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[europeanmusicals]

Do you think the OG production of Elisabeth das musical is too camp?I was watching it for the first time yesterday, and NGL I thought alot of the sets, costume, blocking with a bit overthe top.Is there a reason for that?Also what's up with the vines on everyone's clothes?

I've never gotten the feeling that it's camp at all. I love that there's multiple big set pieces, but I personally really don't like minimalist set design so. We just have different opinions. I don't think there's some deeper reason as to why the sets are so extravagant other than they were just trying to do nice, interesting set design and I assume the ornate-ness to everything is due to it being about an Empress. And to me so many of the set pieces add depth to the story, for example Death's carriage folding out into Rudolf's bedroom being for shadowing to what's going to happen to Rudolf.

There is actually a reason for the vines on the majority of character's costumes. The entire musical is a recounting of events for Lucheni's trial in the underworld. Everyone who has vines is part of this re-telling, you could see that as them all already being dead and forced to reenact their lives, being controlled, etc. Lucheni doesn't have vines on his clothing as he exists outside of this retelling, being the narrator and constantly breaking the forth wall. Der Tod also has no vines on his clothing either.

#elisabeth das musical #answeredasks

[emptymasks]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, don't suppose you know what kind of design Der Tods broach thingy has? I'm leaning towards kinda, star or opening flower? I'll probably find it if I look for early era jewellery designs but

I've had like, zero luck so far in charity shops finding something the right shape lmao so I'm just watching the show again and making notes on the costume

the broach worn on his chest in the original costume design? if you mean that one, it's a diamond shape. and then as for what's inside? it's hard to tell. i did random lines on my own (i sculpted one out of polymer clay) but now that you've said flower i can totally see the shape in there as a flower, a small circle in the middle with 5 petals. i never noticed that before.

but no i don't know for sure

#answeredasks #elisabeth das musical #der tod #european musicals

[mostlydeadallday]

One of my favorite but rare things to see in the fandom is an absolutely terrifying Hollow, and I don’t just mean in the ‘big spooky’ way. Even injured, Hollow would be terrifying to face off against

I have more thoughts but I can’t articulate them, it’s just Dangerous, Terrifying hollow my adored <3

Oh yesss, extremely. That's one of my favorite dynamics to explore; the wounded warrior who, despite enduring more than should ever have been asked of them, can still pose a threat. And Hollow is absolutely in that category. They're big, they're strong, they have a frankly terrifying grasp of magic and combat, and they'd be more than a match for any mortal foolish enough to menace them.

Here, have a little snippet from my next chapter that uses exactly this concept:

The Hollow Knight had not moved, and neither had Quirrel, still just inside the doorway, within reach of his weapon and escape. If they had intended to slaughter him, they could have done it by now, and easily—regardless of the fact that Hornet stood in the way, half-turned to keep both of them in view, spikes bristling beneath her cloak, one hand held halfway out, as if to halt an altercation.

Held out not toward her sibling, but toward Quirrel.

He choked on a brief surge of indignation. What was he meant to do against that? If they wished to kill him, they simply would.

#elletalks #answeredasks #anonymous #hollow knight #lost kin fic #mywriting

[nyssasims]

Hii! I'm absolutely in love of how good your screenshots are, both in game and in cas, I was wondering is it possible you could make a little tutorial on how you do it? Idk why mine always look like blurry or something idk it's very uninspiring

hi @simsinfinitylt. thank you so much 🥺! and please do not feel discouraged. it really is all trial and error, i promise. it definitely took me a minute myself to find what worked best for me. this is my current editing system:

chapter 1: a pc for me the most important thing is to have a good computer that can play the game on max settings. make sure all your settings are maxed out, with laptop mode and edge smoothing off. i also play the game in 4k resolution (3840 x 2160), the max for my monitor (but it might be different for you).

additionally, i use the graphics overhaul overrider by simp4sims, the 'ultimate quality' preset.

graphic overhaul: graphics rules setters

here are my pc specs...

chapter 2: maybe she's born with it. maybe... it's reshade reshade honestly does most of the work as well as the world lighting mods by @softerhaze. i hope to be able to find time to make my own preset one day, but for now, i use the daisies reshade by @breezytrait. here are my lighting and visual mods...

reshade: daisies (i tweaked the preset a bit, mostly increasing the mxao here) world lighting mods: twinkle toes, shadows for days light replacements: no glow v2, out of the dark, inner glow cloud replacement: studio ghibli clouds

chapter 3: say click. take a pic

i take all of my screenshots in tab mode. i find that it's best to go into tab mode further away than you want the picture, then slowly move the camera forward with the arrow keys to frame the screenshot. this is especially great for really up close photos of sims faces.

i capture all my screenshots with the built in reshade capture function and use the no drift camera mod to keep the tab camera steady

tab mode mods: no drift

chapter 4: call me by your lightroom

now that the screenshots are taken, off to lightroom they go. i honestly don't do much editing in lightroom in terms of color grading. i mainly focus on the details and lights sections. here are my settings...

here are examples, before and after, of what the edits look like on top of the reshade

these are the same settings i use for all my photos. with the exception of the 'contrast' slider which I sometimes bring up for sims with darker skin tones. and the 'shadows' slider i sometimes bring down for night photos.

chapter 5: shout out to picsart. gotta be one of my favorite genders

from lightroom, i'll then import the photos into picarts to finish them off with light leaks and dust particles (as needed). i use the 'detail' brush under 'retouch' to color in sims and objects in the foreground (rocks, plants, bottles, etc.) to make them pop even more.

i also use this app to blur things that the reshade dof couldn't get to. here are some finished examples before and after.

chapter 6: the sons of picsart

for overlay graphics and texts, i use photoshop and phonto. for the psds, i'll import them into photoshop first to make edits then send them off to picsart to add them to my image. i'll use phonto to add texts and sometimes doodles

here are links to some of my favorite psds and other useful resources

photoshop psds: moodlets, promotions, holiday, ui mockups other resources: sims 4 icons, text message

chapter 7: she doesn't even go here

for cas photos, since there is no tab mode, i just take screenshots as is, with the reshade dof from my preset on to blur out most of the background.

i use the cas lighting by @breezytrait to brighten the cas room up.

cas lighting: hard side light

then edit them in lightroom with he same edits as in-game photos (see chapter 4).

chapter 8: the bell doesn't dismiss you, i do

and that is how i typically edit my photos. i hope this helps inspire you for your future content... and was extensive enough. but of course if you have anymore questions feel free to leave them down below. my inbox is always open and i'm happy to help 😊.

#ask #answeredasks #reshade #gshade #ts4

[groovetrys]

@circusjuney @swallowprettybird @vercosims @youredreamingofroo @seriallovertrait @slightly-ludic @living-undead @simstoyourdismay @matchalovertrait

Y'ALL!! THANK YOU OMGGG ILYYYY <333

#THIS IS SO LATE BUT I WANTED TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE NO MATTER HOW LATE #I LOVE EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU DEARLY #i love this community :) #answeredasks

[voidsiblings]

hollow is my blorbo.. :D

OMG MINE TOO HOW'D YOU GUESS,

#girl help I filled out so many boxes #and maxed out so many sliders #hollow knight #ask games #I'm in too deep #answeredasks #elletalks #inside-only #myart #i'm so happy with the way theirs turned out im cryin a lil

[hmcb96]

hii there Hannah! i recently found this set by gryning and as a person who tries to limit my separates i was wondering if you would be interested in making a fullbody version? ( ˶ˆ꒳ˆ˵ ) ₊˚⊹♡ (kinda surprised no one has made it a fullbody outfit yet, but i tried searching extensively and couldn’t find anything)

Hello there! I can definitely look into that, however I’m currently on an island having a holiday so I won’t have access to my computer until the middle of next week!

#sims 2 #answeredasks

[bottlecaprabbitgames]

I just finished the current demo & I love it! The characters are so engaging & I can’t wait for more MCxBlake flirtations. Apologies if it was asked/answered already… Will there opportunities for more than flirting at some point? ❤️

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!! I saw when you first followed earlier and found your name very interesting HAHA

Thank you!!! I'm guessing Blake has claimed another player 👀 Not surprising, he has always been the player fav, with Loche coming second, hehe.

As for your question! So, I am 100% a NSFW writer at heart. I got my start in writing writing NSFW content on AO3 and DeviantArt, to be very honest. It would be very unlike me to not include plenty of more than flirting content in the courses of the romances.

Now, as far as Trepidation goes, I definitely feel like it would make sense for Blake and maybe Fawn to have a chance for a kiss or almost kiss, mainly because Blake is happy to move fast into something if MC is, and Fawn is highly interested in the lady or enby MCs! So, if your MC is okay with it, too... then definitely look for the chance in the last chapter, as that'll be when the Centennial Celebration happens... and of course, MC has been dragged to it, and the team will be there working... and having fun.

Thank you so much for the message and ask!!! ❤️❤️❤️

#mind games #mind games: trepidation #game mechanics #romance mechanics #blake gautier #nachohorse #asks #answeredasks

[aurouxa-potion-sin]

How big is Aurora's delightful huge naturals anyway~? ;3

Hi there! I based Aurora’s proportions off of playboy models (because their poses are so pretty?! Even if they are nsfw) and mostly looked at Cynthia Myers, Ali Chanel, Peggy McIntaggart— mostly sitting at an DD-DDD cups!

#ooc my patron speaks. #about Aurora #aurora body #answeredasks #anonymous #basically i'm gay #idk what else to tag #there’s a SHIT ton of others but I’ve really used these three for reference if drawing her body type

[upheavalofmemory]

hii, i would like to participate in your game! my name is micaela, and my ask is: what does N currently feel and think about me? thank you sm and hope this finds you well ♡

Hi! Thank you for participating :D!

Who's that Pokemon? It's Komala!

Honestly, while first looking up this Pokemon..it's a little disturbing lol. Komala is a Pokemon based off of koalas who are born sleeping and also...die sleeping...? Beyond that somewhat disturbing fact, N might think that you are super calming to be around and might feel as if you are somewhat intoxicating. You know that sleepy feeling you feel when you're around someone you trust? I believe that is what N feels, calmness and comfort. N may also think not to get on your bad side since you might be scary while mad, or they might assume you are scary while mad. You might ooze motherly, protective energy to this person

Liked the reading? Feel free to leave feedback in my ask box. Thanks again for participating!

#answeredasks #pokemon game

[fangirlmedstudentblog]

You've been watching midnight museum ryt? And I've heard it has jumpscares which is like, stuff that my heart cannot handle so please tell me the extent of it?? Like are there a lot of jumpscares of just logical ones cause i don't wanna die of a heart attack.

I've been watching it, yes. Though it's been strictly in the afternoons, with a pillow in my arms to squeeze. So that should tell you just how bad i am with horror.

My friend @butdotheykiss has been watching it as well so maybe they can also chip in? Because i usually watch the episodes after they've given me the run down of the episode lol

And i actually haven't watched ep4 (i check out the tags here before the episode) so i don't know about that one specifically, but for the first 3 yep the jump scares are kinda unnerving to me. I did flinch.

I think you can check out like the first episode and if you can't tolerate it, I'd suggest not to go ahead with watching the show because the horror component seems to be increasing and just catch up with the show on tumblr lol.

I think i might also keep this show to binge for later because i don't think my poor academically stressed heart can take it right now i might just cry lmao

#anntalks #useranndoctalk #answeredasks

[europeanmusicals]

Hello, do you have access to the Rudolf proshot? The one on youtube got taken down and I couldn't find it on vk.

Thank you for all your post, your blog keeps me coming back to this stuff.

I had download it before it got taken down, including ripping the subtitles, so I've now uploaded the video and subtitles onto the Internet Archive for streaming and downloading: https://archive.org/details/rudolf-affaire-mayerling-act-1-hd-with-english-subs

And I'm also noticing Mozart das Musical things being hit on Youtube lately (had to edit out all the Mozart clips from 'european musicals being gay for 30 minutes" video as it got blocked worldwide for the Mozart clips) so a reminder I've had the proshot with subtitles on the Internet Archive for a couple years now. Someone commented about whether or not I got hit for any Elisabeth clips yet, I haven't, I don't know if anyone else has.

But I have a bunch of proshots with English subtitles on the Internet Archive as a backup in case they ever get taken down off Youtube. Of course I support purchasing copies of the proshots, however I want to back these up because most of the subtitles for these proshots are fanmade and not official, and when these videos with fanmade subtitles are taken off Youtube we could lose the subtitles, and sometimes the only English translation of the musical, forever. And I don't want those translations lost.

I didn't save the username of who uploaded the HD Rudolf proshot with subtitles on Youtube to be able to credit them as the subtitle creator so if anyone remembers or know the name please do let me know so I can add that credit on there.

#rudolf affaire mayerling #answeredasks #mozart das musical #european musicals

[emptymasks]

Hello first of all i wanted to say I love, love, love your blog and your Elisabeth merch collection is so pretty and impresive. We need more musical blogs here (and they need to be more international for everyone the more the better) (I'm lucky because I'm german but i understand the struggle for others). So but that's not why I wanted to ask you something. I watched the 1992 version with Uwe and the 2005 version with Máté and on your merch with the chibi-characters from Elisabeth the first five version of Death played by Uwe have a green and a blue eye but Mátés not. I'm curious on how you saw that is it canon or do you saw it on a picture? I just find it so pretty and cool.

Have a nice day or night

oh thank you! i know i haven't posted much about elisabeth lately but i keep meaning too, and i want to finish some more musical stickers i started years ago

and well i draw uwe's death with one green and one blue because that's the colour of uwe's eyes. he has heterochromia, his right eye is blue and his left eye is green

it's not the most obvious colour difference, but if you're looking for it you can tell the difference. i realised because i saw multiple other artists drawing him with different coloured eyes and thought there must be a reason so found some close up photos of uwe that aren't covered in the blue light from the 1992 video and sure enough. one blue, one green.

#elisabeth das musical #uwe kroger #uwe kröger #uwe kroeger #answeredasks #european musicals

[mostlydeadallday]

Suggestion: Improper socializing as Hollow grew has resulted in some... interesting traits making themselves known. Being trained only to follow orders and obey commands without ever learning how to communcate their own needs has resulted in two things:

1. They will deny themself things, such as food, water, rest, shelter, or any basic need all living things need until told explicitly to eat/drink/sleep.

2. When they do tend to their needs, it's animalistic, almost completely feral in how they do. Total lack of teaching them how to adapt to situations like having a bed to rest on or a warm fire to curl up by means all they have is their instincts, and there's something about seeing such a majestic creature, the hybrid hatchling of two pale beings, shivering and curled up like nothing more than a pet by a fire, claw halfway sank into a bowl of soup tipped partially over to weakly lap at in a desperate effort to provide fuel to their wounded body, that words cannot describe the feeling of.

-@bandits-whump-collection

OK I opened this ask expecting it to be bad but wowza. "Improper socialization" is a mild way to put it for sure.

I got to thinking about how this would work, and while sleep would happen involuntarily given enough time, someone would have to help them manage everything else. It would be exhausting physically, and emotionally too, especially if you forgot to instruct them to do something that they would suffer for rather than act on their own to prevent. Self-neglect is the least of what a vessel can survive, but that doesn't mean they won't be miserable in the meantime.

It made me wonder if they were instructed to follow a precise, predetermined schedule while in the White Palace for things like meals and training and sleep, a schedule that outlined their every waking moment. How must it have felt to have that stripped away once they're free? Just one more thing they've lost, one more thing that'll have to be unlearned before they can exist without placing a burden on those who love them.

And, uh, thanks, that image is not leaving my head now.

#hollow knight #answeredasks #bandits-whump-collection #whump prompts #elletalks #mywriting #otherswriting #you're not pulling any punches and I respect that #self harm #sort of? #disordered eating #abuse #ask to tag

[nyssasims]

Hello !! I love you screenshots !! I’m sorry if this has been asked before but how do you get your pictures to look so clear and smooth

hello @simbaes! i'm so glad you're enjoying my content ☺️. i have a 4k monitor so the game resolution is automatically set to a native 4k when i play, which is honestly doing most of the heavy lifting. but if you don't have one, here is a helpful tutorial i recently saw on how you can trick your game into running at 4k

when i edit, i also add a bit of sharpening to my photos in lightroom (about 50). lightroom is free on the app store, so i highly recommend it for editing pictures

for my cas pics, i also use srwe to make them even clearer. and i have both width and hight set to 3848

#i hope this helped 😄 #answeredasks

[groovetrys]

💌 Post 4 pictures from Pinterest that describe your OC. Send this to 3 other simmers to keep the chain going!

actually actually i don't have an oc unfortunately :((

#vercosims also sent me this ask so big thank you to you too! #i almost had one last year but like that didn't end up working out #thanks for sending this to me tho n i'm most definitely gonna keep it going ! #answeredasks