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[crosshairs-dumb-pimp-gf]

Texting it out down here cause in video would go by to fast. Also the video for the sketch layer didn't save so it picks up at me starting on Cross's face. Not too much missed, I only rough out some shapes and copy/paste them where I want them from frame to frame.

It takes me about 2 hours or so to make one of these. I'm using a mouse rather than a tablet so you'll notice my style is more like carving with lines rather than drawing.

I fill my background and put down a very rough sketch. I keep it rough mostly do to impatience. The line work does turn out better if I do a more detailed sketch but that doesn't matter. None of this matters.

Things I always do that I know to correct in my line work as I go: "That head too big! Always too big! Eyes too! Shrink erything."

I do the line art in a free program called ProMotion. It's for animation but I don't care, I'm looking for clean sharp lines and tools that let me copy/paste and instantly make brushes of pieces that I highlight. Its a pixel based program and I would normally use it to make sprites for my RPG maker games.

IMPORTANT STEP: ZOOM IN AND OUT OVER AND OVER AND OVER TILL YOU DONT CARE IF IT LOOKS RIGHT ANYMORE.

Then we take that line art and shove it into Photopea for coloring. This is another free program that's a clone of Adobe because I like photoshop tools but hate Adobe as a company with a fiery passion.

Yes I just kind of choose whatever color. I could make a reference sheet with saved colors but TRUST ME. I wont use it. I almost never use references, i forget, okay. Mostly drawing from memory.

Each color gets a layer essentially and then I "paint" them with the burn tool. (Midtones 20%) Cross's armor gets highlights on the ridges with the dodge tool. (Also Midtones 20%)

Add Blush to the skin! Thin points like face, shoulders, finger tips. Blur Blur Blur till it looks right.

Also, remember how I said I was looking for clean clean lines with no blur? That's cause I just clean up the "paint" by selecting with the magic wand and deleting it.

I make my backgrounds out of stock textures mostly. Though this usually takes a little bit more collage work this strip is simple so I just used the gritty/tech wall texture. Blur that bitch. (Gaussian Blur under the filter tab, whatever looks right but the default 7 pixels is usually good for the BG)

To add motion I copy the bits I want to seem like they're moving and use the "Motion Blur" filter, then I put that copied color over the background line art.

Add shadows! Under the coloring layers, that handy gaussian blur again.

Add Lighting! I usually have the overlayer set to "Soft Light" and then I use the gradient tool to filter everything to look cohesive. (You might notice I keep their skin tone pretty dark but it might look different when I change the lighting.)

Warp the action words... just...whatever feels appropriate at the time and set that layer to "Color Burn"

I just use the Oval select tool with the feather set between 3-5 pixels to make word bubbles. Paint it in voila. Add Text. All done!

Cross x Tahny: +A Summary+

My philosophy : Style matters more than skill and you should cheat and cut corners as much as possible. Peace and Love.

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[tiredfoxtf]

Well, I think it's been enough time to tell you about ANOTHER my long time Life series headcanon.

The winners have nightmares about their wins.

Grian is in the bloodied sand, under the hot desert sun. And it blinds his eyes and burns his skin, it makes him thirsty and sweaty, sand mixed with tears, blood and sweat sticks to his skin and red red red sweater. And it's disgusting, it makes him want to puke and cry, tear that stupid sweater into pieces, but he can't do anything, can't move a finger, only uselessly cry and curse everything, asking for forgiveness into nothing.

Scott is covered in thorns, even breathing hurts, like that very thorny bush grew inside him too, pricking his throat and lungs from the inside and the smell of thunder and red red red flowers is heavy and makes breathing even harder. He tries to move - thorns move with him, he masters the strength to tear them away - many more appear, and the flowers taste bitter despite their prettiness. They are poisonous. And Scott thinks of nothing when his stomach twists inside out.

Pearl is so cold. Cold is all she knows. Blue sky, white snow, red red red blood, so pretty. The cold freezes her joints, sips into her cell structure, in her DNA. Her eyes feel like there's nothing but two ice spheres. And the sharp sharp sharp pain as if her body twists and tears over and over and over again. And she is hungry, her blood is still warm. She might savour it a bit. If her blood worth something, than she might be worth something too. But her blood isn't sweet. Her blood is salty and bitter with despair, hate and resentment and what's worse with regret.

Martyn cannot swim up, he tries, he tries, he tries so hard. He gets to see the dark sky only for a moment until a new wave will kick him down below and the dark of the sea doesn't differ too much from the sky full of stars. Martyn breaths mostly salty water and he sees red red red. Anything but red. His lungs are heavy, but he doesn't sink, he fights, he fights so hard, against the sea, against the current, he is a fighter. But the sea knows nothing of him when it swallows him once again. The water is cold and the air is cold, he bites his tongue and curses and curses and curses, for no one to hear. For no one to be angry at him.

Scar is by himself, he always was by himself. But he hears laughter and happiness outside his home, but he doesn't come out - they will disappear the second he does. Sometimes he sees shadows of people that used to be, but he doesn't know them. And they don't know him. They are not real, he assures himself, it's just him and his sunflowers, but their soil is red red red. It's nothing, he says, but he feels how the pit in the stomach gets infinitely bigger. He needs to come out, he needs to see someone, can they be happy with him? Can he make them laugh? There's no one out there.

Joel feels like tearing himself apart with every second, it's pain, it's frustration, it's embarrassment, it's shame, it's anger, it's a thrill, it's the wild hunger. He couldn't stop it, he needs to see the red red red, so much of it, so he would forget what other colours look like. He tears apart someone's body, his teeth sink into the flesh, his eyes cannot stop making fluid, why can't he stop? Why can't he just stop and die already? He proved himself, it's done, why he is not in control of himself? More more more, until he could bath in red red red. It's never enough, it cannot satisfy him ever.

No Cleo, because I haven't watched Real Life, sorry even watching VR makes me dizzy as fuck.

[orphiclovers]

this happened in canon. to me. if you get it you get it, if you don't you don't

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[pekoeboo]

randomly felt inspired to try and sketch @masterfuldoodler's OC Val! she's just super cute and her hair looked really fun to draw idk haha

hope u don't mind the surprise art, August! <33

Val belongs to @masterfuldoodler please do not repost.

[fae-morrigan]

@lotorsgloriousempire Aight. I gave you your thirty minutes to delete this comment and apologize. Now we have to have a WIDER conversation, hm? Cause I'll be DAMNED if a I let a voltron fan talk down to ME about race.

First of all, I cannot BELIEVE you would have the audacity to insinuate I am LYING about this being a common issue when this is like, THE THIRD TIME I have had to make this sort of post in the span of three months. It has happened SEVERAL TIMES NOW where racist white people, when called out ON their racism towards Jay, explain they somehow thought he was white. You have multiple people of color in the tags commiserating on how common of an issue this is in fandom spaces and all you can think to say, is "oh, well, there's always someone, but I doubt it, you're overfocusing." That is NOT an appropriate response to this sort of conversation and you should've kept your mouth shut.

Second of all, are you so fogged up in the head that Jay needed to turn to the camera and say, "I'm asian!" for you to get it? Gamorra is in Asia. I SAY IT IN THE ORIGINAL POST IN CASE YOU SOMEHOW MISSED IT IN SOKE WHEN IT WAS SAID SEVERAL TIMES. The entire plotline of SOKE is EXPLICITLY about REAL WORLD American Interventionism in small asian countries. Korea, VIETNAM, do NONE of these things ring a bell to you? You genuinely have to be either a moron or just straight up RACIST to read SOKE and ignore the messaging there. And I don't know if you missed the part where I said authors have confirmed this, but just to reiterate- Nicole Maines is an acquaintance of mine. We have talked about this, albeit briefly. She knows what the fuck she's writing about. Do you know what the fuck you're reading?

I am also DISGUSTED by the implication that being created by a white person means that a character cannot or should not be read with race in mind. That eliminates JOHN HENRY IRONS, Bronze Tiger, Duke Thomas, Lady Shiva, and MANY others from ever having meaningful analysis about how their race effects how the story is meant to be read. I hope I do not have to explain to you why that is the dumbest thing I've ever head. It is also not like Tom Taylor specifically hasn't written about these topics before- He originated DC's first Aboriginal hero in another story specifically about colonization and American interventionism (Suicide Squad: Bad Blood).

This kind of slack-jawed, racist, insensitive ass reply can ONLY come about if you are reading these books with your brain turned off, which is NOT how ANY of the books with these characters were meant to be read. Take your fucking Yaoi goggles off and engage with the themes of the story as it is meant to be engaged with.

I will stop taking things "uncharitably" when people stop TALKING uncharitably. Most of the shit people say against Jay is based in real world racist stereotypes about men of color, and I refuse to shut up just because it makes people uncomfortable to be confronted with. You have waltzed into a conversation that you have neither the context or wit for and expected to what, calm me down? Fuck your head and the neck it rode in on.

It has officially happened enough times that like. I feel the need to make a formal post about it because good fucking god.

Jay Nakamura is an Asian man. His last name is one of the most common Japanese last names... ever. His first name is extremely common in Asian communities and is likely a romanization or shortening of the many many asian names that start with the syllable 'jay'. From a (fictional, but created BY ASIAN MEN specifically as a commentary on japan/korea) Asian country that is historically exploited by the United States. His entire story focuses on the fact that he does not have white privilege and is often exploited by white people. He LOOKS LIKE THIS.

The fact that Jay is nonwhite and is marginalized for being nonwhite is something that has been acknowledged multiple times by multiple authors. Namely Nicole Maines, his current main writer, who has retweeted analysis threads and made comments about how his development and radicalization is informed by this lack of privilege.

Yet numerous people have approached me, specifically when I am actively talking about how important it is that Jay is a man of color, and gone, well, isn't he white?

I cannot even BEGIN to FATHOM why this happens. You have to be a certain kind of dumb to look at JUST HIS NAME and go, ah, a white man. Do people think Nakamura is a French name or something?

But I can guess it comes down to a few things:

People just don't see Asian folk as people of color, I guess, outside of when they can be fetishized. This actually has been a problem in DC fandom specifically for a long time; I've noticed it particularly with Cass Cain and Damian Wayne, where their heritage will either be erased in favor of their white halves, or they'll be sexualized in the context of their cultures being orientalized.

In this same vein, race is often treated by fandom as purely cosmetic, and not something that could impact how a character is meant to be read or thought about in the story. This is part of how you get headcanons that end up leaning into racial stereotypes.

Jay is very obviously visibly queer. White people tend to assume we are the arbiters of queerness. Therefore, whenever a character has queer signifiers (dyed hair, piercings, etc), is queer, they are presumed to be white. It's the goddamn pink hair again, people can never be normal about it!

People who don't want to look racist online, but who also don't like Jay (and haven't read his stuff), are trying to convince themselves and others that they aren't actually putting down a character of color.

jay hasn't had a writer to whitewash him yet, so the fans gotta pick up the slack

[bayetea]

seeing non-black people critique rick's portrayal of black characters is interesting sometimes. only like 30% of the critiques I see make any sense to me to be honest

[another-goblin]

[chiropteracupola]

what if they were an ultimate frisbee team

[buttsonthebeach]

Thanks @lesbian-sadie-adler!!

Favourite colour: deep blue

Last song: LUNCH by Billie Eilish, which I had to frantically turn down when I realized that my 4-year-old was trying to listen to and process the words lol

Last movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail because we were told to watch a comedy, doctor's orders!

Last TV show: I half watched an episode of Arcane with Mrs. Beach while writing, and even though I only 25% know what is happening in it, I apparently managed to shout "GAYYY" at appropriate moments

Sweet/spicy/savory: I have a major sweet tooth, but I love all food really. I am literally debating if I am going to have pancakes or a cheddar and chive omelette for breakfast this morning.

Last thing I googled: endless things about IVF and frozen embryo transfers and how soon I can test and what our odds of success are lol

Current obsession: Dragon Age (what's new??)

Looking forward to: Christmas festivities, a small break from work, and some time for writing!

Tagging: I'm also going for some friends in my notes that I don't know as well - no pressure!! And if you aren't tagged but want to do this, go for it! @blarfshnorgull @abirdaboxandachippedcup @thebookworm0001 @tundrafoot

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Looking Forward To: sex, money, becoming successful. If those aren't possible, a casual ego stroke from strangers.

I was tagged by @circescircle. I tag @appalachiancowboy99.

[violent138]

"Gordon, you should get to the corner of first and Montgomery, we got a crime scene your buddy might be interested in."

Gordon glanced meaningfully at Batman, who slowly got up from his kneeling position on the ground, attention torn between the newspaper clippings the murderer had pinned to the wall and the detective. "I'll make my way there when I can, what's happened?"

"It's a fucking slaughterhouse man, Bats were pursuing the suspect and the killer took out a few of the hostages--"

"Slow down, what are you talking about? Batman's not--"

"One of them kids, Gordon." The deputy stressed. "It's a fucking disaster, Forensics almost called CPS."

"Oh hell." Gordon breathed out, pinching the bridge of his nose. Batman turned fully to stare at him, concern flaring even behind the mask. "Which one?"

"Hell if I know, kid's just standing here all drenched in blood, hasn't said a single word the entire time." The deputy exhaled raggedly. "I gotta tell you, it's starting to get a little--"

"You need to go, Montgomery and First," Gordon mumbled to Batman, pressing the phone to his vest. "One of the kids got to his latest crime scene, and..."

Batman didn't hesitate for a second, sweeping down the hall and out, the fastest and loudest disappearance Gordon had seen yet from the man.

"Evans, shut up and hand over the phone to the kid," Gordon ordered, pressing the phone back up to his ear, hoping he could offer any kind of comfort before Batman got there.

[bigolbadblog]

sometimes i'm like "it's silly to act like people's kinks tell you about their psychological damage, some of us are just having funnnn" and then sometimes i'm like. um.

it's sooooo sexy to think of a feeder taking care of a feedee to the point where the ingrained "rules" the feedee has learned around eating don't even get a chance to come up. like that old "trick" about always putting the fork down in between each bite, because god forbid we get carried away by simple sensory enjoyment without creating constant imperceptible obstacles to our own eating? well you don't need to worry about that if someone else is holding the fork, do you

[thelivingautomaton]

so lately i've been curing my brainrot by listening to audiobooks while i crochet, the result being that i have gotten really, really into the wheel of time (which i've previously bounced off of like, 3 separate times) and also been tweeting about it. anyway i have finished the first book and simply must scream into the void about it

jesus, okay, where do i even begin. let's talk about characters

so i KNEW that mat was gonna be The Character Of All Time going right in, i am self-aware enough about what kinds of blorbos i enjoy (read: cocky roguish guy who is actually a sopping wet cat of a man and uses snark to obscure deep-seated angst and/or doubt in himself, his identity, and his goodness). and i do have an affection for mat at this point

although ngl it kind of totally went over my head when i last tried to read these books that he is also? kind of a dick this early on? though to be fair he was having his soul eaten by an evil dagger for like, two-thirds of the book

that being said. what i did NOT expect was for the dark horse surprise contenders for Character Of All Time to be nynaeve and rand

nynaeve is literally the funniest, pettiest bitch ever and i love her SO MUCH. literally what if you were a preternaturally gifted healer and given a position of authority at a very young age so you had a complex about it, but that complex manifests itself as a bullheaded stubborn drive to Take Care Of Your People, and you are ready to throw hands with every magic lady Jedi on the way because you are fueled by Pure Unadulterated Spite at all times

every time she'd try to start a catty slap fight with moiraine and moiraine would just, like, sip her tea unbothered? now THAT'S comedy

sidenote, dear lord do these characters drink a lot of tea. do they have coffee in this nebula. do they have new world crops. i feel like someone must have mentioned potatoes. where was i

oh my god, rand. RAND. literally WHAT IF you were a farmboy from the ass-end of nowhere and you get pulled into this fantastical adventure like a hero from legend, but you spend 700 pages having all of your assumptions about the world and yourself systemically questioned and tested and broken down. and the whole time you're holding onto the hope of going home and going back to the way things were, until you experience the crushing weight of the Hero's Journey and the fact that you can never really go home (read: go back to the simple life and the way things used to be) ever again

EXCEPT!!! THAT THERE IS ALSO WONDER AND EXCITEMENT AND CURIOSITY TOO!!! like, obviously i loved all the times that rand and the other farm kids are agog seeing different parts of the world (especially the cities -- dude, i LOVE the setup for caemlyn) but literally one of my favorite scenes was when rand is on the spray sitting at the top of the mast and he just starts laughing aloud for the freedom and joy of it all. the journey will be long and terrible and arduous but it's so important to show that there are bright moments on the way too. i'm going to puke

also there's a few moments between rand and the dark one (ba'alzamon? bro idk how anything is spelled) that were so *chef's kiss*, like rand telling him "i belong to myself" or in their big fight when he screams that he'll never be a hound for the dark one. more generally i love the emphasis placed on the importance and power of people taking a stand, even if they know it's futile. ESPECIALLY if they know it's futile. (there was this line from moiraine like "the wheel weaves as the wheel wills, but i refuse to believe it weaves an end to all hope". waugh)

also i know the reveal that rand can channel was telegraphed from a mile away but i ain't even mad about it because i feel like the setup was done so nicely. you get a scene of moiraine explaining to nynaeve about how channeling feels the first time you do it (i.e. you have the greatest need you've ever known, then a week later your body has a delayed reaction that feels like a weird flu), you get rand and mat escaping whitebridge via improbable lightning strikes, then you get rand coming down with a weird flu. like, idk, i like it when creators set up dominoes and i as a reader can SEE the dominoes getting set up and i get to go like, hoohoohoo, can't wait for those to get knocked down!

unsurprisingly since rand and nynaeve are my two favs i also am enamored with their dynamic. maybe it's because you're in rand's head the most in this book, and so it's the closest you as a reader are to seeing a straightforward platonic relationship between a male and female character? but okay like, listen. nynaeve is the FIRST PERSON (maybe the only person rn??) rand shares his fears with re: tam not being his dad and him not knowing who he is. and nynaeve immediately reassures him that it doesn't matter, she saw tam and kari with him and she KNOWS they loved him like any father and mother

or like, the scene when rand overhears lan and nynaeve having their whole Dramatic Star-Crossed Romance (which is like, cool, but also, can't wait for lan to get over his TTRPG Tragic Backstory [affectionate] and kiss her already), and the chapter ends with a line like "Rand closed his eyes. He did not think the Wisdom would like it if he saw her cry." good GOD!

how old are these kids supposed to be anyway. like i know nynaeve is older by a few years and she's...24? so are the rest 18-20ish? oh my god you guys, they're KIDS

i'm sure i will have more thoughts about the other characters as these books progress and shit continues to pop off and Get Funky (especially relevant vis a vis perrin going full wolf mode and egwene learning how to be an aes sedai). also i love how often it's repeated that people from the two rivers are The Most Stubborn People Alive, and how rand holds onto that as part of his identity (re: envisioning hardy two rivers soil)

now let us talk about the world because OH MY GOD

one of the things that definitely stuck with me was the secret hidden lore re: "this is actually post-post-post apocalyptic earth", cf. thom telling stories about "lenn flying to the skies in an eagle made of fire" and "salya walking among the stars", because it is so fucking insane as a concept and jordan does it REALLY WELL, in the sense that any references to "our" earth are so oblique and indirect that they're barely comprehensible, which is as it should be if these books take place a whole two ages later

but it's also such a perfect excuse/reason to deliberately echo and make homage to myths and stories that we as readers are familiar with, the most obvious being the legend of artur hawkwing (and also half of our main cast having arthurian-esque names). something something george lucas saying that it's like poetry, it rhymes

the part that really dropped me flat on my ass though was when perrin and egwene and elyas are leaving the tinkers and elyas LITERALLY recites anglican catechism at them ("as it once was, so shall it ever be, world without end"), reader i screamed

that being said. i do kind of wish there was more Weird Religion Bullshit. i mean it makes sense that the cosmology and people's theological beliefs are pretty universal (given that it's a Canonical Big Deal Historical Event that the embodiment of evil punched a hole in reality and made magic evil and fucked up for men forever), but like. where is the variety! where is the spice! where are the religious freaks! give me religious freaks!!!

however this is ameliorated by the fantastic variety in cultures/societies/stories, and also the overarching theme of "the world has moved on from what it once was". like, everything with loial (also strong contender for Supporting Character Of All Time) talking about the groves and how different the world is from what he'd read about in the stedding! the entire scene with the green man (which still makes me feel completely fucking insane, just btw)! perrin and egwene at the ruined statue of artur hawkwing! moiraine telling the people of emond's field about manetheren! WHEWWWWWWWWWW

like, it really does give you this sense of history and loss. but also i hope that as the books go on it gets more into, like, "okay, the world has moved on and nothing will ever be as it once was. so what are we going to do with the world we have? how are we going to keep it safe and let it grow?"

sidenote: the tragedy of listening to the audiobooks is that i can't flip back to look at the map or the glossary if i start getting a little lost 😭 help i just want to get everything Right in my head

i also feel like jordan does a fantastic job of like...getting the reader further and further into the more fantastical or impactful elements of the world step by careful step and pacing out how he escalates the characters' importance to the world. does this make any sense.

like, baerlon -> whitebridge -> caemlyn is a steady stepwise escalation in Experiencing A City. and the one-two-three combo of loial explaining ta'veren to rand + rand overhearing a farmer gossip about queen morgase and her family + the repeated references to seeing the false dragon in caemlyn all leads perfectly into rand falling into the garden and the entire chapter with elayne and gawyn and morgase. (side note: this chapter was fucking incredible, good god i am obsessed with royal political bullshit.) OR having all these moments of the characters with moiraine to establish her nature, then providing an immediate contrast with the introduction of elaida as the "other" aes sedai. DOES THIS MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL. it's dominoes, baby

okay i have a few other miscellaneous thoughts

i fucking love how unapologetically trope-y these books are. it is so crunchy. not just vis a vis the hero's journey, but also, like, all the repeated motifs? spooky symbolic dream sequences? excerpts from in-universe writings and poetry? Foreshadowing Via Fortune-Telling? chef's kiss

also, dude, i love that robert jordan really dropped all of the fucking symbols for the next who knows how many books into three paragraphs via min. he knew the girlies would go crazy for this. AND HE WAS RIGHT

same goes for the whole concept of ta'veren, like i know on the surface it's kind of a goofy concept that you are Assigned Main Character At Birth by the wheel/the pattern, but also like. this man knew people on tumblr would be obsessing over characters doomed/haunted by narratives 30 years after these books were published. his third eye was OPEN

in a bizarre way so much of the story elements and pacing feels like a d&d campaign. mat is the rogue who picks up stuff he really shouldn't. perrin is a barbarian that accidentally took a level in druid. lan is the dm's npc blorbo with the intricately detailed tragic backstory that gets dumped on the players all at once (this is affectionate i swear). do you see what i'm saying

hi i love these books a lot already and i can't wait for them to get even more insane. thanks 4 ur time

[sobredunia]

Kenikari boundaries

You can RP as the characters

Do NOT make them as AI to roleplay with them

Do NOT feed anything kenikari related to AIs, be it images or dialogue or whatever else

You can make OCs and self inserts and selfship

You can make merch as long as you're not a company. You can sell the merch for money

You can make POC, sexuality, gender headcanons... Don't get angry when other people's headcanons don't allign with yours. It's basic etiquette

You can kin these guys and be public about it 👍

NSFW is fine, but keep them to exclusively NSFW sites / tag them properly / put them under readmores. If someone doesn't want to see NSFW they should be able to easily avoid it

Modding the game / looking through the files is totally fine. You can share the mods and the stuff you find

You can get inspired / steal the premise idc. Though a shoutout or credit would be nice

You can use the music for youtube videos / your own games / whatever have you, but you MUST credit the composer. The composer for each track is listed in the game credits

You can use the sprites and backgrounds for shitposts, Kenikari askblogs, etc. Except if it's a commercial thing

You can make money off of Kenikari fanfic, I won't sue or anything

You can make as many AUs as you want forever

[doedipus]

a large amount of time I've been spending on -untitled undefined scope original fiction project- since the last time I posted about it has been trying to develop the protagonist concept I came up with last summer or whatever into like, a character that would feel real and era appropriate.

it's fun research to do. naturally a lot of the details I assigned to her are things that I already think are cool, so it's been a lot of fun trying to trace her traits back through the relatively recent past, getting reminded of how much things have changed, or where the gaps in my intuition are, and then doing a flurry of reading to get a sense for exactly how someone like her and the people around her could have happened and what her life was probably like leading up to her present day. hopefully this results in some good good verisimilitude.