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my comms are open for the holidays, 60 usd for half body, 80 usd for fullbody (and we can discuss extra characters). can draw whatever, your ocs, real people, dnd/bg3 characters, ffxiv/wow/eso/gw2, etc!

can either go through this google form or my vgen directly if youre interested, ty for looking!

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this bitch empty, TWEET

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"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

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"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

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"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

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"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

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"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

[maclanahan--mermaid-comics]

"Don't make that face at me. There is nothing wrong with tasting kinda fishy."

Pose reference from @adorkastock but it is an OLD one so go check out her Patreon!

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Today's Seal Is: The Warmth Of A Sealy Hug

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I’m seeing a bunch of posts that make me think most USAmericans don’t know about The No Surprises Act.

It was passed in 2021 (thank you Biden) and essentially states that if you don’t have insurance or your insurance doesn’t cover a service you need (or want) you are entitled to a Good Faith Estimate of the cost of care. (If your insurance does cover the service, you should be able to estimate the cost of care based on your deductible and co-pay.)

As a healthcare provider who does not accept any insurance, I am very careful to not violate The No Surprises Act. Why? Because for every penny more than $400 that the Good Faith Estimate was “off�� (or if it wasn’t provided), you are entitled to a refund for that amount.

Y’all. Ask for a Good Faith Estimate. Get it in writing. Compare it to what you are paying. If you are not provided an estimate or if it’s wrong by more than $400, demand a refund.

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A real, actual, I-am-not-fucking-lying-to-you-this-truly-happened moment from the Christmas special Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa

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The short answer is... a tilt-shift lens.

The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.

Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.

Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.

Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.

Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.

The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.

But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.

If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.

But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.

The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.

However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.

Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.

And possibly Mister Rogers.

Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.

Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.

And then when we see something like this...

Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"

Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.

Brains are neat.

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*Taps Mic*

Samus, short hair.

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idoltana and johnP

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I don’t care if you make fun of Catholicism as long as it’s accurate! The best humour has its roots in the truth.