#But it feels wonderful to have no filter

[hel1anthus-annuus]

Love this bitch for having multiple gender filters on. He’s transmasc, he’s a woman who’s a man, she’s nothing at all

#i love the idea of writing mizu as effectively nonbinary because of the constant isolation and alienation she feels #identifying with womanhood in a sort of secondary manner— a samurai first and a woman second #explores womanhood through mizu lol #no matter what. shes trans in some way #though i hesitate applying that label #if only because i dont think mizu would identify as trans in any instance; i’m sure mizu thinks he just IS #stuck between womanhood (something she doesn’t really care about) and manhood (a mask for her to put on to fulfill his goals) #and yet transmasc interpretations of mizu UTTERLY FASCINATE ME #AUGH! woman who is a man (this is both a transmasc and nonbinary filter) #thinking back to mizu binding. i wonder how he felt #that scene can have so many gender filters #pain— applicable to both a woman binding to avoid misogyny and a trans man binding to avoid misogyny and dysphoria #i think no matter how you see mizu; he’s dysphoric in that scene #i could go on #blue eye samurai

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Daily fish fact #685

Lampreys!

While some lampreys turn to a parasitic lifestyle as adults, drilling into the sides of bigger animals to feed on their flesh and blood, lamprey larvae, ammocoetes, are actually filter feeders! The lamprey larva life stage can last up to a decade, and they spend their time being half-buried in sandy substrate, consuming whatever tiny organic particles float to them. Ammocoetes' feeding rate is the slowest of any suspension-feeding animal, and due to this they require a habitat very rich in nutrients.

#i might as well use that information i researched about lampreys to make that one propaganda post to some good use! #and... woah. lampreys are so cool? they dont have eyes as larvae so when they metamorphose they literally gain the ability to see images. #imagine! youve gone your whole life only sensing light but then you metamorhose and you gain eyes and teeth and can start swimming #how does that feel? are they... surprised? i bet the ones that travel to saltwater experience things they never thought they would #of course im putting my own human emotions on them but... okay. just imagine how crazy it would be!? #their filter feeding apparatus becomes a thyroid gland too!!?!?? thats so insane!!!!! what wonderful animals i cant believe im only now - #learning of this!!!!! like their body transformation can tell us about vertebrate evolution!!!! #lamprey #fish #fishfact #fish facts #biology #zoology #fishblr

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

You are literally one of the only reasons I'm still partially in the WH fandom /pos

🫡 just doin' my duty sir

#no but fr dont feel pressure to like... Stay #when the interest fades the interest fades! there's no shame in that <3 #rambles from the bog #honestly im not sure if i consider myself... In it really? #what constitutes being In A Fandom! #like... im a fan. i create. but i try not to be... Involved? if that makes sense? #i like to stay in my carefully curated corner and ignore the 'fandom' at large #its none of my business! #i just want to do my own thing and Enjoy this wonderful project! #what everyone else does is! again! none of my business <3 #dont wanna get involved dont wanna be Perceived #sometimes i look at my follower count and feel the urge to fire rent lowering gunshots #and its like... honestly i feel relief that my aus arent like??? Big? #i like that theyre casual! closed-circle! #just fun little side things that arent serious or widespread #i will continue to stay in my corner and simply have a good time #i love not being aware of drama <3 being online is so peaceful <3 block button & filters my beloveds <3

[alukaforyou]

every time i go out, i see SO MANY PPL w this exact claw clip hairstyle!!!

#me x mads 4eva #i just got my roots done last week so i dont have to draw myself w black regrowth yayyyy #i didnt kno lee dong gun aka the sexy fuked up prince from queen from 7 days had that iconic dialogue like that was him???? #yall i for real struggled drawing that red outfit help i donut like it #will not be drawing him in it again : | #naruto #mads #uchiha madara #sowwy dis weeks madarapicmonday is a shitpost lol #also if ur wondering y my wip quality is always so bad its cuz i put it thru hella filters on my phone photo editor #cuz i rly dont feel like doing post production on a WIP in photoshop 😩 thats for the final piece baybey!!! #madarapicmonday #alulu art

[storytellering]

if it's okay, would you mind sharing your art process? your style is SO gorgeous dude. keep it up spardacest nation!!!

Thank you so much anon, and of course! I kinda posted about it on twitter a while ago, but for anyone not also on there, here's a paraphrasing of what I said there! (under a cut bc it's gonna get a bit long)

(speedpaint video from procreate mostly bc like I also said in that post, it's one of the few pieces I've done entirely on procreate and thus entirely recorded kdfjhdk I usually don't do the sketching + painting parts on there but every now and then I get lazy and want to get it all done quick in one program lol! It's not as good as it would look if I were using krita to render (which is what I normally use) but it gets the idea across decently of what it is that I do)

The short version of my process is: sketch, clean up sketch for lineart, then flat colors, then paint over the flats (i make the flats my shadows and paint on the light), then a multiply layer for skin details (like lips, eyebags, etc), then an overlay layer for skin transparency details (red over the ears/nose/fingertips etc), then i do hair over the lineart, then a multiply layer with the contact shadows in a light beige/grey/neutral tone on top of everything else, and then i unify layers, paint over the details, and color correct the HELL out of it The longer version is: SO, first of all, I will say, my entire process for a finished/fully redered piece is pretty scattered and uses a lot of different apps, because after many years of trying out different drawing apps I found that I just worked better when I could incorporate the parts I liked best from each individual one rather than having to adapt to another app entirely! In total, what I use is: autodesk sketchbook and procreate for the first half I do on my ipad, then krita and photoshop on my computer when I'm actually rendering (but any photo editing app instead of ps will do, I'm just used to photoshop bc that's what I learned as my first drawing app WAAAY back in the day lol), and then meitu on my phone for color filters (also any phone editing app with filters in it will do), AND also optional just for references: blender and daz3d on computer + magicposer on my phone The actual step by step of what I do: First of all, if I want to do a detailed, well rendered piece I will start by getting my references ready. That means either just grabbing a screenshot from the game if it's like, a simple portrait, or a photo reference, taking a picture of myself in the right pose/lighting, and if it's something more complex I will recreate the scene in Daz3D to simulate a realistic lighting, OR even just blender (i have the game models for the dmc characters downloaded, so I can just pop them in, pose them and change the lighting to get a realistic idea of what shadows their faces will cast in that specific angle/lighting.) Note: references are pretty essential to me, and there's nothing to be ashamed about for using them! Personally I don't struggle a lot with the drawing/sketching part of art, but my tiny little pea brain cannot fathom how to make an object 3D in my mind, and how to visualize shadows realistically... thus the reliance on 3D programs to do that for me, and then all I have to do is draw what I'm seeing lol. My art improved significantly ever since I started making 3D refs so I could get /exactly/ what I needed - there's still a lot of leeway you need to learn though, because as realistic as the lighting will be in a rendering program, you'll never really get a fully natural looking image, as far as stuff like the body stretching/squishing/pulling when it's in movement, facial expressions, folds in clothing/fabric, etc... so really it's more a guide than something meant to be followed 1:1.

Then, once I'm confident I know exactly what I'm gonna draw/have the idea in my head, I start sketching it in sketchbook. Not really getting very in depth, just blocking out rough shapes - I like sketchbook and to be on my ipad for that because it feels very reminiscent of traditional sketching on paper to me, which while I'm not super confident on my traditional art abilities, I do get the most natural/fluid/non-stiff figures out that way. Then when I think I have the general idea ready, I export the sketch layer as a png and import it into procreate - which is where I kinda start picking at the sketch and polishing it like i'm carving it out haha. Lots of liquify tool, flipping the canvas to check if it's even, blending out some of the lineart to help out with the rendering later, and then polishing up what was once the sketch into serviceable lineart. I usually reimport it back into sketchbook at this stage - while I like procreate for drawing I don't love the brushes I can use for lineart there, and so I usually only draw the "base" naked figure in there - when I'm in sketchbook I use a hard pencil to refine the details, then on a separate layer add all the things "on top" like hair, clothing, etc - usually I can get it pretty easily in one go, and once I'm satisfied I erase the naked body under the clothes and unify the lineart layers. Then I will just do the flats with a hard brush, turning the lineart layer into an overlay layer and coloring things in with the shadow colors. At this point, I export the file as a psd and import it on my computer - I give it a once over in photoshop first to see if there needs to be any adjusting (like whether any layer that has an effect needs to have a different effect, if all the colors look right since the ipad screen isn't the most faithful, if i wanna change the background color, etc), and once I think it's ready enough, I open it up in krita, where I do the actual bulk of the painting/rendering (as to why specifically krita: it's because I've gotten very comfortable with the brush/painting brush dynamics there and cannot seem to get as good results anywhere else, it's just the goldilocks spot of a brush for me haha.) If anyone's curious, here's the brushes I usually use for painting:

The one in the middle is my go to painting brush, left one for tinier/more refined details, right one for blending out soft shadows (though I learned the hard way to not overuse it, or it will look like I went ham with an airbrush tool lol). (I don't change any of the settings on these brushes, so if you wanna try out the exact ones I use! Just fresh off how they come out the app haha) I paint on the lights on top of the shadows, and just focus on that for the time being - once I'm done with the basic painting, I'll make a separate multiply layer for details like lip color, eye waterlines, makeup if there is any, eyebags, etc, and then adjust the opacity until it feels right - then I'll make an overlay layer with skin translucency details (like, when you hold your hands in front of a light and see the tips of your fingers become bright orange - many parts of your body are always a bit translucent to the blood underneath, specifically parts where the skin is thin like noses, cheeks, joints, knuckles, etc, and I found it makes the character look a lot more alive to add that subtle coloring in) - then usually I do hair on a separate layer on top of the lineart (because that way I can add small flyaways, more details, etc, and just use the lineart as a guide) After that, I'll usually make a multiply layer on top of everything where I'll add contact shadows in a neutral color (usually pretty pale, it'll be darker anyway since it's multiply), and once I feel like I've rendered everything out properly, I save the psd and re-open it on photoshop.

In photoshop, I'll mess around with the layers a little bit more (changing hue/saturation, opacity, etc), fuck around with the background to make it look pleasing, and once I'm happy with it, I'll unify the layers and start color correcting - usually by duplicating the unified layer and messing with the curve/hsl of the image and then changing the opacity of that edited layer until it's as strong or muted as I want it to be - then I also edit the RGB curves individually and adjust the opacity of that also (because I just really like how it ends up looking if I give a bit of a red/warm tint to the shadows lol), and at that point often I will reimport the finished image into procreate for some finalizing touches! Like, blending out shadows that came out too harshly, painting over anything that came out not the way I wanted it, redefining the lineart if it got messy during painting, and adding any extra small detail that might have gotten lost like catchlights, hair shines, hair flyaways, tears, etc. I also do one last round of flipping the canvas and liquify if needed! At this point, I export the finished image both to my computer and my phone - on my phone I open it up on the photo editing app, and add a bunch of different color filters - I don't hesitate from going completely balls to the walls here, and just kinda applying as many filters as will make an image look pleasing to my eye. Once I think it looks good, I'll export the edited image to my computer - and then open both the version without filters and the one with them on photoshop, and use the filtered version as an opacity layer, and adjust it until it doesn't look as crazy anymore lol. One last step I recently started incorporating was also changing the image to grayscale after I'm done, and doing one last round of curves in greyscale to make sure the values look right, and nothing is getting too lost because the values are too similar (because i know i get a bit swept up in getting repulsed by harsh contrasting lighting and can end up washing out all of rendering if I don't check myself kjdfgk) AND that's it! Yes it's a pretty long and chaotic process, but it's coming from years of trial and error and realizing I can just let myself fo whatever makes me happier with the results, and I don't have to stay constrained to one program if I don't like every tool it has to offer/don't have to accept the final image fresh off the painting app as the "finished" image with no adjustments allowed after, lol. I don't find it takes a lot more time than if I didn't do it this way, but YMMV. Hope this was helpful and sorry for taking so long to explain! I just wanted to give a thorough explanation dfhdkhkx

#asks #sorry i know its a bit chaos hfdgd #but i hope its helpful anon! thanks for asking #also for anyone wondering #no i am not paying for ps lmao #fuck adobe #it is always morally correct to pirate adobe products people #if you have an alternative photo editing app you like best youre welcome to use it #but if youre too used to photoshop. everything is free on the internet if you know where to look #i also wouldnt recommend meitu bc it feels like a pretty sketchy app all things considered #im just too lazy to care to change my go to app but i would look for a different phone app #p sure theres billions that let you add funky color filters instead #actually i think you could use photoshop camera raw filters for that too #its just way too intensive of a process for my tiny potato computer and it feels a lot faster + seamless on phone

[solcarow]

orv adaption announcements …………..

#good goddddddd im gonna be Such a hater about them i can feel it in my bones o(~< #i could handle a shitty live action bc im sure thats what han sooyoung would have wanted but . a Shitty Animated Show ? #i dont think my heart could take it ….. #but i really really hope that wont b the case bc they can do some great stuff with it #IVE SAID THIS BEFORE BUT !!!! IMAGINE THE SOUNDTRACK ………. YOU COULD GO CRAZY WITH LEITMOTIFS… .. #imo orv isnt a story that needs visuals but it could work so well with audio ………. #translating the image of bleeding stories into whispers oughhghhgh #i wonder how adaptions could approach the ambiguity between lines spoken by kim dokja and the 4th wall ………. #it’s something that’s pretty hard to convey with audio so maybe they’ll keep it silent in the audiovisual adaptions #maybe with keyboard sounds …….. oooh thatd be so cool #but i feel like the voice the reader gives the 4th wall adds another layer to it does that make sense #pretty tricky to figure out how to translate the 4th wall outside of a medium with just text #solar-talks #god i hope they do something interesting with the starstream filter on dokja bc ill b honest i didnt like how when the webtoon got to #jihye’s scene in dark castle they just smacked sparkles on him and left it at that #ok i reread it in case i got it wrong but unfortunately . yeah . those arent eyebags you gotta make him look NORMALLER fuck offff !!!!!!!!! #i know they would never do this but it would be so fucking sick if they just moved around the features of kdj’s face ever so slightly to #give him some uncanny valley vibes #i want it so bad for the live action but i know they dont see my vision orz #they dont have to end up being Exactly how i’d imagine them im just begging the adaptions to make the best use of a different medium #put some Thought into it even ..

[marcusagrippa]

like. yes. humans are terrible a lot of the time. but holy shit it's so fucking insane that we even exist in the first place, let alone that we've built everything that we've built, let alone that we still have access to as much history as we do, and if i think too hard about stories i feel A Lot because it goes back and back and back and throughout everything that we've been through as a species, stories have always held us together, stories and dreams and poems and it fucks me up sometimes because when i'm studying poetry it's easy to think 'ugh this is so dull' but then you read one tiny line and then you're punched in the gut and you remember that this was written by a person, a person who was alive, once, and that in your hands your hold a tiny little piece of their heart and their hopes and their dreams, and it's sort of necromancy, isn't it, to read what they wrote and feel what they felt, and we're human and we've always been human, and if we've always had stories and words and poetry then they're us, really, and we're them, and i don't understand people who find literature boring because it's just it's the sum of everything that the author's ever known, every experience they've had, every other book they've read which has been the sum of everything another's ever known and there's not really a point to this but we are indistinguishable from our stories, we are our stories and our wars and our love and and and and

#this is nothing new at all but it feels new to me bc my brain has been numb from constant overstimulation for the last year and a half and i #haven't had the chance to actually experience a normal amount of human feelings in a while but when i read that one sappho fragment my brai #n exploded #i can't put it into words very well sorry #we've always wanted to be remembered!!! humans!!!! what the fuck!!!! #humans have always been human !!!!! how fucking insane is that !!!!! history is stabbing me repeatedly !!!! #i love you biased primary sources that tell us more about the author than the subject matter i love you sappho 31 and catullus 51 #i love you inspired by i love you translation i love you fragmentary works i love you i love you i love you #i love humans so much and i love that we've tried to make our (terrifying) existence a little bit less scary by making it beautiful instead #i got like two hours of sleep last night so my cringe filter is a little low. but. yeah. #classics tumblr has made me think about textual ghosts and necromancy a little more than is strictly healthy #i am tired but i am so full of wonder #this was prompted by that one bit of cat 1 and the sappho fragment i mentioned and the pharsalia and probably pro caelio too #humans #humans my beloved #humans!!!!! #poetry my beloved!!!! ancient history my beloved!!!! aaaaaa!!!!

[goldensunset]

hm. well i was going to maybe start the dlc in violet tonight but instead i listened to the entirety of insaneintherain’s 4 hour compilation of dppt jazz covers while doing who knows what

#i’ll probably have time this weekend #wonder how much more in platinum i feel like playing #like i’m interested in the postgame but also i reeeaaaally really wanna go ahead to the scarvio dlc while it’s new and hot… #also running around with ten thousand spoiler tags on sucks. i’ve filtered out even general pokémon/pokemon #which is probably excessive but like. i wanna be safe #it’s still not nearly as severe as what i did for totk though lol #point being ​i could maybe come back to platinum later if i wanted #peach rambles #anyway it’s been wild listening to the gen 4 soundtrack and realizing OHHH i recognize that from pla actually… #some of those connections i figured out by myself others i would never have guessed

[siena-sevenwits]

Disclaimer: These thoughts are more emotionally than logically expressed, and reflect my own experience and preference.

#I have some beef with Lockwood and I say this as someone who really enjoys both the show and the books. #I've been doing a rewatch to introduce it to my dad (who loves it!) but we just hit Episode 5 and - is it just me but does this episode #plunge rather deeper into the darkness than we see in the previous episodes? It makes sense narratively of course #Complete Fiction has the task of structuring it such that there's a proper midpoint shift in the series and in my own works I increase #the stakes around this point and really let the protagonists struggle. So it's not so much that I have an issue with things getting #more focused dangerous and difficult. I don't know that I have a logical reason for the unease I feel with Episode 5 - there's just somethi #vaguely disturbing to me about it. It may be my own personal sensitivities. The interrogation scene at Winkman's has absolutely nothing #graphic about it and I appreciate the discretion - but it's just so intense - the threats to draw on Lockwood's face with the heated #instrument - the whole electric shocks sequence - I have been told I have a particularly vivid and empathetic imagination so I may just #be filling in too many gaps and feeling the scene more intensely than some would but it genuinely bothered me. More so on rewatch #though I didn't like it the first time either. I wonder too if it's because on rewatch I can compare it to the scene in the book #Gosh - the book scene is *comedic!* 'Let's disguise ourselves as ditzy tourists and while you check the backroom I'll let my coins #fall all over the place and crawl around under the tables loaded with antiques and freak the owners out! And when they get caught #Winkman just lifts them off the ground menacingly and chucks them in the street. The fact that we had to turn this into a midnight #torture scene for TV - I don't know - I don't like it. And just the atmosphere isn't as balanced as in the other episodes. So many flashbac #to grotesque corpse faces which are somehow a lot more disturbing than the CGI ghosts which feel much more Halloweenish #Not much love and light carved out in the darkness. There's some for sure! And even in the torture scene that bugs me I appreciate how it #shows Lockwood's heart and allows us to explore some meaningful territory that the ditzy tourist scene doesn't #I'm just griping and mainly hoping that the rest of the series is more how I remember it from first watch. The warmth of the Portland #Row gang means a lot to me. Stacking this dark feel on top of the discomfort I have with the harsh language rubs me the wrong way #(Thankfully I have online filters so the language isn't an issue for me but it does make me more reluctant to recommend to friends.

[hahahalfwit]

i've done this a while ago, an inspired piece based solely on the visuals of portugal. the man's "who's gonna stop me", the only serious project i've seen al be a part of

#tw eye contact #tw teeth #i want to talk about some things in the tags also #i've discovered that he depicts a Coyote(and not a wolf as i've previously thought) so i had to revisit the drawing with a bit more insight #i won't be tagging this because this piece has been haunting me for some reason and i'm having a lot of new realisations #because of the song. obviously i'm not american so i'm musing about my own country now. p.tm's always been like that to me #basically the theme is important. the collaboration is important. the band is Very mportant to me personally. al is very important. #it's mind boggling how deeply troubled this whole thing made me feel and how ecstatic i am that this happened. they're so damn sugar sweet #and i REALLY want people to listen to this. al's voice is wonderful and him and john go so well together it's Insane #the harmonies are killing me. and i'm feeling like such a freak for overanalysing their past collabs and their professional relations #the show they did together in 2013 with p.tm's 'so american' and al's 'canadian idiot' is punching me repeatedly in the gut #i also couldn't decide which filter i like better. this piece looks better filtered because i'm still failing to understand color theory #al's part in the clip caught my eye and i couldn't rest until i got it out of my head

[whump-queen]

filtering ask game responses

I like doing these ask games bc they’re fun, but I get that seeing all the answered asks on your dash could get annoying/feel like spam etc.

so to avoid spamming people’s dashes in the future with these ask game responses, i’m gonna think of a hashtag you can block/filter if you don’t want to see these types of asks.

I realize it’s gotta be blog specific (I don’t think there’s an option to filter a tag on a specific blog?) so im thinking maybe # akia ask game or sm like that

#if you have suggestions lmk #but yeah I always lose people during these ask games and like i’m still going to keep doing them bc i’m doing me but figured we could #enhance the audience experience a lil #so yeah might use #akia ask game #hoping that’s blog specific enough? not even really sure how their tagging/filtering works tbh #but yeah sorry if you were annoyed but uh yeah i’ll put a thingy to filter stuff going forward! #and before you wonder #no nobody said anything to me but I just feel like if it were me i’d want to habe the option to opt out of seeing that type of content yk? #thay being said I love a lil bit of mutual/audience participation so I still love ask games for that reason :) #hopefully this’ll work! #ask game #whump queen psa

[cookinguptales]

nailing my own sleep-deprived tags to my wall and forcing myself to look at them

#I feel like my adult years have mostly been spent putting out the fires that my adolescence created #and some days it's so hard to confront my feelings of shame and inadequacy with gentle and loving patience #but other days I can say something breathtakingly kind to myself #and I have to hold tight to those moments of self-encouragement because that's the end goal isn't it #other people encouraging you is wonderful and I depend on it but none of it matters if you don't believe them #it has to come from inside doesn't it #to be clear this is about: #neurodivergence #queer love #disability #and I'm putting those tags on here for both the people who filter them out and the people who seek them out #and for me maybe when I need to look this up again and stare at it