#Something that is normal to want :) And possible to achieve :)

[literate-ninja]

This is great. I'm going to get a good grade in baby, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve.

The fact that animals that care for their young will sometimes adopt others' lost or orphaned young to raise along their own is just funny to me. I know that it's all hormonal and there's no conscious thought involved in it, but the internal logic of it is so funny.

"Baby = success. More baby = more success. I have one baby and I found four other baby. I have five baby. I am being so fucking successful right now."

[inkperch]

My main takeaway from this episode is that 'Maomao has two hands' is actually a 100% viable ship, Jinshi and Shishui would get top marks in polycule communication, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve-

[tmrwsuns]

(𐙚⋆.˚) until i found you

✶⋆.˚꩜ .ᐟ [kim minjae x reader] ...୨♡୧... wc. 1.3k w. none! fluff ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁 .ᐟ

requested!

𐙚⋆.˚  he is the actual definition of whipped. 

like, the man is so down bad that there is absolutely no doubt to anyone that he has found the love of his life. it’s not only the fact that he loves talking about you (which he does, to the point that everyone else is a little tired of it), but he also is just so boyfriend coded and he will never EVER let anyone think that he is single. why would he hide the fact that the most amazing human being in the universe actually liked him back? beats him. he won’t only mention you in every possible scenario, but he’ll also have you as his phone screen saver, have a picture of the both of you in his phone case and even maybe get a chain with your initials. and don’t even get me started on all the matching stuff he will get you. rings, bracelets, keychains, you name it and he has found a way to match it.

𐙚⋆.˚  he LOVES skinship with you.

ever since the moment your skin first grazed his, he became obsessed. there is just something so secure about being able to feel you close to him that he can’t help but look for it constantly. he loves holding hands and having his arm swung around your shoulders when you’re out in public; it isn’t excessive nor disrespectful but it still shows everyone that you’re with him, as well as reassures him that you’re okay. if you’re not the type to show those signs of affection around other people he would understand 100% and settle for having your hands be close enough for your pinkies to be touching. however, when you’re alone he takes more liberties to touch you however he pleases. expect him to lay his head on your lap while he tells you about his day, to pull you onto his lap when he’s sitting on his desk with his computer and also to give you lots of hugs. minjae seems like the type of person that hugs you with his entire body —and i mean full squeeze, nose buried on the crook of your neck.

𐙚⋆.˚  he makes sure to also continue being your friend even after you’re dating.

it is easy to forget some aspects of your previous relationship once the switch from platonic to romantic is made, but minjae makes sure to keep the things he deemed the most important from your initial friendship. he keeps the lightheartedness, the joking and the teasing. he wants to make sure that your relationship isn’t superficial enough to be limited to only being lovey-dovey; you are each other’s best friends that just happen to be completely and utterly in love. with this said, there is a lot of teasing present in your day to day; he especially enjoys watching you get pouty and flustered. still, the moment when he sees even the smallest flicker of actual upset in your eyes he will stop and make sure you knew he was joking. this normally leads to elongated cuddle sessions.

𐙚⋆.˚  he will be your number one cheerleader.

there is nothing he values more than letting you know that no matter what happens, the smallest achievement or the biggest failure, he will be there to cheer for you. he will always voice his pride out loud; either through loving whispers shared only between the two of you or the most public announcements in the world. with this comes a great deal of reassurance about anything and everything. his biggest fear is for you to feel like he isn’t being supportive of you, so he will express his support daily. you chose to have a different kind of coffee that morning? “good job baby, i’m so proud of you for trying new things.” you accidentally fell asleep and were late to whatever pressing commitment you had? “sometimes you have to choose your own rest, that’s just how it is.” this is not to say that he will not be completely honest with you, though. communication is the most important to him, and he will tell you if he doesn’t agree with something you’re doing/saying. still, its never from a place of annoyance or judgement; he will tell you what he thinks calmly, explaining his point of view clear enough for you to get it. in the end, all he wants is for you to know he’s there.

𐙚⋆.˚  the og romantic lowkey

minjae LIVES to make you happy and show you how much he loves you. he will be doing romantic gestures, both big and small at least once a week (and he will consider himself to be failing if that’s the case). from bringing you your favorite flowers and snacks whenever he goes over to yours to writing full songs talking about the way your eyes sparkle when you look at him, nothing is out of the question. he just loves you so much that he can’t help but want to shower you with gifts and over the top gestures to remind you of that fact. every time he goes anywhere he will go back to you with a bag full of little things that reminded him of you for you to have, and there is a song added to the specific playlist he made you almost every day. he can’t help the way that every single love song in the world reminds him of you and how perfectly amazing you are for him.

𐙚⋆.˚  he WILL steal your clothes

when you started dating you expected to have a whole new addition to your closet. you were determined to steal your favorite items out of his own closet, knowing he didn’t really mind when you did. what you were not counting on though, was him thinking the exact same thing. he sees you wearing a beanie he particularly liked? trust that he will be wearing it to his next practice. you have an oversized shirt that fits him well? it's suddenly gone and in his possession. he will steal anything he likes, because it's only fair for him to do it when you do the same, right? in reality, he just does it because he loves having pieces of you to take with him in his day to day.

𐙚⋆.˚  he takes care of you in every single possible way

if there is something you will never lack when being with minjae, it’s care. he is the first person to remind you that you need to take care of yourself in every single case scenario. and he WILL get mad at you if you don’t. he gets annoyed when he notices that you’ve been neglecting your health, whether physical or mental, he doesn’t care what the reason is. even though he will always push himself to the limit, he doesn't believe in letting you do the same. in his head, you’re more valuable than anything in the world. is it school? a grade doesn’t define your entire life. work? quit, he will keep you maintained. even when his annoyance will be evident, he’ll never be mean to you about it. he will scold you as he gently does your skin care, sitting between your legs as he had you sat on the sink after a breakdown, later cuddling you until you're asleep as he runs his fingers through your hair.

𐙚 blue's corner ;; my first headcanon post hehehe. thank you SO MUCH for requesting and thank you @tsukilunatic and @tiramisumin for helping ! 𐙚 taglist ;; @tiramisumin @astrasng @xikskrrrs 𐙚 back to the masterlist. 𐙚 please do not copy, adapt or steal any of the content !!!

© tmrwsuns, 2025

[midnigtartist]

👉🏻👈🏻

Do you guys wanna se my barbies? (Widomauk in bg3)

[lilchamomil]

Hair texture tutorial.

Hello!

While I'm doing a new hairstyle, I wanted to share one topic that has been on my mind for a long time. I finally figured out a more or less easy way to create textures, and I really, really want to share it. I'm not going to explain the basics, so I expect that you already understand basic concepts like uv, and are familiar with baking ui in blender and know shader nodes basics (please, enable node wrangler...)

Also you'll need this add-ons for better uv manipulation and uv-packing

FIRST STEP - UV

To begin with, we need a hair model, preferably one you’ve created yourself. However, game hairstyles also partially fit these requirements, since they're colored in a similar way. I’m basically trying to replicate something close to the Maxis pipeline using the tools and methods I have.

The model should be unwrapped and shouldn’t have overlapping UV islands. If you used hair curves, your UVs are probably already rectangular. Just rotate and resize them as you normally would when applying game textures.

You can place some UV islands in the head’s texture space, where the hairstyle overlaps the mesh. You can also check the game textures for reference. There’s usually plenty of space used by the hair textures, not just that tiny rectangle in the top-left corner.

This is how my UV looks like:

To achieve this result, you can use free add-ons for uv packing such as UV-packer.

I prefer hand modeling over using curves, so my UVs look a bit different. I used the UV manipulation add-on I mentioned earlier to get them this way, but that’s not the topic for today.

IMPORTANT: All UV islands should be as straight as possible and oriented vertically. Otherwise, this method won’t work. This is crucial because the noise texture stretches vertically to imitate hair strands. It’s too time-consuming to handpaint them, and honestly, no one really does that.

SECOND STEP - Material setup

I - Go to the Shading tab. We’ll set up a small procedural node material.

If you’re not familiar with the shader editor or how nodes work, I recommend watching a few blender tutorials on the basics first. Othervise my instructions may be confusing for you.

You’ll need two nodes to start with: Ambient Occlusion and Noise Texture. Above, you can see an example of what you should get using this setup.

Use a UV Map node with your hair UVs. Usually, it’s called uv_0, or just UVMap if you haven’t renamed it yet. (I have multiple UV sets in my project because I was experimenting a bit.)

To get the correct mapping for the noise texture, connect the UV Map node to a Mapping node, and make sure you stretch the texture along the Y axis. This is exactly why your UV islands need to be aligned vertically, so the strands flow in the right direction.

I usually set the Noise Texture scale to 100–200 to get a nice strand-like effect.

Plug the Ambient Occlusion node into a Color Ramp to reverse the colors and adjust the contrast. Do the same with the Noise Texture. I recommend it to tone down the strong contrast a bit.

If you have the Node Wrangler add-on enabled (which I highly recommend), you can press Ctrl+Shift and click on a node to preview its output.

Use the result from the Ambient Occlusion Color Ramp as the Factor (think of it like a mask in Photoshop) in a MixRGB (color mix) node. Then, plug the result from the Noise Texture Color Ramp into the A socket, and set the blend mode to Multiply (again, just like in Photoshop).

You can control how dark the ambient occlusion appears by adjusting the color in the B socket of the color mix node.

After, I plug result into color ramp again to adjust contrast.

II (optional) - gradient.

Though not necessary, I do it to add a little variation to tones. You may skip it.

It makes little difference - but don't make mixing factor too high or it will be too dark later.

III - Principled BSDF and lighting setup for baking.

Although stretched noise texture with occlusion works wonders, hair wouldn't be hair if it didn't have shine. This “shine”, although it can be painted, is in most cases just baked-in highlights.

First, change the render engine to cycles and set following options:

You don't need too high amount of samples.

You'll need a little scene setup. If you have any lights, delete them.

Then, create two cylinders and delete top and bottom side. in the modeling make something like in the screenshot. Sometimes one cylinder above is enough.

Create material for them and use simple emission node. This cylinders are necessary for that gloss effect hair does have.

Create area light and scale. Put it above head - and set power around 10, not too strong.

In left top corner of shader editor switch to the world. Set it to black.

Go back into object shader editing. Select your hair in edit mode. Create Principled bsdf and empty image texture ( 1024*2048 or 2x bigger). Remember noise texture? Create bump node and plug it into height. Copy the values below to make effect subtle. Plug bump node to normal.

In principled bsdf, set metallic 1, roughness around 0.4. Open specular tab and put anisotroptic to 1. Create tangent node, change to Uv map, choose your map and plut tangent node into tangent.

Don't forget to plug principled bsdf into Material output node!!

Phew, setup is done! Go into render preview and enjoy results!

It should look like this:

Now we have to bake this. it's easy - go into render tab again, scroll down and open bake menu. Open margin menu and set 8 px at least - or more (just cut later to hair area). Change magrin type to extend.

Now, select your object - and select Uv map you're baking to. In shader tab, select blank texture you had created before. Go into render tab again, and in the baking menu press bake. Now wait - and voila!

Now go back into the shader editor and plug the texture into the color mixing node into B. Plug into A procedural texture we're done before. Set mode to Soft light.

Now, since you know how to bake I won't explain it over again - create new blank texture with same resolution and bake result to it.

Save the texture and color it in any graphic editor you have with gradient maps. You may adjust texture contrast we're created before, but that's all.

You're done!

[aingeal98]

Comic characters are both so entertaining and so frustrating to analyse because as someone who usually likes to have all my bases covered before I type something out on the Internet it's like:

Batman is misogynistic.*

*Note 1: I am referring to the late 90s to 2000s version of Batman primarily his treatment of Helena Bertinelli and Stephanie Brown as these are the two women I've read most of however he also treats women terribly on a consistent basis no matter which era I'm reading**.

*Note 2: I am aware that he was written by many different writers over decades and it's hard to pin down the real batman however even his creators wrote him as misogynistic due to how acceptable that misogyny was in USA culture at the time he was created.

**I'm also aware that modern batman tends to no longer be written so plainly misogynistic however I find that instead the misogyny has been transferred over to the narrative, what with the erasure and flattening of some female characters and the flanderising of others all attempting to paper over his past treatment of them so that they can pretend he always treated women normally like he does nowadays, which often downplays their history and what they went through because of him

*Note 3: If batman is your favourite character of all time and the version that lives in your head is actually a champion of women's rights then this is not a personal attack on you and your version of him. This is just me analysing the comics I've read

*Note 4: "But Batman's a hero it doesn't make sense for him to be sexist." Yeah in a perfect world DCs flagship hero would not be a child abuser with a history of bigotry unfortunately Batman is a product of his writers and his company and DC has been pretty shit at this stuff since the beginning. I don't think ignoring and denying it helps either it just minimises what the victims actually go through in canon. They write him badly a lot. It's a problem.

[pouroverpaloma]

Chapter 16 of tbtptw is with beta readers!

Thanks so so so much for your patience—it was the holidays and then I got promoted at work (yay!) so it’s been hard to find time to write. I know it’s free smut I post anonymously on the internet but I do feel bad when I take longer than usual to update

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

Just watched the jjk prequel movie for the first time and yuta looks exactly how I imagined from reading sea glass gardens. Saw him for the first time and thought yes. I see. Good job on writing world’s most stressed boy perfectly

look mom I got a good grade in writing a teenage boy in crisis

[foenixed]

Going into aro week like "Oh, I need to find something aromantic to say."

[awesome-cookies-and-cream]

shirosaki and momose's relationship is so funny to me. shirosaki is an airhead but has a very good sense of responsibility. so he sees this guy who he inspired and decided to take him in (and went absolutely extra especially after realizing how shit his previous boss was). Then there's momose who hasn't had a good relationship since his employment, he'd take any morsel of kindness and be a hundred times grateful for it to the point he doesn't just tolerate shirosaki's goofiness, he adores it (anything is better after his previous boss after all)

so now they're in a weird ??? is this what normal people do??? relationship

[troutsoup]

Against his better judgment, Gale spends a night with Astarion. Then he does it again.

Sanguine and its (recently finished) sequel Decathect, in one place for your reading convenience.

[belovedcarrion]

Every time I talk to Kim I hear 🎶don't be suspicious, don't be suspicious🎶 as I try to convince him that I absolutely know who I am

My name? Don't worry about it!

and I know what I'm doing

No I haven't questioned anyone or removed the body, why do you ask?

and that of course I have my badge!

[ritualslaughter]

honour mode on pause, endoscopy time

[captaintiny]

i am gonna try the instructions for 6-braid round challah this year tho. i will get a good grade in congregation baking

[14floods]

in terms of character writing (but also in general) im often thinking about types of smartness. i’m repeating something often said but i’m of the belief that the idea of intelligence is a grouping of a bunch of very different skills and talents all of which you have to have to be considered smart, and most people do not have every single one of these traits. but also even then i think that ideas like emotional intelligence and booksmartness are also too broad of categories in terms of writing characters at least. like for example sal is emotionally intelligent in that he is a really good communicator, generally charismatic, good at reading people and situations, has good self-regulation, but you would never say he is because he is not naturally empathetic, isn’t self-aware or introspective, is immature, has little forethought… i like to think about the ways characters are smart and why they are, sal has these skills for the same reason he could fix a car, he’s really systems-minded. he operates very well on the way things work and fit together, and social interaction is a machine which can be gamed to him. :•)

[remxedmoon]

f. five hours of sleep…