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|Katie |♋| bisexual | 30 | white | they/it | fat | tme | minors dni| pfp by rad-fever

[lost-in-interwebs]

here is a masterlist to find the tags for each of my fallout ocs.

[pandrena]

another set of reposting my sos/hm art from older blogs. here is Daryl and Bee!

please do not use or repost my art without my explicit permission.

[critterishere]

I liked her a lot as a kid. I still like her a lot . Hi Eileen

[lakemojave]

Corporations precisely on june 1st:

[achillesinhighheels]

It’s a tony soprano summer

[godisafujoshi]

What this means

[uncensoredhijabii]

[freakoutgirl]

This is how June is going to feel

[sirfrogsworth]

Scrolling the timeline on Mother's Day can be hard for me so last year I decided to turn my grief into something positive.

This year, I decided to make it a tradition.

I noticed people were posting a lot of old, degraded photos of their parents. So I try to pick a few good candidates to restore.

I spent a couple of years learning how to do this. I am very good at it. And I really enjoy it. But I learned it isn't very lucrative and most people are fine with what AI can do now.

It makes me a bit sad, but I actually think restoring people's precious memories is not the worst use of AI. Plus, I use several AI tools in my workflow. When there is extensive damage, generative fill is a lifesaver. The remove tool makes quick work of stubborn accumulated dust. And AI upscaling makes the photos printable, often at many times their original size.

My restorations are still much better than the free AI ones. I edit them with a precision and fidelity that can hold up to 400% magnification. I take special care to preserve likenesses and often work with reference photos to make sure people's loved ones still look like who they are after upscaling. I also do colorizing by hand (though I will sometimes make initial color maps with AI). I color grade using film stock color references so the photos still look like film, and I add texture and grain selectively to keep people from looking like smooth rubber.

But that kind of quality takes so much time. One photo is probably several hundred dollars of labor. And no one is willing to pay that so I have to charge below minimum wage.

I will probably just do pro bono restorations from here on out. Focus on fixing photos that AI isn't very good at restoring. Plus I have a ton of family photos that I want to restore for my niece. At some point, years from now, she'll be old enough to talk to me without my brother's permission. And she'll probably want to know who her grandparents were. I hope to be ready with photos and stories by that time.

In any case, it felt nice to do this on a hard day. And it helped clarify to myself how I should use this skill I've developed going forward.

Before and afters...

[thefrogman]

Some of the most difficult restorations I've done...

I've had to deal with intense color casts before, but never a green one. Thankfully, the original color was still in the data, but figuring out how to filter out the bad green and keep the good green required a lot of problem-solving.

The original was actually in really good shape and had a lot of detail. But there were just so many people in the photo and they all needed individual exposure correction on their faces. And I colored everything manually. I think this ended up being over 400 layers by the end.

For this one, the car was completely blown out and had no data. But I posted it in a bunch of vintage car forums and was able to identify the make and model. I replaced the blown out car with a better photo of the exact same model from the same year. Then I researched what paint color options were available and matched that as well.

This is one where folks might assume I used AI, but aside from my upscaling tool, I actually did this with traditional compositing techniques. It is probably one of the most damaged photos I've been able to save.

Her facial likeness was completely destroyed.

However, I restored this other photo of her.

And I was able to use it as a reference to restore her likeness in the lake photo.

It doesn't hold up as well as I'd like at this magnification, but considering how damaged it was, I am pretty happy with the result. And I think I was able to make it look like her again.

One might think photo restoration is only about saving really old photos, but I have fixed modern wedding photos that were taken in bad light and I regularly use these skills to fix smartphone photos.

My phone is getting old and is in bad shape. The back fell off and I keep it together with a case. And the lenses are unprotected and hard to clean. So all of my photos look a bit hazy now. But sometimes it is all I have to capture a moment. So I take photos and hope my editing magic can fix them.

I took this out my front window on a foggy morning.

I actually got a court summons for having that chair in my front yard.

It's a long story.

And I just had a visit from a foxy friend the other day.

My neighbor says he sees this fella all the time. So I feel like he needs a name. Otis's favorite toy was a stuffed red fox, so I'm thinking maybe I'll call him Milo.

[bebsi-cola]

the countermeasure to dehumanisation is not sexualisation. the countermeasure is to treat the other person with respect and dignity actually.

[bebsi-cola]

i don't care if you wanna fuck fat people or hairy people or trans people or the elderly or disabled people or whatever. can you treat them like human beings

[liondrakes]

Evergreen!👇🏾

Race isn’t mentioned in this post, but I’m sure it applies regardless. Take the screenshot in context to both that and the groups mentioned above.

[hewoweens]

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

[creepygnomeking]

happy pride month everypony! i love being mexican

[mistflarden-deactivated20200816]

“In Europe they–”

WHERE in Europe??!? WHERE??? You mean Iceland?? Azerbaijan? The Netherlands? Liechtenstein???? THERE ARE 50 COUNTRIES IN EUROPE. ALL WITH DIFFERENT CULTURES. SO PRAY TELL ME, WHERE IN FUCKING EUROPE.

[eldriitchmurmurs]

in europe they got antisemitism

[number-one-malloc-appreciator]

[plus-size-aesthetics]

[tepkunset]

I was originally planning on holding off sharing this until June, but then decided to hell with that; why wait?

FURTHER RESOURCES:

Intersections: Indigenous and 2SLGBTQQIA+ Identities – this booklet from the Native Women’s Association of Canada is more intended towards 2S folks, but is still a great read for anyone.

Two Spirits, One Voice – This video from Egale is a great, no more comments needed.

A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder – This book by Ma-Nee Chacaby can be a difficult and emotional read, but very much worth it.

Becoming Two-spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country – I have yet to read this book by Brian Joseph Gilley myself, but heard positive things about it.

Please feel free to reblog with more suggestions, if you have them!

[theyshapedlikefriends]

【Mayonnaise and the Checkered Sofa】 This is Mayonnaise, a dog sitting on a checkered sofa. Every morning she eats yogurt with banana here. After washing the dishes, she comes back to the sofa again. Her favorite food is dumplings. マヨネーズとチェックのソファ】 チェックのソファに腰掛ける犬のマヨネーズです。 毎朝ヨーグルトにバナナを入れたものをこのソファで食べます。 その後皿洗いをして、またこのソファに戻ります。 好きな食べ物は餃子です。

by Kasumi Oomine

[omensofatimelord]

Now that pornhub released statistics showing that a significant number of cis women seek out porn of trans men under pretty fetishistic and transphobic names, can we finally admit that the rise in the amount of explicit gay fanfic/fan art/head cannons where the character popularly assigned the bottom is a trans man is fetishistic?

[omensofatimelord]

Cause every time it's brought up people defend it as being written/read by trans men. However fandom is a cis women dominant space, fics with trans men in it have become so much more mainstream in fandom recently, and there's a pretty obvious development from the older 'femanized bottom' trope to 'trans men'. Significantly as well, if it was primarily written by/for trans men, it wouldn't be exclusively trans men bottoming for cis men, and we would probably also expect a significant rise in trans male characters outside of porn and for a wider range of characters.

I think it's less 'trans men are the main readers/writers' and more 'trans men barely get to see ourselves represented and are drawn to deptions of trans men regardless of fetishization'. It's basically impossible to find trans porn that isn't fetishized! If there was porn which featured trans men topping I'd be reading it! (I'm already writing it). But there isnt, so trans men end up in spaces which are predominantly by and for cis women.

And to be clear, its not fetishistic for cis women to write/read NSFW stories about trans men, and there's a vast variety in the quality of the representation between indervidual fics from fetishistic to well done. It is however undeniable that there is a fixation on PiV sex where trans men bottom to cis men (to the point where very very few fics don't involve it), and there are patterns in which men are popularly fancannoned as trans men.

[omensofatimelord]

Was reminded of the boyfriends webcomics and Rebecca sugar and how trans men/masc artist are treated when depicting explicit content... Cis women (including cis queer women) don't face nearly the same amount of backlash for depicting explicit gay/queer content as trans men/mascs (... or trans people more generally for that matter). So it feels tbh even more disingenuous to claim that trans men are the main drivers for trans men being almost exclusively depicted as bottoms.

[artmagine]

The beautiful art of Thomas Blackshear II

[kingfucko]

i went to his website and saw even more great art! sharing some more which i particularly appreciated

[parkayquarts]

alright hank playtimes over lets get your gay little ass home