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It’s funny how science fiction universes so often treat humans as a boring, default everyman species or even the weakest and dumbest.
I want to see a sci fi universe where we’re actually considered one of the more hideous and terrifying species.
How do we know our saliva and skin oils wouldn’t be ultra-corrosive to most other sapient races? What if we actually have the strongest vocal chords and can paralyze or kill the inhabitants of other worlds just by screaming at them? What if most sentient life in the universe turns out to be vegetable-like and lives in fear of us rare “animal” races who can move so quickly and chew shit up with our teeth?
Like that old story “they’re made of meat,” only we’re scarier.
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Every time I take a break from drawing for more than a couple of days, I completely forget how to draw Gale ( ; v ;)
I'm glad the panels for the Young Stellarweave comic are already sketched out so all I have to do is figure it out from there, but to draw Gale from scratch? I completely forgot
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my unpopular opinion is that i hate tiktok because now people just publicly watch loud ass videos in public spaces with no regard for anyone else. 100% it was not this bad with youtube, it’s such a different thing with tiktok. put on headphones. you are grown.
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We need to bring back the bait fish because sometimes it feels like yall can't tell when someone is trolling you
Look at him! He's so cute and he knows that someone posting stupid, brain dead or offensive comments is just trying to get you mad, and you should make fun of them for that.
We as a website need him back in our lives
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They’re soulmates but one of them is infact trying to choke the other to death with the red string of fate tying them together
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my full piece for @halloffamezine! it was a pleasure being a part of this anthology :)
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The short answer is... a tilt-shift lens.
The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.
Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.
Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.
Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.
Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.
The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.
But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.
If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.
But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.
The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.
However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.
Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.
And possibly Mister Rogers.
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Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.
Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.
And then when we see something like this...
Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"
Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.
Brains are neat.
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#do you know how much easier it would be to get shit done?#i have finals right now (all of which are essays and projects)#we could just split up the work evenly and everything will be so much easier 😭
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get okay with being some level of burden on others, seriously
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(Context/credit below poll)
Today's poll comes from a very serious question asked by Gail Simone on Bluesky. All options taken from replies to her question with only light paraphrasing to fit the format. I'll put links to the original... ::checks notes:: "skeets"? That can't be right... in the eventual results post.
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