#I hope this helps!!!

[lilbittymonster]

how would a complete complete beginner get into gpose? like how to make npcs appear and pose my oc with them?

love your blorbos and the triad and your gposes and writing btw. thank you and pls keep creating <333

Hi, anon! Thank you so much, that's so sweet 💜

So, I may have gotten a little carried away, but I wanted to be thorough responding and I thank you for your patience. This is going under a readmore out of courtesy to the dashboard.

To start out you'll need to download some stuff.

Programs

Anamnesis:

Install: download

This is an entirely self-contained program, and you could technically stop here and do all your posing from Anamnesis, I know several people who prefer it. It’s perfect for posing with humanoid models, minions, and mob creatures.

The biggest downside is that if you don’t have a second monitor (or have a really small screen like I do), it’s going to get in the way of a lot of your posing. It gets pretty fiddly having to readjust the camera around the doll and move the screen aside so you can see what you’re doing. So if that’s going to be an issue for you, I would also recommend using….

Ktisis:

Install: download

You will also need to install the FFXIVQuicklauncher, which is linked in the Ktisis instructions. It’s a bit more work to set up, but if you think you’ll want to try out using mods, Penumbra works on the same framework and this will save you a bit of hassle later on.

Ktisis operates within gpose from a little dropdown bar on the side of your screen, and the biggest difference is that it puts the skeleton directly over the models in 3D instead of a flat view. It does still have a flat view option, but I am much more 3D oriented so having the skeleton visible right under my cursor works better for me. It’s also helpful for showing all the special bones on monsters and bosses that Anam doesn’t!

I am also currently using the testing build version of Ktisis as it offers the ability to select multiple bones at a time, which I don’t believe the current public release has. This can be turned on by right clicking on the plugin and selecting “receive plugin testing versions”.

There is a third posing program called Brio, and it requires the same level of install as Ktisis, but I personally don’t like using it. I find the posing interface unwieldy and at a beginner level, it really cannot offer you anything that Anamnesis and Ktisis already don’t. The only thing it would be absolutely necessary for is to spawn in actors through Anamnesis.

So now that we’ve got the programs installed, time to get some actors in here.

Importing Characters

You can get characters into gpose one of two ways. You can rock it old school and load a character file onto a pre-existing model, or you can spawn a new one digitally within gpose.

Old School Method:

Use an overworld model! I’m just going to borrow this Temple Knight real quick-

-and now I have successfully freed Aymeric from his office. Time for a lunch date!

If you don’t have any overworld models to use, like in instanced areas such as dungeons, you can use a carbuncle instead.

Using the powers of arcanima-

-I have now brought Estinien into the realm of the Fuath. And he thought the moogles were bad...

New School Method:

In the Ktisis testing workspace, there’s a little plus icon at the bottom left hand corner.

“Create new actor” will make a clone of your model with all the same gear and physical appearances. You can then load a character file onto that of your choice, or you can customise it from there. “Import actor from file” will skip right ahead to loading in a premade character file you’ve saved as it spawns a new model.

Importing/Exporting Character Files

Character files are how your appearance, gear, and weapons are all stored to be loaded in onto an actor. These will appear in your program save files as a .chara file. Anamnesis and Ktisis should create their own save files and will automatically save character and pose information to those locations. You can also check to see that they saved correctly by opening up your files directory and tracing the file paths.

In the “Character” tab in Anamnesis, select the actor of your choice, hit “Import”, and select your file. The dropdown menu gives you some options for what specific parts of a character file you want to import. There’s also the option to import game NPCs.

In Ktisis, right click the actor and select “Import…” then “Character”.

This will bring up the import screen, where you have the same choice between files saved to your computer or NPCs from the game.

Changing Gear

Changing gear can be done through Anamnesis simply by clicking on the item slot in the appearance tab, and you’ll get a list of everything that can be equipped into that slot. Ktisis will require you to right click on an actor and select “Edit appearance” before giving you a similar menu.

This is one of Anamnesis’ biggest selling points because it has the most robust gear filtering and search system of the three posing programs. You can filter by class, job, race/genderlocked gear, items that are Mogstation purchases, and save favourites to the top of each list.

Ktisis and Brio do not have this feature, so I really recommend doing all of your gear searching through Anamnesis unless you know exactly what the gear piece is called.

If you change your mind mid-pose that you want a different piece of gear, changing the equipment in Ktisis will not break the pose, but trying through Anamnesis will.

Posing

Now that you’ve got your dolls in place, it’s time to actually start posing! Like I said above, Anamnesis is mostly a flat view of the skeleton, and Ktisis has the skeleton visible in 3D on the model, so choose which format works with your brain easiest. (And they both can swap formats as well.)

The red/blue/green gizmo is the same across all three posing programs, and comes in three modes; rotate, position, and scale. Body bones will all be manipulated through rotation. Scaling can be done if you want to change how a body part looks and is especially helpful for fixing elbows. Facial bones, however, will need to be moved in position mode due to the new graphical update. And this is really why I recommend you use Ktisis testing build as this gives you the ability to select multiple bones at once to move in tandem.

The easiest way to start learning to pose is by modifying the existing emotes and actions. Cycle through the various emotes and job actions to find something that gets you close to what you want, and then make minor tweaks from there. It’s not impossible to pose from a base standing idle, but it is a pain and takes a lot longer.

Before you can start repositioning bones, you’ll need to toggle “Posing Mode” on. In Anamnesis, this is in the “Pose” tab, and in Ktisis it’s the red/green toggle at the top. You’ll also need to pause character movement in gpose (freeze character).

If you plan on moving models around in the XYZ coordinates instead of leaving them where they are in gpose (especially since the digital actors will spawn directly on top of you), you will need to freeze positions as well. This is found in the top right corner of the “Action” tab in Anamnesis.

In Ktisis, the "Freeze Positions" button is under the character editor. Right click on your character, choose "Edit appearance", then under the animation tab (third from the left), check "Freeze Positions".

Importing/Exporting Poses

Another place where Ananmesis shines is having all of the vanilla pose variations for all of the races and genders available as pose files to be uploaded. This is in the second file button, underneath the list of your original files.

Note: All default expressions currently in Anamnesis are out of date. Take the time to go through the expressions in gpose and save each face individually to be loaded on separately as expressions.

This is the same process as importing/exporting characters. Poses will be saved as a .pose file to the program of your choice. If you’ve downloaded pre-made poses from someone else, make sure they’re in the program files and not your downloads folder just to keep everything in one place.

Note: Pose files from before Dawntrail will break expressions. These should only be imported on body bones.

Loading Select Bones

You can piece together new poses using bits of old ones, too! In Ananmesis, click and drag to highlight the parts you want to transfer (it can be a little finnicky around the hands/hips.)

And in Ktisis, right click select down the list of bones you want to use.

Expressions will always need to be loaded onto a model as selected bones. Anamnesis has the “Expression” option, which will automatically select all the bones on the head parent.

Ktisis will need to have the “Face” option ticked on the “Import Pose” if you’re importing from the actor’s name. If you’ve clicked the parent you want to apply it to, it will automatically tick “Apply selected bones”.

The ideal order of operations is Load Actors > Load Gear > Posing Mode.

Miscellaneous Tips and Tricks

-Ktisis lets you import reference images now! In the same place as importing a new character, you can import a reference image to be on the screen with you instead of tabbing between the game and browser.

-If you like the pose you get while riding a particular mount and think “wow I wish I could have that as a normal sit pose” you can just fire up your program of choice, freeze motion, and save the bones! My personal fave is the sit from the hippo cart mount.

-Don’t rotate your model from the root bone (the one that’s named after the actor), rotate from the abdomen. This will still move your whole actor without compromising the XYZ alignment. Think of the root bone as the little plastic support stand for an action figure you’d put on a shelf. You can pose the action figure however you want, but the plastic stand still has to stay touching the table.

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That’s it for what I would consider getting started with. A lot of this is stuff I’ve had to learn myself or piecemeal together from various people, so I hope it’s not too overwhelming, but if I can save someone else the hassle I went through then I will!

My final piece of advice is to remember that this is supposed to be fun. If it’s starting to become not fun, take a break and do something else that isn’t gposing for a bit and come back to it.

Wishing you the best of luck in your gposing journey!

[moonchild-in-blue]

Hello! I'm sorry if this sounds weird, but, I'm new to the st community here (ran away from twt lol), and I'm wondering if there's any specific blogs that do specific things that I should catch onto? Like, blogs that do lyric analysis, lore chat, art etc?

I've been following you for a while, and I've been trying to interact with blogs that come up a lot, but admittedly I'm a bit lost lmao

Again, sorry if this is a weird ask, and doubly sorry if this is something you've already been asked before!

Hello anon!! Don't worry about the questions, I'm always happy to help, even if I have answered before!

We don't really have "specific blogs" around here as per se. There's @sleepanonymous who's the resident Librarian/Archivist/Knowledge Keeper, and then there are some blogs that do exclusively fanart and fanfiction.

Otherwise we're all a mix of everything. Most of us do a mix of lore theories / analysis / fanart / shitpost. Since the band itself doesn't have an "actual" set lore, you'll find a lot of different takes for the same songs / themes. I think we all have our own takes on the storyline, so it's really nice to read everyone's different opinions. Please feel free to join the conversation!

I have a tag specifically for ST lore on my pinned post, if you want to take a look at that!

@melit0n @undekaying @foundationsofdecay @lovingache @hookedhobbies @fivewholeminutes @thevenomousseprent are some lovely lovely people that do/have done lore / lyric analysis (and myself lol).

@leonsleftbicep @ghxstly-death do frequent headcanons if that's more your speed (and fantastic fanart as well). Not gonna be tagging all the ST artists cus I'd never shut up - everyone is so talented lmao.

Other general ST "heavy" blogs that you should follow (aka the people i interact with the most and can atest to how wonderful they are) - @murderofcrow @a-s-levynn @thejawsoffate @polteergeistt @eepymonstrr @takemetoasgard @sleeby-vessel @vesselsscarlet @tonguetyd @lifemod17 @littlequeenofthemangoes @channelsoph @foxgloveinspace and I know I'm forgetting a lot of blogs oof

If you browse through the main tags, and the lore tags, you'll find a lot more people and content to interact with! I know I'm forgetting a million different lovely individuals lmao, I'M SORRY GUYS. So if you see this, say hi and share your stuff!!

[junglemax]

Where do you watch aew? Sincerely a mutual who has seen you post about these guys for over a year and is interested in checking them out

i have cable, so they’re on tnt + tbs! tbs on Wednesday, tnt Friday and Saturday (i think both are on tnt snskdb) so aew rampage is on tonight starting at 10! if you get fite/trillertv you can buy a subscription to watch there, and if you wanna watch older + newer stuff that gets updated pretty regularly (so you’ll be able to watch what’s happening currently, just not right when it comes out) you can go to watchprowrestling (dot) co!

ALSO it’s abt to start streaming on MAX next year!!! so you’ll be able to watch if u have a subscription to that too!!!

[turnipoddity]

Hi! I really wanted to start my own art account somewhere. How did you grow your popularity? Where should I start posting first? Thank you!!

hi anon!! I started right here on tumblr on… 2015 i think? and then i made instagram and twitter (turns out i dont really like instagram that much. Thats why you rarely see me post there lmao)

I truly don’t understand how to attract an audience it just sort of happened..? I couldn’t tell which post could be a banger or flop lmfao

I just made this blog to share my art!! And I’m so so lucky that some people happens to like them! I think with “i’m doing this for fun” is a good mindset for it, bc truly i think luck has a big factor in it, don’t think too much about the numbers, just have fun!!! 🥰❤️✨

[fagmolloy]

how did you get into and start birth chart reading? are there any resources you would recommend? i want to read my own birth chart it just seems very complicated

so i actually got into astrology when i was like. 12? i didn't know what i was doing back then, and my interest faded in and out until a few years ago when i started getting into the astrology podcast, hosted by chris brennan. they have an awesome series of videos that explain the very basics of astrology from understanding the zodiac signs to the twelve houses to the planetary meanings and archetypes. starting with these three facets is kind of like getting down the ABCs—once you know what a planet does, you can figure out how it expresses itself through a certain zodiac sign or what area of life it expresses itself in most through the houses!

for beginners wanting to know more about your own chart, chani nicholas' book "You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance and Living Your Purpose" walks you through your chart's placements and explains a little bit of what they mean. chani has i think an offer code for 30 days free right now for the premium version of her app, which also provides a birth chart interpretation.

for intermediates wanting to know more about astrology in general, i love to recommend demetra george's "astrology for the authentic self" as she guides you through further traditional and modern techniques, such as essential dignities. she's one of my fav astrologers on this earth!! same goes for alice sparkly kat, who has an archive of interesting astrology posts on their website that i love to reference on my substack (as well as a $2/month club for extra content).

[bigbluehovse]

Do you know where a good place is to find Bear in the Big Blue house merch? My 1 yo is obsessed with the show and I'd like to try and get the album or some of the seasons if possible. He also loves to fall asleep to Go to bed, Sleepyhead and I can't find a good version of it

Hi! Mercari has become my go-to for merch actually! eBay is also pretty reliable (it’s best for DVDs/VHS tapes), but I’ve had better luck on Mercari recently + their interface is friendlier imo

Here are some DVDs available (1, 2, 3, 4)

The CDs tend to get REALLY expensive, but here’s one at a reasonable(ish) price

Here’s a bear plush, a big bear plush (missing his nose color, but that’s normal for these guys), a BitBBH plate/bowl, a puzzle, a toy piano, and a couple books

Also, here is a link to the Internet Archive upload of Go to Bed, Sleepy Head! to download it, click “VBR MP3” under “DOWNLOAD OPTIONS” — this should take you to a black browser page with a plain MP3 player. Right click on the player, then click “Save Audio As…”

That should allow you to save the audio on your desktop ^_^ (on Mac at least, I’m assuming the steps are similar on Windows)

[phatcatphergus]

How do you vod watch while the stream is still going on 😭😭😭 pls I beg, I went to sleep and the equivalent of America being discovered happened

I gotchu pookie

If you go to his profile on twitch while he’s live you can go to videos where vods are and watch the vod for the current stream. The vod won’t have a thumbnail and will just have a camera icon or smth instead. It will only be as long as the stream has been so if you get caught up to where you started the vod while the stream was going it’ll stop.

[ophernelia]

i know you make a lot of ur cc and i wanted to ask you something. if you can help me i’d appreciate or if you could direct me to someone who can.

i’m trying to make a custom outfit using another cc mesh. Don’t worry i’m not uploading it or anything, I just want to put it on my sim. all i wanted to do was add another swatch that just had another color of the shirt. I downloaded the texture and added what i wanted on it. When I go back to my projects in TS4 studio and click on the original mesh and try to add the new swatch. the sim turns into these white and gray pixels instead of the regular plain sim. The new mesh is there and looks good but when I went to put it on my sim he turned white. How can I get it to look normal?

Oh yeah I can help! You just gotta export it with a transparent background after you edit it. Idk what you're using to edit it, so idk what settings you have to change to make the background transparent. I just did an edit so I'll show you an example. When you save the image it should look like the image on the right, not the one on the left. Otherwise the white background will overlay the rest of the sim map which turns everything on them white. Oh and make sure you export it as a png with the same dimensions of the original texture.

[rekikiri]

Hey, I've been thinking about reading all for the game but I really don't know if it would be my kind of books. Would you like to try to convince me? What is it about? (themes, vibes, similar books...) (the synopsis doesn't really tell me anything)

Hi okay! I’m going to preface this entire thing with read the content warnings before you decide if you want to continue. Here is a list of all the content warnings and here is a spoiler free list.

If you have read the warnings and still would like to proceed, here are some of my favorite things and reasons id give for why you should read it.

I’m listing a few none content reasons that I think they are good. These are perks not directly relating to the books and the reading of them.

Some non-book content reasons to read

I think this would be a good plus for you: I would personally lump Neil Josten in with the Percy Jackson type of main character. Both are unreliable narrators who are sarcastic, unaware of their own abilities, and also self aware of their own idiocy (affectionate). Plus, oblivious as hell.

First major point is that getting the books is cheap, even if you want the audiobook. They are very cheap on kindle. Like I’m talking about The Foxhole Court is free, then The Raven King and The King’s Men are $0.99 USD each. (And, if you like audiobooks, you can add the audiobooks onto that for $7.49 USD each). So they’d total out to about $1.98 USD for all three books on Kindle, and if you did audiobooks too it’d be around $25 USD for all three. (You could also get the audiobooks later, the discount for it on audible works even after initial purchase).

Second, the fan content is exceptional. This is actually the thing that made me finally just go ahead and read them. The fan art? The fan fiction? Fuck its fantastic. I may be biased as a huge fan of the series but I truly think the overall quality of the fan content in the aftg fandom is better than a lot of other fandoms. It’s so damn good. And if you decide to read and want to find fanfiction after, I have plentyyyy of recs I could give you.

^ along with that, I have found so much awesome merch. My aftg merch collection brings me great joy every time I look at it.

Also! A lot of extra content from the author, if you decide you want more info on them.

A couple books/series (according to google and the opinions of others)

I see a ton of people who read AFTG also read the raven cycle series by Maggie stiefvater, which is on my TBR.

Captive Print by CS Pacat. I haven’t read this, but I have seen it on multiple lists

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ACTUAL CONTENT

I’m going to get into this, and if you have questions before you read or while you read (should you choose to do so), my DMs are open. I have read this series sooo many times, I can probably answer a lot of them.

Here is an explanation I would give, I will try to be spoiler free but I apologize if I give a bit too much away. I will also try to keep it short, but if you want more in depth or are okay with spoilers, again, let me know and id be happy to go more in depth. This isn’t a very polished explanation, I wrote this after taking my meds. Please excuse errors.

Anyways. Neil Josten is an Exy player (Exy is described as, “a bastard sport, an evolved sort of lacrosse on a soccer-sized court with the violence of ice hockey.”) The plot of the story is that he is on the run from his father, and he ends up in Arizona in a high school his senior year. He plays Exy to have something to do, and he ends up catching the eye of Kevin Day (who he met before leaving). One thing leads to another and they end up on the same team. The old team that Kevin Day was on was run by the Moriyamas, who are part of the yakuza, and they are obsessed with getting Kevin back. So a huge aspect of the plot is everyone trying to protect him from them, and Neil is trying to not have his real identity discovered. In his situation, if anyone finds out who he is, he is a dead man because his serial killer father will kill him so he is trying his best to stay alive while finding a place among the Foxes (the team he joins) for as long as he has.

There is a canon queer romance, and there are numerous canon queer characters. There are numerous gay characters, as well as a demisexual character. Though to make it clear, the romance is slow burn. Like since we are from Neil’s pov, it might seem kind of sudden but it is mostly because he is oblivious and doesn’t notice a lot of his surroundings.

But! I love this series so much. I love it, but if you start reading and end up not liking it/find it too much, that is totally fine. The series isn’t for everyone, and the triggers along could be enough to not want to read. Plus! If you have anything you specifically want to skip content wise, message me. I can tell you where to skip + a summary of what you skipped. I did this for a friend of mine on a specific chapter that was just too much for them.

[wastelandwhisperer]

Oh my god your Skyrim landscape posts are sooo pretty! I normally just use the basic improved environment mods you can find on nexus, but yours looks even more vibrant to me. Is there anything special you did or any specific mods you used to get that?

Ahhh thank you so much!! So I use a rather large combo which is NOT performance friendly in the least. I also use Cathedral Weathers and the ENB that goes with it!

My base is Folkvangr, Cathedral Plants, Skyrim Flora Overhaul, Skyrim 3D Plants and Trees, and then these patches to replace the plants from 3D plants and trees w/ cathedral plants!!!

[strafepanzer]

Good evening Ms. Weese. I have come to ask you about ships. Now we all know you are a todobaku fan (as you should🙏🏾 immaculate taste) as well as Shinbaku.

First please tell more about shinbaku i need to see the light. I need to know everything.

Second are there any other Katsu ships You’re into? Any rarepair Katsu ships? 👀

Ok I love you very much💖 Byeeeeeeee

HELLO MARQ HIIIIIIIII

YES YES YES. ok so first and foremost.... shinbaku is rediscovery and finding your soulmate somewhere youd never have thought to look. shinbaku is the two of them coasting through their late twenties/early thirties and crashing into each other. shinbaku is the blazing sun and the crescent moon, it's early mornings meeting late nights, a barking dog and a lazy cat. shinsou challenges bakugo in the most annoying ways because winning doesnt matter to shinsou like bakugo thinks it should. he inherits aizawas ease, his suave, and bakugos temper is water off a ducks back to him. but bakugo enjoys the time he spends with shinsou, likes that he's not worshipped or idolised, loves the grounding it gives him. and shinsou just thinks-- though he can be loathe to stroke that ego-- that bakugo is the most powerful, wonderous person he's ever met.

IT IS INCREDIBLY SLOW BURN IDIOTS-TO-LOVERS JUST LIKE TDBK AND THATS WHAT BKG DESERVES BC HE IS LOVE-DUMB YOUR HONOUR.

IM A HOE FOR BAKUKAMI!!! i feel like thats a rarepair?? but i also think my otps are kinda rare pairs asjdjjfjkf denki loving bakugo thinking he'd never get the time of day, only for bakugo to be smitten by our sunshine boy!

kacchako is another bkg ship i enjoy simply for the bants and the rivals to lovers!! krbk is cute and fluffy and domestic, and ei is someone who brings out the absolute BEST in bakugo, ill accept no criticism. but yeah otps are tdbk and shinbaku. shinbaku reaaaally snuck up on me tho ngl!!

AND I LOVE YOU MOOOOORE 😌✨️

[thefactsofthematter]

helloo, sorry to bother you, but do you mayhaps have any tips on writing long fics (or fics in general)?

I am just starting out and you have been my favourite fanfic author for so many years atp, and even if I'm not as active in the newsies fandom anymore whenever I think of my favourite fanfictions I think of yours 😭😭😭

sorry if this is already cheesy, but I'm adding onto it by saying that one time I showed my sibling your pfp and they loved it so much they have it as their Whatsapp avatar 😭😭😭

hope you have a great day!!

awe i appreciate this so much! my biggest piece of advice for long fics would be to never post a first chapter unless you know how the story ends — you don’t need it written ofc, and you don’t need every element of the plot planned out, but you have to know what you’re working towards!

i have some fics sitting unfinished on my ao3, and it’s generally bc i wrote up to a point and then didn’t know where to go; i started without an ending in mind and got lost. my finished, chaptered fics have a common theme in that from the beginning, i had at least a general idea of the end! i really do think you need a roadmap to put together a coherent story.

for the cake fic, i knew they’d have an argument right before the wedding, which would turn into them getting together for real. for too many colours, i knew we’d see jack and davey together at pride, with both of them finally comfortable in their skin. the olympics fic was my most structured — i knew jack would fuck up his semifinal, get together with davey after it, then davey would win bronze and jack would get his gold, and they’d get engaged at the next olympics.

i don’t plan my fics chapter-by-chapter (which is why they get so long lol), i just go with the flow of “what do i think this character would do next” for however many words i’ve decided the chapters for that story are (~4k is a safe bet) and let things shake out from there… always with the end goal and some key plot points i want to hit in mind, and sometimes twists and turns surprise me as they come up! no point in running without a finish line, but you can always take a detour on the way 😁

[sunlitmcgee]

I do wanna watch all the stuff for hatchetfield but I don’t know where to find it all:,>

The best place to start off is by watching the youtube videos for Guy who didnt like musicals, Black friday, and Nerdy Prudes! i went through all the nightmare times before Prudes since it's the one that's best viewed with all the context so you get the refs.

Here's the link to Team Starkid's channel!

[plague-parade]

slick chicks does underwear and loungewear (around $30-70usd)

no limbits does pants designed for limb differences and access, as well as pants designed for wheelchair users! (more on the expensive side, around $70usd for pants)

jcpenny actually has an accessible section which i didnt know about! definitely on the more affordable side ($15-70usd)

be free makes pants that zip on and off completely on the legs, they only have track suit style pants though and are about $50-60usd

I feel like for every ten small businesses that make autistic/sensory safe clothing there’s like 1 that makes medically accessible clothing. You can get noise muffling from headphones instead of having it built into a hood. I, however, have to go to the disabled bathroom and take off my fucking pants to clean, brace, and topically medicate my joints, and that’s only one thing I have to do.

We need more affordable medically accessible clothing. If someone knows of a brand that sells that stuff please god reblog this and give me a link.

[badolmen]

WARNING 18+

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[hansoeii]

look at you, you're gorgeous!