#large properties

[hometoursandotherstuff]

I don't know what to make of this weird house, built in 2003 in Round Top, New York. The description says it's a compound, and has 6bds, 8ba, $3.7M. It looks like it's built from metal sheets, but look at the heavy lanterns and columns, plus the etched glass above the door that says "Crows Nest." I don't know, it just strikes me as strange. Take a look at it.

It appears that the entrance hall is made to look like a vintage home, but they gave it an industrial cement floor and it's part of the living room.

The fireplace is lovely and looks vintage, but who hangs paper lanterns from medallions in the ceiling? The area next to it turns ultra modern w/large glass windows.

Above the vintage part is a railing that looks like a choir loft.

Rustic kitchen with black cabinetry.

Rustic hand-hewn wood in the kitchen.

Family room with a nice fireplace.

Old timey shower room with beadboard paneling and embossed wallpaper with simulated Victorian tin ceiling tiles.

Down the hall is a bar.

And, behind the bar is a wine room.

Kinda love this sink, but not against knotty pine walls.

The primary bedroom is modern and has an extremely ornate doorway.

In the modern en-suite is a medieval chandelier and statuary flanking the tub.

Secondary bedroom is like a little farmhouse room with bright yellow beadboard walls and ceiling, plus a farm light fixture.

Funky little bathroom.

This looks like a family/game room.

But, it must be for guests, b/c there's a dorm style bedroom, too. Although, it is described as a compound.

Bath for the dorm room.

Container garden outside.

Interior of the vast barn-like outer building.

Nice outdoor patio and fireplace.

Cute little treehouse to sit in.

All set on a whopping 170 acres of land.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/278-Crows-Nest-Rd-Round-Top-NY-12473/246326661_zpid/

#compounds #large properties #houses #house tours #home tour

[gallusrostromegalus]

Winged Bull, based on the Jagdeep Rajput shot that is a contenter for the the 2022 Wildlife Photography awards. It's such a fun shot and was fun to turn into a creature.

I think his name is Undeterred By Marigolds, and he likes fresh vegetables, especially when someone else so kindly grew them for him :)

#Illustration #beast #Winged Bull #He's a garden-raiding little shit #but also animals (holy or otherwise) have no concept of property so can you really blame him #the joke is that Marigolds smell awful to most large garden pests so you plant them around your borders

[creekfiend]

deer are like huge idiot rabbits to me

#we have these deer living here on the property and everu time i see them and they go O_O and bound off wjth their big white butts #in just Some Direction #which one time was INTO FERS CAR #simple. large simple rabbits

[sergle]

I love telling Hugo, a dog who I raised and whose surroundings I control, that he's a City Boy for being confused as hell on a farm

#born in texas and raised in oklahoma and NO I don't know what a horse is WHAT is wrong with that large and sick dog #anyway I'd do anything to know what he thought of the whole thing #we handed off our rooster to some cool lady who already keeps roosters that ppl didn't want #and she was nice enough to walk us around her property and shit #Hugo got to see.. a hog. horses. a mule. a goat. many chickens but he knows what chickens are. #he also got to see a very enthusiastic puppy who really wanted to play with him #hand to god I almost could not get Hugo to go near the fence to see the horses #he was also scared of the hog. but he warmed up to her #sergle.txt

[modmad]

TPoH: Update!

Hands are on the mend, hoping to keep to a one a week update schedule now but will let you know if things change!

Read TPoH from the start here.

Update here on the TPoH website!

Thank you all  for the kind and loving support! If you want to buy books of this comic YOU CAN! Volumes one and two AND THREE are now in stock and you can get even more books in the form of TPatJ and Unbecoming! Find them and more here in the TPoH Topatoco shop right here, or tell your friends about it! There are also always lots of my doodles to buy on nice stuff in my Society6 merch box too!

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#TPoH Update #TPoH #the property of hate #RGB #Hero #simple page but also not and I've been working on the NEXT page #this week bc I am away for a large part of this coming week #soooooo yeah enjoy

[rowanhoney]

Bark patterns in the New Forest, England

#my vibe #I had so much fun running around touching trees #this started cos I had a writing idea #and one tree #bottom right #had such large bark ridges that I thought it was like dragon scales #and I had to take a pic to remember my description #but then all the trees were so different and here ya go #I like how the bark on the pine trees seems to move in a wavier fashion #pic 2 to be specific #even tho it’s not my fav of the pics it was one of #one of my fave textures #the one with the roots growing up it was on the same property as our cabin I was like woooah

[caswarrenart]

I know a lot of artists are antsy about art theft right now (myself included, I literally just had a terrible nightmare about fighting the physical manifestation of AI, The Mitchells vs The Machines style…). I can’t claim that any of these things can prevent it. But here’s a few things I’ve found useful:

Opening a free account on Pixsy.com. This website does a decent job at letting me know when my images have been reposted. 99% of the time, the results are just Tumblr-copying zombie websites that just repost everything that is already here. But, it’s sensitive enough that it alerted me when my old college posted my work. They were harmlessly using my stuff as an example of alumni work- but I was glad to be in the know, AND they had mistakenly credited my deadname, so I was able to reach out and correct that. I would have never have seen it otherwise. The website has subscription options, but you can ignore them and still use the monitoring services it provides.

Reverse image searching my most widely shared pieces on haveibeentrained.com. This website checks to see if your work has been fed to AI.

Looking up legal takedown letters and referencing them to draft a generic letter for my own use. This takes a bit of the stress off what is already a stressful and often time-consuming ordeal. Taking time to craft a Very Scary, Legally Threatening, Yet Coldly Professional Memo has been worth it.

Remaining careful about what and how I post online. My living depends on sharing my work, so I have to post it. I’ve learned through trial and error how to post lower resolution images that still look good, but aren’t easily used for anything beyond the intended post, and of course, strategic watermarking. Never, ever post full res, print quality stuff for the general public. Half the time it ends up looking unflattering on social media anyways, cause the files get crunched for being large. I try to downsize my images, while set to bicubic smoothening, to head that off. Look up the optimal image resolutions and proportions for individual sites before posting your web versions. For some work, cropping the piece, or posting chunks of detail shots instead of a full view, is a more protective measure.

Look out for other artists! Reach out when in doubt. Don’t steal from others. Learn the difference between theft, and a study/master copy/fanart/inspiration. Don’t assume that all posted art has the same intended purpose as a “how to” instructional like 5 Minute Crafts. Ask permission. Artists are often helpful and supportive towards people who want to study their work! And, the best tip-offs I’ve received have all been from other people who were watching my back. Thank you to everybody who keeps an eye out for my work, and who have been thoughtful enough to reach out to me when they see theft happening 💖 y’all are the real MVPs. All we have is each other.

#cas posts #art theft #ai art #art #intellectual property #artificial art #artificial intelligence #artificialart #lensa app #lensa #stable diffusion #laion #laion database #large scale artificial intelligence open network #stolen art

[lemongogo]

what's your process for coloring like? the look of that elendira is so textured and interesting, i can't figure out how you do it

AA THANK YOUU ^__^ !! textures & brushwork are my favorite things abt my art, so im happy you find it interesting hehe . its SOO cool to look at & so much fun to draw imo

i prefer to color by building in layers , if that makes sense 🤔!! hundreds of them !! such that i'm always drawing on Top of previous layers, working from big & messy blocks of color to, eventually, small and refined blocks of color until it feels processed enough. as a result, i rarely ever erase (!!) and i rarely ever draw lineart aside from the initial sketch

a rough, patchy textured brush is key here, as it'll give you dimension and variability w/ your colors. i recommend "Brush and various sets of fountain pen style (万年筆風ブラシと色々セット)" on Clip Studio (ID: 1679706) !! :3

im terrible with explanations though, so i'm going to show a step by step of that elendira drawing if you dont mind :3

sketch layer !! because i mostly render through color alone, i try to make this as close to the finished thing as possible . ^__^ i hateee drawing the same thing over and over and like the expressivity and movement of my sketches anyways , so the more i can preserve at this step, the better. if u were to look at a side by side of my sketches and finished pieces, youd notice a lot of those og lines are present in the final drawing :3

2. flats !! pretty self explanatory, but the solid background gives me an idea of where the figure begins & ends while the colors themselves help distinguish whats what . i stick to ambient lighting @ this point because im usually not sure what i want to do with the overall palette or lighting yet . having two tones (ex, dark and light in her hair or dark and light on her skin) can also help in identifying key features early on that u wanna preserve. as you build layer by layer, sometimes these areas will remain untouched and i think it makes for a rly lovely feel at the end

3. start blocking !!! to be totally honest with you, i dont really know what i do here HAHAHA. like i just scribble the shit out of it, usually focusing on what i might want to do with lighting (ex: grey areas to accentuate folds in her costume). i think i like to start "erasing" the sketch where possible by coloring on top of it .. like if you look at her hat or her arm , you can tell i'm starting to get a sense of the shapes i like vs the ones i dont. it's at this point that the final image starts to emerge in my mind , like im gradually pulling her from a tarpit of scribbles until shes recognizable lol. chipping away at the marble until i can free her. tbh.

4. keep blockingg...when u think u are done , block some more . as you can probably see, the brushwork becomes more intentional as i add more shape, with specific focus on line weight. this is also where the patchiness of that textured brush comes in - notice how none of the colors seem totally uniform (ex: the red cross or the original sketchlines for her waist). you can see bits and pieces of the layers underneath pushing through and i really like that !! ^__^ its very fun and sketchy to me, so i try to keep them around. those areas are also great to colorpick from, because it'll give you "new" colors to work w/ that are already part of your palette.

5. GRADIENTS & GRADIENT MAPS !! TONE CURVE !! COLOR PICKER !! this is the best stage tbh. flatten your image so its all on one layer and just go crazy with all the color settings in ur program. add gradient layers and set them to darken, or overlay, or subtract, orrr. lighten or dodge glow or divide or soft/hard light.! OR!! edit the hue, saturation, luminosity and contrast.and then color pick from these edits, block even more on top of ur image, flatten, color edit again, etc. etc. until u feel satisfied.

ANYWAYSS . i hope that makes sense @__@ sry i wrote this out and deleted it like 23 times trying to make it make More sense but thats what ive got HAHA i hope its useful though :3 !

#SRY I STRUGGLED 2 EXPLAIN THIS #dude its like my brain bcomes stuffed w/ cotton anytime i try 2 write #i hope it makes sense tho.. #it also probably sounds so redundant to make new layer one after the other for just a few brushstrokes #but those brushes i linked have a multiply property so if you draw on top of prev lines they'll create dark patches #and so if im working over a large area ill generally need like . 5 layers each with one brushstroke :sob: if that makes sense #this one had . 84 i think. total. layers i mean. the merylvash one had 300+ HAHAH so it rly depends #like YEAAH i could just use a normal brush but i really like the way this looks #andd sometimes the multiply function works really well or will give me the proper shadow tone im looking for #anywas.wanywaysn anyways #asktag #anonymous #long post

[lovebunnie]

is it so much to ask that cecil be brought to tears live on mic as he sacrifices himself to save the town and his family only for carlos to step in and defend his husband from janet also live on mic while the entire town rallies to save their voice because night vale starts and ends with him??

#space.txt #wtnv #wtnv spoilers #the idea of cecils voice having so much power. #sorry i want my main character of a property to have large importance to the setting

[defira85]

screams calmly and with incoherent rage into a pillow

#this is a work thing it's fine #I just want REDACTED to have a rage room so I can destroy large quantities of property without being arrested

[superconductivebean]

#386: old quidditch themes

WHEN WILL I STOP PUTTING ESSAYS excessive ramblings IN TAGS.

#днявочка #днявочка: hlegacy #днявочка: фандомное #днявочка: игры #днявочка: музыка #ahhh i miss quidditch in hlegacy #in older games it was epic and it was ridiculously BAD but fun and it had THE MUSIC #half blood prince was a true masterpiece music-wise #(and it had potions club and that i miss dearly too) #BREW A WIGGENWELD UNDER 10 MIN @ THROW INGREDIENTS ALL OVER THE GREENHOUSE @ COMPETITIVENESS #actually #hlegacy's version of the potion is like the 4th installment? there was the one from the books #then of the chamber of secrets game #then came half blood prince game (SHARP WAS RIGHT I STRUGGLED BREWING IT UNDER THE TIME LIMIT I STG FLASHBACKS) #and then the newest #hlegacy's #sharp should've had a whole test on wiggenwelds only #there are too many versions of this potion and i like mixing game-canon with everything else like why not #each year u have a wiggenweld in the curriculum and each year it becomes progressively harder if not WORSE #because WHAT IF each version has different properties and in actuality wiggenwelds are a large group of healing mixtures and salves #and depending on whatever it had different properties and that one sharp introduced to the class was like an ultimate version of it #that can heal mmm #i believe #only those that --well-- forgive me #i will directly translate russian idiom: will heal like it's on the dog; meaning the injury is within body's natural regenerative capabilit #although it has an equivalent of 'lick one's wound' it doesnt have that insane healing vibering to it #NOT ME INTRODUCING WEIRD CONTEXTS TO “It can heal some injures but not all” #but actually yeas??? idk sharp's look is of a wolf to me #so yeah wiggenweld cannot help u much if an injury is beyond body's natural ability to heal and energy boost itself #and legacy doesn't even mention you need a wiggentree bark and getting it is a quest bc bowtruckles!!

[rudjedet]

still wild to me i can say "slaves didn't build the pyramids" and then get called a slavery apologist. bestie where am i talking about slaves, i am explaining to you how labour tax and conscription worked in egypt.

#prisoners of war would have made up part of the work force but fact remains that for the large part they were conscripted peasants #who famously remained not anyone's property

[sufficientlylargen]

#Excel is actually a decent editor for writing Java#it makes it very difficult to make some of the most common Java mistakes#like writing code in Java

"Lol"

"Lmao" even.

Is this an "I have written too much Java" emotion or an "I refuse to touch Java" emotion?

I am, perhaps, overstating my aversion to the language - I don't really hate Java, I just don't find it terribly fun to work in (although it's been years since the last time I had to, so maybe IDE advances have made it more palatable now). I've worked on some Java projects that were quite well put together, but I've also seen my share of code with types like ProducerFactory<FactoryProducer, IGatewayFactoryFactory>.

In general if speed is not an essential part of a project I prefer to write in Python for its terseness and extremely effective syntactic sugar (context managers, generators, etc.), and if speed IS essential then various C variants, Rust, or even Go will almost certainly outperform Java. So it's not entirely clear to me why Java is still used outside of legacy code.

#FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE! #python does of course run into problems if you have a large enough project and inexperienced developers or poor code review practices #because sooner or later someone's going to do something 'clever' like hiding important things inside properties #or mucking about with metaclasses without understanding how to properly scope magic #and then you're in trouble #('clever' in this context is the sort of cleverness where you get a perl regex to compute fibonacci numbers) #(i.e. the sort of thing that's fun to do for fun but should never be put in production code) #I saw some code at google once where accessing what appeared to be an ordinary attribute actually froze for 45m #because it was a property that fetched the value from a sandbox environment #and if there wasn't a sandbox environment currently running it would spin up a new one from scratch and wait for everything in it to come u

[modmad]

TPoH: Update!

New page is finished but im still recovering from RSI so can't guarantee that we're back to usual on the one-a-week schedule, will keep you posted! Anyway-

Update here on the TPoH website!

Thank you all  for the kind and loving support! If you want to buy books of this comic YOU CAN! Volumes one and two AND THREE are now in stock and you can get even more books in the form of TPatJ and Unbecoming! Find them and more here in the TPoH Topatoco shop right here, or tell your friends about it! There are also always lots of my doodles to buy on nice stuff in my Society6 merch box too!

If you like TPoH and my other work and want to help keep a soul and body together monetarily, please consider supporting me on Patreon, even just one or two dollars a month helps!

#TPoH #the property of hate #RGB #Hero #happily there is a bg style shift which has largely saved my ass #thank you comic

[dearlystars]

i do think it's interesting to think about how a lot of the time when people analyze queer couples in fandom that even when talking about like. f/f couples and the way that fandoms treat them but then kind of just... don't look at a lot of very popular f/f ships just because they're not in super mainstream (or even just like. popular with the tumblr/twitter/tiktok crowds) media. like when analyzing fan reaction and gathering around f/f why have i never once seen people discuss things like madohomu or rarijack or utenanthy or [INSERT BASICALLY ANY SHIP FROM AN ANIMUSIC FANDOM HERE.] there are substantial fanbases built around these ships and they're practically unavoidable if you interface with these properties and while i do think there's a lot to analyze in the fact that nearly all of them come from specifically media where a majority if not just the entirety of the cast are women there's also just like? so much going on wrt the fan culture that these ships have that it's just like crazy to me to see these like never getting mentioned in video essays

#property of ruf #i do think a big part of it is how there's a lot of video essayists that seem to kind of just ignore animation when like... #that's where a LOT of sapphic ships thrive for many reasons #even outside of the fact that there's just generally more canon and plot important f/f ships in animation than m/m ones #(especially in popular animation) #i get that it's not super relevant to like fandom at large due to how niche a lot of these fandoms are (in the west at least) but like #idk i still think it's still valuable to look at in these wider discussions surrounding fan reception #need a video essayist to get their hands on shoujo kageki revue starlight so fucking bad this shit goes crazy #anyway if you read all these tags watch shoujo kageki revue starlight

[notalexhorne]

God it's so strange having a show I like that actually has regular and consistent output, after so many fandoms with years between seasons/series.

Venture Bros: get rekt

Sherlock: Fuck the fans

Marvel: lol wtf is an output schedule? Fans are replaceable anyway

Meanwhile Taskmaster over here giving us two series per year, plus a yearly special, plus another special every five series (ish, scheduling depending). It's nice to be fed and happy for a change.

#taskmaster #admittedly with the venture bros the scheduling was largely the fault of adult swim from what i've gathered #and tbh the art getting better and better with every season always made the wait well worth it #cannot wait to watch the movie on thursday #and with marvel they have a problem with oversaturating the market with so many of their millions of properties #that the one specific title you're following gets sidelined and doesn't have another issue come out for six months for no fucking reason #idek what's going on with the D+ series anymore because I dropped that shit ages ago #i'll just pirate it if anything I'm even remotely interested comes out ever again #which after loki seems unlikely tbh #because the thor franchise has been thoroughly fucked by the studio anyway and i've given up on it ever being good again but whatever #and sherlock #fuck sherlock in its entirety #it knows what it did