#photoshop pharaoh

[pliablehead]

Heyo, what do you consider the top 5 must-watch EE interviews???

I AM SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER THIS and I think it's because I really don't have a proper answer!! So much of my deep dive into EE was done in one long hyperfixation spiral back when I was first getting fangirl-level into them, a good 6 or 7 years ago, and so I'm running into the problem of most of the interview content I've consumed all sort of homogenizing into one sort of blur of Lore that I've internalized and I am not doing a great job at separating out into its individual components! So, that said, the following list is probably not in line with what I'd actually ultimately believe to be the best, most crucial ones--it's just the ones my brain can call to mind at the moment. lol. BUT HERE ARE SOME:

serious/insightful: • Jon and Alex for Tape Notes podcast. (so not a must-watch so much as a much-listen, but there are a few individual clips from this on youtube in video form as well I believe.) RDF is my favorite EE album and I thought this was a hugely interesting look into their writing process and also had a bunch of cool personal stuff in it! Plus, I think it's a very good look at who the band are, like, "now" -- there's a lot of great content around from MA up through GTH, but by the time they were on album 4 and all like, 30+, and especially once covid hit and sort of changed the trajectory of like.. bands, in general, I feel like it's just been a different animal re: regular interviews etc. • this 2013 3-parter with Jonathan. It's been ages since I watched it but I remembered it almost immediately, and for some reason I'm remembering it as an oddly vulnerable Jon moment. just talking about things. (more good band lore! etc.)

funny/meme-y: • Mike and Jez at Isle of Wight. Unlike many others, I could not possibly count how many times I have rewatched this, and it is funny every time. The interviewer is a buffoon asking totally clueless questions and Jez is having absolutely none of it, he's just chomping his chewing gum the entire time, Mike's doing his best, it destroys me. • Mike and Jez look at memes. Less interview-y and more just #content but whoever edited this video did a TOP NOTCH JOB and it's one I often show to not-in-this-fanbase friends that can still be a fun look at the band and a good laff. • This very sweet one with Alex and Mike being interviewed by a literal child. Contains the infamous "Jeremy, and yes," which is one of my most quoted EE-related sentences ever • this Man Alive track-by-track, also audio only.. the BITS that Jon and Alex are doing. truly incredible stuff

just lads having a nice time :) : • the CAPSLOCK ON talkback - lots of pleasant band and lyric insight, and a great Jez cheese moment at the end • this livestream dot com session is some performing but some Q&Aing, so not really an interview proper, but the energy in the room is delightful alskdghj

other noteworthy bodies of work: • anything with Andy Backhouse. I'll be the first to admit that Andy can grate my nerves sometimes, he often feels annoyingly a little too simp-y or something, but the other side of that coin is that as a huge fan of the band he actually does always ask them questions that are like, Real, he Gets them, so it's guaranteed to be a notch up from just random music journos who are engaging with them on a more surface industry level. Nothing is more frustrating than watching an EE interview where the interviewer just so blatantly doesn't "get" EE's whole deal and doesn't know how to interface. Andy never has that problem ! • any episode of Chips of Chorlton that features them (I think Jon's been on twice and Jeremy once). Dutch Uncles are their friends and hearing them all shoot the shit in an extremely comfortable environment is suuuuch a pleasant and wholly different experience than when the lads are being Professional Music Band guys, even when the latter still consists of them doing fairly goofy things

A VERY LONGWINDED AND NOT ESPECIALLY COMPREHENSIVE ANSWER ?? !!!!! Ultimately I think I was the wrong man for the job. @hellkitepriest has way more of an archivist's nature sort of just intrinsically than I do, he can probably do a better and less ridiculous job akjdshglak

[flamingplay]

End of Year Asks: 19, 20, 22 :)

Aaaw thank you for the asks! 💚💚 Merry Christmas 🎁

19. What’re you excited about for next year?

Hm... I'm really really excited that London Grammar and Kylie Minogue are both coming here in July as a part of the Ejekt Festival but I don't know if I physically can go there, so it's like seeing a dream coming true but not knowing if it's possible for me :/

20. What’s something you learned this year?

Lots of courses at Uni, so all I do is study constantly haha If thinking more seriously... There were too many lessons this year. The heaviest one was about one connection leading me to facing all my traumas since childhood and recognising certain patterns that people who I allow to be close to me have. That was too much of an experience and the lesson is these particular traumas are not my fault and not an indicator of me not doing enough / being wrong because none of them are consequently about me. I've been trying to hide away from the aforementioned traumas so now I relieved them and acknowledged their existence. I hope it's a road to healing at least one of them with trying to come to terms that I'm not someone's mistake or inconvenience in someone's life.

22. Favorite place you visited this year?

I haven't been anywhere outside this city this year, if that is what was meant under "place" here. If thinking about experiences then certainly 2 Coldplay gigs the second of which was my favourite place to be and the biggest moment of my whole life as I've been eager to see Jon live since 2009!

These turned out to be very difficult and personal but it is what it is, I guess...

[projectniko]

Day 3, I was having a dilemma of choosing between two ocs to have the complex drip, but screw it, they both dress up in the same outfit. Let me know which one slayed. Sorabel the sad girl, or Niko the probably-not-devilish lady. (I'm really tired please spare me)

[yatiso]

i have gotta get my old windows laptop running again

[sluttynurse]

we need more white pharaoh photoshops

[dragoneyes618]

"Perhaps presenting all these facts has the opposite effect from what we think. Perhaps we are giving people ideas.

I don't mean giving people ideas about how to murder Jews. There is no shortage of ideas like that, going back to Pharaoh's decree in the Book of Exodus about drowning Hebrew baby boys in the Nile. I mean, rather, that perhaps we are giving people ideas about our standards. Yes, everyone must learn about the Holocaust aso as not to repeat it. But this has come to mean that anything short of the Holocaust is, well, not the Holocaust. The bar is rather high.

Shooting people in a synagogue in San Diego or Pittsburgh isn't "systemic"; it's an act of a "lone wolf." And it's not the Holocaust. The same is true for arson attacks against two different Boston-area synagogues, followed by similar simultaneous attacks on Jewish institutions in Chicago a few days later, along with physical assaults on religious Jews on the streets of New York - all of which happened within a week of my visit to the Auschwitz show.

Lobbing missiles at sleeping children in Israel's Kiryat Gat, where my husband's cousins spent the week of my museum visit dragging their kids to bomb shelters, isn't an attempt to bring "Death to the Jews," no matter how frequently the people lobbing the missiles broadcast those very words; the wily Jews there figured out how to prevent their children form dying in large piles, so it is clearly no big deal.

Doxxing Jewish journalists is definitely not the Holocaust. Harassing Jewish college students is also not the Holocaust. Trolling Jews on social media is not the Holocaust either, even when it involves photoshopping them into gas chambers. (Give the trolls credit: They have definitely heard of Auschwitz.) Even hounding ancient Jewish communities out of entire countries and seizing all their assets - which happened in a dozen Muslim nations whose Jewish communities predated the Islamic conquest, countries that are now all almost entirely Judenrein - is emphatically not the Holocaust. It is quite amazing how many things are not the Holocaust.

The day of my visit to the museum, the rabbi of my synagogue attended a meeting arranged by police for local clergy, including him and seven Christian ministers and priests. The topic of the meeting was security. Even before the Pittsburgh massacre, membership dues at my synagogue included security fees. But apparently these local churches do not charge their congregants security fees, or avail themselves of government funds for this purpose.. The rabbi later told me how he sat in stunned silence as church officials discussed whether to put a lock on a church door. "A lock on the door," the rabbi said to me afterward, stupefied.

He didn't have to say what I already knew from the emails the synagogue routinely sends: that they've increased the rent-a-cops' hours, that they've done active-shooter training with the nursery school staff, that further initiatives are in place that "cannot be made public." A lock on the door," re repeated, astounded. "They just have no idea."

He is young, this rabbi - younger than me. He was realizing the same thing I realized at the Auschwitz exhibition, about the specificity of our experience. I feel the need to apologize here, to acknowledge that yes, this rabbi and I both know that many non-Jewish houses of worship in other places also require rent-a-cops, to announce that yes, we both know that other groups have been persecuted too - and this degrading need to recite these middle-school-obvious facts is itself an illustration of the problem, which is that dead Jews are only worth discussing if they are part of something bigger, something more. Some other people might go to Holocaust museums to feel sad, and then to feel proud of themselves for feeling sad. They will have learned something officially important, discovered a fancy metaphor for the limits of Western civilization. The problem is that for us, dead Jews aren't a metaphor, but rather actual people that we do not want our children to become." 

- Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

[hellkitepriest]

tagged by @photoshop-pharaoh in this thing 🥳🥳

Mood: good!

Listening To: currently von dutch by charli xcx, courtesy of youtube autoplay

Reading: some guy's niche poetry thesis from 2009 which i started last week and still haven't finished

Watching: halfway through an old episode of no more jockeys which is just a delightfully stupid zoom-based youtube webshow courtesy of alex horne, tim key and mark watson

Playing: also nothing alas. i am not a gamer

Eating: the rest of my ludicrously expensive pizza express pizza from tesco. you know when you think "i'm going to treat myself" and then the price of the treat outweighs the benefit of the treat and you sort of just have a regretful pizza. still tasty though

Drinking: pink gin-based cocktail in a can #SaturdayNight

tagging @pliablehead @abattoirstars @shallowtboy @skullunter

[pitchforkhead]

10 people you'd like to get to know better

Thanks for tagging @2-trees and sorry for ignoring, I had rough times 🫠

Last song: Safe and Sound by Justice

Last book: i really can't tell you cause I read too many books at once, but probably something about psychology

Last movie: The Terminal (2004)

Last tv show: What We Do In The Shadows, season 6💅

Sweet/spicy/savory: sweet and savory

Relationship status: being a bitch 🤘

Last thing googled: urban dictionary...

Current obsession: JUSTICEEE, MY GAY FRENCH UNCLES

Looking forward to: next weekend, I'm always tired...

Tagging @qwertyfingers @skullunter @photoshop-pharaoh @veikkoalen @knockmeforsix, I missed you guys <3

[pliablehead]

happy birthday!!! hope your day goes well. do you have anything planned to celebrate it???

thank you! it's going well so far! I baked myself some cookies, and tonight a friend and I are hanging out and getting Indian food delivery; then tomorrow I am going out with a bunch of fun folks to see Mickey 17. very casual and should be very fun!

[snoozaga]

Does any1 have that one post that was pharaoh atem and nicki minaj photoshopped in front of a high school and the dialoge was

Atem: long time no see nicki minaj

Nicki: 3000 years to be exact

And the caption was "I'm working on a dating sim"

[karlschumann89]

thank u @photoshop-pharaoh for the tag!

What's the origin of your blog title?

OTP(s) + ship names

wimmy :^) (walter + jimmy from foals)

Favorite color

dark green

Favorite game

i rarely play video games. but probably pupperazzi

Song stuck in your head

listening to this on repeat rn

Weirdest habit/trait?

idk if any of my habits are weird (lip biting, ripping off the skin around my nails) but when i eat pizza i take a bite of crust and then a bite of the pizza and alternate until the crust is gone so im not stuck with only crust at the end

Hobbies

posting about pathetic men, playing bass, listening to music

If you work, what's your profession?

im an assistant at a nursing home. i do 1:1 resident supervision

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be?

music score arranger

Something you're good at

learning to play songs by ear (especially on saxophone)

Something you're bad at

time management

Something you love

successfully learning how to cook smth new

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff

two door cinema club

Something you hate

when i spend hours prepping+cooking smth and it turns out like shit

Something you collect

vinyl records, colorful windbreakers mostly from the 80s + 90s

Something you forget

whenever i go grocery shopping, i always forget the thing i was there for. then when i go back i remember the thing i forgot last time and forget thing i intend to get the next time

What's your love language?

i dont understand the concept of “love languages”. i dont believe in unnecessarily over-categorizing human behaviours like this honestly

Favorite movie/show?

i dont watch any shows and i rarely ever watch movies. if anything i love watching jerma lmao

Favorite food

SHAWARMA💥💥💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Favorite animals

🐱🐸🦎🐍

What were you like as a child?

meticulous, perfectionist, chatty

Favorite subject in school

music

Least favorite subject in school

pe

What's your best character trait?

honesty and directness

What's your worst character trait?

stubbornness

If you could change any detail about your day, what would it be?

i wish my hair was tidy every morning. no cowlicks no bed head

If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

all of my grandparents. i want to see how similar we are. i met 3 of them at the age of 2 and have zero memory of it

Recommend one of your favorite fanfics (spread the love!)

i have a confession to make: i dont give a fuck about fanfics. ive never like. actually read a fanfic. ppl have sent me fics and ive been like “oooo thanks” but ive never read any of them because i do not care about fanfics

[theravenchild]

Hellendil is all dressed up as an Egyptian pharaoh for @boxdstars Halloween party! Thank you so much for hosting this! It's such a fun idea! Haven't done one of these in years! 💙

Setup and rendered in DAZ Studio 4.21 Public Build Beta. Postwork in Photoshop Elements 8.0.

[thewardenofwinter]

Hi Morana!

How are you doing? How is the writing going, what are you up to?

Greetings Sam, thank you so much for this ask! I've been meaning to do a little update for a while and this gives me a perfect excuse lol

On life (tw for mentions of illness):

It's still very hectic at the moment which hasn't really allowed me time to pursue any creative avenues. I've been fighting off various illnesses since my younger brother started school because my immune system isn't used to all the germs he's around, including covid and strep, and on top of that there was a West Nile Virus outbreak in my state which my mom ended up catching and had to be hospitalized for a few days but she's doing a lot better now. We still have not found a place to live yet, but we managed to finagle two more months from our landlords to find a place since moving during the summer is damn near impossible when they rack up the prices and everything is being taken. There's also a lot going on in my more personal life that's left me quite stressed and lethargic. A little bright side though is that we also found two itty bitty stray kittens under a house and I had to take care of them for almost 2 weeks, but they ended up getting adopted which is great! They were both very cute gray tabbies like their mom, and they were technically my other cat Ivan's half-siblings. I've also got a queens of the stone age and hozier concert coming up soon which i am SO hyped for, my entire life has been In Times New Roman and Unreal Unearth for the past weeks.

On writing:

In the past few days, I've finally found some peace to write and draw some. I've been mainly focusing on The Resurrectioners and trying to get at least 50k words by the end of October. I've also been outlining The Stray Girls and trying to work on a cover in Photoshop (which i got recently totally legally, but i usually just use Clip Studio). I've sort of put What We Undertake on the backburner for now, it's not that i don't want to work on it or am burnt out, it's just that I'm not nearly as passionate about furthering the plot like I am with The Resurrectioners. I've sort of fallen into a hole of mythology and folktales about necromancy trying to learn more about the history behind its representation.

I've also gotten back into drawing now that I've actually had time to do so lol. Here’s some drawings I’ve gotten done recently!

(in order from left to right: Nazriya from The Resurrectioners, Circe from Give No Quarter, A quick sketch of Zekiah from The Resurrectioners, and a face study of Charlie Hunnam)

I've also put off studying Russian for a month or so and am trying to get back into my one-hour-a-day studying routine I had previously which is taking a toll on me to be honest lol. I bought the Curse of the Pharaohs DLC for AC Origins and I've also started to play Assassins Creed: Liberation for the first time and so far I'm loving both. I can't believe some people say it's the worst installment. I'm working on Aveline fanart as we speak.

But yeah! There's a little update, I'm going to be posting some of my writing soon/doing a few tag games to get back into the groove of things so watch out for those. Thanks again Sam for checking up on me and sending the ask!

[fmp10nicolasliwiak]

Project ethics

So, ethics….I can’t speak in the sustainability side of things because I’m not using natural resources at all. I use my IPad for basically everything art related only use a computer for stuff like Photoshop. It’s why I bought one in the first place, cause drawing on tiny phone isn’t good enough, and I sure as hell ain’t using AI cause I’m not supporting something that’s actively messing us up further than ever before. Cultural ethics on the other hand? Ohhh boy, when your project centers on two different historical cultures, you’re gonna have something to say.

I already stated my idea from the project stemmed from nowhere, and that is true since I barely care about history, but that doesn’t I won’t put the effort in. It’s hard with this kind of project though because there’s a basis in reality and fantasy simultaneously, so I needed to figure out wether I was taking away too many cultural factors to replace with the “It’s fantastical” excuse. The clothing for the characters was by far the most important thing to nail down, and it’s something I’ve seen designers not consider much at all, even if their concept centres on history. Usually they just lean into stereotypical depictions without much variation. And DON’T get me started on artists using cheap Halloween costumes as reference for historical clothing.

But as you know, I’ve made mood boards purely to document historical clothing. When it came to Nour and Neferure, taking creative liberties with them without going too far in the “costumey” or “impossible for the time period” was somewhat tricky, but I really wanted the both to look royal and beyond the scope of the kingdom’s inhabitants. I know that sandles weren’t commonly worn by Egyptians nor did gauzes have any other colour than white, but it completes their look and makes them unique…And Asterios and Fengari? Thank god the Greeks were practical because being accurate with them was super easy.

The characters’ fashions for this project aren’t 100% accurate mainly to signify that Beamia and Duskura aren’t the actual Egypt and Greece and that they exist in a fictional world similar to Earth. It’s also why Biplexus, the god the two kingdoms worship, is entirely fictional and doesn’t look human and why the sun and moon aren’t personified like in Egyptian and Greek mythology. I still did consider historical factors for the characters though, mainly how Hatshepsut, a female pharaoh, was a warrior before taking rule, which inspired Neferure’s story, and how Fengari was a Hoplite before becoming an emporer as gladiator fighting became outdated in the Classical period of Ancient Greece, which is the period Duskura takes primary influence from…Though if this project were to ever go beyond this scope, I’d definitely include some of the more controversial things from history. Not everything per say, but some important factors that would make both kingdoms look flawed as the story progressed.

[hellkitepriest]

Well, would you be able to beat Alex Robertshaw in a fight?

i ADORE that two separate people want an answer on this. what an environment i have cultivated on tumblr dot com.

to answer your question, wonky, probably not due to him being a whole foot taller than me and seemingly decently strong. unfortunately. to answer @photoshop-pharaoh: having never been in a fight (this surprises people. @qwertyfingers told me the other week he was surprised i didn't get beaten up at school because "i have that energy" jdfsfgh) i have zero experience to back this up but on instinct i would utilise my lower centre of gravity and run into him really hard to tackle him or something or yknow just biting him

tl;dr:

[pitchforkhead]

Uhhh i feel so bad about not answering when I want to, but still, @ybep thanks for tagging ^_^

Do this quiz and this picrew

I'm tagging @veikkoalen @qwertyfingers @photoshop-pharaoh @supyovalk (no pressure ofc) and anybody else seeing this <3