#the first pic is SO lq

[su-supernova]

cozy vibes with the Montys <3

Meet the Montys:

Known around Veronaville for their sucessful restaurant line and their loud voices, the Monty's easy-going nature has taken the far. Despite the tragedies this family has faced, they've managed to overcome it all. You can always find them around town with their heads held high and a bright smile - well, except for Patrizio, who is always stomping around and mumbling something about 'betrayal' and 'revenge'.

Names and traits under the cut:

✧ Patrizio Monty family-oriented, paranoid, neat extra gameplay trait: perfectionist ✧ Isabella Monty foodie, wise, creative extra gameplay trait: gloomy ✧ Bianca Monty art lover, good, romantic ✧ Mercutio Monty goofball, self-assured ✧ Romeo Monty lovebug, outgoing

[bsdtual]

Doesn't drive u crazy just how fast night changes?

[idasessions]

Francine Brockey in the late 1960s

[clawsinsodeep]

Misc. Metallica photos, mid to late 90s.

[leatherbookmark]

[old stuff] 201119 (socool) & 220226 (famous) lhk photoshoots ✨

[raatopaikka]

[majaloveschris]

How did we end up with people believing he has a house in Upstate New York (UNY)?

This happened because people are determined to make LQ out to be liars. They said that LD saying the house is in UNY is confusing to them because they received the same pics of the his house in July from their source. So they quickly questioned that maybe their source had the location wrong but they also said they received documentation that he owns the Carlisle house months before that. They do not believe the house is in NY or that the LD spread is someone else’s house because the following asks show that. I think the house is his and LD lied about the location and the AD feature has been scrapped because Chris doesn’t want it revealed that it’s his house. I know that’s a lot to believe and at first I didn’t believe it was his house but over time I saw enough info to think it is. There also are some things to question like if it wasn’t his house why didn’t LD reveal the location when they first posted it like every other house they’ve worked on ? And why when they did post that they were working on it they were near Carlisle?

Yeah, but if there won't be an AD article, why did L&D need to lie about the location? They could've simply not written the location down and talked only about the house and the interior, or they could've written Carlisle, since if there's no article, most people won't know or believe it's his.

The whole Carlisle house thing is still a big topic in the fandom since some believe it's his and some believe it's not his. So they didn't need to add a fake location and lie about the whereabouts of the house since most people either don't know it's rumored to be Chris's or don't believe it.

His addresses are online. People can look it up and find it with the smallest effort, so if he wanted to protect the privacy of the Carlisle house, maybe he should've started with asking Tara to remove the address.

I don't believe this privacy shit, especially when it comes to something that involves Alba. Everything is supposed to be so private when it comes to their relationship, yet it never is. This wouldn't be either.

I once again don't question LQ but their sources, but I don't believe in something I haven't seen, so if someone can actually show me a single piece of evidence that the house is his (and I mean something that actually proves it's his, not the same trust thing again), or if somebody shows me some actual evidence of him renovating that house for himself and Alba, then I'll believe it. I'm not saying that the latter is not true, even though I find it very unlikely, but I don't believe anything without seeing it with my own eyes.

[adachimerica]

yeah ok lets look at these pics

without ten thousand gif compressions, its lqlounge time kids!!! cos im on my lunch break!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok first tho everyones gotta look at this pic of willem dafoe

ok thanks

moving on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

first and foremost i feel like my lineart has gotten really good - ive kinda been really lacklustre w/ my drawing practice over the last few years, but the time i put into doing my webcomics (Riverwake + After Your Possession) kinda shows? i hope??

this was the first LQ picture i had drawn in........ like 4-5 years lol. even longer if you dont count Lowan / Riverwake stuff.... cool. weird how drawing LQ is like riding a bike for me at this point.

honestly a part of me almost prefers these versions lol, it'll be nice if i get to do an 'LQ's mindspace' sort of event because those are always monochromatic blues + lineart lol

yee haw. goopy.

and then some colors....

the flag field... i wanted to show that they were like, tattered and dirty from being out in the field. also ignore that little color icon of lq in the corner lol i reused the background for the following panel and im too lazy to get it out of there =u=;;;

i dont know why he put the flag on his head lol.... (also the static for his eye i did in post so thats why its not on this shot lol)

you can see his right eye turn red between these two shots, but i dont think it came across suuuper clear in the GIF version? ah well

everyone's favorite smile <3

[craftmausoleum]

A "cousin" to my post that has some knitting projects I've worked on recently. Knitting is a lot easier to take pictures of, so my sewing examples are a bit...unrefined.

Most recently, the Busy Bee Quilt by Elisabeth Demoo (brownbirddesigns on IG). This was a baby shower gift for my cousin, who is having the first baby of the family!

I ended up tie-quilting it, but instead of using the same color throughout, I changed the tie color to match the piecework! At first I was...sad that I didn't have time to quilt it regularly, but I love how this method turned out. Used a surgeon knot throughout, every 4" in a grid + every 4" around the border. Scrappy bias binding, which I wouldn't have ever thought of had my LQS ladies suggested it :)

Out of the entire quilt top, only a few points don't match up. That was something I considered a priority in this project, and I'm happy I could achieve it. 11am-11pm schedule, from start to finish it took me maybe 3 weeks.

I recently decided to experiment with Canadian smocking, my second attempt (lattice) shown above (left: reverse; right: front). It was really fun, and the grid concept made me think of sashiko stitching. Definitely worth practicing.

The only other project I managed to get pictures of (with sewing I tend to scorch-earth my way through things, no time for WIP pics/too exhausted for pretty FO pics). This was actually the final skirt, but I had also made a complete mock-up in white muslim. I love the way hanfu garments (these are closest to zhequn) are structured, and maintain their functionality despite the fine detail that goes into them.

I am actually in the process of composing an in-depth guide on how I calculated the measurements, using both my experience with the mock-up/FO, and all that I learned online via forums; bilibili; YT; etc. Most of those resources were in Chinese, so all of the years I studied ZH (Mandarin, specifically, 北京话 even more specifically [as is fairly common within American schools]) came in handy ;;

[taylorswiftstylequestions]

Good morning Sarah! This isn’t Taylor related but has to with fashun™️! I saw the new pics of Lindsay Lohan on set of FF2 and I loved the floral dress she was wearing and after a couple hours of extensive searching I found it! and the heels! With only LQ pics to go off of! Out of my price range for sure😅(Doen/Jimmy choo) but still I’m so proud of myself for making an identification for the first time, and I immediately thought of you. So I just wanted to thank you and tell you that you’ve inspired me to be more observant of fashion out in the world, especially the little details. Idk if you know how big your impact is on this community or how far it reaches outside of it, but I hope you know you’re very cherished and appreciated for what you do! Have a wonderful day!🫶🫶🫶

Sometimes you guys remind me that you're real people and not just friends in my phone. And then you go another step further and remind me that this space not only has the opportunity to do so but in fact very much has impacted how you conduct yourselves in the your lives (digital and physical). And it makes me swoon / cry / sob / feel feels.

This is truly so touching and what a huge giant compliment to consider that TSS/Q has affected your life in any way, shape, or form - for even a moment.

[everglowz]

Hiii I just saw your recent gifset and I was wondering if you could share some colouring/quality tips for gifs?? I've been having some issues lately and I'm trying to collect knowledge from people with great skills, thanks in advance!

hiii!! <3 first of all, thanks omg :(( i feel absolutely underqualified to be giving advice but i'll try to tell u some stuff that i think makes gifs look nicer (i'll do it after a read more so that i don't clog up the dash)

idk how much experience you have in making gifs so i'm gonna be all over the place probably lmao sorry!!

first all, in connection to quality, using anything other than photoshop to gif (like websites or stuff like that) is gonna make your gifs look much less hq no matter how nice the actual footage is. sadly no website can beat ps :( also, using 4k/1080p clips is going to make your job much easier. I use 4kdownloader to get videos from youtube and it works great most of the times.

in terms of processing, once i get my video i use vapoursynth but i don't sharpen/denoise there. i think the vs sharpening is a bit too harsh sometimes and the denoising can be too extreme. (i know ppl get great results w sharpening/denoising there tho!! i've never got it to work like that lol) after the clip is opened in ps, i sharpen there. my settings are very basic (amount 500% and radius 0.4px and then i do that again but with amount 10% and radius 10px) if the original clip is too lq and i'm not satisfied with how the gif looks i might use topaz clean / denoise a little bit. but i try to keep that light. in my personal opinion, i think gifs that are too smooth (so much so that their hair gets blurry and stuff) just don't look as nice. i'd rather have a slightly grainy gif over a very very smooth gif where ppl don't look like ppl.

a lil trick i do when i'm not as pleased with the quality and the gifs are from mvs is to add a little bit of grain using the smart filter. so then the grain looks like it's there on purpose and not bc the og clip is bad (other times i just add noise for aesthetics like with my keppie gifset)

another tool some ccs use is high pass. i feel like high pass needs to be used lightly because sometimes it just makes people look like dolls :(( it's like it takes away all texture and it just looks... slightly odd? i tried to use it a few times but in the end i went back to my own sharpening. i just think it's a tool that needs to be used v carefully.

ok, coloring time!! coloring can literally fix a gif sometimes hahah. like a gif that looks kinda grainy suddenly u color it and it becomes ten times better. when i color, i start by messing with the curves and i tend to do this (this pic is just me messing with a random gif hahah)

i obviously play around with that but i love doing this because it makes my blacks darker. i also play around with exposure and i tend to bring the exposure up a little, bring the offset down a little and the gamma correction up (again, me messing around randomly just so u can see how my settings might end up looking visually. the numbers change all the time because it's not that i do it exactly like this all the time)

i've been told (and i can attest to it myself) that having gifs with a lot of contrast is good for quality so i feel like doing these prev things (and also messing with the blacks in selective color) allows me to bring out that contrast and also make gifs that i enjoy (i'm a high contrast gif lover) but you also have to be mindful not to make your subjects too white by upping the exposure or messing with curves too much. whitewashing is a no no, even if whitewashed gifs always end up looking less grainy >:( for skintone i play around with color balance and selective color mostly. if the whitewashing in the original video is too much, i might go to color lookup, use the preset 3strip, set the layer as 'darken' and mess with the opacity and then if it ends up looking too red i might do the same with a 'fall color' layer and lower the opacity even more for that one (or else the gifs looks too yellow). i also play around with the reds and the yellows in hue/saturation

finally, when i export the gifs, i make sure that i pick the saving mode (i'm sure this is not the proper way to call this but anyways sdfasd) that makes the gif looks better. like sometimes i find that with green gifs some settings make the gif look atrocious so i have to use adaptable for those but anyways i usually mess around w that hahah

idk if this was useful in any sort of way??? if u have a question about something that i mentioned here or i want to ask me more u can totally dm me or come back and ask me 'hey girl wtf?' because i'm so so bad at explaining things by text!! also i wrote this under the idea that u are sort of knowledgable on how to gif but idk !!

[ashtcnirwin]

10 YEARS OF 5 SECONDS OF SUMMER

To have people in the same position as you is very comforting, and to know that however you are feeling, someone else and three other people have felt the same way. I don’t know how else to say this without getting too emotional. It’s... This is my whole life. These are my brothers.

[gisachi]

DCMK gif asks meme: Favorite Story Arc [2/2] ➤ Desperate Revival Arc (as requested by Anon)

[cilginfillermigoruyorumne]

Father and the son

[subguk]

do you ever look at him and go 'yes! that's baby!'?

[tenloveblog]