#Claytalkstoomuch

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hows it going!!?

I just saw this ask from AUGUST and lemme just say,,,

I AM SO SORRY DUDE

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Love a good cheat sheet

art cheats

hello i am here today to not lose track of the art cheats i have discovered over the years. what i call art cheat is actually a cool filter/coloring style/way to shade/etc. that singlehandedly makes art like 20 times better

80’s anime style

glitch effect

glow effects

adding colors to grayscale paintings

foreshortening ( coil )

foreshortening ( perspective )

clipping group (lines)

clipping group (colors)

dramatic lighting ( GOOD )

shading metal

lighting faces

that is all for today, do stay tuned as i am always hunting for cool shit like this

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YOUR BACK HOW YOU DOING???

PPRETTY GOOD BRO!!! I got a job and some new special interests but im doin good

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So i know Junkrat and Moira are about the same height but like, Moira feels much taller and Junkrat feels much shorter. Junkrat has tiny gremlin man energy, like i can definitely see him clambering through vents and sitting in cabinets for the chaos, and Moira is definitely a B.E.S.T. Lady (big evil sexy tall lady), and she has quite the Dimitrescu energy. I honestly to god think junkrat should be No Taller than 5’5 and Moira cannot be under 6’8

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Ok so is there a Sapphic version of Call Me By Your Name by Lil Nas X or do i have to do it myself

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SPECIAL THANKS TO THE RAREPAIRS WRITERS(i know they were mentioned but they deserve it), Y’ALL ARE WHY I DO WHAT I DO

This is an appreciation post for the fanfic authors who aren’t included on rec lists

For the fanfic authors who don’t get art of their fics

For the fanfic authors who can’t get to 1000/500/100 hits

For the fanfic authors who don’t get comments/reviews

For the fanfic authors who write for small fandoms

For the fanfic authors who write rarepairs or gen fics

For the fanfic authors who get hate for the ships/characters/fandoms they write

For the fanfic authors who write in English despite it not being their first language

For the fanfic authors who don’t write in English

For the fanfic authors who don’t think anyone reads or likes their work

For the fanfic authors who aren’t big name fans

For the fanfic authors who don’t get requests in their inboxes

For the fanfic authors who can’t write stories that are more than a thousand words

For the fanfic authors who only write one ship

For the fanfic authors who are just starting

For the fanfic authors who have been writing fic for years

For the fanfic authors who use fanfic to practice writing

For the fanfic authors who write self-insert fics

For the fanfic authors who write about their OCs

For the fanfic authors who write to vent or cope

For the fanfic authors who are just waiting for their big break

Keep creating, I love you ❤️

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i leave the overwatch fandom for 6 months and Mchanzo became Hole wtf is happening

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Someone has to say it: Bokuto and Yachi’s friendship is both mlm/wlw solidarity and himbo/smart lesbian solidarity. Thats all.

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Ship Based Hate

Spoilers under the cut lol Hey Hi Hello Y’all

so i was just browsing Danganronpa content on this hellsite, as you do, when i came across something that i realized is a problem.

Ship Based Hate

it started because I wanted to look at Gonta ships. I am, as you all should know or will come to find out, a multishipper. Its sorta my brand. So i was scrolling through various ship tags for Gonta, most of them a bit short, lacking in content, but cute nonetheless. Then i went to OuGoku. If you dont know, OuGoku is the ship between Gonta Gokuhara and Kokichi Ouma. Its pretty cute in my opinion, and has a pretty solid fanbase.

But i started seeing various, almost random hateposts about it. Saying things like “this ship makes me wanna throw up” or “if you ship this you are toxic and should die”. Reoccuring posts all dedicated to the hatred of this ship. This is not the only Ship for which this happens either. Things like KomeNami, and even Naegiri get hate like this.

If you are not aware, as i was not before now, there are people who dedicate themselves to hating these ships, among others, because its “toxic”.

I personally dont consider this toxic, as in the case if OuGoku they were genuinely friends towards the end of the line, two people who cared for eachother. The biggest issue is that Kokichi manipulated Gonta into killing Mui, a plan that he thought would work, but instead got Gonta executed.

I feel like people forgot a few details, like the fact that both of them thought the plan would work, that Gonta, though Gullible, is still an Adult human being capable of making decisions for himself, and that Mui was going to get everyone killed if they did not go through with their plan.

The biggest one though, is a concept that this fandom seems to forget a lot. No Ship is Non-Toxic If Developed In A Killing Game.

its that simple. The mental and emotional stress put on a bunch of barely adults— who are locked away from society, never to escape unless they kill a peer and get away with it— is ASTOUNDING. The fact that you genuinely think a functional and emotionally stable relationship can bloom under such conditions is foolish and naive at best. So to hate someone based off of a ship and their interactions during a killing game is just plain stupid!

The trick to overcoming such stupid hatred is this: Think about the relationship outside the killing game.

And no, I’m not talking about the Pregame version of the character either. Take thses charcters as they are, outside of the killing game. Is it really as toxic as you say it is?

Okay, and yes, some ships are bad regardless, like Junko and Mikan, which is just straight up abuse, or Kazuichi and Sonia, in which one person is aimlessly pinning and somewhat inappropriate to the second party, who has no feelings whatsoever. But most ships aren’t like that.

And after all this, yes, you still have the right to ship who you want, and vice versa, but needless “ship hate posts“ is really dumb. Nobody is forcing you to consume said content. If you dont like, dont look/read. Its really that simple.

Anyway this is my longest post so far, but whatever lol. Drink water babes.

Ciao for Now

-Clay :3

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This is especially true for girls and POC, as some doctors will misdiagnose or straight up ignore symptoms, because they dont believe these people can have certain things. Not only that, but diagnosis is pricey, and not everyone can pay that. Be mindful.

a while ago i attended this lecture on autism. guy in the audience said he had many of the symptoms that were presented and asked what should he do to get treatment and possibly a diagnosis. instead of answering his question the psychologist went on a tangent about how “the clinic reigns all powerful over guesswork”, and how actually it has become a trend amongst little children on the internet to claim that they are autistic for cool points, and that this hurts real autistic people. no she didn’t tell him how to get his symptoms looked into, she just made it very clear that to her, aknowledging your own symptoms is bad and evil and hurts the poor real mentally ill people.

an ex-friend of mine, then a psychology major and by now probably a full psychologist, once lectured me on how horrible and bad it was that i told her “i probably have some sort of neurodivergency”, and that if i were her patient she would never give me a diagnosis because “you aren’t like this now, but i know that if you get a diagnosis you’ll use it as an excuse to start treating people badly. that’s just how mentally ill people are.”

same ex-friend was extremely disgusted when she found out that fans sometimes make neurodivergency headcanons for characters that have the same symptoms as they do, and that authors sometimes write books with neurodivergent protagonists in stories that don’t focus on that (ex: she seemed horrified that percy jackson has adhd?)

multiple psychologists i’ve seen on facebook agree that they should refuse to treat patients that say “i’m here because i have symptoms of a disorder and wonder if i have it”, and that a patient should arrive to a psychologist as a blank slate.

school psychologist asked me how i was feeling about my trauma situation and i told him i thought my friends would leave me. instead of addressing the issue he said that that no i didn’t, that i was lying, that i had searched “bpd symptoms” online and now i was faking symptoms because i wanted to have bpd, that he shouldn’t have told me he suspected i had a personality disorder because now look what was happening. no, i didn’t search bpd symptoms online. yes, my friends left me, it was a completely founded belief and not a symptom, let alone a faked symptom.

so the next time you hear someone saying they’re “anti self-diagnosis” i want you to understand what they’re saying. what they’re saying is:

- i don’t want people to be aware of their own symptoms

- i don’t think my patients should have access to any information that doesn’t come from me

- i don’t think neurodivergent people should learn how to cope with their symptoms and live “normal” lives

- i think neurodivergent people should be denied a diagnosis because the moment they get one they will become evil and dangerous

- i don’t think people who don’t look like a stereotype could possibly be neurodivergent, even if they have all the symptoms, so i think they are faking it for attention and should be denied treatment

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to all the moots

I’m still alive

and i still love y’all

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Oumeno is good and valid because they are both chaotic but in opposite directions

thanks for coming to my ted talk

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Im gonna check the BakuDeku tag for the first time since 2018 wish me luck y’all

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Btw, the bible is only like 780k words.

When reading fanfic keep in mind that for professional literature: 

Short story: under 7,500

Novelette: between 7,500 and 17,500

Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000

Novel: over 40,000

Fics over 40k are literally a novel written and shared for free.  If you have written a 40k+ fic, you have literally written a novel.

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Lets talks shit about dr character design! I’m your host, Clay, and these are todays subjects:

Today we have 2 really good ones and one VERY bad one. Kaede and Teruteru have some of my favorite character designs and Tenko has one of the most confusing ones. Lets analyze:

Teruteru:

-First of all, if i see any Teru hate I’m blocking you. Its fine if you dislike him but if you hate him but like Mui then just say you hate fat people and go

-Second of all: LOOK AT HIM!!!

-He is designed very well, you can tell excatly what his Ultimate is.

-And that what good character design does, it gives away some of the most important information about a character

-They also incorporated 2 different time periods

-Teruteru’s outfit is inspired by both modern and 1920’s chefwear. Its a nice reference to his almost Trans-Atlantic New Orleans-like accent. - i didn’t talk about color palette much in the last one but i must say, this is a great example of a good palette. It has a great ratio of dark-meduim-light and it doesn’t get muddied at all

-10/10 character design

Kaede:

-Much like teruteru, very decipherable character design

-i could show it to anyone and they would guess some type of classical musician

-fantastic color palette

-my only complaint is that the skirt is too dark to see the beautiful sheet music pattern

-the vest and the skirt should swap colors

-besides that i have no complaints, its literally one of my favorites

-8/10 character design

Tenko:

-where do i even begin

-lets start with the outfit

-what in the actual FUCK is she wearing

-its a weird two-piece sailor style playsuit with a double layer mini-circle skirt

-that would be a really cute ensemble for the Ultimate Sailor, but shes not even sailor adjacent. She does neo-aikido.

-How tf is she gonna do any aikido with flashing her undies to the victim as well as any onlookers?

-And wtf is that hair thing????

-Chicka needs a redesign asap, so heres the idea:

-first off, ditch the color palette, its shit

-its all midtones, so its really muddy

-This is a better color palette that is similar to the original, but has more contrast

-Aikido is usually done in a Hakama

-These can be any color (or as far as my research shows) so the bottom part can be the blue and the top can be the lighter mint green

-the socks and shoes can stay (they are proper aikido wear)

-Next she should fuckin trash the plant that seems to be growing out her head

-The silhouette can be mimicked by doing only two of those bow things instead of four

-the darker green color from the palette i picked will replace the original color. the flower pattern would be removed

-flower hair pins in the purple color and the burgundy color could replace the purple headband

-and a single braid going down is not only a hairdo we have yet to see on a dr girl, but it also would complete the look.

-this one is one of my least favorite (but i do like tenko)

-1/10 character design

Thats a wrap! If you have a character you wanna see, just drop it in my inbox! Requests are open, rules in my pinned post. Remember to drink water, and Ciao for now.

-Clay :3

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I have a tendency to accidentally associate music with characters and sometimes its really good like Astrid from HTTYD is Aint it fun by Paramore but sometimes its weird like Music Make You Lose Control Vocoded to Gansta’s Paradise is Iida for some reason