#and should be combined more often

[sexiestwerewolf]

I'm trying to think of the ninja as the mane six in MLP and what elements fit them bets but tbh honesty and generosity don't really fit in as major character attributes for any of them so I'd probably change those two and it would be like:

lloyd: magic

Kai: loyalty

Jay: laughter

Zane: kindness

Cole: protection

nya: growth

[icewindandboringhorror]

"We can get through this by working together, reach out to your friends, community is all we have, a social network will be your security in the world, now is the time to lean on others!"

I do agree, and it's scientifically sound (pretty sure there is data about how people with better social networks live longer and etc) but also....augh..... what about the severe social issues, difficulty to leave the house, physical issues which lead to like zero socialization energy a majority of the time, etc. etc. Social support can be a replacement for structural support, but.. I guess I just wish it didn't have to be. Community is extremely difficult to build, even moreso if you're someone who has issues with social cues or group conversations or even just being around others in the first place. And blah, nuance, of course I'm just complaining or maybe being too negative or maybe misunderstanding, but, I hardly have the energy to brush my hair once every 2 months.. how am I supposed to maintain a wide social network and be active in a Community and Join Groups lol... sometimes it kind of feels like "er.. well if thats my only option then...... ruh roh". It's overwhelming

[frobby]

I think Yukio should become a hater, You Know. for his health

[luvaaheee]

mix match!!!

[ratcandy]

playing............. also. forgot to note on the drawing. since these guys don't have eye stalks like actual Slugs(tm) i wanted to somehow incorporate the Idea of it, n so they have eye spots on the back of their ears to ward off predators from behind 👍 works extra well when they're Flat. because then they jus look like Slug

(please no RW spoilers, I'm baby/new here n still gettin thru it!)

[thevalleyisjolly]

It seems to me like there's a particular element of hatred that ties in with the rage from the rage crystals. Anyone can be angry and it's literally the defining feature of barbarians that they learn how to harness their rage in service of a goal. But with the rage crystals, it's as if it stokes up existing feelings such as discontent, jealousy, inferiority, or perceived unfairness directed at a particular target, and heightens them until it becomes full-on hatred. You're no longer just angry about something or someone in your life. You hate it with an all-consuming, personal ardour that eclipses any attempt at moderation or abatement. Anything connected with the object of your contempt is guilty by association; every action appears through the most bad-faith lens regardless of intention or truth. It isn't a mindless rage, but rather a targeted personal hatred that feeds off of a person's existing feelings and spurs them to take aggressive action. It's not enough just to stew in silence or work out your anger by yourself. You have to do something about this problem in your life, and you have to specifically do something to the problem because they are the reason why everything is wrong. If only they were gone or dead or humiliated or dethroned, everything would be better. At least until the next problem comes along. Because that's the thing about being a D&D adventurer. There's always going to be another antagonist once this quest is over.

[willowsquest]

i could have put these in the last bundle, but i like them too much and wanted to put them in their own post lol. from early in the year, after i got a new brush pen for christmas and had a VERY GOOD TIME practicing with it! this is where i really started figuring out what i wanted Button's unshifted form to look like (answer: a big ol' toad-dog looking abomination)

[jellelliefish]

I'm very proud of myself because I did a whole medical appointment based phone call in Swedish this morning. I am going to get myself a reward. Perhaps a cinnamon bun, or a seasonal pumpkin drink. Perhaps both!

[mimjandoodlesstuff]

April Fusions haha

They kept rotting my brain for a hot second so I started writing up concepts myself, but then this ask properly sprung me into action. @bluepeachstudios you've done it again with the hinting!

I suppose the only really interesting things about these takes are how I named them. I already have a fusion storyline planned for my own TMNT iteration, and the Turtles fuse with April in it so I combined their names there. I didn't want to do that again here, so instead I took a more unique approach. I named them after each of the Turtles' VAs' birthday months (because, you know, April). I mean, why not utilise canon/meta/out-of-universe facts for a project like this? I can't do this for my own characters. I did have two rules in place in case any of them overlapped, of which I was forced to use one.

May

May is probably my least favourite out of the bunch. There's really nothing about her that screams Leo besides like- a shell, blue eyes, injuries... It's probably therefore not surprising I drew her first, so I really didn't know what I wanted to emphasise and so on. I should probably have had her face the camera more to get a better sense of her jawline. Make sure to make it nice and boxy lol

The plastron pride flags are demigirl, aroace and lesbian. While I do in my heart of hearts believe Leo has a not insignificant crush on Captain Ryan, I still wanted our gal to be a flaming lesbian despite that lol.

March

March was incredibly fun to draw, and not just because @bluecookiesabi is an absolute joy to hang out with (thank the heavens for Discord streams!). I just really like drawing more feminine characters. I had most likely already sketched both May and March before I found the ask so I didn't know March is agender, but I don't think that's a problem at all. Agender people are allowed to be feminine, after all. And I don't consider Donnie to be some pinnacle of masculinity to begin with.

I figured, since the fic tags state that Donnie's autistic here, I'd give March just fluffy socks and slippers to keep dust and dirt from their feet for sensory reasons. That is definitely not projection on my part.

They're kind of giving 2003 April vibes with their hair in a bun. That was a happy accident which I'm really glad I kept to.

January

January is just green April. Hers and Mikey's designs are already so incredibly similar in-canon I'm convinced she'd look pretty much exactly like him had she been mutated into a turtle. I didn't even feel the need to open January's eyes since they'd just be the same shade of blue more or less.

I don't have much to say about him other than she was fun to draw. Gymnastics poses are honestly kind of therapeutic to draw. But also, how are they able to make that pose? The answer is simple: January is just built different.

I also labelled xir as only aroace since I don't know what you have planned for Mikey.

September

I'm really happy with how he turned out. While sketching I couldn't get the pose really working but once I did she really came together. I'd say September is the only Fusion (besides maybe March) that actually looks like the people he's made up of merged. Raph's stocky build fits April surprisingly well. And the choice to give her April's kunoichi getup but tattered was a really good idea in my opinion, and I'd like to give @pechtothevoid the credit they are so deservedly owed for that idea.

While not fic accurate at all, I had such a difficult time coming up with a good weapon for September. Who knew combining sai with tessen would be difficult? So instead I gave her a boomerang, which reminded me of Sokka, so I just straight up gave him Sokka's boomerang. I like the idea of her, upon fusing, just snagging Sokka's boomerang from the Mae Whitman-verse and using it as a blunt force weapon. I wanted to in a similar vein give him the One Ring from the Sean Astin-verse, but I couldn't get that to look good no matter how I placed it.

I like the name rules I came up with. Basically, since I didn't know in which months any of their actors were born in I had to come up with a replacement idea for naming in case any of them happen to overlap. The first rule was that if Rob and Greg happened to share a month with anyone else, the Donnie and Mikey Fusions would automatically get assigned December and May respectively. If Seth or Sean were to have overlapped with anyone, Leo's and Raph's Fusions would get the/a month whose first letter is the closest to either character's first name. March and January checked out, but since Seth and Sean are both born in February, I was forced to assign Leo and Raph May and September each. Small price to pay, honestly.

Tcest DNI and NO REPOSTING. Both groups can go die UwU

[royalreef]

(( I see this mistake a lot and I just want to remind people — Miranda’s nose crest is basically all bone! There’s sinus inside of it, so there are tunnels and holes wound through it, but it’s pretty dense and reinforced bone without a lot of meat on top of it.

In comparison, these are the squishiest/softest parts of Miranda’s face. Most of this is her huge jaw muscles to open and close her jaws, with a little bit of the muscle and soft tissue around her lips. They aren’t as pliable and soft as mammalian lips, closer to something like the lips of monitor lizards.

Thus, these are the hardest parts of Miranda’s face. This is where there’s very minimal tissue between the skin and the bone, so they don’t have a lot of cushioning in comparison. This is not to say they’re totally immobile, some movements of Miranda’s face can tug on the skin and make the scales bunch up over her nose crest or the like, but there’s not a lot of movement going on regardless.

[pennielane]

how to combine multiple gifs into one in photopea

(upon request a million years ago by @idontwanttospoiltheparty - i’m finally doing it!)

if you want to create a gif like this of mine: https://www.tumblr.com/pennielane/711244563538395136/pennielane-july-6-1957-john-lennon-and-paul?source=share

where two gifs play at once (and you’re using photopea because you don’t want to pay for/pirate photoshop) then keep reading! 

PS. i’m not going to go over how to make a gif in this tutorial. go read my first tutorial for that.

PPS. i’m using gifs i’ve made recently and combining them because i’m lazy. they’re not going to make sense together, i’m just using them for the purposes of the tutorial <3 

***before we start*** you must know that the BIGGEST bitch about combining gifs is that they usually come out in VERY large file sizes. as we all know, tumblr only allows gifs of 10mb or lower. so when you combine gifs, you’ll need to keep the frame count of both gifs lower so you’re not going over the 10mb limit. ok that’s all, let’s begin!

step 1: add your two gifs into photopea 

see the top left where i have two gifs open (cig1.psd and count1.psd)

step 2: move the folder containing all the layers from the gif you want on “top” to the PSD of the gif you want on the “bottom”, as seen in this highly scientific demonstration:

step 3: expand the folders containing the layers and make sure the two gifs have the same number of layers!!! very important!!!

step 4: you’ll probably want to resize the gif that’s on “top”, which you can do easily by selecting all the layers of that gif and using the “transform” tool:

4(a) shift+click all the layers until they all have the light-grey colour over them:

4(b) go to edit > transform > scale. blue lines should show up around the gif and you can then resize it however you want 

step 5: cool! now you have two gifs on top of each other. but the “top” gif doesn’t ~blend~ well with the “bottom” gif. to achieve that, you need to minimize the folder containing the layers of the top gif and put a layer mask on it, like so:

step 6: use the eraser tool to make the edges “softer”. alternatively, you could use the eraser tool to make a circle around the gif, or anything you like really (photopea freaked out when i tried to record this so here’s some pics):

this is the eraser tool:

i used one of the “softer” eraser brushes to achieve this effect (i did SUCH a bad job ajksfhaksdhal i would usually do it better for a gif i was making to post please don’t roast me):

your layer mask should demonstrate the “erases” you’re making:

step 6: merge the two gifs together. VERY IMPORTANT STEP!

6(a) select both gif folders so they’re both light grey:

6(b) go to layer > animation > merge:

6(c) your layers should now look like this:

step 7: export the gif

congrats, you did it! message me if you have any questions! 

[whimsyprinx]

you ever aware that you have friends but you also feel incredibly lonely and like you don’t?

[thickest-slimiest-malware]

ofc ive always had adhd, but personally what really fucked up my attention span is agar.io (and being depressed enough to play it for hours every day. people whose lives are ok dont do that shit)

[acacia-may]

This might be the most inspired thing I've ever written... 😂 just kidding...

This snippet is from a Black Clover WIP inspired by one of my favourite musicals and favourite adaptations of "The Princess and the Pea", Once Upon a Mattress! 💖 This short exchange is from the B-Plot which was just perfect for the Black Bulls to handle! (Sorry Vanessa 😂) The story might not ever get finished or get to see the light of day, but I thought this bit was worth sharing:

The WIP would've been Rated T for thematic elements so I'm putting this snippet below the cut even though this snippet is only 9 sentences long 😅

(Warnings: mentions unplanned pregnancy and drunkenness)

“What kind of moron has a love child during a marriage ban—especially one that can only be lifted by the mother marrying someone else?” 

“We have been asking ourselves this same question,” said Zora gesturing towards Yuno with his hand. 

Vanessa huffed and gave Zora a light tap on the back of his head. “I got pregnant before the marriage ban went into effect, dumbbell.”

“How drunk were you?” asked Yuno completely deadpan. 

Flustered and bright red in the face, Finral spluttered something incoherent, and Mimosa gasped. 

“Yuno! That’s a terrible question!” 

“We asked that one too,” sighed Gauche with a disapproving shake of his head. 

Zora’s mouth twitched. “The answer is ‘totally wasted’ and ‘so drunk they couldn’t even remember their own names,’ by the way.” 

[seilon]

hm

[shithowdy]

this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣

so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.

what a lovely late-impressionist piece blended with evocative leyendecker-esque themes! why haven't you ever heard of this artist before? surely tumblr would be all over an artist like this. who is justin brown?

your two options from here are to do a search for the name, or a reverse image search. i prefer reverse image searching, particularly when it comes to a common name like "justin brown". so what does that net?

Immediately, without looking at any text, something is wrong: it barely exists. an actual historical piece would turn up numerous results from websites individually discussing the piece, but no such discussions are taking place. Looking at the text, though, does show the source-- and at least in this case, the creator was honest about their medium.

But let's also look at the "exact matches", in case a source doesn't make itself apparent in the initial sidebar results like this.

This section will often tell you post dates of images, and here it can be seen that the very first iteration of the image was posted 15 days ago. It did not exist online prior to that.

Seeing how long an unsourced image has been floating around is a skill applicable to more than just generative images! See a cool image of an artifact or other intriguing item with a vivid caption? Reverse search it! If all the results are paired with that caption and only go back a few months, you might just have viral facebook spam.

Sometimes generative creators are dishonest about their medium and do not tag it like in the example, so that's when establishing "jpeg provenance" becomes important. While it can be a little trickier to determine if someone is using generative images and not admitting to it if they aren't trying to pass it off as a classic, something to consider is the age of their account and the frequency with which they post. Here are some account red flags:

-Did they only start posting art after 2022, or if they did before, did their style/skill level WILDLY change? Not gradual improvement-- I'm talking amateur graphite portraits straight into complex digital renders. Everyone starts somewhere, newness is not a red flag alone; it's newness combined with existing in a vacuum away from any community.

-Do they post fully-finished paintings several times a week? -Do many of these paintings seem iterative of a similar theme or subject matter ("three well-dressed young men face each other under shade and dappled sunlight")?

-Does their style change in inconsistent ways? An artist that can swap between painting like Drew Struzan and Hokusai should be pretty well known, right? Why is no one hyping this guy?!

-Do they have social media besides the source instagram? If so, what are they posting about? Are there any WIPs? Doodles? Interactions with other artists? Gallery dates? 3am self-doubt posts? Or is it all self-promo? Crypto? Seemingly nothing art-related at all for someone pushing out 3 weekly paintings?

Basically, if it's important to you to omit this stuff when you curate, please don't just smash reblog if the source doesn't seem to be the OP themselves. Seeking out sources was important even before this became an issue, now it is more than ever.

peace n love