otherwise, it won't work.

Now, time to load up the model.

You can either use the model manipulation segment to load a model, or just drag the PMX file straight into the program.

loading a model

(not gonna lie this model looks really nice)
Once you add the model, you'll see that the controls at the bottom are now different.

You are now controlling the model.

To switch back to the camera, head to the model manipulation and select the camera. Or just click on the "to camera" button above the bone manipulation segment.

Switching from model to camera

On the model, you can double right click to show or hide the bones in you model.

Click on the bone to select it, and use the XYZ icons at the bottom right to move it. You can also press Ctrl + Z to undo any bone movements, then press Ctrl + X to redo.

Now that that's done, let's put him in a pose for us to export into a png.

this should be good enough

EXPORTING THE PNG
Before we export and render, there are two quick things we need to do.

Turn off axis.

axis turnoff

Turn off shadows.

shadows turnoff

This way, our render will be clear without any obstructions.

After that, make sure to move the camera to a position you're satisfied with.

Now to export.

Head to the top left corner and click file(F), then click on render to picture file(B).

Name the file whatever you want, but make sure to save the file type as a PNG.

And congratulations, you've learned how to make a custom PNG using MMD!

pat yourself on the back, twin🔥
EXTRAS
-Resolution
If you want to increase your PNG's resolution, head to the top left corner and click on view(V). Then select screen size(O).

You'll then see a window in the middle of your screen that'll let you set the width and height for your renders.

I recommend setting it at 1920 x 1080 for a 1080p resolution. But if you want to render in 2K, go for 2560 x 1440.

-Bones with Inverse Kinematics
This segment is specifically for those who are fairly new to 3D software in general, not just MMD.

You might come across a bone in your model that you couldn't really move, perhaps it's the thighs or the shoulders. and the only way to move them is to move the endpoint at the feet and the hands.

IK legs

These are what we call Inverse Kinematics, better known as IK bones.

Unlike the regular FK bones (Forward Kinematics) which are more rotation based, IK is based more on positions, with the rest of the bones in the joint following the movement.

If you want to switch them into FK bones, simply head to the model manipulation segment.

IK Legs fix

For a better explanation of FK and IK bones, this video helps a lot and further explains what they are and how they're used.

How 3D Animation Works: FK vs. IK #shorts #3d #animation #tutorial

and that should cover everything you need to know how to use MMD

For those who kept sticking all the way through, thank you!

4. Some back ways you can do to be creative!
Submitted by Purple Eggman! (@_______)

Use gmod! (Yes it is a game)

It has many free models from the workshop and easy to make a scene using some simple mods like Low quality camera swap and Camera Tool to record stuff you want to make as an action!

Don’t be scared of drawing something out of spite!

(that’s literally how I got here) Make good ideas on who you wanna interact with! Have fun!

Choreography

CHOREOGRAPHY

“When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.”
— Jon Favreau

What is this?

Choreography is basically the art of designing, structuring and arranging any sequence of moments for actual human bodies or animations..

Why does this matter?

Choreography helps you define the correct angle to use on any edit or animation you are making, they use stuff like body, action, space, etc.

1. Study ANIMATION.
Submitted by cosmic. (@TrueBlueRush)

Sprite animations, anime, manga, everything. Look at sprite animations especially, for example; Sonic & Shadow vs Metallix by munkyboi. (I could be wrong on the name.) Or Combat Gods II.

Animations have MUCH to provide in terms of choreography especially when you consider that parodying is just REALLY ADVANCED STORYBOARDING.

As someone who takes animation classes, I promise you, I'm not lying.

Cosmic.

2. Choreographing Basics: How to choreograph an edit!
Submitted by Silencio (@mightygodkiller)

Now that you understand the basics of editing, let's move on to the more complicated things: Choreographing an Edit.

Choreography is what gives an edit its extra flavor, its bait and hook, its spice to give that kick. Mostly used in animation and can be seen in manga/comics, Choreography is almost everywhere in the art industry. In this, you will learn how to choreograph and make a scene more colorful.

BASICS OF CHOREOGRAPHY
In an edit, Choreography can be split into three parts:

Angle & Composition of a scene
Plot choreography / Scene flow
Flow & Pace of a fight / fast-paced scene

Below are these said categories.

Angle & Composition of a scene

For the Angle & Composition of a scene, go to ⁠[ Section 2c3 ] for more information. But the point is, if you want to have a more active scene, angles give the feeling of more camera work when all there is are static images.

Angles like wide shots, close-ups, or even dutch angles are what give each scene a remarkable and unique feel. Just remember, don't make all scenes too flashy! [Section 2c4.]

Plot Choreography / Scene flow
This determines how your scene will go. Though it's more into writing, choreography has a part in this which works hand-in-hand with the next division, Flow & Pace of a fight / fast-paced scene

Once you get how a scene will go or how fast it goes, choreographing all the actions and overall scene will be easier to do. Keep this in mind as you will not only use this in edits, but for future events like writing a play or making an animation. Think of it as writing and making a finalized storyboard.

Flow & Pace of a fight / fast-paced scene

This is the most Choreography-heavy part. After knowing how to make angles and how your scene will go, you need to know how to make your scene. Take this one below as an example, notice how Godric changes actions and how the scene changes?

This is important in almost all kinds of scene/writing aspects. Question yourself: " How will CHARACTER A do this action? " or " How will each action change from one form into another? ". These questions will help you into making more smooth actions/choreography. It is also good to note how will the character CAN do an action, like how can CHARACTER B throw a punch without an arm?

It's not all about flashy moves and specials, it's mostly about how a fight transitions from point A to point B. It's also great to see how each character fights in their own way with choreography, and it helps with fleshing out a good story or storyboard for a future video.

3. ANGLES MATTER!
Submitted by zondel (_)

NEVER EVER reuse the same background for DIFFERENT ANGLES.

Do close-ups that make sense, for example these 2 edits I made try to make sense of choreography.

It's NEVER the same backgrounds if I do close ups. The ONLY times I do use the same backgrounds is if I'm in the air, OR the background drive doesn't have a close up of that specific background.

If that happens I edit the background to be smaller and where the character is standing.

This one's honestly really broad and doesn't fit into one category, and it applies to editors of all skill levels, but I feel it's important enough to bring up that I'm gonna:

Not everything needs to be a spectacle! It's okay to have some panels that look a little boring. In fact, you might WANT to have more "boring" panels, because it'll make your more spectacular ones more impactful!

If the scenario doesn't call for intensity, don't give it intensity. It's a simple rule, but it's much more impactful than I feel people give it credit for.

Color

COLOR

“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”

— Allen Klein

What is this?

The color is what can sometimes enhance an edit in terms of quality or if you felt like adding it so the edit doesn’t seem too simple.

Why does this matter?

Whenever you are making an edit, it might look too bland or simple. Adding even a small amount of red or yellow can make the difference depending on the background or the situation is happening on the edit. Sometimes it even makes your edit look even more pretty.

1. Colors with impact [By Dane]
Submitted by Dane64 (@DaneParsons80)

Colors are special, in more ways than one, especially when your editing or drawing. It's really important when drawing/editing that you know how you want you're audience to feel when seeing your work [more below]

But it's more simple than you think. Just simple changes the colors of a character to match the background it's in can greatly impact your edits and makes the audience understand that, this character is really in that area. And is a good start for beginners [this goes for drawings too] but we're talking bout impact

Now take this yuji for example.

Oooh scary right? But it feels like it's missing something, yeah this guy is man. But see what happens when I add a basic color like red into the mix

Now it goes from "wow this guy pretty angry" to "oh damn he finna murk somebody" just by using one color it can hugely impact your pieces.

To put it simply:

This character is feeling mad, so use intense colors, for example: red

And it doesn't stop at red, colors like purple, yellow, or white are major colors that can help express the feeling of intensity or action

Heck even colors like blue can be intense it doesn't have to stop with bright colors, just using the colors of your character aura can show power, or rage depending on what character it is.

But red doesn't always represent rage. Even though you see that in most media

It also can be used for chill things like taking pictures with friends on sunset days!

Or wholesome things like being hugged by that special friend of yours…

Colors can change how you see something, it can show the feeling of love and bonds

And thats just the tip of the iceberg!

You can tell how a character would act just by the colors they’re in. For example, you can tell that these are characters that are adventurous and like to have fun

But when you see characters in colors like these; you see tough, scary and powerful beings that dominate countries.

It's important when using color to have it say the words, rather than yourself.

It's amazing how just by adding a bit of color can bring out the whole idea of an edit/art piece!

(Before)

(After!)

Like using yellow for fun or eventful days,

Or blue to tell that something's wrong, or something disturbing is going on.

And also using green to give off an eerie or uncomfortable feeling to your pieces.

Colors can also help fill your art/edits with life

And depending on how you go with using those, colors can impact a lot of what it's trying to say.

You'd be surprised to see how easy it is to change the mood just by changing the colors!

Color means a lot when you are trying to get somewhere as an artist or editor

So don't be afraid to express yourself with it.

Speaking of which- I forgot to say, try mixing up colors, don't ground yourself with basic colors!

Using more than one color is essential if you want to amplify your art/edits

So be free, and use the power of colors to impact your every day life as a parody or artist.

Thanks for listening.

Composition

COMPOSITION

“You’re an artist, not a style. You can change, you can do different things.”
— Jon Burgerman

What is this?

Composition is when you organize visual elements, like shapes, colors, lines and textures. It uses stuff like contrast, emphasis, movement, etc.

Why does this matter?

It adds more “”soul”” to the edit, guides the other writer/viewer to a focal point of the edit, and it creates a mood on the edit as well.

2e - Paneling & Composition

1. Transferring Photography Skills into Edits!
Submitted by JJH (@DBTheStrongest)

Hello, my name is JJH! Have you ever taken a picture and thought to yourself, "How can I use this style in my edit for Parody Twitter?", well look no further!

We'll start with the basics and discuss the Rule of Thirds!

What is the Rule of Thirds?

The Rule of Thirds is a division of a 3x3 grid of 9 boxes in total! We have the horizon line and the focal points to talk about.

The best way to use the Rule of Thirds is on a:

Landscape
Portrait
Intersections
Movement

Let's start simple and use the Rule of Thirds on an existing photo I've taken and work from there.

I know, It's not really a proper photo, but you can basically (Almost) put the Rule of Third on every existing photo!

Now then, I'll show you another example, but this time with an edit of mine.

So, now that we've discussed the Rule of Thirds let's move onto the next one on the list.

We'll start with another simple one: L-Shapes!

As the name suggests, the design will be within the realms of the letter L!

I know, it might not look like an L, but you have to imagine it like this for open shots or similar shots with something striking in the foreground and background to bring along the L shape.

Remember, none of this is mandatory! I just really like using my skills!

2. Guiding Lines
Submitted by Reimers

See how they say a stick is humanity's best friend? or tool or, whatever, yeah the lines are that in this case, so here's 3 examples of how you can use lines to guide you

Set a distance, how far X is from Y
Positioning, in this example its used when importing sprites to keep a smooth animation or keep sprites in place
Marking paths, works when animating to not lose track of where the character is headed, or just to mark a pathway

Video Editing

VIDEO EDITING

“A lot can change in the editing room.”

— Diane Lane

What is this?

Video editing is the post production process of creating and refining any raw footage present on a simple video.

Why does this matter?

Any software regarding video editing allows the writer to manipulate the video in a way they might like it. You can also enhance anything like the colors, sounds, etc.

1. Noelle's Video Editing (Mobile and partially PC)
Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

Apps recommendations for Mobile

I’ve come to realize that the majority of Parodies use mobile devices.

I can suggest 2 good video editing applications that also support transparent images and GIFs.

1. Capcut, oh the good old Capcut.

Yes, Capcut is easy to use, especially for simple video editing.

2. KineMaster

The best editing software when you aim to have long videos and/or moving sprites.

Apps recommendations for PC.

VSDC Free video editor
DaVinci Resolve

Run through over examples of videos being created in Capcut and videos being created in Kinemaster

RPReplay_Final1770231753.mov

Here's a video that demonstrates how to create a project in Kinemaster. Kinemaster is great for long sprite animations because it allows for more precise item placements than Capcut.

RPReplay_Final1770231921.mov
Here's a video that demonstrates how to create a project in Capcut. For simple videos like this one, it’s recommended to use Capcut because it’s pretty straight to the point in terms of features.

2. Gathering resources and ideas.
Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

Ideas.

Usually it can come in many ways, and it’s best if you can imagine a certain interaction between what character and what character.

For example:

This is my post about a mockup sprite animation between the Fun Gang (Deltarune) VS Infinite (Sonic Force) during the time when Infinite made his comeback in the Espio detective case file.

https://x.com/ToughGirl1225/status/2031769119906029757?s=20

This is also my post about a mockup sprite animation of “EGGROOM” interaction for Deltarune Chapter Rewritten.
https://x.com/ToughGirl1225/status/2027081267611869687?s=20

Gathering resources.

This is the most frustrating part when you’re making a video, gathering resources. Usually for a normal video such as gameplay, etc. You just record it with OBS or any screen recording there is and post it on the internet.

But when it comes to sprite animations, you will need to extract each and every sprite into moving images (gif).

1. Site for resources:
The best sites you can use to gather the necessary resources are https://spriters-resource.com and https://fandom.com.

2. Creating moving images:

If you want your character to move, for example: “KRIH DELTARUNE WALK”

You must extract FRAME BY FRAME manually. This can be done in a few ways.

Use a fellow deltarune Krih’s drive that already has ready to use transparent sprite (not guaranteed to have everything transparent and this can be very inconsistent.)

Use the website provided in site for resources.

The process of creating moving images is simple.

The best resolution for moving images, I suggest zooming in on the sprite sheet around x3-x5 zooms.

Use the bucket (Eraser) with Gap Recognition feature to remove the purple background from the images.

Make sure to line each sprite up into each other like how it’s being shown below. Make sure each sprite lines up with each other vertically (use pixels to measure).

Use https://ezgif.com/maker and add all transparent sprites you recently made in Ibispaint. And waolaa!

Another way of getting sprites, although you need a laptop or PC, is by exporting MUGEN sprites using Fighter Factory Studio. If your character is on a MUGEN mod, then you might be able to find it. Just pray the download link isn't dead.

Once you download your character's MUGEN mod, it should be in a **rar** or **zip** file. Open Fighter Factory, select **Project** and **Open from archive**, search for your character's rar file and open it.

Once loaded, you will be greeted with this. Just go to the images section (where the Photography logo is) and click it.

There you'll find your character's sprites. Press the button that says "Save one or more sprites as images files...", and it will open a window to let you export the sprites.

There you make a folder with your character's name, and PUT A NAME on where I've written GIVE ME A NAME before clicking Save, otherwise it will NOT export the sprites. That's all.

3. Lines as Guides.
Submitted by Reimers

See how they say a stick is humanity's best friend? or tool or, whatever, yeah the lines are that in this case, so here's 3 examples of how you can use lines to guide you

Set a distance, how far X is from Y
Positioning, in this example its used when importing sprites to keep a smooth animation or keep sprites in place
Marking paths, works when animating to not lose track of where the character is headed, or just to mark a pathway

Paneling

PANELING

“I don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.”
— Edward Said

What is this?

A panel is an individual frame, or single drawing, in the multiple-panel sequence of a comic strip or comic book, as well as a graphic novel.

Why does this matter?

Panels are more than just separate images, they can actively shape how some readers experience your story.

1. Paneling Tutorial (The Myla method).
Submitted by Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

Hi there! I know that there’s a lot of ways to make paneling for comic or manga styled edits. This is gonna go over how I like to make my paneling/bordering for edits

First, Just start off with the aspect ratio you want, I generally recommend higher resolutions for comic edits so that every panel looks clean when zoomed in on

Next up is the weird part that only I ever really do.

Instead of using a tool, I build my paneling line by line with random images in my phone, any image will work as long as it’s a basic rectangle, though you can always certainly use stuff like circle outlines for rounded paneling!

The next step is easy. Merge all the images together and just make the layer of them all together a single color (I usually like to do black but feel free to get creative with it, but black or white will be best if you want more complex bordering)

Next up, if you wish to, add a slight outline on the paneling different from the color it already is. From here you can be done! If you want white paneling black outlines you can just invert the colors here after making a black border with white outline

Now onto more distinct bordering patterns

You’ll want to find a pattern or image that you want to apply to your bordering and add it to the canvas

Scale it up so it completely covers the canvas, then apply blur as needed and make sure it’s clipping onto the paneling layer with a blend mode of lighter color (or darker color depending on what color you want the outlines to be)

This method of paneling allows for a lot of flexibility in how its built and what it looks like

Community & Culture

Section 3

Community & Culture

“People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

Love them anyway. ”
— Kent M. Keith

WHAT IS THIS?

Community & Culture are what most people would call the “rules” of Parody Twitter, such as how to host/take care of events, how to act like a decent writer, etc.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Actions can sometimes have consequences, for example, if you start being rude to someone out of nowhere, it might leave a stain on your career as a writer for the community, this is meant to help you understand how to act appropriately as a writer/member.

Etiquette:

Accounts Big or Small (and interacting among them)

Submitted by: Soldier, Mutant, Cube, and Starlight

The Human Behind The Screen.

Submitted by: Jae

Appropriate/Inappropriate times to be IC or OOC.

Submitted by: Barboach and Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

Drive Organisation Do's and Don't's:

Submitted by: Naka (@ManOutOfT1ime) and knight

Dealing With Drama

Submitted by: TheWorstGhost123

Numbers Mean Nothing

Submitted by: marina

Proper Pinned

Submitted by: powah (@THEREALPOWERCSM)

Interacting Etiquette (mix)

Submitted by: PokieT, Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO), Snomvish (@skeleton_man69), Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone) and Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Fights (mix)

Submitted by: Knight, Omega (@darkestofruby), Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG), Inferno aka inferno3345 and Donut (@viperscat)

Drive sharing

Submitted by: Starlight (@Iamfaust02)

Accepting mistakes

Submitted by: zondel (@DIVINITY_ITSELF)

Working with Obscure Muses

Submitted by: Vanessa (@W0RLD1NW4R)

Celebrate the little things

Submitted by: Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Learn on your own

Submitted by: Soldier

Flesh Out Your Socials!!!

By: Teddy Roosevelt (@roosevelt23499) and Abraham Lincoln (@Lincoln_16)

Events:

Keep it Simple, Stupid

Submitted by: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Making Cool Story Events with Others!

Submitted by: Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

Event Communication

Submitted by: Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone)

Internet Safety:

DON'T CLICK THE LINKS!!!!!!

Submitted by: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Learn to step back.

Submitted by: Jolt (@ThePitsOfKaon78) and Orion

Boundaries with Social Media

Submitted by: Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

Be Honest, Form Tight Bonds

Submitted by: cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Play Offensive Characters without BEING Prejudiced

Submitted by: nocc (@SorrowedSword)

Check Accts Before Following ‼️‼️‼️

Submitted by: Zen'in

Bonbon's Shipping Advice

Submitted by: Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

Battle Against Self-Deprecation

Submitted by: Myla (Meta_Knight_RVG)

DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. . .But keep this in mind

Submitted by: Submitted by GV Slayer (@Eva_adict)

Workflow & Planning:

Running Multiple Accounts

Submitted by: Rug (@TH3_F4UX_G0D)

Taking a Break

Submitted by: Unfuni (@Fath3rs_s0n)

Managing Scope and Complexity

Submitted by: Moses (@MetallixLily)

Learn to be an Individual

Submitted by: Eve (@UnendingDemise)

Etiquette

ETIQUETTE

“Don’t be a dick!”
— Steven He

What is this?

Etiquette, the art of ways to be polite towards your fellow humans. Guides on how you can fulfill what the quote above says!

Why does this matter?

Etiquette is one of the basic requirements for a community to remain stable. Without etiquette, every member will eventually get demotivated from the lack of respect and bare minimum politeness and the community will fall.

1. Accounts Big or Small (and interacting among them)
Submitted by Soldier, Mutant, Cube, and Starlight

If you ever find yourself with the mantle of a large account (Usually ~1K followers or more), many smaller accounts will try to interact with you! Here's a rapid fire amount of tips on how to go about that:

Mutant (@PRIMEDIV1NITY) - PLEASE don't purposely not interact with them because they’re smaller than you. Seems like common knowledge but it happens a fair amount unfortunately. It discourages smaller accounts to keep using ptwt and meeting new people. But then again there are bad egg smaller accounts so make sure to be the bigger person when it comes to interacting with smaller accounts. This goes for events too. Don't just invite big accounts for traction have an even balance of small and big that way everyone is happy. :D

Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan) - Also yeah, don’t play favoritism based on followers. 10 followers accounts matter just as much as 10k follower accounts. Parody twt is supposed to be an equal community where creativity can thrive, we should NOT build walls or barriers and categorize people. That's literally why there are so many conflicts in the world in the first place. Of course there is no pressure to interact, but don’t duck an account that wants to get to know you better. We’re all just people at the end of the day. Also yeah the whole “shut up small account” or “parody titan” thing is funny as a weak pun or smth but when actually used seriously just makes you sound like an ass. Don’t be an ass. This is supposed to be a place for fun, not negativity.

Starlight (@Iamfaust02) - You're free to set boundaries as much as you would like to as well; Though that doesn't mean you should be setting up boundaries against smaller accounts though. As you were once small too, especially when you muse a character who may be overall rude at first.

Soldier - Followers matter, unfortunately. Parody twitter has a very veryyyy big problem of treating somebody like shit because of their followers count, specifically on newer unknown accounts.

2. The Human Behind The Screen.
Submitted by Jae

I feel this is self-explanatory but for some it is not , please always remember that there is a PERSON with feelings and a sense of being behind that character or in the literal case, THE SCREEN. I’ve seen some people that will complain publicly that " int with Character A didn’t go well because Writer A does NOT know how to write the character ". You don’t know what the person is going through at THAT moment or if they just started " CHARACTER A " Series. Being rude to them or making fun of them. That is above all not okay. Please remember that we’re all human and whether or not we can put a character together in a single instance matters in this grand hobby of Parody.

3. Appropriate/Inappropriate times to be IC or OOC.
Mixed submission
Submitted by Barboach and Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

Sometimes, you may need to take a break from the persona that you put on. There is no/shouldn't be any shame over breaking character publicly or privately if you are uncomfortable or need a break from this passion. Additionally, there are moments where keeping in character or sticking to a gimmick just isn't appropriate. Usually it's whenever there are serious subjects at hand, an extreme case being someone's life at stake. In these kinds of circumstances, you can and should be out of character when these sorts of situations occur, whether it's publicly or in private with the individual(s) in question. Cheap laughs are never worth it over high stakes situations, so please tread carefully and keep an eye out for your fellow parodies. A somewhat reoccurring issue I've seen throughout Twitter are when people don't know when or when not to respond in-character. Whether your intentions were good or not, responding to certain situations fully in-character is usually seen as either incredibly insensitive or as a sign you're interaction-farming via fake activism posts.

Here's a general list of topics where it's advised that you NOT respond in-character:

- A person's death (Suicide, Homicide, etc)

- Geopolitic Conflicts (Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Hamas, etc)

- Real World Issues (ICE, The Epstein Files, etc)

- Serious Personal Problems (Abusive partners, losing housing, etc)

The short term fame you'll get is not worth it. Treat situations like these with the utmost seriousness.

This also applies to responding to accounts that are very clearly inflammatory or discriminative, or otherwise spreading misinformation. Replying in character or even worse using your account to unintentionally platform hateful individuals is also not worth it, and may accidentally bring more attention to the person who is being a nonce.

For these serious issues ALWAYS USE OOC MARKS!!!!!!!!!! (//, writername.xn--ii, etc)

4. Drive Organisation Do's and Don't's:
Submitted by Naka (@ManOutOfT1ime) and knight

1) One of the first obvious things you should do is CREDIT. THE. ARTIST. Saying "oh this art belongs to the original creator/artist" DOESN'T DO THE TRICK, link where the art came from OR at least link the artist(s)'s profile.

2) For pete’s sake PLEASE ADD FOLDERS IN YOUR DRIVE, makes it easier to find specific pngs and it doesn't make your drive look like a complete mess.

3) if you want to use pngs coming from another drive, ask the person who made it first, and if they say no, please don't whine about it.

4) convert. the pngs. if they are in a webp file format then convert them to a png, if you don't do that i will throw a comically large rock at you.

I know this is SUPER basic, but I've seen a lot of drives that are super unorganized and I really need y'all to label your pngs so if you're ever in an edit interaction the other person can have an easier time looking for what they need.

Something else, if you don't know how/where to put your pngs then I'll show you what I do(it's pretty simple). First I look at what they're doing and depending on what they're doing I would put them in the folder right for them. For example this cutout of cap would go in Idle

This photo would go in movement

DID YOU KNOW?

5. Dealing With Drama
Submitted by TheWorstGhost123

Hey! Pander here! I know I’m probably not the BEST person to talk about this, but it’s something that really affected me and I don’t want that to happen to anyone else. So here are a few basic rules about what to do if you get caught in the midst of drama!

DMS DMS DMS: PLEASE use your DMS!!!! They are there for a reason!!!! To stop drama in its infancy!!!

Friends: Your friends! Your friends will be there for you no matter what happens, and sometimes it’s ok to rely on them. No matter what, remember that a true friend has your back and will stay with you through thick and thin

Take a Break!: Social Media is online. This is not real life, even if the friends you may make are. Don’t try and mistake what happens to you on parody to mean everyone in your life will now hate you. Take a break from being online! Talk to people you know irl! I promise you it helps

Make Amends!: Don’t hold grudges! No matter what, you need to remember everyone involved in what you go through is human. No one wants to hold a grudge forever, and talking things out with them after the fact is a great way to settle any remaining questions you may have, or clear up any confusion!

Phew! I think that’s it! For all parodies big and small, remember to be kind! Love wins no matter what❤️

6. Numbers Mean Nothing
Submitted by marina

I am the girl that provides social advice.

hellooo again! i know this one might come off confusing or really weird or awkward

"Why are you posting about numbers!! That's like bad!"

One must acknowledge what is wrong with one to really grow, as much as i'd like to make this about numbers not mattering, it eventually affects us, all of us! and that's okay. a part of being an account or being anywhere is to realize that not everything is gonna go smoothly! Sometimes things won't be perfect. And that's okay. We can dive into the numbers. We can stare at our performances and see what we could consider as "success", as much as i'd like for it to not be a thing, it is what eventually our brain defaults to. from my experience at least.

Popularity doesn't mean numbers.

Numbers don't mean popularity.

Someone mentioned it before. but it is not OCs who need to find their own "shtick" we all have to, and it is okay to screw up each time you try to find it, it won't be a simple, bumpless road. It won't be anything that you can look at and see easily. However, finding your place here isn't trying to pry yourself a space, sometimes it's just to find that niche that not only makes you proud, but makes you happy. this isn't a competition. Each of us is unique! our niche isn't just being an oc, or being a rare parody.

It's being you!

Numbers will come, time will show, and interest comes and goes. There are never enough parodies for one place and maybe one day you too will find that place for yourself! parody twitter is vast. And even if your posts aren't "doing numbers" or aren't getting people hyped, someone will eventually find it fun, will love what you make. because at the end of the day. Parody twitter isn't the same without you.

I guess this tip boils down to: Don't chase the numbers, don't chase popularity, search for a place that makes you feel like home.

7. Proper Pinned
Submitted by powah (@THEREALPOWERCSM)

One of the biggest “mistakes” that I see in parody twitter is that people make a pinned post but don’t understand the actual uses a pinned post might have. So this tip is about what you can do to fix that.

Include muse/mun info: This is arguably the most important part to making a pinned. A thread of basic information that lets people know relevant important information about your character and you. This could be the age of your muse, the gender, sexuality, abilities the character has, an overall description of their personality. The list goes on. And then on the other hand, a mun page could include a DNI list, places to reach out and pronouns of the owner of the account. If you’re using a certain artist’s art, I would say credit them in your bio but a muse page can do that too.

Organization: There really isn’t much to say here. A pinned is meant to put together relevant info in an ORGANIZED manner. So obviously, organization is an important factor. Info should be split into categories. For example, if you have a lot of starters you’ve written for your character, consider adding a thread of them in your pinned. If you have certain calls (i.e shipping calls, interaction calls), you can add a thread of that.

Aesthetic: This is the least important part of making a pinned. Yes, I do believe the look of a pinned post matters. It is the first thing somebody will see when they click on your profile. But I would say focus on the aesthetic last, after all of the information is there. Anyways, for the aesthetic, it really depends on the rest of your account. If you want a solid consistent color scheme, make sure your pinned matches. You can use a quote from the character or just an image if that’s what fits best. If you’re not sure, you can always also make a temporary pinned.

Overall, a pinned post is the main way to share info with other people about yourself or your character so it’s important to make sure you do it right.

8. Interacting Etiquette (mix)
Submitted by PokieT, Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO), Snomvish (@skeleton_man69), Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone) and Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

This is highkey me giving advice of stuff I need to do myself because I’m like SUPER antisocial with people unfortunately 💔

ANYWAYS!!

On ptwt, you’re gonna meet and find a LOT of people, both new and old members of the community. In that wide array of people, you may find someone who parodies a character you like, are from the same series as, or whatever it is, and you want to interact with them. Whether it be via quote tweet, reply, etc, but you just can’t muster up the courage or will to send something (this IS real, I do this a lot.) The main method to not do this is lowkey just send whatever it is, genuinely, we’re all here to have fun and be our favorite characters on twitter, dude. Like no one is gonna care who you’re interacting with (unless you’re a minor interacting with a nsfw account, you need to get off the app if you do that.)

So yeah, the main lesson to be learned is uhhhhhh… send a message! It’s not like they’re gonna kill you or something if you do, the worst thing someone could do is just ignore you.

That’s about all I can think of adding to this for now

Forced to throw on the etiquette tag because none of them really fit this message imo

Thanks for coming to my parody talk.

PokieT out!!

Hello again!

Now as a parody myself I’ve been asked a few times in DM’s by smaller parodies, “What does int bait mean?” Or, “When do I know when others want to interact with me or other parodies?” So I’ll explain it briefly! Now we have int baits that are pretty straight forward and you just need to like them!(Like in the pictures below!!!) Though, sometimes it can be hard to tell if something is classified as an int bait or not. Which that’s ok not to know! Don’t worry! The simplest way to put is, is this: There’s like int baits, reply baits, random baits, and many more!

I hope you can understand what I mean! And REMEMBER parodying is for fun ok?

That’s all from me! (Icyblitz aka @STAR_BOUNDHERO)

When thinking about interacting with a post, ask yourself these questions:

-Can this post be considered "engagement bait"?

-Is this person not interacting with someone else?

-Do you know the writer(s) you want to interact with personally?

-Would your character know the character(s) closely?

-Do you want to interact with this post to contribute something to the conversation or plotline, or do you only want people to pay attention to your character?

If the answer is "No" to most of these questions, you probably shouldn't interact with this post!

Here's some more specific cases:

-If a post is part of an event, make sure you know for sure the event is open to anyone joining at any time before trying to participate in a thread relating to the event.

-If a post is labeled as "Closed Int" or "Closed Interaction" that means the writers in it do NOT want people participating in the thread.

And finally... Every writer is different. Some people interact with anyone, some people only interact with mutuals. No one owes you an interaction, and you don't owe anyone an interaction. (Snomvish aka @skeleton_man69)

Please don’t go around randomly @/ing people trying to interact with no prior discussion, it’s honestly annoying. If you want to start interacting with people, use interaction baits, or DM them asking about if they want to make a thread (If they say no it’s most likely nothing against you!), just be respectful and don’t bug people by flooding notifs with random tags (Octo_Leo8 aka @Hopeofeveryone)

When it comes to interacting on PTWT. . .

It’s like a hill it has its ups and downs

As much as I wish people would interact with people they don't know, I do understand that bigger accounts can be either overwhelmed or harmed by interaction baiting which stinks unfortunately. If I had to give my two cents, waiting for someone to interact with you isn't the move you gotta start the conversation 👀. Starting the conversation guarantees you a conversation with someone else

Just make sure not to constantly bug or annoy the person. Be respectful and patient to all your parody twitter users (Mutant aka @TAILOFHEIL)

9. Fights (mix)
Submitted by Knight (@80sRedSuperStar), Omega (@darkestofruby), Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG), Inferno aka inferno3345 and Donut (@viperscat)

A few things might happen while you are fighting someone, although these do not reduce themselves to the following problems:

If the thread stops for a long time, it MIGHT be the person taking too long to make the edits (they could be making a lot of edits), they probably forgot or they are leaving the edits for another day, if this happens, politely ask them what happened and do NOT keep pressuring them.
If someone is trying to godmode, cut yourself some slack and ask the person who is godmodding to at least get their muse hurt ONCE, if this doesn't work, cease the fight, if it's in a event, talk to a staff about it.
Resources, the person might not have a lot to work with in their drive, if this happens ask them if you both can write it instead, specifying the reason, if that's okay with them, then you are good to go!
Unsure of what your muse can and can't do in a fight? look at a wiki and take a look at all of their feats, just make sure to NOT make them the mr immortalguy2543 on the fight.
If the fight includes more than one person, make sure both parties are okay with the fight, i know this sounds stupid but there are instances of accounts saying that you have to ask them if you want to harm or hurt their muse in any way. (Knight)

As simple as it sounds , lot's of you initiate fighting sequence without asking the other mun so here's 3 things i do ( in term of rp case , same works for parody tho ):

Ask the mun of the other accounts if they are okay with their muse being harmed .

Do it in a thread , twitter qrts sometimes do not appear while the contrary is for threads , it's easier .

Set a defined winner , it's easy .

happy fighting (omega (@darkestofruby))

It’s no secret that fights are a big part of this community. Unfortunately, you are going to lose fights, be it in events or just wherever. It is inevitable. It is important that when you lose you are a good loser. Losing a parody fight doesn’t reflect on you or your character negatively, it’s certainly okay to be competitive and to want to win, but if you lose it’s not the end of the world! If anything, sometimes seeing your character lose can make future victories all the more satisfying (Myla aka @Meta_Knight_RVG)

If you're encountering someone who is a sore loser, there's generally two ways to go about it.

1) Go for a more empathetic approach. Sometimes, people are gonna react badly to losing because they're going through something that's happening to them IRL. That's certainly not your fault, but it's something to consider. Try to understand what the issue is before doing anything.

2) However, if you're dealing with a sore loser who doesn't want to work things out, the best thing to do is to completely disengage, and in the context of an event, involve a staff member. (Inferno aka inferno3345)

Double adding onto this!

You could always show more characterization within your muse losing.

Always try to ask how they take loss, is it different because of who they're losing to? Do they grow from losing, or reject it? (Donut (@viperscat))

10. Drive sharing
Submitted by Starlight (@Iamfaust02)

What is drive sharing?

Drive sharing like shown here is a Google drive consisting of all photos you may frequently use of your muse.

As shown here in my profile this is a good example of a Google drive.

What's the importance?

When doing collabs with other editors this drive will become something very important!

As it is a basic etiquette and makes things easier for other editors who wish to edit scenes with their muse and yours.

Not everyone has the same resources you do so keep that in mind!

11. Accepting mistakes
Submitted by zondel (@DIVINITY_ITSELF)

Mistakes happen VERYYYY often, but one thing you should know is that you learn twice as much from failing than succeeding. Whether it's writing, editing or anything like that. When I was still very new to parody twitter, my edits were bad, horrendous even I'd say. It took me a few months to get used to it, and I'm still improving right now as we speak! Accepting mistakes might be a challenge for you, since when you're the one making edits, it's mainly you who sees the errors. Don't be afraid to ask for criticism from anyone.

12. Working with Obscure Muses
Submitted by Vanessa (@W0RLD1NW4R/@ULTR4STRAYM0DE)

It's me, Vanessa Here are my tips on how to parody an obscure character. From experience, kinda.

Firstly, when musing an obscure character, there are obviously going to be a lot less people who recognize/know that character. A Stalker from ULTRAKILL is going to have less recognition than let's say; Cuphead.

Secondly is the content, a drive is *optional,* but is recommended for edits and the such, unfortunately, obscure characters naturally have less content (spritesheets, models, renders, screentime, etc) to source from for a drive. This can usually be circumvented by simply drawing the PNGs yourself, (admittedly this is quite a tall order but if you're willing or believe in yourself, go for it!). But it could also be taken as an opportunity to focus on the writing more than the edits.

Lastly, you shouldn't have to worry about what characters you muse! Popularity isn't everything, neither is edits. If you want to parody a super obscure character with 2 seconds of screentime, no documented personality, and barely any recognition, go for it! Be creative with your interpretations, go wild!

13. Celebrate the little things
Submitted by Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Every like and view should be treated as an accomplishment. Success comes not from quantity, but from quality. A true celebration can come when you... say, reach 5 likes on a post.

14. Learn on your own
Submitted by Soldier

Doing things yourself is probably one of, if not, the best way to progress around here

Tutorials are good, yes, but why follow them every step by step? Why not let loose a little? Experiment on your own? Try different techniques on your own? Develop your own style?

15. Flesh Out Your Socials!!!
Submitted by Teddy Roosevelt (roosevelt23499) and Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln_16)

From our own experiences, we would say that branching out in a way that gets you into other fandoms is a thing that would be beneficial for plenty of accounts who want to grow and have fun! For us, we’ve gone from CRK to Adventure Time to the EXE space, and it’s been great! If you want to get yourself out there, our suggestion is that you should try to interact with other accounts that are within the desired fandoms you wish to be in! Of course, try not to be pushy as if you’re forcing yourself into these spaces, you should be light with interaction and gradually interact more so that your introduction into the fandom is smooth and calm. Thank you for reading!

Events

EVENTS

“It always seems impossible until it is done.”
— Nelson Mandela

What is this?

Events are small or big storylines that gather more members of the community, encouraging them to participate or even help host the event.

Why does this matter?

It guides the viewer on how to host any events, how to communicate correctly (even if it’s through a message or group-chat).

1. Keep it Simple, Stupid
Submitted by inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

As someone who has run over ten events, the difference between the events that stuck and the events that sucked was keeping the event easy to understand! Take these three events for example:

Parody Clash Series (2019-2024)

@GokuButGod's Tournament of Parodies (2020-2021)

Culling Games (2024)

What all three of these events have in common is that the hosts took a popular premise from media, and transformed it into a way that's accessible by writers. Then, they set up a system that reflected the source material as best they could while still keeping it flexible for their participants. Some examples from each would be:

Parody Clash Series

Parody Clash was the first image-editing Parody Twitter tournament to ever appear, and took a popular premise (the Tenkaichi Budokai from Dragon Ball) and turned it into an easy-to-understand set of rules, where 64 writers did fights in a tournament bracket style until there was one remaining winner! This was an incredibly successful formula that saw the success of the franchise, albeit with some variations in each entry.

@GokuButGod's

Tournament of Parodies

GokuButGod's Tournament of Parodies was a spiritual continuation of a previous Tournament of Parodies event, which took a popular premise (the Tournament of Power from Dragon Ball Super) and, again, transformed the concept into a roleplay event that was easily accessible by writers. This time, the hosts modeled the system to fit the premise of the ToP by using a Team FFA system, allowing the contestants to fight each other in new ways until one team gained the win condition.

Culling Games

Culling Games was an event, you guessed it, based on a popular premise (the Culling Game from Jujutsu Kaisen) and transformed into a way that let writers be able to participate like they were actually there! Although the Culling Game in the base material was very complex, the event hosts came up with a simplified system that gave room for fun and flexibility!

If you’re looking for a simple scoring tool, check out the Spirit Bomb for a free to use Google Sheets document to use for all your event scoring needs! <3

2. Making Cool Story Events with Others!
Submitted by Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

BONNIE'S GUIDE TO EVENTS!!!

Hello hello! I'm Bonnie, AKA: SifsDefender! Now please note that this tip is just my own personal ideas and preferences when it comes to group events, and you don't have to do any of these!! This is just my thoughts.

So, usually with these kinds of events, I message the person I want to do the event with privately, and discuss it, like what specific plot points they want to have, character relationships, ect. So that way both admins are, and stay, in the loop. This also goes for discussing the boundaries of the event, (example im making up on the spot: "I'd prefer there to be minimal fighting, as I'm not good at writing fighting scenes"), because if the boundaries aren't set, it'll just cause you and/or the other admin you're writing with to be uncomfortable. So, you've planned the event out, and set boundaries. Great!! Onto the actual event, and how to catch people's attention (i personally want people to see my work!! its cool!!).

Premises:

Event premises are extremely important. People want to see cool, and interesting events! Now, if your event is most likely both of those, however you still want to have something people would want to see. And if you don't want people to see, that's also fine! It's your event. Usually with writing, you want to hook your readers in, and have them be engaged with the event! Whether that be through interactibility, or just having a good story. I don't have much to say about premises because every writer is different, and you should do whatever you want! (within reason, of course.)

Art:

Giving your event art (if you are able to draw) is usually a pretty good idea! If you don't like how you draw, and if you have money, commissioning someone is also an option! I've seen people do it before and the art is usually very pretty. Art can also help set the tone of the scene, usually with specific colors people tie to emotions. (Red being anger, yellow being joy, blue being sadness, so on and so forth.)

Character dynamics:

Since it's a group event (with you and 1 or more people), your characters will be. Interacting. Surprising, I know! And since thats going to be happening, it's good to discuss character dynamics. Lets say character A is mean, and rude, but in the event: they've turned a bit nicer. While character B is usually happy and bubbly, however they got the beam of Sadness and are now cold and distant. Character A might try to reach out to character B, which leads to character A being brushed off. Do you see what I mean? The dynamics have switched, and exploring it can be really entertaining!

And of course, as cliche as it is, remember to have fun!

3. Event Communication
Submitted by Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone)

Events can be really stressful, especially when you’re new and want everything to be perfect, but you can’t forget to talk with your opponent and make sure things are well made. Don’t create and post a thread without telling your opponent and ANYONE ELSE potentially involved (This includes things that will impact the whole team such as destroying a win condition). Parody isn’t a sports event, so don’t treat it as anything bad/good if you win or lose, and don’t go complaining about your loss or being rude to people about it. Stay respectful, keep communication, and stay open to ideas from the person you’re fighting

Internet Safety

INTERNET SAFETY

“Remember that you’re never alone, and there are always people who care and want to help.”

— Chloe Avenasa

What is this?

Internet Safety is a basic practice done by most users of the internet to protect their identity, mental health and even actual safety.

Why does this matter?

There are many users who are ill-intentioned, spreading malware, hacking innocent users, spreading hate, and other such things. It's important to stay safe and away from scams, harassment, and suspicious links and most of all, not to freely share personal information online.

1. DON'T CLICK THE LINKS!!!!!!
Submitted by inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Hey. Remember, this is the internet, so there's hackers on here doing who knows what to get as much personally identifiable information out of suckers as possible! This was once accomplished through large-scale viruses, but is now primarily done through Social Engineering!

Social Engineering is the act of tricking someone into handing over their information by using psychological manipulation. This happens especially frequently on Twitter & Discord, where most of Parody Twitter operates. If someone ever sends a link to you that looks unfamiliar, or even worse, starts babbling about accidentally reporting your account, block, report, and ignore it!

Parody Twitter is a great place to build your skills, but keep in mind that this is still social media, and misinformation is incredibly common! Make sure to stay vigilant on the timeline, and not immediately believe everything at first sight! Read beyond the initial post, look into the author, and most importantly, check for a source!

AND ALWAYS USE MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR YOUR ACCOUNTS!

2. Learn to step back.
Submitted by Jolt (@ThePitsOfKaon78) and Orion:

Now I know this sounds like common sense, and you would be right, but I still think it's a good idea to have this as a tip

Ptwt/rptwt is a hobby and is supposed to be fun for you and everyone else involved, but from what I have noticed even as a new gen is there are often times where people can get stressed out whether it be because of something that happened on ptwt or rptwt, or just the site in general. Now if you ever find yourself in a situation where you are so stressed out that you can't seem to calm down, then take a break from your account or the app in general until you know you are feeling better, this is so your mental health doesn't get damaged and mental health is very important.

If you are in an interaction or planning an event during this time, tell everyone involved that you need to take a break for a bit, they should be understanding (if they aren't that's their own problem)

How do you learn…

…when to step back.

Frankly, there could be an infinite number of answers to that question. But I feel it mostly comes down to a few simple questions:

1. Are you able to handle balancing Parody and your life?

2. Do you have a specific plan for your departure?

And the biggest question of all:

3. Do you feel like you want to continue doing Parody as a whole?

Those are the three biggest questions to answer when planning something like this.

Once you answer those questions, create a plan for your leave, then initiate that plan, and archive your account.

Why archiving instead of deleting? Simple:

to look back on the memories of the interactions you’ve had in the past.

To see the wonderful creations that you’ve made with your work.

To see the creativity of such a wonderful, amazing community of people that has influenced me for the rest of my life.

3. Boundaries with Social Media
Submitted by Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

Hi everyone! First tip here just to say that even though this is a pastime/hobby we love and are attached to, keep in mind that this is still social media. Try your best to be aware of when it’s wearing on you or when you’re on it too much. I’ve personally been affected by being on twitter too much and it can do some genuine damage to your psyche. If you are having moments where you’re getting upset with parody twitter or twitter in general please take a step back from it and think through it logically bc 9/10 times it really isn’t as serious as it can feel and it’s easy to get upset over something that really isn’t all too serious.

4. Be Honest, Form Tight Bonds
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Don't lie about who you are, but also be safe and keep in mind that this is STILL the internet, bad things can happen if you get careless.

If you're an individual of color, then say that.

If you're a minor, SAY THAT!!

This is a community, yes, and friendships can be formed online, but don't go as far as sharing your personal life.

Nobody needs to know that.

And some people straight up couldn't care less.

Find people in your community you're sure you can trust, be honest about who you are, then go from there!!

Have fun, yes, but be SAFE and RESPONSIBLE!! You are posting PUBLICLY, in a space full of MINORS!!

DON'T BE STUPID!!!

5. Play Offensive Characters without BEING Prejudiced
Submitted by nocc (@SorrowedSword)

In the media, not every character is golden. That’s obvious.. but when it comes to RP it can sometimes be hard to present different prejudices and bad parts of characters without people coming after you.

There’s 3 main tips I can give you (from personal experience playing Katana Man)..

Write a disclaimer somewhere in your pinned post that clarifies that you are NOT the character and anything you post without a tag is in-character. It might seem obvious to most RP accounts, but not to other people- which can get you in a whole lot of trouble depending on who it is.. it’s infact why I lost my old Katana Man account.

Do NOT use slurs, especially against people. Whilst you can be an imperfect character, and that character may have prejudice against others. DO NOT use slurs. I tend to find that slurs go beyond RP and still affect the other person.

At the same time, don’t hold back if it means you get accuracy points. There’s an account that I used to see that turned their character into an AU where they had no prejudice. A key aspect of the character was gone and it felt completely different without it. Again let me clarify, I’m not saying “be completely offensive”- but do not try to redeem a character who isn’t supposed to be redeemed.

So in short: Make it clear you aren’t the character, don’t use slurs but also don’t hold back if it means you get more accuracy points. And for the love of god, please do not dabble in real-world politics on an RP account unless it directly affects your ability to RP, as it can cause an entire war in reply sections.

6. Check Accts Before Following ‼️‼️‼️
Submitted by Zen'in

Hello, Employee here!

As you join the parody community, you are bound to connect and talk to rptwt, which is similar in terms to parodying but more so on the textile side and more often serious when it comes to guidelines of their character.

Due to this, many accounts have DNI'S, or "Do not interacts", which means if you are in any of these criteria, do not interact, follow, or dm the person.

Scarily enough, not many people view the DNI's of other writers, causing NSFW or "Not safe for work" accounts to follow minors.

If you are new here, Not safe for works means explicit or 18+ content that is not suitable for children.

Just for clarification, here's some simple DNI meanings.

MDNI - Minors, do not Interact.

NSFW DNI - NSFW accounts, do not interact.

PROSHIP - Ships that contain content that may disturb the viewer. (i.e, Incest)

18+/ 🔞 - Pornography is present on this account.

More often than not, you will just see "Basic DNI!" Put into bios, below I have the most generalized meaning of what Basic dni means.

Basic DNI! -

> Homophobic, Transphobic, Xenophobic, Islamophobic, etc.

> Misogynistic

> Racist, Sexist, Ableist, Discrimination, etc.

> Invalidates A Person's Pronouns / Gender / Identity

> Pedophile, Sexualizes Minors, Jokes About R×pe, etc.

Supports, participates, tolerates, or justify any of the above.

Now, as it turns out we are all humans. We make mistakes and sometimes are blind.

If someone who follows you clearly has a MDNI, let them know as soon as possible, and leave them on their way. If they still follow you in ignorance, you can block them and live on your amazing parody life, never thinking of them again.

If the dni is not in the pinned, it's likely IN the bio, if it's not in the bio, try looking for a link like a strawpage or entry that has a dni list or something similar to that

If all fails, look at the pinned.

AGAIN, CHECK DNI LISTS ON ALL ACCOUNTS YOU INTERACT WITH!!

EMPLOYEE OUT!

7. Bonbon's Shipping Advice
Submitted by Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

So. Let's say you've got a lonely little character, and you want to ship them with someone! Here's my rules that you can borrow on shipping etiquette.

First of all, CHECK THE WRITER'S AGE!!!! THIS IS SO IMPORTANT. Especially if you're a minor. For the sake of internet safety, do NOT ship with anyone who's older or younger than you by 2 years. Just for your own personal wellbeing! (Also check if the account accepts shipping! You don't want to force anything. That'd be weeeiirdd....)

If the admin is in your age range, and accepts shipping, hop in their DM’s and ask! If they say no, it's a no. If they agree, then the ship has sailed! It's important to also separate your character from the ship a little bit. You don't want your account to ONLY be about your character and the other person.

Happy shipping!!

8. Battle Against Self-Deprecation
Submitted by Myla (Meta_Knight_RVG)

Hey everyone! Myla here with another tip. This one’s not about anything technical but rather about how to deal with self esteem issues when it comes to editing. I see so many people genuinely putting themselves down when it comes to their performances in parody twitter and the content they put out, be it writing or editing. I’m gonna share here a few tips that helped me battle these feelings

I know how easy it is to want to put yourself down, you see someone dropping edits that look crazy or the story they tell starts making you feel emotional, you admire the work but at the same time it can be jealousy inducing. It’s a really hard thing to work through and it can be a motivation killer for this medium.

There’s a few changes and tactics you can take to make these negative feelings affect you less

Change the language you’re using to describe your own work. Instead of assigning your work to immediate negativity (eg stuff like “my edits suck” or “my writing is bad”) instead describe how you *feel* about it. Stuff like “I’m unhappy with my edits”. This opens up conversation with other people about these feelings and can lead you down pathways to improvement.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help! It’s perfectly normal to be dissatisfied with creative work, that is just part of the process for a lot of people even at high levels. Establishing support networks for help or critiques of stuff you make (or even just reassurance) can really help in building up confidence in your own work!

Don’t compare to others, compare to yourself and *be generous*. This one is a similar philosophy to a healthy mindset at a gym. It’s best not to directly compare yourself to other people’s work. It’s absolutely great to have some general goals to strive for (e.g. trying to replicate how one account does something for yourself) but don’t use the work of others to put yourself down! Generally it’s best if you compare work you make to previous work you’ve done! People underestimate how quickly they grow and improve and it can be fun to track your improvements over time! But remember to be patient with yourself as well! Everyone improves at different paces.

9. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT… But keep this in mind
Submitted by GV Slayer (@Eva_adict)

Face it.

You already are cringing. You already are fruity and most importantly, you already are a cornball.

YOU'RE A PARODY TWITTER ACCOUNT FOR GOD'S SAKE

So don't ever doubt about posting something that might be "corny", "fruity" or "cringe".

Be yourself and do it.

Post whatever you want, whenever you want. The only one in control is you. So let's get corny. Embrace the cringe.

HOWEVER

Remember.

There are a lot of people on parody twitter.

Most of them are MINORS.

So be VERY careful about the type of content you post.

And one more thing...

DON'T BE A DOUCHE.

Everyone deserves to be treated nice and kindly.

Even if your character's a mean villain.

Sure it's okay to embrace the character and be mean sometimes, but remember to treat everyone kindly and respectfully when you're out of character.

We're all here to have fun.

-@Eva_adict.

Workflow & Planning

WORKFLOW & PLANNING

"You can't have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you."
— Marissa Mayer

What is this?

This is for any Parody Twitter creators looking to learn how to get things done in a manner that works for them.

Why does this matter?

Working on your accounts without a dedicated plan or workflow will eventually lead to an account fizzling out. You need to have short and long term plans in mind with an account

1. Running Multiple Accounts
Submitted by Rug (@TH3_F4UX_G0D)

So hey, you wanna know some nice tips to run a bunch of parodies? Here's a couple I've personally used to manage my accounts:

Make sure to not have "too many" accounts: What I mean by this is basically that you should strive for a quantity of accounts that lets you comfortably parody while not feeling overwhelmed by them all. The quantity by itself isn't set in stone for anyone, so to some it may be 2, while others may prefer more, or less. It all really depends on how you feel you'd do

Don't be afraid to take breaks: If you feel overwhelmed by parody, or simply don't feel like parody'ing on a certain account for a while, don't hesitate to take a break from the account for a couple of days or however you feel like you need. How you personally feel is much more important than roleplaying a character, so you should always put that to priority.

2. Taking a Break
Submitted by Unfuni (@Fath3rs_s0n)

Sometimes, it gets hard to find the motivation to parody. I’ve had it happen to myself a few times, whether it be because outside interventions and stuff like that or just simply because of burnout or you just don’t have it in you for a while. My advice? Take a break for a while, doesn’t have to be that long, sometimes just close X and draw or sleep or anything else that brings you comfort! Play a game you like, or just binge watch your favorite show! Just don’t try to force yourself to parody, this by all means is not a job, it’s a hobby, and hobbies aren’t an obligation. TLDR: Take a break sometimes!

3. Managing Scope and Complexity
Submitted by Moses (@MetallixLily)

One of the most important tips I can really give is a simple one: Keep it Simple, Stupid. Don’t drag something out into something insanely complicated over overly ambitious. You need to manage your scope, and keep track of not “Can I accomplish this” but also “Am I going to WANT to be able to accomplish this”. You must account for your will to complete a thing alongside its complexity. When in doubt, at the end of the day, remember to keep it simple, don’t get too wrapped up in fine details. You need to make sure the people reading it are going to be able to understand what you're trying to convey, and that your message doesn’t get lost in what you're trying to create. So if you’re having trouble with something, Remember to Keep it Simple, Stupid. If something is taking you a long time, it's ok to step back and take a lap, or even do what you think looks good.

4. Learn to be an Individual
Submitted by Eve (@UnendingDemise)

Learning to be, what I call, "individual" is the true key to the success that I have gained, and it's a tool that can guide you, not just in whatever your passion may be, but in your life as a whole. The ability to be "individual" is being able to sustain and support yourself, stand out amongst the many, and to be able to do what YOU love. Take time to yourself, and realize how vast your life truly is and how amazing you truly are, that way you don't become reliant on those around you. Your work is an extension of you, and deteriorates or grows based on how YOU are feeling. Find out what makes you so special. It doesn't have to be original, it just has to be what you're best at. People do not notice you when you just create without vision. Remember to prioritize yourself above everything, especially when it comes to a hobby. Parody Twitter is nothing more than that, and should be treated as such. Create whatever it is that YOU love. Above all, step back, and remember to focus on what truly matters, do not get caught up in what is unnecessary and only brings you down. Remember, the world acts in your favor when you act in love, and your surroundings and success are shaped by your mindset.

Miscellaneous

Section 4

Miscellaneous

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
— Albert Einstein

WHAT IS THIS?

Guides that are too specific to be categorized alongside the previous ones above.

WHY DOES IT MATTER?

Because they would be unorganized and unusual for entries that don't fit into any previous categories to not have their own list.

Animation:

Kaon's Stop-motion tutorial

Submitted by: Kaon(@ImpGalvatron)

Audio Editing:

Big C's Editing Tutorial

Submitted by: Cannonball (@LargestMannTF2)

Sprite Art:

Snomvish's sprite drive making

Submitted by: Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Moses’ Spritesheet Tips

Submitted by: Moses (@Metallix_Lily)

Helpful Links

Submitted by: inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

Voice Acting:

VA with Icy

Submitted by:Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Voice Acting with Nitouryu

Submitted by: Nitouryu

Animation

ANIMATION

“Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.”
— Norman Mclaren

Animation is an art form with at least 115+ years under its belt with Fantasmagorie (1908), with an argument to even date back to the 1830s with the zoetrope and phenakistiscope. Its use for Parody Twitter is something many talented creators have used to further emphasize their works, and animation's potency for this medium should be thoroughly considered.

1. Kaon's Stop-motion tutorial
Submitted by Kaon(@ImpGalvatron)

I was lucky enough to get into stop-motion at a relatively young age and learned a few tips and tricks which I'll happily share:

FPS: FPS is Frames Per Second. Each photo you take is a frame and when you put them all together you get a little film called Stop Motion. Now, movies have 24 fps to make them work but stop motion is a little different. The golden standard for it is usually about 12-15 FPS with 8 being the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM you should consider and 24 being the ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM.
Think about the scene before you even BEGIN the stop-motion. Scenes can be important, they portray the whereabouts of the character with different angles and locations. Perhaps you want a scene based on an otherworldly planet or the core of the Earth. These are just some things to consider.

Practical Effects (No Digital Tutorial)
https://youtu.be/qc85lVZaMOc?si=dc1P8nYgeBdXldJJ

SMS Tutorial
https://youtu.be/G_OnX9nVjfM?si=n2DDDxhs35X-hXby

Making Characters Fly
https://youtu.be/y6EWpUgiHIA?si=6CbVQe94Sw73E6Je

Audio Editing

AUDIO EDITING

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams

What is this?

This is a section primarily based on improving vocals in Audacity. For additional audio resources, please review the Spirit Bomb and Bibliotheca Orionis.

Why does this matter?

Having clear, understandable vocals in your video edits are a must if you want your viewers to be able to understand what’s being said.

1. Big C's Editing Tutorial
Submitted by Cannonball (@LargestMannTF2)

Tools for the job:

Audacity (Obviously, Preferably a slightly older installation of the software, for this specific example we are using Audacity 3.3.2)
A decent recording microphone (A stand alone one is recommended, but if you don't have one the one your headset will usually suffice if you follow these instructions.)
A willingness to follow instructions

Steps to success:

First things first, open up your copy of audacity: Don't do anything with it just yet! As we need to set up a few things in order to get the best recording possible before you actually record your own audio.

This is important: right click and create a Stereo track, this will allow you to get the most out of both your headset when listening back to audio, and your microphone when recording.
Now, you should Have something that looks a little bit like this: That's good, we are making progress, this is going to be the audio track that you're going to be recording on. Now what we want to do is right click on the In the audio Track bar on the far left, A menu will pop up, go down to rate and select 48000 Hertz, this will give you the best audio quality, although keep in mind: if you try to switch the Hertz rate after you record, your audio speed will change, so please keep that in mind!Now that you've done so, surprisingly that's all of the prep that we need to do before we start recording, so all we need to do now is... start recording! You can either press the big red button in the top bar, or use the keyboard shortcut of R while the audio track is selected. Then if everything is selected and working correctly, it will start recording audio! For the sake of this example, say something simple, But at the very least make sure that the audio clip is about 7 seconds long, and leave some space at the beginning of the track for silence for a step in the editing process that we will do later, if you don't do this, that's fine, there is an alternate way!
Right, now that we have our Recorded audio, it's now time to do something with it! These next few steps are incredibly important, we are now going to be editing the audio. But first things first, press on the empty space on the far left of the Audio track, this is to select all of the audio and is a good shortcut To learn (This also helps if you've made multiple audios on a single track, or have had to cut multiple audio pieces onto the same line. If you try to select the audio track on its own, that is the only one you will select, make sure to click on the empty space to get all of it!)
Now that we have our audio selected, it's time to add some effects to it to make it sound crisper and more clear. The first thing you want to do is go to “Effect”, Then “Volume and Compression”, and finally “Normalise”, It should bring up a menu that looks like this:

If your settings don't look like this, change them! You may have to change quite a few settings to match these instructions beat for beat, That's one of the reasons why we have photographic diagrams. Once you've made your affect look exactly as it does here on the, press apply! You should see something happen to the audio, once that's done we can move on to the next step.
Go back to “Effect”, then “Volume and Compression” and this time click on “Compressor”, This will make our audio less harsh for when we tone up the treble and bass later. The sliders on the compressor can be extremely finicky, so if your menu doesn't look exactly like mine, that's OK, just try to make it as close as you can!
Once you have them as close as you can get them, simply press apply as you did previously, then we can move on to the next step.
Now, this is technically 2 steps in one, because it's literally the same process both times for what we need to do next, go to “Effect”, “EQ and Filters” and finally “Filter Curve EQ”.
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Ignore what the actual filter curve says for now, if it's completely flat that doesn't really matter, we're going to quickly change it, in the top left hand corner there should be something that says “Presets & settings”, then go to “Factory Presets”, there are only two options that we need to touch here, first press “Treble Boost”.
If it looks like this, you're on the right track, simply press apply and All of the treble notes in your audio will be boosted to become Clearer.
Repeat step 9 beat for beat, up until you get to the Factory Presets tab, this time we need to press “Bass Boost”.If it looks like this then you have successfully completed most of this tutorial, press apply, then move on to the next step, you're nearly there!
Now that the audio has been boosted, we need to shrink it back down again In order to not accidentally blow out your speakers, to do this, we actually need to Normalise Everything again, which will get everything nice and flat with the EQ curves that we've already applied, Simply repeat what you did in step 6. No need to repeat myself!
This audio is by all definitions: now completely edited together, but you can probably still hear a bunch of background noise, or simply feedback hum, for a lot of medium to low end microphones this is expected! Luckily we have a way to fix or at the very least mitigate the problem. This will be mitigated with a “Noise Profile”. There are two ways of collecting a noise profile:

A: You leave space at the beginning of the audio to use the noise profile off of, as shown here:

B: Alternatively, If you have forgotten to do that, you can record it on a separate audio track (MAKE SURE THE RATE IS THE SAME AS THE ORIGINAL AUDIO, OTHERWISE IT WILL NOT GO THROUGH!)

Just make sure if you're doing option B to just record absolute silence, do not say anything! Now to actually show you how to get it working. go to “Effect”, then “Noise Removal and Repair” and finally click on “Noise Reduction”.
The actual noise reduction application does give you some brief instructions in order to make it function
Simply select the blank audio if you did option A, or the entirety of the secondary Audio if you chose option B , then go back to this page and press get noise profile, the noise profile should be saved!

Now that you have the noise profile, it's time to do the final step, go back to the noise reduction page and simply press OK!

A few notes:

These steps are the best that I have come up with, they are not the be-all-end-all of using audacity.You may find better settings, I will employ you to use them if these are not up to snuff.
The effectiveness of these steps also relies heavily on the length of your audio, If it's too short It feels like certain things like the Noise Profile will have barely any effect, with longer audios it may feel like it makes things a bit too quiet, Take time to figure out the sweet spot and what you actually need to do to obtain the Best and most crisp audio quality.
Bear in mind that the quality of your environment also has a degree of factor in your recording, background noise and the actual quality of your microphone recording will also play a factor. Even if these variables are hard or impossible to control, some of these steps taken may help mitigate that.

And that’s everything. I do hope this guide, and all of its subsequent steps have helped you in your journey! Once you finally understand and learn all of the steps, It gets significantly easier. Thank you so much for reading!

Sprite Art

SPRITE ART
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.”
— Bob Ross

What is this?

This is a comprehensive guide in sprite art as well as a series of general tips.

Why does this matter?

Sprites are an extremely helpful resource for Parody Twitter creators seeking to expand their drive. Learning how sprite art functions would also assist for when you’re interacting with a muse who

1. Snomvish's sprite drive making
Submitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Sprites are an easy, fast way to make a drive. A lot of people just think they can throw a sprite sheet in a drive and call it a day, but that’s not true(if you’re cool).Here's some rapid fire things you should keep in mind regarding making a drive with existing sprites from a video game:

Unless your parody primarily uses another art style, sprites should be taken from sprite sheets and turned into separate pngs. Even if you prefer sifting through a sprite sheet more than a drive, most people don't prefer that, so do them a courtesy and take sprites out of the sheet and into the drive as singular pngs

Some editing programs don't have a nearest neighbor (the tool used to unblur low resolution images.) Plus, it can be annoying for people you're interacting with to have to keep switching back and forth from nearest neighbor and bilinear based on what they're moving around. So, when exporting individual sprites, upscale them! I usually upscale sprites by %500, but it can vary.

Friday Night Funkin is a terrible place to get the bulk of your sprites from 99% of the time(unless you're literally parodying a FNF character.) Characters, in fights, interactions, whatever, would NOT just be holding a microphone, and they always look dumb holding a microphone for no reason. Plus, in fights those sprites are downright useless 90% of the time because FNF sprites are made to look like the character is talking or singing.

2. Moses’ Spritesheet Tips
Submitted by Moses (@Metallix_Lily)

What’s good, party people!

I’m here to share some miscellaneous, very disorganized advice on spritesheets for your characters!
A bunch of the tips I initially had in mind to give were already given by Snom above, like nearest neighbor, so I’ll share a few titbits of advice here and there.

The First Tip I can offer up is this: Pixellate the background a bit.
It's something I got from Wolfe (Visionary AU’s Clove), and I don’t do it often, but she did it every time she used what few clove sprites she had. It feels really nice, and it's usually a pretty subtle detail if you do it well. I use mosaic in medibang, and from what I understand it's a similar thing in other apps as well.

Second Tip: Parts Sheets

Find yourself a parts sheet, or build one yourself. These things are GODSENDS, and the best thing I ever did for Lily was expand the parts sheet that already existed with a larger one for me to use, adding various different additional stuff. It may take a bit of time for you to cut out stuff like arms, legs, etc, but It can go MILES for creating your own custom sprites and PNGs with it. If you FIND one, you should definitely consider adding to it and expanding on it, which is what I did. Using this, you can build sprites/poses for all kinds of different scenarios on demand, and then add them to your drive so others can use them later. I find it a very fun and rewarding process (minus the collection)

Thirdly: Recoloring.

If your recoloring a sprite, never use Straight white (#FFFFFF) or straight black (#000000) as those may end up becoming the backgrounds depending on how its saved. Additionally, if you want your sheet to be able to be Variably recolored, consider taking the time to split up the different parts by color, similar to XPGlitz236 (see below). In addition to this, you’ll want to try to slightly separate certain colors by changing them via 1 degree. I.E. shifting the RGB or HSV/HSB Values up or down by 1-5, so that they visually look nearly identical, but if you try and do a mass recoloring, they won’t color EVERY part of the sheet unless you raise the tolerance. I like to do this with Eyes for something like a sonic sprite sheet so I can freely alter stuff like gloves and not have to worry about it. Also: Make a color palette of your recolor, so you can easily transfer it if needed.

Fourthly: Building custom sprites.

I like to do this in smallscale, taking the parts I need, pasting them into the canvas I’m going to be building the sprite in as part of a folder, and then, after arranging the parts as I want them to appear, I’ll take the folder or group, and transform them to be larger. If I need any other specific parts to be transformed, I’ll do that when its larger so it still looks like the sprite and doesn’t look like a pixellated smear. The reason I do it in the folder or group is because it allows the parts to be more uniform and it looks better than just doing it 1 sprite at a time. If I transform any in smallscale and it looks good, I’ll copy it and paste it back into the parts sheet for more later use. Below is a link to a video of me demonstrating my techniques for building sprites I use in edits.
HOW TO USE SPRITES.mp4

Fifthly: Shadows and Glow

This has likely already been covered in other parts of the doc, but the way I like to do shadows is by copying my sprite, duplicating it, painting it black, adding some gaussian blur, lowering the opacity, and moving it away from the lightsource, and turning on this magical thing called clipping mode, which causes anything not on the original sprite to be masked out. Any part of the sprite I want to glow, I’ll hide the shadow layer, select the pixels of what I want to glow (for example, Lily’s chest gem) and then I’ll paste them as a new layer ABOVE the shadow layer, so its unaffected by the shadow. I then like to duplicate that new layer, add a bit more gaussian blur, and then set it the blending layer to either glow or screen blending, depending on how much I want the original color to come through. This adds some nice fuzziness to the edges and actually makes it look like its got some actual Glow to it, while the original unedited layer above the shadows keeps the color and shape of it unaffected by shadows. This also works if you manually paint in your shadows and highlights as well. Below’s a link to a video from my Gospel Drive, where you can watch me use these techniques. Shadows and Glow all in one go.mp4

Application usages: I use medibang paint pro, which allows me to copy all the sprite parts in one canvas, and paste them into another, but for recoloring, Aesprite is my go to application. I paid $15 for it, but then found out from Snom I could have downloaded a build off Github and used that instead. It’s Color selection and color replace tools are absolute godsends when it comes to recoloring sprites, and the fact its a standardized spritework tool makes it very nice to work with in general for the subject.

Voice Acting

VOICE ACTING

“If I saw a person smile, that to me was payment in itself. If I could make them laugh when they had been very sad, it was great payment to me.”
— Mel Blanc

What is this?

This is a small, but helpful guide for voice acting in relation to Parody Twitter.

Why does this matter?

Voice acting breathes life into Parody Twitter’s texts and images. Some of the most popular memes of this community couldn’t have gone as far as they have if it wasn’t for someone, somewhere, giving it a voice.

1) VA with Icy
Submitted by Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Hello again! Icy here!

Now I want to go over this really cool thing called, “voice acting!”

Voice acting is generally seen in movies, anime, cartoons, or fan projects! Now I wanna give a Semi-overview of the art of voice acting! This is coming from a person who is still in the practice phase, but I’ll still break it down into 3 steps!

Step 1: Choose a character! (For example: Luigi from Super Mario!)
Step 2: View over some of the character’s voice lines or quotes!
Step 3: Practice makes perfect!!!

If you practice enough, you can become an excellent voice actor! Now, you don’t HAVE to sign up to voice-act for big projects or anything, but if that’s your thing, go for it! Reach for the stars! Trust me you’ll do great! Now I know this explanation is really simple, but I wish you the best of luck!

Addition from Kaon: If your character has a deep voice (See Alpha Trion TFOne), you should try to keep as such, if they have a high-pitched voice (See Starscream G1), you should try and keep as such. UNLESS the director tells you otherwise or says you can do the voice how you want.

2. Voice Acting with Nitouryu
Submitted by Nitouryu

So, you want to give your muse a voice? Want to voice some simple lines for your muse? Here are some simple tips that can help you out and possibly help you pop off!

Drinks like Soda and stuff with High sugar constrict your vocal cords and cause reaching those peaks in acting as your favourite character harder. It's better to drink something softer, such as water, which helps your vocal cords stay relaxed. Drinking room temperature water or even cool water keeps your vocal range pretty wide, so you can drop your voice low, or get that high pitch you need.

Test your microphone / surroundings before you begin to record. It sucks when you get what you think to be the perfect recording, with the perfect mood and all, only to realize that there is so much background noise and such that completely ruins the recording. And some microphones just aren't made for this, as some microphones have a small amount of static that can be heard. While this can be edited out, it's easier to buy a better microphone to record easier.

Get in character. If your going to record a moment that is full of sadness, or regret, put yourself in that character's shoes. It's easier to predict how that character will sound when you yourself feel what that character is feeling.

Take multiple takes. Taking multiple takes allow you to play with the pacing and emotion, and you may even make one that's leagues better than your first recording.

[Editing] - Editing your voice is simple. You truly only need knowledge of how your character sounds. For characters with sound effects, like Metallic characters, or deities, it's not hard to get an effect that allows your voice to echo, or become a bit crushed. Blend effects, and you'll find what you need.

I'm also a traditional artist, but the only tip I have for that is to just keep drawing. You'll find your art style eventually, and it's ok to sample from other artists. Don't steal of course, but just blend it with yours. Everyone's art style has an influence.

Spirit Bomb

Section 5

Spirit Bomb

“Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.”
— Lemony Snicket

What is this?

This is the largest resource collection in all of Parody Twitter history as of writing.

Why does this matter?

Not even three years ago, free resources on Parody Twitter were incredibly scarce. Creators of all levels of experience in the community should always have access to accessible, free, and organized resources at any time.

For supplemental content, please view Bibliotheca Orionis.

For free/paid fonts, please view Text Design.

THE FULL DRIVE: 100 Parody tips Megadrive

Moses’ Parody Gospel Megadrive:

Z -PARODY GOSPEL- AKA THE KIT N KABOODLE By Mossman

This has:
        1) Every BG Drive I’ve ever been given BG Compendium by Lily
        2) Every effects drive I’ve been given Effect Drive Compendium
        3) My own Effects Drive Mosses' Misc Effects

4) My cloak spritesheet drive ZE CLOAKS AHAHAH
5) My Spritesheet Megadrive. Sprites for other peeps

Have fun with these, and feel free to shortcut them into your drive if you don’t feel like downloading them.

Moses (@MetallixLily)

Tolo Jujutsu Kaisen Megadrive:

Jjk drives

-EFFECTS!

-CHARACTERS!

Omega’s Drives:

Mephiles:

MEPHILES THE DARK

???
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n-4SkiA281fhh9xSI-6_qfdLzt3M6OfJ

The Dark Lord
The Dark Lord

Infinite
Infinite

NEO METAL SONIC
NEO METAL SONIC

@SayianOfLegnd Kid Trunks Drive:

Kid Trunks

SkiDoodlrs Blazblue Drives

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ISnUJIvs--5Q3DJVFpgrjfa9iNc3OM4D

Blazblue Drive Stuff

Notes Some have more than others unfortunately Anything drawn by me in any given drive is free use.

Studio Inferno Event Megadrive!

STUDIO INFERNO EVENTS MEGADRIVE

The Sacred Sunflare Drive provided by Dane64:

The sacred sun flares

Thomas’s Drive of Babel:

it's got backgrounds, dagon, takaba, a few project moon drives, few kengan drives, and the last of my hamon

folder of everything

Dane’s Parody Callout Template

[For people who wanna show love to there favorite parodies]

Parody Callout template

Rug’s vehicle Drive

(Egg Carrier, egg carrier 06, sea tornado)
Rug's ship/plane/boat emporium

Rugs BG Drive

Rug's bg's n stuff

Venix Effects Collection:

This is not made by me but I use these when editing and its been a huge lifesaver
EFFECTS
Effects
Effects

VANESSA (@W0RLD1NW4R/@ULTR4STRAYM0DE) ULTRADRIVE

A drive of DAMN NEAR EVERYTHING ULTRAKILL-related. Sourced from the ultrakill.wiki.gg ! ULTRADRIVE

Dane’s Font Drive:

Fonts

Zoey’s free to use character drives + Castle Town from Deltarune:

Baldi: Baldi's Drive!

KJ: KJ Drive

Saitama: Saitama Drive

Susie Deltarune: SUSIEZILLA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gustavo And Brick: Gustavo and Brick

Invincible: Title Card

Castle Town: Castle Town

Tolomeo’s Big Fat Drive:

(1) Master drive with little drives

This shit has the definite Gogeta drive, the definite todo drive, and like the only existent Granolah drive

Pillowkatt’s Free for use Drives:

@PillowKatt drives

Worm’s Oneshot drive

Pancakes OneShot

Hollow Knight Silksong Drive:

Probably one of the biggest drives already

Hollow Knight: Silksong sprites

Nocc’s Jashinchan, Katanaman, Hitori Gotoh and Yurine

Yurine is found within Katana Man.

Katana Man Hitori Gotoh Jashin-Chan

Me when Hampter, Lamb, and Axolotl Drive

Rick The Hamster (@DaShIn_HaMpTeR)

MAKO’S BACKGROUND DRIVE:

Mako's Background Compendium

Ari’s Drives:

Gogeta ( Mainly dbs ):
Gogeta (Super) !!!!
Dokkan man and OSTs:
Dokkan Man!
Teto: Kasane Tetoooooo
SF-A2 Miki: Miki!!!
Hatsune Miku: Mikuuu Mikuuuu
Noodle from Gorillaz: Noodle
Nuova Shenron: SHINING BLAST
Arkham Scarecrow: scary crows
Goku transforming into adult SSJ4 ( DAIMA ): The entire Ssj4 Daima transformation sequence in 2000 something frames

I got this from an older account, but??? I think they de-activated??? (so i sadly can't credit. trust me i LOOKED for them.) So I'm giving the gift that keeps on giving!!

Naka Character Drive

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1_bpmFmG-pNFV8Wvp1YWAzwt959e70wD_

Snomvish’s Various Things

Snomvish's various things(things i've cut and drawn(CREDIT ME))

Noel’s Character Drives (Noelle and Murderdrones)

My character

Employee’s Papyrus, Nanami and Denji (part 2) drives

ALEARNINGHEART_
I'm working overtime.
THE SPECTACULAR..... PAPYRUS!!!

Snomvish Background Drives

Wii Sports baseball field: DEFINITLEY A LEGITIMATE ARENA
Backrooms: backroom
Halbone: Halbone

Eggnet Hub: Eggnet Hub
Delfino Plaza: delfino plaza(the betch)
Sonic Forces Evil fucked up future bg: glimpse of the future stuff

CURSED ENERGY from cosmic

the cosmic cursed energy effects!!

These can also be found in the JJK Megadrive and Gameking's public drive!! I made these effects. :D

Icyblitz’s Eternal Sugar Cookie Drive

Eternal Sugar Cookie!

Bibliotheca Orionis

Section 5a

Bibliotheca Orionis

“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.”

— Aaron Swartz

Author’s note (By Orion):

This was originally derived from Orion’s Super Long Parody Resource Doc, a Rentry page filled with resources for all things related to Parody Twitter, including sound effects, drives, software, tutorials, and more.

This will be an “update” to that original page. For legal reasons, I cannot share direct links to any pirated or modified versions of software previously hosted on that document. If you still desire it, you may visit the original Rentry page here, though be warned that it has not been updated since 2025, so links may either be dead or dangerous. Be warned.

Red text indicates a resource that the author highly recommends. Think of it as a “seal of approval” of sorts.

I also apologize for removing some links from Rentry in early 2026. That was due to some issues involving the Google Drive account I was using at the time. I hope this makes up for it.

Though I am no longer part of this community, I still believe the people in it are very talented people who deserve the info provided here. I hope that with this portion of the document, I give back to the community that nurtured the creative spirit of so many.

- Orion

(formerly @DukeNukem1996 and formerly the co-owner of @BigManEternal.

SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC LIBRARY:

The BBC Sound Effects Archive:
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/
(“The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years.”)

MyInstants

https://www.myinstants.com/en/index/us/

(Soundboard website where you can get a lot of meme sounds)

Filmcow's SFX

https://filmcow.itch.io/

(Has over 10,000 royalty free SFX, and is the same guy behind Charlie the Unicorn.)

GameSounds Archive

https://gamesounds.xyz/

(Has over 150,000 SFX designed mainly for game development, but is the most comprehesive archive of free SFX.)

Ecklemir SFX Pack

https://mega.nz/file/jpoiSQTJ#D6BtcvXW0enXqNPI-U3Nc_pMmXho9FAdLac3SajzzLY

(Contains SFX from BATTLEFIELD 4, INSURGENCY, COD: MW3, GEARS OF WAR, MORTAL KOMBAT X)

Itch_io SFX packs

https://itch.io/game-assets/free/tag-audio/tag-no-ai/tag-royalty-free

(Free SFX packs on Itch.io)

Captain Audio CD

https://archive.org/details/captain-audio-450-sound-effects.-7z/CptAudio_2.png

USC Sound Effects Archive

https://archive.org/details/usc-sound-effect-archive

Universal Studios SFX Library

https://archive.org/details/universal-studios-sound-effects-library/US+1-++1.mp3

Tarkov Sounds

https://mega.nz/file/Ej4DSATD

key- 0rTxCcV5rEWM7GI-M0Kdx2D6DdiL1hrO5re0nAm8SeU

CturiX Audio

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q84rn307b75ktog/AACE5oVwKkX1A5a3wxZc-X-oa?dl=0

Kosmos Mega Sound Pack V4

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3myj0mzs6ezc70f/Kosmos-Mega-Sound-Pack-V4.zip/file

GOC (Not sure of it’s origin, but contains a bunch of SFX)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NTNCdgNrMf6yH4l_Y4uxDWOOjYJcxuL6/view

OrangeFreeSounds

https://orangefreesounds.com/

MIXKIT SFX

https://mixkit.co/

Sound design folder

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1L3l0LkBgw9bL359rPWimfEeNA9EtrfQa?usp=drive_link

Features: JJBA, Berserk, SAO, etc etc.

Sounds Resource

https://www.sounds-resource.com/

(For video games and stuff.)

Sony Pictures Sound Effects Library (Volume 1-10) By Sound Ideas

https://archive.org/details/sony-pictures-sound-effects-library-volume-1-10

All of the CDs related to the Hanna Barbera SFX library

https://archive.org/details/hb-01-hanna-barbera-sound-fx-library

https://archive.org/details/hb-02-hanna-barbera-sound-fx-library

https://archive.org/details/hb-03-hanna-barbera-sound-fx-library

https://archive.org/details/hb-04-hanna-barbera-sound-fx-library

https://archive.org/details/hanna-barbera-lost-treasures-sound-effects-library_20241001

Rocky and Bullwinkle SFX

https://archive.org/details/track8_202004

Edd Ed and Eddy SFX

https://www.mediafire.com/file/w872pfaljlr6al0/Ed+Edd+n+Eddy+Sound+Effects+-+Andromulus.zip

Kitty0706 sound effects

https://mega.nz/folder/98czEYSB#Zufzu9oIw4bak8Z2VHL2ng

Red Alert SFX pack

https://www.mediafire.com/?zirl1dpq9k1djq4

500+ meme sfx pack

https://github.com/Schutzecute/SoundEffectsArchive/releases/tag/original

another random 200+ sfx pack

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rSHN-dvqpn8rd6PwU8RUZc3CstUgh0tR/view

Sonic 1-3 SFX

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cf-2usJARUXkKmKL0aKvAxQVtIkTmZba/view?pli=1

Valentino’s SFX library
https://archive.org/details/@mratunjay_the_sound_effects_lover

Unminus:
https://www.unminus.com/
(Copyright-free music.)

GRAPHICS, FONTS, DRIVES, TOOLS, AND GUIDES:

Noel’s Guides and Resources

https://nitter.net/StockingsParody/status/1939000590241263763#m

Tatious’s Guide To MMD

https://nitter.net/AlienSpaceCop/status/1737660412324352230

@greenonefromwxs’s guide to drives

https://nitter.net/greenonefromwxs/status/1865184172223889415?s=46

Katt’s Ultimate Parody Drive

https://t.co/RL7NLx3sgP

Awesome Stock Resources (Big repository of stock image websites)

https://github.com/neutraltone/awesome-stock-resources#photography

Freeject

https://www.freeject.net/

Some free resource collections from Gumroad
https://garriefisher.gumroad.com/wishlists/free-resources-god-bless-327242867?layout=discover
https://featherkayla.gumroad.com/wishlists/free-design-assets-92249203?layout=discover

(You can find some as well! Just put in $0 for the maximum amount when searching.)

Salvaged.nu

https://salvaged.nu/
(A place on the internet that recovers, repairs, and reuploads Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's.)

TextureLabs:

https://texturelabs.org/

Resource Boy:

https://resourceboy.com/

OnlyGFX:
https://www.onlygfx.com/

Texturetown:
https://textures.neocities.org/

Textureking:

https://www.textureking.com/

Transparent Textures:
https://www.transparenttextures.com/

Texture Ninja
https://texture.ninja

OpenGameArt.org
Link here
(Hyperlinks into a page that has CC0-only textures and graphics, meaning they’re royalty free.)

The Spriters/Textures Resource
https://www.spriters-resource.com/
https://textures.spriters-resource.com/

(Full of sprites and textures from a bunch of games. Make sure to credit any custom work that you find.)

Alfred's Spritesheet Unpacker

https://github.com/ForkandBeard/Alferd-Spritesheet-Unpacker

Places to get fonts:
https://www.freefaces.gallery/
https://www.fontshare.com/
https://fonts.google.com/

SOFTWARE:

WARNING!
Most of these sites are vetted as safe. Even so: PLEASE use an adblocker.

My recommendation for desktop and Android is Firefox + Ublock Origin. iOS users should use the Orion browser with Ublock Origin.

Davinci Resolve:
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

Tenacity:
https://tenacityaudio.org/

(A fork of Audacity which adds many QOL features and removes telemetry. Highly recommended over Audacity for many reasons: see 1, 2, and 3)

Krita:

https://krita.org/en/download/

Kdenlive:

https://kdenlive.org/en/

Photodemon:
https://photodemon.org/

Shotcut:
https://www.shotcut.org/

Pinta:
https://www.pinta-project.com/

Photopea:
https://www.photopea.com/

Golden Record

Section 5

Golden Record

“the adoption was a success i am now your dad lets go home and eat bananas kid”
— @DonkeyKongApe

What is this?

Here, you read the personal statements of some of the many contributors who worked on this project. Additionally, the old version of this project is stored within this section, which you can access here.

Why does this matter?

This is a record of all who came before you, looking forward unto the now. The pieces of advice that didn’t fit, the things they wish they knew or had been told when they had started. All the little things, here for you to see, and a marker to show we were here.

Golden Record

Here, you read the personal statements of some of the many contributors who worked on this project. These messages were written at the time of the project’s final revision, and are time capsules from early 2026-era Parody Twitter. Look onto the past as it gazes upon you, and let it speak its words.

Followers aren't all that important.

Submitted by Silencio (@mightygodkiller)

In Parody Twitter, interaction is a must and it doesn't and will not matter if you have 0 followers. All you need to do is to talk or interact with others, and that's already perfect enough. Don't be scared, reach out and be bold! You got this. ❤️

Be authentic. Be YOU.

Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

The internet is a bit of a scary place, of course. Y'never know who's gonna be hiding under a guise or whatnot. Don't be like that. Go into parody, or any online space for that matter, bein' yourself, expressing who YOU are as a person. Ain't nothin' to want to run from, I promise you. People in this community will welcome you with open arms, regardless of background, nationality, and so forth. Just be yourself and have fun.

FAFO.

Submitted by Tatious (@AlienSpaceCop)

There's a certain motto I live by, for whenever I feel like I hit a wall. Either from the static progress of my editing, or my animation. One phrase will surface from my head when I needed it most: Fuck around and find out. What does it mean? It simply means to experiment and try new things, no matter how it'll end up like. Try testing out all the other features that your editing software has. Especially for ibis paint users, with things like Color, Blur, Style, Draw, Blending modes, Artistic, Screen tones, and a whole other treasure trove of filters, overlays, and effects are laying dormant. Try to familiarize yourself with your toolkit when possible! The greatest and most beautiful thing about art is how limitless it is. Art has no rules, so don't be afraid to make messes. Always strive to do something you've never done before. Start by asking yourself questions like "What does this do?", "What else can it do?", "What if I do it like this?", "What if I arranged it this way?" The growth I experienced from pulling low quality png's onto low quality backgrounds to making full 3D animations began as soon as I sparked my curiosity by asking myself "What If?" How do we improve? How do we challenge ourselves and push our limits further? The answer to that is to simply fuck around, and find out. Make everyone smile fellas, peace

-Tatious

Inclusivity.

Submitted by Marina

As long as everyone is having fun, the amount of things going bad will get reduced drastically, be sure to include everyone when doing a group effort.

PS Please don't godmod.

Make sure to have fun.

Submitted by Octo_Leo8 (Hopeofeveryone)

If you aren’t having fun why are you a parody? Take breaks when you need them, and don’t force yourself to edit or prioritize it over your life. Be proud of what you do, and be mature with others, and happy parodying

Mutant's advice.

Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Parody Twitter is and will always be a place of entertainment and friendly interaction. And I hope it can stay that way for as long as this community lives. I may have small problems with this community but it shall never over shine the pure effort and love people put into these edits So get out there and make something great! No matter what anyone says you can make anything awesome as long as you put your heart into it.

You've got this gamer!

Submitted by Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Remember this, people! No matter how big or small you become, we’re with you! We all have a special place here! So do you! We’ll keep going, alright? So say it with me:

WE’RE READY!!!

Ganbatte!!

Submitted by Jae

Never give up!!! You are a great parody!!!!

It can be tiring.

Submitted by Ari (@ABaby_BirdBrain)

Parodying in general can be tiring, and it will be tiring at some point. So don't overwork yourself, Parodying is just a hobby, so don't make it more than one !! And if you don't want to stop, then try to take breaks in between. If you feel like you're at your limit, take a break and rest so you can find your footing again on this platform! And plus, what's having fun parodying if it feels like a chore?

Learn to Lose

Submitted by Omega (@darkestofruby)

If you always win it will be boring, losing can improve one ability, so take the loss and have fun.

(Galvatron losing his shit over his super strong allies being folded by the pretty freaking curious detective all for the sake of it being funny)

Mario loves you

Submitted by knight

Hey!

It's-a me! Mario! Mario's-a been in dis' community for a LONG-A time! And i-a got quite a few words for-a you! yes! YOU! There is-a no problem with being selective with who you's-a interact with.

There is-a no problem on curating your-a OWN space. Be-a yourself, not what people want YOU to-a be!

If you's-a ever feel down, don't be embarrassed to express what you's-a are feeling at de' given moment! Hoohoo!

Vanessa's advice.

Submitted by Vanessa (@W0RLD1NW4R)

Yth.

future writers of parody twitter.

don't overwork yourself. Take breaks when needed. Have fun. Avoid controversy. don't be a dickhead. be creative. don't follow every trend. portray a character as differently as you need. If you can do it right, you can succeed. But popularity and numbers aren't everything. In the end, it won't matter if you have 50k followers, if you were rude. What matters is you. the human writing your character. You matter, more than any of your characters should. Even if you were bad, I believe that you can always grow and change to be a better person. Sorry if this feels blunt. That's just how I am :/

Hormat saya,

Vanessa, Writer of 2 years.

You got this

Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

Just like the message. Y’got this buddy

Cannonball and his brief words.

Submitted by Cannonball:

“Here lies Mikhail Rossovich, you know it’s him because they put his name on the stone.” I just wanted to say a few brief words, or at the very least my attempt at being brief… I’ve been at this for five years, since 2021, I've seen everything, I’ve done most, and the one thing that I haven’t done is being popular, having my name in those lights. That might not be the case now, it’ll probably happen one day… And I guarantee it will happen to you, the one reading this. The generations of today have surpassed me by leaps and bounds, and the next generation will be even better, if we get there of course… So I just want to say: you’ll make it, as long as you are willing to commit, but there’s no shame in stopping either.

Thank you.

Toat's message

Submitted by Toats (@KING0FMONST3RS)

Parody Twitter is nothing but a hobby. A fun little way to pass time. It can be more to people. PTWT is a place where people can collaborate with one another while having fun in the process. That's why it's so popular. If I had another 100 lives, I would choose to do PTWT in all of them. PTWT has made some great experiences, some best forgotten and some that belong on a plaque. Many incidents took place, and many fun times had occurred. My experience was, and hopefully, will be great on the platform. If you ever want to know what to do on TWT without resorting to being an interaction farm, start a Parody. It doesn't have to be the best thing ever, and it won't be the worst thing ever. What matters is PTWT is that everyone has fun, especially you. I hope whoever reads this, and whoever will read this, can learn from the past mistakes of others. Remember to have fun and always be thoughtful of others.

To whom it may concern, Toats "MF" Terrible.

Have hope.

Submitted by benny (@ScryberTechno):

Even when things are difficult, complicated, or it seems like the situation will never change... there's always an opportunity to change the future. You can do it! Friends, family, and loved ones will be there for you, even in the toughest times. Have hope, believe in yourself, and most importantly: take care of yourself and stay safe. Your well-being comes first, and then you can help others by being the best version of yourself.

You'll always have a seat at the table.

Submitted by dane64 (@Dane_Parsons)

Alright, I know this is an unnecessary thing to say, but right I think it's mandatory I say it. No matter who you are, you are welcomed here. No matter your gender, skin, race, or dream, we in parody twitter treat our community with respect, equality, and most importantly, love. I've been with this community for 4 years and lemme just say, it has been a blast. Being with a community filled with a variety of awesome characters is like a dream come true. And I know, no matter how long it takes you'll love this place too. I know it may be hard and you may struggle to fit in but I assure you, even the smallest of people can make a name for themselves in this community. I did, and so can you. So don't be afraid, we're with you no matter what yo!!

Bonbon's message.

Submitted by Bonbon(@SifsDefender)

Hello everyone!! I just wanted to tell anyone reading this that you're amazing, and things are going to get better. If they are better already, great! I, like many other people, have had things happen to me that aren't great due to twitter. But I kept pushing, kept writing, kept making friends, and getting wonderful opportunities such as this. And I'm so, so grateful for everyone on Parody Twitter. From smaller to bigger accounts. I've been here for almost a year, and I don't regret a thing from joining. Especially not the friends I made. So, to my family. My party, My followers, and anyone reading this I care for each and everyone of you. And remember: In this moment, you are loved.

Do the best you can with your present circumstances

Submitted by Moses (Metallix_Lily)

That’s all everyone really doing, I find. The best you can with your present circumstances, and the hands you have, or are currently being dealt. Make friends, be good people, and believe in yourself, because as long as you do that, you can do or make anything possible. I started lily on a whim and jumped in with two feet and ZERO idea what I was doing, and stumbled my way entirely into every bit of success I have.
Try to do your best to help others. Spread the resources, they’re made to be shared, and pay whatever kindness you get forward one day, cause you might be able to make someones day just a little bit better with one simple action. That’s half of why we’re making this document, and maybe oneday, when I’m done n dusted, I’ll pass the keys onto someone else, and they’ll add more to this.
Ignore the numbers, they’re bad for the mental, make good friends and have good times and tell good stories, and never, ever stop doing what you can. I’m not entirely sure what to put here, but I’ll leave it at this. You are loved, you are cared for, and you matter. Have Fun.

Don't forget your roots.

Submitted by inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

There was a whole generation of parodies that preceded you by nearly a decade now as of writing this. They were just like you, and forged this community by just having good fun and making dumb ideas happen. Don’t ever take yourself too seriously in this hobby; the people that made this all happen only cared about shits and giggles. Plant the seeds for even more stupid bullshit!

You've Got The Touch

Submitted by Kaon (@ImpGalvatron)

I feel the most important part of parodying is to do YOUR best. Kinda like in school. Everyone's best is different, that's what makes our community so unique! As long as you make something that is inherently you, you'll do amazing things! You've got the Touch! You've got the Power! Here's to the future of parodying, to parody twitter, and to the friends... and family we have made along the way.

Signing off as the Transformers guy - Kaon.

PS you are who you choose to be!

PPS HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE 1986 MOVIE

(“This is the BEGINNING of the ROAD for you, READER!”)

Noel/Seele’s Advice

Submitted by Noel (@StockingsParody)

Log off, ur brain needs rest u can’t be parodying all day. like log off bro no hate

Effects:

Lighting:

Photo Editing:

Text Design:

Writing:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

What to do and what to NOT do when editing. (mostly just how to edit like me)Submitted by Knight (@80sRedSuperStar)

Don't be scared to make your own effects.Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

How to overlay!!!Submitted by Ari!!! (@ABaby_BirdBrain)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Blend Modes: The Three Lights & Color BurnSubmitted by MegaTPM (@kappas_forever)

Lighting/Editing for Beginners! (IBISPAINTX)Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Lighting trick with an airbrush (On Ibis Paint but any airbrush will do)Submitted by Catalyst (@falsestr1ngs518)

The Basics: Simple ShadingSubmitted by Sadie (@TheDemonicDuo72)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

RP Style LayoutsSubmitted by; Jae

Making a drive Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Cutting PNGs (PC edition & Mobile)Submitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

The Modern PrometheusSubmitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Diegetic Text vs Non-Diegetic Text

Font Sourcing

Typesetting & Typography Fundamentals

Cicero’s Manual of Style, and Why You Should Read It!

Text Design End Goals

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Muse Research Submitted (mixture) by:

A Clean VisionSubmitted by Green Beacon

OC ParodiesSubmitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Always PlotSubmitted by donut (@viperscat)

PowerscalingSubmitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Writing YOUR Parody (The Basics)Submitted by Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Why NOT to give your muse broken powers too muchSubmitted by zondel

Experiment!Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Portraying Muse Different From Canon Is NOT Bad.Submitted by Ender

Planning AheadSubmitted by nocc (@SorrowedSword)

The PunchlineSubmitted by Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

Covering Actions in WritingSubmitted by Toats (@KING0FMONST3RS)

It's OK To Lose!Submitted by P0l

Back Ways To Be CreativeSubmitted by Purple Eggman

Selecting (& Getting Creative) With a CharacterSubmitted by Zip (@Safe_Future06)

Uniqueness is a GemSubmitted by Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Takeover Tips: The Basics!Submitted by Neto (CV01_VOCALOID)

Creating a BackstorySubmitted by Kaon (@ImpGalvatron)

2D Art:

3D Art:

Choreography:

Color:

Composition:

Video Editing:

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Not everything needs to be flashy!Submitted by Maddie (@rudepurpledino)

2. How should you make original 2D Art PNGs for your drive?Submitted by Snomvish (@SKELETON_MAN69)

3. Drawing Your Muse!Submitted by Unfuni (@FATH3RS_S0N)

4. DRAWING TIPS AND TRICKS!!! (IBIS EDITION)Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

5. MANGA COLORING!!! (BY CUBE!)Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

6. Use Shapes and SilhouetteSubmitted by Benny (@ScryberTechno)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. How to make renders for dummies with Prisma 3d!! Submitted by DARTH VADER (@Darth_vader_65)

2. Make a Blender setup to make renders of your character! Submitted by Moro The Grass Eater (@Cryomeltdown)

3. How to make custom PNG’s with MMD Submitted by Tatious (@AlienSpaceCop)

4. Some back ways you can do to be creative! Submitted by Purple Eggman! (@_______)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Study ANIMATION.Submitted by cosmic. (@TrueBlueRush)

2. Choreographing Basics: How to choreograph an edit!Submitted by Silencio (@mightygodkiller)

3. ANGLES MATTER!Submitted by zondel (_)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Colors with impact [By Dane]Submitted by Dane64 (@DaneParsons80)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

2e - Paneling & Composition

1. Transferring Photography Skills into Edits!Submitted by JJH (@DBTheStrongest)

2. Guiding LinesSubmitted by Reimers

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Noelle's Video Editing (Mobile and partially PC)Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

2. Gathering resources and ideas.Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

3. Lines as Guides.Submitted by Reimers

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1. Paneling Tutorial (The Myla method).Submitted by Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

Etiquette:

Events:

What to do and what to NOT do when editing. (mostly just how to edit like me)
Submitted by Knight (@80sRedSuperStar)

Don't be scared to make your own effects.
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

How to overlay!!!
Submitted by Ari!!! (@ABaby_BirdBrain)

Blend Modes: The Three Lights & Color Burn
Submitted by MegaTPM (@kappas_forever)

Lighting/Editing for Beginners! (IBISPAINTX)
Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Lighting trick with an airbrush (On Ibis Paint but any airbrush will do)
Submitted by Catalyst (@falsestr1ngs518)

The Basics: Simple Shading
Submitted by Sadie (@TheDemonicDuo72)

RP Style Layouts
Submitted by; Jae

Making a drive
Submitted by Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

Cutting PNGs (PC edition & Mobile)
Submitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

The Modern Prometheus
Submitted by thomas (@FourKnocksLCB)

Muse Research
Submitted (mixture) by:

A Clean Vision
Submitted by Green Beacon

OC Parodies
Submitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Always Plot
Submitted by donut (@viperscat)

Powerscaling
Submitted by Snomvish (@skeleton_man69)

Writing YOUR Parody (The Basics)
Submitted by Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO)

Why NOT to give your muse broken powers too much
Submitted by zondel

Experiment!
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

Portraying Muse Different From Canon Is NOT Bad.
Submitted by Ender

Planning Ahead
Submitted by nocc (@SorrowedSword)

The Punchline
Submitted by Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

Covering Actions in Writing
Submitted by Toats (@KING0FMONST3RS)

It's OK To Lose!
Submitted by P0l

Back Ways To Be Creative
Submitted by Purple Eggman

Selecting (& Getting Creative) With a Character
Submitted by Zip (@Safe_Future06)

Uniqueness is a Gem
Submitted by Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

Takeover Tips: The Basics!
Submitted by Neto (CV01_VOCALOID)

Creating a Backstory
Submitted by Kaon (@ImpGalvatron)

1. Not everything needs to be flashy!
Submitted by Maddie (@rudepurpledino)

2. How should you make original 2D Art PNGs for your drive?
Submitted by Snomvish (@SKELETON_MAN69)

3. Drawing Your Muse!
Submitted by Unfuni (@FATH3RS_S0N)

4. DRAWING TIPS AND TRICKS!!! (IBIS EDITION)
Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

5. MANGA COLORING!!! (BY CUBE!)
Submitted by Cube (@Mrsmoothiesfan)

6. Use Shapes and Silhouette
Submitted by Benny (@ScryberTechno)

1. How to make renders for dummies with Prisma 3d!!
Submitted by DARTH VADER (@Darth_vader_65)

2. Make a Blender setup to make renders of your character!
Submitted by Moro The Grass Eater (@Cryomeltdown)

3. How to make custom PNG’s with MMD
Submitted by Tatious (@AlienSpaceCop)

4. Some back ways you can do to be creative!
Submitted by Purple Eggman! (@_______)

1. Study ANIMATION.
Submitted by cosmic. (@TrueBlueRush)

2. Choreographing Basics: How to choreograph an edit!
Submitted by Silencio (@mightygodkiller)

3. ANGLES MATTER!
Submitted by zondel (_)

1. Colors with impact [By Dane]
Submitted by Dane64 (@DaneParsons80)

1. Transferring Photography Skills into Edits!
Submitted by JJH (@DBTheStrongest)

2. Guiding Lines
Submitted by Reimers

1. Noelle's Video Editing (Mobile and partially PC)
Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

2. Gathering resources and ideas.
Submitted by Noelle (@ToughGirl1225)

3. Lines as Guides.
Submitted by Reimers

1. Paneling Tutorial (The Myla method).
Submitted by Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

1. Accounts Big or Small (and interacting among them)
Submitted by Soldier, Mutant, Cube, and Starlight

2. The Human Behind The Screen.
Submitted by Jae

3. Appropriate/Inappropriate times to be IC or OOC.
Mixed submission
Submitted by Barboach and Lego Batman Enthusiast (@TheUnbowedBat)

4. Drive Organisation Do's and Don't's:
Submitted by Naka (@ManOutOfT1ime) and knight

5. Dealing With Drama
Submitted by TheWorstGhost123

6. Numbers Mean Nothing
Submitted by marina

7. Proper Pinned
Submitted by powah (@THEREALPOWERCSM)

8. Interacting Etiquette (mix)
Submitted by PokieT, Icyblitz (@STAR_BOUNDHERO), Snomvish (@skeleton_man69), Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone) and Mutant (@TH3_VOIDWALKER)

9. Fights (mix)
Submitted by Knight (@80sRedSuperStar), Omega (@darkestofruby), Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG), Inferno aka inferno3345 and Donut (@viperscat)

10. Drive sharing
Submitted by Starlight (@Iamfaust02)

11. Accepting mistakes
Submitted by zondel (@DIVINITY_ITSELF)

12. Working with Obscure Muses
Submitted by Vanessa (@W0RLD1NW4R/@ULTR4STRAYM0DE)

13. Celebrate the little things
Submitted by Pitch (@ItWhoHungers)

14. Learn on your own
Submitted by Soldier

15. Flesh Out Your Socials!!!
Submitted by Teddy Roosevelt (roosevelt23499) and Abraham Lincoln (Lincoln_16)

1. Keep it Simple, Stupid
Submitted by inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

2. Making Cool Story Events with Others!
Submitted by Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

3. Event Communication
Submitted by Octo_Leo8 (@Hopeofeveryone)

1. DON'T CLICK THE LINKS!!!!!!
Submitted by inferno3345 (@talesfromthebonfire89)

2. Learn to step back.
Submitted by Jolt (@ThePitsOfKaon78) and Orion:

3. Boundaries with Social Media
Submitted by Myla (@Meta_Knight_RVG)

4. Be Honest, Form Tight Bonds
Submitted by cosmic (@TrueBlueRush)

5. Play Offensive Characters without BEING Prejudiced
Submitted by nocc (@SorrowedSword)

6. Check Accts Before Following ‼️‼️‼️
Submitted by Zen'in

7. Bonbon's Shipping Advice
Submitted by Bonbon (@SifsDefender)

8. Battle Against Self-Deprecation
Submitted by Myla (Meta_Knight_RVG)

9. DO WHATEVER YOU WANT… But keep this in mind
Submitted by GV Slayer (@Eva_adict)

1. Running Multiple Accounts
Submitted by Rug (@TH3_F4UX_G0D)

2. Taking a Break
Submitted by Unfuni (@Fath3rs_s0n)

3. Managing Scope and Complexity
Submitted by Moses (@MetallixLily)

4. Learn to be an Individual
Submitted by Eve (@UnendingDemise)