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shadeslayer · 7 months

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Would you be willing to talk about the inspiration for you sinti, shunti, kanunuk, & nunni designs? They're really cool!

absolutely !!! :D i usually have pretty explicit stuff that im referencing or am inspired by so im always happy to share <3

*ramble incoming*

[the dr pepper cans are how you know im a real southern usa babe. earlier today there was 5 empty cans in a row until i put them in the recycle bin]

i take a Lot out of the book "sun circles and human hands: the southeastern indians - art and industry" (2001 edition, not the 1957 one) which i have a physical copy of and i have sticky notes tabbing out out and also annotated highlighting every mention of the chickasaw and of sites where i know the chickasaw [or our ancestors, like the chicaza and other early mississippian/SE ntv cultures] so i can reference stuff i know would be from us, but i also take inspiration from all the designs in it because we were all a part of an interconnected cultural network of art

if you are from a tribe that would be from mississippian culture or the southeastern ceremonial complex/southeastern cult as it used to be called, or you know your people wouldve come from places within that like spiro or moundville, and you want to bring more native styling into your art this is THEEE book i would recommend. it is insanely useful. i cant vouch 100% for the text of it, and the second half is mostly kinda grainy b&w scanned photos of pottery and other items lmao, but the first half has lineart depictions OF designs found, with the attribution for the site they were found at. it is a Massive wealth of symbols and style and has been the best thing for wanting to study and emulate SE ndn art. for real i lent a copy to my grandma and then couldnt find where it was and i had to just order a new copy bc i use it so damn much

like i would post pages of it, and before i bought it i survived off the pinterest pics of scanned pages, but i cannot say enough just buy the book and look through it bc its just perfect its so useful. just posting a few pages doesnt do any justice to the wealth of style and art in it. ive tried to make myself some mock style/symbol guides from it, but even those fail to capture the variety of stuff in there and its why i still have it on hand for reference bc every time i get stumped theres so many ideas in there

but ok . book rec rant over (partly.)

i had done sinti homma, the red snake earlier, and i wanted to do a little motley of other simple transparent animals to go with it. so i did! ive got a few different animals that i played with doing, but a lot of them ended up veering too much off of the more hardline ntv style i wanted to do, and the others didnt fit the guideline i had made - i wanted them all to have a pointed tail that pointed to some corner of the frame, and curl around in the square a bit to have more of a sense of motion. i was thinking deer, turtle, spider... but none of those really fit that. so i flipped thru SC&HH for some ideas and came up with some :3

the bottom left one on the first pic there gave me a good idea of what to do with a rat tail, and on the bottom right of that same pic is the Fattest fucking fish and i lifted a lot of that design to use for my fish (and while we're here, the rattler tails on the top right of that pic were what i used for sinti hommas tail), and the bottom left on the second pic gave me the idea for the lizards legs/feet shape, and then i used the chickasaw vocab flashcards of animals to think of animal ideas and so i used the pinti from there to jump me off into doing a rat

theyre all named after the chickasaw words - sinti (snake), shunti (rat/rodent), kanunuk (lizard, specifically green striped lizard, which is why i made it green with stripes lol), nunni (fish) . i use the chickasaw dictionary webpage a lot these days though i should use my dictionary copies more bc they use the spelling style i dont prefer lol

i also want to do maybe a sort of pop art style big print of them, like repeated with different colors behind them? and/or them in a medicine wheel? but those are still wip so we shall see!

#anompolili #TY FOR ASKING ........... i feel so like. patronized. but i never get to talk abt this except into the void so i will seize the chance T_T #hatuk upi homma

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apparitionism · 1 year

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Tabled 4

And on we go, @barbarawar , as I continue to try your patience with this incremental approach to telling a @b-and-w-holiday-gift-exchange story about coffees and consequences. Where we last left our duo: Helena had proposed adjourning to a hotel room so as to avoid continuing to attract attention for disorderly behavior (i.e., launching coffees at each other, followed by raised voices) at O’Hare Airport—that transitory place where Myka had intended to have a final coffee with Helena before telling her goodbye and returning to the Warehouse to face a future she doesn’t really want. Part 1, part 2, and part 3 explained the tables, books, beverages, and lies that led to this point.

Tabled 4

The trek to the hotel is arduous. No conversation. Myka appreciates the tacit agreement she and Helena seem to have made to wait for the space, but she’s bowed by what it’s added: multiple steamer trunks of existential weight, all of them balanced on her head, her shoulders, such that it’s labor for her even to turn her head in Helena’s direction.

Nevertheless they navigate, side by side, destination mutual. That’s weight too.

All Myka is physically carrying is her laptop case; she’d told herself, “I can work on reports on the plane. Or prepare remarks.” Instead she’d sat on the plane. It might as well have crashed; she was already braced for impact. Braced, yet again. For all the impacts.

Helena is similarly unencumbered, but without even a work-pretense: only a slim little bag, its strap a delicate suggestion of metallic braid that adorns her shoulder. She offers the sleekest of presentations, with even her stained sweater somehow managing to speak to her apparent surety that whatever the thoughts of those regarding her might be, they’ll redound to her benefit.

Myka, on the other hand, wants to hold her case to her sullied chest, or better yet fold herself entirely over, to hide this... evidence. She hates giving anyone grounds for a negative inference, and the uncomplimentary list of things any given observer might take the smirch as evidence of is infinite.

She herself has felt that “redound to my benefit” certainty only in the rarest of circumstances. Once or twice, though, it’s happened when Helena was the one regarding her, giving Myka a fully confident sense of I know you like everything you see, and even better, you like it just the way I want it to be liked. Transporting, when it happened.

Helena chooses that moment to turn ever so slightly, meeting Myka’s eyes ever so briefly... as if in appreciative echo of the past.

It prompts Myka to think on a different kind of evidence: what she and Helena provide, as they pace beside each other through the airport. It could oh so easily support the idea that they’re traveling together, which in turn leads to the infinitely better idea that they might be traveling together.

Indulge, she tells herself, and the granting of permission... it shifts the weight.

Who are we, this me, this Helena, traveling together... traveling together. She starts simple: We’re Warehouse agents on a retrieval. But of course that’s too easy. Okay, instead, we’re... dealers in rare books? Better... And we’re heading to an auction... wait, no, we’re heading home (home together), home from an auction, one that yielded a rare first edition of... oh, let’s say The Invisible Man... and the auctioneer unfortunately made a slightly incorrect statement about its original serialization... one that Helena felt she had to counter emphatically... leading to the first fistfight ever seen at that auction house...

Myka can easily picture the self-satisfied snarl-smile Helena would have worn as she decked the ill-informed auctioneer. The ease with which she can conjure such a moment... that, paradoxically, is yet more weight.

Even so, she warms further to the story, folding in their coffee stains: On this first leg of our trip home (home together), there was dramatic, beverage-service-disrupting turbulence... but we got through it with only wardrobe-related disasters... which is to say, we protected the first edition...

The fantasy looms real enough for Myka to put her hand against her case, casting an impossible wish for confirmation that it holds a precious book.

When her wish isn’t granted, she’s nonsensically crestfallen. Her indulgence now seems yet another blunder, as foretold by that other... book. (She can’t get all the way to “precious,” not this minute, an aspersion of omission for which she’s pretty sure she’ll be expected to apologize.)

Remember that future, Myka tells herself. She pronounces those words in her head, and she’s half tempted to say them to Helena, too, despite the fact that she’d have no idea what it’s about. Though she might ask what it’s about... and Myka can’t land on whether she would hate or thrill to offering an explanation. I used an artifact, she might begin. Because of you. She might go on: And I lied about it. Also because of you.

That might get her a snarl-smile of her own. Maybe even a fistfight.

In the end she stays silent; it’s the theme of this hotel-destined journey. She should rather have focused on Helena, with no imaginings; should rather have just looked, no matter how great the weight. What would observers have concluded then?

You just told yourself a story about that.

As they near the hotel desk, Helena says, “Allow me,” and Myka... does. Because, for good or ill, Helena is the driver. If she were not, Myka would be at a gate, sitting and waiting for a flight, her mission nearing completion. Instead, she’s standing a good distance away from Helena in a hotel lobby, calling Steve, saying, “I’m pretty sure I’m missing my plane.”

The response in her ear: “Because...?”

“Do you really have to ask?”

“Really? No.”

“Good. But if anybody else asks��”

“And when you say ‘anybody else.’”

Myka sighs. “I mean protect me.”

“By saying what?”

“I’m stuck in an airport.”

“You believe that,” Steve says, with a little wondering hitch.

“Oh how I do.” She laughs, just a half-huff. “Oh how I’d prefer not to.”

She hears, “Is that Myka? Where is she?” It’s Claudia (not Pete, thank god), in the background.

“Stuck in an airport,” Steve says.

“Weather?” Claudia asks, now close to the phone.

“Storms,” Myka tells her.

“That sucks,” Claudia pronounces. “See you when the climate gods dispensate some dispensation.”

After a pause—presumably waiting till Claudia leaves earshot—Steve says, “You’re getting really good at this.”

“This?”

“Letting language slip. To do the dirty work.”

“Good at this,” Myka echoes, belatedly. She knows it now as cause for despair. She’s painfully aware that the work is dirty, but... she’s developing a facility. That’s what’s wrong. “I’ll try to get worse.”

“After the storms?”

“During,” she says, because speaking in private should—at the very least and very last, it should—entail saying what she really means. Not letting anything slip.

Should. Which doesn’t, dirty or otherwise, mean “will.”

“Take care,” Steve says.

“I don’t know how,” Myka concludes. It’s a weird way to end a phone call, but Steve seems to know it’s right.

Helena has decorously waited to approach, but now her seemingly eager “Shall we?”, key card in hand, is a painful parody of the invitation Myka has dreamed of for years. If it had happened in those earlier years, it could have been an invitation to everything. Now it’s just an invitation to... blunders. And their contribution to an end.

The existential weight lowers again onto Myka—countdown-tragic now—as she waits out the rise of the elevator (its mirrored walls too harsh) and the walk through the corridor (its canned lights too artificial). It freights even the too-sunny chirp of the key card’s success, as Helena inserts it into the door.

As Helena pushes the door’s handle down in further proof of that success, she looks over her shoulder at Myka with something like delight—but is it delight at this circumstance, this promise of new privacy? Or is it another instance of her generalized thrill at an encounter with technology? That she might not yet be so familiar with as to be jaded by this aspect of modernity is... something very like heartwarming. But also painful, because how many Helena-delighted-by-the-new episodes has Myka been deprived of witnessing? How many episodes of anything and everything Helena-related has Myka been deprived of witnessing?

And what is the consequence of letting herself know that as deprivation? And, more, feeling that deprivation as pain?

Helena pushes the door open and strides across the threshold, but Myka hesitates, hoping for... something. Purpose? All that comes to her is a maxim: never go in without knowing how you’ll get out.

Where Helena is concerned, Myka has never known how she’ll get out. Ridiculous to think she could start now.

She goes in.

The quiet: that’s what strikes her first. The closing of the door behind her is a muted snick; after it, there is no noise at all.

Then she apprehends scent: antiseptic overlain with some ruse of spice, as if “clean” couldn’t possibly be enough to justify the undoubtedly absurdly high price of the room. Of course it probably couldn’t; nevertheless Helena had paid it. Myka wants to resent that, but she’s the one who acquiesced to that “allow me.”

The scrimmed light from the window allows her eyes to discern only the barest detail, but they’re drawn immediately to... of course. A table. Metallically, shinily, obviously, a table. It’s small and round, seemingly innocuous (too low to sit at), but Myka skirts it. She sets her laptop case on the less-threatening desk.

Helena lays her own bag on the bed. The bed, which Myka had intended to ignore. Then she turns, eyes still eagerly alight, to face deskside-anchored Myka.

The look sends Myka back to ideas of I can’t do this, or maybe what she means is I can’t feel this, but that isn’t right either, for what she feels isn’t singular; instead it’s I can’t feel these, these battering, battling threads of sensation she can’t untangle. “Why are we here,” she says, groping, suddenly dull, feeling the air numb around her.

“For speaking,” Helena says. Over there. By the bed. “Freely. As you agreed we should.”

But where is the freedom? The table reminds Myka of constraint, and even the room’s privacy—this new, behind-a-locked-door privacy—chains her, making her question every movement, lest it speak as she doesn’t intend. Or does intend but shouldn’t intend. Paralysis. “What do you want to say?” she asks.

Whatever Helena wants to say, she wants to accompany it with a head-toss, followed by a contemptuous exhale. Quite a performance, at the conclusion of which she snorts and juts her hands at Myka. “At the very least, more words about the unbelievability of your putative romantic choices.” Contempt coats it all.

“You don’t know what’s in my heart,” Myka says. She means it as a dismissive judgment—of Helena’s continuing to insist that she knows how Myka feels or doesn’t feel about Pete (although of course, Myka has to concede privately, she does know)—but, more broadly, of Helena’s not bothering herself to know how Myka has felt about anything. Not for a very long time.

“I’m aware,” Helena says, and then, as if she’s heard Myka’s more-broad thoughts, she says, “I’m very aware.” Then she stops—another of those curiosity-piquing pauses—leaving Myka to wonder what’s next. What is: “So tell me,” she says. Soft. Sincere.

“Why?” Myka asks. “What will it change?”

“For one thing, you will have said it. Rather than simply felt it.”

“Said it to you, you mean,” she accuses. Right: something might change for Helena.

“Ah. You’ve spoken of this to others. Perhaps your sister? And have you found that unburdening to be helpful?”

That’s soft and sincere too, but internally, Myka snarls, with no smile, You can keep your therapy questions. I have all the Abigail I can handle on that front. She wouldn’t answer such a question no matter who asked it, and she is neither ready nor willing to explain Steve—Steve and what he’s meant. Instead, she says, “This room has a coffeemaker,” despite not knowing that for sure. But it must. “I’m going to find it and... use it.” A neutral action, that’s what she needs.

“I’ll watch you,” Helena says.

So much for neutral.

But turning her back on Helena... surprisingly, it loosens her. The gaze is on her, and she feels it, but she doesn’t have to meet it. She finds the coffeemaker on the bureau and begins the process: water, cups, coffee packets, filter basket. Of course it isn’t neutral, would never have been, but being occupied, putting something in that space between—standing and looking was never going to get them anywhere, given that it never did in the past—it lightens the atmosphere. It’s a purpose. It’s a purpose against which Myka can, and thus determines to, slide a question of her own.

“So you had this realization that there was ‘someone else’,” Myka says, making the quotation marks as clear as she vocally can, “and you broke up with him?”

“Essentially,” Helena says.

To her... credit?... it’s not an objection to the topic shift. Or to the quotation marks. But it’s also profoundly not informative. “What, seriously”—Myka had nearly made the mistake of saying “honestly”—“is that supposed to mean?” She turns around, away from her coffee task; the machine’s begun to noise, anyway, so it doesn’t need her.

Helena’s aspect doesn’t indicate that the renewed eye contact is meaningful. She says, “That is supposed to mean you have identified the essence of what occurred.”

More details are clearly not forthcoming. Back up. Ask something else. “Why did you go to that place at all? Why go there and make yourself so... small?”

The very idea is tragic—even worse, pathetic. Helena’s slight dip of head, signaling at least partial agreement, offers pathos too. “Safety,” she says. “Mrs. Frederic said I’d be safe there.”

“I could have kept you safe. Why didn’t she say that?” Myka hears herself getting louder now, angry at all the conversations, decisions, interactions that were kept from her, that she had a right to be part of, all these clandestine resolutions to problems that she and Helena deserved to solve together.

“She had other plans for you,” is the reason Helena gives. Pathos there too. It’s awful.

“What about my plans for me?” Myka cries, and it must have been audible all over the hotel, this nearest she’s ever come to a barbaric yawp, and it’s about all of it: Mrs. Frederic and Pete and expectations and everyone thinking they know and no one knowing, not even Helena, who might have been the only one who could have really known but went away, was taken away, and now Myka is going to have to push her away and this is exactly why she turned to the book: to steal back the tatters of her own capacity, one small bit of augury at a time.

“You work for the Warehouse,” Helena says.

It’s a bald truth. It’s why little auguries are all Myka has. But it splits her open, too, for it tells nothing at all about why Helena did what she did, and she shouts a new accusation into the yawning gap: “You don’t!” And another: “Since when do you bend the knee to authority?”

Helena straightens her spine. “Since authority rendered me incorporeal and suggested I would be returned to that state if I didn’t do as I was told.” She lowers her chin, giving that spine one more bit of extension. “I was disinclined to stop living.”

It breaks Myka. No, it re-breaks her. She knows she should say things, including “but you redeemed yourself” and “so what’s different now,” but all she can in fact do is reach out a hand and touch Helena.

Maybe that’s what Helena intended, but even if it is...

Between any two people, it might be nothing: a simple right hand resting upon a left shoulder, followed by a run down that left arm, to the left elbow, then wrist, brushing against a left hand’s fingers, falling away.

But it’s Myka’s right hand. It’s Helena’s left shoulder. Helena’s arm. Helena’s elbow, wrist, fingers.

They’re behind a locked door.

TBC

#bering and wells #Warehouse 13 #fanfic #Tabled #B&W holiday gift exchange #part 4 #barbarawar #I have to confess:#I love the word 'fistfight'#but don't worry #Myka and Helena won't resort to physical violence #other than the coffee-weaponization kind #because even if you remove bodies from the equation #they have no trouble doing violence to each other #or maybe it's that they do have trouble #and removing bodies from the equation makes it worse #which is not to say that adding bodies back in necessarily makes it better

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alexstewart · 7 months

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loving your mobile theme~

Thank you so much, Res!! I'm smiling really big right now, you are truly delightful. <3333 With this message, you remind me to go show some love to my little internet mates, even if it's just a few words, a compliment, because it can change someone's day, so thank you. <3 May I just mention that I'm loving seeing you on my dash because I love your aesthetic. Couldn't exactly put my finger on it but I'm obsessed with your taste and while I love your edits, I hope you'll post more pictures as well! The last dump was so so pretty! Simple, B&W but oh so lovely.

#Ask #Farrowes

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furymint · 1 year

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2022 Creator Reflection

1. ppt meme

the thing im happiest with this year, tbh! i put a lot of work and care into each slide—and i think it shows. at the same time, this thing i made to help my writing be more accessible just became something that required a commitment to read from its length. i hope anyone that read it found it worthwhile! i love rereading it myself.

2. free

jillian’s prophecy attacked again. new florence + the machine song, new bri edit. my motivation to create things has been really low so i tried to limit myself to only devoting an hr or so to this simple edit. i think its cute

3. goal of the century

it doesnt look like i did a lot to this edit, but i added a lot of lighting to it. it was nice editing a picture of lselle and it reminded me a bit of how fun it was to have something i wanted to badly in the game as the seagull minion

4. the loneliest

this one took a few days to complete. i listened to maneskin a lot in the car this year to keep my spirits up, so its ironic that this is the only song i made something for. i used a lot of bad pics to make it so it was a greater struggle than it couldve been, but im still happy w the way it came out even if it didnt linger in my head afterwards

5. will it snow? [nsfw]

it took me a very long time to write this and, altho its not remotely close to my usual vibe, i think its well done. mostly i think it was a v good exercise for all that never made it into the final product. i wrote three different carriage scenes to find the heart of whole piece.

❌ impulsivity > fury > humiliation > resolve

(hoare’s outside, nol jumps out w no plan but to confront him, realizes how stupid he is when hoare a) insults him or b) escapes him, and he determines that he can do nothing until the recital in the evening)

❌ impulsivity > rationale > protectiveness > calm

(hoare’s outside, nol jumps out w no plan but to confront him, realizes how stupid he is before he moves away, so he gets back in the carriage, still mad with adrenaline, embarrassment, and the #masculine impulse of protection all manifested in possessiveness, then a gradual lowering of hackles)

✔️ ostracism > fear > rationale > calm

(looping back to the fake community at the beginning, a return to his fear of societal expectations & his lack of a community where he can be himself, the value of secrecy, the joy of secrecy)

i always loved the original carriage scene and im glad i got to actually finish it. i didnt get to do armistice day this year and i also didnt finish may other things, but at least i have this.

i have to confront more and more often that my drive to engage w ffxiv is almost depleted, and its a really really lonely feeling. i dont know what ill do in the new year about it. i know ill continue my literature work/research and keep drafting my outline for a complete transition of nol and eli into wwi austria-hungary. i want to write more!

past reflections: 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021

#i also literally dont know why my file #became so crunchy #for the snow edit #i cut out the dude w the hat at work #and i guess the file saved badly #anyway highly rec scrivener #also i know ppt meme has a lot on marriage plot but i dont feel like it anymore :sob:#brianna babbles #bri edits

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skzkorean · 1 year

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Hangul With SKZ Names

I'm making this for a friend but I need a place that has good editing abilities so here it goes :D Ok! I'm gonna start this with some things that people say are helpful but are probably not THAT helpful, just so you know from the start, because they will come into play with their names too.

"hangul is written in clusters of syllables!" Yeah. But hangul also doubles up the letters sometimes so for example older sister is pronounced "oni" but it's not "o-ni" but "on-ni".

"you pronounce the letters the same way you write them!" That is true and very helpful 90% of the time. With all their names here, think about how they pronounce them, not how they are written (or pronounced :D) in English. Bewng Chewn who. The other 10% is for all the letters that can be pronounced 2+ different ways. They are also pronounced differently at the start vs end of syllable, fairly often.

Romanization - fun fact it's completely random and there are no strict rules everyone adheres to.

Ok let's start!

Basis of hangul are these letters:

14 consonants ㄱ (g/k) ㄴ (n) ㄷ (d/t) ㄹ (r/l) ㅁ (m) ㅂ (p, b…) ㅅ (s) ㅇ (ng or silent) ㅈ (j) ㅊ (ch) ㅋ (k) ㅌ (t) ㅍ (p) ㅎ (h)

10 vowels ㅏ (ah) ㅑ (ya) ㅓ (uh) ㅕ (yuh) ㅗ (o, oh) ㅛ (yo) ㅜ (u) ㅠ (yu) ㅣ (i, ee) ㅡ (/ə/ - shwa, think of "a" book)

ㅓ (uh) ㅕ (yuh) - don't get married to this romanization it'll get sniped quick.

You can see in the table, and it's important, that sometimes 2 sounds make one letter in Korean. As in "yo" is a single vowel.

However, they do get doubled up or paired up to make 40 letters in all. They all make sense tho. I'm putting the WHOLE hangul at the end.

As you maybe already know, these letters get together in clusters of syllables.

For example:

B - ㅂ A - ㅏ NG - ㅇ Yes, ng is a single letter in Korean :) = 방

CH - ㅊ A - ㅏ N - ㄴ = 찬

방찬!

You can notice here already that usually the vowel will be between the consonants in a syllable.

That is why, if you want to write Channie - think about how you are pronouncing it, not writing it! - you need a little help from our ㅇ (previously known as 'ng') friend. When it starts a syllable, it's silent. In Korean Channie would be 'Chani' I in Korean is just ㅣ :D but you can't write 찬ㅣ O.O you have to write 찬이 you NEED that consonant before the vowel in the written syllable.

And hey, here's a word that's easy to learn. 방 - Room!

2. Anyway, the silent ㅇ before a vowel rule comes in handy with Lino :) *ee Minho. Don't ask me why west writes this surname as "Lee" there is no L ANYWHERE in the name. He is actually Ee Minho.

So!

"Lee"

I (ee) - ㅣ but as we said we need our silent friend. Therefore

I - 이

Now how many syllables can we split Minho into? Min-Ho, right?

M - ㅁ I - ㅣ N - ㄴ

H - ㅎ O - ㅗ

=이민호!

What about Lino? Li-No 리노

3. What's his name?! SEO CHANGBIN! :D

So you can see the brutality of romanization here again. "Seo" sure but what we actually have is

S - ㅅ O* - ㅓ

CH - ㅊ A - ㅏ NG - ㅇ

B - ㅂ I - ㅣ N - ㄴ

=서창빈

and * because later ㅓ will be used to represent "uh" as well. I talk about it more later.

So, what is this? 빈니?

4. Now Mr. Hwang Hyunjin comes in to show us our first paired up vowel combo. As you maybe noticed in the simple hangul up there, Korean doesn't really have W. but if you say "oa oa oa" very quickly, it would sound kinda like "wa wa wa", right?

And so we mush O and A together and we get: ㅘ You can absolutely think of them as separate letters, it will ultimately change nothing for your pronunciation.

H - ㅎ WA - ㅘ NG - ㅇ

Hyunjin splits into 2 syllables.

H - ㅎ YUh* - ㅕ N - ㄴ

J - ㅈ I - ㅣ N - ㄴ

=황현진

(*The is it "oh" or is it "uh" debate is strong with foreigners learning Korean. Generally, this one is considered more of an "uh". But I personally consider it an "o" and you'll see later why.)

5. Hannie!

Actually, how would you write Han? You should have all the letters for that now :)

Let me focus on Jisung! How many syllables? Ji-Sung.

J - ㅈ I - ㅣ

S - ㅅ U - ㅓ NG - ㅇ

=?지성

6. Ah… Felix. We're gonna be here for a while :D I will say... Felix is transliterated from English into Korean and uses some complicated pronunciation rules. If you wanna skip that part it's perfectly fine! But I will write both names because they are very interesting for Hangul learners.

Lee Yongbok Felix

We covered Lee with Lino so we know it's just 이!

Now let's tackle Yongbok!

We already said syllables have to start with a consonant, and if not, we need the silent ㅇ. Now we just need to accept that "y" is a vowel. Good? GOOD. Let's go :D

YO - ㅛ but because "yo" can't start the syllable: 요 NG - ㅇ

B - ㅂ O - ㅗ K - ㄱ =용복

Felix!

You may have noticed that Korean doesn't have F. Well, there are different ways of handling this but in this case they just said fuckit and changed it into P. ㅍ, the hardest of the Korean Ps?

If you just end a syllable on ㅅ it becomes T. So in order to read it as S they had to add a little shwa at the end.

Also, this is the name where you really have to focus on the pronunciation, not the spelling. You don't say "Feh-liks" It's "Fee-Liks", right? So that "ee" again, and split the x.

Ok now, how many syllables and how do we split them? Fee-Liks? Well. "Feel-liks" actually. (L and R are both ㄹ, but if you started the syllable with it, it would be R. So to make it L… they double up.)

Hence:

F/P - ㅍ I (ee) - ㅣ L - ㄹ

L - ㄹ I - ㅣ K - ㄱ

S - ㅅ ə - ㅡ

=필릭스

=이용복 필릭스

7. Ok ok ok that was a lot. Kim Seungmin to the rescue. He has a letter to teach us but otherwise very chill :) Seungmin - 2 syllables. Seung-Min.

K - ㄱ I - ㅣ M - ㅁ

S - ㅅ EU - ㅡ This is again the ə, the shwa, but as it's meant to be used. NG - ㅇ

M - ㅁ I - ㅣ N - ㄴ

=김승민

So… how would you write Minnie?

8. Yang Jeongin He's here to teach us an important lesson and also to revise the silent ㅇ before a vowel.

YA - ㅑ … 야 NG - ㅇ

J - ㅈ O* - ㅓ NG - ㅇ

I - ㅣ … 이 N - ㄴ

=양정인

*I know what you're thinking. "Pal you told me 3 min ago this was 'uh'." Yeah well. Here we are now. BUT, this is why I consider it more of an O. Because IMO if you say "Hyonjin", or "Jisong" it sounds more accurate than if you say "Jungin" or "Su" Changbin.

Of course... this isn't all of hangul. But it's a start! And maybe you can go through these facecam titles and try to figure out who they belong to.

All of hangul:

#hangul #stray kids

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advnterccs-archive · 1 year

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@countlessrealities sent; If Rick hadn't already been nervous before, he would have definitely become once after he had been presented with his boyfriend's thoughtful gifts. He had loved them, of course, but they also made him wonder if he had put enough efforts in his own.

"I-I have something for you too," he announced, starting to pull out his portal gun. "O-Obviously, I mean. 'C-Cause, damn, it's our first Christmas together an-and I'd be a fuckin' shitty boyfriend if I hadn't."

And if it had turned out that his gifts were as lame as he was starting to think they were, but he avoided saying that out aloud.

"G-Give me a second," he hurried to add, shooting a portal and stepping inside it before his counterpart could do or say anything.

The green vortex kept swirling for a few moments and then something started to be pushed through it. It was a huge box, about 6 x 3 feet, wrapped in electric blue paper and a big bright green ribbon. Once it would be open, it would reveal plastic packages. Lots and lots of them, and not just any plastic packages. The very same ones they had used to chase after when the Mulan special edition of Szechuan sauce had still been a thing.

Rick stepped out once it had been shoved completely on the garage floor, hands restlessly fixing his lab coat to unload some of his still building nerves.

"I-I might have spent four days locating an-and travelling to dimensions to collect so much of...that," he offered with a shrug that was supposed to be casual, but that still came out too stiff to be believable. "I...I-It's a fuckin' stupid present, but since it's so hard to find it an-and shit...Now you have your w-well stocked personal stash. B-But this isn't all"

Biting the inside of his cheek, he hurried to fish out another, much smaller package from his pocket. "T-This sort of looks like a rip off o-of the bracelet you got me, b-but...I hope you'll like it anyway."

It was a simple dark silver box, with an elegant alien symbol carved on the lid. Inside, there was a necklace. The string was made of a material similar to natural rubber, but softer and more resistant, while the pendant was an odd rock, whose bright reds and oranges seemed to change as it was moved, as if it had been made of an extremely hot fire.

"I-It's...There's this planet where t-they take pieces of stars an-and crystallise them," Rick explained, glancing away slightly. "An-And it seemed fitting since...w-well, shit you are the fuckin' star of my life, Rick."

{ My Rick to your Rick || I wrote it as some sort of continuation to your ask, since you have already posted yours! Gotta love some continuity x3 Also, someone decided to be in a mood(TM) while writing the ask -eyeroll- }

It'd been obvious all night that Rick's boyfriend looked on edge about something. Now that his gifts were presented, the short bout of silence, everything became clear. This was about the gifts. Specifically, the ones that his counterpart chose for him. He didn't know what to say at that revelation. If he should say anything at all.

Instead, he kept quiet, watching the subtle movements of his boyfriend talk. Softly eyeing him with a vague excitement and open-ended curiosity. After all, he wasn't expecting anything. He just wanted to know what got the other so worked up.

"A-Alright," He responded back in a light whisper. A little unsure where this was headed.

There weren't any guesses he could take. Anything could come out of that portal. Something big, something small. Whatever it was, it left his mind puzzled. Though, he refused to put the pieces together.

The large box being pushed out from the swirling green brought half his brow to raise. He wouldn't waste any time to kneel down onto the ground before it. Glancing up quickly at his counterpart with that same confused look before he began to unwrap the gift.

Yet, once it was finally revealed to him, along with the explanation, he felt himself freeze. He'd never really told anyone how that Szechuan sauce was important for the sole fact that it connected him to better memories. Specifically ones of him sharing chicken nuggets with his daughter all those years ago. It made him freeze, heart swelling at the memory and the present day thought of someone who loved him being so thoughtful enough to do all of this.

Standing up, his words would take a while to come out, but he was quieted down again as the second gift was presented. His blue eyes were wide as he took the box in his hand, opening it to stare at the necklace.

Every word and thought overwhelmed him. To the point where he felt as if he couldn't move. It wasn't bad, but he hadn't expected it. This felt perfect and, deep down, he didn't feel worthy of something this thoughtful.

He would have to fully examine the pendant on the necklace later.

At that moment, his vision blurred with a few tears beginning to stream down his face. Yet, the soft wonder in his eye and smile that made it's way on his face didn't falter.

"G-God damnit, I-I feel so fuckin' stupid getting emotional over Christmas gifts," He forced his body to move, a little clumsily, ending up almost falling into his boyfriend's arms. His own arms wrapping around the other's frame, tight and with the feeling as if he had no intention of letting go. "But, th-these are perfect, Rick, fuck, I-I can't fucking speak ---"

Nuzzling his face into the crook of his counterpart's neck, he sniffled from the emotions that poured out of him. ".... I-I love you... y-you're so fucking perfect, I-I don't know what else to say, I-I'm fuckin' in love with you and everything that you are."

#countlessrealities #{ answers ; 🧪 }#{ ic ; 🧪 ; rick }#{ verse ; 'ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇʟɪɴᴇ ꜱᴘʟɪᴛ' }#{ ᴿⁱᶜᵏ ⁺ ᴿⁱᶜᵏ || ꜱᴛᴀʀᴛᴇᴅ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀ ꜱᴘᴀʀᴋ ɴᴏᴡ ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴏɴ ꜰɪʀᴇ }#long post tw #{ this got so long but i like how it's a continuation of the ask i sent xD }#{ it makes the scene more intimate because they shared their presents one right after the other }#{ speaking of moods -- i think your Rick broke my Rick }#{ he got so happy he stopped working and now he can't speak xD }#{ he's speechless uwu <3 }

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drewschermickblindone · 1 year

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New mixtape:

blindone- the acidic hasidic 11- The Old Test a ment Extended Vers Dax Pierson- snap Radioinactive- personnality theft Elucid- Burnt Sugar feat. Psychic Twin doseone- Big Bank Basik MC-One Verse Hearse v 1.2 DJ Signify- Costume Kids Mestizo & Controller 7- Lay Your Life Down Danny Brown- 3 Tearz (feat. Run the Jewels) Birdapres- Different Insignificant Elzhi- 1-14 Misright Dope KNife- The Message Feat. Dana Coppafeel De La Soul- The Magic Number Fatt Matt, Ira Lee, Chadio- Downtown mykill miers and pawz one- cult classic (feat. edo.g and dj romes) Factor Chandelier feat. Onry Ozzborn- black nasa Neek the Exotic- One Speed All Out (Feat. Satchel Page) living legends- communion Reks- Animal Kingdom (Prod. By Apollo Brown) Rocwell feat. Swamburger- Memories The Gumshoe Strut- # Stairaway Saukrates- Innovations Feat. Pharoahe Monch dj moves- morris day feat. tachichi rob sonic- gums john jiggs feat crimeapple- teflon manteca 2Mex- Can't Get With Us (feat. Riddlore) Sacred Hoop- Quiet, Im Dying Defcee & Messiah Musik- Shell Game feat. Alaska sixtoo- garbage rain shrapknel- acid vignette(feat. donovan days and the binary marketing show) Mad Kap- Escuse Me Brutha!-Jeff-Self Feat. Jeff Broadway El-P- Oh Hail No (Feat. Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire & Danny Brown) Bag Appeal- Knife Rips (Rich Jones, Jesse The Tree & MJC) Raw Produce- Up All Night Darko The Super- Boomerang (Prod. Steel Tipped Dove) Dr. Octagon- Flying Waterbed The Koreatown Oddity- Meditative Thought Esoteric & Stu Bangas- Blood On the Flowers (feat. Spit Gemz) CURTA- Sky High feat. Kenny Dennis (Serengeti) Farm Fresh- tylers in the coal room (weeping) Diamond D- K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple Stupid) Defari- Deepest Regards (feat. B Real & J Ro) (prod. by Mike City) Deeskee- Motel Six sadistik- november aj suede and televangel- elysium DJ Muggs x Roc Marciano- Wormhole freestyle fellowship- hillcrest fatboi sharif and roper williams- prescription ODD NOSDAM- horse face anglo- Nine to Five Maximus Da Mantis - KALI-MA - TapeDeck Wizardry Ft Dangerous Dane main flow- dealing with the archives (ft dj greyboy) Controller 7- swallow (feat. Hemlock Ernst) The Nonce- Mix Tapes (1926 Sunday Night Remix) sign one- 2020 Hosannas (TGS Remix) ft. The Gumshoe Strut ddamage- insects are human Mr. Lif- Low Key (Feat. Murs, El-P, BMS & 3 Melancholy Gypsies) Demigodz- The Summer of Sam feat. Apathy, Blacastan, Esoteric, Motive, Ryu & Celph Titled AWOL ONE- REALLY MATTERS FEAT D-STYLES OLD SELF- Golden Rule (Radio Edit) feat. Lt Headtrip & BIG BREAKFAST One Be Lo- Phoenix Sons-HHB open mike eagle- ill fight you (prod. diamond d) Nolto & Factor- Making Out MF Grimm- earth prince po- bump bump (ft raekwon - prod by madlib) existereo- boyz in the hoodwinked DJ Quik- Speed jean grae & quelle chris- breakfast of champions OneWerd- What Living is For (variex. Remix) Moor Mother & Billy Woods- Portrait ft. Navy Blue alxndrbrwn- a boy nostalgic for the future (feat. cas one) Emad Saad Drastic Measures Hip Hop- Shatterd Light (feat. 2Mex & Negro Scoe) Short Fuze & Nasa- Master Peace Eric Bobo & Stu Bangas- Street Smarts feat. Ill Bill & O.C Five Deez- The Rock Rehab The Doppelgangaz- Taking Them Pills sandpeople- sapient and ethic- crown control kay the aquanaut and maki- the day the gods came back The Walrus (Interlude) Degiheugi- Keeping Memory Alive W Nolto, Andrre, Astronautalis & Nomad blue sky black death and ceschi- miracles Das EFX- real hip hop (pete rock remix) dj seinfeld- song for the lonely ERDA- SIGIL (prod. leftfordead) zoviet france- FICKLE WHISTLE, HAND OVER YOUR EARS Oldominion- Same Ol Same Ol (Feat. Barfly, Candidt & Peegee 13) Bike for Three!- First Embrace Eyedress- My Girl The Finest

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muggycuphead · 2 years

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weird flex but ok i guess pt.26

War… Hold up, do we really need a warning for this one? Dunno, but however, watch out for slightly disturbing and kinda…disgusting imagery, trypophobic patterns, as well as ‘necrotic’ (and dark themed) designs I made while having funky fever bc o h m y g o d do I get a little crazier every new quarantine day (and at this point it’s coming to be an usual thing for me, big sad). However, most are made no other than for the sole sake of satire, so y’know, no need to get your underwear in a twist

Friday Night Funkin’ BoyFriend’s Hood – AU fanconcept sketches [XXIII]

EDIT 26/10/2023: Updated the drawing with a rescanned, more clean version

1.- Her first invitation

"..."

"(Psst!) (Hey! You there?)"

"(awaken)....? Huh?"

...

"G? What are you doing here?"

"Just came to invite you to hang out tonight, wanna come?"

"...What? At this time?"

"Yeah, why?"

"....It's literally midnight"

"And what's the matter about that? If anything, it's more fun this way. Just come along, promise we'll come back in due time"

"....Just hold on a sec"

...

"(turns to Broddy) Yo, Imma gonna go out for a while with G over here"

"....yeah, heard you guys talking 'bout it. Ya can go, you got my permission (wink)"

"What the- Broddy?!"

"Hey, let Lil B have some fun, he's a clever rascal after all. Besides, he's going off with someone he trusts, what's the worse that'd happen?"

"....fine, just be careful out there, alright boy?"

"(thumbs up)"

"(turns back to GF) Alright, I'm going with ya, just let me dress myself up and bring some stuff along"

"Cool, I'll be waiting"

A shadowing practice sketch w/ graphite variants+perspectives, bitch

2.-Gotcha!

"Alright! Uhm..."

"What is it now?"

"....how do I get down? The front door is locked, and I can't risk opening it"

"Simple, just drop off the window"

"W-What?!"

"Don't worry, I'll catch ya"

"....Y-you sure?"

"(arms spread forward) As long as you trust me"

"(tighten nerves) Alright, here I go..."

(yipe!)

(grab!)

"Gotcha!"

"Aah! (grabs onto GF)"

(...too close)

"Ah! Sorry, got a little nervous there, hehe"

"Yeah, can see so, heh"

Same with the previous one, but it's charcoal this time

Let's be fair, he was justified to be afraid there

A fall that high can turn your bones into crumbs with no hesitation

3.-Friday Midnight Escapade

"So, what'd ya wanna do first B?"

"Dunno, what're your suggestions?"

"Hm, well -there's a 24-hour store around here, I heard they got some good snacks for sale"

"Awesome! Let's go get some!"

Sanguine with graphite, probably the best of the whole bunch here

Also, from beyond this point, the rest of events (except for the firs two) sort of happen on different Fridays, hence why their clothes and GF's haircuts look different in some of them

4.-Not fresh enough

"Hm, what should we get...?"

"(points at one of the chip bags) How about this one? Looks kinda interesting"

"(face twitches in disgust) Eugh, you sure you want those?"

"Uh, yeah? Why?"

"Their smell tell me otherwise about their taste..."

"....You're kidding, right?"

"(takes one of the bags and puts it close to GF -gently might I add) Take a sniff, then come back to me"

"(sniffs and notices the odd scent from the bag) ...Oof, yeah, that's...definitely not appetizing at all"

"Bet it's made of brussel sprouts, yuck"

"Don't think so, let's just get something else"

BF showing off his strong smelling senses to GF for the sake of saving their tastepads from an unpleasant fate

And yea I headcanonize he hates brussels sprouts, fight me vegans (?)

5.-Nice shot!

"Damn, nice one!"

"Heh, thanks! Been practicing enough"

"Yeah, seem so. Here, let's see if you catch as good as you shoot! (throws B a cookie from the bag baseball pitcher style)"

"(catches it on his mouth, then falls on his back, uninjured) Got it!"

"(laughs) Hey, mind if I try it too?"

"Uh? Oh- Sure! Do you want me to teach ya on it?"

"Nah, can do it myself (takes the sling and aims towards a glass bottle) Now, focus and"

(shoot)

(bottle falls off and lands onto someone down there)

"Ouch! What the-?!"

"Oh shoot"

"Ah, guess we're good for tonight. Let's get outta here!"

"Yeah, sounds like a plan"

Lol

6.-Premonitive scenario??

They vibin on the dumpster yo

Silver pan as a hat, crazy dave style

He got the rhymes, she brings the rhythm

Funkin' together, at a late Friday Night

I'm sorry

7.-Oh shit, it's a rat

BF became the dog whisperer there lol

Not really a surprise though, he owned a dog before, so he knows what to do...kinda

Still, quite some balls of steel for such a little kid

8.-Healing fire

(While escaping from the dog's garden, BF wounds his knee, and despite running for a few inches, he starts to waddle, with GF noticing)

"Woah, you okay there?"

"Uh? Oh y-yeah, it's nothing, just...resting a little, y'know?"

"Uh-huh, and it's not like that rip on your pants' fabric has something to do with it, does it?"

"....maybe"

(both sit down)

"Lemme see how bad it is"

"(roll his pant up) What are you gonna do?"

"I'll try to close the wound with my fire, just gonna ask you to hold in as much as you can"

"....Okay"

(G puts her hand over BF's wound and starts 'burning' it)

"Agh...!"

"Hold in there, it won't last for too long"

Yeah she can heal physical damages through heat, now stfu

9.-Visiting the local skatepark

I originally wanted to draw GF on a bike -or at least sort of- but I just can't tell at this point so I'll let you guys guess if that's so or if it looks more like she's on a monoskate(?)

Also, guess you can tell what's that side of the park's theme about if you were at the right time and place ;)

10.-Highgrounds experience

"Hehe, first time on the air, I see?"

"Ahah, yeah, pretty much. The view from here's kinda cool though, I can even see my family's workshop from here!"

"Love to see you actually like it <3"

Hashtage DefectDemonThingz amirite-

11.-Sharing the Moonlight

(BF and GF staring at the moon, until BF yawns all of a sudden)

"Yo, tired already?"

"(sleepy) Yeah...been having lotsa fun tonight with ya...but guess the sandman magic's finally getting to me"

"(holds BF close) Don't worry, you can go on and drop yourself off; I'll take you home in a while, promise"

"(starts to fall asleep) Thanks, G...you're the best... (rests on G's shoulder)"

"(smiles and puts her head carefully above his) ...Anytime, my little hood boy..."

Wholesome af

#fnf concept #fnfau #fnf au #friday night funkin'#friday night funkin #bfsh #au #alternative timeline #alt universe #alternate universe

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Would you do a blending tutorial? The blending on that first gif in the Peggy set is unreal

hi anon! first of all, thanks! i'm quite honored :)

i can make a tutorial if you still really want one, but really, i don't have any new technique to show you that other blending tutorials haven't. if have a few tips to tell you, though, hope this helps! don't be shy to ask for clarification, english isn't my first language and my PS isn't in english lol so sometimes i get the terms wrong

half of the work is picking the right scenes or editing them right. the pink Peggy in the first gif in that gifset that you mentioned? i just erased a little of the background details to make it work! the nature of that scene was very appropriate for blending in the first place - it has a lot of contrast and a dark background without many details. that's the gifmaker's dream for blending, really. the more dark spots you have in your image, the more transparency the layer has while in lighten/screen mode, making it easier to blend. so, ideally, you should pick scenes as similar to that as possible for your gifs.

but i gotta be honest with you, "picking the right scenes" is easier said than done. not every scene has a simple dark background and little movement, after all. i spend a lot of time trying different combinations to see what works and what doesn't. in that first gif's case, it was quick and easy, because i thought both shots were good examples of Peggy being smart and i was lucky that they were an easy match. but it's not every time that i get lucky, in some dire cases i need to blend layer by layer, using the layers method of giffing. (i don't know about you, i'm a timeline gal, so using layers is a nightmare for me, but sometimes there's no other way!)

BUT… sometimes you can force your scene to be the "right scene" by editing it. in that cases, you could:

add contrast;

use curves/levels to add "dark spots" in your image (i don't know how to call it). here's an example:

take the original shot (in b&w & with a bit of editing) that i used for my most recent Buckynat edit (gif 1). i didn't want Bruce in it, i wanted Bucky instead, so with a curves layer, i darkened the whole gif (gif 2). then, inside the layer mask of the curves layer, with a black brush, i erased the effects of the curves layer on Natasha (gif 3).

you can still see his face, so in another layer, so i painted above those gaps with a black brush and black gradient (gif 4). that way, i created a region to put a gif of Bucky over it (gif 5). without my retouches, you still would be able to see Mark Ruffalo's face (gif 6).

play with colors & b&w! the first Peggy gif wouldn't have worked as well if the smaller Peggy wasn't entirely pink, because more of the background would show up over the main scene, for example.

play with size, too! having a big pink Peggy in the first gif was easier to blend than a smaller Peggy.

hope this was useful 🙈 i too wish there was a secret technique for me to tell you, but i discovered through trial and error that picking (and/or editing) the right scenes is the gifmaker's best friend. and while there's a "theory" for it (using scenes with a lot of dark and bright spots, filling missing gaps with black brush strokes in an underneath layer), you get better at picking the right scenes (and blending in general) with practice!

#type: asks #Anonymous #ps help

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metalgearsolidexclamationpoint · 2 years

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Chapter 5/6 of The Quarry

Soooooo… just realized that the VHS tape explicitly said “killing Jake,” but there is no such finality for Emma. I thought that was her floating in the pool, because the corpse was wearing underwear, but I guess not. Edit: Never mind, she is listed as dead in the treehouse if you scroll through the locations.

That said………. They were definitely the 2 most annoying characters.

Well, Dylan, I stand corrected w/r/t infection. I’m glad I cut off your hand with a chainsaw, something you can definitely withstand without fainting and afterwards be back on your feet and lucid within 15 minutes.

Is it actually possible to pass the don’t breathe event where Nick goes feral and chokes out the hunter? Or do I fundamentally misunderstand DB events? Can you stop for a quick breath and start up again? Is it just not clear to me when it’s okay to breathe? I wasn't sure if I passed the boar attack DB in chapter 3 either.

Go me for having broken into the cabin and taken some kid’s stuffed animal back for them. It looks like I would have not been able to get in the cabin and/or set off some kind of noisy toy, but instead THE ACTIONS I TOOK FIVE CHAPTERS AGO PAID OFF. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL YOUR CHOICES AFFECT THE FUTURE!

Wait… if it had attacked them, does that mean it wouldn’t have attacked Dylan? Dammit. Make a note for next run.

Finding a radio and sending a distress call… that’s a familiar story beat.

And while we’re on the subject, in the radio hut there’s a dialogue along the lines of: “You could teach a class.” “Like climbing?” If it isn’t good old climbing class. What’s next, hashtag there’s a freaking ghost behind us?

That said, I love Dylan’s rambling emergency message. “There’s a swarm of bears, so … uh, SOS – this is an emergency! S… save our ship! Come on down!” Emily's was way better.

Now past the 50% mark of the game, I can boil down my decision-making process to favor compassion and collaboration. If a character seems to be getting pushed too far, that’s when I’ll go a little more aggressive or abrupt. I reached that point with Nick, and he threw Abi across the room, so I shot him without remorse and he jumped through the window and ran off. I figured Abi had been stretched to breaking point by then. I’m interested to see if, after Nick joins the Nosferatus and starts stalking the kids, there was some kind of turning point where he wouldn’t attack Abi if she hadn’t done that.

I’m also super-reluctant to use the gun, mostly because it’s never really clear what I’m supposed to be aiming at. Like I wish I had shot the Nosferatu climbing on the roof of the radio shack, but where the hell was it? Could I have stopped Dylan getting bit at all so I didn’t have to go all Heavy Rain The Lizard on him?

Speaking of comparing things with Heavy Rain, the QTEs are so goddamn easy. I really really wish this game were difficult mechanically. Heavy Rain had some incredibly fun set-pieces, like Nahman Jayden’s chase through the grocery store, or the electricity maze during the butterfly, playing piano, folding origami, escaping the creepy doctor’s rope trap, stopping yourself from taking triptocaine, all things that ratcheted up the tension not just because of the uncertainty of where my decision led me, but also whether I would be able to carry it out. I remember using my tongue to press buttons during the a few QTEs. This is more like, is the controller within ten feet of you? Good, press the control stick in a direction. And things that could be QTEs just... aren't. Like people moving furniture in front of doors. Why isn't that a control stick movement? HR had difficulty levels as well; I think it was 'story mode' style difficulty, where the more complicated control stick maneuvers (like the three-quarters rotation) where turned into simple left/right and you had more time to input. I genuinely can't imagine the QTEs getting easier in this.

I diligently looked in every toilet in the pool house in the hopes of finding a) a clue or b) a reference to Silent Hill. EWW?? WHO WOULD PUT THEIR HAND IN A TOILET????

I don’t know if it’s intended to be a reference to Scream

This game literally has David Arquette in it; no matter what I'm talking about, obviously it is intended to be a reference to Scream. Now that my brain is back online, aside from teen hook-up drama and David Arquette, the reason it is like Scream is: it is for people who know the Rules. That was Scream’s schtick: horror has rules, and if you’re in a horror movie (/game), you can survive if you know the rules. The tragedy, of course, is that you never know you’re in a horror movie, which is what makes it so scary.

But I, holding the controller, know we’re in a horror movie. Games have rules; that’s what makes them games. I would argue one of the reasons to play a horror game (as opposed to watching a horror movie) is having the ability to interact with the situation and behave how you-the-viewer wants to behave, instead of yelling at the screen DON'T SPLIT UP! And not only do I know all the rules the game tells me about, through the UI and cute tutorial videos, but I also know all the rules of UD and the conventions of video games and 20-odd years of horror in all media. I’ve spent 4k 5k 6k words already carping about being too clever to open a trap door and being judicious about gunfire and emphasizing collaboration over conflict.

It's easy enough to withhold the information from the characters confined to the narrative in a movie. But in a game, you intrinsically have the 2 pieces of information required to survive: the Rules, and the knowledge that confirms you are in a horror, and not, on the other hand, a teen sex comedy. So the key to making this an exciting and scary game is to subvert the rules that both the game and the player know exist.

Which is why it annoys me that the game forces you to open the creepy bunker, or break the van. I think that explains why those But Thou Must moments annoyed me so much: it didn’t allow me to use the knowledge that I’m in a horror movie. A But Thou Must isn’t inherently bad or frustrating – knowingly presenting the forged evidence in Ace Attorney 4 or shooting The Boss in MGS3 are effective & affecting moments that only video games can give you – but The Quarry’s whole deal is that you know it’s a horror game. They know you played UD, which is probably why they throw a lot of Schmuck Bait at you (there are a LOT of trap doors??). I know, I know, those are the 2 inciting events of the A and B plots and I verge on sounding like "(pushes glasses up nose) why didn't Frodo ride an Eagle to Mordor??" Maybe a Far Cry 4-style joke ending after chapter 1 where Laura and Max turn around and go to the hotel? After all, in a game that Knows Where It Came From, joke endings are a proud tradition.

UMMM, Laura is looking COOL AF.

#the quarry #text #the quarry spoilers #fox plays

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someone-elsa · 3 years

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K A H V I T A U K O • P O S E P A C K

(Kahvitauko is Finnish for ‘coffee break’ ;))

There are probably dozens of coffee cup accessories around already but more the merrier?

Total of 24 poses (12 unique and then variations of those) • Blender previews under the cut • Pose player and Teleport Any Sim needed (place teleporter in the middle of the chair so that the sword almost touches the table. Press ‘alt’ to move it freely! Ofc the best placement may vary depending on the furniture/sim)

Coffee cup and cappuccino cup pose accessories (+ overlay!) • The regular cup is a Maxis mesh, cappuccino cup is my simple edit • Both categorised as Ring finger (right) • The cups themselves are empty but I have included an overlay so you can choose from variety of drinks! Overlay is categorised as Ring finger (left) • 12 swatches for the cups, 7 for the drinks • Custom thumbnails • All assigned to left stigmata bone (but can be posed with cup in the right hand or even on the table, as you can see in the pictures) • They are made so that the same poses work for both cups, more or less • Recolours OK, so is including the meshes (note that the texture space is really small so fancy patterns won’t look very fancy in game :()

@maxismatchccworld @ts4-poses

Thanks for the tester @madeofcc

D O W N L O A D

.blend file is for pose creators :)

👉 SFS (no ads) 👉 Mediafire (no ads)

Let me know if you run into problems with the poses and/or accessories. And tag me if you use them! I love to see my creations in action :) Happy simming! ♥

Want to make poses with these accessories or recolour them? Please do! See more information under the cut.

My Ko-fi page

A B O U T • T H E • P O S E S

The 9 poses with pink cup: each pose has a right hand version (these work with the cappuccino accessory as well though some will look a little funny) The 3 poses with turquoise cup: each has a cappuccino cup version

M O R E • P O S E S / R E C O L O U R S

None yet! :p

If anyone makes poses that work with these accessories or recolour them, I’ll link them here :)

I have included a .blend file that has the same setup I used to create these poses. The rig is posed and can be used as a base. Ask away if you have questions regarding the .blend file.

If you share your poses/accessory recolours, tag me and I’ll link them to this post. You can include the accessories to your posepack upload and include the mesh if you recolour the accessories. Just credit and tag me and don’t put them behind a paywall or ad links.

#ts4cc poses #ts4cc #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4

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snowdice · 2 years

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Answering Asks Until the Labeled Sequel is Rewritten

What is this?

I am officially moving into the rewrite stage of the Labeled Sequel tonight. I’m not proofreading which I would use the proofreading story for. This is much more involved and I don’t want to stop every 20 minutes and write stuff in a different universe. That would mess me up. Instead, I plan to answer an ask from this ask game every time I write 500 words. There isn’t really a time restraint. The goal is to answer 1-5 asks a day which would take half a month to edit, but I am still ill and working on a dissertation, so I’m going to estimate a month.

What are the rules?

Simple! Select one thing from each category and send them as an ask. I will answer them in the order they come in, except when multiple from one person comes through. I will bump those to the bottom of the list so everyone who asks gets at least one answered in a (relatively) timely manner. That being said, I strong encourage you to send more than one! (pls) If I end up with too many... well... I also have to proofread after this. If I don’t end up with enough, I’ll just random number generate at every 500 words.

Note: All of these asks will be in reference to the Labeled Universe.

Notex2: There is a random question option as option Z if you don’t want to read all of the questions.

Categories:

Character:

1. Logan

2. Patton

3. Virgil

4. Roman

5. Remus

6. Janus

7. Remy

8. Emile

9. Other (Please include a name of a character who exists in this universe, yes cats count)

10. Unknown character (I pick a random not yet introduced character in the universe)

Question:

A. What is (character)’s go to pizza topping?

B. How often does (character) daydream and what do they daydream about?

C. Tell me something about (character)’s parents.

D. What is (character)’s dream vacation?

E. If (character) got to choose the method of their own death whenever that comes, what would they choose?

F. Post a mood board for (character).

G. How does (character) feel about large parties?

H. Did/does your (character) want kids?

I. Post a picture of (character)’s favorite animal.

J. What is (character)’s preferred way to stay in contact with people? (Email, text, phone calls, ect.)

K. What did (character) put as their yearbook senior quote?

L. Which parent/parental figure did (character) have a better relationship with?

M. Post (character)’s favorite meme.

N. What color was (character)’s childhood bedroom walls?

O. On a scale of 1-10, how much does (character) care about what other people think of them?

P. What is (character)’s most vivid childhood memory?

Q. Post a picture of (character)’s ideal chair to sit on.

R. What does (character) typically drink with breakfast?

S. Has (character) had their first kiss? Who was it?

T. Post a picture of (character)’s ideal hot drink.

U. If (character) could guarantee one thing about the world once they are gone, what would it be?

V. If (character) had a choice to go to a concert, a play, or a sporting event, which would they choose?

W. Does (character) trust easily.

X. What does (character) do when they are sad?

Y. Random generate a word. Give (character)’s opinion on the result.

Z. IDK. You pick.

Status Effect (optional)

Cliffnotes: Answer in 20 words or under

Mute: Answer only in pictures

Inversion: Answer with a lie

Theme song: Also post a YouTube video that accompanies the answer

Blind: Respond with a voice recording

Interview: Write the answer as though it is another character asking. Provide the second character’s response. (You can send a character here or have me choose.)

#ask games #labeled sequel game #not writing #not pieces fic

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catjest3r · 3 years

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commissions are open again!!

-WILL DO-

furries! scalie/dragons, avian, ferals, pokemon/pokesonas, humans!!! and other humanoid species, ocs, fandom characters, etc! dont be afraid to ask about things not included here ^^ I also do gore and nsfw!! nsfw examples on my twitter @ Marsh_MarrowAD :3c

-WONT DO-

nsfw of minors or ferals, including any quadruped pokemon or other creatures, any hate art, racist, homophobic, etc. you’ll probably get blocked for asking

reblogs super appreciated! feel free to dm me with questions anytime if youre interested~ thanks for looking!!

info and tos under cut!

-INFO-

if not provided with a visual ref, extra payment will be required. however, I love to make ref sheets/art for people with new ocs that havent got any art yet!! extra payment just covers the designing process ^^ written descriptions/themes/mood board ocs welcome!! please be patient with me since getting a character right with no ref can take some trial and error

I will post all sfw commissions unless asked not to! I can also delay posting until specific dates if its a gift or something! just ask :D

I will send you updates for the sketch and once approved I cannot go back!! tell me asap if you need me to fix anything, I want it to look exactly the way you envision!

tipping generally results in a liiittle more rendering/detail work! Im also much more lenient to going back and changing things, even after sketch phase is done... just saying

-TOS-

reposting your commission here or elsewhere is not preferred, but please credit me if you do. Id rather you just reblog it here overall. toyhouse and other galleries are fine though!!

of course, using your commission as an icon, header, wallpaper, etc. is great!! please credit where you can, I really appreciate it ^w^

if you sell a character that includes art from me I only ask that you dont upcharge what you paid for it, otherwise please dont resell my art

eyedropping colors from your commission is always fine! use commissions as a personal reference or to give to other commissioners :D

however, never claim you drew the art you commissioned, dont trace or edit it, and especially NEVER remove my signature! this is my biggest rule, if you break it I will block you :,3

editing by adding cool effects/overlays/etc is fine though, just dont mess with the lineart please!!

anyways heres some older extra art, thanks for reading ;w;

2 characters example ^

character design + simple bg and cool lighting ex ^

my sona + epic pride art example B) ^

always ask if youd like specific examples, for humans, certain species, bgs, anything like that ^^

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skyemisc · 3 years

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Deuce Spade Birthday SSR Story Translation

NRC Newspaper Interview: Birthday Interview Feature

~Deuce Edition~

Option: Happy birthday. What were your thoughts in the days leading to your birthday?

Deuce: Thank you! I’m happy to hear “Happy Birthday!” from so many people.

Deuce: But… Honestly it was a little nerve-wracking.

Deuce: I figured I was used to these kinds of celebrations thanks to the the Unbirthday parties…

Deuce: It’s really different when you’re the center of attention.

Deuce: Still, everyone put in a lot of effort for today, so I’ll enjoy it to the fullest!

Deuce: A lot of my favorite egg dishes were also made and I can’t wait to eat them.

Screen: You really enjoy egg dishes, huh.

Deuce: Yeah. I like both eating and cooking them.

Deuce: I used to think fried eggs were simple. Just put the eggs over heat, but when I did it myself, I found out that was more to it.

Deuce: Making an ideal sunny-side up egg was pretty challenging… Back in the day I practiced quite a bit.

Deuce: Oh, speaking of… A while ago, Clover-senpai and I got pretty into making different egg dishes!

Deuce: Talking about what would be good in omelets, and teaching me how to make a simple-to-make custard…

Deuce: I never talked about egg dishes that much before, so it was really fun.

Deuce: Well, Ace was nearby going “I don’t know understand this cooking gibberish” and looked bored out of his mind.

Deuce: When I learn the super special melt-in-your-mouth custard recipe, I wanna try making that next time.

Deuce: Once I get that down, I’ll tell you. Feel free to bring Grim too for a bite.

Episode 2:

Screen: What do you enjoy?

Deuce: I like riding on a Magical Wheel. Also, I like tinkering with machines.

Deuce: Mom’s hopeless with machines, so I was always the one setting up the different household electronics.

Deuce: Instead of reading the instructions, she’d reluctantly try it out herself. It was fun to watch.

Deuce: Well, apparently to the people around me, it seems that repairing and services appliances is more of a specialty than a hobby to me.

Deuce: Occasionally, people would come and bring broken appliances and it was kinda troubling. I’m not that skilled, honestly…

Deuce: Earlier, when I tried listening to music with the Dorm Lounge’s worn-out cassette player, it stopped working.

Deuce: You know the old saying to hit appliances to fix them? I jokingly hit it and it started playing again.

Deuce: Diamond-senpai just so happen to be nearby to see it…

Deuce: He went around and told people half-jokingly that “Deuce-chan’s hands caused a miracle!”

Deuce: Word started spreading and it became a huge thing. It even got to my friends at some point…

Deuce: I kept getting told “Wow, you can repair different machines? That’s cool!”. I’m at a loss…

Screen: What are you dreams for the future?

Deuce: To become a police officer. …Not just any division… I want to join the division specialized in anti-mage combat, which is said to be the cream of the crop even among police.

Deuce: I know getting into the trade won’t be easy, but I have no intention of giving up.

Deuce: For the sake of my future, I’m doing all I can while I’m here.

Deuce: Every single day, I practice magic, I practice flying, and I even review my lectures on top of that.

Deuce: I don’t exactly have the best test scores in class though. W-Well I guess I just have to do my best from now on.

Deuce: Also, what I’m putting my efforts most into simulating situations in my head!

Deuce: I’ll watch movies and dramas where the lead role is a police officer and study how they do investigations and catch the criminals.

Deuce: I’ve memorized how to look cool in a chase and what signature phrase they’ll say when arresting the bad guy.

Deuce: I’m all set, to go to a crime scene immediately, aren’t I?

Episode 3:

Screen: What do you normally do for fun?

Deuce: Recently I’ve been playing cards with my friends at the dorm a lot.

Deuce: I used to be so into magical wheels, so I wasn’t used to playing games with my friends. It was really fun.

Deuce: Otherwise, I’ll play different app games; like ones where you build towns or beat monsters.

Deuce: Oh yeah, a while ago there was a big thing going on in the dorm with puzzle games.

Deuce: You have to match the same colors and then it disappears. The rules are simple and it’s really entertaining.

Deuce: But more and more students came to join and stayed up late…

Deuce: Many wouldn’t wake up in time and Dorm Leader Rosehearts would get at the necks of a lot of the students…

Deuce: …Actually, I was one of them too. I got too into a showdown with Ace, I stayed up the whole night…

Deuce: Even after telling myself I’d take everything more seriously… I learned my lesson.

Deuce: Since then, I only allow myself to play games for one hour a day.

Screen: What do you do on your days off?

Deuce: I do a lot of physical training.

Deuce: Sometimes when I’m in the sports grounds, I end up training with Jack, who’s in the same club as me—the track and field club.

Deuce: Even if we start off practicing on our own, we end up getting competitive on reflex being close to each other on the field…

Deuce: I start out planning to do some light training but then it ends up like an all-out battle…

Deuce: On some days, I end up running over a few dozen laps before I come to my senses.

Deuce: By the end of it, we’ll both be tired and exhausted. Makes you wonder what exactly we’re doing on a day off, right?

Deuce: Oh, recently Epel’s been joining us too. He’s got a lot more guts than you’d expect from his appearance.

Deuce: …I’ve always liked riding around on Magical Wheels with my fellow comrades, and that goes for jogging too.

Deuce: Running with everyone versus by yourself is just so much more satisfying and gives the best feeling.

Deuce: Ah… B-But I do more than just training on my days off. I take care to study too!

Screen: Thank you for letting me listen to your stories. Once again, happy birthday!

#twst #twisted wonderland #translation #deuce #ruggie bucchi #deuce spade birthday #birthday translate #deuce spade ssr

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