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Something that's been on my mind for a while is that a lot of artists have been struggling to find programs that work with their budgets. Adobe's prices are... infamous, to say the least, and there seems to be a sharp learning curve for the more affordable options. And if you're like me, you might not feel comfortable with pirating to get an art program that is out of your price range. So here's a list of free art/editing tools. Any options without links are either mobile apps or can only be downloaded on Macs: Options without ads or watermarks:
FireAlpaca (notes: while this is an art program at heart, it can also be used as basic photo editing software once you get the hang of it. There is also a blog dedicated to tutorials on how to use FA in case you get stuck)
Medibang (note: the aforementioned FireAlpaca blog has some information on this software as well)
Krita (note: also available as an app for android and Google devices)
Storyboarder (notes: not to be confused with "Storyboarder.AI". While this program does require your email address before downloading, it is safe to use as far as I know (but please use caution regardless))
Pixilart (notes: link leads to browser version, also available as a mobile app)
Audacity (notes: apparently, the company behind this software, Muse Group, have also created a separate, subscription-based AI-voice program. I am unsure if it uses AI in a way that is generally considered to be ethical, like SynthV does, or if it follows the trends typically expected of those kinds of applications. The reason that I include this information is that I want to give everyone the ability to make an informed decision about whether or not they want to use anything from Muse Group, as I know many users on this site are anti-AI. However, I also know that some of those users wouldn't mind using Audacity since downloading it wouldn't be giving Muse Group monetary support - hence why the program is staying on the list.)
Clipchamp (notes: there are also paid tiers for this program. It is also available in-browser and as an iOS app. Furthermore, please be aware that there are some optional features that use AI)
iMovie (note: also available as a mobile app on iOS devices)
DramaQueen (notes: this is a software used to write scripts for plays, movies, etc. While it does require you to fill out some information before downloading, as far as I am aware, it is safe to use (but as always, use your own discretion))
Options that do have ads, watermarks, or microtransactions
ibisPaint X
Sketchbook (notes: formerly known as "Autodesk Sketchbook". PC and Mac versions do exist, but you have to pay to download them)
Medibang Paint
Capcut (note: has optional AI tools).
Be sure to check what system requirements are necessary for each program, and be aware of their limitations before downloading (for example, many users report Clipchamp has a tendency to crash, while others seem to be able to use it fine). Also, please feel free to add on to this. I know I haven't even scratched the surface here, as I tried to stick to software that I've either heard of extensively or have used personally.
#one thing I want to make clear just in case it wasn't already:#I am anti-AI as well#artificial intelligence should not be used to replace human creativity and jobs#I included whether or not a program has AI features in case you'd rather avoid software that uses that type of technology#regardless of if it's optional#also I know that Flipaclip is also a free program#but I purposefully excluded it due to how bogged down with microtransactions it has allegedly become since I last used it#the app Paper is also free#but it makes you pay for brush sizes#so that was a no-go#artists on tumblr#art tips#art advice#art resources#art programs#firealpaca#audacity#Opal speaks#may God bless you all
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not enough discussion about the gavins' complicated relationship with feminine-coded/beauty products, i don't think.
#for klavier because it's not as direct it's about how we never see him actually wearing lipstick? even though apollo literally attends#a concert of his which is where you'd most expect him to wear makeup. but apparently he just doesnt. or at least not in public#klavier gavin#kristoph gavin#i feel like there are several ways you can read into it. the misogyny/toxic masculinity one is really obvious clearly with kristoph's#singling out of men specifically and klavier's (probably accidental?) condescending manner of calling women 'fraulein' plus his general#mildly patronising attitude towards many of the women in the game (also probably unintentional)#(i think he's trying to be charming and it's coming off wrong to some of them. like ema. and me.)#but i feel like there's also maybe an element of... inherent perfecfionism to it? like both of these products are conventionally beautifyin#products and kristoph while he is open to showing people he uses nail polish specifically chooses one that's clear and missable unless you#see him apply it. he also feels the need to justify his use of it and specifically spell it out as something he chooses to do rather than#needs to do even though duh. that should be obvious.#idk there's just something about his seeming need to take control of that narrative that i find interesting. his need to spin it into a#'there's nothing wrong with my nails but I had the foresight to see that even the smallest parts of my appearance should be kept immaculate#and it's a choice i'm making to refine an already adequate part of my personage /not/ to cover some unsightly defect.' the need to emphasis#that specifically is so. hm. and with klavier i could see it being a case of him liking makeup liking the pops of colour yet being unwillin#to admit to it because he's afraid that other people might see it as him being dissatisfied with his own appearance regardless of if he is#or isn't. or even just perceiving colourful makeup as being unseemly because it's so overt and unnatural.#like i can see this as them both viewing 'real' beauty to be that which is inherent to a person and seemingly effortless#thus somehow negating the beauty which one achieves through cosmetics or other external means.#and if you want to use external means to achieve beauty or neatness or whatever then your only valid options are those which blend into you#natural state. like clear nail polish. or really awful spray tan.#i feel like klavier's less confined by these ideas (if they hold merit at all) considering he actually owns coloured lipstick and he wears#jewellery (admittedly quite 'masculine' jewellery no gems or pearls or anything like that but jewellery nonetheless) but i think it just#makes it more interesting that he doesnt seem quite able to cross the line anyway. like it's that ingrained into his system.#anyway that's all i've got. you guys should tell me what you think too#annotations
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should I write a one-shot about Odile poking siffrin with a stick studying Siffrin for one loop, or should I approach it with my usual comic style?
Comic will be slower but there are visuals. Fics means no visuals but i can explore the character's mentality a bit better.
#i will keep doing comic of other scenes regardless of what option win#many ideas in my lil head#siffrin? more like sif is out au#isat
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my only hopes and expectations for good omens season 2
- Crowley and Aziraphale hold hands
- good old-fashioned lover boy is on the soundtrack
- they set David Tennant on fire again
#optional: Aziraphale calls someone a bitch#it would be iconic#this season will be iconic regardless#good omens#good omens s2#go2
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I'm sure someone has suggested this before but. Whoops-All-Sidequests Time Quangle. Emily as Chirp, Lou as Jammer, Zac as Squing, Ally as Russel/Jennifer, and Siobhan as Jaysonn. Obviously Murph is disqualified due to having never been in a sidequest, so let's say that the extra player is either Erika (as Lilith, K, May, or Ava) or Izzy (as Sasha, Lila, or Paula/Jack).
Bonus points if Brennan is not only doing the DMing, but he's also pulling a triple shift as Evan, Hob, and Tula, so he's rapid-fire switching between Evan going full St. Otto's in response to the insanity of the Quangle, Hob going full goblin around the human characters, and Tula going full protective-mom due to how inherently dangerous the situation is
#the other option is that this is DMed by aabria so brennan is just the extra player regardless#in all seriousness though seeing the lords of the wing in the quangle would be truly insane#dimension 20#time quangle#a court of fey and flowers#misfits and magic#coffin run#never stop blowing up#burrow's end
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It does matter who is in the white house. It fucking does. "Two state solution" versus "wipe them off the face of the earth." Not as much as we need on climate policy to be *sure* we'll survive, versus burn baby burn and we are surely cooked. Protect access to abortion versus dead pregnant parents and teens. Someone who CAN be persuaded left versus someone who will make it nigh impossible to protest. It fucking matters. Please ignore the polls, please ignore the vibes, please ignore everyone saying it doesn't matter: it matters. Does your one individual specific vote all by itself matter? Maybe not, but that's an American Individualist bullshit line of thought. Together, our voices do make a difference.
Vote. Please, please vote.
#us politics#vote#vote blue#unless there's an actual viable more left option in your local races#remember kids: the national green party got kicked out of the international green coalition for cozying with fascists#that is not a viable option nationally#nor even a desirable one#but regardless: vote
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Vehemence 🔥
#ffxiv#final fantasy fourteen#Estinien#everyone should have the option for the weird exposed midriff on the drachen armor regardless of gender it's EQUALITY
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I love when people complain about dangerous drivers because... there are some dangerous drivers out there! However, the solution isn't, like, a surveillance state. The solution can be found (in part) in actually investing in free public transportation and a variety of transportation. The fact that we often live in a very hostile world for pedestrians and non-motorists is a travesty, and helps contribute to the mess that is driving.
You don't need to ban certain people from being able to drive. You need to pressure your local and state governments to actually invest in trains, buses, trams, taxis, public bicycles, well-maintained sidewalks and trails, and whatever may be best for your community. Banning certain people from driving isn't going to effectively keep drivers safe.
#politics#this is kind of about people 'joking' that old people and disabled people should have their licenses revoked#what the hell other option will they have if driving is the ONLY option?#not only should public transport be widely available it should be free (public)#i'm not for banning people from driving if they haven't proven they are dangerous because of their actions...#...it just bothers me seeing a modded car for somebody's disability and everybody's like 'we should BAN people like YOU driving acktually'#maybe less people would drive regardless of their ability or inability if they were given other options#if there were trams in my town? boy i would be crocheting in there day in and day out#i like driving but trams????? holy shit. TRAMS...#there's a tram system in the Big City in my state and i am so envious
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The thing you have to get is Harry and Jean aren't like in sweet affectionate love they're playing a game of suicide chicken where the loser is the one who kills himself first and theyre bound to each other because no one understands the game like they do. And yeah maybe there's some homoerotic attraction but I don't think either of them care if the other gets better. In fact the other getting worse is vindication
#and its sexy and compelling but lets not pretend jean vicquemare is soft on harry at all#regardless of how you interpret the canonness of multiple endings and dialogue options#you cant pretend that any affection on jeans end is hopeful or soft#disco elysium#de
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#before anyone goes ''wheres x character'' i was prioritizing characters who either lived on the ark with him#or are known to be good friends with him or have spent a decent amount of time around him in at least one game etc#(and also the characters who have actually swore in front of him onscreen regardless of if theyre heavily associated with him#hence espio and knuckles being here)#but . theres only 12 slots. and there are a lot of sonic characters . so i included an other option too#just in case theres an obvious and/or really funny choice that im not thinking of here
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Enough, to the polls
#hilda#oh translation just in case#1 - good#2 - just ok#3 - bad#hilda the series#netflix hilda#hilda netflix#polls#shitpost#cucumber sandwich#the last option was GOING to be ‘white people food’#but. I think regardless of whether or not you like them#we can all agree this is white people food#so that might’ve skewed the results
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Boromir is excluded since he was first; Pippin is excluded since he won the first poll.
I am very curious about the people who voted for Sam in the last round given his canonical level of resistance; whoever you vote for, I would love to see your reasons in the tags!
#lord of the rings#polls#i think a lot would depend on exactly how Pippin succumbing went down#did they just have to leave him behind in Rohan or Gondor?#or did someone have to kill him?#or is he still with them?#Because if it's the second option#the guilt is definitely going to weaken whoever did it#and the tensions over whether or not it was necessary is going to shake the others#regardless the confidence of the other hobbits has got to be shaken now
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Belobog was my fave main quest but a lot of it is so. Contradictory. It's like they had multiple groups doing different shit and none of them checked in with each other for consistency. And you see this so much in Gepard's profile.
So in the main quest, they made him unfailingly, unquestionably loyal to Cocolia. Gepard's character arc is him learning to question authority etc etc. And this isn't even a bad thing; that's a story worth telling! It makes good conflict between him and Serval! And I love that we got Gepard as a boss battle and I get to see him all the time in SU!
But then you look at his character stories and it's like. The complete opposite.
According to his profile, Gepard has already HAD this awakening, long before the Astral Express, and he'd already decided Cocolia sucks. Even outside of his stories, there's a pretty damning readable between him and Pela.
He even disobeyed direct orders right in front of her- he has been disobeying orders for a while now!
So I've decided I'm marrying the two different sides of this into a 1.5k fic-ish thingy, because I think there's some fun potential there with Gepard not trusting Cocolia, but still having to pretend to be a good obedient little soldier.
Anyway. I love to think of it as like. Gepard knows Cocolia has sunk into her apathy. He can see it in her eyes every time he looks at her. She doesn't care. Not about him, not about Pela, not about all his soldiers on the frontlines giving their lives to protect the citizens. And that's... It makes him bristle a bit, but ok. Gepard can deal with this. Even if Cocolia no longer cares, as long as she does her job then it's fine. Having compassion behind an action doesn't matter as much as the action itself. If Cocolia's heart is no longer swayed, then he'll just have to care twice as hard to pick up the slack. He considers it part of his duty as a captain of the guard anyway. It's fine. Gepard can deal with it.
And then, Cocolia starts coming down to the restricted zone. Issuing direct orders.
And Gepard realizes he is in way over his head.
Because Cocolia orders him to stay back and issue commands from the ramparts, away from all his comrades, away from where he can protect them.
Gepard had thought nothing could be as bad as watching a fellow guard die right next to him. But the first time he watches someone struck by a killing blow, so far away, it hurts. Every defensive scar across his arms itches, his fingers curl in want of a weapon, the cold cannot numb his hands enough as they desperately ache for his shield. It hurts.
Gepard tries to find any reason to stay. Because surely... He knows Cocolia has lost her love for her people, but surely... She wouldn't...
One day, Cocolia orders for their gunners to advance 20 yards. There are no survivors. She almost looks like she smiles.
Gepard doesn't sleep that night.
Pela brings him the report at the end of the first month; and then the month after that, and the month after that. A significant uptick in losses, and all of it started on that first day Cocolia started overriding his authority and issuing her own orders. The ends of Gepard's pens have all been nearly chewed off. Pela outright calls Cocolia an idiot, and Gepard corrects her. Cocolia isn't an idiot. Gepard had known her through Serval, knew her through all her college years and then some, and he knows how intelligent she is. It's not that she's stupid, and it's not that she's inexperienced, it's nothing of the sort.
Cocolia knows exactly what she's doing.
She must, there's no way she could make such a horrible mess of things so badly by accident. And Pela, quick as a whip, sharp as a tack, always too smart for her own good, catches onto the meaning behind Gepard's correction without any further prompting. The tent goes deathly quiet, nothing but the wind howling outside.
"...She's trying to kill us," Pela whispers, her voice swiftly suffocated by the silence.
Gepard swallows. He can't bring himself to correct her this time. There is nothing he could say that he would actually mean.
His gaze drops, back down to his desk and the reports on it. The names aren't listed, just the numbers, but Gepard knows them, knew them, and there must be something wrong, something he's missing, because why, why would she-? What could this possibly accomplish-?
“Gepard! Focus!” Something snaps right under his nose, and Gepard startles, eyes instantly honing in on Pela's irritated face as she leans over his desk. She holds his gaze for a moment before she huffs and begins to pace, wedges a knuckle between her teeth and bites like Gepard hasn't seen her do since cadet school.
Pela angrily strides from one end of his tent to the other, words hissed between her grit teeth. “What are we going to do?” In the dim lighting, Gepard can just barely see the damp spot of blood weeping under her gloves. “We need a plan.”
“A plan?”
“Wh- Yes, a plan! Unless you want more people to die!” Pela rounds on him then, all the wrath of a blizzard, winds roaring and snow sharp enough to cut.
“We don't even know-”
“What does it matter?! She killed-!!” Pela cuts off with a garbled noise when Gepard leaps up from his desk, hastily shoves his hand over her mouth. The prosthetic, not the flesh one, because he knows better than to assume Pela won't seize the opportunity to leave teeth marks in his skin.
“You're right. I'm sorry, I'm sorry; you're right. But you need to keep quiet.” Pela quirks an eyebrow at him and Gepard can read the question in her face. “Because we both saw what she did to Serval,” he hisses.
It's amazing the snow plains haven't thawed out yet, the amount of heat Pela can put behind a glare. The mere mention of Serval, and the smoking ruins Cocolia had made of her life and career, have her bristling up like a riled cat. The sudden hot breath she takes fans fog across his metal skin, and Gepard wisely keeps it in place until Pela finally sighs and reaches up, taps her fingertips against the back of his hand.
The second she's free, Pela bats him away and then her knuckle is right back between her teeth again, Gepard leaning back against his desk with his arms crossed to watch her resume her pacing. “If we spread the word, she'll have us discharged and make sure we can't even touch the frontlines,” Pela's voice seethes like an open sore. Gepard nods but keeps his silence. He knows better than to get in her way.
“And if you and I are both out of the picture, Belobog is fucked.” A little harsher than how he would have put it, but there's no denying that they're both important to the city's survival. Pela has the restricted zone running as efficiently as ever, and Gepard had become the youngest captain on record for a reason. “We need to keep this tight under wraps, at least for now… It can't leak to anyone higher up the chain.” Another nod. “Serval might know other discontents…” Another n-
Gepard's head snaps up. “No.”
“No what?”
“No. We're not involving Serval in this.”
Somehow, even the same tone that leaves entire squadrons shaking in their boots has never worked on her. “You're not deciding that for her, Gepard.”
Pela hadn't seen the worst of it, though, back when his sister had just been banned from the Architects. Serval's pride hadn't allowed it. Pela wasn't the one to find her passed out bottle still in hand, hadn't been the one to wash the sick out of her hair or carry her to bed.
Serval still has trouble thinking clearly when it comes to Cocolia, still can't quite bring herself to be objective. And Gepard maybe doesn't want her to be purely objective- but he would worry a lot less if she thought twice before she acted more often.
“At least let me be the one to bring it up to her.”
“Whatever, fine,” Pela gestures affirmatively at him as she paces past, and Gepard sighs. Good, at least that's one thing he can help.
From there, it's a lot of hemming and hawing and frustration. Cocolia has them under her boot, and Gepard and Pela both know it. Even with the way she's been cracking down on freedoms lately, Cocolia is still, overall, liked by the people. It's unlikely anyone would believe them. They don't even have solid proof, because most people don't know Cocolia as well as they do and won't see the clues in the same light.
The Fragmentum has been ramping up in recent years, too. Everyone is struggling just to survive as is, they can't afford a fight on two fronts. Gepard is a damn good captain, one of the best for that matter. But they're at a massive disadvantage, his experience is narrowed to fighting a defensive battle against monsters, that's all he's ever done. That's all anyone there has ever done. He has no way of finding first-hand knowledge for taking the offensive against a human opponent, and if he goes at this blind, there's no way he'll get everyone out unscathed. He's going to lose people. He's going to lose a lot of people.
He'd never thought before that Cocolia would have it in her to have someone killed. And with this new knowledge, he has no guarantee she won't go after Serval or Lynx if she decides to retaliate.
Gepard has to remind himself to breathe when he realizes this.
Pela writes down every name the two of them can come up with. Lists and lists of names and groups and anyone they can think of who might be an ally in all of this. They memorize every bit of it, make their plans of who to talk to and when. Gepard watches the sparks reflect off Pela's glasses as they burn the evidence together.
Pela finally leaves, far too late to make it home, but says she wants to stay in the restricted zone anyway to investigate. Gepard watches her make her way in the direction of Dunn's tent, watches her back until she's out of his sight and squashes down the urge to follow and keep an eye on her. His tent feels empty.
In the morning, Gepard is up before the wake up bells. He drags himself out of bed, leads his soldiers through their morning training. The same people gravitate to each other everyday. Friend groups and training partners. There's an ongoing rivalry between a few squadrons that everyone bets on. Some of them have lockets around their necks, keepsakes, mementos. Some of them wear wedding rings.
Gepard is suddenly, painfully aware of something acidic clawing at the inside of his throat, of a heavy weight low in his chest that blooms, takes up room until it threatens to spread his ribs. His mouth tastes of bile and blood.
He rearranges the schedules. Puts himself down for every open patrol into the Fragmentum, makes sure he'll be on the frontlines every single time Cocolia visits.
He only hopes that it's enough.
#honkai star rail#gepard landau#hsr gepard#pelageya sergeyevna#hsr pela#hsr#smacking Gepard out of Hoyo's hands and running off with him skzjmdkd#tentatively Figuring Out how to write these two... It feels a little tricky starting out with extreme circumstances like this haha#I feel like a lot of people see Gepard as naive for trusting Cocolia so much but I don't think that's quite it. He's not stupid.#He's not even naive.#He's someone who has been groomed since birth by his own parents to be an obedient Guard and nothing outside of that role.#You are not immune to propaganda etc etc#But even then there are a lot of things like all the included screenshots where he. Doesn't actually seem to like/trust Cocolia much.#I think Serval was a really good influence on him as a kid. He might have turned out much much worse without her.#and even with how I've written him here. I don't think he's normally slow to act or one to stand aside and make other people lead.#it's just that this specifically was a pretty extreme circumstance for him.#and also he openly states elsewhere that Pela is overbearing and he tries not to interfere with her work whenever possible nskzhdjdjd#Pela too. I don't know that I normally see her as someone with a bad temper or quick to anger.#But again; extreme circumstances haha#Bc like. they both would have seen what happened to Serval when she stood up to Cocolia. they know damn well what's going to happen to them.#if they fuck this up and get caught then they're done.#and I mean. What are they supposed to do? they're two people against the highest authority of the entire nation.#regardless I do love Gepard agonizing over this in the future after Bronya takes over and everything has settled down#did he do the right thing? did he make the right choice? if he went vigilante how many soldiers would have died without his protection?#would Belobog have fallen completely? how many people died because he DIDN'T run away? was it actually enough?#I love characters forced between a rock and a hard place. no good options. pick your poison.#no winning- only weighing what you can and cannot bear to lose.#make your choice and decide whether you want to rot or to burn.
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I wasnt the only one who immediately thought and accepted too absurdly fast that Riri had just fucking killed that stalker girl right
#I was SO convinced my jaw was on the FLOOR#then was oh alright they just erased her memories i guess#on another note THIS SHOW WAS SO GOODDDDD#RIRI BEING CANON NB AND ALSO AN OPTION REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY PRESENT THEMSELVES????????? INCREDIBLE OUTSTANDING ASTONISHING#‹ I need to make a post specifically about why I found this as such an absolute WIN in so many aspects btw#anyways im in love with kazuki#my sweet stupid traumatized babygirl#and also the rich bitch#i want to chew him to death#romantic killer#what are this shows tags wait#riri#anzu hoshino#kazuki tsukasa#junta hayami#hijiri koganei#saki takamine
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About Tristan and Isolde both dying at the end of their story, which of these two is more in tune with how it makes you feel?
A) Death here is joyful/desirable. It unites them. In a way, they wanted/had to die. Their love was too disruptive for life, one way or another. They can finally be together forever in death.
or
B) Death here is miserable/undesirable. It separates them. Regardless of the enormity of their desire, they wanted to live for each other. If dead, they cannot be together.
#of course each version of the story approaches it differently#but once you're familiar with the story in general you might have your own opinions regardless of which version you prefer... or b/c of it#i want as many people to answer this as possible so imma spam the tags a little pls bear with me:#tristan#isolde#iseult#iseut#isotta#isold#isot#tristran#tristram#arthuriana#(not really but)#chivalry#fin'amor#medieval#courtly love#wagner#poll#My feelings align more with option 2 for the record
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in the Secret Robin AU dick could technically be the legal guardian over Tim, and no could in theory do anything about it.
Galaxy brain idea
#but in all seriousness even if dick petitioned the courts I think Bruce would try as well#and any court would of course grant guardianship to a billionaire over a single guy in his twenties who works a full time job#regardless of what the child wants#secret robin au#ask#worse option tho is Barbara adopts him
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