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sheltiechicago · 2 years

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HARPA 03F by René Bauwens Via Flickr: Harpa concert building Reykjavik Iceland

#Reykjavik #Iceland #Ijsland #Islande #HARPA #Concert Building #NIKON #D750 #NIK FILTER #flickr

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aropride · 11 months

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while im here (im always here i never get off this fucking website) can i ask that yall tag bloodposting / stabbing / knifeplay / "first date ideas i kill you and you bleed out in my arms" / wounds / "let me see your internal organs babygirl" / "violence as a love language" / vivisection / autopsy / cutting people / gore / stomach trauma / raw meat / "shoves a knife into your abdomen <3" / sadomasochism / sexual connotations of surgery / ETC genre of posts please. please

#text #PLease for the love of god i just want to see gerad without my dash becoming an unfilterable trigger minefield 🙏#you would not believe how many words i have filtered and i still see it like daily so i am asking now #any tag works 😭#just like. hashtag blood or whatever. hashtag stabbing tw. hashtag masochism hashtag violence hashtag nik dont look . or something #also be nice please i spent 20 minutes drafting this post to not sound lame. and failed. sorry about my cringefail ptsd.

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effulgent-girl · 2 years

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I downloaded one of those apps that has different filters, like aging.

Young/Old Gwen

Young/Old Nik

Zombie Nik/Gwen 😶

Feel free to use however you want!

#nikolaj coster waldau #jaime lannister #gwendoline christie #brienne of tarth #jaime x brienne #nik & gwen #filters #silliness #young & old #zombies #effulgentgirl

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ph-cutie · 2 years

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Why do soulless YouTubers whose career is making vapid twenty-something minute long drama videos on dead horse public figures ALWAYS use the same gross crusty deepfried filter for their thumbnails

#the nik/gabbiehanna ''video essay'' filter

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cod-dump · 7 months

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*zoom meeting shenanigans*

Laswell: John, before the boys join, you should put more clothes on

Price: I’m not putting on pants. They won’t be able to tell! The only reason you know I’m not wearing pants is because you saw me get up to get tea

Laswell: John. I’m warning you now. If Nik realizes you’re not wearing pants, this meeting is going to become uncomfortable really fast because you know his filter is practically non existent

Price: He won’t know! You need to calm down

Laswell: Fine. Don’t say I didn’t warn you

(An hour later)

Nik: I love how you tease me when I’m out of country

Price: Wha-

Nik: Are you wearing the silk ones?

Price: NIK-

Soap: *crying/laughing off screen*

Ghost: *fell out of his chair and is currently on the floor dying*

Gaz: *horrified, staring into the camera like someone threatened to skin him alive*

Farah: *logged off as soon as Nik said ‘tease’*

Laswell: *silently sips her iced tea*

#zoom meeting shenanigans #call of duty #cod mwii #modern warfare ii #john price #kate laswell #simon ghost riley #john soap mactavish #kyle gaz garrick #farah karim #cod nikolai #incorrect quotes #pricenik #scheduled #modern warfare

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cal-kestis · 4 months

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hi nik! i was wondering if you have different coloring settings for anime like jujitsu kaisen? i was wondering if you could do a tutorial for it?

hi!!! sorry this is 10 days late 😭 my coloring for anime is only two steps different from my normal coloring process, but what's very different are my sharpening settings! this won't be a lengthy tutorial since I ended up just making a downloadable action pack, but I'll still explain a few things below the cut. also, these actions work well for for any anime, including ghibli, or classic disney animated film with black outlines

Get the free action pack via Ko-Fi!

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: – My basic gif-making tutorial – My color manipulation tutorial via usergif – Anime gif sharpening tutorial by aq2003 – How to load and use actions

I should preface that I always gif footage that's 1080p or 4K. For JJK, it's always 1080p!

MY SHARPENING SETTINGS: Firstly, shoutout to the tutorial above by aq2003 where I learned the minimum and surface blur filter trick! My sharpening actions use some of these tips mixed with my usual sharpening (with some slight modifications)! Here are my settings (click for higher quality):

Also, I will very rarely increase the first sharpening radius to 0.4. I've only had to do that, like, twice when giffing anime.

Here's how I used these actions in the Nanami gif:

I typically only use Anime (Sharpen) since my usual anime gifs are small 268px wide gifs. But occasionally, depending on the scene and gif size, I'll duplicate the gif and use Sharpen + Thicker Lines set at an opacity between 40-60% if I want the black outlines to look smoother. I only use Sharpen + Thicker Lines at 100% opacity for chibi scenes (like the Yuji gif in the preview gif above) where the outlines are already very thick.

The differences between my actions and the tutorial I linked by aq2003 are my sharpening settings and that all of my filters' blending modes are Normal (whereas they used Darken on their sharpening filter).

MY COLORING AND DARKEN ACTION: I'm not going to go too deep into coloring since my basic gif-making tutorial covers my usual steps, as does my color manipulation tutorial. My goals for anime gifs are to accurately represent character skin tones (especially taking care to NOT whitewash or color-wash, especially pink-wash, their skin tones since many anime characters are characters of color) and to feature vibrant backgrounds/accent colors.

Two of the first adjustment layers I do for almost every anime gif are Levels (to darken) and Selective Color (to lower the white levels). I only do this for very bright anime scenes, which are many of the scenes I've giffed in my experience. Please note that my darken action won't suit every scene without tinkering with them yourself, and it definitely shouldn't be used on already dark scenes. You'll either need to lower the opacity of the layers or play with the sliders yourself.

For example, the Nanami gif was VERY bright (almost over exposed) and uses my darken action as is:

The Choso gif is also very bright AND washed-out; it needed both darkening and color correcting:

Notice the color sliders are also adjusted in Selective Color, Whites. This was to bring color back to Choso's skin which had been washed out due to the fluorescent lights in the Shibuya train station.

Here are some additional color-correcting adjustments I made before continuing on with my usual coloring process:

(Note that there were several more adjustment layers after these before I landed on my final Choso gif in the preview.)

The Yuji gif is already at a good level and didn't need darkening, and I actually even brightened it a bit and increased the blacks:

That's as much as I'll explain about the basics of my anime colorings! Everything after these darkening steps follows my usual routine as laid out in my basic gif-making tutorial, even for dark scenes.

That's it, hope this helps! :)

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cheesy-cryptid · 5 months

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Hi Nik! Okay, So I've seen you and a few artists go from black and white (to see values) to color. How do you guys do that? Do you paint with colors first and then filter the image in black and white to see the value or do you paint in black and white first and then somehow add color? I don't get it. Anonymously Yours, - An artist who clearly knows nothing (I just make lines on paper I haven't studied)

I start painting in black and white first after I cleaned up the sketch. And then i experiment by using different gradient scale palettes as sort of an underpainting. And then on a separate layer i establish flat colors using different blending modes (i dont usually stick to one type of blending mode because it all depends on the look that im trying to achieve). Its easier for me to do black and white first because it lessens the amount of time i spend on deciding colors.

Most of the time its all about adjusting and experimenting with different contrasts and blending modes. Heres some of my process from different layers. I couldnt give you the flat colors layer because i have a habit of immediately merging them together and coloring over my sketches

Hope this helps! 🌷🌷🌷

#answered asks

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landgraabbed · 5 days

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i love love LOVE how your game looks! if it is not too much trouble, would you be willing to share how you edit your gameplay pics? thank you so much!

hi, thank you so much for the kind words! and ofc. i'll be quite frank and admit that reshade does most of the work!

i use photoshop and run a sharpening filter, followed by a lens distortion filter from nik analog efex pro 2 (you can still grab the plugin here, settings below), and noise.

with all that together, here's the before & after of a pic:

#p #replies #the picture may or may not have been chosen bc i miss this family terribly

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chemicalalice · 1 year

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Fic: All My Words in a Touch - Kinktober Day 24

Title: All My Words in a Touch

Summary: He was a hard man, living a hard life, in a hard world. Words weren't easy.

Pairing: Tyler Rake x female!Reader

Warnings: unprotected PinV sex, swearing. Please be mindful of yourself and do not read if this content bothers you. 18+ only!

Word count: 1359

AN: Another bruised and broken man I love to give some love to

He was a hard man, living a hard life, in a hard world. And even then, he still kept the worst of it from you.

You were a realist. You knew there were pieces inside of Tyler Rake that were shattered and no matter how much you loved him, you would never be able to put those pieces back together again. It didn't matter to you, though. You weren't looking to fix him. You loved him as he was. All you wanted was to be the bit of calm, that bit of softness, he so desperately longed for.

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Rake liked being in control. It was rare that you got to have him like this. This being drowsy with sleep and spread out beneath you as you sat astride his thighs, his cock buried deep inside you.

"Baby-"

"Shhhh." You shushed him gently, and leaned down to kiss him, feeling his soft groan as your breasts pressed against his chest. "Just relax."

It was early, the grey light of dawn filtering in through your sheer curtains and filling the room. Everything was quiet and still, the sounds of gentle breathing the only thing breaking the silence as you rode him slowly.

He was often brusque, almost cold, in his dealings with most people; not one to mince words or draw things out. And you knew when people saw this, they assumed this was how he was in all aspects of his life. But with you, he was different. He was gentle, soft, and you knew he tried to do everything in his power to give you the world. He was haunted by the ghosts of his past, the sins he felt he had to atone for, and the fear that he would repeat it all again with you.

He had loved his family, but that love hadn't been enough for his ex, to make up for his long absences or the darkness that would chase him home. He had been losing her far before his son ever got sick. Those experiences had left him scarred when it came to intimacy.

Tyler was not a man who could sit around idle. His work was an inseparable part of him, something you did not begrudge him in the slightest. He never turned down a job when Nik called, but since you came into his life he became careful, not using his work as a means to an end anymore. It was a good thing, you knew, something you were so grateful for, but your presence in his life also meant that every time you kissed him good-bye the worry that you would not be here upon his return was clear in his eyes. He was a man of action, not words. And no matter how many times you told him you loved him, that you would be waiting for him, your words couldn't chase that fear away.

Usually your couplings were intense, bordering on frantic, as if you would disappear if he let you go. He would have you on your back, legs over his shoulders, spread out as wide as you could for him; or on your knees, one had on your back, pushing you into the mattress as he fucked into you, grip tight on your hip. He would pull orgasm after orgasm from you until you were worn out, words and thoughts blown from your mind. Only then, after he was convinced he had completely satisfied you, would he allow himself to find his own release.

But in the nights and mornings after he returned from a particularly fucked up job, when he was at his most weary, when his guards came down and he was almost fragile, as fragile as a man like him could be, that was when you used your body to show him tenderness and to give him the physical touch you knew he was craving like the air in his lungs. You knew he listened to you whenever you spoke, loved when you told him you loved him, but it was these rare moments you knew he finally allowed himself to believe it.

"I love you." You voice was soft, and yet you knew it hit him like a punch when his hands shot up from the bed to grip your hips. He always tried to be gentle with you, to treat you like the precious and delicate thing he thought you were, but you would have bruises the next day from where his fingers dug into your flesh. You didn't care. It was your own little reassurance of his feelings for you.

"I love you," you repeated, one hand lifting to rest on his where it gripped at your hip, the other on his chest for balance as you lifted yourself up off his cock. He groaned deeply as you slid smoothly back down.

Tyler was big, and occasionally, if he had been away for awhile, it could be a struggle to take him inside of you. This was not one of those times. You were so wet that you had had no problem guiding him into you, settling your full weight on him and taking every inch of his cock inside of you quickly. It felt so good like this. He felt so good. And the way he looked up at you, as if you hung the moon, sun, and stars, only made you wetter. You had thought you were in love with others, before him, and maybe you had been; but never in your life had you felt anything near to what you felt for the man under you.

You wanted to cum. The feeling only intensified on every slide down his cock, when your pelvis met his and you had the sweetest friction on your clit as you ground your body against his. But you wouldn't. This was about him. Thankfully, you could feel his heartbeat speeding up underneath your palm and you knew he wasn't going to last much longer either.

"Tyler," you moaned, finally breaking his gaze as you tipped your head back, mouth falling open slightly at how good he felt inside of you. You wanted to cum so fucking bad.

He had his feet under him now, pushing up slightly as his grip on your hips pulled you down at the same time, the action driving himself deep into you. He breathing was heavy, matching your own, as you both worked your way to release.

"Baby, please, please," he begged, his eyes still focused on your face. You weren't sure what he was asking for. To cum? For you to cum? To hear again how much you loved him? How you belonged to him for as long as he wanted?

"Yes! Always," you gasped in response, a response to every single one of his unsaid pleas. Your head tilted back further as your orgasm finally washed over you, you hips stalling as you tightened up around him, your body vibrating with the rush of pleasure he pulled from you.

He groaned wildly in response and with one more rough thrust that drove him deepest yet, spilled himself inside of you.

You legs finally gave out as your orgasm faded and you collapsed down onto Tyler's chest, ear pressed right over the pounding of his heart. You could feel him still twitching inside of you as the last of his spend emptied from him. In some regards, you were the same as him after all. Words were wonderful, but you never felt as close to him as you did in moments like this, joined together, his warmth filling your insides the same way the arms he had wrapped tightly around you, holding you to him, warmed your outsides.

"I love you too. Always." His words, mirroring yours, were quiet and rough, almost lost amongst his harsh breathing. But they were utterly sincere.

Later, his phone would ring (too soon, your heart would cry out) and the world would creep back in, but for now, tucked in his arms, it was just the two of you, lost in the little bubble of contentment you had created together.

#tyler rake #tyler rake x reader #extraction #kinktober 2022 #tppkinktober2022 #chemy writes

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cosmic-bat · 7 months

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I originally didn’t want to make a post about the London meet and greet because I don't want to come across like I'm bragging or anything but if anyone (@spooky-cowfish especially) really does want to read about it then here you go...

So we go into the main gig hall and the boys are all standing at the barrier, well Chris is straddling it and has trouble getting over which was quite funny. They count us a few times as everyone filters in which made it felt like a school trip😂.

After the initial hello they say they're gonna do individual photos and talking/questions so they all split off in different directions. Pi walks straight towards me and my new queue friend and we were not prepared 😂 we awkwardly say hi and take photos, he asked if I wanted anything signed and I had a small rainbow flag but I'd forgotten a pen so he said he'd come back to sign it. Can I just say his eyes are so piercing!!! Like woah!!!! He has great energy too.

Next I went to Gared and the awkwardness had gone so I managed to chat and joke with him more. He's super nice and quick witted, very funny. I managed to borrow a pen from someone and made a stupid joke about him being left handed and he went "No I'm just trying it out" 🤣😭 I'm sorry Gared. I told him to just sign anywhere but he said "No, I have to do it properly" he's so sweet!!

Then I went to Klaas and omfg, first thing I did was ask for a hug so we hugged and I squeezed his waist (it had to be done). He is so lovely, we chatted about fancy venues and he bragged about how he saw ghost years ago in a nice small venue, his favourite Ghost song is Mummy Dust btw! I can't lie, I was just staring at his long hair and cute glasses for a bit without realising🤣.

Then I got to Nik and he was the most prepared cuz he actually brought a pen lmao. Anyway he's super chill and easy to talk to, he asks you where you're from and how far you've travelled to get there. After he signed my flag I say danke cuz it just comes out naturally now and he looks me dead in the eye and says "You're welcome" LOL.

Before leaving him Pi was walking past so I called out and asked for him to use Nik's pen to sign my flag and ofc he was like "Oooo what pen am I using?😏" Nik handed him the sharpie and was like "This one, not the other one down boy. That's later" and I was standing there like 👁👄👁 wtf is happening right now.

And then Chris was left. He's just so lovely and sweet too omg! When he took my phone to take a selfie (I think we had all decided the boys to take the pics cuz they're good at it lol) he somehow changed the camera to video and omg it's my favourite thing, he says "It's filming!" when we realise it's a video and I've had it going around and around in my head for days🤣. I get a selfie with him and then he takes a pic of our shoes cuz apparently his new photo thing is shoes. My mouth works faster than my brain so I say "Wikifeet?" as a joke and he's like "No it's not a kink thing."

Anyway I ask him to sign the flag and am about to shout for anyone with a pen I can borrow again but Chris is like "I'll go steal Nik's." and he just runs off to get it🤣. I go to help him hold the flag tight so it's easier to sign like I did with the others but he's there holding it against his thigh figuring out which side is the right one😂.

Then it's the group photo in the final minutes, so everyone is walking towards the barrier, I am stupidly walking backwards and fucking walk into Nik omfg PSA: look where you're walking otherwise you may bump into a drummer! Klaas appears next to me out of nowhere then he kneels down on the floor (you can see this in the London group photo lmao), so I'm like 'oh god I'm gonna have to get down there too otherwise it'll look weird' so I awkwardly get on the floor and copy his pose cuz no way am I gonna be down there on both my knees😂 A few photos were taken with count downs done in multiple languages. Then Klaas stands back up so effortlessly and I'm there struggling cuz my platform boots are heavy. Once I'm up Klaas says "You made it!" like ha ha yeahhhh.... I should start working out😂

Finally we say bye then us lot get taken into a corridor that's on the other side of the venue instead of being let back out into the queue outside. So I'm there chatting away to my new friend and I pull out google maps to show her where abouts I live cuz we want to meet up again. But all of a sudden I feel a hand on my shoulder and a sweet "Excuse me" and I turn to find Pi behind us trying to get past LMFAO OOPS.

Honestly it was the best night of my life.

Although, I have to say one more thing. It was interesting to watch the standard queue being let in and everyone rushed to the middle and Pi's side, I was like 'well, more Klaas for me then hehe'.

#lord of the lost #lotl m&g

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aropride · 4 months

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small talk is as uncomfortable for me as it is for the next guy but i think there's a lot of value in understanding it- maybe not the actual conversations themselves, and not even liking it, but understanding the intent. because allistics don't go into small talk with a mindset of "man i HATE this guy i want to make them SUFFER by asking about their WEEKEND." most of the time it comes from a place of either obligation or of kindness. and also to be clear, i know this varies culturally, so disclaimer- this is probably very influenced by being a high-masking (with dubious success) autistic american.

but i prefer to think of small talk as an act of kindness rather than a painful obligation. it's used to fill silence (generally seen as awkward) or to invite someone into a conversation if they're alone (meant to be friendly). when i was in middle school i was in a youth group (awful) that met for two hours once a week. the first half hour was designated hanging out time while people filtered in, and then we'd go into games, then church stuff and then a discussion. and during the first half hour i'd always end up standing in a corner alone, usually by the snacks so i'd have something to do.

and every week without fail people would come up to me and try to talk to me. both small group leaders and other middle/high school kids. and being a severely anxious undiagnosed autistic kid this would terrify me and piss me off because i didn't understand why they were doing it. because it felt like an imposition- yeah, i was lonely and wanted to talk to people, but i didn't necessarily want to talk to anyone specific, and it felt like they were being condescending or pitying, and i wanted to be left alone.

but to an allistic person, what i was interpreting as condescension and being put into an uncomfortable conversation, was to them a gesture of kindness. because most allistic people as far as i know wouldn't want to have to stand in the corner eating oreos every week they were forced to go to youth group. and they had no way of knowing that was my preferred option.

so we would have conversations that went something like this:

person i don't know: hi i'm jess, what's your name me (scared): hi i'm nik jess: nice to meet you nik! me (still scared): nice to meet you too (beat of awkward silence) jess (helpfully filling the silence): what grade are you in? me (realizing i have an oreo in my hand and wanting to eat it but i can't because i'm stuck in this conversation that feels like being put in a meat grinder): 6th 👍 jess: nice! whats your favourite subject? me (deeply aware of the oreo in my hand, aware that i am doing this wrong but not sure how, painfully aware of the unnecessarily loud music playing): english jess: fun! do you like reading?

And so on and so forth. it was uncomfortable for everyone involved and i could not figure out why they were asking me questions when they presumably didn't care and i didn't want to be there. and the first thing i was missing was that while they might not have cared about me as a person yet, that's what the small talk was for! so they'd get to know me more and then care what i had to say, or know that they wanted to talk to me more, etc. and the second thing i was missing was that while to me this whole ritual was sort of like being in hell being tormented by eternal hellfire, for everyone else this was normal and polite and most people would, while not enjoying the small talk itself, enjoy the thought behind it. what it's really communicating isn't a fascination with your thoughts about your classes but a "i saw you looked lonely, i have no negative feelings towards you, i'm offering my companionship and figuring out if we might be friends, as well as assuaging your discomfort with being alone"

basically it's a social script. and it's one that can be clunky and awkward (there are many memes on the topic) but that doesn't really matter to most people because the intent outweighs the execution. the words actually being said don't always even matter- "how are you?" "fine, thanks" type exchanges aren't really meant to communicate anything verbally- it's a nonverbal confirmation that you have a positive relationship with someone. which is why autistic people are often seen as rude for not engaging in it.

this is getting insanely long sorry it's just on my mind because i saw a post on instagram about how autistic people don't like small talk because it's inauthentic, and i don't think that's really true. i think that small talk can be authentic, and i think that autistic people don't like small talk because it's deeply uncomfortable for a lot of us. it's a helpful social script to understand conceptually, even if it sucks

#text #autism

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xombiriot · 4 months

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TOP 3 Metal Albums I Enjoyed from 2023

A lot of great metal came out this year and it was hard to narrow it down to my Top 3. There were some great EPs released this year— Spiritbox’s The Fear of Fear, Brand of Sacrifice’s Between Death and Dreams and Knosis’s The Eternal Doom among them. Singles I enjoyed include: "On the Verge" by thrown, “Masterpiece” by The Anchor, “Enemy” by The Gentle Men (ft. Andy Cizek), “Weight of the World” by Harper (ft. We Came as Romans and Brand of Sacrifice), “Viking” by Slaughter To Prevail, "III" by DEATHPHONK (Nik Nocturnal's weird project); and Knocked Loose had the double, “Deep In the Willow”/“Everything is Quiet Now”.

My Top 5 honourable mentions: 5. [m]other by Veil of Maya, their newest does everything I want it to do, good riffs, cool effects, great vocals; 4. Soul Elegy by Termina, Nik Nocturna, Andy Cizek and friends deliver an awesome metal album; 3. Chaos Horrific by Cannibal Corpse is a strong entry and shows why they're still so loved after so long; 2. The Fox and the Bird by Ok Goodnight mixes folk, rock, metal and whatever else they want to create this really entrancing album; and 1. Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token is one of the albums I listened to the most because it's easy to put on when you're tired of being relentlessly pummelled by deathcore, but though its highs are super high, it just misses out landing on my top 3 because there are a few spots it lags

3. ...And Everything In Between - Unprocessed

Manuel Gardner Fernandes has quickly become one of my favourite guitarists between this release and Unprocessed's previous album Gold. The combination of styles on this album exemplify modern metal: bludgeoning heaviness, thumpy prog riffing (à la Animals As Leaders or Polyphia) and a mix of harsh and clean vocals. Despite the polish of these 9 tracks, some express such raw emotion and a ferocity that they really get me hyped up. The variety of tones and vocals kept me engaged throughout, and they blend and balance heaviness and melody so well. The guitar sounds so angry sometimes–especially the part of "Thrash" where Manuel beats the shit outta his guitar after screaming, "But you're just a fucking lie!" I love that. Other songs like "Blackbone" and "Die on the Cross of the Martyr" continue the trend of excellent instrumentation, the latter featuring guest solos by Polyphia's Tim Henson and Scottie Lepage. It's so well done and so engaging. In the short time I've had this album, it's become one of my favourites of 2023.

2. Periphery V: Djent Is Not A Genre - Periphery

When Periphery released "Wildfire" as a single I immediately bought into what they were selling. The way they transition through the various parts is seamless, the mix of vocal techniques and the jazzy interlude are all fantastic. It really captures the spirit of the whole record. Songs like "Dying Star" and "Zagreus" are also so hard. Periphery continues to show off their musical dexterity, and the band members prove once again they're not only some of the best musicians djenting their way through the world but as a collective they add up to more than the sum of their parts. My hottest take when it comes to this album is that I love "Silhouette" — it's like if you ran 80s soft rock and 90s/00s boy bands through a progressive music filter. I think they wrote this song and put it on the album just to prove they can do anything. And if Periphery is Djent, and Djent isn't a genre then why shouldn't they go in every genre direction they want to explore?

1. War of Being - TesseracT

In other years this top 3 could have been entirely deathcore or melodeath or metalcore, but this year it was djenty prog metal through and through. It's the music I gravitated to the most this year and nobody did it better than TesseracT. Daniel Tompkins vocals are incredible throughout, his cleans sounding particularly great on "Echoes" – giving us one of the best choruses before following it up with another great one on "The Grey". The album offers engaging lyricism throughout and the instrumentation is at a pedigree one would expect for a band in the vanguard of this genre. The album gives us atmospheric moments, synths, meditative passages before blasting us with metal. In many ways the whole album does what the best tracks on Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden do. Each song and the album as a whole provide an expansive experience. And that's why it's my number one. More than any other album released this year, TesseracT's War of Being makes me want to sit down and listen to it from beginning to end.

Other great albums: SUPERBLOOM by Silent Planet; Fatalism by Polaris; Feral by Left To Suffer; Foregone by In Flames; Ashen by Humanity's Last Breath; The Sin of Human Frailty by END; Symptoms of Survival by Dying Wish; and The Death We Seek by Currents.

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thorsenmark · 5 months

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Along Main Street and a Look to the Pacific Ocean by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While at a stop for shopping at Mendocino Jams & Preserves with a view looking to the south across Mendocino Bay. My thinking in composing this image was to capture a balanced, leveled-on setting. There would be a little patch of the grassy meadow to my immediate front below the ocean waters. Other portions of the southern coastline would be a distant landscape before the horizon. There were mostly cloudy skies off in the distance. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 5. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 4 where I added a Polarization, Skylight, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.

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queervegancryptid · 4 months

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tl;dr – spoopy-valkyrie >>>>> queervegancryptid

Hi all. I’m Nik, and I’ve been on tumblr for a long time, mostly as spoopy-valkyrie. This blog is a new project, or a backup of sorts. I’m not sure yet.

A little about me: trans guy, age 34. vegan since age 16. disabled. PTSD, anxiety, anorexia, bulimia, ADHD, and like, 80 more things. I love learning new things, and I’m a super curious person and enjoy gabbing about a variety of different topics, and I will if given the opportunity. But I also love when other people do that, even if I don’t share the interest in particular, because it’s awesome to see people get so enthusiastic. That’s the goal of this whole tumblr thing for me, in general.

This blog is not designated “explicit,” but anything NSFW will be tagged as such. I have done and continue to engage in sex work, and I don’t apologize for it. This blog won’t be focused on that primarily, but it may be discussed, so minors please DNI. Otherwise, all are welcome to follow and interact. But if you’re going to harass me or if you’re in the habit of spreading bigotry, kindly fuck off. If you can’t be nice, I will block you.

I’ll edit/add to this pinned post as needed. If you use tag filtering and would like something tagged that isn’t, just send an ask/msg, and I’ll do my best to accommodate it.

#personal #nik speaks #like if u read #ask 2 tag #blog switching #minors dni

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mizushibart · 1 year

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Hey, I just want to ask if you maybe could tag nik/price under the fitting tag. I really don't want to sound bitchy because I love your art but else the filtering system isn't working. Its okay if not but still thank you!

ups, my bad. sorry, i was sure i tagged it. i'll change it in a moment. feel free to call me out on this. i tend to be forgetful.

#ask

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drifterimagery · 8 months

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"Wild Green." Automatic drawing done in Adobe Photoshop with a pen and tablet, textures made using the Nik Collection plugin's filters.

#automatic drawing #abstract #art #visualart #digital drawing #digital painting #green #wild

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