#i tried to use the colors from the single art but idk if it translated

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happy birthday @alonetogether <3

raleigh ritchie - time in a tree

[wsgeon]

hey everyone! ummm this is peyton (also the mun of lee hyeon) taking a second shot at a second character — i have a lot of muse for this one, so i swear he’ll be around for a while… 🥵 this is ryu geon, yes his name rhymes with hyeon’s & no i do not care ♥️ he’s the lead guitarist/vocalist of meta and also the son of a former nobody rockstar, but i’ll get into all that below! like this post if you’d like for me to come into your ims to plot, click the read more for more info on geon, and/or click here to be taken to his pages: CAREER, DOSSIER, PINTEREST.

HISTORY.

born in autumn ‘97 to a “budding rockstar” (translation: “no yeah i swear our band’s really starting to take off, we sold twenty-three tickets to our last show!”) & a woman with commitment issues ♥️ geon’s dad always told him that his mom left because she had some dire matters that needed to be taken care of and SWORE that she cried the last time she held her dear baby boy, but all of his dad’s bandmates say that she was just some groupie and had to be persuaded into carrying her child to term… who can say for sure?

naturally, there are no pictures of this mystery woman. there was one (1) of her holding infant geon, but then he found out that that was actually a sound tech who worked for his dad’s band… and he just never corrected geon’s assumptions LOLLLL

anyway! he was always really close to his dad, considering they were a two-person family. he has a set of grandparents, an aunt and a couple cousins but they were never involved with geon’s life because his dad is the #blacksheep of the family. geon and his dad against the world, am i right?

uhhh geon was also kind of a black sheep growing up, but he didn’t really notice? he was a happy kid, very energetic and enthusiastic. a lot of adults in the area looked down on him & his dad, but he was SOOOO blind to it because his dad’s a god in his eyes and HE’S always been nice to everyone, so why would they not like him??? because his clothes smelled a little like dad’s cigarette smoke??? big deal

wasn’t troublesome (beyond talking too much), but a lot of people still expected bad things from him :/ “his father’s a dirtbag, i’ll be surprised if that boy doesn’t end up in jail by 20”, “he won’t amount to anything without a proper role model in his life”, “his dad is teaching him how to slack off”, “he won’t contribute anything to society”, etc. he kindaaa picked up on this as he got older but pretended not to because it was more rewarding to play dumb and keep being a good kid(tm) to prove them wrong

was basically a mini version of his dad. same style, similar features, birthmarks in the same places, same “live today, die tomorrow” approach in life, same affinity for singing & playing rock music. ummm he loved his dad a lot. a lot. a lot. wanted to make him proud SO BAD, started his first band when he was 15 and they sucked so bad but his dad was their biggest fan… you know how it is. a lot of people misunderstood him, but he was a very good guy and such a great parent

TW DEATH unfortunately he passed away just shy of geon’s 18th birthday and your boy still hasn’t forgiven the world for taking his dad when he was in the middle of his angsty teen phase — had he known that their time together was dwindling, he would’ve been so so so much better to him END TW

his dad’s band actually rocketed into the charts after he passed & suddenly they were getting loads of publicity, lots of “what a shame that he went under-appreciated” which pissed geon off SOOOO bad because why couldn’t they have had that energy when he was still alive? he’s still mad about it five/six years later

this is getting kinda long, so uhhh tl;dr, he ended up staying with the drummer of his dad’s band until he was old enough to live alone/READY to live alone, but he changed quite a bit. was really going through it, quit his band, stopped putting effort into school. barely graduated. went from being a social butterfly spending every weekend at a gig or with friends to spending all of his time on a pc or in front of a tv, playing console games. the internet comforted him when nobody else would/could and then he met the future members of meta <33333333 #newbeginnings

present day geon is still struggling, has to go to counseling bi-weekly but he’s coming back out of his shell! he wants to fall in love with life again, just wants to tread carefully... outgoing & will talk to absolutely anyone, but he still spends most of his time alone. hard to reach by text, so if you wanna talk to him, you better call/facetime LMAO. talks a mile a minute, especially if you get him going abt something he really likes. laughs a lot, smiles a lot, more habitual than actual signs of happiness but yk. ummm he has a really loud voice, mostly controlled nowadays but he still gets carried away sometimes. an absolute menace during long drives/flights, sorry meta.

funny but only when he’s in large groups. feeds off of other peoples’ energy, really good at reading a room and breaking the ice/making everyone comfortable, but if you meet him 1-on-1, none of his jokes land quite the same.

i envision him as being the kind of guy who carries himself in such a way that you’d assume he’s really popular/out of reach/maybe even full of himself, but he’s... not like that... at all... in fact, he’s kinda irritating when you get to know him. the personification of a flood followed by a drought and vice versa, always either too much or not enough. gets used/ghosted/dropped/dumped/whatever a lot because he’s soooo fun in the moment (if he isn’t in his feelings), but draining long-term.

really emotionally intelligent, in touch with his feelings in a way that a lot of people never thought he would be (probably thanks to counseling tbh). he’s very very rarely the type of person who will make you wonder what your place in his life is — he’s communicative, kind, honest. ummm he thinks that intimacy between friends needs to be more common, so he’s really affectionate with the people in his life. type of guy to tell you he loves you every chance he gets (calling you when he’s drunk, sounding like a clingy ex type beat) & greet you/depart with a hug. losing his dad kinda fucked him up in the way that he won’t leave/hang up until his friends say “i love you” back, gets kinda (re: very) upset if he’s denied that and/or a hug.

TRIVIA.

has been playing the guitar “longer than he’s been walking” (not really, but he swears it’s true).

uhhh he really likes nail art, but he’s kinda hesitant in what he tries? mainly sticks to black polish (or other plain colors), but sometimes he’ll get little designs added in as well. mainly does it himself because he still doesn’t feel comfortable in salons... if his work looks bad, leave him alone <3 he’s trying

inspired by people like kurt cobain, nicky wire, yungblud, billie joe armstrong & damiano david in the fact that he’s not against wearing dresses or skirts on stage. doesn’t do it ALL the time, but often enough that it doesn’t go unnoticed. some people say that he does it for attention because he doesn’t dress like that elsewhere and tbh they’re probably kinda right

interested in history (only SOME... dinosaurs, ancient civilizations, specialized areas like the history of circuses/clowns/skateboarding/punk, stuff like that yk), stand-up comedy & documentaries. could spend a whole day watching documentaries and would say he had fun, has a lot of useless knowledge that nobody gives a fuck about and is kinda dumb when it comes to things that matter

when it comes to music, he prefers playing really fast and heavy rock or punk over anything else, but he actually listens to a lot more soft indie on his own time... he’s too tense these days to be listening to anything else RIPPP

the vibe: homemade tie-dye, ripped slipknot t-shirts, frosted tips, neon crocs with alien & peace-sign charms, chipped black nail polish, calloused hands, cheesy pick-up lines used NOT to land a date but to pull a smile, driving until he’s lost, stupid socks paired with pressed suits, dramatic poetry in an iphone note, etc. 

PLOT IDEAS.

people he met through online support groups about coping with grief

uhhh an on & off relationship that’s been going for who-knows-how-long. the reason for this is up for discussion, but i imagine that he hasn’t given up yet because the constant highs and lows are a good source of inspo 🤪 artists must suffer for their art!

opposite side of the coin — someone he’s interested in, but he’s NOT disloyal so it’s a pattern of persistent courting when he’s single vs intense friend-zoning when he’s not and they’re getting tired of trying to figure out what he wants from them

someone else who likes nail art & can convince him that NOBODY cares if he goes to a salon

someone (probably female but doesn’t really matter tbh) who feels like his feminism is entirely performative… maybe they attack him directly for it or maybe they just REALLY don’t like him and they’re super vague about it idk. either way, please tell him that activism is much more than recommending one female artist a year and saying “clothes have no gender 🤪” so he can be praised for the bare minimum (his heart is in the right place but his skull is empty)

someone super introverted who comes out of their shell with geon! uhhh maybe they think that he’s the one doing them a favor, but in reality spending time with them has been doing wonders for his mental health

other people who like to skate. let’s congregate at the local skatepark and scare the middle schoolers away

someone who inspires him musically, for whatever reason. lots of late nights in studios, idly strumming his guitar and writing lyrics that definitely aren’t about how their eyes look in these dim lights… umm maybe he thinks he has a crush on them but really doesn’t and ends up hurting them eventually, maybe he really DOES have a crush but will (probably) never do anything abt it or maybe it’s entirely platonic and he just admires them a ridiculous amount

someone who likes to make music as a hobby, prob won’t publish/release any of it but it’s fun to imagine. spontaneous meetings with geon in the middle of the night, recording songs together and keeping the WORST takes for the laughs. there’s probably a diss-track of them going in on each other floating around somewhere even though geon can’t rap for shit

night owls who keep him company on the phone, even if they can’t be there physically. them talking really quietly vs geon shouting at them while he plays games LMAO

gaming buddies. come over, maybe you can carry geon through his game of the week or you can both fail but have fun while you’re at it… or you can scream while he fends off that hoard of zombies behind you

i’m typing this at the last minute (literally) so i’m gonna stop here, but i will get a proper plots page put up asap with a wider variety of connections!!! but as always, please do let me know if you have any other ideas. i’m always happy to plot and write with you all 🌚

[coolspacequips]

Hi there! I'm a huge fan of your art and your style, it's so fluid and expressive!! Do you have any tips on getting started with digital art? I'm pretty computer illiterate, and just started trying to learn but it's such a steep learning curve and I'm struggling. 😅 Thanks in advance if you have anything. Your art is very inspirational and I can only hope to be as skilled one day!

hey anon!! omg im so.... flattered.... thank u so much for the encouragement im like Literally flabbergasted by this awe;foijweo

it rly is a steep learning curve when it comes to digital art, ive gotten comfortable w my art program over years of use but like, trying to use most other interfaces totally mystifies me, so i def understand that it can be intimidating!! just like with any other skill, tho, persistence is key above all, so dont be discouraged and keep at it, first and foremost!!

idk if i really have any useful tips, but ill try to think of some things that could hopefully be helpful!! 

im self taught and more of a hobbyist than anything, so when it comes to like..... more technical stuff, idk all that much. but!! one good thing is that digital art is much more common and better understood than it was when i was getting started, so theres a lot of info out there for anything you might wanna know, and a variety of methods that other artists have tried and tested. 

google is ur best friend if anything seems to be going wrong!

one thing it took me some time to learn is not to stress too much about making complete, finished, polished pieces every time. youre learning!! focus on getting used to drawing while looking up at a screen and the different steps youll need to take, build the skills that will enable you to make more refined pieces further on. the fluidity of your penstrokes will improve w time, dont fixate on getting it perfectly right on every piece 

get the hang of how your tablets proportions translate to the workspace on your monitor, get comfortable with the pen pressure and how it affects your line weight, and try to learn the shortcuts on your keyboard for the main tools and actions that you need (ctrl+z is ur best friend after google tbh)

get your workspace organized the way that you like it. the way that it looks when you start it up tends to have a lot of extraneous tools and windows to showcase the functionality of the app that can seem intimidating, but you dont have to use every single one. your tablet should also have options for you to adjust things like the pressure sensitivity in the pen. get ur settings how you like them!

one small habit to keep in mind is to zoom out every once in a while as you work, especially when youre just learning to do digital lineart!! keep an eye on how the whole thing fits together. you dont want to overwork one part of the canvas, only to zoom out and see that it doesnt work in the grand scheme of things, or is unrealistic for you to do with the rest of the piece

a lot of ppl have the misconception that digital art is like ‘cheating’ at art, but thats totally not true!! the things that youve learned about art irl apply to your digital work, and this extends to any exercises you might do, or exercises that you might not have needed irl but will help you to learn how your skills translate to a digital environment

DONT FORGET TO SAVE!!!!! WHENEVER U THINK ABOUT IT AND WHENEVER U GET UP FROM THE COMPUTER!!! HIT THAT CTRL+S!!!!!

other than that, idk....!!

once you get the basics down, dont be afraid to mess with the different settings. layers, opacity, filters, new brush sets, and all sorts of things like that can help you make your art, but they arent The Difference between a good digital artist and a bad one, so dont feel like you are wasting time without them. tbh some of the best digital painters ive ever seen literally just use the default brush and eraser and nothing else afowejoaj but they are definitely worth exploring

nothing rly comes to the top of my mind, but i hope any of that was helpful!! this is more about like, settings and tablets and stuff, but i actually wrote a bit more about this a few months ago, with more detail abt coloring and a little bit about brushes there, as well!!

this is kinda rambly so i bolded the main points lmao, i hope it doesnt look too... weird........

[aeide-thea]

the thing that's frustrating about trying to read german is that i'm so used to being able to precisely identify what's going on with each word in a sentence, and how all the parts stand in relation to each other, and i'm just not familiar enough with this language to do it yet! grr, argh, &c.

Erster Teil

Eine Art Einleitung

have we talked yet about how irritating it is that feminine forms in this language are so often so fucking vestigial? i didn't get tripped up by it here, but this whole ‘how would you like some words without any clarifying endings?’ thing is just. deeply offensive to my sense of order. anyway. ‘First Part. A sort of introduction.’

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Woraus bemerkenswerter Weise nichts hervorgeht

so... ‘From which notable manner nothing results’? or ‘develops,’ or ‘emerges,’ or whatever you like for hervorgehen; i'm increasingly resenting having to try and select the correct nuance in a vacuum! also i didn't know you could use woraus as a determiner [q.v. usage #11, here], but that seems to be what's happening here? you learn something new every day.

the ~Wortstellung~ also isn't quite clear to me... or rather, it's clear from it that ‘Woraus bemerkenswerter Weise’ constitutes a single noun-phrase, and that the verb is behaving as if this were a dependent clause... which didn't quite make sense to me until i typed those last two words, because of course, it isn't an independent clause, is it? in the sense that while it may not have an explicit antecedent, it's also very much a phrasal clause, not a full sentence that stands on its own. so i guess that does make sense after all.

moving on to the first Actual Sentence, and discarding a number of ~humorously self-deprecating~ remarks about how long it has taken us to arrive there—

Über dem Atlantik befand sich ein barometrisches Minimum; es wanderte ostwärts, einem über Rußland lagernden Maximum zu, und verriet noch nicht die Neigung, diesem nördlich auszuweichen.

‘Over the Atlantic stood a barometric minimum; it moved eastwards, to a maximum settling over Russia’—i think the dangling zu here is actually a separable prefix belonging to wanderte, but i don't quite understand the comma after ostwärts or why einem... Maximum is in the dative, so i might be construing this all entirely wrongly! but: ‘it drifted eastwards, reaching a maximum where it settled over Russia, and did not yet betray the tendency to divert away from this’—what is ‘this,’ though? the Maximum?—‘to the north.' the definite article before Neigung is a little strange in english—i'd expect ‘a,’ or ‘its,’ or even ‘any,’ but maybe this is just an idiosyncrasy of the language? other than that—while i feel more than a little like a foal taking its wobbling, stilted first steps—the rest all seems more or less okay, as far as it goes...

okay. second sentence!

Die Isothermen und Isotheren taten ihre Schuldigkeit. Die Lufttemperatur stand in einem ordnungsgemäßen Verhältnis zur mittleren Jahrestemperatur, zur Temperatur des kältesten wie des wärmsten Monats und zur aperiodischen monatlichen Temperaturschwankung.

...i love (““love””) when german uses very precise, very esoteric technical terms very casually, as if they weren't deeply jarring to encounter in a scene-setting paragraph of a novel! i mean, don't let me pretend i'm knowledgeable enough to understand style or tone yet, but. ‘The isotherms and isotheres did their duty. The air temperature stood in a proper relation’—god, ordnungsgemäß is my new favorite word maybe, there's just something about compressing ‘in accordance with the regulations’ into a single adjective that... i don't know, it just feels like there's a lot of iceberg below the surface there. anyway—‘to the average yearly temperature; to the temperature of the coldest, as of the warmest, month; and to the acyclic monthly temperature variation.’ wow, this is riveting. sure am feeling glad i picked this novel to work laboriously through!

Der Auf- und Untergang der Sonne, des Mondes, der Lichtwechsel des Mondes, der Venus, des Saturnringes und viele andere bedeutsame Erscheinungen entsprachen ihrer Voraussage in den astronomischen Jahrbüchern.

‘The rise and fall of the sun, of the moon, the changing phases’—lit. ‘the light-shifting,’ but i get the impression this is all supposed to be boringly technical rather than poetic so it seems like smoothing it out auf englisch is the way to go?—‘of the moon, of Venus, of the rings of Saturn and many other important phenomena corresponded to their forecast in the astronomical almanacs.’

at this juncture we find our hero increasingly missing the readings A— came up with, and thinking glumly, maybe i should've tried kant or something, instead of this enormous Midcentury Modernist Novel... but then, i haven't even read a paragraph yet; there's no english classic i'd be giving up on this quickly. courage, dear heart, & onwards—

Der Wasserdampf in der Luft hatte seine höchste Spannkraft, und die Feuchtigkeit der Luft war gering. Mit einem Wort, das das Tatsächliche recht gut bezeichnet, wenn es auch etwas altmodisch ist: Es war ein schöner Augusttag des Jahres 1913.

‘The water vapor in the air had its highest’—i don't really understand Spannkraft here. ‘concentration,’ maybe? ‘saturation’? or actually, let's try: ‘pressure, and the humidity of the air was slight.’ ...okay, here's a dumb science question: if there's a lot of moisture in the air, wouldn't that translate to high humidity, not low? color me confused. anyway: ‘In a word (which describes the actuality quite well, although it is also a little out of fashion): it was a beautiful August day in the year 1913.’

i! hate! having to look up so many words! this is like greek all over again, & without any beaux yeux to gaze upon my efforts approvingly, even—not to disparage the yeux of those of you who have been kind enough to engage with my deutschposting, which i am sure are perfectly beaux! but you know. ughhhhhhh. okay. paragraph zwei:

Autos schossen aus schmalen, tiefen Straßen in die Seichtigkeit heller Plätze. Fußgängerdunkelheit bildete wolkige Schnüre. Wo kräftigere Striche der Geschwindigkeit quer durch ihre lockere Eile fuhren, verdickten sie sich, rieselten nachher rascher und hatten nach wenigen Schwingungen wieder ihren gleichmäßigen Puls.

‘Cars’—or no, that isn't right, is it; we're in 1913 still, it ought to be ‘Automobiles darted down narrow’—wow, tief is remarkably hard to translate here! streets aren't ‘deep,’ so i imagine the image is one of overhung dimness... maybe ‘plunging streets in the shallowness of bright’—places? squares? spaces? when in doubt, go generic: ‘places. Pedestrian gloom formed cloudy strings.’ okay, okay, i'm sorry i was catty about how unpoetic i found the previous paragraph—peccavi, domine, miserere mei! ‘Where bolder streaks of speed drove straight through their nonchalant haste, they clotted, subsequently trickled faster, and had, after some oscillations, their regular pulse once more.’

an odd place to stop, that—mid-paragraph, even!—but i think that's all the focus i can muster for the night. stay tuned and idk, maybe we'll meet some characters eventually? looking back on what little i have so far, i can at least see that in a language i read more fluently i might find it charming, which goes some way towards my finding it charming in this one...