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deathofpeaceofmiiind · 4 months

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high infidelity | seven

My baby's fly like a jet stream, high above the whole scene, loves me like I'm brand new *Ellie’s POV* I woke up in a panic, forgetting where I was. I felt clammy and delirious. My hair was knotted and my face felt greasy since I forgot to take off my make up last night. My eyes wondered over to the tattooed arm that was beside me and relief washed over me, it was Noah. “Good morning.” He says putting his phone down and kissing my forehead. Suddenly my hangover hit me and my head felt like it split in two. “Morning.” I mumbled. “I feel awful.” “Tequila?” He asks as he scrunches his face up. I just nod, even the word tequila made me want to gag. “Well I hate to make you feel worse but I got us flights back to up to Vancouver, we leave in three hours.” “Oh god.” I moaned and I buried my head back into my pillow. He laughs and walks over to the bathroom. I hear the shower running and he comes back over to me with Advil and a bottle of water.

“I’ll order us some breakfast.” He smirks, I could tell he was trying not to laugh more at the state I was in. “Go shower, it’ll wake you up.” I wanted to protest, but a shower felt like a great idea. I grabbed my stuff and headed into the bathroom. After my shower I threw on my hoodie from last night with leggings and put my hair up in a claw clip with minimal make up to make myself at least look human. I came out of the bathroom and our breakfast was already waiting for us. We had coffees with pancakes and bacon, my favourite which also seemed to be Noah’s. After we were done eating we ordered an Uber and made our way to the airport. *Noah’s POV* I had to admit Ellie was handling her hangover better than I could’ve. I held her hand the entire ride to the airport and kept stealing glances at her. I couldn’t help myself. I’m still trying to figure out how I landed myself in such a lucky situation. Nick texted me to say they were just leaving Seattle and it felt weird I wasn’t there with them. He was right, this was definitely a different routine but if it meant having Ellie with me I was more than happy to switch it up. Once we got to the airport we checked in, made our way through security and found the first Starbucks we could find. “I’ll have a grande nitro brew and …” “A venti iced matcha with oat milk.” Ellie chimed in. “God, you’re so basic.” I laughed as I gave the cashier my credit card. I looked over at Ellie and she told me to go fuck myself, which made me laugh more. We couldn’t stop making each other laugh and we were acting like this wasn’t our first time flying together. Ellie was just so incredible and she was easily one of the funniest people I’ve met without even trying. I felt like my heart was going to explode.

“This is a very strange first date.” she chuckled as we got on the plane. “I know.” I replied as I reached over and helped her with her belt, not breaking my stare from her. “except you can’t go anywhere.” “Noah Sebastian, is that a threat?” She smirks. “Could be.” I replied with a deep tone. She put her hand on my lap and I could feel myself getting hard, which wasn’t ideal. I always used to rush into things and with Ellie I wanted to slow down and establish something cause this was so delicate. I was ready whenever she was. “I was thinking about starting Demon Slayer again, do you wanna watch it?” I said, distracting myself from feeling like a horny teenager. Ellie just nodded and I pulled my iPad and AirPods out of my bag. I passed her an AirPod and she rested her head on my shoulder and I pressed play, mind you I was too focused on her thumb rubbing circles on my thigh. “You’re not gonna know the plot looking down there.” She chuckles as she looks up at me. My face got hot and drew my eyes back to my iPad. She was driving me absolutely crazy. The flight was only an hour so we got to Vancouver before we knew it. We were waiting at baggage claim for my suitcase, which I realized was a stupid idea for only being gone for two days. Ellie was making a joke about me being high maintenance but her phone interrupted her. She stopped dead in her tracks and her face went white. Tyler was calling her and I instantly saw red. “Hello…why do you think I’m divorcing you…I’ve known for a month…no I’m done Tyler…where was this effort when I raised our son on my own while you were out with her…call my lawyer to figure out a date…I’m not sorry…I’m done…yes I’m in town still…no I’m staying at a hotel right now…whatever.” She hung up the phone and was a lot more calm than I would’ve been. I pulled her into my chest and felt her take a huge breath. At least I knew she was safe with me and nothing would hurt her.

#bad omens #noah sebastian #fanfic

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iztea · 5 months

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Maybe you have some drawing tips for beginners?

Your style is incredibly beautiful and it just inspires this thing inside me to grab my iPad and start drawing but unfortunately I have no idea where to even begin

Or maybe you have some recs where to look to learn how to draw stuff?

But I understand completely that it’s your thing and artists should never feel pressured to share all their techniques and secrets, you worked hard on it!

I just really really love your art to the point where I just look at it for 30 minutes straight with this big feeling in my chest

ah it was never about being secretive, i'm pretty open about my drawing process since gatekeeping knowledge is a big pet peeve of mine. It was more like,, laziness because writing a cohesive and helpful drawing tutorial is pretty difficult and i wouldn't even know where to start; i'm afraid i'll get maybe too technical and what have you.

As for tips for beginners, i've shared plenty on my couriouscat so you can scroll through the answers there, i also have some drawing timelapses on my twitter account as well (albeit you'll have to scroll a little)

I'm very flattered you feel that way about my art, it really means a lot to me and i'm glad to have inspired you to draw as well that's awesome and i wish you best of luck!

I actually don't know how different drawing on an iPad is compared to a graphic tablet+desktop, so I am actually pretty clueless in that regard. I think Procreate is the most used digital art app for iPad so you can start by getting it and familiarizing yourself with the UI. I think this step is often overlooked. The brushes and the chosen program can make or break the drawing experience. If you simply find yourself not enjoying Procreate, experiment with other apps or maybe try switching to a graphic tablet, maybe that feels better and is more suited to your tastes.

To be completely honest, one "bad" piece of advice that i should probably keep to myself is to draw something you actually enjoy: fanart, Pretty Girl Portrait(tm), your cat, landscapes etc even if it's above your skill level (becoming obsessed/ fixated on some character from a piece of media also works wonders i'm just gonna throw that out there). The main point is to actually care about your chosen subject in order to get inspired and to have that inner desire of "doing them justice" aka drawing them well. The traditional art learning route probably involves studying the fundamentals, shading spheres and cones and simple 3D forms blablbablah which. Yeah ! sure that's probably better advice but i'm telling you what will make you want to keep going and not get discouraged after a few failed attempts.

As for the drawing subject, I highly recommend having photo references to guide you.. you always need refs it's a recurring thing. My fastest artworks are the ones where I have the right references. the less references the more difficult it is to draw something

As a beginner it is also a good practice to draw OVER your photo reference to get the proportions right ( i'm not talking about literally tracing the contour of a face or limb ( just an example ), but moreso identifying the Main shape which makes up that body part and observe how long is it in respect to the other components, how does it connect to the other parts etc - big difference. Tracing won't help you in the long run).

Another thing you can do is to study your favourite artists and see how They tackle whatever it is that you like in their work. how do they simplify facial features? what about anatomy? color/ light etc and kinda reverse engineer your way through their process. ( but i highly recommend to just keep these practice sketches to yourself, and to not share them on social media- unless you get the artist's permission)

This is how i got into drawing and what i did back then, again, for more technical hands-on information i did answer similar CCs before so with a little bit of stalking you'll find them in no time

I wanna finish this with some resources that helped me:

>youtube guys - sinix, ahmed aldoori, marco bucci, and also just speedpaints in general i highly recommend watching those

>for simplified anatomy i found @/ taco1704 's ref sheets to be very helpful but ........... I'm pretty dry here i just look up refs on Pinterest tbvh

speaking of, here's my pinterest i have a bunch of art related boards board cool stuff overall maybe they can help guide you towards some direction or inspire you in some way idk

ok i kinda suck in the resource department listeN. im starving too just.................. watch youtube speedpaints ok

SORRY IT'S SO LONGGGBGGG i hope it was at least a bit helpful? this was all over the place... I'll try to come up with a tutorial as well but i really gotta be careful with how i go about it. I'll leave you with this for the time being. Again, thank you a lot for the kind words, I really am very grateful and touched esp by that last part about staring with the big feeling stuff eeeeeeeeeeeeee really wow T T that's so lovely and a big compliment thanks ty ly

#long post #this is so messy...... sorry anon #i don't have a very. linear thought process as the kids would call it #you should see my lit essays back in the day lmfao #anyways #if there are typos i'll fix them later #ASK IZTEA #they call me the tutor the way rial my way through the .....#ok nevermind

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genericpuff · 8 months

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Alright, update on the tablet situation, I do NOT have good news but there are some silver linings.

First off, thank you all so much for your patience. That one week I took off to relax seemed to be an invitation for the universe to fuck with my shit because my tablet literally chose the worst time to get on my nerves ( This is totally not something I'm gonna bring up with my therapist as proof that I'm not allowed to rest /s) I've tried just about everything to get it working again, I got a replacement 3-in-1 cable and even that didn't do anything, so I've ordered in a new pen, but that's not due to show up for another week or two.

However, I do not want to wait a week or two on the off chance that a new pen even solves the problem.

So the GOOD NEWS in all this is that I do still have my iPad. It wasn't setup with Clip Studio Paint because I own a perpetual license for my PC, but seeing as how now I can't use it on my PC (at least not with my tablet pen) I've gone ahead and setup the mobile version on my tablet, thankfully I got a discount because I already own a perpetual license but it's still gonna cost me $10/month so that's yet another subscription to slap on the 'ole credit card.

Now that does mean I have to go through the painstaking efforts of moving everything from my PC onto my tablet, but thankfully that issue is easily solved with cloud backups and transferring. Really all I need to be able to do is draw, I can still do speech bubbles and text input and texture overlays and all that post-production stuff on my PC, but anything that requires actual drawing I'm gonna be using my iPad for. So please, don't mind if you notice some weird little art differences between Episode 30 and 29, I'm adjusting to a new workflow! It shouldn't be too bad because I'll still be using the exact same brushes and textures and all that fun stuff that I do on my PC, it just comes with the adjustment of drawing primarily on iPad, which I don't normally do (I usually only draw on my iPad for tattooing and that's in Procreate which I still suck at using outside of lineart LMAO)

This is a very stressful situation that I'm hoping will only be temporary until I get that new tablet pen, and if THAT doesn't solve the issue, then I'm gonna have to start shopping for a new tablet entirely, and that's not something I can do immediately because I'm already starting to struggle financially due to the slow season creeping in at work and I'm still paying off that new PC I put down on layaway (which I'm regretting already). All that said, if you want to help a pal out, please consider tossing a dollar or two at me on my Ko-Fi, it's all gonna go towards a new drawing tablet if I need it (and if the pen solves the issue, then you'll be helping me stay afloat so I can keep bringing you guys the good shit LOL)

What's wild is that in all my Google searching, I found a thread from two months ago with literally the EXACT same issue, under the exact same conditions, in which OP's tablet pen unexpectedly stopped registering with their Huion Kamvas 22 Plus that they had owned for two years. According to them, it did start working again, after resetting the PC and re-installing the driver over and over again, but I've already done that myself a ton of times and I'm tired of being let down and that doesn't seem like a "real" solution beyond luck, so I'm gonna take a break from doing that while I get my iPad set up. I have the sneaking suspicion this might have to do with some recent Windows updates that just rolled out, my PC had definitely gone through a couple leading up to the malfunction. This wouldn't be the first time Microsoft has fucked with my tablet functionality so I literally wouldn't be surprised if it was something like that. Either that, or the '2' in Kamvas 22 stands for "will only last for 2 years before stopping entirely" LOL

Anyways, that's all for now. Thank you all so much for your patience and understanding through all this. While I don't want to have to reduce the quality or frequency of what I put out for you guys due to technical issues, I also don't want the comic to stop entirely, so if this turns into one of those desperate situations where I'm delivering you guys episodes of Rekindled drawn on a Nintendo DS, so be it. I'm not gonna let this beat me.

#update #update post #lore rekindled #lore rekindled comic #lore rekindled update #technical difficulties #genericpuff #generic puff

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josephines-thoughts · 1 year

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✨📖My Daily Study Routine - University Version📖✨

Now I am at my third semester at the university, so I‘ve had a lot of time to find the optimal study routine for me. Every day in my week is different, wich is why I basically start to doing my tasks at different times (so this routine only refers to the days off that I can use for studying). Maybe you will have read or heard some tips of mine, but you can still include them individually into you‘re own routine (if you want). I hope my routine motivates you as much as it does to me! And a short information for y‘all, excuse my mistakes in english grammar, english is not the language i usally speak.

1. Get up between 6:00 am 7:00 am⏰

If I have the morning off, I try to start the day relaxed. Things that helping me to do this:

a cup with my favourite tea

drinkin‘ lot‘s of water (but I don‘t mange it it everday)

wearing my favorite cardigan (This might sound ridiculous, but I learn best when I'm wearing my favorite cardigan.)

listen to my favourite Spotify- playlists or watching Gilmore Girls 🎧 (Below I have linked the playllists i am using)

2. Create a good workspace✨

After strating good in the day, I collect all of the thing I need. These are the things I am using:

iPad + keyboard & mouse

Applepen

Airpods

notebook & pens

books (when I need them)

water or tea

I don‘t need many things because I have everything important on my iPad.

3. Get an owerview👀

To-do lists always help me a lot to get an owerview. I‘m using some Apps for this step: (but you can write it down on paper)

Actions

Structured

4. Set priorities✍🏻

For me there are 3 THINGS I have to decide between. These are:

STUDYING

First, I set myself a time limit (i can work better with this). I can learn very well with the following apps:

Forest (you won't believe me how much i love to plant these little trees)

Quizlet (this app helps me a lot when I'm studying for my final exams.)

COMPLETE MY NOTES

If you‘re a student at the university too, than you will know this. Most of the time you will get a „ugly“ PowerPoint for the lecture or seminar. For this reason I make my own study notes (with them I can lern better). When i am writing my notes i am using this App:

Goodnotes (Most of you probably know this app. I can no longer imagine my life without Goodnotes.)

DOING MY HOMEWOKS

For my homeworks I am also setting a timer with the Forest- App. During the semester I probably sit the longest on my homeworks. Since I'm studying Latin, I have to translate a lot of lectures, almost every day.

5. Check you‘re To-do lists again🗒️

When I think I have everything done, I look at my lists again & check them.

6. Tidy up you‘re workspace🧹

I always tidy up after a long study session. Believe me, it's worth it. Then next time you won't have such difficulties sitting down at your desk.

7. Go for a walk🚶🏻‍♀️

After hours of studying, it‘s beneficial to get some fresh air. (But I have to be honest, I can hardly manage it). But i‘m including this step because it should actually be done (in my opinion).

🎧My study- playlists🎧

#Spotify #study aesthetic #seminar #studyblr #autumn #college stuff #university #college student #germany #study blog #study routine #tips and tricks #forest app #goodnotes app #structured #quizlet #study notes #studyinspo #study motivation

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yourmomni · 6 months

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Fix You 5

A/n:🥲so sad to say goodbye to this story i honestly had fun doing it and I love how it's made me notice so many things about my writing 1).I'm not good a schedules 😂 and 2) I'm a very interesting person well I hoped you enjoyed the ride. I'd theirs anymore request just let me know and I'll it ok adios 🥲🥰🥰 p.s. @loveyouselfalways thank you for being my first request 🥰

You Spinned in your chair that was in front of your desk waving at your computer.

" Hey ENGENES, how are you guys today?" You began drumming your fingers on the table music playing in the background from your iPad.

" I missed you guys too, it's been so long since I last did one of these, almost 3 months wow." The comments were moving so quickly

Jakesgirl: Hii y/n I missed you

Nikinum12: You look so pretty

Jaysguitar: girl where have you been

"I know you guys have a lot of questions on why I haven't been on live or social media for awhile,and I feel like I owe you an explanation. I decided that I would take a break from social media to focus on my mental health and on myself. I started noticing that I had a lot of unhealthy habits and they were affecting my mental stability very much. So I decided that the break was the best for me."

Jake: We love you y/niiie

You smirked seeing your member in the comments supporting you

" But I couldn't have done it by myself. I had my awesome members supporting me through the difficult times and helping regain everything I lost such as my confidence, my will to work, and my happiness and I will forever be grateful for them."

After more songs and interesting conversations you had with them you were ending the live.

" Okay well I will definitely try that brand of chapstick soon thank you for the recommendation, well guys it's been almost 4 hours and I think it's time for me to go."

Sunomono: Byyeee come back soon

Makiey: bye love you

Porlocksung:thank you for spending time with us

Heesgirl: is that your snorlax pushing on the bed I thought you liked bulbasaur

you quickly turned around seeing the huge snorlax sitting on your bed staring back at you.

" shit."

Nikiwiki: Omg is it niki's

Engenes4life:omg niki likes snorlax wtf

Heesgirl: why is it in your room….teaaaa

Y/nlover: omg y/n+nikiAHHHHHHH

Jungine: guys stop they all live together maybe they have movie nights or sleep overs in each others room

You nodded " Yeah guys we have sleepovers all the time he just forgot it in here don't worry guys." You laughed nervously " Okay byeee" you waves trying to end the live.

You exhaled taking your headphones off, next thing you knew you were tackled to your bed with a huge weight on your back " that live was so long I almost died from boredom." I laughed, turning my head to see niki smiling at me.

" hi." He smiled back at me " hello" He kissed my lips softly." I think I left me snorlax in here from last night's movie date" I raised my eyebrow " You think?" He laughed getting off of me and pulling me up wrapping his arms around me and he rested on the headboard of my bed

I rested My head on his chest, throwing one leg over his.

" I'm so proud of you." I looked up at him and he ran his index finger over my cheek. " You've grown so much in these past months don't you think?" I nodded, hugging him close to me.

" I can finally look at myself in the mirror without feeling disgusted at what I see so thats a positive." Niki smiled kissing the top of his girlfriend's head lovingly

" And that's all I ask for, all I want is for you to love yourself more and more everyday. I know it takes time and practice and I'm here for it all."

Niki pulled you closer and nuzzled himself in your hair smelling your conditioner you used the morning of.

You wanted to stay like this forever cuddled up with the person you love in your new headspace where you're finally getting comfortable in your own skin. You knew it would take a while for you to be 100% hell you didn't even know if you would get to 100% but if niki and the members were by your side the whole time, you knew you could do it.

" Yall are just adorable." The boys were standing there with their phones out taking pictures and videos. Niki sprung up chasing after them causing you to laugh.

You pulled Pokémon close to you once again sighing into the pillow like material.

In that moment you knew you would be just fine. And niki didn't need to Fix You.

#black reader #enhypen fanfiction #enhypen imagines #black reader x kpop #enhypen jake #chubby reader #chubby #enhypen jay #jakesim x black reader #sunghoon #black girls are pretty too #enhypen #enha niki #niki nishimura #niki so cute #niki x reader #enhypen niki

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stela20 · 3 months

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I'm sorry if my English is not good, I use Google Translate

This is my story from the Quotev website, so I wanted to write it and publish it here, but enjoy ❤

POV y/n

This is my first day in primary school, but this is not any school. This school is for children who are distinguished by extraordinary talents, such as the iPad, dancing, and other singing, and I am very happy because I have noticed from all the people and newcomers in the field of songs that my voice is very beautiful and we will be able to be chosen as a talent in the future, and I have They recommended this beautiful school for me and I am very happy because I will achieve my dream and now I want to make friends and meet new people. I now entered the class and the teacher Sandy introduces me to the rest of the class ❤

Teacher Sandy: Well guys, we have a new student today. Can you tell us about yourself?

Y/n: First… My name is Y/n and I am 7 years old. I hope you can become friends

The whole class welcomed me and said hello to me

Teacher Sandy: y/n, here you go with your request ❤

I sat next to a person with dark hair, a black face, and completely white eyes. He looked like Venom from the Spider-Man movies. I admired his appearance and wanted to get to know him.

y/n: Mm hello

Agouti: Hello

y/n: What is your name and age?

Agouti: My name is Agouti and I am 8 years old

y/n: That's good, can we be friends?

I was surprised: What is so fast?

y/n: yeah what's up ❔

Agouti is sad: ….I think you will be afraid of my appearance and bully me 💔

y/n: No, why should I be afraid of your appearance or bully you?

Agoti did not say anything, and I was going to ask him, but the teacher, Sandy, said that the lesson begins now, and after the end of the lesson, it was time for recess. I was walking and discovered this giant school. I suddenly discovered that Agoti was being bullied because of his appearance, and there were boys bullying Agoti.

Boy 1: Well, well… Look who's here, the ugliest boy in this school

Boy 2: You don't really have a place here. You have to go to another school, and your voice isn't really beautiful.

These words made Agouti cry, and the boy 1 also started pulling Agouti’s hair and the boy 2 encouraged him. I could not bear this and intervened to defend him.

Y/n Anger: You two stay away from Agouti

Boy 1 surprised: And who are you even?

y/n Fury: I'm Agouti's friend

Boy 2 laughs: What and who befriends this disgusting monster?

y/n got angry: He's not a monster, it's you

Boy 1 got angry: Well, it seems that you want to learn your lesson. Forget this boy now and focus on this girl.

I am now trying to defend myself and prevent these boys from approaching me

POV agouti

Agouti said to himself: This girl defended me and said that I am not a monster. I want to know why she is doing this and these two boys are trying to bully her, but she resists and stays away from them… No, I will not let these two boys bully her. I must be brave.

I wiped my tears and now I'm defending y/n

Agoti got angry: Hey, stop harassing her

Boy 2 got angry: Okay, now the weak person is defending this weak mouth

Agoti got angry and screamed: Ahhh, that's enough, y/n, hold me tight and don't ask why.

Y/n caught me well and I used my gravity force and made these two boys float in the air and they felt very terrified and after that my friends Tabby and Ayana and my big brother Drex came and after that I lowered these two boys to the ground and they were going to run away. But the police grabbed them forcefully

Al-Drex got angry: Do you know if you approach my brother again?

Tabby: Do you know?

Ayana: Or we will tell you

Boy 1 Fear: No, no, no, we will not approach this boy again

Boy 2 Fear: We only know that he has supernatural powers. We will leave from here and never approach him again.

The two boys, Ayana, Tabby, and my brother Al-Darks went to check on me

Drex: Agoti, are you okay?

Happy Agouti: Yes, I'm fine, thanks to my new friend, y/n

Tabby: Wait a minute, this girl is in the same class as me, Agoti, and Ayana

Y/n's pov

I got to know Tabby, Ayana, and the Drakes, and we all became friends. After the years passed, I became 18 years old, and Ajuti was 19 years old. Ajuti and I became famous singers, and the rest of the friends did as well. After time passed, I began to love Ajuti in everything, including his voice, his cheerful personality, and Everything is in and now I will confess to Agoti that I love him and he is now with me ❤

Agouti Hamas: y/n I'm here. Do you want us to sing a new song?

y/n: Haha, Agoti, I want to tell you something. Do you mind listening to me until the end?

Agouti: …well what's going on?

y/n: Agoti, I have loved you for a very long time. I love everything about you, your cheerful personality, your singing style, and everything about you. Do you share the same feelings with me?

POV agouti

I can't believe what my ears hear. Is this true? The girl I've loved for a long time loves me. I can't believe this ❤

y/n: …Mm Agoti, are you okay?

Agouti: I can't believe this. I also have the same feelings… I love you so much

I took Y/n in a deep kiss that lasted for a minute and she was also happy about it. I held Y/n's hand tightly and looked into his eyes.

Agouti: You are so beautiful, brave, strong, kind and kind, Y/N. I love you so much and I will do anything to make you happy ❤

y/n: Me too

Agoti: But I want to know why you love me

Saeeda y/n: Mmm okay… nice, smart, present, your personality is enthusiastic and adventurous, and you love singing, present ❤

Agouti: What are you doing?

y/n Saeeda: A beautiful voice exists ❤

Agouti: And the shape

y/n gently cups my cheek, looks into my eyes and smiles

y/n: Yes ❤ I love you, Agouti, and I don’t care about appearance, I love you as you are, Agouti ❤

Agouti: Me too, y/n ❤

Y/n's pov

And since that time, I and Agoti have been together and we have been singing “Hate.” How nice. I am happy that I am with my lover and my future husband, and Agoti and I are living our lives happily now ❤

❤ The end ❤

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storytellering · 2 months

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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

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Hi!! Do you have any good recommendations for cheap affordable drawing screen tablets :?? Adore your art style btw it's so expressive and don't even get me started on the animatics oml 10000000000/10- Ty for getting into toh <333

Thank you sm!!! that is my absolute favourite thing to hear i am a mess rn thank you anon (i wonder if y'all would like the Next animatic coming in like 2 weeks maybe)

I did some rooting around and asked some students of mine for their recommendations and got this short list of 'affordable' (in terms of today's tablet market?? and the word affordable is entirely subjective anyway) screen tablets! I'm keeping it under $300 because that's where I draw the line with most technologies

I personally use a VEIKK 1560 - a screen tablet I got a couple years back when my old XP-PEN bit the dust. The VEIKK1560 is currently $260 on Amazon. I like this brand because it's simple and works for me, even if it's not an 'industry standard' machine! It has all the functions I need to do,,, The Stuff you know?? animate, draw, frantically click through my spotify shuffle until the exact song I wanted comes on even though I deliberately hit shuffle on my entire likes playlist

Aaaaand here's some of the reccs I got from students / looking around on the cheaper end of the market!

11.6-inch XP-PEN Display Tablet at $200

13.3 inch XP-PEN Display Tablet at $260

13.3inch HUION Display Tablet at $240

11.6inch VEIKK Display Tablet at $170

Disclaimer: all of the above need a PC to connect to and are not ‘independent’ tablets - check out maybe a Surface Pro or iPad if interested in that kind of thing! They’re more pricey but if it suits you better it may be worth an investment?

My advice to anyone looking for drawing tablets is do research and see which 'brand' or 'model' fits your needs! VEIKK works very well with me but may not for someone else, so any machine you're interested in is worth looking into first!

But these brands I threw here typically have pretty good deals for what you receive! (Sorry Wacom fans , screened Wacoms are expensive and way out of my personal price range for this list!) I hope this helps even a little!! Affordability is subjective so I was sticking to what I'd have gone with myself

#riley talks #i hunger for a 24 inch screen tablet but have yoU SEEN the prices of those monsters? like 1 or 2k #like wdym tablet market do you not want me to eat or pay rent for a month

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taikk0 · 2 years

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old art dump!?1!11?!! [part 1]

yeah I really wanted to post these at some point but they're so fcuking ugly they don't deserve to be posted out in the open for all to see 💀💀

like if I were to ever post these one by one I think my dignity would take a huge blow, and that's coming from someone with a massive crater in their chest where their ribcage once was because all their self-respect got absolutely THWACKED out of their body the moment they started simping for the krang. SPOILER ALERT I'm that someone

anyways they're all under the cut peer at your own risk

I know I already posted this here on my improvement post but fun fact: this was the very first fanart I made this year getting back into Rise

also yes there will be commentary, I will always feel the need to explain myself when it comes to things I would greatly want to apologize for 🧍‍‍♂️

WHY DID I DRAW THEM SO HORRIBLY DEFORMED WHO DROPPED THEM RAPH OVER HERE LOOKING LIKE MEGAMIND AND LEOS BUILT LIKE A PIATTOS CHIP

I literally do not remember the context of this at all. not sure if it was a continuation of something, but if it was I can't find the rest of it

don't know how to draw the turtles???? MEME REDRAW BABY

character development is finally realizing Mikey isn't a literal circle lIKE????? WHY IS HE SO BOILED EGG

this was also in my "I have no idea how to properly color" phase, which explains why it's so monotonous compared to the colors I tend to choose now. Everything just looks so murky.... like dirty paint water.....

the mystic door symbol thing doesn't mean anything, I think past Michael just wanted to fill in the space

mikyomix name reveal real?? jk it's always been out, I just haven't mentioned it here, anywho yes hi it's me a Michael

might redraw this soon actually, who knows

this was the very first time I ever actually drew Donnie right, where he didn't make me nauseous just by looking at him, and IT WAS FROM THIS WEIRD SPECIFIC ANGLE FROM SOME REASON. If I ever drew him in a way that looked good it was almost always THIS angle, especially in doodles, it was never ever Donnie actually facing front, it was just him with this weird slouch and his back turned slightly.

am I using too many of whatever "," is, listen I almost flunked English I can't punctuate for crud but I'm trying my best over here ok

(side note: the file name is called "dunkin donuts"???)

this was never supposed to see the light of day, but I think this would be considered fanart of a fanart?? I saw taytei 's species swap au on pinterest before I knew who they were and decided "yk what?? yeah I'll steal it but only for me because I'm bored"

which brings me to the next few drawings

LOOKING AT THESE SENT SHIVERS DOWN MY SPINE AND MY DINNER UP MY THROAT I DON'T LIKE THEM

we're moving on I don't like looking at these they're gross 💀

I made a joke about Donnie giving Leo his own tablet because he kept stealing it based on a very old drawing back in 2019 and it led to the idea of Leo turning into an Ipad kid, crusty screen and Ipad case in all its glory

if it wasn't obvious the background is a png of McDonald's because of course they're at McDonald's

ok, this is gonna sound so stereotypically ADHD of me but listen it makes sense lemme explain

so basically, I had a silly thought in my head that I've had for a long while about Donnie being British for no reason with no explanation as to why, it's not a headcanon it's just a funny thought I like to think about (so maybe it's an AU idk)

and I was binging Jack Whitehall (who was British) and it got to the part where he went on a schpiel on Robert Pattinson where he was talking about what it was like to go to school with him and there was this one section where he talks about being in school theatre with him.

and I thought.... "man wouldn't it be funny if that was the disaster twins..." and everything spiraled from there.

I made up this whole Yokai school they would have gone to if they didn't live in the sewers. Donnie is the head of the drama club, he always plays and casts himself as the main character in his own productions that he himself directs because he's just that good at his job. Leo joins the drama club and shows Donnie up, making him a little bit jealous. Leo is only let in because of the club members vouching for him, Which then leads to Donnie treating him poorly and casting him as a tree (SEE WERE COMING FULL CIRCLE) this obviously upsets Leo and ends up giving him more of a reason to become the center of attention, What was supposed to be a drag ended up helping Leo more than harming his chances of ruining Donnie's plans.

Everything then spirals into a competitive back and forth as to who is the better actor. It stops being about who gets to play which part and more about who comes out of this feud alive with a prestigious acting role tied to their name.

That was everything I thought about at the time though I just thought "HAHA DISASTER TWINS HIJINX" and that was it

someone send me that Donnie toy with the big head and maybe I will start writing fanfiction/JJJJJ

I had this idea of Donnie adopting a dog from Todd because it had an attitude and then the dog ended up being just as smart as him helping him solve equations and stuff and eventually it became his lab partner

yeah that paired up with the RotTMNT drama club thing I sound like I have a very weird brain we're moving on

I have to admit this because I really didn't wanna post this without a heads up but yes this is inspired by that one drawing made by h*bermen right before I even knew about what they did and I feel guilty about this one sometimes just by the sheer fact that it's even loosely associated to them :/

I have nothing to say about this one other than I suck at rendering

this drawing of the boys fighting over their childhood blankie was supposed to be a bit of a concept for a comic I wanted to make but never got around to even writing it out,

the gist of it was that the lair was starting to get a bit messy with the things they've hoarded over the last couple of years, so the turtles+splinter decided to clean everything up, managing what to throw away and what to keep

they come across a blanket that they used to have as kids (which was the same blanket from the flashback in hidden city's most wanted) The individual turtles are hesitant at first and decline wanting to keep it, but overtime they start to realize just how much they want their childhood blanket back. They start making excuses and stealing the blanket from one another, insisting that they needed it for something important, which was very much not the case.

soon everything ramps up to the point where their methods of trying to take ownership of the blanket start getting wilder and wilder and hijinx ensues, not long before everyone overtly starts fighting over it like their life depended on it at the climax of the episode.

I didn't really have a plan yet as to how it was going to end, but if I were to make something up on the spot I'd say either:

A.) it's revealed that the blanket was actually splinter's old bath towel that he doesn't use anymore, the turtles are disgusted by this and stop fighting over it. That is until the twist at the end where one of the turtles comes back for it and takes the towel for themselves when no one is around. gross.

B.) Mikey stops the fight before it gets too serious, calling him and his brothers out for acting like savages over a blanket. Soon everyone realizes that the blanket isn't important, the blanket may be of great significance to them, but their memories together will always be more important, and they can't let a simple piece of cloth tear them apart.

and then after everyone else has left and made up, turns out that it was actually Mikey's plan all along to have them stop fighting to keep the blanket for himself.

this is more of a doodle but I had to bring this one up because it's just funny to me

basically, I was drawing Leo and I had two separate layers, I drew Leo photogenically on the layer above with the deranged Leo invisible underneath, and after some time I completely forgot what I drew on the layer below and made it visible again

yeah you can imagine my soul leaving my body

white-eyed Raph freaks me out,,, where did the yellow go,,,,

"I'M SENSITIVE LEO"

this is the only non-turtle drawing in this whole post I think

okay, a bit of a backstory on this one, this was my very first actually finished RotTMNT animation. It was for a trend on TikTok not too long ago where artists would be drawing a character and the character would move to let the artist continue drawing them

This one animation has single-handedly given me so much clout, like holy crap it's literally at 5M views now and it scares me a little 😭😭

for anyone wondering, its this one

YES I AM AWARE OF HOW CRINGE IT IS LEAVE ME ALONE IM NOT THE SAME PERSON I WAS BACK IN MAY

or whatever month it was, I have no idea what 5-5 is supposed to mean I can't read tiktok dates

not rise related but oh my word I absolutely do not have an actual art style 💀

donnie gets trolled

very eyestrainy. this is a WIP screenshot from an animation meme I never finished

I still have the Krita file btw, so maybe one day ill get to show u guys the full soon if I ever get around to finishing it

I have no idea why I formatted this the way I did, but I'm assuming this was most likely a doodle right on top of the animation meme I mentioned earlier and I just didn't bother cropping it

yeah idk why I drew them with really big eyes

he's sleep-deprived and done with everything he's about to go apeshit

also, weird brush

when I tell you guys I was SO READY to see Leo die in the movie before any information on it came out

vine reference in 2022 baby

I'll have you guys know this was completely by accident

Anyways that's as much as I could fit in one post!! I have a bit more but ehhh maybe sometime later

these are all in the order I made them in, which explains why it kind of gets better the more you scroll, so I hope your eyeballs have been cleansed even slightly by the newer ones jfdsjfkI

I have no idea how to end this post uh like and subscribe

#taikko art

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dduane · 2 years

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Hi DD,

I'm having a bad day. I want to try to counteract it somewhat by picking a random person to say nice things to. That's you :)

Just wanted to pop in to say I'm glad to exist on this planet at the same time as you, so I can tell you directly that all your writing, especially Young Wizards and the Middle Kingdoms, is very good and very important to me. Your books got me through some hard times as a kid, and continue to support me as an adult.

I hope that you are having a pleasant day and that something really nice happens today for you and PM to enjoy!

(oh hey, it worked, I do feel a little better about my own day, now that I've typed some kindness into the world)

Hi there Nonny!

Briefly: thanks for sending me this. I needed it today.

I've been having one of those days that's all about (a) WORKWORKWORKohgodohgod, and (b) a sense of great weariness founded on a feeling that it's never going to be enough and I am never going to get caught up to the point where I can just sit back and breathe for a while without worrying about deadlines and health issues and money and delayed projects and, and, and... Now, naturally, all of this is conditional, and much of it will sort itself out over time. I'll make my way to where I need to be eventually. But at such times it's unusually nice to have someone wander up to you unprovoked and administer a dose of (the positive version of) Melville's "Universal Thump". ...So very welcome. So thank you for that. :)

Anyway, I hope your day smoothed out a bit. Gradually, now, mine's doing the same. Most specifically, as bedtime gets close I find myself grateful for not being able to stay stressed when I start to get sleepy. (Friends over many years have teased me over my [general] inability to stay up late, but that cloud does definitely have a silver lining. It takes really serious anxiety to make me lie awake, and whatever else is going on today, that condition's not applying at the moment.) I'll go crash shortly.

But as regards the books: I'm glad they were there for you. It's always fabulous to know that something I love to do, and which I'm pretty sure I simply couldn't live without doing, makes people happy and gives them (when they need it) something to lean up against. This certainty is one of the things that gets me out of bed on days when I might otherwise want to just pull the covers up over my head, pull the iPad in there with me, and lie there reading fanfic all day. :) ...So thanks for that too. It's good to know I'm getting the job done.

(And yeah, what you note there definitely works: adding kindness to the world, as a conscious act, unquestionably makes a difference. ...And sweet Thoth on his e-scooter but can the world use it right now...)

Anyway, thanks again. :)

(ETA: Doubtless other folks will be reading this and be concerned-at-one-remove about the money thing. Yeah, all midlist writers have bare patches in the finance department; it comes with the territory. If anyone wants to assist, feel free to (a) go over to Ebooks Direct and check out our sale inventory -- everything's 50% off right now -- or (b) buy us a cuppa. [Or if you prefer, the store's got a Paypal.me.] If you're inclined this way, let me say "Thanking You!" in advance, as I won't be awake much longer.) :)

#I have the best fans and the best anons in the world

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polaesims · 10 months

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Get to know you - Sims Style

Thank you @puffkins2000 for the tag! 💕

What’s your favorite Sims death?

Tbh I'm not big on killing my sims (boring, boooo) so I'd say good ol' old age, especially cause bitches be dying at the wildest moments. But if you want me to be more fancy, I love drowning specifically in floor.

Alpha CC or Maxis Match?

Maxis Match all the way!!! I only use alpha or alpha-ish cc when I can't find MM alternative.

Do you cheat your sims weight?

Nah, never and frankly I never had to... like my sims just stay one weight their entire life unless I play with a gym freak.

Do you move objects?

Always. The grid is my enemy, moo is my saviour.

Favorite Mod?

Consort Age Mod, cause I love generational gameplay and seeing my sims slowly go gray is so nostalgic to me, and Zodiac Sings Mod, cause I was tired of twins getting different zodiac signs...

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack?

For TS2 I got a lot of them at once cause they were hand-me-downs from my mum's friend's daughter. For TS3 it was Late Night, I remember it vividly cause my dad thought the lady in a bikini on the cover was inappropriate.

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing?

Neither, cause I play in my native language (it's way more memable), but if I had to choose LIVing speaks to me more.

Who’s your favorite sim that you’ve made?

Long story, strap in. So when I was still in highschool, I created a joke save to share with my friends and I made this elderly man whom I named Andrzej and he was a menace. He was a womaniser alchemist, who had like 20 children (5 of which I kept in household, and they were as chaotic as their father) and then became a kung fu master, married a werewolf and finally impersonated a Goth family member and stole their fortune. I love him. Andrzej forever in my heart.

Have you made a simself?

Yep!! I posted her!! She's way prettier though cause girlie's symmetrical. I usually just drop myself and my bf into my world and see what story progression does with me. (as of now I have 3 kids as a kids hater ;-;)

Which is your favorite EA hair color?

The black one I guess... I rarely use the presets cause they're ugly af.

Favorite EA hair?

The one from Island Paradise, the updo with strands framing the face.

Favorite life stage?

Young Adult or teens. I like teens more when I make mischievous bastards.

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay?

I can't build to save my life, but I love to decorate!! I'm mostly for the gameplay though (and making sims).

Are you a CC creator?

Yep! I'm new to this but I hope I'll keep getting better.

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad?

Not yet, I'm still figuring out Tumblr in general, but I have some mutuals, I hope to become friends with 😊!

Do you have any sims merch?

Nah, I never found anything subtle enough, cause I don't do on the nose merch very often (except band tees).

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing?

I used to use an UNGODLY amount of cheats...mostly cause I was a kid, but I would make a pretty sim with loads of CC, then play for a few months with that one sim (mostly being a hoe) and get bored eventually. Nowadays I'm a big generational player and I can play with one family for several years. Just a couple months ago I finally finished playing with a family I started 4 years ago.

Who’s your favorite CC creator?

@sim-songs, @twinsimming, @pixelfrogslegs, @aroundthesims, @bioniczombie, @nectar-cellar, @nightospheresims, @rollo-rolls, @faerielandsims.

How long have you had Simblr?

Literally not even a month, but I felt instantly welcomed to this amazing community!!

How do you edit your pictures?

I use Procreate and then PicsArt on my iPad.

What expansion/gamepack is your favorite?

I just play TS3 nowadays so for that I will say Generations for sure!! I also can't live without University and Seasons. They are my big three.

I don’t know who to tag tbh... I feel like most of my mutuals already did that plus I'm new here so I'm kinda shy but let's say that I tag anyone that is interested in doing this and hadn't been tagged. Like you can say I tagged you!!

#ts3 #ts3 simblr #tag game #personal

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kentobean · 2 years

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jujutsu kaisen, the podcast

this only took like, seven months to finally finish. enjoy. warnings: swearing

in another universe, despite the fact that gojo gets on nanamin's nerves, he finds that he's able to speak gojo quite easily

it happens when nanami and gojo are meeting up for lunch. nanami's on a journey to find a new favorite cafe, searching for the perfect sandwich to bring into his routine, and in the mood for a conversation with gojo. they sit outside, nanami pulling his jacket off and hanging it over the back of his chair. he's rolling up his sleeves and gojo's cackling to himself quietly, setting up his phone to mess around (megumi's been calling him an iPad kid, whatever that means). nanami's starting to talk about his day, slowly easing into an interesting topic, and gojo's gotten his phone to stand with slipping and the camera's turned on him, mirth in his smile, eyes peeking over his sunglasses.

"the latest bane of my existence is the unnecessary emails that one receives about forgotten products in their cart," nanami grumbles after he's taken a moment to throw his head back, thinking that this cafe may be the one, but he feels it's too soon to tell. "I know I didn't purchase the products and I didn't forget, I just need a few days to convince myself it's worth spending money on."

gojo's phone is facing upwards and they're both unaware that gojo's phone is very much unlocked and streaming their conversation live, to gojo's thousands of followers. unknown that anybody else is listening, they both keep the conversation going, pausing in-between and letting the other speak so that he could get a bite of his sandwich in and have time to chew before his turn to speak came.

"you know what I like about emails now. it'll automatically filter through which spam email you don't interact and ask if you want to unsubscribe from them. I don't have to go down an email and scroll all the way to the bottom and looking for that tiny link to "unsubscribe" and re-enter my whole email," gojo mindlessly brings to the conversation, "such a pain when I'm in bed"

nanami gives gojo an incredulous look, sitting back, "can you elaborate" and gojo just gives nanami a dumbfounded look, asking, "nanami, do you not delete your spam emails late at night? do you not do a mass deletion? nanami..." gojo leans in and quietly, almost scandalized, "do you update your spam email every hour?"

it's in the evening after nanami's made his way into your apartment, brief case and paper bag in hand - a fresh sandwich from this afternoon's cafe, and gojo's called nanami's phone three times and calls yours for the fourth call ("how on earth did you get gojo's number?" "how did he get MY number"), that nanami answers the call and gojo's talking the moment the line connects, maybe even before.

"podcast. we should do a podcast. nanami. you and me. do you know what a podcast is? no, of course you do. not the point, nanamin, I think we would be great podcasters. after today's talk? oh my god, it would be perfect for us-"

nanami's looking at you, completely dumbfounded, mouthing the words "podcast?" and "today's lunch?" and you take the phone from nanami, muting yourselves whilst gojo still goes on about how nanami is just the man to have as a co-host in a podcast and knowing nanami, he'd keep his identity a secret (no one needs to know what he looks like). you explain that earlier in the day, around lunch, there was a notification that gojo went live and when you clicked on it, it was the most relatable and causal conversation about emails. that there may or may have not several comments asking if gojo and his mystery friend had a podcast, if the live was just a way to promote a new and upcoming project?

it takes several months of research - on good quality recording equipment, topics and subjects as well as educating themselves on those topics and subjects, listening to the structure of other podcasts, going through their respective schedules and setting time aside for both the podcast and free time (nanami would still be working his 9-5 and gojo didn't want to stop teaching at the school), researching how to edit and trying some trail runs (megumi offers to show them what programs he likes and how to save them and upload them - refuses to take nanami's money and quietly accepts the compliments on his skills) (so what if gojo transfers extra money to megumi's account, gojo would immediately walk away cackling any time megumi tried bringing it up).

after promoting the podcast for weeks on gojo, yuji and nobara's respective social media accounts, the big day has come. you can see that nanami's nervous. he's up earlier than usual, louder than usual with his rummaging through the kitchen, drinking one more cup of coffee than usual, not enjoying his morning piece of sweet bread but picking at it, little the flakes of the outside dropping onto the plate. you move to stand behind where nanami's sitting, hands on his shoulders and rubbing reassuringly, dropping a kiss to his nape then to the back of his head, one to his temple, and letting yourself lay gently against his back, you drop a kiss to his cheek, bringing your arms up to hug him from behind, and you kind of just lean the both of you forward. nanami hums mindlessly, closing his eyes in relief.

there's a small celebration for the start of the podcast. a dinner party at a restaurant that gojo's rented out and when getting to speech part, where they thank their friends and close ones for supporting their new big project, nanami kindly asks that his identity remains disclosed (as much as he hates his job, he still needs to make money - not that he didn't have faith in the podcast, but nanami's a realistic man. he hopes the day he can leave his job without worrying about income comes soon). gojo steps beside nanami when nanami steps out for some air, his eyes locked on the summer sky's purples bled into the pinks, welcoming night and gojo thanks nanami. it's quick, but meaningful. enough for nanami to say, "no, thank you, satoru."

nanami addresses gojo as gojo. gojo goes through two months of episodes just giving nanami different nicknames to use for him. each time they introduce themselves, gojo makes clear that yes, this is the same co-host, before dropping the name for that episode; salaryman, 7-3, 8-hour whore (gojo was feeling particularly risqué that day), ba-NANA. then nanami has enough and officially introduces himself as the other co-host, nanami.

their introductions shift from the simple greetings to gojo wholeheartedly, with little faux sniffles, opening the podcast with "the man I'm about to introduce has stolen my heart, my soul; he is my everything. his girlfriend is no competition to me, I know where I stand in his heart, nanami." and nanami greets the podcast and audience by replying to gojo, "the only thing I've stolen from you is your metro card because you don't use it. ever, gojo."

people don't really think of nanami as a playful person, but he has his moments and they typically occur when they're in the middle recording an episode together (gojo and nanami prefer to record in person together - but there have been few times where they couldn't see one another and recorded through video call). they're in the middle of talking about overpowering scents from body sprays and gojo makes a little comment that sometimes nanami smells like an old man when nanami gets a look in his eye and yuji, who is usually present, has to hold his laughter in when he sees the look on nanami's face before he starts his teasing. gojo's just finished talking about how he'll never understand people who bask in overpowering scents when nanami just, "gojo, what's the name of that brand? the one you'd always get the matching body spray and body wash for?"

"nanami... I didn't realize you liked me that much. to know what I use?" gojo says in a flirty manner.

"Axe. It was Axe," and gojo's face shifts into a look of betrayal, "do you remember when you'd spray yourself head to toe... even, well, you know" and although the audience cannot see what he's doing, nanami stands up and pretends to pull his pants open and spray his crotch area.

"it was better than smelling like sweaty basketball shorts"

"ass, you mean better than smelling like ass"

about seven months into their podcast, they've generated a large audience and there's potential to start making big bucks. you and nanami have been together for four years, in talk for moving in together (it only makes sense since you two only spend one or two days of the week apart). you know that nanami is it for you and nanami knows you are it for him. so there's talk about your future together. moving in what just the first step, but you've known each other for years. since nanami's long hair that swept over his forehead and a very angsty adolescence. years of mutual pining until you and nanami came to your senses at the age of 24, deciding that life is too short and enough was enough. after moving into a shared apartment, you make an off-hand (but secretly serious) comment while hanging up nanami's shirts

"you know, with the way the podcast is going, I'd understand you leaving your job" and you don't see the way nanami freezes, peering at you over his shoulder.

nanami doesn't say anything, he stays quiet and just watches as you move around, humming a little to yourself. he isn't surprised that you don't say anything else. he knows you know him, that he's processing the fact that you'd just told him to stop working the job he absolutely fucking despises and to just work on something he likes without having to worry about making money.

you're a dream. nanami doesn't have many dreams, but you are one of them.

it's their two part skincare episodes that gets them sponsors (until they hit their seven months mark, they weren't really thinking about the money that could come from having a large audience).

towards the end of the first part of their skincare episode, gojo reveals that he and nanami both use the tatcha overnight repair and how he got it for nanami because "the salary man is getting paid in stress wrinkles" and nanami's glaring at gojo the whole time, trying to get a word in to stop him but no success (nanami gives gojo a whole speech of promoting a brand for free and how products are going to be harder to come by and -) - "oh nanami's looking at me. I don't think I was suppose to give out our skin routine. it's fine, nanami, we'll just edit out" - which doesn't happen

the second part of the episode starts with gojo reading a notes app apology, "Hello audience. Last week, on the first part of our skincare episodes, I didn't realize ("yes you did" - nanami) that we weren't sponsored by those brands. So I have to make clear that we are NOT sponsored and this is based on our ("your") own thoughts." to which then nanami realizes doesn't make sense and starts to tease gojo the entirety of the episode,

they allow for a few seconds of silence before gojo breaks it, "Also, nanami's upset because you guys sold out the products and those were part a routine that took him a while to find! wait until we give out a code. I thought you guys were supporting us here? That one is on you guys, not me. there is no note on the app for that one"

one of their most successful episodes (aside from the skincare pt. 2 episode where nanami goes into a rant that it's completely and utterly ludicrous that skincare "for men" exists when they could easily use any other skincare and gojo admitting that the packaging of any skincare considered "for men" is "really not that great. we don't even get the cute stuff. it's like black or that black into midnight blue ombre with the words 'for men'") is the one where they share their experiences at their jobs outside of their podcast.

gojo goes into the details of how he loves teaching and he's grateful for his students. he admits he's still in contact with some of his first students and how he's grateful to have had any impact on any of his students lives just like they've done for him. he doesn't give the names, but he names the little habits he's picked up or little tidbit information he learned from some students that he still keeps in his head (mostly food spots they've recommended him from their adventures in Tokyo). gojo can admit that though he may really love teaching, he knows he may not have the best teaching skills, but he takes the moment to thank his students, even if they won't hear it, for putting up with him and letting him do what he loves while learning to be better

it's quiet for a bit before nanami releases a long exhale, pressing back into his chair and then sits back up, close to the mic and just speaks. admitting he's never had a dream job nor does he think that he has a purpose to live, only to just live and experience. he has money on his mind and his dream of retiring with a good amount saved so he can live stress free in the country side, somewhere peaceful and with scenery. nanami admits that he used to think that if he were to just disappear nobody would've cared, but things are different now. nanami doesn't go into much more detail, but he thanks the audience, for taking a chance on them and for giving him purpose.

when gojo and nanami make one year with their podcast and have gotten themselves sponsors, a large following, and start to see revenue coming in, the topic of nanami leaving his job comes up again.

it's a late afternoon when you bring it up again. the windows are open and you've just finished dinner together, lying on the couch. nanami's lying on top of you, head against your chest and body between your legs. there's soft music playing and you almost feel bad for bringing it up when he's so relaxed, but you want to see him like this all the time.

"nanami..." you start quietly, slowing the ministrations of your fingers against his scalp, "why won't you leave the office?"

you can tell he's hesitant to answer, his body rigid against yours, but you move your other hand to caress his back, eyes focused him. it takes a moment before nanami gently rests his chin on your sternum, your hand moving from his scalp to the nape.

and you know why, but you need to hear it from him.

he remains silent, his eyes looking over your face. you offer him a soft, encouraging smile, winking at him. the corners of his lips twitch briefly before he exhales.

"I have two reasons. The first being that throughout all the success we've seen with our project, with the podcast, I can't fight off the lingering fear that it won't last," he closes his eyes, "and the second... the second is that I have a hard time accepting no longer working for that shit job. don't get me wrong, I should've left long ago, but not having a stable source of -"

"I can support us," you simply state, cutting him off, "I make enough to support us both. I want to see you reach your dream"

it's no one's business but nanami and your's what happens afterwards. nanami expresses the guilt he feels if he leaves you to be financially responsible for the both of you, because it's not pride that stops nanami, it's that fucking guilt (is this too much to ask? what if get tired of me not working? what if the podcast isn't enough? what if he never makes enough? what if-) but you remind him of the sponsors and the revenue that they've started to see since the seventh month mark of their podcast. "I enjoy what I do, nanami. I just want the same for you, honey."

so what if the rest of the night was devoted to worshipping you, lips touching every inch of skin, hands smoothing over every dip, curve, and mark. his head between your legs, a man starved and getting a taste of a heaven, listening to the sound of the moans and wishing he could bottle the sound up.

leaving his job doesn't happen right away. it takes nanami a little over a month of working through that budding guilt and your reassurance for him to decide he's going to quit after the next pay check - no two week notice. that job doesn't deserve a notice. so at 4:55pm, nanami grabs his things (nanami doesn't keep much personal things at his desk so packing up is easy, everything fits in his bag) and pops into his boss's office, simply stating he quits and that his boss can go fuck himself for the shady shit they do at this job before leaving.

the transition is a little weird, but it's short - takes about a week. it starts with nanami sleeping past 6:30am and waking up an hour later. no alarm, just the sound of you moving around the room, the smell of coffee and breakfast. a quiet good morning, press to his lips, "breakfast is on the table. I'm leaving soon" and so nanami changes, eats, and waits for you, walking you to the train station. waits for you in the afternoon, too, to walk you home.

nanami's days now include plenty of time to experiment with his cooking (he's always been foodie) - he tries out dishes from different cultures. nanami's days also include doing things he enjoys. he's reading all kinds of books that he can get his hands on, exploring new areas of Tokyo, considering spending some time at the school (yuji has been trying to get nanami to come down at least twice a week - just to talk to him and nanami can't lie, he's almost convinced).

they don't change their podcast much as the time goes by. they keep the intros, they hire a few more people to help with the research but gojo's little flirty intros are still there and the random venting before starting their conversation topic is still there. but they have added some new stuff.

they have a little jingle play. nothing fancy, nothing long. simple and something both nanami and gojo like. there's been a few episodes where you've made random appearances and other episodes where they've somehow roped you into staying for majority of the conversation ("oh, I don't think they want to hear about me, love. this is your podcast") but you've noticed the smile that settles on nanami's face when you've been roped in to give your opinion by gojo.

it's when they're about to hit two years that they've decided to have a q&a. it's on an instagram live (their official podcast account) where they announce that the audience have two weeks to submit questions ( and although they can't see him, nanami asks everyone to be respectful and mindful of the things they ask). it's also the first time their audience sees you, peeping over gojo's shoulder, eyes wide at the viewer count.

that episode, you officially introduce yourself to their audience. a nickname that you go by with close friends. gojo jokingly mentions that they should just call you nanami as well, causing nanami to choke on his water, checks flushed pink (you've had the talk about marriage - both in favor, but there's no need for everybody else to find out) and glaring at gojo. you just laugh it off bashfully, giving nanami's hand a little squeeze before moving on to acting as the mc.

some questions you have to skip, others you have to show nanami and gojo before actually asking them.

"do we know what nanami looks like?" you read aloud, not fighting back at the smile as you decide to answer that one for them, "you might know if you've seen gojo's personal account, but it might be hard to figure out - gojo doesn't tag people" and nanami's never been more grateful for not having an instagram account

there's questions about how nanami and gojo met ("school" - "oh you should've seen nanami-kun's hair back then!"), if anything's changed from the beginning of the podcast ("yes, I'm living my dream. thank you," and you're so proud of them both), if they have plans to create any other forms of content, how the podcast has effected their personal lives, all kinds of questions.

three months later, nanami proposes in malaysia.

he doesn't get down on one knee. he places the ring inside of his book as a bookmark, asks you to hold on it while he starts to unpack your picnic lunch and you're curious. a bookmark like that? causing such an odd spacing? you can't help yourself and you hold the book up to your eye level, peeking in (like he knows you would). when you notice that it's a ring, you immediately let the book fall between your legs and look at nanami with glassy eyes. he's no longer laying out lunch, but his elbow is resting on his knee and his chin on his palm, an easy smile on his lips. it's dream-like, seeing him like this. relaxed, hair free of gel and face free of worry, of stress.

you come back engaged and the wedding happens a two months later. you've been together for years, you live together - why wait another few years to be bonded by a piece of paper? the ceremony is small and only close friends and relatives are invited.

a picture from your small ceremony is the only picture nanami uses to give their audience something to end their curiosity.

it's picture of you looking back over your shoulder, the biggest and brightest smile nanami's ever seen on your lips, at the camera. nanami's standing beside, not bothering with the camera, but his eyes are on you and there's a soft, admiring smile. your hand is clasped over his right elbow and his right hand is over his heart. gojo posts it on his personal account, captioning it "congratulations to the nanami's."

and nanami doesn't regret it. any of it. he wishes he did the podcast sooner. he's grateful for the bonds built between him and the kids (yuji, megumi, and nobara) because of this, how he and gojo understand each other, for gojo's friendship, for being able to live his dream and for the courage and strength that he's built from doing something on a whim. he's eternally grateful for it all.

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Tablet and Studying

Hi! I'm Adel, a Food Technology student. Today, I'm gonna talk about how getting a tablet affected my grades and changed the way I study (completely).

So, I know that Ipads are kind of overhyped. Like, I've seen youtubers such as studyquill and fayefilms talks about overhyped study trend and Ipad is included in both videos together with things such as fancy stationary.

Coming from a childhood where I watch youtubers using fancy things such as sharpies, mildliners, and tombow brush pen (yes in my country sharpies are sooo expensive, they're very uncommon and for the price of 1 sharpie I can get like 10 regular markers) I used to think that I need those fancy things to recreate what they're making. Until I actually saved money and bought the exact same things, I still can't recreate it lmao. So I know that I don't need fancy things and I can just utilize what I already have.

A little background information, my GPA in 1st semester was hella good, it was 3.97. But then I had to take academic leave during my 2nd and 3rd semester to work full time. Coming back from 1 year of academic leave, I can say I forgot how to study :D My GPA falls to 3.56 real quick. It was drastic and I had a pretty bad mental breakdown, considering I used to have such high GPA.

The next semester, the grades were dropping again as the classes transitioned from hybrid into fully offline class + I am still working full time. I had a rough time trying to balance work and studying. My GPA was 3.33! However at this point I started to get chill about it, but I know I have to go back on track (my target is to maintain my overall GPA to be above 3.5).

During the 1st semester, I was studying at least 3 hours/day and it can go up to 12 hours/day during exam season. I utilized traditional note taking, but I do type down my notes sometimes. But mostly I use pen and paper. However, I can't continue this method of studying on my 4th semester because I am working full time. I have no time to write down my notes with hand, that's why I upgraded my laptop. I started typing all of my notes down. I also bought a pen tablet to handwrite organic chemistry answers (because handwriting on paper and digitalizing it during exam is sooo stressful, might as well get a pen tablet). But then this method isn't that useful since my grades were dropping.

So in the 5th semester I started to type out everything I hear during lecture and stopped using the pen tablet. At this time I stopped bringing pen and paper, I only bring my laptop. I only used the pen tablet once during the final exam and I don't feel the need to use it anymore, so I sold it. However this method also doesn't work for me because during class I would just open a bunch of games and started playing instead of listening to the lecture. So using laptop to study also not really helpful for me. My laptop is big and heavy so my back was hurting as well. At this point I know I won't be able to bring my laptop everyday to campus and I might need to buy a tablet. Not only for health reason, but this time I really need to find new method of studying since other digital methods are not working for me. I feel like tablet would also motivates me (but at this point I'm still not sure with this).

So, for my 20th birthday, I bought myself a Xiaomi Pad 5 with 8GB RAM and 256GB of internal storage. I wanted to get an Ipad so that I can use the goodnotes app, but I can't afford it. Learning from my past experience, I know I can still use alternatives to achieve the same thing (study, ofc). So I went for the cheaper version and hands down, this was the best big girl purchase I've ever made to this day. I started exploring different apps for note taking and eventually bought the stylus as well. I used to use Samsung notes on my laptop but I can't seem to install it in my tablet, so I use an app called Flexcil, which I recommend! I started writing down important notes directly on the lecture presentation. I record every lecture and started engaging in class whenever I can. At first, it was really hard because I'm not the type of person that likes "attention" in class and I don't like to raise my hand because people will look at me. I was scared of being judged. But after I started answering and asking questions to the lecturer, it became much easier for me to understand the material.

I mean I do play games sometimes during class and I don't feel like writing. In those days, I only record the lecture and highlight important points. I usually ask my friend for their notes on the day I don't feel like studying in class. I mean, there would always be good and bad days, right?

Fast forward to midterm exam, it became easier to study because all I have to do when reviewing is to read my handwritten notes. If there's anything I don't understand, I just simply replay the lecturer recording. I started asking my friend for tutoring and help. If none of my friend is able to help me, I will seek help from the lecturer. This helped me so much and my grades were going up like crazy. My GPA this semester was 3.92 (!!!).

It's really crazy considering I was going from 3.33 to 3.92, a 0.59 increase! Took me a while to find this method but I am grateful that I am able to make it work. My big girl purchase feels so worth it. Although I believe that this can be achieved by printing out the handouts and jot down notes using a pen, but a tablet definitely helped me so much since adding pictures and definitions is just one google search away.

I definitely did not expect that getting a tablet would change me so much. But yeah, it definitely gives me confidence boost and motivates me to study more. Making this type of digital note helped me focus (because I have to take down notes with stylus instead of typing) and understand the materials, making me able to engage with the lecturer during class. Being active in class helps me retain information better, resulting in better grades.

If you want to step up your studying game, you definitely have to try to engage during class because I really do think this was the biggest turning point in my studying life.

Prepare handouts before class (read if possible).

Take down notes directly during class (important points, don't forget to record the lecture to help during review)

Engage in class activities

Try to answer questions and ask if you don't understand (even if it means your lecturer has to re-explain the whole part, you can ask them outside class hours)

Get what you need to get in order to motivates you to study

Take care of yourself!! (eat good food, good sleep, drink water)

I hope my story can give you my point of view of using a tablet for studying.

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