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pearl-kite · 2 years

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ramble about any oc u wanna talk about 👁️👁️

i would like to Know stuff about ur ocs

Where do I even start 👁️👄👁️ Maybe I'll start reblogging some of those OC asks lists

But I'll do a little bit of rambling for Akos and Gale below a read more o3o

Akos and Gale are both my oldest consistently-in-existence OCs. Like, there are older ones, but they've been forgotten or cast aside (poor things v_v). Akos was a side character, like just a cameo side character, in my second nanowrimo in 2006, but he grew on me. Gale just... kind of spontaneously existed starting some time in 2007 without being attached to any story.

Akos has changed a lot, so that there's only some superficial resemblance to the original side character. I've tossed him into 9 demos; he's very adaptable to almost anything. Unfortunately that makes him a bit difficult to talk about because of so many simultaneous versions :|

Gale had a lot of changes right off the bat, but after those changes and for the most part they're actually pretty similar to their original form. They started off as an incubus, but that didn't sit right so I tried succubus for a while, and that sat even less right, so switched back, and eventually decided not-a-sex-demon and made up my own, so they wound up being a luck demon.

I've done more worldbuilding than I've needed to, but basically they can manipulate the balance of luck around them to an extent. They have a guilt complex about it though, so they generally give everyone around them good luck and as a result have some pretty shitty luck of their own. They're pretty superstitious on top of it, which is silly , but their reasoning is like, if their luck is going to be bad, no reason to make it worse by ignoring signs v_v

Their appearance hasn't changed much at all, but I'm debating making some revisions on the demon-y bits because I hate figuring out how to draw horns at different angles. As everyone hates, right.

They're in about 4 or 5 IF, and they tend to have similar too-nice-for-their-own-good and reckless habits. They're my Sidestep (as you know) and they are very, very blue except for like, 90-something daring. It's less daring and more stupid though.

But yeah, maybe I'll reblog some of those OC question prompt things on occasion for more targeted rambling o3o;;;

#asks #I love you for asking <3 #👁️👄👁️ is a cursed thing I almost can't believe I'm doing it #like I think I've mentioned bits and dribbles of some of these at one point or another in tags #but I figure maybe basics is good #let's see maybe a list of characters is actually a good starting point #these two and sloane are my most frequently plugged into IF OCs #there's also gabriel from like 2008 poor dude gets so little attention from me #hmmm lately been fleshing out the darlin' listener from redacted asmr into my own OC #their name is Adrian and they're a genderfluid werewolf o3o #there are so many more individuals from IF that haven't expanded beyond their original IF like charlie and aoife #oh Claire exists! she's an adoptive sibling of Gale and a succubus #I created her because at the time all of my OCs were guys or masc for some reason and I wanted someone to draw in a dress #if I ever get that neocities up and running I'll put some basics for everyone up #again thank you for asking muah 😘❤#elemenepee #I think tumblr cleared out my tag history ಠ_ಠ

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egginfroggin · 1 year

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Um hello! Thanks for sharing about your Krita workspace, I found it very neat to see! I've gotten curious about the quick clipping groups you mentioned, how do you make use of them, if you wouldn't mind expanding a bit on that? :>

Oh, sure! If you right-click on a layer, you know how it opens up a little menu with a bunch of options? One of those is a little "Group" option, which opens its own little menu. The quick clipping group basically creates a mask layer attached to the original layer, allowing you to draw over whatever is on the original layer without going outside whatever is on the original layer.

For example, if I have a circle on Layer 1 and attach a quick clipping group to it, a Mask layer is attached to Layer 1. Now, drawing on the Mask layer, I can draw whatever I want on that circle and be as messy as I like, but it won't go over the edge of the circle. It's like with the selection tool, how you can only draw inside the selection. And anything on the Mask layer stays on the Mask layer -- it acts as a separate layer to Layer 1, so you can erase, shade, render, or whatever, and the original Layer 1 remains unaffected.

I haven't tampered with it a whole lot, so I haven't figured out how to make additional Mask layers, or if it's even possible -- however, duplicating the Mask layer and then erasing everything in it (Shift+Delete instantly clears the selected layer) basically does the same thing; anything I draw on that copied Mask layer stays within the margins of whatever was drawn on Layer 1.

Below, you can see my cursor hovering over the Group option in the right-click menu. Beside that menu is a very long list of layers in a quick clipping group attached to the layer that has the character on it -- I filled out the character's silhouette, made a quick clipping group, and duplicated that original Mask layer many, many times for coloring, shading, and rendering.

Sorry if this is confusing -- my brain is a little fried at the moment, and explaining technology stuff is tricky. I learned it from some video or another on YouTube, though, so the information's out there, presented by a professional somewhere. ^ ^;

TLDR: Right-click layer to bring up little menu thing. Find Group option. Select Quick Clipping Group option. Mask layer will be attached to original layer. Go buckwild on Mask layer and suffer no consequences to your original layer. Duplicate and clear Mask layer to create more Mask layers to frolic in. All within the margins of whatever has been drawn on the original layer.

I use them to fill out characters and individual items without needing to use the selection tools to select things. All those layers? We've got one for skin, one for hair, one for clothes, one for boots, one for highlights, one for shadow, and a few other specifics. None of them affect each other beyond being layered over one another like any normal layers -- they're just all restricted to the area of what I drew on the original layer they're all clipped to.

It has been a huge saver of sanity for shading, among other things.

I hope this helped! I had fun explaining it all, and talking about my workspace. I realize now that you were asking how I used the clipping groups, not what they were, so that whole wall of explanation probably wasn't necessary, sorry.

Thank you for asking, though, and have a good day! <3

#eggin creatin'#krita #asks #I think #I hope so #wait #did you want this to be public?#I can change it to private I think if you want

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theangrypokemaniac · 4 years

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I'll state from the beginning that the images below display the sort of sweet synchronicity to which only love can give life:

MaAndPaShipping is the best ship, and here are five reasons why:

1. It Made James

Like the boy do yer? Ever felt the slightest tingle of warmth at the mention of his name?

Well get down on yer knees and give thanks to his mother and father for gifting him to the world!

Where would we be without their remarkable commitment? Could James have grown into the dandified dream boat of your desires if deprived of the safety provided by his parents?

Had they not brought him up, he'd be dead, The Dog of Flanders fantasy made reality. If miraculously he survived, foraging in the wild is not conducive to a foppish personality.

Is that to yer fancy? No? Then let's have a little respect. The luxury Ma and Pa gave enabled his macaroni tendencies to reach such heights.

Their love created him! How can it not be celebrated?

You lot would ship Jessie's parents but you can't, because she has no dad, and I don't suppose you'll ever assent to his obvious identity of Windy Miller, although 'Jessie Miller' has a wonderful ring to it, so what can be done?

Should a Pa Jess be conjured for the purpose, he still buggered off, didn't he? Where's the allure in a faithless git?

I can't comprehend the obsession with Ma Jess. As soon as here she's stiff, and what is there to remember but coercing her daughter into eating snow?

Hey, I named her. What more do you want from me?

I'd rather have the living, visible ancestors, if you don't mind.

Yeah, says the history fanatic.

Why not make the most of the chances offered, and follow a devoted couple whose love made a difference to your existence?

2. Canon!

There are many ships which I find repulsive for involving depravity, or absurd as the subjects haven't met, or don't inhabit the same fictional universe.

Video et taceo: I see and I say nothing.

Neither does anyone. Forcing decent folk in to incest, bestiality etc. is quite alright.

Perverted ideas are left alone, but woe betide a Rocketshipper, because that's offensive.

It may be the only original ship left standing, with proper evidence and sanctioned by Nintendo, but no, it's fair game for undermining. People pick at your arguments, quibble constantly and NEED to register their objections NOW. You MUST be made aware of opposition. You're not to be permitted your views the way those with twisted tastes are indulged.

Why, out of tens of thousands of combinations, does making Jessie and James an item provoke hostility?

The strength of negativity actually serves as validation, for why be so concerned if it's an impossible relationship?

However sick they are, I'm not anti any ship. I can't muster sufficient interest to do it, and if I scroll on, I forget. I certainly don't attack those responsible.

Anti-Shipping is inherently nihilistic for promoting loneliness. They aren't against Rocketshipping through wanting Jessie and James to be with someone else, as an alternative is not readily available, so the outcome of it is neither finding a companion.

MaAndPaShipping attracts no sourpuss silliness, for 'tis canon beyond question. There's nothing about being 'just friends' when married with a son.

How's the state of your O.T.P.? Not looking too clever I expect, and what's your contribution: wishing, and hoping, and thinking, and praying?

Cast it off! None of that longing is necessary in these quarters, as MaAndPaShipping is a fait accompli.

Hallelujah! Wallow in that Love!

Don't you yearn for at least one ship that all of us accept by default, to the extent these aristocrats are spoken of as a single unit?

Across the internet, Ma and Pa are bracketed as 'James's parents', never 'he' and 'she', always 'they', barely counting as distinct characters. That's how undeniable the love is between them. Sheer indifference has awarded it a blessing from everyone.

MWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!

Of course, now I've drawn attention to it the moaning will start, but we all know a spoilsport when we see one.

If they had any legitimate complaints they ought to have mentioned 'em before this piece highlighted the marriage!

Except it won't have occurred to 'em previously, proving the eternal, indissoluble quality of MaAndPaShipping.

You get good value with this one.

Find a post referring to Ma and Pa as individuals and I'll have written it, for that's what you call ironic.

3. It's a Fine Rocketshipping Proxy

I was at primary school when Pokémon hit the West like the bright, bearded meteor it is, atomizing all competition for a child's attention.

I have shipped Jessie and James before I knew anyone else did it, unaware shipping was even a thing.

There are other pairs where I think: 'That seems to fit', but it's incomparable to what I feel for them.

It is part of me. I bleed it.

I have shipped it longer than most Tumblerries have dwelt upon the earth.

I used to believe, what with the hints and manga finale, that this resolution was inevitable, and all I had to do was wait.

Well I've been patient for two decades now, thus when I look at the modern incarnation, and realise it's no nearer to that goal, and instead is further away, waiting starts to wear a bit thin.

I resent the lack of appreciation shown to the fans by the cretins in charge, how any meagre shippy inclusion is done not with an interest in deepening bonds, but with the blatant cynicism of moulding us into performing monkeys dancing to their manipulative tune.

I dislike being treated like a sea lion, expected to clap me flippers at the wave of a fish, or as a panting dog begging at top table, where, because they're desperate to maintain the status quo, every scrap flung down from above now comes with an Anti-Ship kick in the teeth, just to be sure nothing progresses. Not whilst the franchise can still be milked for all it's worth.

I have lost faith Rocketshipping will happen. What passes for Pokémon today carries not the remotest indication of any intention on the so-called writers' part to finish it that way.

Even if it did, it's not my Team Rocket, it's those skeletal, gargoyle bastardisations. My Jessie and James never got the reward they deserved.

I'm somewhat in the market for a replacement. Beneath this loathsome carapace of acid and ice beats the tender heart of a true romantic, and it must have an outlet!

Shipping Ma and Pa provides a certain spurious relief, because it's as close as you can get to Jessie and James without it being them, both biologically as his parents, but they're so similar to the duo it counts as proof in itself.

Holy Matrimony! is prime Rocketshipping territory, not merely the balloon lift, but many slight additions are as important, like the haircuts matching.

Ma and Pa are therefore Jessie and James in the past, present and future:

The past for representing Jess 'n' Jamie gone Victorian, and we've all wondered how that'd turn out.

The present as it's there right now, absent of suffering the shameless whims of morons to get what you want. 'Tis yours to savour.

The future as a glimpse of Jessie and James once married with children, and they agree:

That's how they play it given the opportunity!

What, James in blue, for his and Pa's hair, and Jessie wearing purple, like Ma's, with a red shawl for her own, and Ma Jess's orange earrings to copy the beads?

• Money!

• Bun!

• 'Tache!

• Classy pad!

• Fancy gear!

• Pampered pet!

• Identical cups of Earl Grey!

4. Original Blend

Ma and Pa have only got two fans! We care more than the entire fandom has in twenty years!

Rocketshipping art is ten a penny, so why not display a pioneering spirit, sharpen up those pencils and be inspired?

Let your mind expand and marvel at the possibilities of these unchartered territories, and I'll reblog it if it's nice.

Pay attention to the condition of it being nice. I'm not putting up with any old toss.

Real Ma and Pa is what I want too, not those Sinnoh coffin-dodgers.

It's never been done! Every drawing breaks new ground!

I don't like fan fiction, but I wouldn't say 'no' to that either. Recall the 'nice' stipulation again.

Come on, be the first amongst your friends and get ship shape!

5. It Gives Us All Hope

Suppose your favourite amour one day became canon: you imagine that's the end of the matter?

Well it ain't.

Between Ash, Misty, Brock, Jessie, James, Gary and Tracey, there are three-and-a-half out of fourteen parents (Flint doesn't count as a complete man) and one out of twenty-eight grandparents, and that's not enough!

If the series drew to a close with your beloved couple apparently walking into the happily-ever-after, there's no guarantee it'll endure. In fact, the odds are they'll split up within a few years and leave another generation to fend for themselves or starve.

That's right, so don't presume the final episode is all you need to worry about. Can you rest easy knowing it'll go pear-shaped once the camera stops rolling?

It's futile soothing one's worries with:

Oh, but they know what it's like to be alone. They'd never inflict such stress on their children.

Oh really?

Look at that poor showing of grandparents. Either Pokémon has a system reminiscent of the sci-fi film Logan's Run, where everyone over thirty is vapourized, or these disappearing maters and paters were themselves victims of abandonment.

I bet when they settled down, they thought it'd be different for their kids, they'd make sure of it, but no, off they went down that same route of feckless self-indulgence, and that's being kind assuming they intended not to repeat history.

Depressing eh? What's the good in any of us surrendering to romance, real or otherwise, if love is but a mayfly of emotion, and all dreams are doomed to die?

Then Ma and Pa arrive, and suddenly the storm clouds part for a ray of heavenly light.

It's not only that they made the effort in what was probably an arranged marriage and have stayed together from youth, it's that they've stayed together when no one else has, which augments its value.

When separation is commonplace, sticking it out becomes rarer and rarer as any belief in the sanctity of wedlock erodes with every failure.

If they didn't bother, why should I? What's the use when it won't work?

Once that idea enters your head, it's over, and your gloom-laden attitude fulfils itself.

Society is collapsing about Ma and Pa's ears, but they persevere nevertheless, refusing to buckle under the turgid malaise engulfing the arrogant and weak.

It's bloody beautiful, man!

You may suggest an environment of supreme wealth erases normality, and to their class and time period divorce is still taboo, so they don't really have much of choice but to remain wedded.

Ah, but it's not as if they simply tolerate one another for appearances, or carried on for the sake of their son (which is more than anyone else did besides), not when he walked out on them.

They've been married longer than James has lived, so at least eighteen years (don't all squeal at once), and they're still blissfully contented!

They hold hands!

They use terms of endearment like 'dear' and 'my precious'!

They were made for one another!

They work as a team!

They want the same thing for James!

It could bring a stone angel to tears it's so beautiful!

See what success can be achieved when you try? When you endeavour to love the one you're with and make yourself worth loving in return?

Better that than chucking 'em at the first sign of trouble.

Ma and Pa is such an irrevocable union even the despair of losing their only child failed to tear 'em asunder, and that'd defeat many, but not this husband and wife.

Be grateful, for it means all is not in vain.

It doesn't have to be misery and pain: love can last despite the pressure of a wretched, hollow culture bent on self-destruction. Your ship might just succeed too.

God bless 'em for keeping the magic alive!

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Why do I have the presentiment that I'm going to regret encouraging support?

#maandpashipping #team rocket #ma james #pa james #ma and pa james #james #jessie #james's mom #james's dad #james's parents #rocketshipping #kanto #holy matrimony!

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