#please read this it is Licherally so worth it

[melmaos]

Breaking my radio silence to post this for @hqpolyambang !! Looking at this without reading @sugaplumvisions ‘s fic is basically a crime so go check it out!!! >:D

[seadeepy]

10 fandoms, 10 characters, 10 tags

Finally, a tag game I'm going to absolutely ace, pun intended!!

tagged by: @queerofthedagger (and I think @schitthappens, a while ago)

rules: List ten of your fandoms and your favorite character from each!

BBC Merlin — Merlin

Schitt's Creek — Alexis Rose

The Locked Tomb Series — Palamedes Sextus

Star Trek — Spock

House MD — James Wilson

Star Wars — Obi-Wan Kenobi

Mob Psycho 100 — Mob

The Sandman — Dream of the Endless

Leverage — Eliot Spencer

ATLA — Toph Beifong

tagging: @unconventionalcat @st4rm41d @blackandwhiteandrose @vanillahigh00 @januarium @paintedpigeon1 @zaharya @schweetheart @thewildmother @sspaz1000 (do my SC friends even have 10 fandoms? time to find out :P)

More yelling about my choices under the cut, which isn't required but I'm psychologically compelled to do it:

Merlin — I almost put Gwaine, but the thing about Merlin is... he's so kind despite his loneliness. He's so brave despite his grief. And his devotion to Arthur is beautiful, even when it's also heartbreaking. I love how much he cries, but also how much he cries and kicks ass anyway, which is something fic writers seem to miss a lot of the time. He's emotional but he's also very capable.

Alexis — haha, surprise!!! I love D/P as a ship so goddamn much, but Alexis' character growth is fucking unparalleled. Annie Murphy's acting choices are phenomenal — just watch KCFH to see how much of Alexis' persona was carefully manufactured as character-building, not Annie's actual mannerisms. And to go from a vapid socialite to a boss-ass businesswoman who is nonetheless very fashion-forward and still, at times, incredibly silly? I love that. I love her. More women like her on TV, please.

Palamedes — Another hard choice between him and Gideon, but my brain is locked in Sixth House mode right now. I relate way too much to Pal, and I also love him. A certified nerd who's deeply compassionate. His deep love for Camilla and his protectiveness over her, which is kind of hilarious considering his noodle arms and her terrifying competence. The fact that he looked at the Ninth House and decided they were friend material, when they didn't know it themselves and were actively hostile to the entire idea. He worked out the secret to Lyctorhood before anybody else did, and decided it just wasn't for him, thanks? Because he didn't want to do that to Cam? And (spoilers for later books!!!!) the way he's so fucking badass that he and Cam worked out another way that even Jod hadn't figured out??? Goddamn. Just call me Archivist Juno Zeta, because that nerd boy is my SON.

Spock — TOS most specifically. I hardly need to explain my love for maybe THE most iconic Star Trek character of all time, but I will anyway. Autistic and gay icon, hilarious dry wit, shining devotion to his captain. (If you're noticing a pattern with my favorite characters, no you aren't.) Science-y boy who doesn't fit in anywhere, but has people who love him. Also I love his banter with Bones.

Wilson — He's a bit like Aziraphale, where he's just enough of a bastard to be worth knowing. His relationship with House is so fucked up but at the same time he's a doormat to everybody and House lets him be MEAN and that's actually really important? Ppl look at their relationship on the surface and don't get it because they think Wilson is so kind and sweet and he is but he's also kind of a dick. Idk I just contracted COVID so I'm suspecting the rest of this post is going to start making less and less sense.

Obi-Wan Kenobi — I'm a sucker for characters like him. Kind and compassionate and selfless, but also hilariously sarcastic sometimes. Licherally the perfect Jedi, and loves Anakin so much but couldn't be everything he needed in the end. I blame the war tbh. I also love reading books from his perspective because releasing your feelings into the Force is some excellent mindfulness shit that we could all use some more practice in.

Mob — Mob is awesome because he's already the most powerful psychic. Like, that's never a question. The question is what will trigger him using his powers, what emotions he's feeling, and his own moral questions about obliterating other people with his super-powerful psychic abilities. And I think that's awesome! He's a lot like Merlin, really. Compassionate and really doesn't want to wipe the floor with you, but he will if he's forced into it.

Dream — hehe he's just so angsty all the time and I love that. Plus, galaxy eyes. I read the comics a looooong time ago, but I just bought one of the new collections and I'm gonna re-read them all.

Eliot — Okay Eliot is just. He's so. His thing about "I only use violence as an appropriate response" followed by immediately decking Sterling kinda sums him up. I love that he's so grumpy and "hostile" to the team but it's literally all bark and no bite because physically he would never, ever hurt them. But he will absolutely show up and beat the shit out of anyone else threatening them. Tiny angry man with fabulous hair. My beloved.

Toph — Yeeaaaaaaaaaaaa! I don't really need to explain why Toph rocks, but I love that she's a tiny feral gremlin girl. Like, a VERY angry ten-year-old who's out here inventing forms of earthbending that have never been seen before. She rocks, pun intended. And I refuse to believe she would become a cop. That chaos demon of a girl??? Nooooo

[ak8shi]

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━ um,, hi I hope everyone is taking care of themselves!! I literally logged onto my blog today and couldn’t comprehend seeing my follower count... I am just so thankful for the people who support me here and it really isn’t about the number, I am just so happy and grateful that there are people who find some sort of happiness in my blog!! I made this blog not really knowing what would come out of it, and I never expected any of this, like what a blessing! It makes me smile so much talking to you all, and if I could make any of you smile with the absolute brain rot I post on here, it’s all worth it to me! SO THANK YOU, thank you for being here with me<33

I am still thinking of something to do for 1k, I want it to be really special, but for now I want to personally thank some of the people who have supported me from the beginning here, sorry this might be long!!!

@bbytetsu - ANG, girl where do I even start, you were the first blog to reach out to me and it really meant so much to me. We’re so alike in so many ways and you are so so talented I can’t emphasize enough! Even though we’ve never met in person, I just know we would get along so well irl and befriend each other so fast!! You support my work sm and I’m literally terrible for the astrology posts (I promise i haven’t forgotten) but I’m so thankful to have someone who loves astrology and boba and as much as I do!!! (Kuroo is reading this over my shoulder and he won’t stfu about you smh :///) You’re always there for me and you are so genuine and beautiful, please never change!! I love the fact that I can talk to you about ANYTHING, I LOVE YOU BIH!

@b0kuto - Emi, you might not see this because of your hiatus, but I’m so glad you decided to message me that one day. You are SO real and tell it how it is, I admire you so much and you’re so fucking funny. My experience here would not have been the same without you, and I miss you so much:(( You are SO talented, I miss seeing your work on my dash sm. I love hearing about your life across the globe, and its so special to me to have a friend so close to my heart like you!! I adore and love you so much!

@inarzki - Noora, I honestly don’t even remember when or how we started talking, I just remember bonding over being the only two Atsumies out here and it was history from there LMFAOO, You are by far,, one of the funniest bitches out here and you’re the queen of Inarizaki,,, I don’t make the rules. I truly can not name a badder bitch on here, period. I love our convos so much and your writing style is impeccable, biggest chefs kiss (I only read third person for you). Keep doing you, and thank you for being so supportive of my absolute ape show of a blog, sending u infinite kisses and hugs xoxo

@kemochie - Nea, oh my god. Who else could I rant to about pegging mister Tooru Oikawa,,, NO ONE. You are literally the easiest person to talk to, and I just finished bnha so we need to talk !!! Your writing. Don’t even get me started; AMAZING, SHOW STOPPING, I can’t even express how much I love your writing style. Everything is so easy to follow and it makes me feel!! so!! much!! You are an angel!! I love you!

@nosesbleeds - Ellie my sweet Ellie!! It is licherally crazy how sweet and supportive you are and then you go to write the filthiest, hottest, smut on this site and I respect you so much for it. No one else is doing it like you, I hate to say it. I still literally dream about the atsumu drabble you wrote me, I’m obsessed w you!!! You put out top quality work, I’m honored we’re mutuals, seriously. I love you and I hope you’re staying safe in all this craziness!!

@sugardaddykenma - not this bitch....LIN LMFAO THE QUEEN herself. Your posts make my day, I adore your headcannons so much ugh, but not more than I adore you!! I can always count on you to make me smile, and we’re always on the same page!! I love the fact that we both have a special place in our hearts for Atsumu but we also beat him down to a pulp and bully him endlessly. I’, so excited for your kuroo meth lab scenario, still waiting for that to come out! LOVE YOUUU

@inlovecorp - Liana, omg when I see you in my notifs my heart beats a little faster, I adore you so much and your Asahi fic literally lives in my brain rent free at all times. when you reply to my posts I always die, and your roasts are so fucking funny, you’re a literal angel!! Never change, I’m so glad this blog brought me to people like you, ily baddie!!!

@yumeqo - Abby, omg I just had to write you something, I literally remember not seeing your blog and freaking out because I thought you deleted but then I saw you remade, I-I still can’t believe you follow a loser like me LMFAO, you give off such good energy and you’re always supportive in my notifs, you’re so funny && ily!!! 

━ I also wanted to thank some of my other mutuals, even though we may not talk a ton I admire and love all of you so much!! Whenever I see any of you on my dash it makes me so happy to be here, just thank you sm for following me!!! 

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[red-dia]

hi! i've always loved your hnk panel redraws and recently i've been so inspired by them that i've tried my hand at coloring some panels too! if you don't mind me asking, do you have any tips?

oh i certainly do! some of these are a bit generic/art related but they’re definitely useful in this case too. I’m adding a read more because unfortunately it got a bit long but here you go:

1) Get to know your tools!

Since you weren’t very specific, I’ll assume you aren’t too familiar with art softwares (and if you are, you can just skip that part it’s not That deep). I’ll start with the basics; I know this is obvious, but please bear with me, because understanding how your program works WILL make you a lot more efficient.Here are quick descriptions of some features I think are very useful - I use Clip Studio Paint, but I believe most programs have equivalents. If you don’t know them, please experiment with them, they’ll come in handy!

- Locking transparency :

Locking the transparency of a layer means only the parts where something is already drawn can be modified. Basically, you can recolour something that already exists in a rather precise way.

This is very useful for gradients, which I’ll talk about a bit later.

- Clipping layers :

This gives the same result as locking a layer then drawing over it, but the difference is that you use more than 1 layer ; one as the bottom layer, defining the part of the canvas you can draw on, and the others, clipped on top, where you’ll draw. This can be more practical than locking transparency, because if you have a lot of details to add, doing everything on a single layer may make things more difficult.

I use this a lot when I shade, but just like gradients, I’ll bring that up later.

- Layer settings :

These options change the way the colours on a layer blend with the colours below. As an example, addglow is pretty good for colouring very bright light sources or for adding highlights on gems  :

Basically, using those isn’t a necessity, but they’re still pretty useful so I’d recommend experimenting with them whenever you feel like it!

- Magic Wand : 

Not the most complicated to use, but damn it’s really useful. It allows you to make selections based on the colours you’re targeting, so basically, if you need to colour an entire area a certain colour, you can just select it from the original panel, go on the layer where you’re colouring, and colour nothing but the part you selected. That’s about it!

There are lots of others, but these are the main ones you need to know about when you’re getting started. 

2) Colouring stuff

This is where it gets interesting! I guess! I’m not too good at just coming up with these kind of tips, so I’ll illustrate with some colouring, hopefully it’ll help you out?

I usually colour in 5 parts : 1) Preparing the panel(s), 2) Applying flat colours, 3) Adding gradients, 4) Adding shading, 5) Finalising with details.

I always prepare pages in the same way: first, I use the magic wand to select everything i do NOT want to colour ; the frames around the panels, the speech bubbles, the sfx, etc. Once they’re selected, I copy them, and paste them on a new layer. Then, I select the original layer, and turn it transparent so I can colour below while still keeping the lines. To do that, I go in Menu > Edit > Change brightness to opacity (in CSP at least, it depends on your program tho but most of them support this, I think!).

I end up with something like this : 

Two layers, one on the bottom with the semi-transparent page, and another on top, with everything that I don’t plan on touching. On the page on the right, you can get an idea of what it looks like when you add a layer below these 2 and draw on it.

Now that I’m done with the panel, I can start adding some (flat) colours. 

I think it’s a good idea to start with the background, because it’ll help you figure out the feeling you want to give the panel.

The airbrush is a pretty good tool for gradients btw, just make sure you use a brush that is big enough so the transition in colours looks natural.

Next, I add a new layer, and colour the shape of the characters (and here the vessel as well), so it stands out from the background. It’ll make colouring less complicated, since the lines will be clearer.

As you can see, I was kind of confident, so I directly added a gradient. The bottom of the panel is a bit “darker”, because I wanted the main light source to be the reflect on Phos’….. head thing?

Here’s something kind of important about your choice of colours : if you’re colouring an area that is already shaded in the original panel, I would recommend taking a colour that is more saturated than it should, or else the colour may end up looking dull because the original shading will make it darker.

Next, I do more flat colours. Nothing too fancy, and pretty much everything is on different layers. The clothes are left uncoloured because the background colour already fits, so it’s okay honestly

Then, I added some gradients using clip layers :

As a reference, I used some overlay layers for Dia’s hair, and some addglow layers for Phos’ alloy.

I mean it when I say gradients are important! They make your colouring feel more complete even when they’re barely visible. quickly coloured bortz for reference, assuming tumblr won’t compress the colours too much:

the bastard on the left has nothing but flat colours. They’re nice, but when you’ll have shaded everything, chances are it’ll look kind of …. i dunno, like something is missing? So yeah, gradients : good, though i would recommend you keep them in the same tone as the base colour. I’ll talk about this a bit more later if i don’t forget.

Ok! next: 

I felt like golden colours weren’t quite fitting the mood, so i added a layer with blue on top of it to make it colder. It’s at 40% transparency, so you can still see the colours behind well enough. Some parts were slightly erased because i liked the idea of these parts being lighter (you can see it a little bit around phos’ neck, or above dia’s knees : these parts are yellower than the rest of the pic)

I added some shading! Nothing too fancy. also not to sound like some gradient-freak but you can add some of those in shading as well, it’s usually a nice touch.

After than, I added some lightings, which are on a layer clipped on the original manga panel (so basically only the black parts of the original image changed colours, and the colouring work I did on the layers below wasn’t really affected, if that makes sense?)

The red lighting is the obvious one (it’s an airbrush, and i used an eraser to clear the part near Phos’ head so it looks like it’s coming from above/behind them and not from themself). 

There is another lighting at the bottom, which is grey/blueish, to contrast with the warm colours on the top of the pic. it also kind of looks like smoke but yeah

Now the panel is mostly done, and I’m starting the “details” part.

Something I find really bothersome in the manga is the *original* shading : while it’s always really good, colouring under it will leave some grid of pixels on top of your colours, so to counter that i just colour on top of the grid by colour picking and painting on a layer above the manga layer.

It’s a bit tedious but it has a texture that makes it look like a painting. The downside is that the colours can be altered since you’re colourpicking from something with an irregular pattern, but it can end up making your panel look less boring, honestly, it just depends on what you’re aiming for!

I end up with something like that : 

And then it’s just. Whatever man. I added a black border and some highlights, sparkles, etc, it’s the kind of things you do when you’re basically done. 

For the technical aspect, I’m not sure I have a lot more to add. If you want some advices for picking colours, tho…

3) General colour stuff :

These are just recommendations! Licherally these are mental notes i came up with ever since i’ve started colouring, so they’re kind of personal and if you don’t follow them you’ll be fine, i suppose. But so far they’ve been useful to me so consider them whenever you’ll be colouring something:

- Do not use pure white! Unless it’s for something CLEARLY meant to stand out, such as the frame of your pages, a speech bubble, sparkles, or a light source/something very shiny. If you’re just colouring something that is not meant to draw attention, use some other shade of white, but not the  #ffffff one if you see what i mean?

- Same about pure black, to be honest. 

The shades circled in red tend to look “emptier” than the ones circled in green (here the hue of the colour is yellow but it works with most colours). It doesn’t mean you can’t use it, just, use it sparingly or it may make things look dull I think? I would recommend trying a few shades before taking a decision.

- Sometimes adding highlights where the shading starts can make the transition look smoother: 

- Even if a panel is already shaded in the original page, I would recommend shading it again, because the manga shading is a black shading and shading a coloured drawing with black usually doesn’t look that good. (hence why i said something about using saturated colours in shading earlier).

- Even if a panel isn’t shaded in the original page, consider shading it anyways, even if it’s just a very light shading. It’s worth it :o)

I’m running out of things to say oh well

[iameverysparklywoman]

PLEASE rec me some lesbian fanfic i read things we lost in the undergrowth and i'm desperate for more shit like that but i don't want to wade through all the potentially terrible fanfic to find something else that good thank you!!

ahhhhh i haven’t really read copious amounts of lesbian fic in a while…that being said i strongly recommend anything by my good friend confidante and #1 bitch phoebe @weirddyke (her ao3 is poiesis ) she’s got a really beautiful xfiles au featuring butch kara as mulder and she did a collab with seabiscuit which sounds like omegaverse but is in fact sexy and really beautiful. thats about as much as i know for supergirl unfortunately

as for just general fics i liked (i assumed by lesbian you just meant that its two women because not everyone on the list is a lesbian)

connective tissue by brightly_brightly: person of interest. its root/shaw bdsm. didn’t know anything about person of interest reading this but i fell in love with how their relationship developed (lots of domesticity) and the way they developed both womens relationship with violence outside of a sexual context which is something you rarely see done well with female characters.

coda by anissa7118: this one’s licherally on ff.net about the black swan lesbians but don’t let that fool you. It’s basically 50 chapters of lesbian discovery and incredibly moving trauma recovery and I read it all in one sitting.

A Mistake Worth Knowing by clarias: this is literally legend of korra and it slaps. asami helps korra recover from ptsd and they fall in love. there’s a second installment from asami’s point of view called getting it right and it’s basically about asami dealing with trust issues and emotional repression…it slaps.

Also I’m sure you’ve already heard this a hundred times but literally just watch mulholland drive. i did and naomi watts’s face journey not only blasted open my third eye but rendered me so thoroughly wigless that I’ve more or less stopped reading femslash altogether because nothing can live up to that. it’s not the best lesbian movie trope wise but her lesbionic energies are powerful enough to make up for it imo