#ngl i almost didn't post this...

[rainofthetwilight]

I'm sorry but are we really bringing up the 'why didn't geo and bonzle recognize the ninja" thing again, I thought it was already self-explanatory enough??????????

also how in the WORLD does it imply that in all those years, cole did not tell the finders shit abt the ninja...people CAN be told about others a million times and still not recognize them when they see them, ESPECIALLY if they haven't seen a photo of them, which is pretty much the finders' case here. I have been told about family members by my parents more than 100 times and I still don't recognize them when I see them until I'm told who they are, and that happens especially when I've never seen them before. scratch that, I sometimes don't even recognize family members I already KNOW, and why is that? because I haven't seen them in a while!! now just imagine the finders' situation!!!

and it actually makes alot of sense bonzle didn't recognize jay because he's literally on the enemies side, of course she wouldn't think that's the 'jay' cole would tell her and the finders about (AND before anyone goes 'erm actually' on the powers bit, one of our theories for s2pt2 is that nya wouldn't recognize jay under the mask and thinking he's a new person with his powers, why doesn't that logic also apply to bonzle w/ jay??)

and in such a stressing situation with ALOT to focus on, including her life that's literally in danger, of course bonzle didn't tell cole and zane about her seeing him at the mysterium monastery, it was the least of her worries lets be fr rn (plus, it was literally confirmed by doc himself that bonzle didn't recognize jay, so this whole discussion was over from the start)

[infiniteglitterfall]

It's been incredibly difficult to hear from Palestinians in Gaza, not to mention center their experiences and platform their voices. Because ever since Hamas violently kicked the Palestinian government out of Gaza in 2007, it's denied Palestinians the right to free speech.

(Here's Palestinian human rights activist Hamza Howidy sarcastically wondering why Hamas isn't stopping the theft of humanitarian aid when it had the power to arrest him for a social media post within 4 hours.)

I'm working on a series of posts of Palestinians to platform. I came across this thread from someone who used Snapchat to talk to people in Gaza, so I thought I'd post it here in the meantime.

I've seen videos of Palestinians talking about not being able to evacuate because "Hamas has closed all the roads," a video of a Palestinian telling the IDF that Hamas has a car blocking the Salah-al-Din road (the evacuation route) and is pointing guns at people and telling them to turn around. But even as someone searching for Palestinian voices and looking for information about this, I hadn't heard that Hamas had been killing civilians trying to evacuate. (And probably reporting their deaths as part of the daily total.)

I mean, just the fact that the Gaza Strip is run as a separate country from the rest of Palestine is a huge barrier for Palestinians. It's hard to be accepted as a full member of the UN when your country functionally has two or three different governments.

(Confusingly, the PLO is considered the government of Palestine internationally. Abbas is the president of both PLO and the Palestinian Authority, so it sort of works as long as nobody has an election. But the fact that Palestinians have been denied an election for 18+ years, because Abbas keeps cancelling elections and Hamas is Hamas, is also a pretty big fucking problem.)

But it's also true that a huge number of the people in the Gaza Strip, while obviously having a big problem with the Israeli government, have at least as big of a problem with Hamas.

And for all of our decades of talk about Free Palestine, in the progressive movement, we pay shockingly little attention to that.

[kevindavidday]

so the premise of the new kevjean fic (at 10k words rn TRUST i am working on it) is something i posted about before:

jean and neil work under the main family and are ordered to take a hit out on riko a month before ichirou's wedding because the family has no use of him and he's a waste of resources and air. the only problem is, they can't find him. riko is entirely off the radar so jean and neil turn to the person who once knew him best a.k.a my beautiful princess kevin day. angst in the form of kevjean exes to lovers. jeaneil friendship is singlehandedly saving me. andreil as kevjean wingmen and disaster observers while they try to avoid the fact that they are also falling in love. did i mention angst? cuz there is angst

[upsidedownsmore]

Hi!! I was wondering if its okay to ask what brushes u normally use in krita? I love your art!!

Thank you so much!!! I only use the ones available in Krita by default and I tend to jump around based on what I think will work best for each piece, but I can give a little rundown on which ones I use the most and what I use them for :)

Here's an image guide with each of the brushes I've used and that I recommend checking out:

I'll highlight my favorites as well with some examples where they were predominantly used! (though in some cases multiple or even all of these brushes were used)

Marker Details:

Varying opacity and size makes this one my favorites for sketching, especially since it can easily be nearly transparent or fully opaque which helps with value range.

I also like using it for silhouette sketches!

It can also be used for final linework, but it takes more work to get to a full opaque and its lack of texture makes it a little less interesting than Ink-7 Brush Rough imo.

Ink-7 Brush Rough:

Really good for linework, especially for comic styled drawings with it's slight texture, varying weight, and opaqueness.

Also good for just filling in entire areas with a single color as well as non-smoothed shading!

Wet Bristles Rough:

Actually just an amazing brush, its pressure sensitivity is crazy.

Blends strokes like paint and can vary in size and opacity.

Also has a nice subtle texture!

Amazing for smoother coloring and shading, especially if you want a more painterly style.

Watercolor Texture:

(hard to show examples of this, just assume that I've used it in any piece that has smooth shading lol)

Not the best for painting/drawing on its own, however I've found it to be really useful when set to white or black on an overlay layer for adding extra shading and/or highlighting on top of the shading I've already done.

I usually shade individual figures, objects, and parts separately, but using an overlay layer with Watercolor Texture (or even Shapes Square) on top of everything helps make the entire piece feel more cohesive.

Also adds a hint more texture!

Another thing to note is the importance of layer modes!

I know that you asked about brushes specifically, but many of these brushes (particularly those to do with effects and textures) work best when experimenting with different layer modes other than Normal. Overlay is generally a safe bet and most of the best for, well, overlaying multiple layers for interesting effects. But please try out all of them at any given opportunity, sometimes things like Burn, Color Dodge, Soft Light, etc can have more interesting effects!

In addition, mess with filter masks! You can even edit where they apply by drawing on the mask directly! HSV/HSL Adjustment (also accessible with ctrl+u) in particular is INSANELY useful for fiddling with the colors and balance of a piece, from individual layers to whole groups and drawings. I also really like blur filters, often times I'll duplicate a layer and make the bottom one blurred to add a glow affect to something without losing its definition.

While this latter stuff isn't about brushes specifically, its generally very important to how I use and experiment with all these different brushes!

Anyways I hope this helps!! I kinda went overboard with this post, but I had a lot of fun writing it! Thank you again for the wonderful ask!! :)

[itsbebebrainrotting]

NEW TUBHALO CELEB AU CHAPTER!

This one features a lot of Sunny :)

[alicenpai]

i started watching infinity train. only thing i wanna say is. infinite pain

[paperzombiie]

Some stuff I did of Nohreh for the RP group he's in, including some foreshadowing for the plot I'm planning for him

A bit of context under the cut if anyone's curious

Azalea Valley is a slice of life role-playing group set in the current year, in a small town on a fictional rural island mostly unknown or unreachable to the common person in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, mostly populated by Spanish speakers due to its proximity to South America. Here the characters run their own businesses, be it farming, ranching, or providing a service to their neighbours (think Stardew Valley, Ghibli movies, Coral Island, Animal Crossing) with some added magic and mysteries to the everyday life.

Nohreh arrives to the island searching for his dear grandpa, who dissappeared under mysterious circumstances after a fight with his family a few years ago. His grandpa's stories lead him to find that there seems to be a big secret his family is keeping from him and his brother, involving the existence of fantastic creatures and the posibility of him being one of them. He settles down, starts working at a fish shop and begins unravelling the secrets of the island while searching for clues about his grandpa's whereabouts with only his old fantastic tales about this place to guide him

[gutterspeak]

every time I open the luthais body ref with the intention of simplifying his tattoos and every time they get more complicated

[pickastitch]

i am so delusional. i thought it was gonna be e!false

also girlie the last time you messed with ai(?) it blew up your basement

origin/transcript under cut

false's hc s9 ep 50 at

false: i'll be honest i have no idea what to write so i think i'm actually going to give the task to uhh uh a friend a of mine and uh we'll see what they come up with. so book in hand and let's take a look down here and see if what i've ordered has finally turned up. aww yeah

[blujayonthewing]

I've had Melliwyk for SIX YEARS

[daz4i]

local man sets his lyrics to music (idk this is what morfix said the right english term is) at 5 am instead of sleeping. more at 11

[green-eyes-and-orange-ties]

So Beans! I have a confession...

even though I started the 30 Days of Echor I hadn't actually been on NSP's Crowdfunding page (before you start throwing rocks its bc I knew it would make me sad that I can't back until much later this month bc payday&bills ect)

Anyway - I just went on it and there is So Much!! I'm talking season two written teaser, project outlines, where the money is being divided, some god tier incentives for stretch goals (!), more details on rewards for each level! AND and a so incredibly wholesome video which has the NSP cast and production team clearly loving and caring about this as much as we do and I just ....

I feel like I'm going to have to physically sit on my hands until I can responsibly back otherwise theres a chance grocery monies will be going there/hj

Highly recommend going a reading (and if you can contributing) -> Link Here ! <3

[maladaptivedaydreamsx]

⚠️ Spoilers for Artem Wing's sweet chapter

[magentagalaxies]

THE MAEVE CHRONICLES UPDATE (aka that weird novel i wrote in 10th grade english class that people have been asking about lately)

I remembered typing it up the summer after 10th grade bc i wanted to put it on my website (which never actually worked as a website bc wix website builder was crap) but I thought I'd lost it completely bc it was on my high school email address which I no longer have access to

or at least i thought i no longer had access to it until i tried logging into google docs and it worked! so i quickly shared the doc with myself and made a copy in case my high school finally gets around to deleting my email account and/or i forget the password someday

TL;DR that weird Macbeth/Tale of Two Cities/Model UN research paper/Solarpunk Coming of Age novel starring a ghost that I wrote when I was fifteen is coming to AO3 at some point and thankfully I won't have to type every single handwritten page myself

[svtskneecaps]

btw we're dancing ever closer to a large milestone so. congrats. this is terrifying. where did you people come from. how are you still here.

[just-someone-online]

ngl, getting back into Precure has got me thinking about other magical series. I might reread Sailor Moon once I'm finished with Precure