You.

finally, you have done it. you had broken up with Simon. After months of torture, he sold as some forbidden paradise. the constant bickering, bossing you around, neglecting you, missing dates, and worst of all. not telling anyone he was even in a relationship. God it lit a fire so deep inside of you. you blocked his ass the second you broke up with him. sure it did no good cause he still had a key to your house but, that's a battle to deal with tomorrow. or at least you thought tomorrow. it was 2am and you had finally fell asleep

it wasn't long after you fell asleep you heard the door to your apartment being kicked down. you knew who it was immediately, I mean what other kind of physcopath just kicks down someone else's door?. you quickly get up wrapping a robe around you and walking out. there he is simon fucking Riley staring at you with pure anger.

"SERIOUSLY Y/N?!" "JUST LIKE THAT OUR 5-YEAR RELATIONSHIP IS OVER? OVER ONE FUCKING TEXT!"

as he gets closer, you back away.

"simon i explained everything in detail in that text." you spat with fiery. "I'm not doing this anymore" you look at you door, "and your buying me a new fucking door!"

He grabs you with anger and you panic, he would never hurt you. Right? he would never hurt you? shit I mean yeah he's a killing machine at work, but he's never been physically aggressive.

"thats what your fucking worried about right now? your stupid fucking door?" He practically shook you with his anger.

"Simon I'm not doing this, I already expressed that we're over. get out, Simon."

he towered over you, beginning to spit something at you, but held his mouth, sighing letting you go then turning around and walking out your broken door. attempting to shut it before disappearing.

you sighed as he walked away. it was really that easy all along? that's all it took? you questioned to yourself as you slammed your body into your broken door.

"fuck." you say to yourself as you realize the doors not gonna shut. you just hope for the best as you go back to bed. Simon is gone finally, you think to yourself as you finally fall asleep.

the next morning you wake up, and continue your usual routine. less than an hour later you walk out of your apartment, looking at the door trying to decide what to do. "we'll figure it out". you walk down your apartment complex before heading to work. it was a usual day at work. nothing too stressful.

it isn't 9:30 till you finally close up for the day. gripping your bag close to your side. your nail shop is down the street from a local bar, it's usually pretty busy during the weekdays. It is dark, and the lights from the bar light the walkway as you mindlessly walk. suddenly a drunken man from the bar grabs you.

"aye sweetheart why dont you sit down, and enjoy a drink eh?"

"no. thanks." you jerk away from him but he grabs your waist this time

"ah come on dont be unfriendly, lets have a chat sweetie. You too pretty to be sleeping on a beautiful night like this."

you chuckle trying to be nice "Yeah thanks but no" You attempt to jerk away again but this time the man pulls you hard

"Now dont be a bore," he says with anger as he drags you to the dark alleyway. this can't be how you die. for the first time in years, you're alone without Simon to call, everyone in the bar is too drunk to realize what's happening, and you're small compared to most men.

you panic as you try to break free, pushing him off at your most might. but he doesn't let go, his fingers practically dug into you. "please stop" you panic doing everything you can.

as soon as you start to scream, you hear a loud metal-sounding hit, you look back and see Simon standing over the man with a metal bat.

"she said leave her alone!" he boomed

the man held his head as he scurried off. you held your arm as you looked at him. you start to back up before Simon grabs you. "quit acting an idiot and go home." "before I actually have to kill someone."

you say nothing swallowing your pride and walking away but stopping. "are you fucking stalking me?"

"my stalking just saved your life sweetheart." "go home."

side notes/ babbling: I imagined Simon as joe Golberg in a alternate universe and viola came up with this. I really want to do a part 2, so lmk how y'all feel about this!!!

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do you believe in ghosts ?

the year is 1925. a group of lovers, a rage in their house, history of a curse. will the lovers ever be the same again.

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PARANORMAL PERSONALITIES: GROFF AND SAINT - Frankfort, Kentucky. Investigative paranormal-TV personalities, Nick Groff and Elizabeth Saint, man the table and meet attendees at the 2018 Cryptid Con in Frankfort, Kentucky. Paranormal Producer and Investigator Groff has been the creator (and star) of several popular ghost hunting reality-TV shows, such as Travel Channel’s “Ghost Adventures,” Destination America’s “Ghosts Of Shepherdstown” and “Paranormal Lockdown,” as well as “Ghost Stalkers.” Each year, Nick participates in numerous professional on-location ghost hunts, special events, and speaking engagements/public appearances as part of his Nick Groff Tour endeavor. Nick’s project collaborator and “Shepherdstown” co-star, Elizabeth Saint, is an accomplished ghost hunter - with a background in electrical engineering - who left a successful modeling career to follow her paranormal pursuits. Aside from her explorations of the Unknown on supernatural television, Saint has worked to apply her engineering skills towards inventing anomaly research devices (ghost hunting gizmos) for the field. Elizabeth, like Nick, is also an active participant at ghost hunting circuit events and public appearances. Photo by Michael Huntington - September, 2018. @Huntington_Strange_Travels #MichaelHuntington #StrangeTravels #HuntingtonAdventures #Ghosts #Haunted #GhostHunting #NickGroff #NickGroffTour #CreepyPeople #GhostAdventures #ParanormalLockdown #GhostsOfShepherdstown #GhostStalkers #ElizabethSaint #ParanormalRealityTV #RealityTV #DestinationAmerica #CryptidCon #CryptidCon2018 #CryptidConference #SquatchParty2018 #CapitalPlazaHotelFrankfort #FrankfortKentucky (at Capital Plaza Hotel) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuubOA1FSEH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mn3ecwoyuawh

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#Repost @ghoststalkermusic Today I am starting a new Monday theme called "Monday Relay." I know so many folks that make music that I want to share that I figured I should do just that! I'm starting out with a friend that was integral in my reemergence from my live show hiatus. The scene had changed so much in two and a half years that I was struggling to get started again when I got an email from this guy asking me to do a show with his band, Good Flavor. By the day of the show, Good Flavor's drummer was double booked and @joeywilsontv performed a show that would go on to become Ghost Stalker. Check out his new song, Chasing Demons, and head over to his page for more information!! . . . . . #fantastikapparatus #indietronica #madscientist #family #sciencemusic #zappa #dustbrothers #avlmusic #tronrock #deadjams #space #progtronic  #diyeffects #friendsintime #synthesizer #synthwave #skullmask #mondayrelay #ghoststalker https://www.instagram.com/p/BxIKZxThreE/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2595ol6b4hoy

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heya! so i dunno if other people have this problem but: im trying to draw more digitally, but i find myself extremely unmotivated to do so. i can draw on paper just fine and without any sort of internal struggle, but drawing on my computer throws my brain for a loop. somehow everything seems harder and it gets really overwhelming. if any of you know how to combat this id really appreciate it, thank you!!!!

I believe I may have already written about this before, but I feel it doesn’t hurt to restate it again!

Have you considered trying to do a drawing on paper first, then either by scanning or taking a photo of the traditional drawing, transfer it to your computer where you can then open it in your art program and proceed to lineart the sketch or just color it immediately?

When I was a child who managed to get their little paws on Photoshop, I lacked a tablet and would always doodle on paper, scan it in, and then do some filter work to make the lineart solid enough for me to paint bucket. The first few attempts weren’t... Great... I just shot the sharpness up to a point where the white space was white enough, but the lines were fried to high hell.

I would eventually go on to teach myself how to properly flatten my lineart so that it was solid black lines as opposed to... That...

However, I do not which program you use, nor if there is much in the way of adjustments that can be made to it with the more expensive programs such as Photoshop or Clip Studio. But I do feel that many programs still possess the same layer mode capabilities.

Here are some tutorials I was able to find for various art programs about how to take traditional drawings and color them digitally:

[For Sai] “How to digitally color traditional” Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 by mute-owl (DeviantArt)

[For Photoshop] “Tutorial: How to Turn Traditional Lineart into Digital” by neonbuttstache (YouTube)

[For Gimp] “Lineart in Gimp - Scan, Clean, Color 2017″ by GHOSTSTALKER (YouTube)

[For FireAlpaca] Using Extracting Lines by @everythingfirealpaca (Tumblr)

I do not know which program you have to work with specifically, as many will have their own little fixes for how to clean up the lineart. In general, the consensus for coloring in your lines is to: (1) scan/photo in your traditional drawing, (2) import it into your art program of choice, (3) adjust the brightness/contrast for drawings without a perfect white background, (4) set the traditional drawing’s layer mode from “Normal” to “Multiply”, and then (5) fill in colors in the layer beneath your drawing.

This was eventually the method I would come to learn when I drew traditionally and scanned it in to color digitally. And really, you will be learning a lot of techniques by just coloring your art work in the program as you may start to experiment more with other things like shading and then seeing what various tools can do what.

All that aside, and as another answer to your question on how to help minimize being overwhelmed by this new medium: take a day to just simply go through every tool, edit/adjustment, filter, layer mode, all of it and see what happens. The worst you’ll manage to do when doing this will be closing the program by some weird fashion, because if you close a window like your brushes or can’t find your list of layers, then it is just hidden and can be brought back out with the Window tab at the very top bar of your computer screen:

You need to familiarize yourself with this space, it is important that you experiment with it yourself, or go online and look up what it is you want to do or something like DeviantArt or YouTube where thousands upon thousands of resources are readily available, free of charge, for everyone to see and share.

It’s fine starting simple with a program unfamiliar to you, even when I moved from Photoshop to Clip Studio there was a lot of things I had to relearn or that felt strange to me. Hotkeys for example were a little confusing given I only ever worried about [B] for “Brushes” in Photoshop, but Clip Studio there is [B] and [P] for Brushes and Pens, and in Clip Studio, “Pens” are different from Photoshop’s version of the Pen Tool.

I had to wean myself off Photoshop by linearting in Clip and then bringing it back to Photoshop to color and shade for my personal comfort. But now, I’ve become pretty confident with Clip Studio and ultimately use it for everything and have dropped my subscription to Adobe.

The transition won’t come immediately, it took 3-4 years (condensed) for me to feel pretty proficient in Photoshop, and then beyond that I continued to learn a couple more things I didn’t know I could do in the program. And sometimes, you’re just going to never even see half the stuff your program provides. 

Which if you can learn to navigate to your essential tools and ignore the rest, that would help you immensely down the line.

I hope this advice was helpful!

-Mod Em

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