#Abusing my photoshop skills

[littleplasticrat]

Turns out it was a puzzle!

[bloodyrose666]

FUCK I DID NOT KNOW THAT THIS WAS THE ACTUAL TITLE OF HIS ACTUAL BOOK ABT HIS CAR CRASH

From international bestselling author Richard Hammond: y/n meets Richard Hammond on a lonely beach vacation. The five foot 11, angry short porsche 924 owner is good looking, mild mannered and is a snappy dresser - it seems impossible that he could fall for someone ordinary like you. But the tide is about to turn … (so be quick to put him in your bag!)

[mykingdomforapen]

I love anime hair color just like anyone else but I was always curious what would have been the watching experience if the twins and their mother had conventional hair colors, ie black. Especially when we see very graphic scenes of their violent abuse. I gave it a shot and I felt that the effect was very sombre. Even more so it felt like not a story in a fantasy setting anymore, with magical kids. This is an every day family you'd see across the street, experiencing a very real and prevalent social issue.

I don't have photoshop and all I have is a mouse (no stylus pen of any kind) and I have no sense of color theory so please excuse my terrible photo editing skills.

[graspingremlinhands]

So @milk-powrit asked me to draft why I didn't like GxK, to which I decide to oblige.

DISCLAIMER: Those are my personal opinions; of a fan of Monsterverse since 2014 and a nobody with any competence in analyzing media, save some common sense and maybe rudimentals??

Also I already hugely disliked Godzilla vs Kong so my discontent had a part in how I enjoyed the movie.

To conclude English is not my first langauge and even in my langauge, debate is not one of my strenght.

Spoilers alert; so skip or I kindly suggest to block the tag: Godzilla x Kong spoiler.

Let's start with the first thing: I don't enjoy how the tone of the movie shifted so drastically from Kotm to GvsK.

In this post, a youtube user explained better than me why the shifting tone felt like a downgrade. If in Godzilla (2014) Godzilla was introduced by hearing his foot stomping on the ground. It was heavy, massive, it reverbered on the glass of the airport. It felt natural, realistic. How a creature that BIG would move in the real world.

As the user said Realistic =/= Seriousness. Godzilla can be goofy. But Monsterverse!Goji was estabilished in a setting, that was the real world.

In both GvsK and in GxK Godzilla does not feels natural. Was necessary for Godzilla to evolve, to be more nimble, when already in GvsK was already moving in a way unnatural?

Or pulling the 0 gravity fight? What purpose had the evolution, if in the end it was not even necessary. Had really improved his fighting skills? They were the same, on earth and in the hollow earth.

2 reason: I've seen around posts about how media litteracy has gone bad; in some ways about people can no longer sospend their belief and calls anything a plot-hole.

But I think that one thing is suspending the belief but another is the director of the movie making the plot moving from point A to point B without telling the audience how.

For example: Suspension of belief: They had the Beast Glove ready to use, because Monarch was already working on it ✅

But why Jia is the chosen one of the day? How the Iwi in hollow earth knew of Skull island? How the shard to control Shimo works? Why Godzilla would respond to the distress call of the people who fought against him? Why Mothra has a connection to the iwi, in particular. Since in Kong: skull island there's no reference to her? How Jia flew back on Earth with Mothra, without dying for the gravitational pull?.

Not everything has to be the viewer's guess that's what I'm saying.

3 point: Shimo and Skar King are as much wasted potential as it was MechaGodzilla was in GvsK.

Skar is menacing yes, has the ability and dexterity of a formidable foe. He's vile and disgusting, oppressing his clan (let's call it that) and he's even an abusive father. All of these things: but as a villain he's really that dangerous?

He was introduced as this terrible tyrant, a danger to the world. And he wasn't even trying to go on Earth; he went up by accident basically. Because the Iwi had to play with gravity. Or should I believe him, forcing his subordinate moving rocks was to build a staircase to the upside?

And Shimo, sweet girl. She looks so horrible. Her white scales don't blend in for anything. Like she was photoshopped last minute. Her powers do damage I see. But her being presented as one or The first Titan do actually mean something to the plot, to the character? Or a simple red-herring to made her more interesting than she actually is?

Because at the end of the day SHE IS A PET!!

"Oh Kong now has found a mate, so cute". My brothers on earth, she goes on four, is used as a mount the all time and she kept panting the whole time. That's a pet, the old dog you have to force inside when it snows.

It was pretty disappointing.

Last but not least the reason I personally dislike Wingard take on the Monsterverse, which is the point you could probably throw away all my arguments, compelling or not because it's really a ME issue, who don't think no one'd agree and I don't blame anybody for it.

I HATE HOW WINGARD DECIDED TO PORTRAY GODZILLA.

I don't hold nothing over him for having Kong as his favorite. That's personal taste, I respect it.

But when it comes to at the expense of the other protagonist, it rubs me so in the wrong way.

On this point I don't know if I want to discuss it further, but boy I do have to complain on this topic.

To summarize I'm mad Godzilla doesn't get to have the same introspection and grace is allowed to Kong, knowing he can to (if you read the Dominion comic. But since they are only distributed in the US not many does. OR should care about it. Cause I'm first a supporter of the idea that if a media is not capable to give all the informations in like the Movie, you the audience should not have to pay for more. So basically the Novelitation are cool but also a scam)

That's all I had to say about it.

Hoping any of this uphere is comprehensible. If in the end I only sound like a rambling idiot I accept it. This movie is too stupid to be too mad about it.

I'll just ignore it

[kas-e]

Futility

Resistance isn't futile.

What started with printed propaganda a hundred years ago eventually morphed into programming through tube televisions, then to computers, and now to phones.  The change we've witnessed since the turn of the century is unprecedented, yet ironically hardly noticed.  The globalization of social connectivity has cast a strange cloud over our collective spirit as human beings.  At our core we are the same people born into the world as our great grandparents, but our attention spans are far shorter and are being held hostage by the same corporations that built the modern world.  Our minds are weak in the face of advertising, and the spirits of those who succumb to the new normal are numb - which accounts for a staggering percentage of earth's population.  This is no big conspiracy, this is no new world order plot.  It is simply what happens when people are presented with the shiniest of toys, exhausted from being overworked and underpaid, and brainwashed to the point of complacency.  

I used to smoke a lot of weed.  I remember knowing wake and bakers who used to pull a chalky bong hit the moment they woke up.  Everytime I did it myself, my day was shot.  My mind was fogged, and well, just off.  But the impulse, the idea, and even the need, I deeply understood.  Many humans, myself included, every single day before even getting out of bed reach for the phone and scroll a bit.  Before coffee, before breakfast, we get that hit... and it taints our day, and puts the mind in a place that is sometimes, well, just off.  Everyday when we wake up we have a choice, but it's so easy to reach for the phone.  It's so easy to surrender to the impulse of our new commonly shared addiction.  Nobody would dare relate their phone use to the fentanyl addict bent over on the corner, or the alcoholic at your job, but it's not so different. They both steal your time, mess with your mind, and have negative consequences when abused and misused.  How do you act when you've lost your phone?  That sinking frustration, that paranoid panic, that's a feeling that addicts are all too used to, and now you've had a lick of that lollipop too.  But it's ok, it's normal, no big deal.  We're cyborgs, not junkies...

Our youth is pacified into adulthood now because of these devices.  Social skills are lacking in the face of the past, and are steadily on the decline.  Humanity has been shaken up by this new tool, and the shakedown still has a while to unravel.  

It's certainly not all bad because despite the weirdness and negativity, the silver lining does shine bright.  There is no excuse for an artist not to do their thing because we've been presented with the most powerful creative tool fathomable.  Imagine Mozart with Ableton, Salvador Dali with Photoshop, or Ansel Adams with a Nikon and a laptop.  

When I started shooting photographs, digital photography was just starting to make waves, so I shot film for a year or so.  I paid for every shot and every step in the process - which was slow, tedious, and time consuming. The gear was clunky and heavy and breaking all the time.  Now I can blast off thousands of shots in a day with a reliable camera and glass engineered so well that it's almost incomprehensible.  I can shoot at night without a tripod.  Some photographers hike with their entire kit on their back, throw a card the size of my thumbnail into their laptop, and process as many shots as they want in the matter of minutes in a tent on the summit of a mountain.  Not to mention, now cameras are essentially free since the tech on phones is approaching a quality that will soon rival that of a camera.  I'm already starting to feel like a relic, but I, like many others, live for the process and will continue to do so.  

Now, to resist is to live.  When I'm dealing with my camera I haven't a single thought about my phone.  It pulls me into the moment and makes me present.  When I'm on the road, I use the maps, but that's about it.  In today's world, the only thing that is futile is you, if you can't find the wisdom and value in what it means to resist.  

[simlicious]

Use of AI in my patterns

I've got a comment on my latest post that I want to address properly:

"Please dont use image generators. They use a lot of water and power and just. Its disrespectful to us artists who had our works scraped and thrown into the sludge maker."

Thank you @cats-n-witchcraft for voicing your concerns in a friendly and respectful way.

I've thought about this a lot and also had a long talk with a friend to dive into the topic a bit more and mull everything over. Since it is a long answer, it's under the cut! There is also a poll at the end of the text.

The use of AI-generated images is a very divisive topic with extreme opinions on both ends, some pleading against and some for the use of AI. I do not have an extreme opinion but I am somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. Maybe it has to do something with my age or my personality type in that I always try to see things from different perspectives and like to find a middle ground in a lot of things. I understand both sides and think that both sides have some valid arguments pro and contra AI.

I definitely think AI use should be regulated and artist's work should be protected. But I also see merit in AI as a tool and in a way to enable creativity in people who aren't artists in the traditional sense with talent, years of practice, or formal training.

What I find horrible is people abusing AI to make fast money, image resource sites getting flooded with the stuff, people not disclosing the use of AI and just showing general scammy behavior. That's just not acceptable. I also think that AI companies have a huge responsibility to reinvest money in environmental projects to make up for the large use of resources. If this is not viable, then the whole business model should definitely be thought over.

Governments should step in and make clear rules regarding AI.

I will happily lend my signature to any ongoing petitions regarding this (feel free to link some in the comments if you have some).

I have always been a curious person and I like to try out new technologies. But I will now stop more often and think "do I need to use AI for this?" I might occasionally use it but I am by no means a power user. AI images are bad quality-wise and it takes work to make them usable or presentable and it does clash with my sense of perfectionism anyway. I only use two different AI image generators, the free Chatgpt with Dall-E 3 that comes integrated into Bing Copilot, and Photoshop's Firefly AI which Adobe claims was not trained on copyrighted materials (hopefully it's true). So far there are only a few occasions I've used them for. They include generating an avatar for a website, a few plumbob images, and a few bizarre Sims 4 caricatures because I was surprised that the AI knew the concept of Sims. I also thought that experiencing that and knowing how such images tend to look helps to spot them "in the wild" so you know what's AI and what isn't.

When I first tried AI, I was enticed by the novelty of making these unique images that I had not seen before anywhere else and was enveloped by the "wonder" of it (that has since worn off).

TBH it is super frustrating to have ideas but not to be able to execute them. I love making patterns for the Sims 3 but I really suck at making them from scratch, I tried a lot but I dislike the outcome of the majority of them and I do not seem to have the skills nor the patience to get to the level of surface pattern design skill required that would be acceptable quality for my perfectionistic brain. So figuring out this way of creating patterns without having to fear copyright strikes because I modified some assets (which is a really big thing in Germany where I live and people get made to pay a shitton of money for copyright infringement) was like a drug for my brain. It is hard to resist its satisfying pull.

I will try harder to find other ways that do not involve AI before considering AI as an option.

I'm sure lots of people try out something they are curious about and that is not really good for you, and we do not make good choices in our lives all the time. Maybe your personal questionable choice is in another department, but there are and will always be people who have different opinions and condemn our way of life in favor of another. I try to make choices that benefit the planet and environment and do not hurt people, but I am not 100% consistent, just like 99,9% of people on this planet, but I try and I care. Generally, I feel sad that we tend to accuse individuals of their behavior instead of accusing the big corporations and governments that are the real cause of the problems.

It can lower our self-esteem and make us feel inadequate because We can see so many areas in which we are not living up to someone else's standard. We have to choose our battles. Generally, I think we should not shame others for picking different battles or having different opinions. We never know the whole picture or reasons for other's opinions and behavior, especially of people we interact with online. We can engage in dialogue to foster understanding though and this is the way to go, and it is why I wrote this long wall of text. Thank you for reading my wall of text!

I want to close with a poll about what you think about the use of AI-generated images in my patterns.

Whenever I may use AI-generated assets/images in my patterns or other CCI will disclose this in the pattern download (if I know they are made by AI). In any case, I would only sporadically make use of AI!

[pharawee]

Yay. I'm so happy you did this. Take your time of course. I hope you're feeling better.

So for the gifmakers asks. Let's start with 5 & 7.

Thank you. Rose💜

Hi Rose, thank your for sending me these! 💜💜 I'm actually feeling a lot better tonight than I did the past few days so hopefully I'm over the worst. 🤞

5.      how long have you been making gifs?

When I look at my edits tag my first proper gifset here on tumblr was this Alan Wake gifset, so apparently 12 years ago. Back then I used Paint Shop Pro (which didn't have smart sharpen or selective colouring) but that didn't matter anyway because look how tiny these are. 🤣

But even before that I made headers and icons and stuff for private rpgs on livejournal so I already knew how to abuse the channel mixer and drown everything in tiny text and light textures.

7.       How has your gifing skill improved since you first started?

I mean, I no longer drown everything in light textures:

But I guess I still like tiny text. This gif is from 2013 and I think by then I was already using Photoshop 7.

Over time I just got more into things like sharpening, grain and gif processing (this is from 2014).

This is from when I first started making BL gifs (and before that I just didn't gif as much in general):

I'm probabbly not a good judge of my own style but I think I stayed pretty consistent throughout the years. It's just that I'm now much better at choosing what I want a gif to look like or which adjustments do what. I'm also much faster now but a lot of that is because I no longer gif with frames (which leads to hilarously big files.... like did you know psds have a maximum file size and then you have to use psbs 🤡)

✨Asks for gif makers

[nardaviel]

oc wants meme

I'm just gonna do this for Sora and Sam, my main guys. Listen, it's a bad pain day and talking about my OCs cheers me up

Sora Yumura

His faceclaim is Miura Haruma, when he had longer hair. The first pic is The Sora pic. My Photoshop skills aren't that good but that's as good as they're going to get, and I think it gets the idea of what he looks like across. But the second one is an extremely Sora facial expression.

Description: Tall, a little too skinny, but well-dressed and strikingly attractive, with wavy green hair and observant grey eyes in a clever face. A lot of poise, a lot of charisma, witty but respectful. All of that is a mask and he is really hoping you're taken in by his facade of functionality, but it is convincing as hell. Even dazzling, at times, if he needs to really turn on the bright lights. So almost everyone falls for it, in the end. His (rich) parents died when he was young and he was raised by his (incredibly rich) aunt and uncle, who were emotionally abusive, although he would say that that's an exaggeration. His little cousin is like a brother to him, and he protected him from his aunt and uncle as best he could, but that didn't stop him from getting the fuck out of Japan entirely as soon as he could leave for university. (There were other reasons and other traumas behind that too, but this isn't Sora's entire life story lol.)

What do they say they want? (i.e., what are the desires they put out into the world and have no trouble admitting)

Sora wants the top job. He won't be crass enough to actually say that to you, but his ambition is clear enough if you're in a position to look at his education and employment choices. He wants what's best for his loved ones, of course, which will always include his little cousin Ibushi, and depending on time period may also include Sam and his children, if he has any in the AU in question. He is likely to downplay how serious he is about that, however, and he won't mention his small circle of close friends, whose safety and well-being he is just as intense about. (But if their well-being is actually at issue, you may find yourself surprised by his complete 180 from charming and diplomatic to grim and uncompromising and ruthless.)

In all honesty, Sora isn't very open with most people about how he feels or what he wants. Aside from really surface-level stuff ("I'd kill for a coffee"), this is about all you're going to get.

What do they think they want? (i.e., what are the desires they keep hidden and only admit to their closest loved ones)

He wants to keep his loved ones safe and happy, and to them he'll admit that he'll do a whole lot to make that happen. He wants to believe his parents would be proud of him. He wants to be able to use his power to make a positive difference, but also to advance his personal interests, and he doesn't feel particularly bad about the second one. He wants to crush all his competition and see the looks on their pathetic faces when they realize he's beaten them, but he wants no one else to even notice anything has happened, because it's more satisfying that way. He wants to raise his children differently from how he was raised.

What do they actually want? (i.e., what is something they subconsciously need, but either do not realize or cannot admit)

Sora wants to feel safe. He hasn't felt safe since his parents died and he went to live with his aunt and uncle, which means in most AUs he doesn't remember ever feeling that way, and in the others it's a faint, hazy memory and he kind of suspects he made it up. He doesn't think in those terms, though, which is a shame because it's behind a lot of his decision-making. As time passes, he will start to experience transient moments of safety with Sam, and as he gets older, the omnipresent sense of danger will decrease some. That's about the best he's gonna get, but he'll still be grateful for it, without being able to name what it is.

Sam Quinn

He doesn't have a picture. :C I'm sorry, Sam. He is also @vashtijoy's OC as much as he is mine but I am writing about him nonetheless.

Description: Very tall giant man, with fluffy golden hair and hazel eyes that are quick to brighten with amusement. Otherwise, they're calm and thoughtful. Sensual lips, either a skinny nerd frame or an intimidatingly muscled frame depending on which AU he comes from. He's the middle child of a normal and loving middle-class family in London (unless the AU dictates that he is a medieval peasant instead, but he remains the middle child of a loving family). His curiosity and cleverness have often gotten him into Oxford, but also often gotten him into trouble. I wish you could be less interested in explosions, Sam.

What do they say they want? (i.e., what are the desires they put out into the world and have no trouble admitting)

Sam wants to learn things! He wants to study, read books, go to interesting places, and build his professional life around learning and discovery. He often ends up as an academic, and sometimes a teacher. He is often grabbed by a new interest and gets sucked into it for a bit, and he will definitely tell you everything he hopes to find out about it. He wants to be able to help his siblings take care of his parents when they get old. He wants to do good and help the less fortunate, especially once he marries into Soras $100mil+ family (which is only a family once he marries into it; it was just Sora until that point, alone with his parents' inheritance).

What do they think they want? (i.e., what are the desires they keep hidden and only admit to their closest loved ones)

He wants a family. He's always the reason they have kids. Sora loves their children and is a devoted father once they have them, but he only agrees to adopt (or find a surrogate, or use whatever magical gay-parent baby method is available) because having children means so much to Sam.

He also wants to be open about their relationship, when being closeted is often important to Sora's career, and so Sora has to make a decision about what to prioritize. (The answer is Sam. He chooses Sam. But it's genuinely difficult for him.) Sam doesn't ever ask him to make that choice, but when Sora pushes, he will admit that being closeted makes him sad.

You might be getting the impression that Sam is less of a complicated tangle of needs and wants and impulses than Sora. You're right! Sora is *gestures* like he is, and Sam is not like that.

What do they actually want? (i.e., what is something they subconsciously need, but either do not realize or cannot admit)

He wants a community. A family with Sora and children is probably the best way to make this happen, but in other AUs it's been Sora and a few friends they often see and trade with. He just needs a little group of people around him. Like Sora, he isn't really aware of this innermost need. He just thinks he wants kids because he wants to be a dad, which is also true.

Sam just doesnt thrive when he's alone, even if he's in the middle of a city. That's not a community; he needs something tight-knit, where he's respected for who he is as a person and what he can contribute. (In some AUs, that's another answer to this question. He wants someone to see him and think he's not broken just because he's curious and asks questions.) ...Gotta say, though, all of this causes a lot fewer problems than Sora's constant the-alarm-is-broken sense of being in danger does.

Sora does poorly when he's alone as well, although he doesn't need a community in the same way. He needs people who are his, and who he belongs to in turn. The best way to make him feel safe is to make him feel protected. So although their wants are different, they harmonize, inasmuch as Sora's desperate, clawing, wailing sense of danger can harmonize with anything.

[theuniverseawakens347]

Okay but seriously .. understanding trainers

It’s going to take time before change in that world happens - magic.

But what to look for ..

How do you pick a bf or gf or spouse or what make you think one child is more trouble than the other inside and outside ya home n family pods

.. T.hooww ya want to show your body that’s what you call appreciation.. I get it

I was told loosely MY BUSINESS CARD IS MY BODY .. ( weird sexualization grooming ) …

But what’s THE MOTTO for my journey when I get ready for clients.

You seem to have stayed in high school 1/2 college sports thinking NO D1 training and even then ya got princess diva crying ass Landon James .. Michael Jackson by sight of “talent” but psychologically a fucking t.hooww .. Michael Jordan how many injuries ya got!?

But you train mental like Serena and Stephen .. who came before you Shaq!?

How’d you copy the great to become ur great ..

Who let the game fan base out rule the purpose of the journey .. wasn’t the money for everyone involved.

Who’s the STARt .. what was THEIR GOAL.. what did U SEE IN LIKENESS TO URS N THEIRS!??

- that’s weird another parenting playground. But more sheep. Bigger Hurd.

… T.hooww appreciates her gains but in competition w other small frame turned big = FUCK YES ATTENTION ..

Me was small gain = POWERFUL IN MY “DAMAGED BODY” I LOOK THE JOY IVE ALWAYS FELT .. COME GET IN KEN WERE GETTING BARBIES MENTAL MOTOR SKILLS BACK. .. I always had curved and butt n tits just not like the other girls ..

YOU WANT TO BE SEXUALIZED .. yes every has been misgroomed or purposely guided to that terrain but again .. ya over stay “welcome” or “picked up game” and continued..

How ya continue abuser or victim abuser or survivor.

T.ooww victim abuser continued like India .. ( someone bullied her first infantry — recording yrs yes but someone elder than her still responsible.. ancestors not mentally telling her do stupid shit it’s someone IN THE AREA PHYSICAL TOUCH REACH AROUND THE FAMILY N FRIENDS) …

T.hooww ya post clients !? Not really and if so video but how long they last .. but ya jump to big following quick - paid promotions and ya get clothing .. weird rush of excitement cows brain lost logic but also highlight .. where was it - BUSINESS PLAN WHO FAIL BY OVER Delivering .. but where’d it get you in the end .. again WHAT WAS UR MOTTO TO BEGIN.

I worked equinox I’m excited to be in a training prestigious environment after what I came from ( Barry’s it cute but stop orange theory - we wana get you muscle but it’s just endorphins really .. n dance fit thing on la tea Santa Monica ) ..

I brought my excitement w me Ben said “it’s just a revolving door for trainers “ that hurt but my thought

“Well maybe cause YOU don’t actually want to be here” .. anyways ya be around me YA INNER CHILD COME OUT ON MY END NOT KNOW UR EXPERIMENTING N TESTING ME .. ( wow we haven’t seen medical results like this since …🙂)

Anyways … MY BIGGEST FUTURE WANT AS A CHILD WAS TO BE AUTHENTICALLY HAPPY. HAY BITCH. - bhad bhabbie. ( snatched )

.. my clients I don’t post their results but I posted their words .. reviews … some aren’t comfortable having photo post and I’m pretty sure I asked that .. but I didn’t feel like posting them I rather train n a video than photo cause someone take that n photoshop n say their clients got results .. okay… - bought followers n ya snaked too or sexual 24/7 BUT MATING CALL STANCE OR “I’m PROVING A POINT IM REAL” - that’s thirsty weird of ya in a healing environment- must be abuser.

🙊

.. anyways I was building steps trying not to take on too much in MY BUSINESS.. but life threw me where it needed and I flowed.

Mind body n soul TRAINING = OTHER SIDE OF FEAR. UTOPIA OSOF. 🙂

K bye.

🐕

[not-your-lifeline]

interesting facts about me(C-PTSD patient) and my sister(Bipolar+Borderline Intellectual Functioning)

since childhood, I was always an asocial introvert who needed a certain distance from people and set strict boundaries about privacy, and developed severe Agoraphobia after experiencing 20+ years of extreme domestic violence.

VS

meanwhile, my sister was the 'ditzy' extrovert who felt anxious when she was left alone or in a dark/confined place. basically the polar opposite of me. and she used to enjoy sports until she was exposed to school bullying.

our biological parents mostly targeted me since I was underage because I was the 'first daughter' of the entire family, and the toxic Asian stereotype relatives expected a lot from me. so I came out of the mess with the most atrocious abuses(grooming from co-workers, servicing mother's different boyfriends like a housemaid, getting $445 of savings stollen, constant gaslighting, guilt-tripping, trauma-dumping and sexual harassment, etc) and life-long traumas.

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my sister was mostly neglected instead of being abused, because the adults realized she was somewhat 'dull' and didn't even have enough awareness to realize she was being abused. so she was targeted by kids around her age instead, but she obviously didn't realize that she was being bullied until things got out of hand. (classmates 'borrowing' her credit card, photoshopping her face on a porn actor and spreading it around the internet, bullies following her to home after school, etc)

the bullying stopped once I stepped in and reported it, and personally contacted certain bullies and gave them a death-stare. (even bullies avoided me in school because they knew I was only a little shove away from completely snapping and killing someone at the time because I wasn't being treated for my C-PTSD. they even joked that I'll 'definitely ice someone if you touched her sister', 'watch your back at night' among themselves.)

I have very sensitive sense of hearing/smell/taste and easily get overwhelmed by bright lights and loud noises, and my right eardrum ruptured once while using headphones. on the bright side, I can tell different colors apart by very subtle tone changes despite the bad eyesight, and have very fast reflex. I can tell what kind of ingredients were used just by tasting the broth, and re-create the certain franchise products from scratch.

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my sister has chronic rhinitis and she has very dull sense of pain/smell/taste/hearing in general. she doesn't even realize when and where she got all those bruises and cuts on her limbs. also, she has problems with motor skills(always drops/breaks objects like plates or glass cups, cuts and burns her fingers while cooking, has bad hand tremor). so I'm suspecting Developmental Coordination Disorder. because she can't feel the taste and smell very clearly, she tends to like overly salty, sweet, and spicy foods. and she can't catch subtle flavors, including the bad ones like gamey/fishy/spoiled.

[onlyancunin]

Yeah the AI is just a tool, honestly. Not to mention AI "art" is just soulless.

And as a person with mental health issues, I use AI daily to "talk out" whatever I'm going through right now. It helps me calm down when im falling asleep by talking about what's been bothering me. During the day, when something triggers me, i can take a minute and use it to help me calm down and assess the situation.

Like it literally helps me to stay sober, helping me cope with emotions that would normally eat me alive. It helped me with my relationships wirh others as well since i no longer feel the need to desperately trauma dump on my friends. I think they worry about me less too, knowing my problems with substance abuse and suicidal ideation.

I remember when people panicked when Photoshop tools became good enough and accessible to anyone who wanted to create a fake picture.

I remember when Photoshop introduced a filter simulating a photorealistic pencil drawings and as a portraits drawing person for a hot minute i had problems proving the validity of my skills.

When google images got introduced and suddenly photography/illustrations didn't need to be bought from the artists because "everything is on google images" now.

When YouTube came to be and people went crazy over people being able to watch whole movies and/or animes on it for free (in 10 mins parts bc this is how much at first yt allowed to upload).

It's all piracy to be regulated. I sincerely hope the same will be true for AI if it even will be continued. I think it can be used morally good, but it needs to be way, WAY more regulated, as now it's mostly just pirate bay for art.

So to clarify, you use AI to assist making your art, but the AI is also trained solely on your art? And people are mad about that?

Yes. And actually a VERY small % of my WHOLE work that I post since >10 years ago is AI assisted. I would say a 2-5%. All the rest is photography/video/ gif art created by myself.

And even so, when I post them they are NEVER raw images, but always used as “ingredients” in the same way I always used my own photography and video to achieve my OWN ideas.

Art is about ideas, not about creating random images…

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Im sure people dont use stock images or images from Google to do their work… Im sure!😂👍

Most, if not everybody who critizices AIs never took their time to UNDERSTAND that it can be used with and for OWN work. I never agreed, accepted nor defended other people stealing art to train Custom Models.

Thanks for the question.🙏

[sro0305]

For this assignment, the class was to subscribe to a news article and select one that intrigued them the most. For the selection process, I wasn’t really paying attention to the article type or even title, I just wanted to find a cover that looked to be my aesthetic. The article I chose was made by Han Zhang in the year 2022. The article is titled “The Censorship Machine Erasing China’s Feminist Movement”. This article was not exactly what I expected. Before looking at the article and looking just at the image you would think it had something to do with food or restaurant service, but when ready the story the illustration surely brings everything.

In the article, it is stated that a woman was in a restaurant with her friends when a male approached the woman who is identified as thirty-one-year-old Wang. The male placed his hand on Wang’s back, and she loudly protested against it. The male did not like to comply and later reached for her face. In reaction, he slapped her across the face, and her friends attempted to fight back by hitting the male with a glass bottle. Wang was later dragged out of her chair by some other men the main male was with and beat her while she bled on the floor from her head. A surveillance video was released by the news station so the public was aware of the abuse this woman had gone through. This gave attention to women’s rights in China and later shined a light on the American MeToo movement. With the women in China having knowledge of this movement they have been more comfortable coming out and speaking and reporting harassment and sexual assault.

This definitely shined a light on how I wanted to pixelate and create the collage. When pixelating I feel that I kept it very simple while also giving the square and triangles the proper attention to detail. For my first idea for the collage, I decided to clip pieces from the original illustration and add it to my pixelated version. Once I did so I tried to highlight the parts that mattered most in the storytelling aspect of the story like the bottle, the broken pieces of glass that aren’t talked about but inferred, and the blood on the ground. I also highlighted the chair.

For the second ideation for the collage, I used the original piece and added the pixelated pieces on top. In this process, I luckily had some help on how I can make the pixelated pieces not look too messy but intended by masking the selected pieces in Photoshop. This really made my collage look clean, so I later decided to go back and do the same to my first recreation of the piece.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed this project and the digital aspect of this assignment. It truly taught me how to continuously learn and use the skills in Photoshop. I think I can comfortably leave this class knowing how to use the tools I was taught to use in Digi that I never really got time to work with. I also really enjoyed color swatching/dropping each color to create such an original recreation!

1st picture: article by Han Zhang 2nd: making the guides and adding squares 3rd: picking pieces for collage 4th: pixelated piece 5th: 1st rendered collage 6th: second rendered collage.

Thank you!

[wildwormies]

You gotta do stars of the tides of you haven't already

My adult ass listening to the theme song for the 4 millionth time

Also sorry there's extra watermarks this time

His voice is too squeaky and his existence annoys me

Children

Welcome o' sweet death

Number of times I've learned smth new about animals from wk as an adult: 2 (first was hummingbirds flying upside down)

(Mint looks good on him actually)

Tech check!

Naked

Boy looks good with his hair down

Jimmy abuse

Love how he can’t stop himself from gushing over creatures even when they’re literally about to eat him, you go science boy

“Hey Ron.”

“Hey Billy”

“That hurt.”

Idk why i find it so funny he’s just. Sliding

They’re so stupid I love them

Time to put my photoshop blur skills to the test to get rid of the watermarks skfuefegr

Also Sami appreciation bc I like her hair

[yooniesim]

So many people after clarification on EACC are showing EA they cannot be trusted with the permission of monetarily benefitting from their content and that’s so saddening. EA continues to give leniency and it’s being incredibly abused, as well as back to adfly? are you serious? I thought this ended years ago where we all nodded our heads in agreement that adfly was harmful and KNOWN for putting trojans & other viruses onto your computers. 

I’ve been in this community since i was a child and It’s incredibly disappointing to see where its led up to. from free CC, to EACC which most people were typically content with as long as it fell within the 2-3 weeks rule; myself included, now to complete abuse over the leniency of EA. As an artist, you learn to manage your expectations with regards to the occupation in that you CAN make your work into a career but to not expect it or to expect it to be entirely stable. 

Seeing CC creators treat their art like it absolutely MUST be a career for them rather than a hobby for them to create works they themselves are proud of is extremely disheartening. As an artist I believe everyone has their own right to have compensation for their work, however, when that work shares with a companies game there has got to be an understanding and a line between the compensation.

I highly suggest nobody partake in the creation of CC, or any form of art if their expectation is solely reliant on it becoming a stable career and for no other purpose than that. because i reiterate it CAN Become a full-time job, but you have no guarantee how long it’ll stay that way. 

If you don’t create art, and these sort of works without the motivation of pure enjoyment of the creation, I’m not sure what you’re doing. 

I never speak on things such as this and especially given this topic is a bit hot right now & may get me in trouble with some creators, just know my intentions is never to diminish the effort CC creators put into their works or to say they shouldn’t be allowed compensation; but It’s incredibly foolish to believe so many people thought this could and would always be a stable job for them 

This! You make great points, anon. Honestly I don't think paid cc is good for creators or the people consuming that cc. I have had so many creators tell me that patreon caused them more stress than it was worth. Even the ones at the top seem stressed and burned out. And now reliant on something that could be gone at any time. If this game dies out completely, or EA decides they've had enough, what then? Other modding communities aren't going to allow this, they'd throw you out on your ass for trying to monetize mods, especially cosmetic ones. Maybe second life would be an option? (I know nothing about SL lol) If anything, maybe they need to start utilizing their blender and photoshop skills in other fields in order to find something more stable that doesn't rely on a specific IP. That is to say, if they're relying on this for their entire income. Or, if they're not disabled and can do non-stay at home work, look into other career paths. Bc this could end at any moment really. But they might be working on that already and I hope they are.

[canary3d-obsessed]

Restless Rewatch: The Untamed, Episode 24 part two

(Masterpost) (Pinboard)

Warning: Spoilers for All 50 Episodes!

Arguing

After enjoying a tense  afternoon with Lan Xichen, Wei Wuxian comes home to enjoy a tense evening with Jiang Cheng. He pauses in the doorway as he takes in Jiang Cheng’s mood and decides which metaphorical mask he will put on to interact with his shidi. As someone who grew up with explosive people, I find this routine very familiar. 

Wei Wuxian is always carefully playing a role as he interacts with the people in his life. Clearly he has read the classic sociology text The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and is using it as a how-to guide. We see him do this same calculation over and over, in which he reacts internally to a situation, comes to a decision about what persona to inhabit, and then dons that persona. It’s a typical abuse survival tactic and...it is exhausting. 

This is why I think his leaving to be alone for a while in Episode 50 is a good thing. Being alone isn’t better than being with someone else, usually, but for Wei Wuxian, who is (by Episode 50) assured of love but not sure where he belongs in his own life, being by himself for a while is going to be the best thing for him. He can learn how to just be a person, instead of constantly trying to mold himself to fit everyone around him. 

For the current tense situation, Jiang Cheng is polishing his sword, which, incidentally, is slang (in English, not necessarily in Chinese) for masturbating. Which makes their conversation about how frequently it needs doing kind of a hoot. “One time a month should do,” per Wei Wuxian. 

Jiang Cheng yells at Wei Wuxian--fairly, really--for being drunk all the time and not working on clan tasks. Then he responds to a hug attempt by shoving Wei Wuxian and knocking him down. JC asks WW if he’s too drunk to manage his spiritual power. Now, we know that he doesn’t have any spiritual power to manage, and that’s the main point of this interaction. But it also shows us something else about their dynamic. 

This was just a quick hit, and when it takes WWX out, JC asks why he isn’t responding with spiritual power.  Which means that apparently *every* time Jiang Cheng gives Wei Wuxian a shove or a shoulder check, or strikes him--like he’s been doing constantly since Episode 3--he’s putting spiritual power behind it. That’s...really harsh. 

Jiang Cheng wants Wei Wuxian to fight back, and Wei Wuxian can’t; this is a big part of why their relationship breaks down. Casual blows loaded with spiritual power are part of their vocabulary, and Wei Wuxian can’t speak that language any more, even for basic defense. He’s literally not safe having simple interactions with Jiang Cheng now, because he’s secretly disabled, and Jiang Cheng is casually injuring him whenever he gets too close. 

(more after the cut!)

This time Wei Wuxian has had enough, and raises Chenqing to Jiang Cheng, who immediately backs off. Jiang Cheng has seen that thing in action, not just on the battlefield, but in a small room full of whatever remained of Wen Chao when they were done with him. He takes this as a serious threat, and backs off, disturbed and puzzled and hurt.

Jiang Cheng thinks the change in Wei Wuxian is coming from apathy, not from disability, and so he misunderstands it over and over.  Think of a friend saying “whatever, I’m sick of arguing with you, do what you want.”  Jiang Cheng is very ready to feel rejected, and not at all ready to look at Wei Wuxian’s behavior and try to actually understand it. 

Crying Over You

Wei Wuxian bails and goes to see Jiang Yanli in the ancestral hall, where she is polishing a name plaque. I turned the gamma way up to see whose it is and...I dunno. This character might be 江 (Jiang), I guess?

Jiang Yanli is the only one of the trio who knows how to mourn properly, in that she is taking some time to sit and be sad. Mourning the dead--both ritually and just in the emotional sense--is as important a part of reclaiming Lotus Pier as the training of disciples and having good times on the lake.

She asks him about his fight with Jiang Cheng and he says he’s used to fighting with him. Jiang Yanli asks him if he’s tired of living there, and Wei Wuxian deflects and deflects, saying “it’s my home, where else would I go?” and that if Jiang Fengmian hadn’t adopted him he would still be begging in the streets. He says “no matter what happens, I won’t leave Lotus Pier,” which is not an answer to her question.

It’s also not true. Like so many of his promises, it’s an expression of his wishes, with no space for the surprises real life is made of. He promises her that he won’t be reckless again, and asks her not to be mad at him. She says she can’t be mad at him, and then they share a flashback about Jiang Fengmian finding him on the street. This is a story, not a memory; Wei Wuxian can’t remember but he remembers her telling him about it. Jiang Yanli wasn’t there, in the moment. So this is her telling the story as it was told to her, probably by Jiang Fengmian. 

Flashback Time

In the flashback, picky salad-hating Wei Ying is out on the street, looking for food in a cartload of pretty okay scraps. I mean, yeah, skip the tomatoes, but most of the greens look fine.  

He’s found and fed by Jiang Fengmian, who recognizes him and decides to take him in. 

Within a couple of episodes, we will see Wei Wuxian paying this favor forward, saving someone he finds starving on the street. Just like Jiang Fengmian, he's going to upset and disrupt his family in order to help someone for whom he feels a deep connection.

During this flashback we get a look at Jiang Fengmian’s sword, and it is a beauty. 

What is Love

As the flashback ends, Wei Wuxian is smiling, hearing Jiang Yanli tell this touching story of starvation and orphanhood. She tells him he was born with a smiling face, and that he never minds much about sorrowful things; no matter how bad the situation is, he is always happy. Way to reinforce that metaphorical mask he’s wearing over his deep, deep despair, sis!

They talk a bit about Jiang Cheng’s bad temper.  Then Jiang Yanli says now that her parents are gone, they three are the closest in the world, and he responds by putting his head down on her knee and theatrically saying he’s hungry. But he’s crying for real, and so is she.

Then he decides to ask her why people fall in love, basically, and claims that he does not have anyone in his heart. He says there’s no need to like a person that much, that it’s like “haltering your own neck,” according to Netflix. Let’s have a look at that figurative language for a second, and what’s missing from the Neflix translation. 

What he says is (as near as my qhanzi.com skills can make out) “這不就是自己給自己脖子上套犁拴韁吗” which Google tells me means "Isn't this just putting a plow on my neck with a rein?" The part of the image that’s missing from Netflix subs is the plow, and the hard labor and animal servitude involved in pulling a plow. This isn’t a pro-romance image.

He’s clearly thinking about Lan Wangji when he lies about having no-one in his heart, but right now the yoke that he wants to escape has nothing to do with Lan Wangji. The person he’s harnessed to in a team, the person who he labors with, the person he wants to escape, is Jiang Cheng.  What’s chafing his neck is the promise he made, to stay and serve as one half of a pair, when he can no longer pull his weight. 

Busted

Speaking of Jiang Cheng, he is hanging around outside the shrine, listening to the conversation. Wei Wuxian busts him, pointing out not that eavesdropping is bad, but that it’s bad for grownups. Jiang Cheng points out that he’s the master of Lotus Pier so he’s allowed to go anywhere he wants.

(I love how he looks framed by this giant lotus behind him)

We Wuxian has another of those moments where he assesses the best approach to Jiang Cheng before responding. 

Then he picks a fake fight with him about soup.  Yanli comes out and tells them both to grow up, saying that JC is losing his demeanor as clan leader. He jokingly fixes his already-perfect robe ad they all have a chuckle.

Then Jiang Cheng reminds Wei Wuxian of his promise for the millionth time, and Jiang Yanli goes to make soup for the millionth time. As soon as the boys see that she’s gone, the smiles drop right off of their faces. They’re both performing their typical relationship dynamic for Jiang Yanli.

Being Reasonable

The brothers repair to the main hall, and stand behind the lotus throne looking out of this complicated wall/doorway thingy, while they talk about Jiang Yanli and Jin Zixuan. 

Jiang Cheng is being mature and sensible here, trying to give Jiang Yanli what she wants and also explaining very, very basic political stuff to Wei Wuxian, who is too caught up in his hate boner for JZX to want to think about the bigger picture. He also thinks that Jin Guangyao is a nicer person, but Jiang Cheng says that nice doesn’t matter.  

Wei Wuxian is getting a full head of steam going about what a jerk JZX is, when Jiang Cheng makes him actually stop and think, by pointing out that it’s not for them to forgive or not forgive Jin Zixuan’s past behavior; it’s up to Yanli.

Wei Wuxian sees the reasoning in this, and starts to say he can’t understand why Yanli chose to like this person, but then he stops himself and goes through a rapid series of thoughtful, uncomfortable expressions. 

Perhaps he’s realizing that he himself has chosen to like an infamously stuck-up, fancy cultivator, albeit one with no soup-related character deficits.

Library Time

The stuck-up cultivator in question is currently in the Cloud Recesses library, where he has snuck into the forbidden books room, against his uncle’s express command, for the purpose of helping Wei Wuxian. The forbidden books room is an entire basement floor of the library; it probably has more books than the not-forbidden part of the library, since the main floor needs space for the restrooms, circulation desk, and copy machines.

(Did OP photoshop the Wangxian-in-the-Library porn picture onto Lan Wangjis’ book? She did.)

A couple of other Lans come along and see the main door unlocked. The lock is a big fish that probably uses magic for locking; it definitely doesn’t use a key. One of them steps in the doorway, glances back and forth without walking through, and does not check the secret door to the forbidden vault. Gosh, how did Su She and/or Jin Guangyao  ever manage to steal secrets from this highly secure location, wow.

Lan Wangji hears the Lan disciple on guard duty say “don’t tell Hanguang Jun about this!’ and has a series of microexpressions that might indicate some kind of feeling about simultaneously being a rule breaker and a rule enforcer.  

Boat Time

We end with an idyllic scene on the lake in Lotus pier, where a new batch of disciples is harvesting lotuses and learning the opposite of boat safety. 

Jiang Yanli and Wei Wuxian are having a good time, and seem utterly carefree; both of them are good at living in the moment, or faking it. 

Wei Wuxian thinks, in voiceover, that it seems that it’s not so hard to go back to the old days. Uh...ok.

Except he’s hiding a massive secret and these replacement kids are not the same juniors he used to hang out with, and he can’t actually teach them cultivation, since he has no socially-acceptable magic power, and everything is about to go to shit in the next episode. But you gotta take your joy where you can, I guess. 

Note: There are a lot of questionable effects in The Untamed, but there are also beautiful scenes like this one, which looks like a Maxfield Parrish painting. Compare with the BTS below and you can see what a good job the VFX team did in bringing this lake to life. 

[melodyalanaroster]

Dear @chinomiko,

When I first started playing My Candy Love on New Year’s Day in 2013, I was simply a 17 year old girl who was starting the second half of my Senior Year in High School. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and I certainly had no idea where I’d end up. At the time, I was just looking for a new anime style site to call my internet home after the destruction of TinierMe. In my search, I stumbled upon your site. I had never played a dating simulator before, and I fell for your art style, so I decided to give the site a shot. It didn’t take me long to bond with Nathaniel... He was a kind young man, who loved to read, and had a tortured home life... Even though the torture at home was different between him and me, I still felt like I had found a character I could recognize... Hell, I did the same thing with Ken... My bond with Nathaniel was just so much deeper... 

Then I graduated High School... I had no college prospects, and no idea what I even wanted to go to college for (still entirely don’t know).... My issues at home were getting worse, my love life was far from perfect, and living in Texas can be kind of ruthless on those who aren’t following the status quo... Even with going to the United Kingdom for 5 weeks, things still didn’t get better... And of course, the death of my childhood cat, Luna, in 2014 made things worse... So, I started focusing my free time on the game.... Working like crazy to get up to date with the episodes and bonus episodes, editing pics, and even writing fanfics... It became my escape from real life.

That did not change when I met the love of my real life in 2015. Despite entering into a relationship that is still going strong, I needed an escape from the hell my abuser was putting my family and me through, from the shitty job that I had gotten (and still have as of this letter), and from the hell that a really rare disease that had kicked on in my mother’s immune system had begun to put her and my family through. No amount of talking to people in my inner circle in real life helped... And there were times where it felt like the only emotions I knew were anger, sadness, and fear... It was during this time that my main MCL OC, Melody Alana Roster, came to life as what she is today... A strong, smart, beautiful, powerful, woman who goes through some of the worst hell imaginable and ends up living a life of peace with the man she loves (Nathaniel).... When my abuser’s time in my family’s and my life was ending and she was going “all out” on me? I thought of what Alana and Nathaniel would be doing during the newest episode of the game. My job putting me through mental and physical hell (it’s a very demanding job)? I daydreamed about Nathaniel and Alana. My mother’s disease progressing and making my mother put my grandmother and me through hell? I would go in my room and write a section of my story or edit a pic when I could. Hell, My Candy Love became so prominent in my life as an escape that when my abuser’s daughter came back at me (this time with my boyfriend’s ex friend), one of the things she’d say to me was “All you do is sit in your room and write fanfiction.”... I needed something and My Candy Love and it’s fandom was something I enjoyed that kept me in my room (where I felt safe)... To this day, my boyfriend understands why I’ve put so much time and effort into it... Why I’ve spent so much money on it (AP, Gold, commissioned pics, and items)... It was a light in what felt like a sea of darkness in my life...

Now, I’m going to clarify something here... What is written in the last paragraph took place over the course of 5 years... Of course, when I get to the point of 2020, its easy to guess some of the reasons why I continued to focus on My Candy Love... However, I have an added reason.... Not only did the pandemic bitch slap Texas mid March, but about a week before that happened, on March 10th, my mother succumbed to the secondary infection brought on by her disease... And I had to grieve... Of course, when the pandemic hit about week later, I was told by society that I didn’t have time to grieve... As I am a grocery store worker... Which, I still tried to use My Candy Love as a means of escape... It felt like life was going “Yeah, you’re free from your mom’s disease, now here’s one that YOU could bring home to your grandparents and kill them with simply by going to work!”... Because, I’m sure even you know how poorly America has handled the pandemic... And Texas is one of the worst states when it comes to that...

I’m not saying this to make you feel sorry for me... Not in the slightest... I’ve leaned on my family, friends, and boyfriend for everything, so it’s not JUST My Candy Love that got me through all of this... I’m telling you this because My Candy Love and what I’ve done for it has helped me with it all immensely. I thought I had lost my passion for writing while I was still in school, even though my favorite teacher was encouraging me to continue... And here I am still writing my MCL fanfiction... Not only am I still writing my fanfic, I’m getting it turned into 1 copy of an actual book for my shelf when I’m done... When I took photography in High School and wasn’t good at photoshop, I thought it would never be a skill I’d use... And, yet, over the course of my time with MCL, my photo editing skills have improved DRASTICALLY... Sure, I can’t really edit real life photos... But I can make stuff for MCL avatars and such...

I mean, if someone had told me 8 years ago that I’d be so invested in this game that I’d have a body pillow of my favorite love interest, a folder of commissioned art, a blog with over 1,300 followers, an Instagram with nearly 300 followers, a custom plushie of my favorite love interest, a Discord Server with around 200 people in it... That I’d be the Vice President/Club Photographer of the US version of a fan club... That I’d make friends throughout the world in the fandom... That my editing skills would become as good as they are now... That I’d be working on the biggest writing project I’ve EVER worked on... And that I’d cry at the last episode the same way I cried during the Season 8 finale of Scrubs, the series finale of iCarly, Matt Smith’s regeneration in Doctor Who and the ending of Deathly Hallows Part 2... I would have told them that they’re crazy....

Yet... Here I am... I’m turning 26 years old in July... And all of that has happened... In real life, I’m still dealing with the pandemic, I’ve celebrated my 5 year anniversary with my boyfriend, and I’m even preparing to move in with him... Yet, online, I’m still VERY invested in your game. I’m still a long way from finishing my OC’s story... I still want to edit pics for Nathaniel and Alana... And I’m going to be contemplating playing the new game for a while... I’ll still play events... As long as Nathaniel is around, I’ll be there to greet him with a smile... But I don’t know about your new project...

All that being said.... There’s one MAJOR thing I’d like to say to you, Chino....

THANK YOU!

Thank you for everything! For all your hard work in this story... It’s far from perfect, but I still enjoyed the majority of it... For creating Nathaniel, the holder of my 2D heart.... Seriously, thank you for creating him... I have anime crushes, but I don’t love them as deeply as I love Nath.... Thank you for your art! Its amazing! You’re in my top 3 favorite digital artists... The others being Drachea Rannak and Marco Albiero... Thank you for all the work you continue to put into the game that a lot of us have, kind of, grown up with.... I wasn’t really a kid when I started playing, but I do consider myself to have “grown up” with it... Thank you for all of the other love interests... For Castiel, Kentin, Armin, Lysander, Priya, Rayan and Hyun... They’re not the ones I love most, but they’re all interesting characters... Thank you for Candy... While she and Alana greatly differ from each other, Candy was the heroine in a story that gave birth to Alana... Candy is far from perfect, but I’m glad her story ended well.... Thank you for creating the game that brought this fandom into existence... While the fandom can be VERY toxic at times, there are a lot of amazing people in it... They have become some of my dearest friends...

While the entire My Candy Love team at Beemoov deserves my gratitude... I feel like you are the most deserving of it... Because, without you, My Candy Love would not exist.

I look forward to seeing My Candy Love’s future... Either from the sidelines, or from the middle of it... I will see it’s future...

Thank you ChiNoMiko.

All my love and respect,

Melody Alana Roster