#not that IQ means anything

[knickynoo]

The Keatons + name meanings

[silusvesuius]

my nelvas and moraak thought crumblets

[ravewing]

looks at the xmas tree with my neurodivergent eyes (i will actually lose it if i have to wait another day to open presents)

[becauseimanicequeen]

Could you explain the contrasting colors more cuz that stuff goes right above my head. lol. Thanks.

Hi, Anon.

To explain complementary/contrasting colors, I need to get into some basic color theory.

So, let me stretch my fingers and dig into this nerdy shit I love.

I'm pretty sure you've already seen something like this before:

This is a photo I took of a color-wheel illustration in Betty Edwards' book "Color".

This is a traditional color wheel with 3 primary colors, 3 secondary colors, and 6 tertiary colors.

(I'm putting their numbers in the parentheses below so you'll know which color I'm referring to on the color wheel.)

The primary colors can't be created by mixing other colors/pigments. These are the basic colors you need to create the other colors on the color wheel. The primaries are:

Yellow (12)

Red (4)

Blue (8)

The secondary colors are those you get by mixing two of the primaries together. They are:

Orange (2) (yellow + red)

Purple (6) (red + blue)

Green (10) (blue + yellow)

The tertiary colors are those you get by mixing a primary color with a secondary color that's right next to it. Those are:

Yellow-Orange (1)

Red-Orange (3)

Red-Purple (5)

Blue-Purple (7)

Blue-Green (9)

Yellow-Green (11)

The tertiary colors usually have different names in everyday language (like turquoise or indigo). But I'm coming from a painter's perspective when naming the tertiary colors because this was how I learned how to identify hues and mix them properly (and, as you can see, the primary color is always mentioned first).

Anyway...

Since you asked me about contrasting colors, let's dive into that.

Contrasting colors are also called complementary colors. These colors sit on the opposite sides of the color wheel (I'll get more into this in a moment).

They're called contrasting colors because they contrast each other. They can contrast each other in value (as in how much/little light they reflect) and they can contrast each other in temperature (at least in the traditional sense of temperature where every color from purple up to yellow-green is cool while every color from yellow to red-purple is warm).

(The latter statement is made with some reservations as all colors on the color wheel can have both cool and warm temperatures, which is important to know when painting with natural pigments (like oils and watercolor). However, since this is not about painting, I'm keeping it simple here.)

The reason they're called complementary colors is because they also complement each other. When put close to each other (or, as in my profession, somewhere within the confines of the same canvas), it creates high impact and contrast. The colors pop.

The contrasting/complementary colors of the colors wheel are:

Yellow (12) + purple (6)

Yellow-orange (1) + blue-purple (7)

Orange (2) + blue (8)

Red-orange (3) + blue-green (9)

Red (4) + green (10)

Red-purple (5) + yellow-green (11)

Note how all of these combinations have all three primary colors in them in one way or another, which shows how important the primaries are:

Yellow + purple (red + blue)

Yellow-orange (yellow + red) + blue-purple (blue + red)

Orange (yellow + red) + blue

Red-orange (red + yellow) + blue-green (blue + yellow)

Red + green (blue + yellow)

Red-purple (red + blue) + yellow-green (yellow + blue)

Let's look at some examples of these contrasting colors (I'll just do the primaries and their contrasts because those are the easiest to find):

This is what yellow and purple can look like together:

Wandee Goodday.

This is what orange and blue can look like together:

Living With Him.

This is what red and green can look like together:

KinnPorsche.

The interesting thing about contrasting colors is that while they complement each other well, they cancel each other out when mixed (which creates gray/black).

So, whether you mix yellow + purple, red + green, blue + orange, or any of the other contrasting colors together, you'll get gray/black.

That's why I lost my shit a bit in this post about Wandee Goodday, which I think you based your ask on.

This is as far as I'll take it in this post. I hope you found these basics interesting and useful.

Thank you for your ask.

[sinileijona]

i know ffxiv has never been big on doing race specific dialogue, but there's a small part of me that was sort of hoping that there'd be at least some kind of small acknowledgement in iq br'aax (or anywhere in dawntrail for that matter) for a hroth WoL at some point, even during a side quest or something...

[dianartemiss]

this is gonna sound condescending as all hell but oh well.

the problem with being a fan of certain media like batman (or anything that includes literal geniuses) is that the main characters are freaky smart, smarter than 99% of the population. smarter than you and me. smarter than your readers and betas. there are many ways to get around this with writing because you, as the author, are omniscient.

but there's a catch. you, as the author, have to be clever enough to know you're not as smart and then figure out which tricks to use. you have to know what the right answer is and then reverse engineer how this genius would get there.

the entire exercise of writing stupidly smart characters is knowing what's going on underneath the underneath. then you have to know all that while only alluding to it in the actual writing because the genius in question doesn't need to spell it all out. they just know or understand on such a level it may as well be instinct.

on one hand this is a blessing because you can just go into the action without having to explain everything. it's also a curse because there's a fine line between having the character be appropriately themselves and leaving your readers baffled in the dust because nothing connects.

[wizard-mp4]

[faking-god]

Come inside Twist the knife Like it's something to do I'm a voluntary victim

bonus stills bc i worked hard on them

[sapphia]

love how everyone on this website is like "the justice system's broken!" but they mean like, the US justice system. which is not a system that half of the userbase here actually live under

[overclockedopossum]

Yeah geez

"Humanizing: [...] so that behavior is on me."

This is just an excuse to hate disabled people. The whole point of diagnosis is to understand how people experience the world differently, which is vital when it comes to invisible disabilities.

Without diagnosis, people like me who have invisibile disabilities are just shit. They act wrong because they're shit. They can't do things because they're shit. They can't handle situations because they're shit.

There are some symptoms that you can explain without diagnosis if people have time to be patient with you but when it comes to things like RSD it's vital evidence that you're not just being a dick for the sake of being a dick.

I don't personally have RSD. But if someone does, a situation where they "blow up" is one that really fucking sucks for them. They are having an extremely bad time. The condition is a vulnerability to an extremely intense Bad Feeling in situations that most people are fine with, and the disabled person is likely already putting an absolute fuckload of effort into trying to manage that.

If a NT person has a bad interaction with someone who has RSD because of the RSD, it isn't the disabled person to blame. It's the RSD to blame and both people share the fact that they had a bad time as a result.

And you know what it does to understand that? It actually humanises the disabled person.

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

[becauseimanicequeen]

Why do you often write about contrasting colors? Do you think there's a reason the show creators use contrasting colors on the set and characters?

Hi, Anon.

I first want to point out that contrasting colors can mean different things.

I often write about complementary/contrasting colors, which are colors on the opposite side of each other on the color wheel. So, for example, yellow and purple, red and green, blue and orange.

If we just talk about contrasts, however, it can include what I wrote above, but it can also mean:

Contrasting value (dark vs light), where the combination of black/white is often used, but it can also be, for example, dark blue/light blue if the same color is used or yellow/dark green when different colors are used

Contrasting temperatures (cool vs warm), where, simply speaking, the warm side of the color wheel (all the colors from yellow to red-purple) is set against the cool side of the color wheel (all the colors from purple to yellow-green), and a common contrast here is ice/fire

Contrasting intensity (saturated vs muted), where, for example, an intense, saturated red might stand against a dull, muted red, or a saturated orange might stand against a muted blue if different colors are used

In other words, there are several ways to use contrasting colors in visual media.

I tend to focus on complementary/contrasting colors, contrasts in value, and sometimes contrasting temperatures (if that seems significant to the story).

If I were to make a guess, I would say that the complementary/contrasting colors and contrasts in value are the techniques used the most (and most intentionally) in visual media.

And, in terms of complementary/contrasting colors, I would say that the blue/orange combination is used most often, followed by the red/green combination, and lastly the yellow/purple combination.

Now, to get back to your questions.

There are definitely reasons why creators of QLs (and other visual media) use contrasts.

When complementary/contrasting colors are used together (when they're in the same frame in a show we watch) they pop and grab attention. Since we're talking about visual media, one of the goals of the creators of these shows is to keep the viewer's attention on the screen. Using complementary/contrasting colors is an effective way to do that.

(Using contrasting colors is definitely not the only way to grab and keep the viewer's attention, of course, but it is an effective technique.)

Contrasting colors can be used in set design, lighting, hair colors, clothes, color grading, etc. Color is used everywhere and it's (mostly) intentional.

Now, let's get a bit detailed with some examples.

Contrasts can make the most simple scenes visually pleasing and attention-grabbing. Like this scene from The Rebound:

There isn't much happening in this scene. One person is visible and three items stand out (the basketball more than the whistle and the cup). But the eyes are still engaged because of the contrasts that are at play:

Contrasting value (dark/light): The coach wears dark colors while the window behind him is bright.

Complementary/contrasting colors: He has a blue whistle around his neck and lines on his jacket, which contrasts against the orange ball and the area on the wall behind him.

Contrasting temperature: The warm orange against the cool blue.

Contrasting intensity: The saturated orange of the ball against the muted blue cup.

Another example of the blue/orange combo is this scene from To Be Continued:

The intensity of the orange Ji is wearing compared to the muted blue of the comforter pulls the eyes toward the orange and, in turn, to Ji and the puppy (who are both the focus of this scene as they were abandoned by Achi who decided to run away).

Contrasting colors can also be used in subtle ways that still say a lot about what's going on, like in this scene in I Told Sunset About You:

Here we have the red/green combination. The green coconuts with the red flowers stand between Oh and Bas to pull the eye toward what's happening between them.

Also, Oh is using a green pen while Bas is using a red pen, which is a small detail that makes the color-loving artist in me so happy. That's because Oh, who lives in a (mostly) green world, is drawn to the red. Here he's drawn to the red in Bas, but he's also drawn to Teh who lives in a (mostly) red world.

In other words, contrasting colors can be used to make a scene visually pleasing, pull attention toward the focus of the scene, say something about the characters and what's going on beneath the surface, etc.

When it comes to, in particular, characters and contrasting colors, the black/white, dark/light combination often connects to their overall mood/vibe when used to show contrast. In other words, the character connected with black/dark is usually moodier and more mysterious (often due to hiding some secret or other type of information), etc. While the character connected with white/light is often more open and peaceful, etc.

This can also be used to show that one character is the light in/lights up the other character's dark world. Like Bai Zong Yi (white) and Fan Ze Rui (black) in Kiseki: Dear to Me, and Lee Hyun (white) and Kim An (black) in Love Class Season 2:

When it comes to the complementary/contrasting colors on the color wheel and character pairs that are color-coded in this way, these characters often have contrasting aspects in terms of their personality as well.

To give some examples:

I've previously written about Yak and Dee's (Wandee Goodday) contrasting colors (yellow and purple) and personalities so I won't go too deep into that here. But, to give an example, Dee (purple) is mysterious while Yak (yellow) is more clear/direct.

For some reason, I could only find this example of the red/green combination right now, and that's Rak and Dino in Dinosaur Love. Dino (red) is dominant and a bit temperamental while Rak (green) takes his time (just like plants/nature) and is more even/balanced.

Nuea and Toh is Secret Crush on You display the blue/orange combination. Nuea (orange) is a bit impatient and dominant (which is the red coming out in the orange) while Toh (blue) has a calm (ish) demeanor and is more passive (since he's more focused on his secret crush remaining a secret than believing he can actually have a relationship with Nuea).

There are obviously many more examples, but these were the ones I could remember and find right now.

So, with all that said, I often react to/write about contrasting colors because I love them, because they're visually pleasing, and because they (often) say something more about what we see on the screen or what we hear the characters say. And I absolutely love it when they're used intentionally.

Thank you for your ask.

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

please survive

i might have chronic fatigue syndrome.

[takeyourcyanide]

at times it seems they have given up on attempting to convince me that the ostensibles and the probables bled and feathered and blended. I am sure someone will continue. I have lived my life in perpetual confusion and wish for it to dissipate, but when much of it is purposeful they wish to sap the disorientation to my brain just as the beings do, transportation and evisceration. I find myself recently wary of specifics, their continuous vagueities lead me to treading carefully if at all. their skinsuits will never not appear as odd sacks of communicating and moving flesh to me - curations apparent. I want to write. I have had a questioning thought as of late, it seems one is treated with more sympathy when they are perceived as being “self aware” and or sees themself as living within not reality as well - they’re considered easier to deal with and by those who likely claim to support and have understanding. Simply an observation. /neu I am fine that curations view me as a particular thing, and perhaps I am that thing and that would be due to the beings, but what I know to be true is what I know to be true and if I’m considered argumentative and stubborn then so be it. they lack awareness in some and pretend to in others.

[earthytzipi]

I mean, yes, this is an experience a lot of autistic people have (myself included, speaking solely about the tags in the reblog above) but can we stop saying that "autism in real life" is supposedly being able to analyze social cues better than allistics? or that "autism in real life" is being hyperverbal or high empathy or deeply in touch with your emotions?

listen. I'm not saying that those aren't really autistic experiences, but I am saying that your experience is not universal, especially if your masking is so highly developed that nobody ever knows until you tell them and then they don't believe you at first. it's not fair for you to erase the autistics for whom none of the above is true.

(as an aside, i also don't *love* the implication in this post that if you are confident in yourself -read: if you don't mask or if your mask is imperfect- you aren't *realistically* autistic... like. hello? some of us don't mask or don't mask well! even at my most insecure, I've gotten the comment from people who don't know me well that I'm "so confident and so willing to be different" when I literally could not be any other way. please don't try to minimize us in our own community.)

[fingertipsmp3]

Okay, anyone else on SSRIs: is it normal to suddenly feel a little bit stupid all the time