#dof asks

[ghostputty]

👑 for 3 characters of your choice!!

god they r so .......

oc outfit ask game !!!

[arttsuka]

Draw Dipper and Clifford the Red Dog together (you will get the reference 🥹)

I-I don't know if I get the reference...

[whyeverr]

I am such a fan of your rebuild a city series. I love everything about it. Just a question, where it concerns editing are you using a gradient overlay on your photos to have the brownish hue/tone effect? Or just reshade/gshade?

hiiiii Jae! I love everything about this question! mostly because I love any excuse to ramble about any / all particulars of my bacc 🥰

I play on Mac so can't or maybe supposedly theoretically "could" but can't be bothered to figure out how to run reshade, so all processing is after the fact in Lightroom.

just playing in dimly-lit interiors and the stagnant yellow pollution haze of Evergreen Harbor lays a lot of the ground work, so my base preset's primary job is honestly kind of to counteract the dinge: cranking exposure and brightening shadows, dropping contrast and saturation, plus some slight color grading to make things perfectly imperfect (and yes lol very warm):

of course, two wrongs don't necessarily make a right, so I work from there to make any necessary adjustments (like Octavia's left hand, which was blown out from resting on Queso's rump in the single patch of natural light):

my favorite bit though is the texture and clarity adjustments that give everything a bit of a Vaseline-on-the-lens, dewy, radioactive, post-apocalyptic glow. 🥹 I find this to be especially noticeable on world deco objects that are already somewhat hazy in the distance to begin with (like the water from the dam or yellow metal structures on the hydropower plant):

this is the element of my editing style that I personally find "pretty." 🙂 I sometimes find myself wondering whether I'm doing myself a disservice by leaning so heavily into the ugly with everything from the way I edit to ugly builds and questionable outfit (and now also makeup) choices... but I can't imagine doing it a different way! perhaps as things progress and we work past the point of just surviving and towards building something better...?

[mechpanels]

Humanize tootoo

hihi !! so i already have a human tootoo design,,, BUT i took this as an opportunity to draw her again !!

also here's a humanized pongping forr @jjdogasaur ^_^

[stoopystuppy]

HI! Is it too much to ask for a small Dukesaw drawing? I just really love your art style and I wanna see them in it.

You don't have too if you don't want to.

what do you mean this isn't what happened /j

[pictureamoebae]

Hey! I'm the anon that asked the question about the odd gap between the blur of my Sim + the background. I wanted to come back to let you know that it was due to the edge smoothing being turned on! In case anybody may be having the same issue, then it could be that for them as well. Thank you to you and those that replied to the ask. <3

Hi anon! Thank you so much for confirming. It's really useful to have a proper cause. I'm glad it's fixed for you now!

[holocene-sims]

list 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to simblrs whose sims you adore ʚ♡ɞ

hi maria!! thank you so much for the ask!!

i think i'll chat about soobin this time - she is a "newer" character of mine and hasn't gotten as much screen time as the others, so here's a feature for her :)

soobin is infamously a huge fan of reality TV, but you know what else she's into? reality *competition* shows. she's applied to be a contestant on a bunch of these shows and never heard back, but she still dreams of being a contestant on, like, survivor or the amazing race. it's kind of her life's dream (outside of her career and family aspirations, that is) and she will keep endlessly applying to these shows until she's invited to be a contestant.

she has a complicated relationship with her parents. she keeps them around in her life and thinks it's important that they are active in her potential future children's lives, but they don't always get along. as a child and a teen, soobin resented them a lot for shipping her off to live with her aunt in america to attend an expensive private school for a quote unquote better education, and they've never really forgiven her for lashing out at them back then. these days, the primary barriers in their relationship are their religious and political disagreements + the fact that her parents do not like henry all that much. they're nice enough to his face but bitch about him behind his back.

she was a sorority girl! she joined one for the social connections but also for the volunteering and charity work. i think she was very much a model sorority girl, always involved with everything and making herself useful to the sorority's goals and members. to this day, her sorority sisters are still her best friends and she participates in various alumni events.

autumn is her favorite season! she's a big fan of colder weather (aka SOUP WEATHER), cozy sweaters, going all out for halloween, going apple and pumpkin picking, enjoying pumpkin spice flavored/scented goods, etc. oh, and she loves the autumnal color palette, too!

she genuinely despises cleaning. when she lived by herself, she was pretty bad about leaving stuff everywhere, not putting up laundry, forgetting to clean the stove, and so on. it's kind of the same situation with her car. and this is the other half of why she and henry have their "i'll cook, you clean" arrangement. if he cooks, it'll be terrible. if she's left to the cleaning, it'll never get done, nor will it be done to an adequate standard lmao.

[rosapexa]

Part time model Lexa 😉

El Capitan Tank and Alt Boots by Breezypunk and Anrui Murasaki 💛

[minimooberry]

js wanted to say i adore ur “avani” reshade sm i use it all that time <33

AWWW THANK YOU SOOO MUCHHH

[ghostputty]

🏄 for alexia, virve, and dorart !!!

this would be the funniest crossover episode

oc outfit ask game !!!

[justjstuff]

Hi, I really enjoyed Daughter of Fire and recently I've been into bookbinding and I would really love to make DoF a book for personal use only, if that would be alright with you.

Hello! Thanks for asking!

I honestly think any type of inspiration my story gives people is the best compliment ever and it fills my heart with joy <3 As long as there's no profit being made, ofc, and we're just enjoying things together and having fun!

DoF will be finished, though, so I'm not sure that would be something you would like! As an author, it's kinda sucky to look back at those first chapters and realise all the mistakes I made and just generally watch me stumble my way through being a better writer but I'm eternally glad that you would think DoF as it is is good enough to become one of your bookbinding projects!

Let me know if you go through with it and send me pics, please! Just please be aware that this version is still not edited and I still have many many chapters to post ;)

[retiredcultistredux]

Prince fluff please be quick kirby and hyness are in danger.

Also, good luck with Ester.

Prince Fluff: "Yeah, I know--"

He rolled his eyes before scoffing, which led into him ranting as he ran down the hall.

[...Yeesh.]

[stoopystuppy]

Hi hi i really like your art especially your Heathers drawings and doodles!! They always light up my day for sure! It'd be cute to see some more mcnamawyer in your style if its alright with ya :]

hey hi! thank you so much :DD reading this makes me so happy, i'm glad i could lighten up your day :DD! have some soft mcnamawyer :]]

it's raining and they're watching a movie together 💙💛

and have an extra one:

[tau1tvec]

Would you be realeasing ur cas friendly clarity reshade please and is it still for reshade 2?

Yes, and yes it’s still for Reshade 2.

[pictureamoebae]

Hello! i'm new to reshade and i'm having problems with DOF, i can't focus on objects, my hole screen looks blurry. i followed all what people asked you about DOF (your answers) and nothing seem to work for me, Please Help me. i have done everything and the same problem persist

Hey. Usually the issue here is the depth buffer isn't set up correctly. The main things to check are:

turn off Edge Smoothing in the game's graphics options

open Global Preprocessor Definitions in the ReShade menu and change reshade_depth_input_is_reversed from a 1 to a 0

ensure you're using the ReShade version that has full addon support

If you've done both of those things, please check if other depth effects are working as intended. These include things like MXAO and Adaptive Fog, and other DoF shaders.

If they are working correctly, then it is likely a problem with the specific DoF shader you're using. In that case, check with the creator of it to see if there's an updated version you can download. Otherwise, perhaps try using a different DoF shader if you find one that works.

If they aren't working correctly, that suggests it's a problem with the depth buffer itself, that you don't have it set up correctly.

[thefallenangelsgang]

Even more underrated form of intimacy:

Feeling like you are suffocating in your armor and their hands being the ones to free you from the depths of your despair. Their hands being the reason you can breathe again. Their hands pulling the weight of the world off your shoulders and freeing you from your prison and wiping away the tears. Cleaning your face and giving you the chance to truly rest.

Your work is done. It was foul and soul crushing, but it is done. Rest now. I've got it.

Underrated form of intimacy:

The quiet discussion and good-luck affirmations between you and the person helping you don your armor. The comfort of knowing that the straps and buckles are perfectly secure, because the person who did them up loves you more than words can say.