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gracetoldmeto · 1 year
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HELLO ARTISTS!!!
You may ask...
WHY AM I POSTING A PHOTO OF MY WALL!?!
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WELL...
IT NEEDS ARTWORK
DO YOU SEE HOW LARGE THIS WALL IS!?
I NEED TO FILL IT!!!
...calling small artists i wanna support you
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mejomonster · 2 years
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I'm reading Three Body Problem, and shocked I saw reviews that it had no plot/meaning and was all just science concepts. I mean, who knows, maybe it gets pointless later. But dang the opening is about how suddenly science teachers die based on what they call their materials, die based on if science fits the politically popular take, which I feel like most countries in the world can sure relate to.
The main characters thus far are people who just seem to be curious of the truth of nature, of whats good for the planet (and humanity perhaps as a whole versus tragedy), in a world where what is appropriate to say out loud without dying can change. Even if it's about science, just how physics works. (But then, from long ago to now scientists were in trouble for stating earth may revolve around the sun, ectopic pregnancy may kill the person, etc). I just. This novel certainly is opening with a Point and I'm not sure how that could get missed...
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Also its written lovely.
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emjiroki · 10 months
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Pool Boy Yuuta Okkotsu x Lonely Housewife Reader
Word Count: 1.7k
Warnings: Infidelity, exhibitionism (outside), Yuuta is the lonely housewife slayer fight me
A/N: I'm back babies with Pool boy Yuuta for the lovely Wet Hot Slimeball summer block party collab event! My prompt was 'Humid' so I hope I captured the theme and everyone enjoys! @bastardblvd (look at Yuuta holding the pool skimmer! Im pretty proud of my editing skills)
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likes, reblogs, and comments are much appreciated
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‘God they need to do something about this global warming shit’ You thought as the sun beat down. It had been storming over the last week in Grimetown so the humidity was intense; thick like you were being compressed and forced to breathe the water evaporating from the ground. And with the storms came strong winds, knocking small branches and a whole heap of leaves into the once pristine blue water of your pool. You had made plans to clean it out…soon, maybe ask that big man that stole your package and stuffed that block party flier in your mailbox to fix it, had really planned to ask your husband to do it before he left for two weeks on a “business trip”. It would be comical to believe that these trips were for business at this point, your husband coming home one too many times smelling of perfume that wasn’t the scent you wore. Something cheap and cloying that set a stone in your stomach. But you liked your life, all your bills were paid and your husband still treated you like you were his world, why bother rocking the boat over some whore? He’ll get bored with her eventually and come crawling back, take you on some big vacation as a secret sorry and it’ll be done with.
So here you were lounging on one of your pool chaises trying and failing to read your book with your brain a frenzy of thoughts when you vaguely heard a knock on the gate. You pulled on the slipcover for your bikini and went to open the hefty latch to the privacy fence. The sudden heat to your skin wasn’t from the sun beating down or the suffocating humidity, but most certainly from the man in front of you with a pool skimmer propped up on his shoulder. 
“I’m Yuuta Okkotsu from Grimetown Pool and Landscaping, sorry for the intrusion but I tried the front door and no one answered”. He seemed about your age, maybe a year or two younger, with sweet dark eyes and a handsomely cut jaw. Obviously fit under the company t-shirt that hugged his body. You bit your cheek slightly to try and keep your thoughts in check and not written across your face as you extended your hand to his to shake and introduced yourself. 
“I’m guessing you’re the poor soul that they sent to come clean my disaster of pool?” You asked opening the gate a bit wider for him.
“That’s what was on my schedule for today ma’am,” He said with a sheepish smile as he fumbled to close the gate latch behind him and followed you over to the poolside.
“And in this humidity too? Yikes,” You empathized, taking a discarded magazine from the table and fanning yourself as he surveyed the mess. 
“This will probably take a day or two to clean out and get balanced again,” Yuuta said with a determined look set on his face. 
“Please, take all the time you need” You requested, pulling the slip from your bikini off, “I’m assuming the husband will just write a check for whatever”. 
“R-Right, of course” He stammered, a rosy hue to his cheeks as he not so subtly looked you up and down. But he didn’t look away from your gaze when you made eye contact, going so far as to take a small step forward. You gave him a soft alluring smile before slipping your sunglasses on and lounging back in your chair.
“This humidity is a killer, let me know if you need anything” You commented as he pulled his phone from his pocket, assumedly to call his boss and tell them the plan.
“Oh I will, don’t worry,” He said with a lowkey promise in his tone that had you clenching. 
An hour or two passed as he pulled out branches and skimmed the pool, the humidity absolutely baring down and making the air thick. You were glad for the sunglasses because you couldn’t help but stare when he stripped off his shirt. Sweat ran down his neck to the dip in his collarbones before rolling down his chest and chiseled abdomen, your eyes tracing the wet path down as you unconsciously clenched your legs together. You reached for your drink and realized the glass was empty, the ice slowly melting at the bottom.
“Yuuta, would you like a drink? Take a break in the a/c for a minute?” You called over as you gather your stuff to head back inside away from this killer heat. 
“Sure that would be great” He replied, pulling the skimmer from the water and setting it aside before quickly following you as you lead him in through the back door to the kitchen. The cool was a relief from the stagnant heat hovering around outside, Yuuta gratefully taking the towel you handed him and wiped his face and neck. 
“Water? Lemonade?” You asked as you opened the refrigerator, pulling the pitcher out and refilling your own glass.
“Lemonade is great, thanks” He huffed as he sat back in one of the bar chairs, pushing his damp black hair back away from his face. You’d be lying if you said you didn’t ogle for a moment, quickly turning away when looked up at you and filled the glass you pulled down for him. He said thank you again as you handed it to him, watching as he took a few big gulps of the cold liquid, his Adam's apple bobbing as he drank greedily. 
“You know Yuuta, I really wish my husband had a job like yours,” You commented, taking the seat next to him.
“Oh? And why’s that?” He asked, surprise in his tone but something curious and almost heated sparkling in his dark eyes. Damn, how could he be this pretty?
“Well, he’s always gone and I think the finance industry is making him dishonest” You admitted, casually messing with your discarded sunglasses on the island. The worst has already happened, at this point, you didn’t care about throwing yourself out there as you gently touched his fingers resting next to yours. 
“I’d be dishonest too if I got a house like this and a wife like you” He commented, a rosy hue to his cheeks though he didn't pull his hand away when you expected him to. 
“But the house is always so empty, it's lonely here… all by myself,” You said tracing one of your manicured nails up his hand to his forearm, goosebumps breaking across his skin, “He gives me everything I want but nothing that I need”. Yuuta turned slightly, leaning in close enough that a gasp escaped you, his dark eyes swimming with something you wanted to be devoured by.
“And what is it that you need?” He murmured, his lips close enough that you would only have to lean in an inch or two to feel them against yours, “Love? Good dick?”. It felt as if someone had lit a fire in your cheeks and it was rapidly traveling to the spot between your legs, your breath not filling your lungs anymore as his hand moved to your bare thigh. Your hands were shaking as you tried to take a drink from your glass, a small splash of lemonade running down your mouth to your chest. You squeaked out a soft moan when you felt his warm tongue against your skin, his mouth following the sour liquid down to the curve of your breast and sucking lightly in a soft kiss. Gripping his arms to keep yourself steady, he smiled up at you, that seemingly innocent shy boy smile from earlier. “Is that a yes?”.
“Yuuta! Fuck!” You cried as he bottomed out inside of you for what seemed like the hundredth time today, you both barely able to get out of your bed this morning.
“You really never get tired do you?” He said with a chuckle, hissing as your walls squeezed around him, “Can’t even get my job done”. He’s right, hadn’t even gotten the chemicals ready for the pool before he was spread on the chaise lounge for you again, your thong bikini shredded by his eager hands and thrown somewhere in the yard. You were both slick with sweat from the heat, humidity ever present as you devoured each other for your neighbors on both sides to hear. His hands were rough against your ass as he squeezed and help you along to take his length, your hands on his sweaty chest as you bounced, spearing yourself on him again and again like you were possessed. 
“You’re just… so good” You moaned as he pulled you down to press against him, nipping his teeth across your throat and thrusting up into you. 
“Oh, you’re so good too beautiful, so fucking hot” He groaned, feeling your slick leaking out and running down to coat his balls in creamy white. He was so deep inside, carving out a place only his cock could satisfy, rutting into your soft walls like an animal. You couldn’t get enough as you moved your hips against his, his hand going up to wipe the drool from your lips as you fell apart.
“With a pussy like this I might just get obsessed,” He said his voice turning to a growl as you raised up again, his dark eyes seeming to grow darker as he watched your breasts bounce and the sweat rolling down your skin. “But you’d like that, wouldn’t you?”. You nodded, groaning out a soft yes as the flames of your climax licked up your spine, your brain foggy with the heat and the pleasure buzzing through your bloodstream. If only your “husband” could see you right now, being ravaged into a puddle in this primal humidity.As if he heard your thoughts, your phone began to ring. You didn’t think to pick up, only looked when you saw Yuuta’s hand move. His hand wrapped around it, squeezing the volume button until it buzzed on silent, flipping it over. His arms wrapped around you and pulled you down to lay against his chest again, practically growling as he pressed your face to his throat and fucked so deep into you you could feel him battering your cervix. The sound that broke from your lips as you creamed around his cock was something you hadn’t heard before, breathy and wild.
“That’s right baby, cum on my cock as much as you want” He panted, his hands running soothingly up your back despite him still hammering into your sensitive pussy, “I’m your husband now, I’ll make him disappear and you'll be all mine won't you?”.
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pinklume · 6 months
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since you asked for sirius & remus hcs: you know how ppl usually view remus as the bookworm of the marauders? yeah well i prefer to imagine him as an artist tbh! i really like the idea of remus learning to draw bc of all time he spent alone as a child, it was his one thing to do that wasn't School w/ his parents (which, in my head, revolved alot around reading anyway). also i think sirius works better as a bookworm/reader than remus in my head bc i don't think walburga stocked a lot of fiction/non magical books in 12gp, so when sirius Got Out james took him to a public library as a distraction & BOOM sirius becomes the most obnoxious reader. he gets really into literary analysis & remus draws him scenes from the books, & in turn remus gushes about art history & sirius buys art history books so he can learn more & surprise remus....... so yeah im a big fan of artist remus & reader (later turned writer?) sirius <3 i hope you're doing ok!
I love this so so much!! Remus doing portraits of the people he loves. Lyall has a framed painting that Remus did of him in his office (to dad, love, remus). And then Sirius finds multiple portraits of himself over the years. Sketches and paintings. The newest one is oil and it sits lovingly in their shared art/writing room. Hope has one of herself above her and Lyall’s bed, a large, beautiful landscape of their meadow, Hope in the distance in a blue dress, pointing at the birds circling the trees. Sirius writes a novel and it’s marvellous and inspiring and Remus illustrates his favourite parts of the book, and all the characters. Sirius fills notebook after notebook and lets Remus paint the covers of every single one.
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gerardpilled · 2 months
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Abt ur last ask, even bands like mcr started out small…if we say small fandoms are weird then we won’t have a “big band” in future…so having a fandom is ok? Especially now that bands try to get out there through social media…im not even a fan of that band or any small band tbh but like we shouldn’t discourage ppl from starting fandoms and calling it THAT? And yk fans can even be ppl that listen to Spotify or follow an art acc…
I would usually agree with you completely in terms of the “every artist was small at one point” but I think the major difference is marketing. The way mcr was pushed by their label was explicitly intended to have them sell to young girls (and others) who found the members cute and datable. That’s why they were in teen magazines and in every other issue of kerrang. I think the ethics and overall success of that method of advertising is a whole other conversation, but I think the idea that 2000s rock band fandom grew completely organically, and wasn’t at least a little bit of a byproduct of a long-thought out campaign is doing the situation a disservice. The reason you don’t see as many rock band fandoms anymore is because labels don’t see the rock band members as profitable to impressionable young teens. The landscape has shifted where 20 years ago maybe car seat headrest would have been on the cover of Tiger Beat, but the money is in BTS. So just keeping that mind, it’s kinda jarring to see teens talk about csh members as if they were 2004 Pete Wentz. Again nothing wrong with it, it’s just surprising lol!
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tradetobest · 4 months
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do u still think abt the golf au bc i would pay billions for you to infodump about it…
YEs i love thinking about this au so much thank you so much for asking me about it anon ilysm....
(under the cut bcs it feels a bit long to me)
this was my first act as a hockey fan it has such a special place in my heart.... i thought about it while i was in class and sorted everyone into categories Definitively. thank you for making me do this. of course some of the things i have these guys do you Shouldnt Do on a golf course, and like this is Super unrealistic but i love having my fun ok…. just Good Vibes… (also, im generalizing “clubhouse” as both people who work as servers at the course’s restaurant and the people who help golfers with carts/clubs/etc and all that. i did Not work there At All so it just makes it easier for me to loop them…. imagine they just like rotate around or something….)
OK… so…. starting with the two who started it all, mitch and auston.
i dont ever think i ever totally explained what mitch and auston's roles were besides surface level stuff so!! mitch is a member of the turf team at the golf course, which are basically the group of people who go around and cut the grass and do the landscaping and all of that. like ice crew, but just for the golf course.
auston is like. i don't know. some sort of moderately rich guy. maybe he's Auston Matthews or maybe he's just rich, i have no clue. all that matters is he golfs. maybe he's a professional golfer. of course, i imagine everything in this au as happening at my course, but tbh it works at any course...
(now, of course, one of mitch's friends works at the clubhouse, and tells mitch every time auston is sitting there looking for him... willy nylander youre a real one)
just imagine mitch driving around a work truck with a rake, a bucket of sand, and a leaf blower in the back and auston (dressed prim, and proper, white pants white shoes white hat purple shirt all nice) literally falling all over himself to talk to him. loitering all over just Hoping that Maybe mitch will drive by and he can rope him into conversation. meanwhile when mitch sees willy he’s like “yeah auston’s so cute but like idk if he’d ever go for me” and willy is like “yeah you have no fucking idea”
i used to have to do this task which was just. watering all of the flowers near the clubhouse and i can imagine mitch doing that and like surroptitiously glancing over his shoulder to check if auston is around or watching or something… just some good old fluffy pining yk…
i have a like Whole Ass procreate file w everyone sorted into lil groups so here’s some little tidbits …
i think i mightve talked abt this in another post but sid (crosby) and claude (giroux) both work for turf and are both Incredibly Competitive about it in the most insane way ever… im talking “you take half the course i take half the course and we see who finishes faster” (starting at 6am ish) mowing competitions and theyre both done at 8 on the dot…. insane people shit…. they did it with bunkers ONCE and claude tripped and fell into a bunker and broke his wrists so they do not do that anymore o7….
in honour of my boss feeling like my dad i put patty marleau and matt martin in turf…. they do rough mowing in honour of the two guys at my course who Only did rough mowing…. big ass machine
the thing to know about guys who are higher up on the turf echelon is that not only do they all know each other but they also went to school for it… turf school…. all this to say top grad of turf school Sidney Crosby got some little ducklings and thats how Connor McDavid (top turf school grad) got to this course…. we love that for him
shoutout to other guys who also have fun little romance stories but who arent mitch and auston, including but not limited to:
connor mcdavid, who keeps getting his work paused by these three golfers, which always makes him grit his teeth and smile softly at them, because Holy Shit Let Me Get Back To My Job Please. matthew tkachuk (son of Great Golfer Keith Tkachuk) seems to take joy in interrupting connor while he’s in the middle of something, jack eichel always catches him bent over and sweaty trying to shove the wheels back onto a greens mower for one of the kids, and leon draisaitl stands on the side to wait until connor’s at least done a pass to ask him something. matthew jack and leon can be seen at the clubhouse after they finish a round, head in hands, because connor is oblivious to their flirting. maybe they should try learning the names of different types of grass.
jamie drysdale (uni student staying with his grandparents over the summer) always comes to the clubhouse for breakfast with them, which absolutely delights bored server trevor zegras… too bad the summer has to end some time! lol! anyway
tyler bertuzzi (turf) seems to always have dirt under his fingernails, some mulch and woodchips stuck to his shorts, scuffs on his knees, and a dirty ass sweater on. dylan larkin (clubhouse) finds him INCREDIBLY endearing.
brady tkachuk (son of Great Golfer Keith Tkachuk) when he’s not driving his brother around so he can try and find connor (“seriously, matthew, he looks busy” “no, it’ll be fine, look—”) is smiling sweetly at the fumbling german waiter who always engages leon in rapidfire german conversation. tim, his nametag says, and brady would love to have more than a few word conversation with him. maybe he should interrupt leon’s brooding time with matthew and jack and ask him to teach him some german.
if you want to communicate with the turf team’s mechanic and don’t want to be asked “where sid? tell him—” you should bring sid with you to see him. however, if you do bring sid, you will have to watch him and said mechanic do Weird Flirting for a good 30 mins before your question is answered. this is outside of the Weird Flirting they do anyway, all the time. if a day goes by without sid twirling his hair kicking his feet over some shit geno said to him earlier in the day has the day really gone by?
followup turf/clubhouse Flirting (I CANT BELIEVE I ALMOST FORGOT TO MENTION THEM IYKYK) tyler seguin, Pretty Boy Galore, and his loud, bubbly, and all consuming obsession with quiet doe-eyed turf worker jamie benn. now thats what i call oblivious. “yeah i flirt with jamie all the time but he just thinks its a joke haha he couldnt want me i know that like have you seen him?” “yeah tyler flirts with me but he’s just joking he doesn’t mean that he could never like me like that have you seen him?” and all that good good shit… tyler sees jamie take off his shirt once because it got soaked and loses his mind.
jack hughes (brother of turf guys luke and quinn) absolutely has the biggest crush on his coworker, fellow clubhouse worker nico hischier. once nico got wet in the rain and soaked through his white work shirt and jack almost lost his fucking mind. absolutely twirling his hair kicking his feet.
both pairs of bruins that i like (bergeron/marchand and swayman/ullmark) are fun little golf tandems. me when i get a hole in one and hug and twirl around a kiss my golf partner. what if we kissed in the front seat of a golf cart. and all that.
finally… honourable mention to john tavares (golfer, has his own labelled golf cart at a course in toronto… love that for you king….) kris letang (turf) and marc-andré fleury (clubhouse) who get to listen to sid moan and groan about geno, and self jarvis (turf) who is completely out of place among the other teams included in this au but i love him so hes here lmfaoo
anyway. yeah. i have LOTS of ideas about this au if you couldnt tell and anon i am SO happy you asked abt it… sorry it took me a few days i have to write like most days for school this semester and its leaving me Very Little time to do anything but reblog posts and draw matty and woller. MATTY AND WOLLER. oh my god i cant believe i almost forgot them uhhh…..
matthew knies and joseph woll are….. both turf workers maybe… yeah. call that lets talk while filling divots on the course or raking bunkers. what if we kissed in the rain while shovelling dirt and seed mix into small holes over and over again. Them
OK IM DONE FR NOW. thank you so much sorry there are no visuals i have written this mostly in class now but if you want to know more or if you want me to elaborate on a specific dynamic (or add some people, because god knows these are just the guys i know/like) or want visuals for anything i can 100% provide, might just take a bit again haha… ilysm anon you made my week
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yesloulou · 1 year
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hello, i am a big fan of your gifs & am teaching myself to make my own! just wondering - when you want to make a gif that is one column wide (540px for tumblr) how do you keep them looking so crisp? i find that im struggling with landscape videos because they are so wide, i'd like a more square shaped gif but it ends up as a rectangle. if i try to size it down to a square the quality is skewed 🙃 hopefully this makes sense! xx
anon im so honored here is a little Gif Sharpening Tutorial !!!
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this is the first gif making question ive ever gotten so unfortunately this will also be the first time i try to verbalize these gif making stuff. if there are things i haven't explained clearly please do follow up (my dm is open too!!)
the thing with wide (3:2, 16:9) gifs is that you normally obtain this kind of ratio by shrinking the clip (1920px width and up) down to 540px without any cutting, which is about 1/4 of it's original width that you'd end up with, which means you're losing 3/4 of the pixels in it's width, which is a LOT of details lost in the process, which is why we can't sharpen wide gifs the same way we sharpen square/squarer gifs, and i feel like we should talk about these two scenarios separately. (with square gifs, assuming we're working with 1080p, we'll cut it from 1920x1080 to 1080x1080 or less, and then shrink it down to 540px. this way we'd only lose less than half of the pixels. it's a lot less details we're losing here. as a result it's more tolerating towards sharpening techniques)
ok this is where i take a pause and ask myself when tf did i get so technical about moving picture making on tumblr dot com... ok let's keep going...
Basic Sharpening
soo how i normally sharpen my gifs (which are more often on the squarer side) is based on this awesome gif tutorial, the idea here is that we smart sharpen our gifs first, which will inevitably result in pixelation (over sharpening) to some extent, so then we use a semi transparent gaussian blurred layer to repair these pixelation and hopefully make it smooth and sharp. in addition to following this tutorial you'll also want to play around w the parameters (radius, transparency, sharpening amount, etc) as there is no one size fits all.
after following these steps, if i want to smooth things out even more, i'll use a layer of denoise (see below for setting i normally go with). if i want things even sharper, I will add another small amount of sharpening (again, see below). these two methods can be used together. imo they are what make a gif go from "omg it's crisp" to "i feel like im looking at daniel ricciardo in person what the fuck". the two gifs i attached at the beginning can hopefully showcase the difference <3
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2. Sharpening Wide/Landscape Gifs
ok, at this point you've imported a 1920x1080px footage into ps and made it into a timeline, you've resized it to 540p and if you're using the gif tutorial above, you'll start off your sharpening process by doing a 500% 0.4px smart sharpen. after the basic gif making steps, this is gonna be the result:
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it's pretty sharp, but it doesn't look as good as the ones at the beginning of this post. in this part we'll attempt to minimize this difference as much as possible.
first we take a closer look at how 'radius' in photoshop's smart sharpen works. to my understanding, radius is the width at which photoshop recognize an edge as "an edge that needs sharpened". in this example, you'll see that at 0.4px, the edges stand out the most, but the gif is not as crisp/fine as that of 0.3px (since a 0.4px edge is thicker than a 0.3 px edge). a 0.4px radius for this gif is what i'd say is over sharpened. on the other hand, if we go further down to 0.2px, the image is basically left unsharpened bc photoshop failed to recognize most of the edges this image contains (as they're mostly 0.3px and up)
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so in the next step, we set the initial smart sharpen radius to 0.3px instead of 0.4px:
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which is much better. but still doesn't solve the loss of detail problem as it's still pretty far away from top left. so then what i would do is that, when shrinking the image down from 1920px, i don't go to 540px directly. i will instead go to 1080px or 720px first, sharpen as i normally do to preserve as much detail as possible, then further downsize to 540px, and then add a small amount of sharpening to finish off. it'll look something like this:
720px w/ regular sharpening ⬇️
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resize to 540px ⬇️
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smart sharpen, amount: 90%, radius: 0.9px ⬇️
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which will be the end result!!
this gives us way finer edges than what we started with (500% 0.4px) let me actually insert that one again ⬇️
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however... (this is gonna be the last part i swear). even tho this is how i would do a 540px wide landscape gif, i feel like with 16:9 or similar ratio gifs, tumblr gif size limit is rarely a concern so why not leave the gifs at 720p so there isn't even additional detail loss to begin with. ik every gif tutorial is likely telling you to resize to 540p but, in a lot of the cases the less extremely you shrink down an image, the less detail you lose, the better it's gonna look on the screen. here is a comparison between the 720px gif (top) and the 540px gif (bottom) we ended up with where the 720px one looks a lot nicer (esp around the curls)
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to sum up! with larger ratio/wide gifs, if the original video is of nice quality, i would stick to large sizes (720px and up) as much as i can. if that's not doable, i will sharpen the gifs at a larger size before shrinking it down to 540px so the details are better preserved.
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Hope this is helpful! again ty for this ask and my ask box and dm are always open <3
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sisilafami · 4 months
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2023
Rap:
Sexyy Red - Hood Hottest Princess & (Deluxe)
Veeze - Ganger
Babyface Ray - Summer's Mine
MarijuanaXO & Joe Pablo - 30 Mil No Deal
BabyDrill - MadMan
SME TaxFree - Standin On Bidness / Im Still Industreets / Just Like Brothers (w/Big Homie Dre Cash)
Lil Yachty - 2023 singles
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Wizz Havinn - Super Wizz / Super Wizz_ The Sequel
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KP SKYWALKA - GRANDMA HOUSE (DELUXE) / Rhythm N Bip
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LUCKI - s_x m_ney dr_gs
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Smoke Chapo - Over The Counter (Deluxe)
Ken Carson - A Great Chaos
YTB Fatt - Who Is Fatt / Foxes Only
Ethan Uno - Bachata Jersey Youtubes 2023
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Lil 2 Dow - 21 Gun Salute
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Baby Osamaa - Tank Girl
D30 - Sorry 2 My Fans / Trappers & Scammers
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Mike - Burning Desire
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HM:
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Bucky Malone - DERREN
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Che - Crueger / Closed Captions
Chloe Hotline - jouissancé
Chicken P - BussaBrick Vol.3 ReallyRich4eva / Ain’t Lost Shit
Dani Kiyoko - REAL $tREET RUNNA 3
DaeMoney - Slae Season 3
Dai Ballin - 844 pt.3 / 448 Pt. 2
Durkalini - PYRO THE PASTOR
Four50 - DRUNKEN STYLE
Devstacks - Scriptures
Earl Sweatshirt - VOIR DIRE
El Cousteau - Dirty Harry
Funny $money - Dont Talk 2 Much, Vol. 2 / Trap Money (w/ Trap Baby)
HavinMotion - Bang Music
J Billz - Streetz Hottest Young'n
Ju Swipin - #786FreeBro
L5 - Blood on switch st
Lil Gray - Swipe Renaissance
Lil Tony Official - TKEY / Chasin Pape deluxe (w/PCF Jaey)
Lilqua 50 - Only For The Fans
Los - War On Drugs 2
Lucille Ghatti - BLACK BALLED
ManMan Savage - For Players Only
Moh Baretta - Unorthodox
NBA YoungBoy - Don't Try This At Home
NeedNoName - All Off Backendz 2 Deluxe
Popstar Benny - University!
Raised Round Bosses - Ain't NuN Better Den A Cracking Phone Vol 2
Reace Sosa - Till I Touch The Ground Again
RealYungPhil - Victory Music
Reed - Downtown Chronicles
Rob Lee - Level Up
Rx Papi - Marlo
Rylo Rodriguez - Been One
SCY Jimm - Trench Baby / Highly Favored
Sérane - SGPM
Shaudy Kash - On The Yeah Side 2
Sideshow - DON’T JUST STAND THERE!
SparkHeem - Survivors Guilt
Starlito - LOVE DRUG
Subiibabii - Subiworld / swagg school / WEBB
Super Throwed Dave - Smacking Fire
Talinwya - BiRDMAN & Deluxe
Teeglazedit - The Blueprint
TrapKane - Free My Team
Tree - FREE TREE
Yung Threat - Se Grim Reaper
Valee - CAR TOONS
Vayda - breeze
Wiki - 14K Figaro
Contemporary : 
Lionel Marchetti - MÉANDRE(S)
Eva-Maria Houben - Toccata et Fuga (celebrating our disorientation)
Ayami Suzuki & Leo Okagawa - while it's warm
Graham Lambkin - No Better No Worse Vol 3
Stephen Yip - By Moonflowers
Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 61
Atte Elias Kantonen - a path with a name
Natasha Barrett - Reconfiguring the Landscape
Action Pyramid & Jack Greenhalgh - Mardle: Daily Rhythms of a Pond
Véhicule - Aubusson
Antoine Beuger & Anastassis Philippakopoulos - floating by
Mordecoli - Château Mordécoly
Jana Winderen - The Blue Beyond
Kate Carr - on cabbages, salt, bacteria and transformations
MP Hopkins - Misting
Maddalena Comunale Massaro - La Religione Degli Insetti
Zizia - Genera
Sunik Kim - Potential
DDK Trio - A Right to Silence
Damon Smith, Louis Wall & NNN Cook - Fire Point
David Velez - Beta Vulgaris
Digital Beats :
Chuquimamani-Condori - DJ E
Ghost Notes Worldwide with billdifferen_ Funk Special mix 24/08/2023
Nidia - 95 MINDJERES
Tropa do Bruxo - Baile do Bruxo (DELUXE)
Dj Nigga Fox - Gás Natural 2 (Dedicação ao Nagrelha)
Nondi_ - Flood City Trax
Olof Dreijer - Rosa Rugosa EP
jaijiu - SET ULTRARRÁPIDO DE 10 MIN FUNK 260 BPM
DJ Manny - Hypnotized
Maryyx2 - Silent Noise (The Album)
Speaker Music - Techxodus
HiTech - DÉTWAT
Amal - PRESSURE
Emma DJ - g0drm2
DJ Smiley Bobby - Dhol Tasha Drum Exercises from Maharashtra
Dj Wesley Gonzaga - Antidepressivo
R’n’B:
Amaarae - Fountain Baby
Brent Faiyaz - Larger Than Life
Lucille Ghatti - Tears from a clown
Jim Legxacy - homeless n_gga pop music
Vontee the Singer - LOVERS & FRIENDS
Other stuff: 
John T. Gast - SINEAD MEMORY TAPE (2015)
Canva6 - Cco2
Model Home - endless spool / SMMR MMRY / 20 / JuJu MineField
Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Five_ In the garden
Nourished by Time - Erotic Probiotic 2
Jeff Tobias - Music from Milky Way Underground
Aprxel - tapetumlucidum_3
Fever Ray - Radical Romantics
Rắn Cạp Đuôi - *1
Sbatax - Spires
NewJeans - Get Up
Babsy Konate - Tounga
New old :
Black Rob - Life Story 2
Don Cherry & Jean Schwarz - Roundtrip (1977) (Live)
Hiroyuki Onogawa - August in the Water- Music for Film 1995-2005
Jon Hassell - Further Fictions [Rec. 1989]
Lil Kev - Lil Kev Mix 04-18-12 (Full Mixtape) (youtube)
Main Source - The Science
Primetime and Digga - PRIMETIME & DIGGA GREATEST HITS
Various Artists - Unruly Records Anthology - 1991-1995 (The Early Years)
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svt SERVED those mermen, or whatever they were going for, looks. never seen before sways, sauves and smolders. what did you like most about the mv?<3
aaaaa I'm so happy to see you in my inbox, hii🥰
this is long and rant-ish, i apologise <33
what WERE they going for, the cave and ocean scenes lead to mermen but the tarot concept was so detached from that..though if you think about it, if we're talking sirens I guess it all ties in together with the spell concept?
serve is an understatement, like you could put an idol in an outfit but you cannot make them WEAR the outfit the way it deserves to be worn. that jun fit (I can't find any gifs from the mv in the search bar yet) was made that much better because he knew how to pose and move to its benefit
chan absolutely left me speechless at his part and that outfit (though not smth im personally that big a fan of) created the interesting imagery to catch the attention which he had the task of keeping on himself AND KEEP IT HE DIDD
idk why im so happy with hao's tie dye shirt, tank top and loose pants combo, might be because it's different than the other flashy and intricate pieces or because he reaallly suits flailing oversized shirts. who knows :]
hoshi pulling out those wings had me like oh! I didn't know we were doing angels as well?? hahah, honestly I think the one thing that made me a bit uncomfortable was hoshi having a serious face on for the entire mv lol like he has the smoldering gaze and the sad expressions and I couldn't pinpoint it until now but I'm not used to seeing him like this for a whole song.. that being said, amazing presence as always
I'm still crazy about the outfits and omg the accessoriesss and jun's earring being the centre of a shot, insane
genuinely can't tell you which part is my fave because I watched it only once, I don't know what to do with myself. you know that feeling where something is so amazing you need to talk to someone about it (like quite literally yell and shake them) that watching it alone without the possibility to do that is too much..yeahh
I'm scrolling through hoshi's stories rn and a snippet came up and I started fangirling again 😮‍💨 ALSO he posted smiley photos and im laughing cause all is right again!! sorry that I can't post ss rn
I have to say my mouth was agape with the jun and hao shot, the props, the heart, the colours..beautiful, I love practical effects (if you can call it that?)..the shot of jun laying on the beach is so peaceful, I loved that as well
EDIT: I just watched it again.. im heated from punching the air im so hyped its insane
thing is this mv made me like so many things I usually don't enjoy for reasons beyond my understanding like icy landscapes.. I have some questions about the combo of sets but it's okay
turns out they all had the more casual fits as I suspected, it's just that hao had a parallel shot with jun in his slay coat-y fit
(I just realised how good joshua would look in this makeup...everyone else too oh my goodness now im even happier we got this..and also I wonder what they did for vocal team's mv)
honestly i started rewatching and went "it's gonna be most of the scenes, isn't it..yeah this one..and this one too..this one is also amazing" like I can't pick a fave 🥹💗 songwise, I loveee the spell part but that is also related to the fact I was already in need to get my energy out somehow and it gave me a reason to, it's so fun lol
please tell me what part you liked!! ☺️ i thought I was more normal about this but apparently nahh
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basically my doctor was right and brian wilson was right and bjork was right and probably thom yorke too because as much as i am in love with this world i am ultimately living in a predatory landscape that puts my humors out of balance and there is a chance that i really just wasnt made for these times im a big fan of the internet but i know that i would be a less this if i lived in a time and place that let me be outside without having to come into contact with my Nemeses(electricity+newer cars +PLASTIC)like truly god is mean for making these thingsbe beasts that hunt me. i caant do cities really even though i would like to but ihave the constitution of a sea turtles and i need to move to alaska. okay
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sobredunia · 10 months
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tell me about Fez, please, im looking through your blog and like, i am intrigued
please click read more for an unskippable cutscene
ALRIGHT SO.
FEZ is an indie game created by a (now hated on the internet) guy called Phil Fish. If you wanna find out why he's hated do your own research this isn't about him it's about his videogame
It came out on april 13th of 2012 (yes. homestuck day. i know), and it sold over a million copies by the end of 2013. I've tried finding how many copies have been sold up to this day in total but didn't find anything, but the general gist is that it was pretty much an instant hit, and people absolutely loved it, working together to solve its intricate puzzles even to this day. Yes, there are mysteries hidden in here that an entire community of dedicated fans still hasn't found the solution to 11 years later
(tiny warning here, do not play this game if you have motion sickness or are severely affected by rapidly changing images, there are whole areas that are a doozy to play through. Please stay safe!)
Gameplay
Fez has a singular core mechanic that remains unchanging throughout the entire course of the game, and that is the ability to change perspectives
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this is what the game looks like, a 2d pixelated landscape with tons of beautiful colors
but.
this is what the game also looks like
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that's right, baby, this shit's actually in 3d
you use this change of perspective nonstop throughout your adventure, to cross gaps like demonstrated in the gif, or to simply access places you couldn't in that current perspective. There are other tiny mechanics that get added, like invisible platforms, crates and buttons, bombs, timed platforms that disappear... they add a bit of flavor, but the main mechanic is always there
There's also a really big emphasis on puzzles towards the latter half of the game, but I'll get more into it later
Story motivations
Your name is Gomez, you are a tiny little guy living in a cozy 2d village that you have never ever left. One day, an old man named Geezer sends you a letter asking you to climb to the top of the village. There, a giant fucking cube appears outta nowhere, teleports you to a satanic ritual, then to the vaccum of space, speaks to you in a strange language you cannot understand, and gives you a free hat. Oh and also he explodes or something
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After you're given the hat, the fez, you discover that the world is actually in 3d, and you can now change perspectives. You unlock the core mechanic
After that, you wake up in your room with the fez still on your head, and a being in 4d called Dot is sent from who knows where to tell you that the cube that gave you the hat is called Hexahedron, is actually technically kinda god, and you fucking killed him. Now, your mission is to pick up its 64 pieces and reconstruct him
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You see all those tiny golden cubes? You have to collect 8 of them to make a bigger cube, and you need to collect 32 of those
Now hold on, I hear you ask, didn't you just say that you need to collect 64 pieces? Why are you changing your mind and saying 32?
Because, my dear friend, there is another type of cube that you have to also collect
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These are called anticubes. Y'know, "a negative for every positive" type of stuff. You have to also collect 32 of those
The main difference between an anticube and a normal cube is that they aren't broken into 8 pieces, when you find one it'll be whole. You can also sometimes encounter full golden cubes btw, but they're rarer than its normal tiny pieces that you collect. Another main difference is that these cubes are much, much harder to find, and I'll go into detail in the next section
There's also this one hub area, with four doors that will only open once you have enough cubes (anticubes also count)
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Once you open the door with 16 cubes, you'll enter this one town filled with people that aren't quite like you. In there there's yet another door that will open when you get 32 cubes, so get to gathering motherfucker, you got a long way ahead of you
Puzzles (anticube edition)
When you collect that first anti cube, there is no going back. The floodgates have opened and you are now too deep in. You know too much. You must see this to the very end, for better and especially for the worse
The puzzles in fez are actually surprisingly varied when it comes to difficulty and accessibility. Most likely, the first anticube you'll find will be in this one room. You'll scan the qr code and do the instructions it says, and then the horror of your new life will begin
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But this is just the tip of the iceberg, because BOY OH BOY are anticubes convoluted to find in some cases
Sometimes you'll get them by solving relatively easy puzzles, like this one
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others will require a bit more thinking, like this one
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and then we have the hardest ones where you'll have to learn how to read words, numbers, and commands in the FEZ language
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and these arent even the hardest bullshit puzzles the game will pull at you. it gets worse. it gets so much worse
Game ending
Surprisingly enough, you can get a game ending with just 32 cubes. In fact, it is literally impossible to get the 64 cube ending without the 32 cube one unless you have outside help, you know the answer to all puzzles, or you somehow get extremely lucky in a very specific number of rooms
Behind the 32 cube door there's a giant gate that, and I shit you not, teleports you into fucking space
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Aliens are canon in the fez lore and they look like squids
Once you reach the top of the alien temple fucking thing, you enter an eye(?) and there you meet the shell of god, the Hexahedron. Since you haven't gathered all 64 cubes, it fails to reconstruct, and it breaks down. This part is pretty dangerous for people with epilepsy, by the way, as there's rapidly changing black and white colors. The 64 cube ending is a bit easier in the eyes, but yeah, just a heads up
In the 32 cube ending, you get sent back home, and you see how the town gets more and more pixelated. Then you see a weird sequence that's like those videos of people really zooming in into things and you see the particles and microscopic stuff?? idk. and then you see Gomez playing the drums :D
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After that, you wake up in your room, still with your Fez, and the same sequence at the start of the game plays out. You go to the top of the village, Geezer summons a giant fucking cube, you meet god, but instead of getting another fez, you get cool glasses, that allow you to finally solve a batch of puzzles you couldn't see before and you can finally gather the last anticubes
In the 64 cube ending, the Hexahedron reforms correctly, and instead of zooming in, it zooms out. You see that your world is a tiny cube next to many tiny cubes, and then those tiny cubes form a 4d entity that looks just like Dot, and then those many Dots next to eachother zoom out until they're nothing but static, and then it looks like a tv is turned off, and then the credits roll
They're both very strange endings, and definitely not what a lot of players expected or wanted, but what can you do
Puzzles (hell edition)
NOW.
You thought that was the end?
You thought you could simply walk away scot free?
You thought that this game had no more last "fuck you"s up in its arse?
You thought fucking wrong
Because you know that something's not right
Because you're in too deep
You've played this far. You've scrolled this far.
You have to see how this ends
You have to tie up the last loose ends
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You see this? This is the game's map. It actually has a really clever design! Not only are the icons for the areas cubes, but you can also change perspectives like how you do in-game! Pretty cool, right? There are also some small indicators you can see on the bottom left. They mark if you've left any cubes, bits, treasures, or locked doors. They also mark any secrets you might have left! And they turn golden once you've found everything there is in that room, including secrets
If you were normal (let's imagine that for a bit, okay?) and you got the 64 cube ending, that's it, right? You've gathered every cube, you've gathered every map (you need them to get all cubes), you've gotten every key and opened every locked door, that should be it, right? You have everything the game asked you to have, so the whole map should be golden, right?
...right?
No! :D you fucking fool, you poor summer child
In fact, there are three rooms left. Three rooms left with a secret symbol next to them, and one other special room
First, we'll talk about the special room
Once you gather 64 cubes, you'll be able to open a door hidden on an unsuspecting island and access this one special room
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kinda weird, right? It has a tileset that appears nowhere else in the game, same with its background. There's also a strange transparent heart over it? Strange
Now, the three ungolden rooms
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First, the observatory, the room with the easiest puzzle, at least in comparison with the other two
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Second, you have whatever the fuck this is. In order to solve this one, you HAVE to know the Fez language, no ifs or buts. Not only that, but there's a high chance that you were reading the language the wrong way, so in order to have the remote chance to solve this mf you'll have to git gud and realise the error of your ways
And last, but definitely not least
The most infamous room in the entire game aside from maybe the heart room previously shown
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This cunt
These three are the hardest challenges the game has to offer, no exaggeration. And also, the first two rooms can be solved at any point of your adventure, but for the third one you HAVE to have completed the 32 cube ending, no workarounds
Now, how to solve them?
If you go to the observatory at night, you'll notice two red blinking stars in the corner. They're speaking in binary code, with one being 1 and the other being 0. Then, that binary has to be translated into a buncha diff languages to be decoded, and once you're done you'll be left with a set of commands that you'll enter in the observatory to get a special red cube that not even Dot, the motherfucker in 4 dimensions that knows things beyond our comprehension, knows what it is
For the second room in fez language, you'll need to answer a question with the cubes provided to you. It's a weird thing where you have to mix this word with the name of the company who made the game, I don't know man. Once you've answered you'll get the second red cube
And now, the third room
Commonly denominated the black monolith room
Why is there no black monolith?
Because you have to make it appear
First, you have to get this burnt map
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Behind it, there's a string of code that translates into commands
You need to get into the room, and use the special ability given to you in the 32 cube ending: first perspective mode
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You'll have to stand in the tiny square inside this infinity symbol thing that doesn't have a line in it (basically, not the one the screenshot is looking at lol), and then you'll have to do the commands
Once you do it, the black monolith will appear
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Okay, you did it
You put the code correctly
Now what?
This isn't a collectable. This isn't a red cube. This doesn't do anything. What is this? How do I solve this puzzle
You wanna know the answer?
Who fucking knows
No one knows the answer to this. No one knows how to solve this. The community solved this a week after launch by bruteforcing it. I shit you not they made a bot that spewed random fez inputs and people just tried them until they got the correct solution
No one knows how it's meant to be solved. To this day, people still go on the r/fez subreddit to give their theories on what the intended solution was meant to be
They have tried everything
The position of the candles, the boiler room, some other random ass rooms that look remotely similar to the black monolith room, a random shower room, it somehow being on a book in the game that's just filled with haikus??, some bullshittery mobius strip mental gymnastics, the other half of the code being in an abandoned airport in Arizona...
...whatever the fuck this is...
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by far the most known theory was the release date theory
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but that got disproven by one of the devs a few years ago
but anyways, we've already gone through insanity for long enough, it's time to be normal now
Once you've gathered all of the red pieces, they will appear in the heart room
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that's it
we're done
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..
...
....almost
there's a secret code
one that was actually intended to be datamined for once lmao
If you look at certain artifacts in the menu and you rotate them a certain way in a certain order, the heart will vanish and the screen will turn white
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you'll be sent back to the menu, and if you load that save file and go back into the temple...
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there will be nothing waiting for you there
that, my friend, is the true end of Fez
You wanted to know too much, you wanted to learn everything, to the point of wanting to tear open a creation that took blood, sweat, tears, and five years to complete. And now there is nothing. You ignored the game's boundaries of only wanting to let you know this much, and now the game is empty, the love is gone, and there is nothing left for you here
You can leave now, I hope you're satisfied
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ofmermaidstories · 11 months
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what i wanna know is how much does the cultural landscape change for you if you are a significant contributor to it? and like, im talking in terms of shallow stuff like pop culture—specifically im thinking of taylor swift and what the music scene looks like for her. all my (non-fandom) socials have been a flood of footage and memes and despair over the eras tour. her songs end up as trending sounds on tiktok—the stuff she’s created has like, idk, rippled out and changed the landscape of even the smallest, unrelated things (like Sad Quote slideshows on TT for example lmaooo) and I’m curious as to how that affects someone’s usage of such a common space, where they have their own personal tastes and things they wanna see? Like Taylor Swift isn’t Taylor Swift to her—she’s just Taylor. Does she get the same rush of endorphins her fans (or casual listeners) do, when they come across one of her songs in the wild?
To bring it back to a fanfic example, is fandom different for Big Name Fans? Like those mega popular draco/hermione writers—if you take their mega popular fics out of the equation, what does the dramione tag look like afterwards to them???? I need answers. I need answers!!! When you create something Big then like… what do you get to enjoy??? As a fan??? Without being a creator?????? Are you just held apart from the fun forever? Does Taylor Swift get a eras-tour level of chaos to laugh at mindlessly while she’s scrolling?? Or is she always going to be the one on stage, making that for everyone else?
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swampgallows · 1 year
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dragonflight is a masterpiece so far btw. it is so charming and beautiful, and im having so much fun. the world itself and the characters in it have always been my favorite part of wow, and dragonflight definitely delivers on the exploration theme of the xpac. so many wonderful little side quests make the world feel vibrant and alive and every npc, no matter how minor, feels like a unique character with a history and a family. i absolutely love the amount of props and doodads spread throughout that make habitats feel lived in, cities and towns populated, and add to the overall landscape. paintbrushes, teapots, baskets, rugs, cooking tools, books and letters, potted plants—these are some of the reasons suramar felt like a real lived-in city in legion, and why boralus and dazar’alor had so much color and life. the differences in architecture and all of these cultural assets further flesh out the races we meet in the dragon isles, and feel natural to their environments and lifestyles. further environmental details like all the flower clusters on the plains, the kelp and chunks of ice in the floes, the bright lichen and fungi in the zones with decay give the land itself even more identity and character. it’s all gorgeous, imbued with love, and most of all, alive.
it feels like wotlk in many ways, and not just because the tuskarr are here: the threat is formidable and present, but manageable, perceptible, domestic. the lich king was a threat, and his touch was felt everywhere, but there was still a visible and familiar world all around us worth saving. the land felt old and new at the same time. the dragon isles seem to borrow from this ethos and have rolled everything players loved about wotlk into the new zones. the azure span is by far the most “mini northrend” of all these: a pine forest that slopes from autumnal down to wintery lowlands and arctic shores, topped off with a nyckelharpa soundtrack. considering that the main antagonists of dragonflight are the primalists who want to throw the elements into chaos, it makes sense that there is so much focus on the beauty of the natural world and the order needed to maintain it. 
the story is cohesive and woven so well into preexisting lore. so many names and places are being dropped that haven’t been talked about since the original rts games and their books, and it’s nice to see the return of so many old faces. even the most minor npcs are someone’s favorite, and it’s been a blast seeing all the cameos of characters from previous expansions, some even as far back as tbc and vanilla. i’m not big on dragons or their lore, but as a longtime fan i can palpably feel the influence of other longtime fans on the development and structure of the story. terran gregory’s hype alone on twitter feels like the metzen days where he is genuinely excited for others to enjoy the expansion and “geek out” alongside him. 
mechanics-wise im really loving the expanded professions; professions are one of my original loves in wow, and it’s been a thrill to return to the days where being a tailor meant i could craft gear that was actually useful. i like the specializations too and their mini talent trees; it’s been fun coordinating with other people in the guild to see who will prioritize what so we can cover all the bases. this might be an unpopular opinion, but i love the explosion of reagents, especially things like meat and plant and animal parts; it feels better to craft something where you can trace it back to where it came from, versus the esoteric gold-sink reagents of shadowlands that called for things like “orboreal shards” and “progenitor essence”. it was more thematic for the xpac, yes, but as a matter of preference it feels more productive to skin an animal and be able to loot meat, skin, and fur or feathers from it. not to mention the profession equipment is a cute, immersive touch that adds more personality and identity to crafting, and it’s given major boosts to “secondary” professions of fishing and cooking (my favorites in any video game). my top priority, of course, is that the cooking recipes in dragon isles are cute and silly and sound delicious, which sold me on dragonflight from minute one.
anyway, i’m having fun. i hope the rest of you guys are too. i have both laughed out loud and cried during several different quests and i’m still not even finished with the main campaign storyline (i’m trying to get there though... i want world quests!!). this is wow that feels like wow without relying on the faction war to do so, which is new territory for me. the truce is tenuous, but not on the shores of the dragon isles. it feels amazing. i want to avoid saccharine words like “wholesome”, so all i can say is that the love is definitely there. there is love and hope in dragonflight, which is all i have ever wanted, and gotten, from wow.
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I AM ASKING FOR THAT FUN FACTS
hehe okay these are literally in no order
Asters nose is slightly crooked from when Blessing broke it
Blessing does gamble a good bit but they are very sure they dont have a problem they might have a slight problem
Blessing looks a lot like their mother
Harrison has a bit of a drinking problem but hes been very good at hiding it
Jesse and Adrian used to say they were going out hunting for camp but really they were just going to relax at whatever lake was closest
Jesse loves swimming
Blessing doesnt hate swimming but they prefer to avoid lakes whenever they can
Ro has a dream of living on the beach and being able to see the ocean everyday
Blessing and Ro used to sneak off to a meadow and make plans to take a trip down to the coast
Blessing is the one who teaches Ro to swim
Ro is the one who teaches Blessing to properly play the guitar
Ro has a very nice singing voice like their Father
Ro really likes Blessings voice especially their singing voice
Ro does pressure Blessing into singing whenever they can
Anytime Blessing sings its always one of the songs theyve heard from Jesse
Blessing teaches Ros brother Alejandro how to gamble
Ros family is the mirror opposite to Blessings even made sure they had the same amount of siblings
Im a big fan of symbolism so each character has an animal, flower, color, and bird assigned to them in my notes
they also have a season of the year but those are more broad
everyones birthday was a bit more broad in choice but i still picked days that felt right
Almost every characters name was very specially chosen
They also all have middle names
Jesse and Adrians relationship is very much inspired by Lucy Grey Baird and Coriolanus Snow in The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes
This wasnt even on purpose but Ro and Blessings relationship is a lot like Ellie and Dina from The Last of Us Part II
Asters color is yellow<3
Blessing and Aster used to get into a lot of arguments when they were younger and they'd physically fight a lot
Harrison and Jesse don't know that Aster is part of Adrians gang
Adrian doesnt even know that Blesing exist and he doesnt meet them till theyre 19
Aster is a very good artist and they sketch a lot of plants and landscapes
I've always felt that Blessing is the type of person always up in a tree
Aster and Blessing used to sit in trees and share whatever meal they had after they practiced shooting
Aster and Blessing learnt to shoot together
Blessing is the better shot
Okay im going to stop there but im still very tempted to share the chapter titles. They're not very spoilerly or anything i just like them a lot
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bryndeavour · 9 months
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i think its interesting as a writer/fandom person who has been doing this more than 20 years to watch the sort of fandom trends, but its also a bit (shallowly) agonizing when the the younger fans very much veer into territory that you aren't interested in and never have been. this is in NO WAY criticism, just observation on how a lot of fic trends and newer content just dont appeal to myself specifically. omegaverse was NOT really a thing like it is now when i got into fandom - and it now encompasses basically all of the things considered squicks by me (and a lot of friends my age who also fan). it still remains one of my big no-nos. self insert stuff was also NEVER something i was interested in, because fanfic isn't a fantasy for me to be INVOLVED in, its for me to make the characters into little dolls and mash them together. i have never been interested in inserting myself in the narrative, which for me is the entire point of the escapism. also huge huge trend recently i have found of people writing 'get married and have kids and write the kids'. now this has always been a thing (obviously lol) but ive seen this more and more in my specific fandoms pop up in recent years. meanwhile my particular circles of rp'ers and fic writers have specifically moved away from writing children. in our rp groups - i used to participate in adoptables and b&c pets - we actually got rid of child and baby stages in a lot of places because writing children was so tiresome for most people.
its interesting to me is all! the switching in perspectives of young people finding what they need in fic. im interested in the psychology of it and how the landscape of society/world has changed in such a way as to effect these changes as well.
anyway - write what you like and i will continue to study you like an ant under a microscope :D
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romance-evil-aro · 10 months
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i was thinking about the book earlier so.. have you ever read loveless by alice oseman? it’s such a popular aroace book and while i appreciate its existence and think it’s not bad, its portrayal of an aspec experience is so far from mine, and i find it insane how so many people relate to it. idk i’m not a big fan of how it portrayed it as “it’s so normal to want a romantic relationship and everyone wants to be loved but there’s different kinds of love so don’t worry!!” and ik it’s not supposed to be all encompassing of every experience but it still felt really off 💀
okay i'll be honest loveless made me ugly sob the first time i read it because it was during the soul-crushingly miserable "oh my god im going to be alone forever :((" phase i had of coming to terms with my aromanticism and it was the first book i'd ever read that a) had an explicitly aromantic character and b) dared to suggest (at least towards the end) that romance was not the fucking be all and end all of personal relationships. georgia's experience was nothing like mine either, but i think part of the reason it's so popular is because we are so starved of books that
that's not to say i don't agree with you, though - looking back on it from a more settled perspective, yeah, it's not great that so much of the plot revolves so intensely around wanting romance and wanting love and that emphasis on platonic love, because it's not representative of a lot of the community. it could definitely give someone reading it who knew nothing about thd aspec community some misconceptions. but given the general landscape of popular literature i think it's a pretty good stepping stone to help other, more diverse, aspec experiences make their way out into the world
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