#but REALLY wanted to contribute to this week

[sirfrogsworth]

I'm still getting comments from people saying they've never seen Mr. Rogers.

It's clear this is my mistake. I really thought I made it clear I was just using that as an example. People are exposed to miniature photography all the time. Mr. Rogers was just a very strong memory for a lot of folks and I was trying to use that to gain interest. But after so many comments of that nature it seems I failed to convey that.

People also question the psychological aspect. I was really hoping to do an in depth explaination of the psychology of perception as an addition to this post. But shortly after I started feeling horrible and I never got around to it.

But there is one fun fact I found that I was really excited to share.

It is theorized that up to 90% of our visual perception is created by our brain based on past experiences.

Up to 90% of what you are currently looking at is your brain using old information to help you make sense of the immense visual input.

It is constantly making shit up and it makes me wonder if ghosts and UFOs and strange phenomenon are often caused by this.

You can look up Richard Gregory's "visual assumption theory" if you want to go down a rabbit hole.

There is also top-down vs bottom-up processing which is really fascinating too.

Top-down is stuff you've already experienced. It helps you read faster. You can see words instead of individual letters. Y_u ca_ ev_n re_d when letters are missing. Sometimes you will not notice misstakes or or duplicate words. Your brain can actually correct them as you read if you are not actively searching for them.

Bottom-up processing is new stimuli. Your brain has to figure out what it is looking at from scratch. I remember just a few weeks ago I saw a photo showing a perspective I have never encountered before.

At first, my brain literally didn't know what I was looking at.

I was confused and disturbed and I was just trying to interpret all the shapes and features to parse what I was seeing. And finally my brain noticed the hooves and teeth and then magically I saw a horse. And now when I look at the photo I can't not see a horse.

Basically everything we've experienced (or not experienced) influences our present perception. There is too much stimuli in the world for our brains to compute so it fills in a lot of blanks as we go.

People wondered if you hadn't seen Mr. Rogers (or the countless other examples of miniatures), would you still see tilt-shit photos as a miniature. And I'm not really sure. That would be difficult to prove. Once you've seen a stop motion movie or a toy advertisement, your brain already has stimuli to work from. It's going to use it if it has it in the data banks.

I think it would be a matter of intensity. I noticed that some folks mentioned certain tilt-shift photos did not give them a strong feeling of being miniature. Whereas I had a very strong sense of that for every photo. Probably because I have studied this a great deal and have absorbed countless examples.

So I would say you *might* still get a sense things are miniature without any previous experiences. There are other factors in tilt-shift photos that contribute to the effect. But once you have those experiences, they are going to inform and intensify your perception from then on.

The short answer is... a tilt-shift lens.

The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.

Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.

Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.

Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.

Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.

The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.

But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.

If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.

But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.

The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.

However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.

Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.

And possibly Mister Rogers.

Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.

Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.

And then when we see something like this...

Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"

Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.

Brains are neat.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Public Divorce AU

Mostly Random ideas/events that will not leave me be. Some I am 100% “Yes, this is how it would play out”, others it’s more “this is the vibe, but I’m not sure on exact events and actions”. As always, we run on suggestions and ‘yes and'ing each other!

- So, the Rogercop thing goes a little differently, cause both André and Audrey showed up for Parents’ Day to try and score some good publicity points, and. Uh. One thing leads to another, and André fires Roger for…well, he gives some legit reason, but the ACTUAL one is that he thought Roger was “taking Audrey’s side”. He wasn’t, for the record. He was actually standing up for both Chloé and Sabrina, and was just trying to get the Bourgeois to maybe calm down. They did not, and Roger ends up fired. Shortly after, Roger starts working at the Museum as a security guard, which it turns out he’s actually pretty good at.

- Most Chloé related Akuma go differently. Instead of going after Chloé, most are going after André or Audrey, cause they showed up and did something stupid. Chloé’s still at root cause for a few, but not nearly so many.

- Chloé does end up meeting Zoé. Zoé and her dad get dragged to Paris by Audrey as part of the “divorce proceedings” (she’s really rubbing them in André’s face). Both are extremely apologetic to Chloé, who’s just “trust me, this is NOT your fault”. They end up sticking around Paris (everyone is confused on WHY) and Zoé starts attending school with the Miracuclass.

- Still stuck on Lila being baffled by how “low maintenance” the class is, when in actuality, it’s more effort, it’s just stuff she enjoys, so it FEELS like less effort. She’s kind of suspicious and waiting for the moment she’ll have to lie to keep these “friends” but it never comes.

- the incident that majorly contributed to Chloé’s current “Don’t Give A Fuck” attitude, was André, in an effort to prove how bad of a parent Audrey is, posting a video of a slightly younger Chloé having a breakdown over something Audrey had done (unsure of what). Like, it was a moment captured by an opportunistic reporter, and at the time, André went to great lengths to ensure that clip NEVER saw the light of day. He basically bought the rights to the footage, meaning if anyone else aired it without his permission, André would be within his rights to sue the hell out of them. Then, when he needs ammo for his dick-measuring contest with Audrey, he uses that clip to prove how awful of a parent she is, proving himself to be just as bad, because he just showed a very vulnerable moment of Chloé’s without her permission. When Chloé tries to confront him about it, André dismisses her concerns, and just points out it’s Audrey’s fault for upsetting Chloé in the first place. 

- André and Audrey start dipping into illegal activity to try and get back at each other.

- when André starts bringing home his new girlfriends, that’s when Chloé unofficially moves out of the Hotel. She does NOT want to be around for this. While she still technically lives at the hotel, and will occasionally spend the night if André had her show up at an event or something, she is otherwise packing up all her stuff and moving into the Agreste Mansion. (It took almost a week for Gabe to realize she’d taken over the guest room closest to Adrien’s.)

- the Style Queen Trilogy goes differently. Or rather, it goes mostly the same, right up until Style Queen is pointing her glitter ray at Adrien. At that point, it gets derailed, by Chloé bodily launching herself at Style Queen and grappling with her, shouting for Adrien to run. Adrien does indeed book it (if he changes into Chat fast enough-), but Chloé gets hit with a glancing blow. And rather than immediately changing into a statue, Chloé starts slowly turning to glitter, starting from where the ray hit, but she’s still conscious and mobile. So she keeps going. Keeps trying to fight Audrey, keeps trying to rip the item off. She kicks, bites, and claws at Audrey, snarling and shouting the whole time. Eventually, she’s too disintegrated to hold on, and Audrey throws her off, resulting in Chloé dissipating into a cloud of glitter upon hitting the ground, vanishing. Ladybug and Chat Noir beat Style Queen, and Miraculous Cure everyone back, but this is the incident that gets Fu to give Chloé the Bee. It’s also the incident that makes Gabe start running all his power ideas for André and Audrey by Nathalie.

- For almost a week after this, Adrien and Sabrina are both extremely clingy. So are most of their friends. Chloé’s actually pretty ok (it didn’t hurt, felt more like going numb, and she was so enraged she barely noticed) but everyone else has ✨trauma✨.

- Infinity War is now banned media for their class.

- Chloé tries to do a “I don’t feel so good, Mister Stark”, sends half her class into a panic attack. 

- the Incident that finally gets both Audrey and André “taken out” so to speak, is near the end of the divorce. Because everything is more or less settled, except for one thing. Who gets custody of Chloé. This is complicated (for them) by Chloé being old enough to have input, which is “I’d rather live in a sewer than with either of them”. The way they decide to handle this is by each trying a big spectacle to prove THEY are the better parent, and said spectacle ends up with Chloé (and possibly others) becoming endangered. Not by an Akuma either, this is just plain mortal stupidity. Also, probably illegal, whatever it is, resulting in both André and Audrey being arrested, and Chloé ends up under someone else’s Guardianship (Gabe? Someone else?). The thing that sprung to mind was they each separately hire some goons to kidnap Chloé, so that they can come in and “save” her, proving that THEY are the superior parent, but they accidentally do it on the same day, so instead they had a mutual shoot out or something.

- because Chloé’s parents get arrested, Chloé gains control over BOTH their financial assets. She promptly begins to sell off EVERYTHING SHE CAN. Some personal effects, she can’t touch, but what she can, she is selling. The hotel? Sold. Style Queen Magazine? Gone. Yachts, cars, jets, stocks - all sold to the highest bidder. Everything they fought over during the divorce, she sells as soon as she can.

Thoughts? Opinions? Comments?

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Ohohoho!

- Au where Roger is decent hell yeah!

- absolute rip to them getting involved but YEAH that’d cause Akumas

- they end up sticking around because Mr. Lee is like ‘well someone has to look out for this kid’s wellbeing’

- Lila is both happy and filled with anxiety.

- OH OUCH. Yeah that’d- that’d really break all love and trust huh? It’s one of those things that Chloé would’ve used to think that Andre scrubbed the video from existence because he cared, but now it’s just so clear that it was only to save his own reputation/image and it taints everything.

- these damn rich people

- I just imagine Gabriel actually showing up to breakfast with Adrien for once only for Chloé to waltz in still half-asleep in pajamas and messed up hair and just steal Adrien’s toast and Gabe is like ????

- Oh this HURTS

- Yeah everyone’s traumatized

- OH SHE WOULD LMAO

- Honestly yeah them doing some ridiculous shit that can’t be handwaved as Hawkmoth’s fault because hey no Akumas this time just them? And that’s the tipping point because sure before this was clearly an unhealthy environment for Chloé but it was never anything that could get them in legal trouble it just made everyone judge them. But now? This is Al Capone’s taxes. Also yeah the incident being them both staging danger to ‘save’ Chloé and prove themselves the ‘better parent’ makes sense.

- selling everything they fought over is the ultimate power move

[crescentfool]

reunion 🌸

[momomallowart]

Togachako week 2025 day 5: Date

TogaChako Week 2025 Day 5: Date

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[ohnoitsnoma]

here’s something

[astrum99]

I am. Contributing to the Gabriel in dresses collection. o7

Process vid under cut

[bisexualcherdegre]

D:BH Rarepairsweek 7 | @dbhrarepairs

Day 7 - Chloe/North | Good Luck, Babe! ~ Chappell Roan

[crownconstellation]

went back to work today yayyyyyyyy

[ladymidnight-goesforth]

Tamlin Week 2024, Day 4: (a belated) Happily Ever After

@tamlinweek

We stood atop the hill in silence, until the setting sun gilded the house and the hills and the world and Lucien called us to dinner. ~ A Court of Thorns and Roses, ch. 45

This was inspired by the meadow scene in Studio Ghibli's "Howl's Moving Castle", hence the Ghibli-esque illustration style I went for here.

Many pro-Tamlin fans prefer to think of ACOTAR as a standalone book, and I am no exception. So my contribution to the "Happily Ever After" theme is them walking off into the sunset at the end of book 1. I hope you like it.

I am the artist. Please do not repost without permission.

[the-stars-are-warring]

For someone who is always trying not to get too in the weeds about Jango Fett I do think about Absentee Father Jango a lot.

Not even in regards to the clones but like. Boba was 10 and that dude was taking jobs and fucking off to Coruscant for weeks like it was nothing.

[plounce]

my emoooootional issues and my physical iiiintimacy issuuuues

[deus-and-the-machina]

I think an underlooked part of what shaped jin’s mindset was how even back in Torna, he was considered “property”. He and Lora spent their whole lives avoiding the authorities of Torna because they believed would straight up execute Lora to get Jin back, and no one ever denies it. and this has seemingly been a fear since Lora was a child. Jin had to hide his face everywhere he went. Maybe Torna wouldn’t have been cruel enough to execute a child, especially since the king seemed decent(?) enough, if not a bit distant. But the fact it was even a fear at all for Lora since she was so young is just awful to think about. 

According to his past self’s journals, Jin and his old driver fought in a war of independence for Torna, perhaps what made him a hero to begin with. and because he’s a war hero for deeds he doesn’t even remember, the kingdom considers him owned by them. Which is on the nose in two different ways ngl. Both in how the Blades are seen and a wider metaphor of soldiers/state. idk it’s just very sad to think about

[tentacleplains]

more scenes that basically everyone sees but pointing out a specific detail i find interesting: "though i hope you don't cause a scene this time" does avery regularly cause scenes at parties?? lmao

[silkpages]

one month off uni LET'S GO!!

[bloodbathfortwo]

” It was a necessary means to an end. ”

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[unopenablebox]

who has any ideas for something really interesting and funny i could do on here that would get lots of people to interact with me online