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moons-dunes · 7 months

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Let Go

For Kinktober - Prompt: Role Reversal

Kinktober Masterlist

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Pairing: sub!Jake Lockley x dom!female reader

Summary: Jake does not let go of control easily, but he wants to. You help him out.

WC: 2.5k

A/N: Yes a posted a different fic for this prompt, I just hated how it turned out and couldn’t leave it alone. I kept the basic bones of it, just made it into something I’m actually proud of.

This work contains: this is porn with feelings, sub Jake but he’s a brat about it at first, reader is a fairly hard dom, power play, use of handcuffs, edging, bj, face sitting, brief fingering, begging, PiV, riding, mild overstim, Jake has feelings. I was feeling soft for Jake today. Please let me know if I missed anything!

It was a rare occurrence for Jake to give control over to someone else, to put himself in an even slightly vulnerable position.

Because Jake Lockley was not known for going down without a fight, or going down at all really.

He was headstrong, and he adamantly refused to take anything lying down, sitting, or standing up. His stubbornness came as naturally to him as breathing. It was how he survived, and in turn made sure the system was safe. He couldn’t let go of the reins if he wanted to.

Then you happened.

It didn’t happen overnight, but after some time he was able to let his guard down around you. You were beyond patient with him, and always tried to create a safe space for all three of them.

And you eventually became Jake’s safe haven. Where he could be himself, and not be on high alert constantly. Behind those steel walls he put up around himself he hid a desire to simply be cared for, but it wasn’t easy to show that.

He loved when you took control over him, but his deep rooted instinct always told him to make you work for it.

And work for it you did.

You always seemed to default to being submissive with Jake, which you chalked up to his more assertive demeanour.

So when he brought up the idea of switching things up in the bedroom, you were shocked. Enthusiastic, but shocked. You had fallen into a more dominant role before with Steven and sometimes even Marc, but never with Jake.

You knew full well that he wouldn’t make it easy for you. You were counting on it.

Thankfully, you loved a good challenge.

Jake let out a grunt as you shoved him against the wall with a thud, your hands pressed firmly against his shoulders.

You both frantically pulled each other’s clothes off, your lips only leaving him to shed your shirts. He yanked your sweats down along with your underwear, and you kicked them off before fiddling with his belt. You got it undone quickly, moving on to unbutton and unzip his jeans. The denim dropped to the ground and you pushed his boxers down with them to let him step out of them.

“I’m in charge tonight,” you leaned in to whisper in his ear, brushing your lips against his skin. “So be good for me and I’ll make sure you're well taken care of.”

He let out a chuckle, and you pulled back to raise a brow at him like he so often did to you.

“Not an ice cube's chance in hell, doll,” he challenged you with a smug grin, so you smiled right back. “So why don’t you get your pretty ass on the bed?”

His hands grabbed your ass hard, pulling you closer against him than you already were. You mirrored the action, squeezing your hands over his bare skin. You walked backwards, pulling him with you until you felt your legs hit the bed. In one swift move you turned the two of you around and pushed him down onto the softness of the mattress, quickly climbing on top of him to straddle his stomach and hold his hands over his head.

“Let’s try this again,” you took on a more warning tone as you spoke, brushing your nose against his. “Behave.”

The defiance didn’t leave his pretty brown eyes, which you expected. He didn’t try to flip you off of him either, so progress was being made.

“You gonna make me?” He asked with a smirk, shifting under you.

“Do you want me to make you?” You countered, pressing down harder on his wrists.

His breath hitched for a split second at your question, but you didn’t miss the little glint of excitement that crossed his face.

“Maybe,” he answered after a moment, his breathing picking up.

You huffed out a quick laugh, letting go of his wrists to lean over to open the bedside drawer. Your hand shuffled through the contents until you found what you were looking for, and pulled them out to hold them above Jake’s face.

His eyes followed the shiny metal handcuffs as they dangled, swinging ever so slightly. He had used them on you plenty of times.

You moved fast and grabbed his left wrist first, closing the ring of metal around him before looping the chain through the slats of the headboard before doing the same to his right wrist.

“There we go, much better,” you teased, tapping your palm against his cheek lightly.

You moved down his body, leaving little kisses and love bites along the way until you seated yourself between his legs

He let out a small gasp as you wrapped your hand around his quickly hardening cock, squeezing lightly to watch him squirm.

“I’d say you like it when I’m a bit rough with you, huh?” You teased as you gathered the bit of precum leaking out of his tip, spreading it across his length with a slow pump of your hand.

He didn’t dignify that with a response, just watched you with his increasingly intense gaze.

He did, however, let out a choked grunt when you ran your tongue across the underside of his cock before taking the tip into your mouth.

You slowly lowered your head until his tip hit the back of your throat, using your hand to circle what you couldn’t fit in your mouth.

Jake tilted his head back with a loud moan as the warm wetness of your mouth surrounded his cock, jangling the chain of the cuffs as he instinctively went to grab your hair.

“Fuck,” he breathed out, watching you bob your head up and down slowly. You looked at him through your lashes, watching as the look of pleasure took over his hard gaze.

You were moving at an agonizingly slow pace, and he knew you were doing it on purpose just to tease him further.

He bucked his hips up slightly to meet your mouth halfway, making you gag a bit. You looked up at him with a muffled growl, placing your hands on his hips to hold them down.

“Stay still,” the look in your eyes seemed to scold him.

Mercifully, you started bobbing your head faster. Jake let his head fall back, closing his eyes to focus on the feeling of your mouth over him. The way your tongue moved mixed with the amount of suction you had perfected was intoxicating.

The expression on Jake’s face while you sucked him off never failed to make your pussy drip; that look of pure bliss. You’d never get tired of watching him slowly get consumed by the pleasure you gave him.

His moans were growing louder and more frequent as you sped up your movements, drowning out the jangling of the cuffs. As you felt his cock twitch in your mouth, you pulled yourself off of him.

It took Jake a second to realize what just happened, and he looked at you with furrowed brows as you sat up with a pleased look on your face.

You wrapped your hand around his spit-slick cock again and started jerking him off at a fast pace, watching with a smile as he hissed and squeezed his eyes shut.

“Oh you’re going to be in so much trouble when we’re done here,” he spat out, and you just chuckled.

“In case you haven't noticed, I’m calling the shots here,” you reminded him, squeezing your hand around him to watch him squirm. “So I’d start behaving if I were you.”

You jerked your hand faster, drawing whimpers and moans out of him. You continued like that until you could tell he was close again, then you stopped.

He let out a frustrated groan, gritting his teeth.

You climbed back up him until you were more or less sitting on his quickly rising and falling chest, all the while he was glaring at you.

“Real cute, mi amor, but-“

You cut him off by squeezing his cheeks with one hand, making his lips pucker out.

“That’s enough out of you,” you spat out, gripping his face hard. “I’m gonna sit on your pretty face, and you’re going to appreciate it. Got it?”

Fuck, you weren’t playing around.

He nodded the best he could, eyes wide and full of lust as he looked up at you. You let go of his jaw, moving up so your wet cunt was hovering right over his face. His tongue darted out to wet his lips, desperate to taste you.

“Tap on the headboard if you need me to get off,” your tone softened a bit, and he nodded silently again. “Show me.”

He grumbled and rolled his eyes but did it anyway, knocking his knuckles against the wooden headboard to make a loud tapping sound.

“Good,” was the last word out of your mouth before you lowered yourself down, pressing your pussy over his waiting mouth.

Jake didn’t waste a second before skillfully finding your clit with his tongue, then latched his lips around you and got to work. He sucked lightly and swirled his tongue, humming at the taste of you.

You moaned loudly and closed your thighs around his head, bracing your hands on the wall in front of you.

This show of power had him achingly hard, bucking his hips up into nothing as he lapped at your folds. Your moans hit his ears like his favorite song; it sent an unexplainable warmth through him to know that he was the one making you feel so good.

He moved his tongue from your clit to your entrance, greedily drinking you in and moaning against you. Your thighs clenched around his head for a moment when you felt his nose bump against your clit, so he buried his face further into you to make you do it again.

Jake got lost in the taste of you, in how you were starting to roll your hips, and of course in the pretty sounds you made.

Which made it that much more jarring when you suddenly lifted off of him.

He sucked in deep breaths, filling his lungs with the air they were starting to crave. Once he reoriented himself, he looked up at you with furrowed brows.

You sat yourself back down across his lower stomach, cupping his face in your hands.

“As nice as you would look with my cum all over your handsome face…” you trailed off as you looked down at him with a pleased smile, running your hands from his cheeks down to his chest. “I’d much rather do this.”

You moved yourself so that your wet pussy was hovering over his insanely hard cock, your slit just barely brushing over his tip.

When you didn’t drop yourself down Jake looked at you with pleading eyes, his resolve starting to crumble around him.

He needed you so damn bad. And he wanted you like this, completely taking control over him. It felt so good to be able to let go knowing he would be safe with you.

“Beg me, pretty boy,” you coaxed him, barely brushing your wet slit against the tip of his cock again. “I know you can do it.”

Jake swallowed hard, clenching his jaw.

“Not gonna happen,” his defiance came back full force, and you looked at him in surprise.

“Alright, have it your way then,” you were eerily calm as you spoke, lifting yourself higher up over him before swiping two of your fingers along your drenched slit to gather your wetness before pushing them into yourself.

You started thrusting them, scissoring your fingers to stretch yourself out nicely. Droplets of your wetness fell onto his abdomen and cock, driving him to near insanity.

“Beg.”

You didn’t stop the movement of your hand, your breathing picking up as you fucked yourself with your own fingers.

“Dammit! Please!” He blurted out suddenly, pulling at the cuffs around his wrists. “I need you so fucking bad, honey. I’ll be good now, promise. You’re killing me here!”

A blush crept up his chest and cheeks, even to the tips of his ears. You couldn’t help but to genuinely smile at the sight.

You knew that was probably the best you were going to get from him, so you decided to show some mercy.

You pulled your fingers from your cunt before shoving them into his mouth, satisfied when he started swirling his tongue around your digits and cleaning them nicely for you.

Not more than a few seconds later, you slowly lowered yourself down onto him. He bit down on your fingers, a muffled moan sounding around them.

You started slowly lifting yourself up and down on his cock, pushing your fingers further into his mouth.

“I knew you’d come around,” you teased through sharp breaths, thrusting your fingers into his mouth in time with the bouncing of your hips. “I just needed to rough you up a bit, didn’t I?”

He nodded around your fingers, his cheeks getting redder by the second. You pulled your wet fingers from his mouth, wiping them off on his heated cheek.

“Awww. Are you embarrassed, sweetheart?” You felt his cock twitch at your words, so you started moving faster. “Or do you like when I treat you like this?”

He nodded again, his eyes screwing shut as he tilted his head back. With his mouth now free, his moans and little whines sounded louder. You knew he was close.

The way he looked under you, desperate and needy, spurred on your own climax. You never thought you would have him under you like this, let alone have him enjoy it as much as he was.

“Shit!” He cursed as he came, tensing beneath you and pressing his head back against the bed. His mouth hang open as you kept fucking yourself on him, his brows knitting together.

Soon enough, you came around him with a satisfied groan. You rode him throughout your orgasm, pulling constant whines from him as you clenched around his sensitive cock.

Once the fog passed, you gently lifted yourself off of him. Finding the keys to the cuffs, you freed his wrists and made sure to press gentle kisses to the red marks they left.

“I’ll be right back,” you whispered to him, kissing his cheek before you quickly got a couple warm washcloths.

He laid there with his eyes closed, his breathing slowly evening out as you took extra care to clean him up. When you started to clean his face, you noticed a tear roll down his cheek.

“Jake, honey,” you couldn’t keep the panic out of your voice, cupping his face gently. “Are you okay? Did I hurt you? I’m so sor-“

“Thank you,” he stopped you, grabbing your hand and pressing his lips to the back of it.

“What?” You asked, confused but relieved at the same time. “For what, baby?”

“For letting me let go.”

#jake lockley smut #jake lockley x reader #jake lockely #sub Jake Lockley #there’s not nearly enough subby Jake fics #so this is my contribution #kinktober #kinktober 2023

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foileadeux · 1 year

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im obsessed with your art and animatics... do you have any tutorials or process posts about some techniques you use? like how you move characters separate of the backgrounds (is it just some clever tweening in vegas??) ty in advance... ;; v ;;

sure! umm this is gonna be messy sorry if anythings incoherent. ill walk u thru this segment of the pkradi hollow fight bc theres a lotta layers. heres the shot for reference

aaand heres a breakdown of the layers (called tracks in sony vegas but im just gonna keep calling them layers) from top to bottom

heres the foreground! where i wanna place shit that goes in front of the characters and background

heres where the characters will be placed! sandwiched between the foreground and background, they get more frames (as shown by the smaller segmented images on the timeline) opposed to set pieces which is usually just 1 image, which means we gotta approach tweening w the characters differently since there are a lot more images! ill explain that after this initial breakdown

and heeeres all the background shenanigans. not much to add here. those sure are background frames

RIGHT now to the tweening. when tweening 1 image/frame whateva you're gonna wanna use pan/crop (located on the image, that lil box with a crop around it icon), use this for stuff that only really needs 1 image, like a background. because its easier. like you could use track motion for everything i guess but pan/crops nice and easy and doesnt give me a headache she treats me nice and good

but uh yea so youll start with a little keyframe at the beginning, drag the pan/crop timeline to the end and click the little + sign to create a keyframe! then from there move the pan/crop box (the one with an F on it lmao) around and kablammo. Movement. usually with backgrounds its just a simple panning to the left or right, like how i did it for this shot! but you can do lots more like zoom and angle it etc

aand when you wanna tween across multiple images in a layer/track you're gonna head on over to your layer/track and hit that funny little track motion button aand youll be greeted with a pan/crop lookin thing except its like. for the whole layer/track instead. so the timeline is waaay bigger since it covers the whole thing. but umm yes same principle as pan/crop basically, except youll now need to insert "hold" keyframes right after your final keyframe, copy and paste a keyframe with all the positions defaulted (im gonna assume youre using 1920 x 1080 since its the standard)

like so and then right click a grey keyframe and choose "hold". this stops everything from fucking up and flying between each keyframe basically LMAOO the Hold is it waiting for your next keyframe that is Not a hold. if that makes sense. anyways yea only worry about that for track motion JUST because it works with the entire track/layer, with pan/crop you can ignore this

BUT YEAH thats my silly little sony vegas tweening guide i hope that helps!! umm i have another tutorial also so u can check that out too if youd like :D

#ask #saluting anyone who bothers reading all of that #i use sony vegas 14 btw

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netherworldpost · 1 year

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Hello drawing friends. This wacky looking contraption is the Tour Box, which I bought several months ago but couldn’t use until physical therapy got my arm back into shape (it’s a process).

This is not a sponsored post. I just love this damn thing.

I draw with one hand on a tablet, and use this with my non-dominate hand as basically a kajillion keyboard shortcuts on a tactile surface.

Each button is programmable to specific programs (so Photoshop can have a set, AfterEffects can have a different set, etc.)

It looks complicated, it is not.

It takes about 20 minutes to get used to it, fiddling with the default shortcuts provided and reprogramming them to what makes sense for you (this is as easy as setting up any other keyboard shortcut, you go into a menu and hit buttons).

There is a bluetooth version, which in retrospect I wish I’d coughed up the extra few bucks for, but that is only for desktop cable management reasons.

The knobs turn and are also buttons, so you can say “use this wheel for brush size, and when I press it, do yadda-yadda” and “use this other wheel for zoom in/out, and when I press it, do other-yadda-yadda”

Multiplied by however many buttons.

You can also combine buttons if you need more shortcuts.

The tactile areas on the keys (and shape) make it really, really easy to keep straight. I do not find myself pressing the wrong button often, and when I do, it is more a learning thing “oh yeah I set it up as...”

Button profiles export and import, meaning as you customize them, you can send them to a cloud-based backup and not lose them when Ah-doe-bee says “hey, we’re going to change everything. For reasons.”

I am writing this because I’ve been spending the last week or so using the Brush tool to fill in large swaths of things (this takes forever) then realized “oh wait I can set up the bottom “up/down/left/right” to “lasso tool, deselect, fill in foreground, fill in background” and thus fill in broad flat areas of color about 10x faster than before.

give them a holler

tourboxtech.com

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taylorswiftstylequestions · 1 year

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I miss Joe. The Joe and Taylor I thought was going on. I find it hard to believe it’s over and this is the new guy. It’s just not real. He must have been totally different from what we knew in the music. I think some of the music she said was fiction was actually real but disguised for privacy. Do you think she’s just distracting herself to get through tour?

That’s what my friend said last weekend. She doesn’t listen to Taylor’s music or know anything about her, but she also just broke up last Nov with her longtime boyfriend of 8 years.

They were supposed to get married in January. And he changed his mind. She said she needed a lot of distractions just to keep from thinking about it too much and that’s probably what Taylor is doing now just to cope especially with everyone watching every little thing she does.

It's a wild adjustment and crazy condensed timeline of a lot of drastic changes - I understand that it's a lot (some might even say too much!) to process and the default reaction to feeling overwhelmed sometimes is simply to reject it all. I get it.

The thing about Taylor is that one of her most truly accurate depictions of herself is in the line "Lover" itself: Swear to be overdramatic and true to my ... lover.

Taylor is a writer first and foremost. She is optimistic and passionate and fiery and loves love. We have ten albums worth of songs about people she once loved, and loved with the sun exploding, I-put-my-whole-heart-hips-body-soul into. And every single picture she captured was an emotion or a moment or a fleeting feeling she tapped into that was real to her once.

"I'll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep" "I loved you from the very first day" "The one real thing you've ever known" "Please don't be in love with someone else" "I realized I loved you in the fall" "I never knew I could feel that much" "We're bulletproof / You know for me, it's always you"

To be painted by Taylor's loving brush is tender and alive and real and poetry set to a score. And isn't it crazy that all of those lines are about different people and different lives and loves she's felt? And those being past doesn't mean they died there or stayed there or are no longer real. It's all still present tense because she's still here and living (laughing loving). And we're going to get the next chapter depicting this part of her life when the time is right that will hopefully provide more context and vivid shades of her life for us to get emotionally ripped apart by.

Breakups are never easy and I'm sure she's feeling a billion different emotions every single second. And truly yes a classic Taylor move is evade and distract yourself from the deep feelings you're feeling ... until you give yourself permission and space to really feel them. At which point we will get: See previous para.

#opinion

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serawis · 2 years

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how I edit my sims screenshots without a tablet and downloading a program

So, I’m lazy. I own Clip Studio Paint and I own a tablet, but when I’m playing the sims I’m 90% of the time too lazy to paint over my pictures. But I’m still a sucker for ✨aesthetic✨ and I’ve been asked how I do it, so here’s a guide on how to! It might seem long but trust me, it’s super easy, especially when you get used to it.

First things to consider (but not essential)

○ Reshade makes all the difference! You can follow this tutorial without one and I will show you how you can work around it, but it really helps a lot because it acts like a lovely filter in-game. I recommend Gshade because it’s easy to disable so you can just turn it on when you need screenshots. It also has a lot of pre-made presets and supports reshade presets.

How to install Reshade on the Sims 4 || How to install Gshade on the Sims 4 || my fave reshade presets: daisies & rose colored lenses

note: Gshade also has this really cool function that allows you to cut out the background immediately in-game, which works if you have a flat CAS background (either default or custom). You can disable this when you’re finished taking screencaps as it turns the ‘transparent’ bits bright green in game, but saves as transparent.

○ Don’t want to / can’t install reshade/gshade? No worries, they are basically in-game photoshop. All you need is some psd (you don’t need photoshop to follow follow this step, trust!). I really reccomend intramoon’s psd/actions, so download the ones you like! You can also search for ‘psd download’ on tumblr and there will be plenty you can choose from.

Now to the actual editing! (aka the less boring bits)

1. Go to photopea.com and open your screenshot there by clicking “Open From Computer”. Photopea is entirely free and supports psd files too!

2. (Skip this if you want to keep your background) Assuming you didn’t activate ChromaKey with Gshade (skip this step if you did) - long press the eraser tool and pick “Background Eraser”. Do your magic.

note: you might want to fiddle with the brush size and “mode” depending on what results you get.

3. (Skip this if you kept your background) If you want to put a new background in, I recommend Pexels.com and search for “abstract background” or whatever you’d like. Once you’ve found one you like, download it.

Open your background in PhotoPea. However, do it through Open > Open & Place

Then resize the image that got imported and put it behind your sim. Bam, there’s your background!

If you’re happy with how it’s looking, merge the layers by right clicking your sim layer and click “Merge Down”

4. (skip this step if you don’t want to use any psds) Open your .psd by clicking “Open”

Then select all the layers and press Ctrl+C

Switch tab and go to the file you were working with, you can find your tabs underneath the top menu

Then once you’re there, press Ctrl+V and your .psd layers will import to that file. Now adjust it accordingly, it might require experimenting since all psd files are different. I typically just collapse the folder (if they have it) and lower the opacity.

Then once you’re finished, select all your layers and select “Flatten Image”

5. (Skip this if you used reshade) To add a soft glow, duplicate the layer by right clicking on it, select “Duplicate Layer” and then change the layer to “Overlay”. It will look extremely bright but don’t worry about that for now!

Go to Filter and press Blur > Gaussian Blur, then press OK.

Then lower the opacity to make it less bright. I usually have it very low, around 15 - 30%

6. Now it’s time to fix the jagged edges. Duplicate Layer by right clicking or press Ctrl+J

Go to Filter > Liquify

Now zoom in on the areas that stick out to you, that you’d like smoothed. Using the liquify brush, carefully manipulate the image until it looks how you’d like. You might have to play around with the settings, but I usually just change the brush size.

When you’re finished, press OK.

6. Now to polish your piece! Press Ctrl+J to duplicate your layer and then go to Filter > Stylize > Oil Paint

Untick “lighting” to get rid of the squiggly lines. t should now just look smooth, press OK.

Now go to eraser tool (you might have to hold it to get out of the “background eraser”. go to the brush settings and pick a soft brush, you can also adjust the size there.

Use the eraser to get back any detail that was lost when you used the oil paint effect. Usually this is around the eyes, but do it anywhere you feel like you want the detail restored. Click Ctrl+E to merge the layers once you’re finished, or use the flatten image method.

7. Duplicating the layer again (Ctrl+J), to get a more illustrated effect go to Filter > Blur > Surface Blur, then click OK. Repeat the Same process as you did at step 6 where you use the eraser brush to restore any detail lost (usually the hair), and then press Ctrl+E once you’re finished to merge your layer once more.

8. To add depth to the layer, duplicate the layer (Ctrl+J) and press Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur. Change the radius to something low-ish and press OK.

Then using a bigger eraser brush, focus on the middle of the face/body, leaving the edges of the body/hair and background blurry. Then flatten the image once you’re finished (Ctrl+E)

9. To make ambient light, duplicate layer (Ctrl+J) and set the layer to Multiply. It will look very dark.

Click Ctrl+U and you will get a window that says “Hue Saturation”. Change it to a bit unnatural colour, I usually like pinkish tones but feel free to experiment. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look good right now. Lower the opacity a little bit, but not a lot. You still wand it to look a little odd.

Click on the black and white squares to make your colours black and white. Press the two arrows beneath it so that the white colour in top, then press on the Gradient Tool. Then go to the Menu and select the second option.

Use the gradient tool from one of the corners (select only one corner, feel free to experiment which one! All gives a different vibe), and drag it so that half is light and half still looks dark. Once you’re satisfied, flatten the image. (Ctrl+E)

10. For the last (and easiest step), sharpen your image. This time you don’t have to mess with the layers, just go to Filter > Sharpen and pick any of the sharpen options, I personally like Sharpen More. This maks the facial features pop.

That’s it! Simple, and trust me, the more times you do this, the easier it gets. ♥ I hope this was of any help!

#ts4 #sims 4 #s4 #ts4 edit #the sims #the sims 4 #reshade #photopea #ts3 #ts2 #editing #edits #tutorial

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kelocitta · 1 year

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I love your RW art month tiles. What art program do you use and how do you get those really clean textures and shapes?

I use PaintToolSai, both 1 and 2- but most of the drawing gets done in SAI1 since I couldn't get my brushes to import right for 2. Its an extremely bare bones program all things considered (Sai2 less so, it has a bit more tool-wise, but I only draw in it if i *have* too or for minor stuff) so its nothing really fancy being employed, everything geometric I do just by using a self made grid to measure out shapes like you would a piece of paper.

Literally its just a measured out grid of like... 50 by 50 px squares with cross sections? I just paste it as needed and draw the lines around it and since the measurements are consistent it just works.

my default pen is already "crunchy" so being perfectly matched isnt a huge deal, and you can general paste and rotate to make it look a little cleaner. Honestly I've used this same grid for forever (and it was off by like one pixel at one point lol) its just really useful for quick matching things for a program that doesn't have stuff built in for lining things up As for the textures, those are all default to SAI (I think?). The brush I use lightly uses of fabri (which mostly just makes the edges of the brush grainier) and then I usually also put some various level of a layer texture overlay thats just one of SAI's default 'watercolor' textures. It mostly just adds a little bit of a noise/grain effect. Heres that on max

For ArtMonth itself I just draw out a tile canvas using the grid with all the layers broken up- then I just reuse it over and over as needed. There's probably smarter ways to do it, but eh it works

And yeah, theres just two borders. One for the bottom and one for the top, makes it easy to make something that goes 'in and out' of the tiles without having to think to much. Just snip as needed

#ask #i feel so bad trying to explain how i draw because not only do i suck at explaining it everything is SO sloppy compared to like #fancier artists. Idk man im basically out here with a pair of scissors a ruler and some paper. I can make a new layer and nothing else #i guess i should also note that i draw on fairly tiny canvases most of the time which means texture stuff can get a little more... strong?#than what i tend to see with huge canvases. Like most of my brush sizes run anywhere from like size 6 to 16 at max and that can be a decent #difference in look. I wouldn't say ones better or worse than the other just that there is a little bit of a different in feel there #artmonth canvases are sub 900 so that twitter keeps them transparent #in particular #ALSO SORRY IF THIS IS LIKE BADLY WRITTEN ITS 4AM #OH YEAH EXTRA NOTE: i have been playing with clip studio. not for like #serious use because i think it has too many things (lol) but i had to grab it for conversion stuff. I have played with a couple of layer #stuff there (the lizards i did recently. not the last one) i have no clue how to use that program or what any of the buttons do but i guess #if you wanna do what ive did with the lizards thats 'hitting random buttons in clip studio' and not SAI

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I love your drawing! I was wondering what art program and art pens do you use? Do you have any art tips? I love how you do the face and colors

Waaooowww thank you!!! I have a really small and cheap Huion tablet (the pen is wireless and doesn't need recharging or a battery, which, chef's kiss) and Clip Studio Paint is my go-to program. The brushes I most often use are the default ones and the Stumpy Pencil, except I had to import it myself so it doesn't behave like it does in PS and it's very bare bones – I have no idea how to actually make brushes so I can't change the size and it's forever stuck at 1p :D

Unfortunately I'm a feeling-based gremlin and really bad at explaining what I do so I don't have any proper tips. Tool wise the magic wand and clip to layer below make stuff fast and easy! Oh this is important though: you should always use a different bg colour than stark white to preserve your eyes.

I use the colour picking tool a lot but nowadays I've also been eyeballing the colours, which is fun, and to help me make the palettes more cohesive I often slap an overlay on top. Work smarter not harder right ahhhaAAHA

Here's a timelapse of Usagi from this post, I dunno if it's helpful because usually I just start drawing and the drawing becomes what it becomes!

#I can teach any random person how to shoot a bow but I cannot for the life of me explain anything about how to do art #lmao #I've done archery for two years #I've drawn all my life #go figure #asks #tervdraws #samurai rabbit #usagi chronicles #usagi yuichi

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mcschnuggles · 1 year

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Regressor!N headcanons

It's SO much easier for him to talk to Pokemon than it is to other people. In fact, if he's tiny, he'll usually default to talking to Pokemon exclusively. Good for when he's alone, but a little harder if he's around friends

Pokemon are super intuitive, and most of them that figure out what's going on refer to him as a youngling, kit, pup, etc. Which definitely doesn't help if he's trying to stay big in public

Reshiram/Zekrom is his preferred caregiver. They are nine feet of pure love for their boy <3 Can pick him up and hold him, safe and good for snuggling

Stims with his hair a lot. Running his fingers through it, tugging at it, sometimes chewing on it all helps center him

Loves having his hair brushed but be warned that the chances of you brushing a Joltik out of his hair is not 0

Very easy to make smile, even if he's having a hard time. He's just a sweet smiley little guy

He has!!! So many plushies!! He collects them like you wouldn't believe. His bed has a teeny tiny space for him to sleep, and the rest is all plushies

He picks out a new one to carry around with him every time he regresses, just so no one feels left out

He finds big machinery so fascinating, it makes him almost instantly regress. Ferris wheels and trains! The Battle Subway is a big step in him getting more comfortable with Pokemon battles. Though he mainly likes to hang out by the big waiting platform and make new friends!

Bianca makes matching friendship bracelets for them :>

Bonking him with the genderfluid stick SO HARD. I just think that Pokemon don't have many differences gender-wise, and he'd take that and run with it. It's all about vibes. It doesn't directly tie into his regression but it doesn't NOT directly tie into his regression, if you get what I mean

Will wear skirts if the vibes are right but they have to be longer ones. It really doesn't matter as long as it's comfortable and he can play in it

In fact comfort is his number 1 priority. His sneakers are old and worn and kind of ugly but they're comfortable. He has three favorite shirts and that's all he'll wear. Do not make him try anything new when small he will cry ;-;

SPEAKING OF THINGS THAT MAKE HIM CRY: Ghetsis

Personally I HC that Ghetsis not only knew about his regression, but actively used it as a tactic to manipulate him. Giving just enough affection to retain N's loyalty, supplying him with gifts and toys. All very surface level stuff that makes it hard for N to accept those same things from people that actually care

On that same note, it's very hard for him to return to his childhood room in the castle, just because of what it all represents. Empty gestures, broken promises. Stuff that used to make him really, really happy now only makes him miserable

Has a lot of nightmares about Reshiram/Zekrom getting fused with Kyurem again, which triggers instant baby mode

#headcanons with snug #pokemon agere #this one got pretty long so the not-so-fluffy stuff is under the readmore

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va1ennyx · 1 year

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MOTHERMAKER Progress Report

(WEEK 1)

INTRO:

Ever since 2020, I've been toying with the idea of making an authentic 'MOTHER' engine within the limitations of RPG Maker.

I bounced from engine-to-engine, trying to find the right Maker to start work in, and eventually settled on RPG Maker MV.

You can even see some of my early progress here!

The hyperfixation eventually subsided after some small adventures in the MOTHER fangame scene, and I took a fairly long hiatus.

Fastforward to 2023 and you'll find me. In my room. Really Fucking Bored.

It started off with me brushing up on my event code, making some practice menus and playing with switches and variables. Eventually I ended up with this.

NOW. For the fun stuff...

TECH! TECH! TEEEECHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Going into this project, I had like. Three Fundamental Rules.

Those being;

All CORE systems must be retroactively achievable in previous versions of RM.

Everything must be achievable through RM's default features (i.e. I must utilize the default map editor, database, etc.)

Plugin/Script usage MUST be kept to an absolute minimum.

This will definitely make things difficult moving forward, but if I wish to create some sorta out-of-the-box MOTHER framework (especially one with THIS scale), I think it's important to adhere to SOME kind of design philosophy.

With these principles in mind, allow me to show you some of the duct tape and bubblegum holding the code together!

Starting with;

Menu Stuff!

In RM, developers are very limited when it comes to customizability, at least out of the box. That changed around the time we first received those iconic Don Miguel fan translations. Many developers were dissatisfied with the default systems given to them, and instead opted to use in-game eventing to manipulate pictures to do whatever they wanted. Very interesting stuff!

However, despite me being able to Talk For Fucking Centuries about RM history, I don't wanna lose too much focus on the subject at hand. You can check out my favorite website ever over here to learn more about the early lil seedlings of our community!

Anyways, almost every graphic-based aspect of this project is done through vanilla eventing. Now, as any Well Seasoned RM Developer can attest, THIS IS NOT A FUN PROCESS!! This is done by modifying variables based on inputs, and referencing those variables to determine where your image should be drawn.

This process can range from easy:

to HARD:

(just reference the scrollbar size for an idea of the process, this kinda shit is NOT something you want to see)

Now, for the save system, it was relatively straightforward. I just changed some switches to record which save the player selected, and a few variables to record which 'flavor' the player chose. These are referenced at various points, such as the battle system, the in-game menus, and even small stuff like dialogue boxes.

For the naming system, well, I haven't actually finished that yet. But you'll undersTAND WHY I PROMISE..

Basically, if I wanted to do this in a way I could "easily" downport to other versions, I had to avoid writing a plugin for it. As you can imagine, eventing an entire custom naming system is Not Fucking Fun. It's fairly easy to do however, just mighty tedious. I did some digging in threads for old RPG Maker MOTHER fangames, and I saw a few examples of people explaining how they made their systems.

Let's call my Chosen Approach 'The Roach Method'. This is named after the creator of a long-since-cancelled fangame called EAGLELAND. Essentially, he made different 'Actor' slots in the database for each letter of a characters name, and referenced them in dialogue through text codes. Once set up, it should look a little something like this;

So on and so forth.

The frontend of my keyboard (and a tiny bit of the backend), is functional. Obviously I can make it prettier and more responsive, but I want to make the naming process smooth first.

I'm thinking of making it so that when you press okay, it triggers a switch to move onto the next letter, and then when you press the cancel key it goes back by one? Idk yet this Keyboard Is The Worst Fucking Thing Ever.

Movement:

Most RM devs know this, but 'pixel' movement doesn't really play nice with the way the engine handles collisions. In my (few) years of Mother Fangame Experience, I've come to learn that the weird pseudo-collision detection utilized by RM (iirc its just a coord check to see if you can move or not) doesn't really Provide the Movement Experience we've come to expect from the MOTHER series.

This is one of the many contentious aspects of making MOTHER fangames in RM. A lot of devs treat (newer) makers like this "out of the box" solution to everything, this framework that you can just absolutely stuff to the brim with plugins to achieve whatever functionality you want. However, in practice, this proves to (almost) never be the case.

It's an especially nasty mindset because it contradicts the reality of gamedev (at least within RM) being a constant uphill battle full of compromise. Unfortunately this stuff takes effort, more effort than just dragging and dropping a JS file into the plugins folder.

tl;dr: plugins and scripts should only ever be complimentary to your event code, don't expect them to do everything for you!

RANT ASIDE!! For the most part, unless you want to make a whole new movement and collision system from scratch, you're gonna wanna stick with the grid. Most grid-based diagonal movement plugins allow you to turn on a setting that lets you clip through the corner of tiles (PLUS, the default follower system is 'MOTHER' enough). This is good because it allows you to make pseudo-slope collisions, which is really useful for stuff like fences and buildings!

You can even see an example of this here!

So yeah, when it comes to movement, the main compromise is choosing between functionality and fluidity.

Mapping:

I'll keep this one brief. The default RM mapping system is less than stellar. However, parallax mapping is NOT a good solution. It leads to massive bloated images inflating file sizes like no tomorrow, long loading screens, and occasionally lag. That's why its better to design your games around the limitations of RM, and maintain your project's scope.

That leads us to our....

CONCLUSION

Unfortunately when it comes to fangaming (specifically within RM), you need to be willing to compromise. You (most likely) will not be able to perfectly replicate your favorite game, and that's okay.

This is where The Big Question really rears it's head;

Are you making a good MOTHER game, or a good RPG Maker MOTHER game?

This is the main conflict when it comes to developing one of these weird lil things, and it's been the death of many a project. After all, you'd have to be Fucking Insane to put yourself through all the eventing bullshit that comes with the territory of anything custom being done in Rm. I mean, sometimes even *I* wonder if i even like doing this, or if I just REALLY wanna flex. Usually it's a lil bit of both. ;)

HOWEVER, it's important to manage your expectations and work ALONGSIDE the limitations of the engine, rather than forcing it to do something it can't and ending up dissatisfied with the final product.

Good read? Good read. See You next week (maybe) mwuaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

#rpgmaker #rmmv #earthbound #mother 3 #mother #rpg maker #gamedev

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A3! Sakisaka Muku - Translation [SR] Like a mirror (1/2)

*Please read disclaimer on blog; default name set as Izumi

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Kazunari: As for what’s happening right now…

Muku: Wow, so many events are being held around here.

Kazunari: Yep, there’s quite a lot going on. By the way, why’d you ask me to show you some exhibition flyers? Is this for role study?

Muku: Hah… it was weird of me to ask you to show me the flyers all of a sudden, wasn’t it? I knew it, I’m just a paint brush that didn’t get washed after being used and got all stiff and prickly…

Kazunari: Woah, woah, chill out! I don’t think it’s weird at all!

Muku: S-sorry, I just… I mean… the exhibits Summer troupe held together the other day to prepare for our roles were lots of fun. So that’s why I wanted to see more exhibits like that for my role study. And if possible, I’d like to make one of my own…

Kazunari: Aha, gotcha! I’m glad to hear it caught your interest. Hmm, exhibitions… AH! I got it! It might be a tad different from an exhibition, but I think there’s a place where your wish will be granted, Mukkun!

-pause-

Banri: …So, why’re you here of all places?

Kazunari: Settzer, my man. I heard you were working as a guide at Amabi’s open campus ♪

Muku: I’m so sorry. It’s because I said I wanted to go…

Banri: Nah, I don’t mind or anythin’. But…

Kumon: Uwahh, this is so cool! Is that huge thing a piece of art!?

Misumi: Wowie, it’s full of triangles~! I wonder if this person likes triangles too.

Tenma: What is this…

Yuki: Hold it. Keep your surroundings in mind when you take off your sunglasses.

Izumi: Be careful not to touch the art, alright, everyone?

Banri: Did ya really need to bring Director-chan and the rest of Summer troupe along?

Kazunari: It’s chill, it’s chill. Just call it role study ♪

Banri: Geez, conveniently pulling the role study card. Well, whatevs. Here’s the pamphlet for today.

Tenma: Great, thanks.

Muku: There’s so many different exhibits…! I have no idea where to start.

Banri: You wanted to go to a workshop, didn’t you, Muku? If you’re lookin’ for something easy to do, then there should be some around the painting building… There was also some interesting 3D stuff.

Yuki: Heh, look at you acting like a proper guide with the introductions.

Banri: Well, yeah.

Izumi: The workshops sound interesting. There’s so many different kinds, it’s hard to decide which one to try.

Kazunari: Alright, let’s start with the spot Settzer recommended for now!

-pause-

Muku: Wow…!

Misumi: Amazing, amazing! Where should we start~?

Yuki: There’s an oil painting replicating class…

Kumon: And over there’s a sculpture workshop!

Tenma: Workshops are being held for every major.

Muku: Ah, there’s a mosaic art workshop…!

Kazunari: Ooh, did that catch your eye, Mukkun?

Muku: Yeah. There was a solo exhibit of a mosaic artist in the flyers you showed me the other day. I thought it looked incredible when I saw it. I’d love to give mosaic art a shot too.

Izumi: That sounds fun. Perhaps I’ll give it a try too. Can I go with you, Muku-kun?

Muku: Of course, be my guest!

Kazunari: Okay! It looks like everybody has a class they’d like to join— Let’s go to the spots we wanna go and regroup again later!

Kumon: Sounds like a plan!

Misumi: See you guys later~.

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crops: watered

skin: cleared

will to live: restored

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#a3!#a3! translation #sakisaka muku #act! addict! actors!

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adelle-ein · 1 year

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CSP 2.0 features test and rant

I bought my copy of CSP in 2022 due to a variety of Wacom-caused convoluted circumstances, meaning I get the "upgrade" to version 2.0 for free. So, because I enjoy talking about (and shittalking) digital art programs....my thoughts on the "upgrade." To summarize, this update is basically the same as various pre-2022 CSP updates, adding a handful of useful and some godly-sounding features. It doesn't change anything fundamental about the program, really, although allegedly background saves are faster and more reliable now (massive dick move to lock that behind a paywall!) On this PC, I really only get lag on background saves with huge files or if I haven't saved at all for hours, so I haven't really tested that aspect. Other features are: a new brush setting that allows for allegedly more realistic color mixing, a few new 3d model options, an AI auto-shading program, and ~*~align tools ~*~ which really should have been implemented like...five years ago minimum but hey. But, hey, are these features actually as ~life changing~ as Celsys makes them sound? Traditionally no but let's find out

Upon installation I was immediately greeted by said align tools. They were just...there.

Fantastic UI decision I love it. Anyway I couldn't get this stupid window to be part of a sidebar, or treated as a tool, or anything except for a floating window. God knows why it has to be its own "palette" instead of being just a regular tool like liquify etc, but I ended up getting rid of it. figure I'll put it back whenever I need it. It seems to work fine, though in usual CSP fashion it is excessively complicated if reasonably easy to figure out.

And now the new brush color mixing setting (new brushes on the right/bottom). This was the only feature I was personally really excited for. It's something of an improvement and feels a little closer to Krita's infinitely superior painting engines. There are replacements for nearly all of the "thick paint" default brushes, some pastels, and a few assorted others. The "wet wash" brush still lags horrifically at every size even on blank canvases, just fyi.

The updated brushes have the "ver 2.0" tag. And I'm not sure if this was added in a recent update or my own faulty memory, but you can add multiple default brushes from the "add defaults" window now, thank god. I remember having to reopen the damn thing and add them one by one.

I painted this Celica entirely using the new defaults (plus design pencil for the lineart and a custom watercolor for the background, but the painting is all the defaults.) It's definitely a step up, again it feels more like Krita which is my favorite program for painting. Is it worth the upgrade price, though? For me personally, not really.

The head model seems to work well enough, it has settings to let you adjust the features and seems nicer than the various user-made options on the asset store. That being said, using and manipulating the 3d assets is as obtuse and frustrating as ever, and I personally think they make my art look incredibly stiff and robotic, so idk if I'll be using this much.

Just to illustrate how little I use the models, apparently I didn't even have them installed. I had to redownload the entire default asset set to get my hands on them so I could test out the "hand pose" thing. Basically, CSP claims that you can take a picture of your hand and have the model instantly recreate that hand pose. It doesn't look like you can just...use an existing picture. Because that would be too useful. Get posing and upload yourself to the CSP AI instead.

No pictures, because I couldn't get a shot on my shitty webcam without my face in it, but it was unimpressive. The poses were...vaguely similar to the pictures, I guess, but not exactly the pinnacle of accuracy.

This was a straight-fingered peace sign, for example. It's in the general realm of correct, but...not what I was aiming for.

I never use the text tool, for the record - I don't really do comics, and also I hate it. Even with the update, it is still not...good. Better than Krita's, maybe? At least by a bit. But still quite awful. And that's bizarre to me, because this is what was originally *manga studio*, used and promoted primarily by manga and comic artists. But its text tools suck, as well as its general graphic design capabilities.

Trying out the new fog settings...it just looks like a gradient, honestly. I'm not sure why this would ever be helpful. School-live vibes from my little experiment here (i've never watched school-live lol)

Multilayer liquify actually works decently. There's a jolt of lag when you start it and at the end when your changes register, but the actual action of moving your cursor is fairly smooth, unexpectedly. I did it with a huge stack of layers and was pleasantly surprised by the results. That being said, liquify in CSP is really finicky, and even that little bit of lag might prevent it from being a consistently usable tool in my workflow. Not sure yet.

As for the AI shading assist....

I tried a bunch of old .csp drawings and the only one I could even get it to run on was the Eunie above. And it still looked like absolute shit no matter how I messed with the settings. I could have tried to do every layer individually but I just didn't have the patience for a feature I frankly don't want, AND that's not what it was advertised for so I don't see that as a valid test anyway. I just couldn't get this one working, it looks hideous, and I have no desire to have something be shaded for me automatically. Flatting, lineart cleanup, sure! Not the lighting and creativity and stuff that's actually fun! Hard pass.

There's also a fish-eye ruler. I don't see this ever being useful for me because I honestly don't like fish-eye perspective much. Meh.

So...yeah. That's all. That's the upgrade. It's not an impressive upgrade by any means, and clearly just a handful of assorted desirable features Celsys deliberately left out of the last year or so of updates in order to try and bill them as "2.0" now. No significant improvement to the base program, just assorted bells and whistles. And of course, even if you pony up for the flat upgrade fee, you do not get access to any new features going forward. Even if they finally drop a decent selection of filters or make the text tool workable, we plebians will have to pay if we want the goods. And get any features we don't continually pay for revoked.

Wait, how does that work? Yeah, Celsys has been incredibly bad at explaining their bizarre new plans. People have no idea what's going on -- they think CSP is sub-only now, that their copies of 1.0 will be revoked, that everyone's getting 2.0 for free, that they can pay for individual updates they want...nope. TLDR: You can pay a flat price to get version 2.0 now, either as a base program or an upgrade to 1.0. Users who bought 1.0 recently (roughly mid-2022 to 2023, I believe), like me, get that upgrade for free. Alternately, you can pay a yearly or monthly fee to get not only 2.0 but any other continuous upgrades Celsys rolls out between 2.0 and 3.0 (if, say, they add better filtering options or an automatic flatting tool, you must pay for the subscription to get them.) If you at any time end that subscription, ALL updates are revoked and you return to 2.0. 3.0 will be available eventually under the same system. Mmmm microtransaction art program (except worse, you can't even keep your microtransactions and this program ALREADY HAD microtransactions through premium assets to begin with! aaaaaaa why does ibispaint have a bad reputation and not this?)

Also, bear in mind that if you upgrade your 1.0 license to 2.0, you lose your 1.0 license immediately and permanently. 1.0 licenses are for two computers and 2.0 licenses are for one. Reddit confirms that you will be forced to uninstall from one computer if you upgrade the license. So if you have CSP installed on two computers, absolutely do not upgrade, you're essentially throwing away one copy of the program to add a small handful of mediocre features to your other copy. This might be one of the most disgusting parts of the whole deal, actually, because BOY they do not make this clear up front and their little stans are defending it tooth and nail.

So, what's the pricing plan for all this? Um...honestly, I'm not sure. I'm navigating the website right now trying to figure it out and I am totally, utterly lost. The plan is distributed across several pages, and I suspect Celsys is relying heavily on machine translation, so things are...slightly incoherent. I believe it's only $10/year for the PRO (not EX, which is $30) upgrade pass, which isn't unreasonable on the surface, but the "revoke features if you don't keep paying" bit sure is. Not to mention how many user-made assets will be inaccessible to those without the same versions as the creators, or how people's 2.1+ files may break if that person stops paying for their subscription...like, they don't deserve even $1 for pulling this shit and I'm really disappointed by the huge number of users I see not only buying into but defending this awful shit.

Celsys is clearly trying to be the next Adobe, gently easing their users into being forced to go fully subscription-only. We'll see how that works out for them, but I think they are drastically overestimating the loyalty of their userbase, the lack of alternatives, and their rate of use in the professional industry (unlike Adobe, nobody is mandating CSP in graphic design college courses....) They're slowly boiling the frog as we speak -- we'll see how long the userbase can stand it. Personally, I would suggest just waiting for 3.0 - nothing in this upgrade is exceptional, and I wouldn't assume anything else the devs put out for the next couple years is.

TLDR: mediocre update is mediocre, fuck celsys

#csp #txt #lace reviews

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stormxpadme · 2 years

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1, 5, 11, 16, 21, 26, 27, 32, 34, 37 god i hope i wrote the numbers right im on mobile. also full disclosure idr scheduling this so it was fun figuring out whats happening. my answers coming as soon as the laptop awakens, till then, tell me everything 😍💖💖💖💖

Weird Questions for Writers

1 - What font do you write in? Do you actually care or is that just the default setting?

I’m a Bookman old style girl indeed. As my followers know at this point, I’m a dinosaur aka proud Xennial, generation analogue to digital, from typewriter to cloud. So I went from the first Word programs to what we have now and also had my first office jobs when the whole PC thing was still in its first stages. Everyone especially in business life used Times and Arial and Verdana back then, and honestly, I was just really bored by those. So when I got on my own PC and started transcribing my fanfics from handwritten to electronic, I chose something that was still easy to read but didn’t look like work. And that stuck. I even use that font in my work life whenever I can get away with it. I just really love Bookman old style.

5 - Do you have any writing superstitions? What are they and why are they 100% true?

I don’t think so? Though if it counts, I’ve encountered prophetic writing with my stuff before and that can be pretty creepy. Like, in an entirely non religious way, of course, because I’m agnostic, but like ... visions put in writing. Stuff of my stories that came true weirdly specific in one shape or another later. So there’s that.

11 - Do you believe in the old advice to “kill your darlings?” Are you a ruthless darling assassin? What happens to the darlings you murder? Do you have a darling graveyard? Do you grieve?

Nah, I have a very hard time killing my protagonists. So if it happens at all, you can be sure I’ll find a way to bring them back at some point. At that point when I do kill them off tho, I cry. Like, a lot.

16 - What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

Nothing strange, I think, I was just one of those sinners as a kid using dog-ears.

21 - Could you ever quit writing? Do you ever wish you could? Why or why not?

Nope, not gonna happen. This is the thing that keeps me alive, and I don’t have any suicidal tendencies these days.

26 - How do you get into your character’s head? How do you get out? Do you ever regret going in there in the first place?

A lot, I think, with faceclaims when it comes to my own characters. Watching the material I got of the actors in questions, doing moodboards, videos, stuff like that. It was very inspiring for many scenes in the past. Then there’s the good old impersonating them in your head in calm moments like under the shower or when brushing your teeth, playing random scenarios in your head, contemplating how they will react. But in the end, a lot of characterizing only comes when I actually write them.

27 - Who is the most stressful character you’ve ever written? Why?

I’ve got a lot of anxiety about my current first trans character, especially since the canon faceclaim is no other than Elliot Page. So I’m just really terrified I’ll fuck this whole thing up because it is not my personal corner of queer so I can’t write from experience.

32 - What is a line from a poem/novel/fanfic etc that you return to from time and time again? How did you find it? What does it mean to you?

I’m more prone to movie lines than book quotes tbh, and poetry is not my world. I can cheat here though, since movie is based on a book, so Imma go with PS, I love you here.

“You made my life. But I'm just one chapter in yours.“

I’ve used that sentiment two times myself, in the two longest fanfiction projects I made, one of which I’m working on right now, and it’s breaking me every time.

And from the same movie (there’s reasons I can’t sit through this without crying):

“Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.“

Also something I used before in stories, and a thought that sometimes help.

34 - Thoughts on the Oxford comma, Go:

I hate it with the passion of a thousand suns since it has no place in German, and if grammarly wouldn’t do it for me, I would never use it.

37 - If you were to be remembered only by the words you’ve put on the page, what would future historians think of you?

Hopeless romantic as long as there’s enough torture involved.

#stormys fanfics #effervescentdragon #sometimes stormy gets asked things #i have the loveliest friends #love you <3

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frisiunia · 2 years

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Characters’ Mental Problems

I said ya that characters from Undermourning have their problems. Here I’ll tell ya something about problems of main charakters and I’ll begin from my favorite - UNDYNE!1!1!1!111!1!11!!!!1!1!!!

Well, Undyne never admitted it, but as queen she feels kinda like Asgore felt. Maybe not exacly like him, becuase she at least didn't lose two children one night, and her wife didn't leave her, but as I said - as queen she feels like Asgore. Maybe she doesn’t feel that much guilty as he with intention of killing humans, but still she actually likes Sofia and Natalie and she doesn’t really want to kill them. But like Asgore, she feels responsibility for her people and she wants to free them. Cost doesn’t have matter.

Now, about my second favorite character - Toriel! So, former queen’s mental problems started after few months since she took care after Sofia and Natalie. It made her remeber things, when Asriel and Chara were alive. Maybe Sofia and Natalie aren’t like Chara and Asriel, but still. For example - Natalie and Asriel’s emotionality. Or Sofia and Chara’s unpredictability. Or vice versa: Natalie and Chara’s love to reading. Or Sofia and Asriel’s care for other persons. Toriel often has moments when she wears black clothes or listen sad music. And also very often looking through the family album. And even as people with deppresion often do she doesn’t really care about herself. For example Toriel rarely brush her fur, and that’s why it is such a mess. She just miss her children, Asriel and Chara.

About Flowey... well, he doesn’t have any emotional problems, becuase he is empty inside and he can’t feels anything, but this is his problem. He just wants to feel again. Flowey always wanted to feel again. First, he tried to feel something good. He was kind and helpful. But later, when he failed in positive emotions he wanted to try feel something negative. And that’s why he became the flower that we know from game. But Sofia once said to him that if will feel anything in future, it’s better so it won’t be gulit or hatred to himself. When he spent more time with twins, he changed. He stated that Sofia was right and he became kind and helpful again... well, not as much, but he tries. He even tries to befriend with sisters, but he can neither hate nor love. That’s why even if he tries to act like Sofia and Natalie and not even only them are his friends, they aren’t. His emotional problem is he has no emotions. It’s his problem not only in Undermourning, but in Undertale either.

Now Chara! Well, I’ll say only about present so - god complex. He just feels hurted by Asriel, and later he realize that rest of monsters aren’t saint either. So he decided to punish them all. Yes, he know that he isn’t saint either, but he stated that he is better than them. So he even should punish them for their crimes. And “having control” over this world he feels like a god. In his Error Ending he realize he was wrong. But default, he just torturing them for their sins.

About Papyrus and Sans, well... they have their problems too, but they’re hiding it. Not only by their smile which they can’t change, but by their behavior too. About Papyrus, when Undyne said him about her plan, being friend with everyone became harder. He tried to convince Undyne she doesn’t have to do it, but she never listens to him, when he’s talking about it. He just doesn’t know what to do. His loyalty tells him to stay by his friend and queen’s side. But his morals tells him to warn the twins. Being friend with everyone was so easy for him in past, but now he has to make hard choice. The Great Papyrus has real problem now. About Sans, well... he’s actually fine. Well, broken inside, but never shows it. Just life go on and he can’t and even doesn’t want to keep up with it. He is just lazy skeleton which cares only about his brother, Toriel and promise he made for her. Nothing more.

And second pair of siblings - Natalie and Sofia. And it’s last characters about I’ll tell about. So, Natalie... well her problem is her weight. At first it looks like physical problem, but it’s not like this at all. She just has no appetite when she thinks about her dead family members, parents and little sister. Problem is, she thinks about it all the time. And that is why she doesn’t want to eat and that is why she is so skinny. About Sofia... she just feels guilty. Climbing on the Mount Ebott was her idea. While climbing on Ebott Bianca (twins’ younger sister) died, so this is her fault. She also couldn’t save Asgore and that’s why monsters are not only imprisoned in the Underground, but also deppressed. In mouring. However, she tries to redeem herself. That’s why she started with program “Smile”. That’s program about I already told ya about, but I’ve never told you how it’s calls. Ya know, renovation, viewpoint, more plants and all. She and Natalie (becuase Sof leads this program with Nat) even tries to convince owner of some public places like Snowed Inn or Grillby’s to make their places looks more colorful and happy. They don’t have to, but most of them do this, becuase Undyne approves this program. Leading this program makes her feel better.

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Day 001 - establishing

Alrighty! Yesterday was productive if I had to say the least, I am glad when I talk to someone who gets my ideas, so I'm involved in the backend along with databases and anything devOps and AI related. My teammate is a stallion!!! I'm so glad there's someone who makes up for my coding skills, its very weird still, I USED TO BE ABLE TO CODE FOR HOURS AND HOURS... okay I think mostly because I used to program for hours either with Java or C++, and bare bone Javascript, so maybe web development wasn't my strong suit.

But I'm good at understanding and making designs for code, so I'm very involved in seeing the bigger picture and he'll just do the painting. Here's a screen shot of how our backend looks like, so I'm brush it up since its a bit of mess right now

I'm using drawio because lucid just wasn't working for me, I kept running out of shapes, I'd say lucid is good when it comes to making final designs but drawio has that technical feel I like.

RabbitMQ is just so sexy oh my goodness, it allows for simple and fast communication between services. Its free tier is enough for what I need.

I want to learn PostgreSQL so bad, but I can't because we're on a time crunch and we'll just switch to MySQL for each service using an SQL database, since there's going to be data replication across these services, to maintain synchronized data across all services, RabbitMQ comes in the rescue. I hope it can handle, but since we'll starting off with a relatively small userbase, I doubt we'll run into problems, but if it happens we run into issues, I think switching to Kafka might be better since it has like faster reads (thanks to fewer systemcalls within its architecture)

Firestore is very useful and easy to setup, that reliability is useful for our messaging and posting of images, and also Firebase storage as well, that's so cool!!! I'm still working on the designs

I'm still working on the schemas using drawsql website, the reason for the SQL is because its easier to model friendships, invitations, requests, way better than a NoSQL solution, I want to see what Neo4j can do but again I'm trying to keep things simple. I'll also switch to drawio for doing the ER diagrams because drawSQL has limits and I'm a cheapskate

I made use of freesqldatabase.com for a temporary online database we can quickly use, but this limits the choices for ORMs, since we're using NodeJS we can't make use of Prisma since it requires permissions/privileges that the website doesn't offer, but I'm working on making use of google cloud's free e2 instances to host the database, and if that works we finally have our development database!

I still haven't talked to my client, I'd rather someone from frontend do it, I hope they can finally start working together because I can't with this leadership biz! I am reading this leadership guide book, hopefully I learn something.

I've been also looking at buying some light novels for either rezero or overlord, boy boy boy which do I get??? I honestly don't know, but I"ll figure it out later. I can't wait to go a pawn shop and see what cheap board games I can buy, I'm so excited! But that will be a while.

Well my goals today are simple:

Finalize the schemas for the SQL databases and deploy the databases (or I can be cheap and deploy one instance and host 2 databases :D running two docker containers that have mysql on the same e2 instance and then mapping their default 3306 ports to two ports on the instance and then connecting globally! That's so brilliant I'm so cheap HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!)

Draw up class diagrams for each service, making use of proper design patterns to make the code more neat

Have a meeting with my guy again and see where we go from there

Thanks again for reading my whatever this is, but its really fun hopefully I don't burn out from writing this much so early

#university #software engineer #mysql #nodejs #computer science #firebase #docker #cheap #devlog #programmer

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