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[possessedpasm]

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

[meiko3323]

Question for Tighnari Mains

is it worth pulling Hunters Path for him? reading the description its like tailor-made for him (obv cuz signature), but from my research, the reviews and calcs seem to be split on whether its a substantial enough upgrade for him or not. included my bow inventory for reference. i must say, my fox boi is NOT built yet, this is just my fomo kicking in cuz who knows when this bow will come back. if the chronicled banner lasted at least a full patch, this wouldnt even be a question, id get it for the drip alone, but w it only being a single banner phase (as far as we know for now), and my aims for C6 Eula (C4, 2 more to go!), and plus Neuvi-Kazu, and Arlequeeno around the corner, im like eeeh

[uncanny-tranny]

One of my biggest pieces of advice for those taking injectable hormones is to make sure you're injecting at the right angle

For intramuscular (IM), you inject at a 90° angle.

For subcutaneous (SQ), you inject at a 45° angle.

Here is a graphic depicting what the angle of your injection should look like:

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[zivazivc]

the morning (afternoon?) after this messy stunt. Floyd got off too easy in my opinion, but it's hard for Les to stay mad at him when he makes those sad pouting faces... 🤦

If you think Floyd's being really dumb at the start of this comic before getting a reality check, you have to take into account that he's madly lovesick and was feeling very smug atm; he's also a 15yo pop troll who thinks making out with someone means they're together now; and he assumed Les's sour mood was entirely the result of a nasty hangover...

P.S. They forgot about Hed lol (I almost forgot about him too, drew him just before posting lmao)

[heynhay]

hey ive had a couple ppl say they like the way i do colors and some others say they dont know HOW i apply weird palettes would anyone be interested in a tutorial. because i find a palette i like before i even lay out base color usually.

[divinationsanctuary19]

Pick a card reading: Does your future spouse have kids?

Requested by @miraclekay97

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Open requests ✨️

1. The hermit

No, they don't have children. They don't like the idea of having them and they actually don't think they could be good parents because of their past. They haven't met someone who changed their mind yet or made them consider the idea that they can finally settle down. They are old at heart, they're introverted and sometimes doubtful of others. They need to be convinced. They want a spouse and a relationship that feels stable enough, someone that makes them think "it's worth it". They have a pragmatic approach when it comes to raise kids so they want to be sure that everything is perfect.

2. The hierophant

Yes, they do have kids and they are the family head. They are currently raising little kids, so they are most likely married but not from a long time. However, they want to raise their kids in the best way possible, so they put all their energies in this. However, I feel like there's too much control, I guess because their marriage isn't going as planned. They want the best, like this card carries a deep feeling of care, though sometimes it's tough love dictated from stress. They are not bad people or rigid, not at all, it's just this phase of their life. In the next phase, they are going to change completely because they can finally breathe. Great parents.

3.The empress

They have a great feeling of motherood/parenthood. They want kids but they don't have them yet, though they're pursuing someone who truly wants them, who wants to build a genuine family with them. They have a lot of "feminine" qualities. They are affectionate, they really like kids, they probably like the idea of raising someone, helping them to grow up. They like to see life at play. I see they want a family and that is their main goal. They are pretty clear about what they want and they state it earlier in the relationship.

P.s. these are general readings, if you don't relate it's fine!

[ninja-troll-lover]

Hazel: Hey, Branch? Can I get some dating advice? Branch: Just because I'm with Poppy doesn't mean I know how I did it.

[sicktember]

In anticipation of the questions to come, we would like to go ahead and clarify the prompt ‘Pulling a Ferris Bueller’ for anyone who may not understand the reference. 

Pulling a Ferris Bueller is a pop culture reference born from the 1986 American teen comedy, Ferris Bueller's Day off.’ In the film, the titular character, Ferris Bueller, not for the first time, decides he wants to skip school. It’s a nice day and he’d like to go to Chicago with his best friend and girlfriend. He devises a complicated plan that starts with faking sick, after which he goes to great lengths to avoid being caught. These lengths include (but aren’t limited to) telling plenty of lies, creating an elaborate setup to make it appear he’s never left his bed, borrowing an expensive car and later rolling the odometer back, and hacking school records. This all becomes especially humorous as the school’s dean becomes increasingly desperate to prove that Ferris is continually absent despite the perfect attendance that had been recorded.  While out and about the trio hit several comical snags and engaged in a great deal of banter. During the film, Ferris often breaks the fourth wall to explain his choices and thought processes.

Basically, the saying, 'Pulling a Ferris Bueller' usually means faking sick to skip school/work for no reason other than to have a good time. As a trope, it tends to lean more heavily into the movie's plot and themes. You can use Either! ... or Neither!

Below, you'll find some resources to help you better understand the movie this prompt refers to. Or, you can swap this one out for one of the provided alternate prompts!

Resources ⬇

Official Trailer [Youtube.com]

Short Clip or Ferris' Sneaky Setup [Youtube.com]

Extensive Summary [Gradesaver.com]

Wiki Page [Wikipedia.og]

Tropes within the Trope [allthetropes.org]

[bruciemilf]

Jason try not to be horny around jaime challenge: impossible

Is it wise to resist the irresistible?

[howtofightwrite]

How well would a claymore mine field fare against troopers of a late medieval army (say, Swiss halberdiers in half armor)? How far away do the troopers need to be in order to have a good chance at survival? And how would a medieval army like that react to their leader hitting a landmine and getting blown up? Would they turn back and flee? Disperse away from the road? Or would they freeze up and lose unit cohesion?

In the words of the esteemed Dr. Farnsworth, “to shreds you say?”

So, for those unfamiliar, claymore mines use a shape charge to propel the shrapnel in a fixed cone (most the shrapnel is propelled in a roughly 45 degree arc, with almost all of it landing within a 90 degree arc of where it's pointed.) These can be rigged up with tripwires, or remote detonators. This is achieved by placing a fairly heavy plate behind the explosive, while the primary payload of eventual shrapnel is placed in front of it.

You don't technically hit a claymore mine. Again, these are shape charges, and designed to propel the destructive force (mostly) horizontally, so, you'd hit the tripwire, or a sentry with a detonator would activate it, possibly without even being detected by the people in the mine's kill zone.

Claymores have an optimal range of about 50 meters, with a maximum range of ~250 meters. So, “exactly how good do you consider your odds?” Because at 50m, the chances of being hit by fatal amounts of shrapnel is estimated to be about ~30%. (Obviously, in other circumstances, such as if you've got claymores set up in a confined concrete bunker, they're going to get a lot more dangerous.)

Also, we don't generally keep tight marching formations the way that early modern troops used, because modern weapons are horrifically effective against them. That Futurama quote is on the nose, because against a densely packed group of soldiers in early modern armor, the blast will likely hit almost all of them, and will, quite literally, blow many, if not most, of them apart. To put this more simply, using early modern military doctrine, they'd all be in the mine's kill zone when it went off, and their armor would do absolutely nothing to help them. In fact, this might be a case where their armor would further contribute to the shrapnel.

As for how they would react? I suspect most of them would take the ignoble option of dying almost instantly in the initial blast or shortly after from blood loss and extreme trauma. Would the survivors who could break and flee? Quite possibly. They also, quite likely, wouldn't even really understand what happened, simply because they'd never seen destructive force on that kind of scale before. “Would they lose cohesion?” My brother in Alfred Nobel's exploding cocktail lounge; they'd be losing biological cohesion with themselves. There wouldn't be a surviving unit.

There was a paradigm shift in the first World War. The stage had been set in the late 19th century, but most European armies didn't realize what had happened (and in fact, military leadership of the time stayed willfully ignorant) until after it came home.

Before this point, there was a concept of being able to “trade hits.” The halberdiers were expected to march into melee combat against other melee forces. This even survived the introduction of gunpowder units, and was still dominant military doctrine through the 19th century, where soldiers were expected to march in rank and file out onto the battlefield before shooting at each other in tightly packed formations.

What happened in the late 19th century was the development of weapons that were able to deal death with such speed and efficiency that getting into melee combat was no longer possible. The old, tightly packed, formations went from being an effective way to get troops into combat, to an effective way to see your troops completely eliminated by a single conscript's heavy machinegun fire.

The effective paradigm of infantry combat is now that your foes have the ability to end your existence, so you need to avoid their weapons (and preferably their detection) completely, until you can end them. (Yes, armor still exists, yes, it does work, but it's contingency you hope you don't need, rather than protection you expect to use.) Combat today is about controlling line of sight. Marching a squad of troops out onto the battlefield in tight formation wouldn't work, because a couple snipers with mediocre positioning could decimate them.

The claymore is part of this new paradigm. If you're in the kill range, unless you're in some radically more advanced armor than it was designed to deal with, you're going to have a bad day when it goes off.

We don't wear the same kinds of armor that those halberdiers used, because modern handgun rounds will perforate those. Modern armor does, sometimes, use steel plates (or, Kevlar, ceramic, or some polymers), as inserts but, the kind of steel used is significantly more resistant to modern bullets than what those early modern soldiers wore.

So, blown to shreds.

-Starke

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[thatsbelievable]

[lycankeyy]

The general consensus that Morph is Not coping with their ptsd is funny because they canonically have gone to therapy. It's not even wrong because the episode of TAS about them going to therapy is expressly about how they kind of suck at therapy

[uncanny-tranny]

Something I realized (which was obvious to me subconsciously) is that... The family that vehemently didn't accept me when I first came out but now do accept me are still the same family that I am most unwilling to be open about things I feel protective over.

I remember that my dad reacted so poorly, not to my coming out, but to my transition specifically that my therapist was the one to ask if I wanted to put it on my file that I wanted nothing to ever be shared with him about my health after I broke down multiple times due to my anxiety that I would never transition. While there are and were protections for me, I was incredibly fearful at the time because I was a minor, and I was so worried that he would have prevented my transition that I couldn't have said for certain what (if any) lengths he would have gone to to prevent that.

He's grown a lot as a person, and made some commendable strides. But he didn't find out from me when I medically transitioned the second I turned eighteen, and I think that's among the things that truly made him realize the scope of the issue.

I'm not here to guilt trip parents, guardians, or other members responsible for the care of the children or teens or young adults in their care.... but this is a cautionary tale. You aren't saving the people in your care when you do this, you simply reinforce an idea that you will never care for them, never want them as they are, would rather them be shoved away.

When you give people reasons to be secretive, they will behave secretively. When you give people reasons to doubt their safety around you, they will become sneaky, defensive, and withdrawn. When you give people reasons to doubt that you value their life, they will believe that you don't care if they live or not.

[newtmas-supremxcy]

If jegulus raised harry james would totally be the parent harry goes to for dating advice and regulus would be the one who gives his chrush the 'if you hurt him I will fuck you up' talk

[fairiencarnate]

Why did no one tell me that the "chemical imbalance" theory has largely been disproven, that serotonin and dopamine can't cause mental illness on their own? Why have all mental health professionals been pushing this idea as fact? I've always thought the whole BPD diagnosis was bogus, just modern day hysteria slapped onto (mostly) women with complex-PTSD. Almost an official gaslight, like "your trauma wasn't traumatic enough to warrant the PTSD label so we're going to act like your brain is malfunctioning". So I'm not surprised to find all this out.

Can we finally begin a trauma-informed approach toward mainstream mental health shit? Especially mood disorders? Let's not rule chemicals and hormones out entirely, but let's acknowledge that trauma and genes have far stronger ties to mental health.

[divinationsanctuary19]

Hi! I would like to request for ur next PICK A CARD/PILE readings. Hope you like & choose it :)

The question: How would you describe the person I am destined to be with like?

Thank you so much<33!!

Pick a Card: How would you describe the person I am destined to be with?🥀

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🥀Open PACs requests🥀

1. Page of Wands

This person is adventurous and curious. They like to explore and feel a lot of excitement towards life. Everything interests them, everything makes them curious. They are always ready to embark on a new journey.

They look youthful and energetic, they have a lively look, their laugh is contagious. This person’s appearance is likely to convey a sense of vitality and readiness. They are passionate, ambitious and full of new ideas. They possess a natural curiosity and a bold approach to life, often driven by a desire to experience and learn new things. They excel in roles that allow them to express their creativity and to bring fresh perspectives.

They are not bound by conventional limitations and are always seeking new experiences and adventures. Their courage and willingness to step into the unknown can be both inspiring and intimidating to those around them.

2.Knight of swords

Action oriented, driven by their thoughts and ideas, often rushing into situations. They act quickly, driven by curiosity, they tend to act first and think later about the consequences. They are intensely focused, to the point they forget their external environment. They have an admirable drive but they can become too fanatical. They have quick thinking and good analytical skills. They are passionate about their beliefs and ideas, and this intensity is evident in their emotional responses. Their presence can be both inspiring and challenging, pushing you to think quickly and act confidently. Brave risk-taker, prone to argumentativeness.

3. Four of wands

Joyful, celebratory. They may carry themselves with an air of confidence and joy, often found at the center of gatherings or social events. Their appearance is vibrant and inviting, catching your attention instantly. They are sociable, extroverted, welcoming, they make you feel warmth and a sense of communion. They have a lot of connections, they pay attention to their neighbors and friends.They thrive in environments where they can bring people together and create memorable moments.

They possess an infectious enthusiasm that draws others towards them. With their flair for socializing and knack for creating beautiful experiences, they effortlessly light up any room they are in. They have a deep appreciation for beauty and aesthetic.