#how colourful the outside can be

[limielle]

honeyed words on a honey moon

[imerian]

Vr46 academy keychains

Set of five charms that all match in different ways

˚　　　　✦　　　.　　. 　 ˚　.　　　　 . ✦　　˚　

Open for detailed pictures of each one

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ *ੈ✩‧₊˚

ִֶָ 𓂃˖˳·˖ ִֶָ ⋆★⋆ ִֶָ˖·˳˖𓂃 ִֶָ

:･ﾟ✧:･.☽˚｡･ﾟ✧:･.:

˖⁺‧₊˚⭒✮⭒˚₊‧⁺˖

. ݁₊ ✶. ݁ ˖ˎˊ˗

I ran out of tags so I'll say it here but i would greatly appreciate a reblog, especially if you share your thoughts on these pieces in tags (⁠｡⁠•̀⁠ᴗ⁠-⁠)⁠✧

(Also i forgot that bez have matching part with luca so I didn’t add that to tags sorry

[rowenabean]

friends it is time for the annual

Don't Get SAD Plan

I was starting to think maybe it was time and then I realised today is the equinox so: northern hemisphere friends, this is your official handover of the sun. Look after her, we want her back in a few months. you can ignore the rest of this post

but for those of us in the Glorious Southern Hemisphere: time to beat the SAD sads!

my plan encompasses 3 domains: figure out what to revel in in the season, create things to look forward to, and also cover the basics: food, move your body, vitamin D. The specifics are slightly different to last year (the first time I made an official plan) but the domains remain the same.

This year's plan for me:

spend time outside first thing in the morning

fairy lights go UP when daylight savings kicks in

sit around the fireplace (big win of this year: I have a fireplace) with fancy hot chocolates (I reserve the really good, melt your own dark chocolate style hot chocolates for the winter months)

daily walk

knit a sweater (this is the same sweater as last year)

find or make at least 1-2 cozy winter-only outfits (non-knit)

find mulled wine/cider occasions

plan a holiday in July/August

Everyone else in this hemisphere is very welcome to join me in a don't get SAD plan! (Name optional, I just find the acronym entertaining.) I did come up with it myself but based on conversations with an excellent psychologist when I was in the throes of my SAD the previous year, and it really truly made a difference

[scarapanna]

Woe

WIP be upon ye once more

Shadow milk uh I mean """"""Pure Vanilla""""" in 4k now whdhshfb/silly

[ghoul--doodle]

I couldn’t settle on one colour so this guy gets all of them

[keeps-ache]

in a cafe rn. this place is nice :>

[wavesoutbeingtossed]

Also my kingdom for a subtle nude mauvey pink lipstick/colour that actually looks the way it’s supposed to when you’re not under harsh fluorescent department store lighting 😩

[bmpmp3]

lemme tell you im starting to get a little sick of when im complaining about when a show or movie is writing a major female character with not as much depth as her male cohorts or she's written oddly plot device-like for a main character and people always tell me "oh but it's intentional, we're seeing her through the eyes of the male main character and he has a crush on her so he doesnt see her flaws" because like

FIRST of all yeah i get it but its hard to write that trope interestingly to me at this point without a lot of work put into subversion so intentionality doesnt make it any less boring

SECONDLY half the time people say this about ensemble cast stuff and like why is the random dude suddenly designated as the most perspective of all perspective characters when it comes to this specific woman. why dont we get to see the other characters perspectives on her too?

AND THIRDLY do people view women they have crushes on as bland plot devices without lives of their own enough irl that this is so universal in writing? isnt the point of having a crush wanting to hang out and know more about your crush, know about their likes and dislikes and all that. am i missing something here

[janamensch]

When you’re so so tired because it’s either very late or very early but you have to go to the park with your pokemon to get them enrichment because you can’t go to the park with them during the day because they don’t get along well with other pokemon

[deanpinterester]

once again watching room makeover videos and wishing i could do SOMETHING to my room

[aria0fgold]

You ever just see a character so loved by its creators that it shows through the character itself?

[keeps-ache]

lemon is good on everything, lime is good on the things that are not everything, and so the world remains in balance

[izzy-b-hands]

I am realising how many spots I missed trying to shave the back and sides of my head last night (down to skin this time bc it grows back so fast and it gets so hot in the summer bc my hair is thick)

This isn’t necessarily an excuse to start saving towards the Boomtown Rats mirror in their shop, but also, I could totally ask Housemate to put a lil hook on the opposite bathroom wall to the main mirror, and we could like. put that there for haircuts and find some cool art to habitat the hook the rest of the time and then the mirror could otherwise reside in my room unless needed for the aforementioned haircuts (bc I don’t yet have a mirror in there and I didn’t think I really needed/wanted one?? until I realised I was trying to style my hair in the flip view/selfie view of my phone camera a few days ago and was like. Oh.)

But also. Isn’t it?

[awkward-teabag]

You know what, I'm going to add to this after all. Ray tracing is a gimmick and infamous for how intensive it is on hardware where it updates in real time, such as in video games. Before it was considered at all feasible outside rendering CGI, there were other methods of simulating light that were far easier for hardware to handle and, honestly, the difference between them (I can't remember what the name of the algorithm is) and ray tracing is minimal.

Adding to the problem is video card manufacturers pushing it while not increasing the VRAM on cards that are now expected to handle ray tracing, NPC scripts/AI, all other graphics, and stream encoding at the same time. GPUs have not seen a meaningful increase in VRAM in years despite the push of 4k graphics and ray tracing.

Oh and handling generating in-between frames to increase FPS/hide poor optimisation and up-scaling from 1080p to 4k or 8k. Sometimes both at the same time (in addition to the rest).

Further compounding it is consoles using stripped down versions of GPUs but not allowing users to upgrade them or other hardware. At least not in an easy way that doesn't void the warranty.

There's only so much that can be off-loaded to other components and it is a Choice™ to decide not to include an option to disable features that minimally improve the graphics (I specify graphics since more than one game has been released where turning off ray tracing wasn't the first thing recommended to turn off if you wanted to hit 30+ FPS) but can and do overwhelm GPUs.

Mandatory Ray Tracing should be banned in games. Genuinely absurd to think the majority of consumers are running high performing RTX graphics cards.

[aria0fgold]

Colour circles connect the dot...

Alright, I couldn't resist not posting something bout my art wip but this is so vague anyway that it's fine and also I find it so funny how it looks like a vaguely shaped tiny t-rex.