your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.
Begging for a walkthrough on how to make a Shimeji with hotspots, transients, AND to be asymmetrical. (Or even a base file that'd be easy to edit.)
I am having absolutely no luck finding anything with my limited knowledge that doesn't assume you know how to code and navigate it all already.
Have tried to just copy code bits from one shimeji to another to figure it out, but just keeps getting errors involving loading images or closing off tags that look right to me when I check.
Only confident in how to replace the images and maybe extend the animations/timing and alter coordinates on the images for positioning and hotspots, and how to add sound.
Everything else is honestly stressing me out trying to figure out when I don't know the lingo to look up what I actually need to do so.
I'd really appreciate like... any help on this. Even if it's just to like, a 'Shimeji for Dummies' style guide.
Ok, I've got a reply from discord server. Copying it here:
For asymmetry you would add ImageRight="/name.png" for each pose frame.
Here's two links template examples for the hotspots and transients. I think being able to see them in action would help since these two are a little bit more involved. You need a Patreon account, these templates are free but I don't think you can download them without an account.
u can be boiling alive in your mind for months and then on a random tuesday ur head gets so clear and life is worth living again and you're like damn what was all that about then
so when i was a kid i read this story where a boy gets turned into a mouse by evil witches. at the end (spoilers) him and his beloved grandmother manage to slaughter all the witches but they do NOT manage to turn him back to a human child. he stays a mouse. the grandmother rebuilds her home to be mouse accessible. and they discuss the fact that he's aging like a mouse, so he probably only has a few years to live; but it's ok, because the grandmother confesses that she ALSO only has a few years to live and they both agree that they wouldn't want to live without the other. So everything is alright then, and they're happy, and that's the end of the story. it's probably been over two decades since i read it and quite frankly i am still processing the intertwining concepts of love and mortality but anyway that's not my point. my point is that Rocky did not die of acute radiation sickness, he spent enough time shielded by astrophage that his body was able to handle the damage, but holy shit does he have every type of cancer. he didn't die entering grace's atmosphere but all of his organs caught fire. I repeat — his internal organs caught fire. he spent several decades in a low gravity environment. Do you know what human bodies do in low gravity? it's not good man. 20% muscle loss in two weeks. 1% bone density loss every month. Maybe carapaces and low organic matter would handle the change better, but idk, it might actually be worse.
anyway my point is, actually, i do think that Rocky and Grace would get to grow old together.
Project Hail Mary said "what if you were so deeply scared that you didn't want to try but then found out that all you needed was a hard push and somebody believing in you to realize you were capable all along" and also "sometimes growth isn't fighting your way back to where you were before but realizing that it no longer serves you and choosing to move forward instead"
This pics completely sfw so I'll share it here! made up a new dude who is an office worker feeling unsatisfied w his life until he completely turns it around and becomes a raver bunny boy in his mid 30s
HERES MY CHAAAANCE TIME TO TAKE ITTTTT,,, CANT BE SUUUUUUURRE THAT ILL MAAAAAKEE IIIITT EVEN THOUGH..... IM PAAAAAAAASSTT THEEEEEE POINT OF NOOO REEETURNNNNN... I WILL SWIMMMMM THE PAAALADIN STRAIGHHHTTTTTTTT,,,, WITHOUT AAAANYY FLOATAAAATIOONNNNNN JUST A GLIMPSE OF VIIISUAAL AIDDDDD..... OF YOUUUU ON THEE OTHERR SHORELIIIIIIIINEEEE WAIIITINGGGGGG,, EXPEEEEEEEEEECTAAATIOOOONNNNSSSSS THAT IM GOONNA MAAAAKEE IIIIIIITTTTTTT...,..,. OOOOOOOO OO OOOOOOOO *bird noises*
maybe when we dig up something new to go insane over we should make a little news post to help the clikkies of other time zones lol. so here's what tf apartmentgate is:
uhh we dug up 3 blog posts (May 4th, 18th, and June 15th of 2012) by Josh about Tyler and Josh's experience in LA recording Vessel. You can find them here: x x x
some things we learned:
- they stayed in the same apartment for seven weeks. it was supposed to be three but it ended up being seven.
- they got "white girl wasted" (off of pure excitement) on the first night.
- the "second song" is supposed to remind you of holding your crush's hand for the first time (unsure if this is 2nd on record or 2nd recorded)
- they like Thai tea (based)
- the happy wheels video was recorded during this period
- gay marriage was illegal in 2012, and had been since 2008. it'd be reinstated in CA in 2013
- according to the 2nd post, they are "closer than ever" and are fitting into LA (sarcastic?) also they mention the hot tub
- according to the 3rd post, Josh had gotten over his homesickness and was ok with LA. and also he and tyler are really proud of vessel.
Remember that time when I told y'all some of you need skin tone helps? I had time. Using some commonly used FCs, some actresses that I know of, some brown charts and things, for us to simply take a look at people and SEE COLOR. Because, whether or not we pretend to (and from the lightwashing we see in artwork and aesthetics, there's proof that many people have issues), there is color in the world, and in our skin tones.
Sometimes, it don't matter beyond having a wider scope of representation and sometimes, it is important to stories (colorism storylines need dark skinned characters involved) or to original concepts (whitewashing and lightwashing previously darker characters is a problem).
I am merely here for less of a discussion of those things and more of a guide that you can pull up to put that FC idea or that fan art project next to and realistically say, "This is it" or close to the goal.
Let me start out by saying that a lot of the FCs that I see people use for Black characters are often biracial face claims.
The fact of the matter is that we're living in a time where multiracial entertainers are able to get the most visibility and are cast in roles that maybe they aren't the ideal image for. Now, we also have far more blended families onscreen and in stories probably than ever before, so they have plenty of opportunities to be properly cast. And some are a quarter Black, which, to me, means that they should also be considered for characters that may appear white. If you are fine with casting multiracial girls for Black girls, get fine casting them in white characters, too. Cast Multiracial Actors in White Roles! They have representation everywhere. They'll pull through.
Never be afraid to steal imagine a fair skinned character who the writer does not explicitly say IS white as anything else. That's where a lot of the light skinned actresses you use for Black characters should go. Unless they said "white" or some equivalent, I read everyone as not white, generally as Black😌
We also have gingers.
Having red hair don't translate to "white," to me, and it doesn't have to, to you. See the word "ginger" and put a Black ginger FC there. I sure do.
Now. Let's get back to the guide.
If a Black person is reading a character who is described as having "dark brown skin," everybody needs to know that the standard of the tone of brown skin is in relation to Blackness.
We are not thinking "dark compared to a white person," like some of you seem to be. We are not thinking of the one or two Black people you've met in life. Think about brown skin in relation to what group that FC belongs in. There are dark skinned Asians, South Asians, Mestizo, etc. If the characters are those, find out what dark means there. What shade is dark brown, from the perspective of the group of people that character belongs to?
That will help for you not to get dunked on when you make aesthetic boards, assign FC's, whitewash artwork, etc. Just look at a guide! And know that dark brown skin is not ever going to be anything lighter than a standard brown crayon, and CERTAINLY not going to be somebody who can "pass" the paper bag test!
There's also options for lighter skinned FCs who are in monoracial characters. I've said before, yes, it does happen that two people who aren't necessarily light skinned can have a light skinned child. But, there are also lightskinned couples who have lightskinned kids, and other Black parents with unambiguously Black light skinned offspring.
Sometimes, maybe consider FCs who evolve to have similar backgrounds. Yes, we often see light skinned women and biracial women used interchangeably, but it could also be not done like that. You are allowed to use monoracial light skinned actresses for Black faceclaims. To drop a few...
You likely would've used the peach or apricot crayons to try to get the drawing (before crayons started making sets), or tried, like I used to, to go over a tan with a lighter crayon, adding maybe a coat of yellow, or if the box was bigger, using the goldenrod. Idk what those translate to in digital art. So just do the lil' eyedrop on one of the girlies, basically.
Moving on to the space where I think a big portion of the famous actresses come in, and my apologies to the younger generation, a space where you're going to see many biracial actresses, and not so many monoracial ones ALTHOUGH THEY DO EXIST. I simply want to reiterate that there are Black actresses out there with two Black parents to play Black roles that cast Black biracial actresses.
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At any rate, moving a medium light range of skin tones. These are the girlies that would pass or just make it with the Brown Paper Bag test.
They're still lighter brown shades than on the other side of the bag test, but not exactly in the same vein of light skinned as "white passing" and "ethnically ambiguous." Might be called a redbone by some, probably won't be called a yellow bone.
FYI: Nonblack onlookers, none of us wanna have to see y'all try to use them words. Don't hurt yourself.
Note: The women in that chart are all biracial or mixed heritage, because at the time, I couldn't think of nobody fully Black in that particular skin tone range.
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We've reached the other side of a brown bag, but here's the thing, we do tan, so sometimes, you may see someone have lighter brown skin at certain times, like winter (or the quarantine, things of that nature), but the skin tone that we usually are is the skin tone that we generally identify with and the one I'd suggest in artwork/aesthetics.
Generally, the range of skin tones here we simply call "brown skinned," as vague and broad as it is. It encompasses those who aren't light skinned, per se, but wouldn't be considered dark skinned in the Black community, either. (Sometimes, I will see things tagged "melanin," or suggest in the tags that there is somebody with melanin in the post, and ISTG, I be thinking that perhaps y'all have some type of color distortion in your eyes, because the melanin be MIA. Missing in Action. On thee back of every milk carton in the 80s, Girl.
This is where most Black women fall into without being singled out by skintone. What do I mean by that? This is where we're a pretty medium brown color. Not necessarily widely perceived as light skinned, but while unambiguously Black, not considered dark skinned, either. (Sometimes people in this group are very confused about what their skin tone is, depending on who surrounds them).
When I was little, my family considered me light skinned. As an adult, I realize that was because my father's side of the family was the standard tone for our household, and they're all dark skinned. Sometimes, out in the wild, we see Europeans referring to somebody Thandie Newton's color as "dark skinned," meanwhile, we all have eyes and can see that is NOT true, but somehow to white people, it might seem so. I think because they are probably setting themselves as the standard when figuring out skin tone... which is ridiculous, obviously.
"Brown skinned," is generally what we say, despite the fact that everybody on this list is some shade of brown. Brown skinned in the Black community is simply "not light and not dark " which can range from anywhere from Robin Givens to Gabrielle Union. On one end, there's the tan crayon and on the other end the "brown" crayon.
Whenever I used to color family drawings, me and Mama were colored with the tan crayon and Daddy, and my two siblings were with the brown crayon. But in real life, they were darker than that and you didn't have more browns unless you got big boxes of crayons, 36 and above.
Finally, we get to what we consider dark skin. Brown crayon and darker shades of brown.
Does it make sense to picture in your mind Zoe Kravitz as having "dark skin" when the above ladies also exist in the world? Side-eyeing you, Divergent movie casting, amongst others.
These face card charts, that I put together, feature ambiguously Black/Biracial/Multiracial women and unambiguously Black women of shades ranging from practically white to fully dark.
BUT, if it is still hard for you to see color in faces, at least take cues from other color guides. If you type in "shades of brown" in your search engine, they will give you multiple lists. In case you get confused reading and imagining human skin.
I need everybody to know that I began this February 26, 2024, and today is now April 12, 2026. Slowly but surely SOME of these WIPS in the drafts will see the light of Tumblr.
maybe when we dig up something new to go insane over we should make a little news post to help the clikkies of other time zones lol. so here's what tf apartmentgate is:
uhh we dug up 3 blog posts (May 4th, 18th, and June 15th of 2012) by Josh about Tyler and Josh's experience in LA recording Vessel. You can find them here: x x x
some things we learned:
- they stayed in the same apartment for seven weeks. it was supposed to be three but it ended up being seven.
- they got "white girl wasted" (off of pure excitement) on the first night.
- the "second song" is supposed to remind you of holding your crush's hand for the first time (unsure if this is 2nd on record or 2nd recorded)
- they like Thai tea (based)
- the happy wheels video was recorded during this period
- gay marriage was illegal in 2012, and had been since 2008. it'd be reinstated in CA in 2013
- according to the 2nd post, they are "closer than ever" and are fitting into LA (sarcastic?) also they mention the hot tub
- according to the 3rd post, Josh had gotten over his homesickness and was ok with LA. and also he and tyler are really proud of vessel.
i am going to quit my job and drive all night to play one show for your band because i love you i am going to abandon my plans of moving to nashville to join your band because i love you i am going to spend countless nights in a cold van because i love you i am going to spend the majority of my time with you despite just moving to a new city because i love you i have your name tattooed on my body because i love you i am going to play the jesus figure in your storyline because i love you i am going to move back to ohio because i love you i am going to sing for this song because i love you i am famous because i love you.
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