#new blog :P !

[ttpsoleil]

Bc i know P likes strawberry milkshake. Yup.

[nectar-cellar]

Another Beard Update 🙄 December 2023

When taking pictures, I realized the strip of hair under the bottom lip of these beards was noticeably off-centred/asymmetrical. It was bothering me a lot. Months later, I've finally fixed the texture. 😭

If you go to view the original posts, or if you had these beards installed, you can probably notice the asymmetry if you look closely at that area.

Beards I've fixed:

Beard 01_04 - original post

Beard 02_05 - original post

Beard 02_05 V2

Beard 03_04 - original post

Beard 04_08 - original post

How to install if you already have the old packages:

Delete the old packages from your Mods/Packages folder. Drop these updated ones in. The updated texture should show up on your sims who are already wearing them when you open the game again. If not, try deleting your caches.

I don't plan to update the original posts. I hope this post finds everyone who uses those beards though. 😭🙏

Download: simfileshare / mega

[stromer]

“He’s improved his eating habits, he’s reading a book almost weekly to try to improve his brain… I know that sounds silly, but as a captain at 23, that motivates you, that motivates our group… He’s the engine for our team" — Conor Garland Quinn Hughes via the Dropping Gloves podcast

[maria---s]

[sea-buns]

Recently been popping on an ep of Neverafter for a real slow rewatch and by god were they confident

Hearing just sooo much optimism now having seen how hard they get Episode 3'd into D20's first-and-only TPK is so damn funny

[tallymarkbrothers]

sorry to interrupt your cool uno session but you might want to see who’s here

[angielanche]

I’m proud of you, Jay Walker.

[kkyos]

Remember enotria P? he is back

[xcrywankx]

mary is the girl that I wanna kiss

[ebonytails]

New guy! Nyxus, the science experiment based on whether or not a human heart could power a machine (and it worked, but maybe it shouldn't have)

Alternative images because I was playing with what to put on the screens :-]

(He’s on Toyhouse :-])

[okamiz36]

Old bsd art? what bsd art- these are the first times ive drawn bsd- haha- anyways THANK U WEBTOONS AND BINGING MANGAS FOR TEACHING ME HOW TO DRAW EXPRESSIONS LMAO, why does Dazai look so offended in 3 of them- then juts sad dazai at the office and one chuuya- totally not me giving dark backgruond bc i dont like the sketches haha-

[cyberkn1fe]

End of canto 3, cutscene post defeating the final boss. There's a golden bough in the background here, but the way Dante's sprite aligns with it when they speak makes it seem like the bough's light is coming from them instead. I thought it was just a neat coincidence at first, but the more I consider it, the more I think it was deliberate:

1. The background is a different, zoomed out version of this scene during the entire time Sinclair and Demian are talking

2. It changes to this close-up only after Dante becomes the only speaker present at the scene and the narrative shifts back to them entirely

3. It's a pretty important moment for their development as a character, in which they decide to provide their sinners not only with what is stated by their contractual obligations, but with emotional support as well, however unsure in their abilities to do so they might be for now

Tldr: the morning did come. In the form of this guy doubling down on not letting the dystopia crush their empathetic nature

[recurring-polynya]

Good morning, happy Thursday, who wants to read a fun idea I had about giants in Soul Society?

So! I was reading this @littleeyesofpallas post about wuxing symbolism and was particularly struck by this passage in a section about the gate guardians:

There is no central guard but conspicuously Kirinji's name comes from Qilin, but apparently according to official height he's actually not nearly as tall as Kubo's drawings always made him seem. Not that he was on the same scale as the gate guardians even then...

No, I said to myself, of course not. He's powerful enough to control his size, because I was thinking of the part where Grand Fisher claims Isshin is too small to defeat him and Isshin responds with a lecture on soul reaper lore:

Now, bodies are not swords, but maybe the same mechanic applies! It certainly applies to Hollows. Earlier in this same scene, Kon mistakes Grand Fisher for a Menos Grande, and Grand Fisher is insulted by the comparison, but it's the same thing. Menos are huge and scary, but when they become Arrancar, they shrink down and become scarier. [Aside: I think this is why the Yammy-is-secretly-Espada-0 reveal doesn't quite manage to hit. It goes against the lore Kubo has been laying down for ages]

On a meta level, this is just a shounen storytelling tactic where X is an indicator of strength, but then later on, it's like "Reverse Uno! Not-X is the real indicator of strength!!" That's exactly how this zanpakutou-size thing is used when it's first introduced.

Exhibit A: Renji, a court jester, being impressed by the size of Ichigo's sword:

Exhibit B: A handful of issues later, Urahara, an intellectual (lol), sets us straight:

Genre convention or not, I think it lends itself some interesting world-building. Among low-powered people, size is impressive, but as you scale the ranks of power, it's kind of pathetic. Weirdly large people are like the petty bourgeoisie of Soul Society power dynamics.

But that's actually the perfect niche for a gatekeeper! In general, your typical Joe Shinigami is going to be able to take on just about any rando from the Rukongai, but maybe not a particularly strong ryouka. Ganju was able to take on Yumichika, after all. A single shinigami wouldn't be able to take on a planned rebellion, like in the Bount arc, and they've got to, like, sleep and stuff. The Gotei could, in theory, have an entire gatehouse and a gate patrol, etc, but that they are perpetually short-staffed as-is. Instead, how about one medium-powerful gatekeeper whose size makes them well-suited for fighting groups of people (or siege weapons), and who is going to be intimidating overall?

Furthermore, it's implied that Jidanbou isn't actually a shinigami. He wears a shihakushou, but his axes don't seem to be a zanpakutou (he doesn't release them and is distressed when they are destroyed). His neighbors offer this comment on him:

It's not quite right, though: after all, many shinigami are from Rukongai, including Gin, who is the reason Jidanbou is being healed at the very moment this panel takes place. I think what this guy means is that Jidanbou is of Rukongai, which is to say not of the Seireitei.

So what is he, then? Here's my big idea: I think that the gigantism in Soul Society might actually be a reiatsu-developmental disability! It's always been my impression that growth, especially for powerful people, happens in fits and spurts, rather than linearly, and that furthermore, big changes in growth tend to coincide with developments in reiryouku. Somewhere, either in childhood or adolescence, someone's spiritual pressure grows more quickly than their control over it, which results in their body growing uncontrollably. They become very powerful "physically", but their strength is all in their mass/reishi, which takes most of their spiritual pressure to control. This may end up limiting the upper end of power they are able to achieve and some cases means they get cut off entirely from the other forms of power used by shinigami (connecting to a zanpakutou, kidou). I think this might be especially common in children from the Rukongai, who lack access to education and training. I can also imagine it leading itself to cautionary tales in the outer Rukon that if you feed your hungry children too much, you'll end up with a giant on your hands.

This offers one explanation to why Jidanbou is a giant and his brother Jiroubou is large, but not remotely on the same scale (the Souls Data Book lists his height at 7'7" vs Jidanbou's 32'5"). There are a handful of other shinigami of larger-than-human height, which could be a milder form of this, or it could mean that some sort of special training or medical intervention helped keep their growth manageable. I think you can squeeze in a lot of interesting character insights into this headcanon, from Hachi (8'5"), who perhaps worked exceptionally hard in an effort to control his power and ended becoming incredibly skilled at kidou as a result (interesting that he, too, is not actually a shinigami). Or Oomaeda (6'11"), who gets by a lot on his family's wealth and clout, but is definitely on the weaker end of the lieutenant power scale. In his case, his large size kind of speaks to his entire "thinks he's classy, but is really just gaudy"/can't-even-tell-how-outclassed-he-is-by-his-peers deal.

Then, as a counterpoint, you've got Hitsugaya: immensely powerful from a young age, and one of the hallmarks of his character is how in-control of himself he is, down to having developed an actual visible power bar for his bankai. Whether this is some effect of his personality, or whether it's an intervention on Hyourinmaru's part, his growth has been choked off as a side effect. He's the direct opposite of Jidanbou, who additionally seems somewhat childlike in personality (crying over his axes, for example, or his attachment to his extremely dubious "rules of the city"). To me, it's very sweet that their friendship might have roots in opposite expressions of the same reiatsu-growth-fuckup.

Much in the way that the Shiba use some sort of magic that's distinctly different from shinigami-kidou, I guess I really like thinking about other ways power might manifest itself in Soul Society outside of the shinigami-industrial-complex. And also the way the Seireitei may or may not try to control those powers."Guard this gate!" they say. "We won't actually let you live in the city or give you city wages, but you can have a cool outfit and, uh...do it for the exposure?"

[this-aint-a-scene]

yo i’m mattie i’m 17 and i’m a vocalist/beginner bassist (former drummer)

this is my bandom blog, i also have my main @minor-character-fanpage and my les mis blog @heart-full-of-feuilly

my bandoms are:

fob, mcr, p!atd, tyv, and paramore

but i also listen to these a lot:

adam ant, madness, tøp, queen, psychedelic furs, soad, ptv, the wombats, royel otis, meat loaf, the beatles, oasis (yeah i’m from north england, how could you tell?)

uh i’ll be real i’m mostly posting abt fall out boy and ryan ross but i refuse to be mistaken for them annoying ryro fans who think everything post-split is shit

cause sure they sold out and brendon’s a prick and i don’t fw it but i’m also not deaf !!!!

[knightowl-studios]

“This is a warning for Kray Foresight - free all captive Burnish immediately, or I’ll burn Promepolis to the ground!”

Many hours, layers, micromanaged bg assets, and egregious amounts of colorpicking later, it is finally done //passes out

As soon as I watched Promare I was legally obligated to draw the dragon.

Please do not reupload without permission!

(Very ramble-y) process notes and wips below the cut:

[[Shoutout to Tamberella’s wonderful city brushset, the bg would not have been possible otherwise!]]

I had to cross-reference so many stills and gifs from the movie in order to try and recreate the atmosphere and style XD This whole drawing was also the perfect excuse to whip out the polyline tool again, it’s one of my favorite things to draw with but I don’t actually use it much for...some reason lmao.  Habit?  Who knows...

As you can see, it was initially supposed to include his lil arms, but I couldn’t find a way to make them flow well with his line of action and had to exclude them (which was a bit painful as I was really happy with how the claw shapes turned out).  I figured since the film seems to cheat it the same way, it was fine for me to do it as well XD Though I don’t have a capture of it, originally his body was also in a more straightforward loop-de-loop kind of shape.

I wanted to put special focus into the pose and sense of action (two things Trigger really excels at), namely when it came to the head and jaws.  I noticed that in a couple of shots the dragon’s jaw is “broken” - opened at an unrealistically wide angle - to better emphasize the action, and while I didn’t take it as far as Trigger did I wanted to try and capture something similar in my own way.

The windows required SO much micromanaging.  I blocked out a “template” of windows using one of the brushes in the mentioned set, grid-warped it to align with the perspective, and then copy-pasted it onto each building and then manually went through each one to make sure every patterns of “lit” windows was unique and felt believable.  The process had to be repeated twice, for both visible sides of the buildings.  As far as individual parts of the pic go, that step probably took the longest.

I also really wanted to somehow incorporate triangles into the drawing since they’re so representative of the Burnish and the Promare, and adding some around the face seemed the most intuitive way to do it.

A lot of miscellaneous things were added at this point, such as the ground flares (polyline tool my beloved), the smoke, and smaller details like making sure the dragon felt more “sourced” in the scene by clipping the tail behind a tower.  The background was also blurred, to help sell the perspective as well as keep the focus on Lio.  The flares were one of the hardest things to manage in the latter regard, too, as due to some oversights in my initial color choices they were actually brighter than Lio and stole his thunder!  So it took several different tries to find a way to successfully de-emphasize them without inadvertently making them some weird sickly color XD

If you read through all of these notes, thank you so much, I love you!!  //hands you a cookie

Bonus layer screenshot:

[mewniemoon]

Hi guys how mad would yall be at me if I made this a.... multi-fandom blog

Still rainworld but maybe a certain Lamb and three eyed cat could also join the show...