For all your color needs

[tsaiko]

If you are a writer and want to get creative in describing your character's hair/eye color, please for the love of all that is holy, know what color you are using. Amaranth is not a shade a purple. I can only assume you were thinking amethyst when you wrote that. If you are not sure, Wikipedia has a very awesome list o' colors to help you out. They even include the RGB of them.

Friends don't let friends give Duo Maxwell pink eyes.

Comments

[pantswarrior]

...I'd also add "please don't refer to gemstones unless the character actually HAS artificial eyes made of stone, it's so overdone and cliched, especially if you also call them 'orbs'", but I'm generally annoyed by the fanfic world and their purple prose these days.

[tsaiko.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I went through the gemstone eye phase. Granted I had just discovered fanfiction after years of being a romance novel fan, so I didn't exactly have the best examples to follow. Now I know better.