little-superstar-penny

[little-superstar-penny]

"That's-- you're not temporary to me," blurted Penny.

And as soon as the words were out of her mouth, Penny decided, fuck it. They'd already told each other their feelings. They'd been in this awkward in between stage after though-- unable to move forward so they acted like friends, instead of friends who confessed they liked each other.

But Penny did like-like Tanya, more than friendship, more than... more than she'd ever liked anyone before. It was a really bizarre feeling-- like having another kind of magic thrumming in her veins. Because she knew it like a psychic vision: if she and Tanya had more time, Penny would have fallen in love with her.

She grasped Tanya's hand. "I know what you mean, but like, it's also not true. You changed me, Tanya. For the better. That's what this whole song is about. I'm a different person and so as long as I'm alive, you'll be-- you'll be like forever to me. I know that's cheesy, but it's true." Her voice shook and a few tears rolled down her cheeks. "It won't be just the song."

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#why is this happening to me #tenny #para #tenny u werent supposed to be like this

[little-superstar-penny]

Oh, the fairies!

Penny hadn't considered asking the fairies but...d'oh. That was some human-privilege wasn't it? Though, she hadn't ever lived in a place with a fairy hollow so close. Fairies were the third most "common" magick in terms of magicks in Hollywood (Sorcerers were first, gifteds like Penny was second) but there was no hollow close to Los Angeles. She was pretty sure the closest one was in Northern California, among the redwoods.

But she should try to get an audience with the fairies to discuss this stuff and get their perspective for her paper. She'd need to reach out to Fawn! She'd be perfect.

"Right! Do you know if the fairies have been involved in any, like, advocating or lobbying for different kind of laws?" Penny asked. "I think I might try to interview an animal-fairy too, but-- I guess I'm just curious what the fairy-human relations look like around here."

@crickey-itsjake

Law Of The Jungle || Star Ranger

#gif chat #star ranger

[little-superstar-penny]

YUNJIN | ELLE KOREA | MAY 2024 ♡

#u knwo the rule tenny makes me sad so i post yunjin to feel better #superstar

[little-superstar-penny]

Penny didn't think she'd ever written something so easily before.

Sure, sometimes a verse might pop out. But a verse, a chorus, and a pre-chorus all in one hour? She usually had to procrastinate at least an hour before each one, often running around with Bolt, or doing some kinda chore to switch her brain to a different mode...

But something about this topic was so easy. Like Penny had just been waiting to write this song about this experience-- about Tanya.

Penny gazed at Tanya, and before she knew it, the tears had brimmed in her eyes again. They surprised her, and Penny had to wipe them away with a self-conscious laugh.

"Oh my god-- sorry! Sorry, I dunno where that came from, I--"

I don't want to lose you.

I don't want this to be the first and last song we write together.

I wish...

Penny shook her head and kept smiling, beating back the tears. "I just...really love it too."

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#i'll die #tenny #para

[little-superstar-penny]

YUNJIN x MAC | ELLE KOREA | MAY 2024 ♡

#yes bitch work it bitch #superstar

[little-superstar-penny]

Penny started giggling too, her smile sneaking back across her face. She liked that Tanya knew that thing about shrimp. Not a lot of people knew stuff like that. She wondered what other animal facts were hiding inside of Tanya. Maybe a dozen or maybe a hundred. There were so many things that Penny had never gotten to know about Tanya-- and here was just one of them.

"Yeah, I get it, I do," confirmed Penny, still idling strumming. In a way, this was a song: conversation put to music. The uke made each sentence they shared feel a bit brighter, and more true.

Wasn't it funny how music could do that?

"It's easy to live your life / in shades of grey, and black and white--" Penny began singing, the words coming easier now that Tanya had prompted her.

"But I don't see life like that when I'm with you."

She looked up at Tanya, meeting her gaze again. Not shying away this time.

"'When we met, it was a work of art / the colors in my heart / burst into a thousand different hues."

It was like Tanya had cracked her open. Again. Because wasn't that why she had fallen for Tanya? Something about her made Penny bolder.

"And now I'm never gonna go back / to the life I knew People won't understand it / but fuck 'em, I've got the better view."

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#in my head there is a melody and the melody makes this rhyme scheme whatever it is WORKS !! #spirit of euterpe entering me early #para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

This was getting pretty far from the original prompt.

Then again, Penny couldn't remember what the prompt was. Something about home, and belonging-- finding your own colors... finding your own people. So maybe they weren't as far as Penny thought. Maybe they were peeling back layers to the real thing they wanted to talk about.

For Penny, that was-- finding Tanya.

Ugh. That was too cheesy and embarrassing wasn't it? Especially since soon she'd lose her too.

That thought felt like touching a hot stove. Penny shied away from it. Think about meeting people, like Tanya said-- not losing them.

"Right, um, yeah er--" Penny started strumming her ukelele again, but no words were popping into her head. "Dang, beginnings are hard."

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

"Oh-- um, yeah. Let me just write that down really fast--"

Penny fumbled for her notebook as she scribbled the lyrics down. As she wrote it, she blushed, happy for how her hair fell around her face to give her some privacy between her feelings-- big, silly, obvious feelings-- and Tanya.

Penny didn't want it to be that way.

She wanted--

There had been a thousand moments where she wanted to kiss Tanya. This was another one of them.

But, they couldn't, right? It'd be worse if they kissed and then had to say goodbye. It didn't matter even if the feelings were mutual.

"Er-- okay uh-- what next?" Penny said when she finally looked up. She tucked her hair behind an ear.

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#upsetting #tenny #para

[little-superstar-penny]

YUNJIN 240420 EASY (Coachella week 2)

#my bb #superstar

[little-superstar-penny]

In your eyes.

Immediately, Penny's fingers tripped over the chord and the uke made an off sound-- kind of like a hiccup. She stopped playing all at once, blushing as she glanced down at her lap instead of... well...

In Tanya's eyes.

There was part of Penny who just wanted to look at Tanya all day and do nothing else, as cringe as that was. But their days were counting down and soon Tanya would only be in...pictures and video and...Penny's own memory. Was it so bad to want to soak her in? To want her even though it would break Penny's heart?

"Oh uh-- well, I kinda liked that..." said Penny, still blushing. "Maybe it could be like..."

She strummed the ukelele again and sang, "Go outside the lines / then we'll realize / inspiration lies / in each other's eyes."

Penny's gaze snuck up again, meeting Tanya's own.

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#insert gay seal meme here #GAAAAAAAAAy #para #tenny #its giving roger's song good for them

[little-superstar-penny]

"Er, how about--"

First Penny strummed her ukelele again, just fiddling around with the basic four chords. To be honest, she didn't know a lot about playing the guitar and uke outside of that, but the four chords could be manipulated in a lot of ways, so it helped loosen up her own brain.

"Go outside the lines / make you realize / what's on the other side / is..."

She stopped singing, scrunching up her face.

"...electrified?" Penny snorted, covering her mouth. "That's a mixed metaphor or whatever, my bad. Uh, I dunno, you try!" She started strumming, and gestured to Tanya.

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

A little weird.

Oh, Penny liked that. She liked that because she was still desperately trying to break free from what people thought of her. She had strayed a little from her original penny&thevibe sound, but maybe with this song, she could break the mold even more. Shatter it, even.

Though-- she didn't know if she'd...put it out. She'd have to ask Tanya about that. If it was just a song for them, after Tanya was gone, that was fine too.

Maybe Penny would want it to be that way, honestly. Keep Tanya, and their relationship, to herself.

"Ooooo, I like that! Maybe yelling or--howling, even? Bolt would like that, huh," Penny said this to Bolt, who had laid out on the other side of the coffee table.

In response, Bolt lifted his head and gave a low howl of approval.

"That's almost spooky! I like that. Might have to sample you, bro." She winked at him.

Then-- back to Tanya.

"Okay! So upbeat. Like, an electric guitar sound, I think, but for now..." She started playing a few melodies on her uke. It sounded upbeat already, but definitely brighter than it would on an electric guitar. "We won't paint by number / finding our own colors--" she sang lightly, then slapped the body of the uke and looked at Tanya. "Maybe something like that?"

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#rly embarrassing to write a song always why do i do thsi to myself constantly #para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

Penny blushed at Tanya's expression, a tiny candle lit within her, warming her from the inside out. Honestly, Penny was pretty used to compliments. She was inundated with compliments-- could just log onto her Instagram and find a billion of them, plus over the top tweets asking her to like, have people's babies or bless them like the pope or whatever (which was a little TOO much, but she knew that was just like, Internet lingo...)

But it was really different coming from Tanya. After everything.

And the best part was it felt like they were texting. They'd accessed that world again, when it was just...easy. Like they'd known each other forever and Penny knew no matter what, Tanya wasn't going to judge her for her ideas.

"Yes!" Penny exclaimed at Tanya's idea. "No, that's awesome. Like, let's throw everything at the canvas and see what sticks."

She wrote that down. She had no idea where it might go in the song, but she wanted to capture the big ideas first.

"What do you think about melody? I kinda want this to be an upbeat song, y'know? I like songs you can really dance to-- or just like-- lose your shit. In a good way."

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

Penny's eyes brightened.

"Wait, I love that!" she exclaimed. Then-- "That's like-- a perfect song title for what we're talking about, maybe? Paint By Number."

It sounded like a song, that was for sure. She flipped to a brand new page and she scribbled that at the top. Maybe it wouldn't stick or they would go in a different direction as the song took on a life on their own but...

There was something there, that was for sure. And a whole box of fun metaphors to play with, like with colors and stuff.

"Like-- we don't want to paint by number / we'll find our own colors," said Penny with a slight melody to the couplet, like they were really song lyrics. And they could be...maybe.

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#para #tenny

[little-superstar-penny]

"Oh yeah, I heard about that! Or, I came across it when I was doing some initial research and everything," commented Penny.

It definitely looked like a needed law...despite all of Swynlake's protections, there had been suspicious activity in Enchantra apparently. She'd actually heard most of that from the creatures themselves, because of course Penny's research had taken her into Enchantra first. She'd asked around and heard that someone had been after the unicorns.

"How's it working out? Do you think it's deterred anyone? I mean, it's already illegal so I dunno if it would..."

@crickey-itsjake

Law Of The Jungle || Star Ranger

#gif chat #star ranger

[little-superstar-penny]

"Coachela! Are you ready? To shake some fucking ass!" YUNJIN, at Coachella 2024 Weekend 1

#yes #superstar

[little-superstar-penny]

Penny knew exactly what Tanya met.

Obviously-- duh. That was why Penny had ended up creating Charlotte, in hopes of finally breaking free from what everyone knew about Penny Forrester, and what she, herself, felt like she had to be when she was... well, Penny Forrester. To this day, she longed to figure out who 'Penny' really was, but she wasn't sure she'd ever really get rid of the voices in her head that sounded like Clark and Mommy and her agent and a whole board of Sidney Execs, who discussed her brand like any ol item of merchandise they sold in Target or Wal-Mart.

She wondered all the time-- where did those things end and Penny really start? Would she always feel this... pressure to be the girl on TV?

Probably. Though, the longer she spent away from the screens, the easier it was getting to at least turn the volume on those voices down.

"Oh yeah-- I get that. Like, we are allowed to change," said Penny, and she wrote down change in her notebook. "Honestly, I feel like I change a lot depending on who I'm with. That can kind of be a bad thing but-- I like how you make it sound like it's a good thing. Or, it is a good thing, as long as you find the right people. So it's not pressure to be one way, but... a relief to be yourself. Does that make sense?"

@twentytanya

Music and Lyrics || Tenny

#para #tenny