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thicctails · 6 months

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"Viva la Viva, baby!"

So guess who watched Trolls 3 today~

Ngl, based on the trailers I had really low expectations for this movie, and it was really only after watching some TikToks with the villain song in them that I decided to give it a chance, and I'm so glad I did. 3 is by far my favourite of the entire series. Was not expecting to love Viva, but she was fantastic and I wish we had more screen time with her!

While I'm not entirely sure how I will/would integrate her into the Rough and Fluff AU, I decided to make a design for her anyways, complete with some little headcanons/additions. (Click the image for better quality)

More spoilery/AU discussions and 4th movie predictions below!

Okay okay, movie discussion first:

-I fucking LOVE the Putt Putt Trolls. Its so satisfying seeing how the trauma from the bergens being more fleshed out, and it makes perfect sense that they are as fearful as they are. I'm actually surprised there wasn't more pushback when Viva stopped them from executing Bridget and Gristle.

-(How did they escape actually? The tunnels collapsed, but were there other tunnels? Or did they have a different way out? How did so many, including the eldest heir to the throne, get left behind? Why did Peppy not get BOTH his daughter's immediately?)

-On the topic of Viva; notice how her ears are lower/sharper than Poppy's? I think that's typically a more masculine trait (not 100% bc we see some male trolls with softer/rounder ears) so uh yeah MTF Viva real suck my entire nards

-Fuck King Peppy. This guy gets worse every movie. He is the Dumbledoor/Sensi Wu of Trolls. Mans cannot just give Poppy relevant information to save his LIFE. I can understand not telling Poppy immediately, the grief of loosing his eldest daughter would understandably make that hard, but its been over 20 years now, and she deserved to know.

-Also, fuck most of Branch's brothers! I'm glad JD went back eventually (when exactly he did isn't clear, but sometime between the night of the escape and the first movie) but if he assumed Branch had died, why not try and contact his other siblings to tell them? Clay I can kinda understand with him not wanting to venture out beyond the mini golf area and leave the trolls he was helping to protect, but the rest of them? Not one of them tried to go back for their baby brother? Not even Floyd? When Trollstice was a thing?? Branch shoulda thrown hands fr.

-Rhonda the armadillo bus thing was hella cute and I want a plushie.

-I. Do not really like Crimp

-Velvet and Veneer slayed sooooooo hard. I hope Veneer makes a comeback.

-I also hope we see more of the other troll tribes again.

-The music for this movie was absolutely fire and I NEED a full cover of Sweet Dreams

-I wish the Grandma's death was touched on more than once for like .5 seconds. Like, come on guys, your brother just revealed a major trauma, and that your GRANDMA died!! For christ sake, maybe go apologize for fighting?? maybe go comfort him????

Movie numero 4 predictions:

-Broppy marriage. Branch fr said "Lets get married" by accident HES THINKING ABOUT IT

-Either Poppy/Viva get their mom back, or Branch gets one/both of his parents. Dreamworks will pull some bullshit out of their ass and say that uhm actually they escaped like years before the others did and have been, idk, trapped in the shadow realm or something.

-We see Chef/Creek again. Creek redemption ark would go crazy hard IF DONE RIGHT and I want to see that fear of some monster trying to eat all your friends come back again

-Broppy kid reveal at the end of the movie. Unbelievable amounts of Plush Toy Marketing and terrible spin offs ensue.

-backstory/lore/backstory/lore/backstory/lore/BACK

-I just want to see more Trollstice era stuff plz dreamworks

-We get a Sound of Silence reprise

-Branch/his brothers are revealed to be a hybrid/some kind of special troll. I am TELLING YOU this guy adapted to different kinds of music like it was NOTHING, something Poppy and the others struggled with. Hes got something in him I SWEAR

-Tiny diamond is, once again, part of the main supporting characters

Au shiz:

-If Viva IS put in, its going to most likely be during the sequel. Peppy is already going to be dragged through the mud, might have him mention something about a lost sibling near the end of the OG fic, and since the Pop trolls will be looking for a new home, maybe they'll run into her

-Branch's brothers will not be making an appearance. They simply dont fit into the narrative. I may do an alternate au with them included but who knows.

-Mildly considering making Tiny Diamond a Greek kid. (Guy x Creek) would make for some interesting angst.

#trolls #trolls 3 #trolls band together #trolls branch #trolls viva #trolls poppy #trolls king peppy #trolls rough and fluff au #trolls au #trolls 3 discussion #movie discussion #trolls veneer #trolls velvet

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gabymarquez · 5 years

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ME!

#userleah #usernikita #userasia #userlo #userkc #usercanwedance #usermelissa #userel #sweetertayfiction #tuserelena #creations #i actually really really hate this #the images were so low quality and so hard to edit #and i made this look so ugly #rip #plz dont feel obligated to reblog this if ive tagged you it is very terrible #100 #200 #300

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kkachis · 3 years

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Plz show us the forbidden discord vlad ideas.

so you have wished it, so it shall be *desiree laugh*

edited and expanded from what i posted in discord, but here it is:

while in the real world, the answer to “why does vlad’s ghost form look like that” might be "it was an easy way to code him as a refined asshole villain", in the world of the story, you can make it much more interesting. once you try the fanon of a ghost’s appearance being influenced by their self-image on for size, things get interesting, because it begs the question - why a vampire?

on one level, it's a projection of what he wants to be: vampires are domineering, strong, powerful, terrifying. it's a far cry from his bedbound state in the medical facility, left at the mercy of prodding doctors and nurses who may or may not have had his best interests in mind (given the GIW, or a prototypical version of them, have probably been around long enough for vlad's case to be of interest). if he’s powerful and menacing in his ghost form, that’s as distanced as he can be as the poor case study in room 529.

and about power: vampires lurk in the night. they exert absolute control over their unsuspecting victims, and that’s what everyone else is to vlad: unsuspecting, unknowing. vulnerable, not knowing that any games they play with him don’t follow human rules anymore. power is important for vlad to wield, either as a means to a to fulfill his obsessions or as a goal in and of itself - depends on your take on vlad. there’s also projecting that power to other ghosts to establish himself on the pecking order.

on another level, it's accepting and leaning into the qualities in himself that he perceives as monstrous. the world wants to give him an accident that destroys his humanity? it wants to take away the love of his life and tear apart the few friendships he had? it wants to ruin his degree, to leave him bedbound and his face scarred and his hair forever marked with what had been done to him?

the world wants a freak?

fine. he’ll show them a monster.

vlad is a spiteful bitch. he also doesn’t see himself as a good person by any means. he abuses his powers for his own gain left and right, so it makes sense that if he knowingly leans into being a bad person, his form will match it. he’ll be monstrous in both how he looks and in his behaviour. he knows he’s the bad guy. he knows he's a monster. he owns it. and if he owns it, it can't hurt him.

but on yet another level that vlad doesn't want to acknowledge...

what is a vampire? a lonely thing in a lonely castle. something inhuman. something alone, alone, alone. it's a parasite that relies on other human beings to feed it. what is he, lying around in a hospital, terrifyingly dependent? what is he, flying around and stealing money to line his own pockets? a parasite. a lonely thing in a lonely castle.

lonely dracula in a castle doesn't need friends or lovers, only meals. he’s not exactly unaware of the stories that come with vampires. but it’s not like he wants to face that.

i think that it's most interesting when a character has multiple "levels" of thinking about things. we often don't want to admit everything about how we tick. i find it's especially helpful to break down the "levels" in the thinking of villains, because they usually have the deepest levels of cognitive dissonance and things they don't want to admit. a hero is usually forced to face it and overcome it. a villain tends to get mired in it until they lose themselves. the truth is, all these levels of vlad’s subconscious contribute to his ghost form’s appearance - now the next most interesting question is what do people think is the truth?

vlad is smart and self-aware enough to acknowledge his desire to radiate power. it's the smart thing, arguably - project power to the ghosts, separate his human and ghost half's appearances. amassing power? just the logical thing to do for an ambitious man like him. he will admit that he embraces monstrosity, though that he admits secondarily. he'd rather pretend that he's smart all the way through.

danny probably thinks that the monstrosity is the true place where it comes from - vlad is unrepentantly manipulative and a constant source of terror in his life. projection of power sounds more like an excuse. to danny, embracing the monster within is precisely what delineates himself from plasmius, and why danny looks so much more human.

that third level is what you drag out of vlad kicking and screaming. in those terribly vulnerable moments of introspection, where you're completely honest with yourself for an awful, shitty moment, that's when vlad might just admit why he sees himself as a vampire. there's an insane lonely thing in him, and it never stopped howling. it never stopped begging for warm human hands. it never stopped repulsing him with its weakness. he's not just a monster because he's a bad person - he's a monster because he's pathetic.

#kkachi chirps #danny phantom #vlad masters #danny fenton #headcanons #meta

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stellamancer · 5 years

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FFxivWrite2019 || prompt #7: forgiven

notes: for @sea-wolf-coast-to-coast‘s challenge.

i think it still counts since no time limit on prompts 1 - 7 right? from tomorrow onward i will try to adhere to the 24 hour rule (and so prompts 5 and 6 will be posted on a make up day). anyway. uh. yeah. pros are i’m redoing crystal tower so i’m praying for a confidence boost there. also. i’m a sucker for cliches and this was going to happen in this collection eventually anyway.

i would have had this up much sooner if i hadn’t been procrastinating gposing with g’raha. the fruits of my labor can be found here .

plz enjoy.

Luna is an especially forgiving person.

G’raha thinks it must come with the territory. It cannot be easy for one to be a hero if they’re weighed down by grudges and anger over how the world has done them wrong. It is, arguably, one of Luna’s best qualities, and one, G’raha hopes, will kick in at this very moment.

After all, it is not as if he meant to walk in on her in a state of undress.

It all started earlier that morning. Luna had been noticeably absent from breakfast so Cid had asked him to see if the adventurer was even awake. Sleep, the older man claimed, was one of the few things that could stand between Luna and a meal. G’raha agreed since she had asked if he could continue reading a particular Allagan story to her.

Looking back, G’raha realizes that he is deserving of at least some of Luna’s wrath; he should have called out to her before just entering her tent. But, either due to his eagerness to start reading the tomes housed within her tent or plainly because he just wasn’t thinking, he didn’t.

The first thing he noticed upon walking into Luna’s tent was that she was, indeed, awake.

The second was that she was clad in little more than her smallclothes.

Be it either due to fear or curiosity , G’raha finds himself unable to look away. He knows he should, and yet he can’t and the image of her barely clothed forms inadvertently ingrains itself into his mind. Without her clothes or armor to obscure her body, it is far easier to see the more feminine features of her body: the curves of her waist, the swell of her breasts…

G’raha swallows thickly and tries to focus his vision elsewhere, lest more sordid thoughts permeate his mind.

Luna stares back at G’raha, viridian eyes widened in obvious surprise. It is likely that very same shock which renders her completely immobile.

But not for long.

Of the two, Luna is the first to recover. She slowly turns toward G’raha, pulling the bundle of clothes in her hands closer to her chest. Her expression is completely unreadable as she opens her mouth to speak, “...G’raha?”

It’s almost as if her voice breaks the enchantment that the sight of her body has cast over him and he finally rips his gaze from her, his face growing warm and red. “M-my apologies! I- I didn’t… I should have…”

His frazzled mind struggles to find some sort of excuse to offer, but when none come he bolts from the tent. Once outside, he looks around wildly, thinking of where he should hide, or even if he should bother hiding at all. Hiding would only delay the inevitable, and, if Luna is particularly angry, could make matters far worse.

A light tap on the shoulder makes G’raha nearly jump, and he turns to see Luna behind him, now fully clothed. Her mahogany hair looks far more tousled than usual and he wonders if she rushed to get dressed following his exit. His uneasiness grows at the thought.

“Luna! I’m… I’m so terribly sorry!” G’raha exclaims, deciding it would be better just to beg for forgiveness than run. “It was truly remiss of me to just enter your tent without so much as checking to see if it was alright.”

He bows his head, his ears flattening in shame as he waits for Luna to rebuke him.

But she doesn’t.

“Twas just an accident, wasn’t it?”

G’raha looks up at Luna, astonished before vigorously nodding his head.

She tilts her head, and gives him a sympathetic smile. “Then there’s no need to fret. Just… be more careful next time.

“O-Of course!” G’raha stutters. Never before has he been more glad for Luna’s good-natured personality.

“Besides,” Luna continues, an edge of playfulness echoing in her tone of voice. “Tis not the first time.”

The miqo’te’s face grows bright red. She must be joking, that is something he would surely-

G’raha’s thoughts are silenced when Luna raises a hand, one of his tomes secure in her grasp. Of course. She means when he sneaks into her tent to read the tomes he has stored there, and not whatever it was his mind was concocting.

“I… am sorry,” he repeats lamely.

Luna’s smile widens more and he can’t tell if she is teasing him or not. “You’re forgiven. Now, I think you have a story to finish reading, do you not?”

G’raha nods, taking the book from Luna. It is lucky, he thinks that Luna is such a forgiving person.

Forgiving, if not a touch mischievous.

#ffxivwrite2019 #ffxiv fanfic #g'raha tia #warrior of light x g'raha tia #this time with less squinting!#i feel like in these kinds of situations luna has zero self-awareness #she wasn't mad at all or anything #just kinda confused lol #and only really because he was staring and not because why LOL

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trashayfanfiction · 5 years

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Fluffy smut I promised

PLZ tumblr don’t ban it. Rated M, but not Explicit. Slice of life, light comedy, uncomfortable situations.

Prompt 1 for smut week. “Video taping”

Ash goes to japan and finds some hardcore 'american twink' porn in Eiji's room. ....he is unsure how to react.

"LOOK I WATCHED THOSE BEFORE I EVEN MET YOU"

Ash makes him a custom porn tape.

Idk if I like this one well enough to post to AO3, so might be a Tumblr only thing. I feel the quality of my work is suffering due to the frequency I’m posting. My diction is lacking and all of my works explore the same ideas. #uninspired but working on it.

..................................................

He was already stressed about visiting Eiji’s parent’s house. He was a man. What if they didn’t like him. What if, what if….

And then he found this little gem tucked in the back of Eijis bookcase behind some comics. “American Twink Railed Hard Gangbang’ the ‘Engrish’ scrawled across the cover in weathered white letters.

He’d thought it weird that there was a video tape behind the comics.

Eiji was out in the kitchen with his family. Ash wondered if his mom ever found his porn, this wasn’t a very sneaky place for it. Maybe she gave him privacy ‘boys will be boys’ and such. Eiji was nineteen when he first came to America. Men have needs.

The boy on sleeve was pretty and blonde, tied up in black shibari on top of a muscular man who’s face wasn’t pictured. The boy looked younger than him….

….but Eiji was still young. It’s normal to desire someone close to your own age. And Japan has different ‘age of consent’ laws didn’t it? He still felt his stomach shift.

He looked at the back of the tape; images of the boy tied up in a grimy subway car, wrists attached to the overhead bars. Large men surrounding him.

That…… hit a little close to home. But that correlation was interesting. This was Eiji’s first trip back home, so it was unlikely these were new.

He removed some of the other comics, a single shelf of tankobons. Behind them there was a another video and a few magazines. By no means a sizable porn collection. He could hold all of it in one hand. It was actually pretty pathetic.

Shorter had two milk crates of playboy magazines he’d swiped over the years. A truly impressive feat, seeing that almost all of them were shoplifted or stolen. He used to joke ‘when I die, you can have my porn collection,” To which Ash always responded with disgust.

His dad had ‘motorcycle’ magazines that Ash knew about before he ran away, it’s not like they were hidden. The house was only men; him, dad, and Griff. Of course Griff had some pinup girls from Sports Illustrated on his walls. Ash supposed Eiji’s small collection was part of living at home. …but a significant amount of it was pretty white boys getting fucked.

At least he didn’t need to worry about his boyfriend being attracted to him or not. ….now that they were at a point where attraction was acknowledged and welcomed. If he’d seen this when he first met Eiji, he could have been convinced there were ulterior motives.

He flipped through the magazines out of curiosity. One was relatively normal ‘straight’ man stuff; female models, cute Asian schoolgirls. Sweet innocence the primary sex appeal with provocative voyeuristic camera angels and demure poses. This is what he was expecting, not the other magazines full of kink. A slim blindfolded blonde boy with cum on his face. Another image of a Caucasian boy tied open over a Spanish horse, wood pressing into his groin.

He knew his hair was irrationally standing on end. The images were only shocking in relation to who owned them. Eiji was in the kitchen talking to his family, catching up. After introductions and talking, stumbling over Japanese and English. Ash had turned in early due to jetlag. The details of Eiji’s childhood room fascinated him. A tidy study area. No sports posters on the wall, the image Ibe took was framed in the family room though. The comics had drawn him in with their touch of color and personality….. Finding this was….stash… entirely unexpected in contrast to the clean normal exterior.

But he supposed that was normal. Most people didn’t broadcast their sexuality, let alone desires like these. Honestly, at the beginning of their relationship he was curious if Eiji even liked guys, his “Do you have a girlfriend?” question testing the waters. Eiji’s cautious “No, no girlfriend,” giving him a glimmer of hope to entertain an idea and fantasy he knew he shouldn’t have.

But Eiji’s awful flirting, and terrible dick jokes, bravery and earnest attitude….. and somehow they ended up here. He was doomed to fall for such a sheltered honest guy who laughably wanted to protect him and didn’t want anything in return. An equal he didn’t deserve.

But still…. Leather?

He had never needed to do much S&M thankfully, it wasn’t the primary draw to him…. But he’d done it.

Ash flipped through some more pages. A boy in a spidergag. Asian this time. This seemed to be more of a leather magazine than anything. The photography highlighted the young men in various restraints.

The last two magazines were ‘Hardcore White Boy’, and he was a bit scared to open them. This might be a secret that Eiji didn’t want to share, but curiosity got the better of him.

It was exactly what he expected. Bondage and gangbangs, and red marks, and…. He put the papers down.

He tried to forget that the boys looked very similar to him. None quite had his shade of blonde, and eye color wasn’t visible in most images, but the correlation was there.

He decided it was time to put the porn back and stop poking in his significant other’s personal business. …but he kind of wanted to tease the man.

He left the girly mag out. Opening it and posing it over his T-shirt covered chest when he heard the creak of Eiji finally opening the bedroom door.

He gave his best overexaggerated sexy stretch, showcasing what he’d found. “This is the kind of thing you like?” He tried to pout, “Am I not your type?”

Eiji froze as he saw the magazine in Ash’s hand. Evaluating the Caucasian in front of him for anything more than the shenanigans being currently pulled.

“D-! Where did you find that?”

Ash rolled over, mischief overriding his system. “In your comics,” Shit-eating grin.

“I- is that all you found?” Dread crept up Eiji’s face…. It was adorable.

“Does a good boy like you have more?” He flipped through the magazine, “I think she’s pretty,” He teased. A pretty girl whining and covering her breasts as the camera ‘interrupted’ her changing.

“You know I’m not a ‘good boy’. Stop being a dick,”

His stuttering and flushing were amusing. ….Ash wanted to unbutton that pajama shirt and see how far the pinkness went…. But they were at Eiji’s parent’s house, and Japanese walls were thin.

Eiji set up his futon next to Ash. Letting a hand creep out to hold his friend’s fingers.

The night was normal.

………………………………………..

The trip was normal.

He still couldn’t forget the video tape and magazines.

He wondered if Eiji would ever bring it up. The other always knew when he was lying.

Nothing was mentioned.

They had been messing around a bit beforehand…. It was still weird. New. Hesitant in a way that was annoying, but not unwarranted.

……………………………….

They had been moved into their new apartment about a week now. Eiji was out. The visible camcorder gave him an idea…..

It was easy to go to the sex store and find the things he wanted a few days earlier. Ash had been debating this for a while.

He wanted to see what would happen.

It couldn’t possibly hurt anything. Either Eiji would be turned on or it would be humiliatingly hilarious, both weren’t horrible outcomes.

…………………………………………………………..

Ash struggled more than he’d like to admit setting up the camera on the tripod…. He’d never needed to do this himself.

The camera’s presence still made him nervous. He denied that he was shaking.

He checked the viewfinder and lay out his implements.

He thought of who he was doing this for.

……………………………………………

“Hey! I’ve got a present for you,” Ash pecked him on the cheek as he returned.

Everything was cleaned up. The only evidence was the small cassette he’d titled ‘**Special XOXO’ with permanent marker.

He plugged the camcorder into the TV.

Sounds of his own moaning filled the apartment.

“Y-you can take something that bit,” Eiji sputtered. The disbelief was delightful.

Ash licked the shell of his ear, brushing his soft hair. “Yeah, does it turn you on? I’ve still got rope marks on my legs, you wanna see?”

No reaction, but the older boy’s body was rigid under his touch.

His hand cupped his boyfriend’s erection. He flinched away from the contact. “I’m still loose if you want to do it now. Watch me on screen, and have me here.” He trembled at the suggestion, fought the urge to bolt and leave the one person he trusted more than anything. He licked his lips to cover up that reaction.

Would Eiji take the bait?

Was this bait? He just wanted to know Eiji’s reaction……

“So you did find it…..?” his voice was low and resentful.

Ash traced a finger along his boyfriend’s face, lightheartedly. Eiji refused to look at him, even going as far to hide his face in his hands.

“You must think I’m a terrible pervert.”

“I don’t think that at all. Do you want to do that to me?” He pulled his tank top to the side, pink nipple poking out of the thin cotton…. “You seem to be interested,” A frisky squeeze to the groin…. Eiji was hard… Ash felt his stomach turning. ….please say ‘no’, please say ‘no’…..

“Look, I watched those before I even met you,” He brushed Ash’s hand away, defensive. Angry? “Stop being cruel. I will not do stuff like that with you unless you want to.”

“I just thought you’d like it.”

“I don’t think you like stuff like that, so stop.”

Ash shut off the TV, quickly killing his practiced sounds of pseudo ecstasy. He left. The tension in the room was unbearable.

Eiji slumped farther into the couch, head in his hands.

………………………………………………………………

Cautiously Eiji entered their shared bedroom. “I’m sorry,” he started, “I didn’t think I should have let you know. It is embarrassing, you know?”

Ash stirred from under the covers, feigning sleep, “It’s not what you want from me?”

“….…you are very attractive. But I do not like you only because you are attractive,”

“I’m glad that you won’t do stuff like that to me. …. But I don’t think I mind if you have it.”

#asheiji #BFsmutweek #fanfiction #banana fish

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tumblunni · 5 years

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Things i would really really love to commission now i have the money

If anyone knows any good reccommendations for people who do these, you would be BRIGHTENING MY SOUL!

* Custom plushies

* BIG custom plushies

* Custom statues, vinyl keychains or articulated dolls

* Custom stress toys or fidget toys, it would be SO AWESOME to have an anti anxiety thing thats even more anti anxiety cos its my oc!!!!

* General custom merchandise/clothing/etc cos i dont even know the full world of whats available!!!! Aaa!!

* Anyone who is willing to do all of the above things but with my really stupid fandom for obscure videogame grandpas. So help me god if they're never gonna make Dr Maddiman or Commander Charon merchandise i will FIND A WAY

* Custom cosplay things?? Cos i really wanna cosplay but ive been so bad at learning how to make my own. Ive tried learning how to make like everything on the list so far cos i thought id never be able to afford to commission a proper talented person aaa

* custom furniture?? Do peopke do that?? I WANT A COMPUTER DESK OF FIRE AND GLORY

* generally if you know of anyone who does commissions for any custom anything plz tell me i like DONT EVEN KNOW WHATS AVAILABLE LOL and im LOVE novelty things shaped like dr maddiman no matter what they are WAIT DOES ANYONE MAKE CUSTOM FLUFFY SLIPPERS what about a trash can shaped like charon

* OKAY BACK ON TOPIC

* Custom pixelart for the things i lack the skill to make on my own. BIG DESIRES: tilesets, battle animations, weather effects, etc. And like.. If there's anyone i could work with who could like.. Take my bad art and make it more gooder and fixed? ACTUALLY OKAY LETS MAKE THAT ANOTHER POINT

* People who could work with me on making my stupid terrible game projects come true. They always just crumble in my hands and i lose confidence in what little skill i have, or reach a wall where something's so far out of that skill, gahhh. And even the stuff i am able to do, i wish i could hire people with better skill to look over it and do like quality control tips on how to make it better. Writer editor guys to correct my terrible grammar and such, people who are more experienced in rpgmaker to correct my fail programming and do stuff i couldnt manage on my own, ART PEOPLE WHO KNOW ART WHO CAN SAY MY ART IS BAD AND HOW TO MORE BETTER ARTER

* Also! Music!! Music commissions!! For both my original projects and remixes of goddamn grandpa music because i am just a pile of fandom squashed into a trenchcoat

* the only thing i could find so far while randomly googling is like this professional business company that makes the vinyls they sell on fangamer and its like 50000 for 5000 and they dont go any lower quantities ever. But hhhh IMAGINE! Fifty k grand pa... I could give everyone who has ever loved him a happy birthday gift of the merchandises that nintendo is deny us. Actually WHY IS IT ALWAYS NINTENDO that all of my fave underloved gramps are from?? Is there just something about the damn DS that magnetizes my brain to smol grumplemens

* WOULD ANYONE SUPPORT ME IN BUYING 50K GRANDPAS seriously i am burning inside with how much i would love to just fill every square inch of my entire house with tiny charons that survey all who enters with a sort of weary cynicism. Bonus points if i just act like there's nothing unusual whenever anyone comes to visit. "Ah yes have a seat on the charonthrone"

* 3d models!! Does anyone!! Do that!! And like!! MMD!! Does anyone do mapping models to be used in that program? Does anyone do custom dances for it? Cos lol i like plugging characters into preset dances but i am REALLY bad at making custom ones, the interface is so complicated and i am bad at math. So yeah seriously i will pay you to A: map dr maddiman's ingame model to do dances, B: create a whole new model for mr ancient underloved early ds grandpa man with the terriblest of sprites and C: make them boogie down together to Weird Science. This will be possibly the greatest use of money i have ever done.

* also can i pay people to appreciate grandpas. Can i pay for a custom space in your heart to cherish them?

* G R A N D PAS

* oh and YOUTUBE THINGIES!!! Id love to help make my youtube channel less bad! So if you know anyone who does those custom logo animations and overlay images and stuff i would love to bury them in money! And i do actually already have some custom music a friend made me which i deeply cherish, but i always feel too embarassed to use it as my jingle cos its too cool?? Like nooooo i dont deserve this!! I must save it for a more special occassion!! So like is there anyone who cpuld make me music thats more like 'heehee horf here come the comic relief character'? I feel like i have big npc energy in real life.

* hhh i have money i just really wanna give it to talent peoples hhh

#commissions #art commissions #sprite commissions #3d commissions #dr maddiman #does anyone know of skilled hands who can make literally every everything on earth but its him?#oh do they make custom coffee mugs?#like one with his goofy face on it and you drink his brains. thats the best aesthetic for any zombie character!#i wonder if the walking dead ever made one of those...#oh and socks!! socks!! what if i could socks!!

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admiralpotato · 7 years

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Phase Transitions - Rainbow Torus Spirals (1/7)

Higher resolution versions at Ello, Imgur, Dribbble, and G+ Photos.

This animation is interesting in that shifts through the phases of the following 4 static phased animations in the set, and I think that this is super great.

I decided to start out the year with some rainbows. The images in this series draw inspiration from the solid shaded objects and the color palettes used in many of the animations created by Florian de Looij / @flrngif. Now, I'll point out that my colors were -inspired- by, and not sampled from Florian's works. I like all of my rainbow materials to be procedural, and that means that the hues are normally spaced out relatively evenly around the color wheel - at least spaced evenly in the color systems I'm used to working in. Florian's on the other hand, are not spaced evenly in HSL, but they -do- look like they may have been sampled at 45 degree increments in the Munsell Color System. The Munsell system seems to have different saturation and brightness levels for each hue around the ring, and while they look great, I'm too hung up on the absolute spatial perfection rather than the relative color perception. For my shaders, I defined my colors by doing maths on the texture coordinates on the object surface, then I took the angle relative to the center of the object, quantized it into 8 stops, and mapped it to hue, and then I bent it with an oval bias toward half of the warm and cool hues. I'd show a picture of the node network for the shader, but it's clear I have no idea wtf I was doing, so that's great.

Comparisons of the palettes can be done by dragging the images into the 3D view at RainbowSpace.

You have no idea how much of a pain in the ass it was to export these animations as GIFs that looked good, and were small enough to upload to Tumblr, and get this - to Imgur. But this is strange to me. I have to make an image smaller than 2mb for Imgur now? Yes, if I want them displayed without the flat-color-shape image quality death-sentence that is GIFv. More on that in a minute. Photoshop's "Save for web & devices" GIF export was like "Yo dawg, I see you trying to save a GIF with a solid color background there, mind if I MAKE IT A CHECKER PATTERN OF 4 COLORS THAT ARE NOT THE COLOR YOU SELECTED, AND THEN EXPLODE YOUR FILESIZE TOO? I'M ON IT!" and I was like "No, really, plz no background dither. I'll even forgive that you made a terrible mess of selecting the palette between the blues and the greens, just plz dont dither" but Photoshop was like "I'MA FIRIN' MY DITHER" and the 2mb limit was never met. For literally 8 colors and then the anti-aliasing between them - Photoshop, I'm incredibly disappointed in you. You had one job in my workflow. Export some solid color GIFs, and you let me down.

So I was like "Fck it. I'll write my own GIF batch processing scripts, with blackjack and hookers!". So I started to learn how to work with ImageMagick and GIFSicle. And I have to say, learning ImageMagick is a BTCH. Never before have I worked with a command line program where the order of arguments can mean so many completely different, unrelated, not-what-you're-looking-for results. But you know what? When I finally got it right, IT'S OUTPUT WAS F*CKING BEAUTIFUL. SUCK IT ADOBE. And then GIFSicle was there slicing 100k~300k off each image. That was awesome. Anyway, nobody else should have to suffer as much pain in figuring out ImageMagick config options as I did, so I cleaned the script up a little and decided to share it. It's probably still too focused on my own use cases, but anyone's welcome to look at it and provide suggestions.

https://gist.github.com/AdmiralPotato/cad56392d8ca8b720940059040c5e405

Okay, so, normally GIFv is relatively kind to my designs. But not this time. What's so bad about it in this particular context? Chroma sub-sampling. Turns out - the animations in this series are just large chunks of solid colors moving around. So that meant that every color edge that changed through the animation(all of them) was over 50% wrong by the looping point, and I would NOT be having any of that. So I had to make sure these GIFs were smaller than the 2MB GIFv conversion point. And I swear, if the f*cking "GIFvBot" on reddit goes and autolinks to a GIFv version of these animations, I'll... just have to laugh. And downvote it's brainless ass. This series is about an artistic process and quality, not instant gratification and bandwidth savings.

I've made a resolution to post about 2 ~ 4 new designs a month. Last year, I struggled with posting even 1 design a month because I became afraid of my animations. I would compare each of my new designs to previous designs, and say "Oh crap, this new one isn't as good as the last one I put up, I can't post this" - and that kept me from posting like 15 designs. Struggling to come up with the text to post with each image held me back from posting about 5 designs, and delayed each and every one by at least 2 hours. I'm terrified to post new images because the instant I post something with a typo, it gets reblogged with that typo in it. This year, I want to change that pattern. I can't commit to something like an everyday because then my quality would suffer, but I certainly want to be able to post more animations. And I'm willing to work toward it. For now. Who knows about tomorrow. But right now? I want to overcome those challenges really bad. So I'm going to see if I can try something new. If I feel I can't execute something to the quality level I want it, I'm going to see if I can switch up the style of that design, until it is a style that I feel I can execute adequately. Let's see how far that idea gets me.

This is design number 1 of 7 in a series named "Rainbow Torus Spirals", where the color palette and solid shaded objects were inspired by the works of Florian de Looij.

#flrngif #rainbow #rainbow torus spirals #animated gif #motion graphics #tribute #blender #cycles #animation nodes #solid shading

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