#please ignore the crappy photoshoping

[thecornerofegg]

Ok so I'm getting lunged head first into ANOTHER new hyperfixation cus I started reading a spidey/batfam crossover fic without knowing jack shit about batman or any of the kids, so I did my research as I read

Anyway, long story short I'm now up at 2am for the very important task of changing my lock screen to this

[wistsandmagic]

Of course this would be on the most wrinkled paper known to mankind, since it's sketched on the back of one of my crochet patterns, but. Putting it on here so I DON'T LOSE IT. (Please, please please please ignore the crappy quality, this is like a 2 minute sketch that's only like an inch and a half long.)

Potato-sparkling TFA Shockwave. A Very Suspicious Potato, since his eye isn't even open all the way yet.

Eventually this might get stuck in photoshop and properly inked/coloured. Eventually.

[leviathans-watching]

mfil - 29

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-` ♡ ´- a/n: ignore the crappy photoshop job i had to do in the last photo to make it match the storyline 😭😭

*NOT CLICKBAIT!!!* when asmo learns that you, the newest exchange student has a youtube account and following somewhat comparable to his own, he decided right then and there not to like you. however, after an unfortunate (and misleading) exchange goes viral, he has no choice but to fake date you in order to save face. will asmo crush you and put you into place like you deserve? or are those funny feelings in his stomach not hate, like he had thought? like, subscribe, and maybe fall in love (with this smau) to find out!

leviathans-watching's work - please do not copy, repost, or claim as your own

[conchshell]

I can’t wait for the Sparrows to meet our feral time gremlin 

[weirwoodking]

your tormund fancast is so good omg do you have a daario fancast?

So, most of the information we have about Daario is about his clothing and hair/beard. His physical description is that he’s lithe, smooth-skinned, curly-haired, has deep blue-purple eyes, and a large curved nose. We don’t actually get physical descriptions of the Tyroshi people beyond being told that they dress flamboyantly and dye their hair colorful shades. Tyrosh is on an island in the Stepstones, which was formerly the Arm of Dorne. It’s about equal distance from Lys and Myr (a little closer to Myr), and Myrmen are described to have the appearance of the Rhoynar while Lyseni have the appearance of Valyrians. So, with Tyrosh being right around there I assume the people (while still having their own distinct appearance) appear half-Rhoynar/half-Valyrian. I picture Daario’s eyes to be deep Valyrian violet (Tyroshi people can have blue, brown, or purple eyes, in my headcanon), his skin to be medium-olive, and his hair... I guess it has to be naturally light blonde, right? If the Tyroshi can dye their hair that frequently, they probably have light hair (unless they have hair bleach, which, I mean it is a fantasy world, so they could have something that does the trick). Or they have really powerful dye that can change the color of dark hair.

For his age, I’ve always read him to be in his early-mid twenties, maybe 24 (we never get a number in canon). Like, I imagine he joined the Stormcrows in his teens and has worked his way up for several years.

The closest fancast I’ve found for him is Avan Jogia, he has that kind of dashing look that I picture Daario having. I was originally going to edit all of these photos, but that’s... too much effort, so I just did the first one, you’ll have to use your imagination for the rest (please ignore how crappy the photoshop is, I did it in like 3 minutes).

His hair is more wavy than curly, and his nose isn’t big enough, but he has the vibe. I’ve seen him used for Quentyn edits, but he’s too sexy to be Quentyn imo (sorry Quent).

[surgeonsoath]

I was going to try stay awake until my wages were deposited into my bank but I’m getting really tired as being in medication withdrawal means I get what I call brain zaps. So every time I move my head too quickly or my eyes too quickly it happens. It really tires me out as well, so I’m going to just go to sleep. 

I tried my best with replies today I think I have about 5 on Derek, 10 on here and a bunch of asks on here too. So I will get through them tomorrow. I’ve also made a conscious decision to stop wasting time on people who don’t want me in their lives in my personal life and on here. I work so hard to please everyone and a lot of the time it’s ignored. So I’m just going to focus on my friends on here that WANT to talk to me and actively do so, as opposed to those I want to be noticed by. It wears me out and these days in self-isolation have given me a lot of time to think. I’m usually on the go all the time that I don’t have time to sit and reflect. But having this time to think has allowed me to realise that I’m good at what I do whether it be roleplaying/writing, photoshop, my job and if people are going to make me feel shitty for who I am then they aren’t worth my time. 

I know that’s a lot but I really think it’s important for others to see. 

IF YOU CAN’T ACCEPT YOURSELF AND CAN’T SEE WHEN YOU’VE DONE SOME REALLY GOOD WORK, THEN NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO. IF YOU’RE PROUD OF YOUR WORK AND PEOPLE CONTINUE TO DISMISS IT OR TELL YOU IT’S NOT GOOD ENOUGH OR YOU TRY REALLY HARD TO TALK TO SOMEONE AND YOU’RE GIVING THEM 1000% AND YOU’RE GETTING 5% AT MOST, THEN THEY AREN’T WORTH YOUR TIME.

You’re a droplet in a wave of motion. You can’t change what you can’t control. The road to achieving your goals is not a linear path. My goals are to be the best writer I can be on here and to enjoy myself so it might inspire me to finally write the book I’ve been wanting to write. If people are going to make me feel crappy, then let them. They will eventually realise that what they did was a shitty thing. I WILL enjoy myself and I won’t let anyone ruin that for me. 

[inacatastrophicmind]

Title: The Purple Shield

Pairing: Dean/Castiel

Tags: Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Pining, Sharing a Bed, Angst with a Happy Ending, Human Castiel (Supernatural, )Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Season/Series 15, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, Case Fic, Emotional Hurt, Established Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester            

Summary: In Spokane, Washington, Dean and Castiel finish a case with a powerful witch. Ready to go back home, they start driving back to the bunker, only to find that a big purple shield is blocking their way, not letting them leave.

Forced to remain in that town, Dean and Castiel go to a cabin, where they will have to stay until the two of them find a way to break the spell with the help of Sam and Eileen, who are in the bunker, unable to reach them.

In normal circumstances, Dean wouldn’t mind being stuck in such a lovely place with his best friend, but he is secretely in love with Cas and there is only one bed, so things aren’t going to be that easy for Dean.

Read on ao3

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Please ignore the crappy way in which I photoshopped Dean and Cas.

[midgetmeredith]

PLEASE STOP REPOSTING MY EDITS!

Instagram account @sakurauzumakie (and others in the past: @antinaruuuhinaaa on IG / Haruno Uzumaki on FB, etc.), you have:

Yet again visited my blog with the intent to steal my edits and seemingly decided to ignore my numerous posts previously communicating how devastating and immensely discouraging it is to have my work reposted without permission or credit (even so much as implicitly inferring the edit is yours through captioning ‘to follow you for more’ and adding audio), moreover for such to receive significantly more reception (100+ notes on my original creations < up to 16,000+ views on your reposts which have cropped my watermark and failed to acknowledge me, as well as allow oppositional responses that I have not been able to counter so as to defend myself or my mocked work).

Thus enabled Naru/Hina fans (including those I have specifically blocked due to prior harassment) to see my edits and also repost them to be ridiculed and ripped apart in some blathering shipping feud, having provided them the scope to find my original posts and attack them directly as well. In reposting such outside of its intended space, this has opened up my work to hate and ridicule, to hurtful and derogatory comments; exposing a hobby with a simple and non-monetary purpose to please, to invasive vilification and hostile consumption.

What’s more is that it isn’t just my work that has been reposted – it’s the beautiful artwork of our fandom’s many talented artists, who already don’t receive the praise that they deserve. As I’ve stated before, having your creative content reposted (especially without credit or simply requesting permission/notifying the OP) is crappy and insanely demotivating. I personally put so much time, effort and passion into my GIFs – I have to find the right scenes to convey the emotional purpose of the gifset in the most effective way possible, download the highest quality episodes that I can find, create specific and detailed PSD colourings that accent the work, cut and blend or fade frames together from often entirely different segments of the overall franchise, etc.

We’re a smaller fandom now, so enthusiasm is lower than it was and our work already receives limited acknowledgment. We should be supporting the content creators who still pour their heart and soul into making new material for us to enjoy. If you want to share that work elsewhere, at least ask permission first and please provide proper credit, for goodness sake! I adore NaruSaku, so I wanted to continue to see our fandom thrive and help contribute to that. But I’m making edits in my own free time from my master’s degree, only for the above to happen? It’s defeating. Idk, I can’t justify this anymore, at least not for now. You pay for Photoshop and create the content yourself, reposters.

[cosmic-dragon25]

To-dodo-roki

Please ignore my crappy photoshopping skills 🙃

[pens-swords-stuff]

Character Creation Tag [Clara]

@honiewrites tagged both my writeblr and mainblog (@undinisms) for this like forever ago! Thank you so much, I love being tagged! 

For all the other people who tagged me for this... I’m making individual posts for each of them (eventually, who knows how long it’ll take) so I haven’t forgotten you!

Going to do this for Clara!

1) What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.?)

I think the very first thing about Clara that I came up with was that I wanted a kind of aloof, cold, academically smart girl — so the first element was an archetype, I suppose!

2) Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

I don’t think so! I think I developed Clara in a vacuum without really considering other characters. She may have been one of the first developed characters for it actually...

I know that her best friend one true love Caerwyn (by @decantae) existed in some form when she was created but I don’t think he had much impact when I was originally designing her. I can’t even remember if they were meant to be a ship at that point honestly... It’s been a while.

3) How did you choose their name?

Visuals are really important to me especially when it comes to naming. Like, the face has to fit the name, you know? Therefore, face claims are really important to me in the character creation process.

So once I settled on Aja Naomi King as her face claim, I spent a couple of minutes staring at her face before going “you know what, you look like a Clara.” It was relatively painless actually, I think the name came to me very quickly. It was simple, elegant, sophisticated, and matched Aja’s face so I was happy with it!

Originally her full name was Clara May Williams, back when she had an American background. After that iteration was scrapped and I brought her back for Morsmordre months later, I decided that Clara Williams didn’t fit her anymore. She was British now, and she needed a new surname. Choosing a new surname was also really easy, the name Wilcox just popped into my mind.

Clara Wilcox is her name now (middle name pending), and I like it a lot better than her original name! I definitely think it fits her better.

4) In developing their backstory, what elements of the world they live in played the most influential parts?

Clara is a main character of Morsmordre: a Harry Potter AU fanfiction I’m writing with @decantae. Just to give a rundown of the canon divergence: In Morsmordre, Voldemort succeeded in killing Harry Potter when he was a baby, and the first Wizarding War never ended.

Blood status is really important in the Wizarding World, and Clara is a half-blood. So due to her muggle father and pureblood mother, Clara developed a skeptic, scientific approach to magic in comparison to other wizards. This is a really important part to her character because her approach to learning magic is by dismantling and examining the theory behind it, rather than the application — it comes up a lot in Morsmordre because she’s a scholar at heart, and she’s not super great at putting things into action.

Her half-blood heritage will also begin to become more important as the war continues, and it’s not just muggleborns that are persecuted.

Houses are huge in Hogwarts, and I knew that I wanted to make a Ravenclaw character, so that definitely played a huge role in creating Clara. She had to be smart in some way, thirsty for knowledge. I always knew that she would be very book smart, but not people smart because I wanted her to be a bookish Ravenclaw who wasn’t that great at interacting with people.

5) Is there any significance behind their hair colour?

Not particularly! Her face claim’s hair is black, so...

6) Is there any significance behind their eye colour?

Not really! Her face claim’s eyes are brown so...

7) Is there any significance behind their height?

I have a really bad habit of making female characters short (I’m super short, so), so I actively made her a bit taller than I normally would in an attempt to break that habit and diversify my character heights. She’s 5′5″ or 5′7″ I think?

8) What (if anything) do you relate to within their character/story?

I can relate to Clara’s inability to open up and be vulnerable. Despite being fairly emotional as a person, she has a lot of difficulty opening up about how she really feels, or even taking an introspective look at herself to figure it out.

I seem like I’m super well-adjusted, but I internalize a lot of problems and I hate being vulnerable in front of others; I have a lot of trouble opening up, and really connecting with emotional rawness to anyone, and Clara also has difficulty with that.

9) Are they based off of you, in some way?

Nope! I’ve mentioned this before, but I purposefully avoid putting parts of me into a character because they become really bad self-inserts. Some people can make that work, and it’s a valid thing — it’s just that I personally can’t make it work.

10) Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation?

Honestly I’m still not sure about what her sexuality is, because I cannot imagine her with anyone else but Caerwyn. I straight up have mentioned that she’s just Caerwyn-sexual since she’s never really expressed any sort of interest in anyone else, regardless of gender.

That being said... All of my characters’ default sexualities are bisexual. If Caerwyn just straight up didn’t exist (as in, if @decantae never made him in the first place), I think she would definitely be attracted to girls as well as guys!

11) What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: Writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?

Well, for one: I’m bad at art.

Two, Clara’s face claim might be Aja Naomi King, but it’s really hard to find high quality photographs of Aja that look like Clara. I mess around with photoshop and I’ve made a couple of edits for Clara, but it’s always been difficult finding images that could be Clara.

I also mess around with video editing sometimes, and I’ve actually made a crappy movie trailer for Morsmordre. Although Aja Naomi King has a lot of clips that could be Clara, she doesn’t speak in a British accent like Clara. I ignored that detail for the edit but it was always in the back of my mind.

12) How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

So the current draft (it’s like a second draft... except we never finished the first. We just decided to rewrite it anyway) is at the very beginning of the Morsmordre story. Similar to Harry Potter, we’re going to follow the lives of the main characters as they go through school. It starts in 4th year, then I believe that Morsmordre will end a couple years after their 7th, when they finally achieve their goals (even then, that’s suspect and not set in stone).

Me and @decantae have planned far beyond that, including headcanons for their children, what they’re going to be up to after the events of Morsmordre, possible sequels, relationships, etc.

13) If you had to narrow it down to 2 things that you MUST keep in mind while working with your OC, what would those things be?

Clara (and others) might think she’s super rational and logical because of her braininess, but she’s actually ruled by her emotions and heart. Even if Clara’s brain knows that something is completely stupid and that she shouldn’t do it under any circumstances, she’ll jump in if her feelings say yes.

She studies a lot and tries to learn everything she can so that she can prevent being caught off guard as much as possible. She likes being in control, and knowledge is one of the ways she maintains it (or at least, the illusion of being in control).

14) What is something about your OC that can make you laugh?

Her banter and relationships with her friends can be really funny at times. I love the dynamic between her and everyone else!

15) What is something about your OC can make you cry?

She’s going to go through a really rude awakening when she becomes disillusioned with the world. She’s fairly idealistic right now, and she’s going to go through a lot of painful growth when that idealism shatters.

16) Is there some element you regret adding to your OC or their story?

I’m actually really pleased with how Clara turned out, so I don’t think I have any regrets.

17) What is the most recent thing you’ve discovered about your OC?

She really likes peppermint!

18) What is your favourite fact about your OC?

She’s really extra! She’s really dramatic! 

Also her family is literally the most wholesome, loving family ever and I love it.

Tagging @souliloquyyy, @kriss-the-writing-nerd @inkspilledqueen @writings-of-a-narwhal for this, feel free to do this or ignore!

If anyone else sees this and wants to do it, please go ahead and say I tagged you!

[angeltrait]

eh a 10 min edit i did of my good ol buddy neptune ;) please ignore how crappy it is because i dont want to spend $250 on photoshop so i use gimp

[ppgxrrblove]

You know. Yeah, nah I don't care I'll step up and be the non anon for people. The homophobia aside (please grow up lol), you are supposedly anti rape / abuse etc, but you support a ship like Blossom/Brick that many artists and writers, write as if it is a romanticized rape/abuse fantasy. You've even reblogged said types of scenes with comments regarding it being cute, or hot. Is being raped cute? Is being raped hot? Non-consensual touches are okay to you? So you're a homophobic minor, that---

-ahem- -clicks tongue- Alright let’s get this over with, you ignorant baboon. First of all good for you that you didn’t want to cower away and hide like anon and send hate mail. Thanks for showing me who you are and what your blog looks like :). Second of all..how is being homophobic an immature thing? Does that make any sense?? Like what?? Let me search up, -no give you the definition of these two words for you can process what you just typed down and realize how ignorant you sounded. Homophobic: ‘having or showing a dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people‘ now for Immature:  ‘not fully developed.‘ now let me ask you again does these two fall under the line of each other? Cause what you just said sounds so ignorant that it made me laugh because that was just dumb. Lol I said the word allot xD. 

Third off yes I am and I still am an anti rape/abuse supporter like I don’t support it. So you got that actually correct for once in your sentence. 

Now I wanna ask you where the HECK do you get or where did you find information that the shipping between blossom and brick is abusive? You sound like an ignorant minded person who doesn’t know(?) about the ship itself nor the fandom or even went to idk? Check and see how none abusive it is and how cute people illustrate them as and your little sentence you made is just an opinion. Because I know for a fact that I haven’t stumbled upon any art or fanfiction story of them being in a abusive relationship because to be honest all of that is just FAN MADE not OFFICIAL or CANON. So you assuming that the whole entire blossom x brick fandom is based off what your in denial thoughts of them being abusive and like 50 shades of grey makes you look even more (again) ignorant. You come here trying to accuse me of supporting a supposedly abusive fictional relationship between two characters and you say that i’ve ‘You’ve even reblogged said types of scenes with comments regarding it being cute, or hot‘ but I wish to know where did you see this in my blog?? 

I mean did you like sit on your booty and scrolled through my entire blog just to actually make me look like an abusive supporter of rape?? Wow i never knew how you had so much dedication of doing this just to get one person who isn’t what you claim for me to be as out of tumblr. Because I know for a fact IF I was an abusive/rape supporter half of my likes, posts would’ve BEEN showed it off and I would’ve BEEN gotten warnings and allot of hate for it. Shoot if i was ever the type of person you made me up to be as I would’ve hated myself. I wouldn’t like what i was liking and supporting. So please get the heck out of here with your crappy and NO EVIDENCE oh! Did i ever stopped to question you if you had any proof of me reposting and saying these types of comments? Or did someone use a little photoshop and made me look bad just to prove your false accusations? :) Or MAYBE you didn’t see it and MAYBE you’re just making up bull crap to frame me out to be a person i’m not OR OR!! Your so delusional that you saw something that wasn’t really there.

Listen i know that you are extremely salty of the fact that i still got my blog and i still am posting not falling under anyone’s hate mail but please get a better damn excuse. You look very stupid right now. 

I know that there are sicko’s and I mean what falls under the anti list i’ve made on the ppg fandom(and I don’t go near them heck i haven’t even seen one on here yet at all idk if they are even on here) BUT i’m pretty sure they won’t make art on here because they would’ve been taken out by a bunch of females or males who are appose to that type of shit. Again, if i was what you said i was than how come you don’t send hate mail and trash up those artist that made that “abusive art” that i reblogged on here? How come you don’t go after them since they did SO wrong. And how come you don’t attack the REAL people who are sick minded..no you go towards me to frame me because you dislike the fact that i am homophobic. Also how do you know about the whole ‘blossom and brick being an abusive couple’ thing? Where did you get this information from?? I’m getting the feeling that you ignorantly assumed that since you saw one negative side of the fandom itself and now your gonna accuse the MANY hundreds(or more) people who ship these two and create cute art of them. Let’s see what happens when they see you accusing them of being a supporter of such things and see how it would make them feel. Cause your stating bullshit through your own text.

And the fact that you people say that you despise bullying and hate speech but here you are accusing me of some bull crap. Like what?? Sound so hypocritical. 

Oh and i am not getting off tumblr for crap so you can shove your own toxic words that you just told me back in your mouth :3. 

This is a response towards both of your crappy ignorant comments. 

Edit: WOW!! I just SAW your blog and lmao you are such a freaking hypocrite. Here you are sick as heck shipping TWO BROTHERS from the show as a couple. And the fact that you are shipping brick the person that you said that was abusive towards blossom is just freaking sad. You just screwed yourself over. So sad. And disgusting. I’m blocking I don’t need a person who fantasize two blood related brothers can be love. That’s just gross, I hope you repent on your sin and get some help for real cause your sick. 

[plpplppoo]

Guilty Pleasures

I have had a vision.

(and this, my dear children, is how you know you’re in too deep)

Meet the lovely Min-Park family:

Dads Yoongi and Jimin: 

...and their lovely son *drumroll* 

Jinki 

(And yes, my precious, honey-voiced, rainbow puff baby cinnamon roll gets a crappy collage too (sorry about that btw, I’m too lazy to start my computer with photoshop)) 

Feast your eyes! 

(I’m ignoring age differences, logic, common decency and whatnot in favor of this and I couldn’t be happier)  ((Also, please don’t hate me)) 

(((And if you like this idea, tell me, there’s more where this came from. Trust me)))

[ace-of-spades-ezreal]

ALL OF THEM.

SHAKES FIST AT SKY

TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

♦ What was a mildly annoying thing that has happened to you rp wise?Like everything. Nah, but like mildly annoying stuff happens all the time. Like people that still ask me to RP and then never get back to me, and people still steal art for icons. Yada Yada blah blah blah♢ Has anyone ever tried to steal your blog? Your headcanons? Icons? All that jazz?FUCK YEAH THEY HAVE! Haha, there’s been a couple Ezreals that have blatantly taken some stuff from me. One even straight up took Ace’s birthday (which only has a very significant meaning between DL and I)! That was actually hilarious.

♚ How many people don't like you?Probably a lot. Oh fucking well.⚜ How many people do you not like?Also a lot. Well, nah there’s not that many around any more. Most of them have shown their true colors and been ousted. There’s not even double digits around anymore.✮ Have you managed to stay away from drama?Nope.☄ Have you ever been in the middle of drama?Yep.☯ Have you ever tried to bring peace to a situation?Yep!☼ How long do you stay mad?Forever and a day. I always remember slights against me. Whether or not I bring them back up depends on if said offender continues to be an asshole or not. I believe in redemption and that the ignorant can be learned. ☁ Have you ever forgiven a partner when you shouldn't have?Yep.☂ Have you ever been forgiven when you knew you shouldn't have been?Yeah. I’m not infallible. I don’t deserve most of the friends I have for some of the shit I’ve done.☢ What fads/trends are you so over?Stealing art for butchered icons and bad photoshop jobs and not crediting artists for people’s crappy 10 x 10 icons.☣ Have you ever rp'd with someone you knew for a fact was abusive but tried to give them a chance/to make up your own opinion on the roleplayer? Did they change or did you understand what people were talking about? Sure have! They weren’t as bad as I was told, and we ended up being okay friends, honestly. I’ve found many slights can be imagined on this sight.♨ Have you ever made a public call out post?Sure have. Don’t regret it one bit. They 100% deserved it.❀ What has made you completely lose your chill?People defending pedophilia ships. Good god I lost my gottdamn mind✿ What do you think about public call out posts?Depends. Sometimes they’re necessary if the severity warrants it. If it’s for ‘wahh this person won’t rp with me wahhh’ no absolutely not. But actual issues dealing with minors or abuse or actual issues? Yeah, call them out. ✦ Thoughts on duplicates following you? I don’t think there any other Ace of Spades Ezreals, but I do like my other Ezreal variants and enjoy them most of the time!!✧ Do you agree with reblog karma or is it forced interaction?Yeah, I agree with it on most things. Some stuff I get it just doesn’t work like sentence starters and such. But I don’t think there’s any excuse for things like this like sending symbols. I 100% uphold it on my end, and have actually apologized to muns for not sending something say if all had been answered or whatever. It’s in my rules that you don’t have to do the same for me. But I sure do take note of people that send and people that don’t. ❥ Has someone ever ruined an FC or character for you?Yep! Please see all the cute characters in Undertale that fits tons of my aesthetics (coughs Mettaton coughs) and now mean shit to me. A couple hetalia characters too. ❦ Has someone been jealous of you?Yep, but y’know what, we actually talked about it, and it’s worked out alright since then. I’m sure there are other silent brooders, but oh well.✖ How has Tumblr RP changed since you started?This weird thing with aesthetic blogs and not sourcing and tiny font and just general very poor writing covered up by HTML was definitely not as big as it was when I first joined.♒ Thoughts on the fandom you're currently rping in?It has it’s ups and downs. I enjoy it though. It could be sooooo much worse let me tell you. I still consider my extended time between Hetalia, Superwholock and Homestuck the absolute worst.❣ How salty are you feeling right now?Right now? Did you mean always? ‘Cause my blood is pure sodium. 

[bartonromanoffs]

i don’t know how to use photoshop please ignore the crappy header

Okay okay so the time has finally come, it’s true, it happened, I reached 2k followers!!! Thank you all so much for following my stupid ass and sticking with me during a lot of crap that happened to me. You’re all amazing, I love you. <3

So, in case you haven’t noticed so far, I’m pure Clintasha trash what a surprise, so I thought of making this network as a celebration of me reaching 2k!

To enter:

mbf this dork

reblog this post

fill out this form

check out my january botm winner x and runner-ups x x x

maybe enter my february botm and birthday page?

must get at least 20 notes or i’ll awkwardly delete it

What you’ll get:

a follow from me (if not already)

new friends and followers!

a tag to post your edits/selfies/art/etc

a groupchat to talk about literally whatever

a spot on the network page (which i haven’t made yet)

Points to Note:

number of members depends on the notes

ends february 28th

any kind of hate/negativity between the members is prohibited

you can track the tag #clintashasquad for further updates

if you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

[nerdwiththehat]

Stately Design - OR - How a Terrible Administration Seems to Have No Idea How to Use iMovie, or Photoshop, or Anything Really.

Content Warning: I will be embedding some content in this post from the “official” (whatever the hell “official” means anymore) social channels of the United States Government, and some pictures. The tweets and posts included here may contain tracking, cookies, or other unknown metrics that may not obey DNT rules on my blog. So, if you’re reading this part, you’ve been warned.

get ready for some really dumb stuff from this guy who calls himself president I’m sorry

How are they going to design the TrumpCare website? You put in your SSN and get told to fuck off?

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity)

May 5, 2017

I’ve made it no uncertain secret that I’m against basically every single thing the new administration has done in the last **checks watch** jesus christ, not even 7 months yet? My policy complaints on the administration could fill, have filled entire posts on my blog, my Twitter... It’s going to be a whole year worth of fighting policy.

What I’ve seen less often is the fact that this administration has just about no idea what design is. Graphic design, cohesive design, consistent design, anything, anything to do with design, at all.

This all started back in May, when, in response to DNI James Clapper providing testimony implicating Russia in interfering in the 2016 election, Donald Trump tweeted some junk, as usual, but then did something odd - changed his Twitter banner to include a weird, non-standard Twitter embedded image form of the tweet, and Twitter got super confused.

Nothing says "completely innocent" like changing your Twitter banner photo to say "'no evidence' of collusion" pic.twitter.com/NKYbylOGrK

— Aeth Sbramson (@thetomzone)

May 9, 2017

If there's one thing I can scream in agony about the Cheeto-in-Chief's twitter, it's that it has NO CONSISTENT DESIGN AT ALL. pic.twitter.com/BkiQPtYxU6

— Liam Hefferman (@Nerdwiththehat)

May 9, 2017

Like, we didn’t really understand what to do about this. Did some intern get pushed onto “please Photoshop this tweet onto this picture somehow or something we’re not telling you why”, or did the idiot in charge just do this on his iPhone or something? Nothing about this image works. It’s

Ignoring the image rules for use of the Twitter logo set out in their image terms and brand resources

Ignoring the standard formatting for tweets over an image, or embedded tweets

It’s tiny - the original image is barely 600 wide (Twitter generally recommends at least 1500 by 500, and a bare minimum of 1263 x 421)

The font’s atrocious too - I’ll get to his broad choices on fonts and colours next, but I’ll be precise here - Tweets are only ever displayed in Helvetica Neue Bold, or composite system sans serif (on all my devices, this is Noto standard, because I’m a pedantic prick) if your device doesn’t support displaying the tweet natively. For images - It’s Helvetica Neue Bold. Always.

Don’t forget, he’s set this as his Twitter banner!

It seems that the administration now has quite possibly no idea how to design anything, or has any comprehensive design documentation... or had any - all of this horrible designing has been a hallmark of the Trump campaign... or don’t we remember their attempted rebranding about halfway through the general election, and the logo choice that came with that?

The President & The Web

Barack Obama, George Bush, and Bill Clinton set a standard for presidents and the internet. However much I may have disagreed with George Bush politically, his  team produced a cohesive design across web communication, the White House website, press releases, etc - an impressive accomplishment before the advent of social media.

I’ve yet to find complete documentation on the design, or even a design bible (I wish!) for the Bush White House, but I’m comfortable calling this “Puma Presidential”, after the Mac OS X 10.1 “Aqua” variant. Lighter drop shadows, bezeling of columns and boxes, subtle edge gradients, friendly links, but not aggressively friendly, skeuomorphic, or simplified. It’s very similar to the BBC’s design at the time, like a lot of official sites, or strangely reminiscent of early OS X/Windows XP. If anything, the White House’s site is the most friendly of the official sites I saw at the time.

Next, the Obama White House updated the site to be a bit more modern in the 2010s - shadows disappeared, corners sharpened, pages become responsive and a little more simplified. Search bars disappeared into the top bar, and then the topbar got a hamburger menu. Buttons finally appeared, instead of bare links, the site looked much better. It’s one of the most impressive redesigns since NASA’s proposed redesign in the 70s (which remains one of my most favourite designs, and design bibles, in modern history), and it’s stuck, too - Even the Trump White House has kept the basic underlying design of whitehouse.gov from the Obama administration, instead of working on their own site - but that’s where the similarities end.

Obviously, well-thought-out messaging has never come out of this administration. Pages on whitehouse.gov now range from screeds about fake news filled with typos, seemingly written by an angry middle-schooler, to proclamations from the desk of the President that cannot possibly be written by him. Aggressively spell-checked and edited, sanitised statements about things the President contradicts a few hours later on Twitter.

Images from the Trump whitehouse.gov seem to have no consistency, using different transparent effects, coming out in horrible resolutions, not being websafe (Today - someone embedded a bitmap graphic in the page that made my computer flip out so hard I thought someone had hacked the whitehouse.gov website), using horrible non-palette colours... the list goes on and on. And, this isn't even mentioning the hell that Trump's team is doing on the backend, tearing apart the slugs that the Obama web team created, when they're deleting old policy pages willy-nilly, like environmental protections, global climate change, LGBTQAI+ protections, statements on healthcare, immigration... It's a huge mess. A total developer's nightmare.

But whitehouse.gov isn't the preferred communication style of the President - it's all about them tweets. 

Trump & Twitter

Trump uses Twitter more than any other politician in recent memory, and far worse than any other politician in recent memory. Remember my tweet above? There really is never a consistent tone or design to anything he ever posts, besides bat-shit crazy.

Like... Did you spend any time on this text? The @Twitter logo asset? This text isn't even centered! Where did this 🇺🇸 come from!? pic.twitter.com/sub32Qu6uU

— Liam Hefferman (@Nerdwiththehat)

May 9, 2017

Like, we're talking more of these shoddy graphics, mismatched fonts - now the tiny font rant! Trump has chosen some of the worst fonts I've ever seen. So many slab serif fonts when all his communication is in even modern sans-serif - and weird futuristic style fonts too WHY buddy no one cares you’ve suddenly found the font palette we ALL had that time back when were super into geocities but it’s 2017 get with the programme it’s not all

anymore, my god, so many misaligned graphics, and things getting all pixelated from compression. Poor lighting, poor planning...

Like, these two examples really set me off. One, Melania, apparently abandoning her anti-bullying campaign after recognising that her husband was the catalyst for more bullying in schools than ever before, has taken up the anti-drug crusade. She kicked it off, however, with a staggeringly awful graphic:

Opioids are destroying our youth/people. Mtg w @Potus & @SecPriceMD today to give my support to #STOPDRUGADDICTION pic.twitter.com/aAjNNnu98n

— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS)

August 8, 2017

...Or, my number two annoyance, the default iMovie titles that seem to show up in every video he posts on Twitter nowadays

Like, forget the message itself now, because it's a message that stands for everything wrong in politics, and in general, but the way he's delivering it feels like some crappy start-up that needs to hire me or CPRM to improve their messaging, or to hire them a designer. I've worked on branding for companies like road flagging companies, for technology companies - I was head of brand for two of my own companies, for crying out loud!

(In case it wasn’t obvious, I think every company’s logo should be a nice LIME GREEN.)

And I've never before seen someone with so many resources behind him (and so much fucking cash), and so many idiot people happy to back him up, floundering with some of the worst brand messaging I've ever seen! How did this even happen?!

Like, even before she would have made it to office, Hillary Clinton's team had a cohesive design document. My issues with her policies aside, her design was AWESOME. It was functional, clean, and above all else, consistent. It was also called Pantsuit I still think that's awesome.

And like, they hard-core kept to it! They had mock-ups of what whitehouse.gov would looks like with Pantsuit as a design guide! It made up the content of her statements, and the design of the paper that they came on! It was a cohesive design system that obeyed the rules of good design, while still allowing some exceptions, exception allowances built in to how the design worked! I love when people make decisions like this that unify the design of anything!

And, to make it even better, it had clear accessibility guidelines, something that really gets my designer motor running.

While I may have some reservations about Hillary Clinton in the White House, I can say with certainty that her website and Twitter would have been indefinitly easier to look at, easier to use, and easier to understand.

Ugh.

So what’s the takeaway here? I don’t really know what to make of this whole situation. But I think it’s a great example of one of my favourite axiom of this whole insane political mess: Never attribute to malice that which can already be explained by incompetence. I honestly can’t tell at this point which things Trump is doing are part of his grand scheme of evil, but I can 100% see all the things he’s doing because he’s lazy, bored, irrational, and doesn’t know what he’s doing. And I honestly can’t tell which of these is worse.

It’s going to be a long rest of the year.