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[realactualfancontent]

Hello! Read some of your Dunwich chapters and they are pretty good. Is there a cronocal order to them and are there more chapters? Like on fanfiction or Archive of our own?

So most of what’s posted here is based on now defunct RP blogs.  But you want Wilbur Whateley Goes Shopping part 1 then 2, then Whateley Family Fluff.  Keziah Mason meets The Whateley’s can kinda be slotted in anywhere.  

And the two Highschool AU fic’s are part of a highs chool AU and that’s all the context your really need.  

I do occasionally still do things with The Whateley Gang, but I’m usually posting them on my personal writing blog since they aren’t related to the RPblogs anymore.  

I might post things on AO3 At some point, but I’m honestly super nervous to do so.   

Thank you for reading by the way!  I’m always really glad when someone stumbles on them.  

[thedrawingduke]

Why does Monster/Eric/Phantom have a weak spot on small and fragile people (Like Raoul)?

Everyone is small to him so I think he a: wishes he was small himself and b: has resigned himself to the fact that he is large and has this desire to be in control of or protect or observe people around him as a coping mechanism for his anxiety :,) 

[nooradeservedbetter]

@eitherangel replied to your photoset “Summer readings! I don’t have #aesthetic pics but I’m pretty happy...”

Wish to hear your opinion about Abarat later :)

i think it’s the next one i’m starting! i have to brush up the other two books because i read them so long ago that i’m mostly ????? now, but it was one of my favourite sagas, so i can’t wait to read absolute midnight :D

[a-gnosis]

eitherangel replied to your photo: theia-mania-comics: Anthesteria 067. DU DUN!...

Wow! I didnt know Demeter have another daughter. Who is the father?

Arion is male (though I guess I gave him quite feminine eyes). Or were you referring to Despoina? According to the Thelpousians in Arkadia Demeter gave birth to a daughter as well as to the horse Arion (but in the Phigaleian cult only Arion is mentioned). This daughter was officially called Despoina and her true name was revealed only to initiates. I chose not to include her in my story, since it would have complicated things a bit too much.

The name of the father will probably be revealed on the next page (if you don’t want to wait you can always google it). These Arkadian cults and myths are quite interesting and the only reason why I haven’t talked more about them, is that I didn’t want to spoil things for those of my readers who weren’t already familiar with them. ^^

[rosymaplemoth]

@eitherangel: I wonder who is going to win?  ;p

I can tell you that! It’s Pickman. Wilbur make look huge but (headcanon incoming) he doesn’t have a skeletal structure-- he has an exoskeleton under his skin. So he looks really tough and bulky but his muscles just... aren’t the same as BIG BEEFY PICKMAN.

[malakiart]

[Gaston Leroux’s Erik]

The most handsome man on Earth :3 @eitherangel ;)

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[stachekitto]

Meet Me! XD Tag @eitherangel I would like to meet you.

[eitherangel]

Today is my birthday! Nothing special to celebrate. I`m turning 29 and one year left til I`m 30. Feeling like a old lady already! :P To celebrate this event and give myself a small treat I asked for a commisson from our Lovely Lovecraft author Tindalosmalakia to draw a potrait of me and our Little Wilbur Whateley. He`s such sweet little brat and as you can see he`s not really a hugger. ;P

Thank you Tindalosmalakia. 

[thedrawingduke]

I`m curious about your drawing tecnique. What sort of drawing tablet do you use and pencils when you`re working with Fantomestein?

I use the iPad pro + Procreate + the Dizzy Tara brushes (oval sketch, almost always) or the inking shale brush (and various other basics from the app). 

Thanks for asking! 

[labyrinthresource]

Do you know where I can read the Marvel comic "The Labyrinth" somehwere in the Internet world? Or perhaps download it? Please, I would love to read it! :-)

Sorry, I don’t. :c I checked Marvel Unlimited and didn’t see it listed. It may be available elsewhere, but I don’t know of it. If someone else does, feel free to reblog this with an answer!

Though slightly pricey, and not ideal, you can buy the physical copies (either the three separate issues or the Marvel Super Special # 40 omnibus) on Ebay or Amazon.

[alpacawallop]

We dont know yet when Abarat: Kry Rising is coming out but after you read the books there are plenty of nice Abarat fanart and fanfictions out there you can dig in to. :) my recommendations are "redstocknings" and "christophercarrioned" lovely stories and mine "The Nightmare Catcher." You can read them here or in the website fanfiction

Ahh, I see! Well, here’s hoping that Kry Rising won’t take too much longer to get published.

Like I mentioned in my tags, waiting seven years for Absolute Midnight was awful. You’d watch the release date get further and further away & it was very disheartening.

Don’t get me wrong, I understand Clive Barker is a human being not a story generating robot, so he has a very busy life! I just have a super soft spot for his YA works bc I read them as a YA. A shocking concept, I know. ;)

Thanks for the recommendations! I will definitely look into those as soon as I’m done re-reading the series. :D

[ligbi]

eitherangel said:Just curious, how do you make these "gif" pictures? Like the Abarat screenshots "scenes"?

Yooo Thank you for the question super rad. I might have answered this in way more detail than you wanted, but it’s done so hopefully you can get something out of it and it’s useful to someone. For others, these are the Gif Sets in question. Also TL:DR, Loosley plan based on book content, find and rip shit off youtube, make stuff into gifs, edit the hell out of it, rake in the multiples of notes.

THE TUMBLR SHORTCUT TO JUMP PAST A POST IS J. HIT THE J KEY TO JUMP PAST THIS LONG POST. SO LONG. LONG POST FOR TS. Sorry mobile. 

Okay so book based edits are dumb and subjective which means you have a lot of options which is not actually a good thing because then you get to make decisions and it’s gross but ok.

First: I pick a poem and how I’m breaking it down. 10 or less lines/line combinations because a one line of poem = one gif. Clearly this wouldn’t have to transfer to every book based gif set, but picking a set number for whatever reason in advanced is good to limit your self.

Second: Pick what things are being giffed. I’ve been shying away from people due to individual interpretation, and it’s also easier to find and edit a more ‘idealized’ setting type of image such as a building or an animal. Also using images of people that we’re about to rip of youtube could get weird creepy.

Third: Rip videos off youtube. You have one idea per gif that you want, now you need footage of said thing. Vague concepts like squid, bridal gown, lighthouse. This way you have flexibility because we have no set source for our images so we will pick from what we can find on the web. So youtube. If you know of other sites, particularly stock footage (watermark free) to get videos from, that is great.

-I actually based this whole gifset concept off a Night Vale set I can no longer find or possibly severely mis-remembered. They used footage for at least one gif from a major film, which is great if you see a scene in a movie or t.v. show that will work for what you want. Personally, I can’t think of ‘the right scene’ off hand for anything to have ripped from say Thor, but any media that works, go for it.

Four: Rip the video from youtube (or where ever). I’ve been using clipconverter.cc. I have also been trying to, when I can choose between two pieces of potential footage, pick the one with settings of at least 720p. 480 minimum. You can set the size you want to rip from on clipconverter, and also pick a segment of the video rather than download one hour of field footage when you need maximum ten seconds.

Five: Get the frames. VLC is your best friend. Free, small, video player with customizational buttons. Tools > Customize Interface > drag the Frame by Frame button into the main toolbar that is under the screen. This lets you go through the video frame by frame so you can get a consistent frame rate (But you can also usually grab every other frame. Click frame-by-frame twice, take a screenshot, repeat). You also need to set your screenshot hotkey to a convenient button (I use , myself). Tools > Preferences > Show Settings: All > Interface > Hotkey Settings > Take video snapshot, and then set it to whatever key you like best. Now that you have all the settings set up to take screenshots, open the video, go to the start of the scene you’ll want and begin the frame/snapshot process. For these sets, I’ve been using 24 frames per gif. I make sure to take at least 30 frames during my screencaps to account for any accidental duplicated frames and leave some wiggle room to pick the gif from (I usually have been taking more like 40+ but it’s a pretty fast process).

Okay so now you have your ideas and your frames. Now you need your editing software. I use Photoshop CS3. Most of what I do should be do-able with some word-switch in Gimp, and of course in other versions of photoshop. Here’s where the images ^ come in.

1. File > Scripts > Load Files into Stack. A window opens and you can Browse to select your 30+ frames from whatever folder they were saved to. Windows you can click on the first/last of the frames you want, and then ctrl+click on the last/first frame to select them all at once. Once you’re done, the files all load into one window as separate layers.

2. Open the Animation window from the Windows button. This is where you do the basic layers to gif process.

3. Here you see only one frame. Nah, we want all those layers you just opened into a stack as frames. So in

4. You select the drop down button on the upper far right (V=), which opens up

5. Select Make frames from layers. Bam. In 3, you should now see your 30 frames. Click the play button under frame 2 and make sure they are in the right order. Sometimes they end up backwards. Use the 4 drop down again and Select All Frames, then Reverse Frames. Play again to make sure the order is correct. Now trim down the frames to whatever number you want. Just make sure that unless it is a duplicated frame, you take it from the start or end and not the middle where you will wreck the flow of the gif. Select all frames again, and in any of them, the small down arrow under a frame you want to click to select the frame rate. I go for a custom .08 myself.

6. You want a gif Set so you want everything to match nice (this is also why every gif will be the same number of frames at the same rate). You have this large image that you probably don’t want to use all of. Also for tumblr style gif sets, off center and close cropped is well received, but that’s your personal design. Picking the the Rectangular Marquee Tool (select box) in your Tool window, there should be new options in the top. For style, pick Fixed Ratio and type in the ratio you want your final gif to be. 540 is the max gif width, so if you want a single gif in a row, you want this for your width. 268 for two across, and 177 for three in a row. This is why you plan out (loosely) what you want your set to look like at the beginning. Three is the maximum amount of images allowed in a row in tumblr’s photoset designs. For height, make this the same no matter what the width. I have 151 for my sets, but I no longer recall why. So, your call. Then select your image (if your video or selection is on the smaller size, go for Fixed Size rather than Fixed Ratio to insure you do not crop your image smaller than the gif size you want) and Image > Crop. Then Image > Image Size > selected Width/Height that you have chosen for your set. If your Contrain Porportions box is checked, selecting the width should automatically change the height to the correct proportion from your previous selection.

6.5. Go get a drink or something. Make sure all the gifs you want to make for your set have completed the previous sets, and have been saved as .psd filed (or the appropriate equivalent). You’re through the ‘work’ part. Now onto the fun editing shit.

7. See that Black/White circle at the bottom of your layers window? That’s your fill layer, and you love it. Make sure you have selected the first frame in your animation window, and first layer in the layer window. Now, pick the adjustments you like. This is all you and your personal design. I always go for the Exposure (+Exposure, -Offset, -Gamma Correction) and Curves (+Output -Input @ 190, -Output + Input @ 65) no matter what the gifs. Then depending on what I’m doing, Hue/Saturation, Gradient Map, Levels, Brightness/Contrast, sometimes even Pattern. Do not forget to play with the Blending Modes for some of these layers (especially Gradient Map). You can find your Blending Mode and the opacity of the layer at the top of the Layer window. This is all you and what you think looks good and what the video footage looks like and what you want the output to look like. No wrong answer.

8. Okay so back to these Abarat Gifs in particular. I’ve slapped a Solid Color layer on top of all the frames and fills. Color b3b3b3, Hard Light mode and 51% opacity (the same for every gif to make them a consistent set). Not every set I’ve done for Abarat has been the same fill here because I’m still playing with what looks good every time, but these settings are one of the options I’ve gone with. Once again, your call, your style. This sets a nice faded overlay that you might not want for what you’re doing. It also kills a lot of what you did in step 7, but that’s why

9. You delete part of the gray layer with the text you want (or don’t- one second). Pick your font and base size (you can, depending on text length, increase/decrease size of the text per gif within the set), and make sure it is all in the center alignment. Select the entire image (ctrl+a is nifty) and pick the move tool once you have your text typed out, and at the top below your File/Edit/Image bar, look to the right of Show Transform Controls. You can now select the Align Vertical/Horizontal Center buttons, which perfectly centers your text. Nice.

10. Now that you have your text centered, select it with your Magic Wand tool. Hide your text layer and click your #8 grey layer. Delete. Bam, now you can see the nicely colored gif beneath the desaturated layer. Click play and you should be almost good to go. Alternatively, instead of deleting the text area from the desaturated layer,

10.2. Set your text layer’s blend mode to something like Soft Light. And/or adjust the opacity. This of course all depends on what you want the final product to look like and how closely you’ve followed the style of the gifs this is based on.

Un-numbered step but always good for all gifs: Once you’ve clicked play and you’re pretty happy with the final look, select all frames and select all layers. Bottom right of the Animation Window, Convert to Timeline Animation. In the Filter button up top, Convert for Smart Filters. If the video you used was a lower resolution, Blur Surface blur maybe to your appeal. Either way, after that, you’ll want to Sharpen > Smart Sharpen to look (50-100 amount myself). Then you’re ready to File > Save for Web & Devices. Make sure the looping options are Forever, and the file format is GIF. Unless your gif is 540 wide and particularly tall, 256 colors should still keep you under the 2mb file size maximum (you can see the size in the bottom left of the Save for window). I like Selective and Pattern for the Color Reduction Algorithm and Dither Algorithm. Your call, again.

Soooooo now everything should be saved. Then you upload to tumblr and add a caption and tags and yeah. If you have any questions on the details of my process, I’m clearly willing to talk too much about this shit so ask or w/e.

[goth-tier]

eitherangel replied to your post: eitherangel asked:Whats you favor...

Oh yes, First we have Red Stockings Abarat stories; “Midnight” and “Stars like the dark”. Her stories are the most popular ones, very fun to read. Then we have mine “The Nightmare catcher”. You can read the stories on fanfiction net if you wish.

thank you so much oh my gosh i know what ill be doing tonight

[tattered-art]

eitherangel's OC Carrie Reilly

[skizoh]

Love the Christopher Carrion and Mendelson Shape drawings :) Cant you draw Mater Motley for us? Please.

Thank you so much! :D 

I have a lot of works to do…but I’m on it to  catch up.

actually, she’s been in my mind too. I already made some rough sketches. probably I’ll go wild on her chase. ;)

here’s one of those sketches:

[eitherangel]

Dunwich Horror by H.P Lovecraft. Designed, illustrated and layout by me for my portfolio.