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[everythingfirealpaca]

How do I download brushes? (Not from cloud)

There are three types of FireAlpaca brushes.  At the bottom of the brush list there are three corresponding buttons.

Add Brush, icon like a blank piece of paper, adds another built-in brush (Pen,  Airbrush, Smudge, Eraser, etc). For this, you don’t need to download anything. Just click the button and set the settings to match the posted settings (usually posted as a screenshot). For example, the great blend brushes by KittyKittyKittyzz here:  http://kittykittykittyzz.deviantart.com/art/Brushes-500037943

Add Brush (Bitmap), icon is a piece of paper with two dark grey squares and two light grey squares (like the corner cut off a fly-sized chess board), you browse and select a PNG file to be the brush “tip” or “particle” (for the scatter types). These are usually posted just as the brush image and (not always) the brush settings to match - simply right click on the brush image in your web browser and Save Image As or Save Picture As. Click the Add Brush (Bitmap) button, choose the brush .png image, then change the settings as required.

Add Brush (Script), icon like a piece of paper with a large letter S, you browse and select a BS (brush script) file,  which is text file containing a small program in the Lua programming language that defines the brush effect.

If brushes are posted in a .zip file, you need to extract or copy the files inside the zip file first, FireAlpaca cannot access files still in the zip file (although Windows lets you treat the zip file like a folder, FireAlpaca cannot use this).

-Obtusity

[icalasari]

“How do I download brushes?” “Neat question! How about I answer how to make a brush then don’t answer your fucking question, then clog up Google with useless answers?” God this blog needs to shut down. It’s not updated, it clogs results with bad answers, just gah

[bogleech]

Is there a program yet for making 3d games that even a baby could figure out cause that’s what I’d need

[icalasari]

Yes. It’s called Minetest. It’s a copy of Minecraft with a base ‘game’ for it but it’s meant to be relatively easy to learn. Still a bit of a learning curve, but considering I’ve made models in it without ever touching a 3D modelling program, it’s still a sight easier than most other stuff

[bogleech]

Okay, Kirby fandom, gimme your list of the creepiest and spookiest Kirby-canon entities, I will leave no stone unconsidered

[icalasari]

Kirby himself. He holds back a literal wave of nothingness that wrecks all of reality in its path. He can go so far beyond light speed it’s a joke, and that’s BEFORE using a Warp Star. He can fart out warp stars, eat them, and get the Star Rod to kill others of his species with (he’s heavily implied to be the same species as Nightmare, O2, Void, all those Eldritch horrors), he’s indestructible, can eat UI elements IE he can *eat the fourth wall* Kirby is the pinkest, roundest abomination against nature and physics to ever exist

[revretch]

…wait. Birds have very hot internal temperatures, and they’re full of air sacs.

Did they just evolve to be hot air balloons

[poondragoon]

See, I woulda said that mammals are creatures of earth and water, while birds are of fire and air, but that’s better.

[revretch]

The mighty hot air balloon is also a creature of fire and air, when you think about it

[bogleech]

A hot air balloon is a elemental mecha

[icalasari]

So what you’re saying is that my monster I made that is literally a chicken hot air balloon is less farfetched than I though?

[taikeero-lecoredier]

Archive.org is facing a lawsuit

tldr: the Internet Archive/WayBack Machine is super important in term of archived content, billions of stuff are on there, and with the current event happening in the world like stated above,without this tool, it will be hard to properly document what took place. It will be easy for certain people to rewrite history. Dont let them.

DONATE HERE (post dont get much exposure with working links sorry)

 archive.org/donate/

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

IF YOU CANT DONATE THEN PLEASE SPREAD THE INFO

On twitter,tumblr,facebook,heck,anywhere you want,this needs to be talked about !

[bogleech]

Decades of internet history are recorded nowhere else.

[icalasari]

Also, everybody, back up everything you can

[plaguedocboi]

Leech Time!

Some tips and facts for artists, plague doctors, and leech lovers!

I see a lot of art where people put the teeth at the big end of the leech, but the little end is actually the head! That’s where the eyes and jaw are located. Both ends have suction cups (just like an octopus) but only the head can bite you. This is actually meant to confuse predators, who also assume the big end is the head. It’s much easier to get away if the predator bites your butt instead of your face! I also see lots of art where the leech is depicted as solid black, but leeches actually have very bright and beautiful colors! You just can’t see them well under dim lighting.

Leeches don’t have a ring of teeth. The first picture is a lamprey, which is a kind of fish. Not related to the leech at all. Leeches have tiny jaws with three teeth that they use to carefully saw open skin (the middle and last pictures show the jaw closed but visible, and open). They leave behind a Y-shaped mark just a little bigger than a mosquito bite.

Unless you have like 500 of them, leeches can’t suck you dry. In the case of the European medicinal leech, they only drink about what a doctor would take for a blood test. Not dangerous at all! And it doesn’t even hurt, because leeches inject an anesthetic which numbs the area before they start feeding. This is part of why they were so popular for bloodletting, because it hurt much less than a doctor cutting you and draining the blood into a bowl.

Leeches aren’t as scary as people think! They’re actually very sweet, gentle animals that are classified as “domesticated” (the medicinal ones, at least). When they’re not feeding, they retract their jaw and only show the lip, which gives them an adorable :3 face!

Even if a medicinal leech is hungry and you’re trying to get it to feed, you have to sit very still and wait for it to select a spot, which can take a while. Once it finds a perfect spot, it’ll still take a full 10-30 seconds for it to actually latch on and start feeding. They don’t just bite out of the blue, so you have plenty of time to pull it off if you don’t want it to feed.

Happy leeching!

[dalaminaubis]

People before this post: "Oh god, leeches are little nightmare slugs that want to drain me of my life."

People after this post: "Ohhh, cute little squishy puppy, come get some juice" *holding out arms, cleaned and exposed for feeding*

[leech-enthusiast]

They sure are groovy little dudes

[plaguedocboi]

They sure fucking are

[bogleech]

I just fed almost all of mine today - eight adults and around 25-30 babies and these are the biggest now:

[a-fishy-onado]

I’m curious what it’s like to own a leech! Are they fun to watch or hold? Are they like owning fish that are less expensive to feed? I mean, I make my own blood I don’t even have to go to the store

[bogleech]

Yes a fish that can go months without eating and is actually happy in just a jar of water with no filter system or anything! I feed mine what probably comes out to $1 worth of pork blood a month but lots of people let theirs bite them and nothing bad happens. Holding the big ones is only a little tricky because their density changes instantaneously. Their bodies are dense, tough and bumpy wherever the tissues are “tensed up” but wherever the leech is relaxed it feels like it’s not even there, like weightless jelly. If the whole leech relaxes it will slip out of your fingers like liquid!

[i-dreaminwords]

But doesn’t it hurt when they bite you?

[plaguedocboi]

Not as much as you’d think! It hurts less than a shot or getting your blood drawn. It’s more like pinpricks or a slight burning sensation, and some people don’t even feel it at all!

[bogleech]

I’ve been bit a few times and it hurts SO much less than getting blood drawn it just makes me mad that driving a nail into someone is still apparently the best technology we apparently have. A leech’s teeth are microscopically fine and the three jaws just kind of graze through the skin in a split second, at least the small ones anyway. Once they get huge they can hurt, and some of the tropical land leeches apparently hurt no matter their size. I imagine proboscis leeches might also hurt, that’s a whole different leech group which, instead of jaws, has a barb-covered “tongue” they drill into their host, however very few proboscis leeches will bite humans; most of them feed on waterfowl, turtles and amphibians.

[icalasari]

I apologize for nothing, seeing the :3 face made me do it

[bogleech]

setting in which one day everyone gains a superpower based exclusively on their #1 irrational fear

[bogleech]

Oh no no the powers don’t get to be fun, the powers are fueled by the terror and can’t exist without it.

Fear of heights: you can’t fly, you can just teleport into the upper atmosphere and then teleport safely to any point you’re able to concentrate on looking down at.

Fear of spiders (or roaches, or ants, or maggots, etc.) : you can transform any material you’re currently touching into its weight in those creatures, if it’s a large mass like a wall the effect can slowly spread for as long as you’re in contact with it. You don’t control them from there though.

Fear of your loved ones dying: you can check the current date and time of death for anyone you care about at any moment, which will change with day to day variables.

Claustrophobia: you can curl up and generate an invulnerable metal sphere around yourself. You can make it move in an incredibly powerful burst proportionate to how long you’ve been like that.

Fear of needles: you can fire an infinite number of needles from anywhere on your body with superhuman marksmanship and enough force to penetrate steel walls but while it doesn’t “hurt” you will feel them grow from your bones and slip out of your skin.

…. And so forth!

[bogleech]

Huge sea creatures: you can transport yourself and anyone or anything you’re touching to an interdimensional ocean teeming with unknown creatures and only transport back after an unpredictable number of seconds. You have no guaranteed safety there but I mean neither will a bad guy if you strand them there. Bad guys will probably become a problem.

Murder: you can cheat death and take over any living body on earth only every time another person kills your current one through direct violence.

Open spaces: you can escape danger by entering a personal pocket dimension where you’re alone in a vast plane, though every second in reality is a day there.

General anxiety: plain old general superhuman strength and speed but only in proportion to current anxiety level.

Contagion: you can make anyone anywhere in the world share any ailment you’re experiencing but as worse as you choose.

Radiation: you can absorb any amount of radiation and neutralize it or channel it into a cool beam attack but the power doesn’t come with any special resistance.

Public speech or privacy fears: you can make yourself a global psychic hub at any moment. Everyone in the world becomes aware of it and can use you to communicate with each other or just browse your thoughts and memories as they please.

Change: I like the “irreversible shapeshifting” suggestion but I’m also going to alternatively suggest a power that lets you permanently and blindly switch places with the you from a completely random alternate timeline where anything or everything might differ in any way. There might also be a 24 hour cool down period.

Editing for more that were suggested:

Clowns: you can reversibly turn anyone into a mindless clown that follows but does not obey you.

Mirrors: you can instatravel through reflective surfaces, but you come out “mirrored” every time, and neither version of you ever knows exactly what the other one will do nor remembers where it went in the meantime.

Losing Teeth: you can shed one of your teeth (randomly, you can’t pick the one) to rejuvenate yourself of all sickness and injuries except for lost teeth.

Trypophobia: you can painlessly fracture half of your body mass into thousands of tiny fleshy beads you can remotely control.

Living longer: you can permanently take years of life from other living beings.

Yourself: you can temporarily change everyone in the world into exact clones of you which will do whatever you would do in the situations they find themselves. Every time you use it, it lasts longer.

Being Alone: you can actually make everyone else in the world invisible and intangible to you and vice versa. Also lasts longer every time.

The Dark: you can generate a roughly hundred foot bubble in which light can’t exist but all of your other senses and reflexes are a thousand times more sensitive. It takes a random amount of time to wear off from seconds to days.

Being eaten by a whale: you have full blown reality warping powers that only work from inside a live cetacean’s stomach.

[icalasari]

>The Dark Actually came up with a super hero idea based on that. They can control light, but as the light they are controlling isn’t hitting the eyes, it looks like pure darkness. So literally the one thing that brings them comfort ends up resembling the very thing they fear

[maltedmilkchocolate]

Time blindness is the weirdest aspect of executive dysfunction and so weird as an experience to live with. It’s like you see the clock, the clock says 3pm, you look at the clock again and it’s 3:02, then 3:05, and then you look again and it’s 8pm and WHAT THE FUCK.

You don’t even need hyperfocus. But hyperfocus is like the Warp Speed:tm: version cause when that hits, it’s 3pm and then it’s the next day and why is the sun rising and when did i last eat and oh god i need to use the bathroom. And oh, also, you’re EXHAUSTED. The act of your brain tunnel visioning on something drains you (but that’s another topic).

Time blindness is…. having the general knowledge that today is Wednesday, and you need to do something on Thursday. Thursday is logically tomorrow, but the mysterious void of time is like ‘that’s like next week or something.’  It’s knowing you have to do something in three weeks on the 21st. And as the days creep closer, the 21st is stuck in a constant state of still being 3 weeks away, despite the fact it’s now tomorrow.

It’s wild. ADHD is literally living in a constant state of “There is Now. And there is Later.” and there’s no in between; no dates, no times; no hours, weeks, or months. It’s just Now and Later, and oh god why is is X o’clock already!?

[watchoutfordinosaurs]

Maybe I DO have ADHD….

[jumpingjacktrash]

god, no one’s ever succeeded at describing this for me before.

[lady-byleth]

This post punched me in the throat every two sentences with how much I understand it

[bogleech]

Yeah went my life assuming everyone was like this and that was just why clocks existed

[icalasari]

Wait, this isn’t why people made clocks?

[bogleech]

Today is Friday, which is pay day for a lot of people…but they’re showing up to do their normal grocery shopping and finding everything gone. I couldn’t get any of the usual stuff we need myself, though we do have enough at home that we’ll manage. Lots of other people aren’t that lucky. Even for those most at risk of covid-19, there is no advantage to hoarding goods. Nothing about it is going to require a hundred rolls of toilet paper or eighty pounds of rice. All that’s doing is depriving people who actually do need basic necessities, so as drastic as this might sound… Anyone who spent the week hoarding for doomsday should be encouraged to evaluate what they have, whether they REALLY need it, and take what they can back to the store. This probably doesn’t apply to most people reading this on tumblr but consider just getting the word out: there are people who need things and can’t get them right now because other people loaded up their cars with food and toiletries that serve them literally no purpose. The people most at risk of severe symptoms or even death obviously cross over a lot with families who had to spend all week working their asses off and now show up to empty grocery aisles. If you have multiple weeks worth of stuff in your house now, you have plenty you can stand to give back.

[icalasari]

Counter point to returning it to the stores: Foodbanks all over the place are VERY low on supplies due to the panic. Instead of returning all the extra stuff, donate at least some of it so those who don’t even HAVE a home or reliable income can weather this storm

[jigokuyeah]

Ishigani

Their name translates to Rock Crab. They are a curious Yokai, with a rock-like body, human fingers for legs and stalked eyes. It appears in a book called Inoue Book of Monsters(Better translation needed, but the original Kanji is 稲生物怪録). 

-submitted by @nightmaresyrup

[bogleech]

Oh my god I saw art of this yokai once in like 2000 when I was just learning what yokai even were from the internet and I NEVER found another source so I just assumed it was something the artist invented, you don’t know how happy I am to know it’s more “authentic”

!!!!

[icalasari]

Is that a fucking Shuckle?

Do we FINALLY know what the fuckle Shuckle be?

[icalasari]

Oh hey what’s this me using Tumblr inconceivable. Some older but still reletively recent drawings, and a brand new sketch

In order:

Jackolax the Pumpkin Spirit, Hartayk the ruthless beetle, Nobra the demon humanoid, and a sketch of Vulpier IE “My world’s Lucario”

[megagliscor-deactivated20170118]

send me kinks and i’ll rate them out of 10!

[icalasari]

Vore Micro/Macro Snek

[stofenthe1st]

What a Guydevoir that never got a Dawn Stone does to show his masculinity.

This was done as a commission by Josh Clymon(Clymor?) at the Dallas Comic and Pop Expo on March 1, 2014.

Looking back I should’ve asked him to print his name on my autograph book…

PS: This isn’t the original, simply a scan of it.

[stofenthe1st]

What a Guydevoir that never got a Dawn Stone does to show his masculinity.

This was done as a commission by Josh Clymon(Clymor?) at the Dallas Comic and Pop Expo on March 1, 2014.

Looking back I should’ve asked him to print his name on my autograph book…

PS: This isn’t the original, simply a scan of it.

[laur-alex-fics-blog]

I felt this was needed. We stand with Mark.

[boss-hoody]

Oh god, I sense another “#IStandWithJonTron” brewing.

what happened here?

[lucifers-lycan-deactivated20151]

Mark said “its not women shouldn’t be hit, people shouldn’t hit people” or something then feminists went nuts on him and its going to be another Matt the comet guy case because Markiplier is sensitive and not a bad guy but yeah

[makronette-robotnik]

He basically said that if a woman hits a man that the man should be able to defend himself and hit her back but he did also say that no one should hit anyone, he doesn’t approve of violence and he’s had to deal with an abusive partner in the past, SJWs just nitpicked part of his statement to make him look bad :|

[ask-velvet-remedy]

Never watched too much Markiplier but I feel this is necessary regardless

[flighttune]

I’ve never really watched markiplier but i know he is a great guy with a great view on the world and I full support him and this statement

[uncletarby]

okay but like real talk tho i watched the episode in question, and the fact that there are some people latching onto it the way they have just proves that some people actively look for things to be upset about.

Fuck people, like for real.

[icalasari]

What they said

[killer-killjoy]

Visit Original Link

Leaked audio of N singing in one of the upcoming anime episodes

[icalasari]

Whelp, you finally got me to use this account

[icalasari]

Digital Identity, Real Identity, Same thing for me

Digital Identity My digital and real wirld identities are pretty much one in the same. I always have my phone with me, and the vast majority of my friends are online. I even had an online girlfriend for around 7 years I've pretty much posted my picture, my nane, my address, etc. online as I don't see the difference anymore. If you know me online, you might as well know me in real life due to how merged these identities are. I could probably make a business card with Icalasari as the name instead of Eric Anthony West at this point Is it unhealthy? Eh, yes and no. Our lives are becoming more and more tech based all the time. I know that if there was tech to upload our minds, I'd volunteer to help pioneer it. And why not? It's the only not fully explored world that we have that we also made