i love how delusional some articles of clothing are, like you read the tag and its like “hand wash only/tumble dry on low” son you are a cotton tshirt. youre going in the warsh and whatever happens in there is in gods hands
i vote that Coming Out Cakes should become commonplace.
when, for instance, a teen confides in their parents about their gender/sexual identity, that act of self-discovery and trust should be celebrated with a cake. or dinner out at their favorite restaurant. or both. show queer loved ones that you don't just love and support them--you also celebrate them. you celebrate them with cake.
At the end of chapter 2 in Your Turn To Die, the player is forced to choose between killing Sou or Kanna. Kanna frames this as a choice between “logic” and “emotion,” where saving Sou is the “logical” choice and saving Kanna is the “emotional” choice.
Personally, I love the writing in this part. I think it’s the strongest writing in the whole game. However, since joining the YTTD fandom, I’ve read various posts from fans who don’t like calling this a simple choice between “logic” and “emotion.” For them, it felt like an emotional choice to save Sou, while it was a logical choice to save Kanna. After seeing this argument so many times, I decided to unpack my feelings on it. I also wanted to write my own defense of why calling this a choice between “logic” and “emotion” makes sense, at least to me. For me, it all comes down to how it’s written as a choice between two opposing worldviews, and I don’t focus on the little technicalities. I’ll also argue that the game is using descriptive language, rather than prescriptive language.
But first, we have to deal with a strange irony about this choice:
For the genre-savvy player, yes, it IS “logical” to save Kanna and “emotional” to save Sou.
Playing pokemon today and had a nice little picnic and I left it running for 5 minutes when I went to pee, and I came back to 6 fucking eggs in my basket. This is my party.
They are all male except my goddamn houndoom. I have 6 houndour eggs from when I looked away for a couple of minutes, and as someone with no idea about egg groups I have no idea who the father is.
This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.
I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.
I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.
Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.
Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.
Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:
All selected?
Good.
Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.
You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.
Either way, let's add some color to the text.
Once that's finished,
You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect
You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.
Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.
This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.
Hooray, you've finished your watermark!
Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.
You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.
From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.
If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.
And for lots of black, you have Linear Light
Either way, you're in business!
EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:
An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).
I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.
There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!
The worst thing in the entire world is when you’re sweeping a big pile of dirt into a dustpan and it leaves that little coke line of grit behind. No matter how you position your pan or your broom and no matter how many times you sweep over it your outcome cannot change. As immovable as fate. I hate it so
look man the swords great i love swords too but its clearly not working for you
[ID 1: Ace Attorney characters drawn over a twitter screenshot. The tweet, from user hoshiumisexy, reads “i had a roommate who was a blacksmith and he kept a sword under his bed and just had knives lying around. one time he got cut by his sword and we had to take him to the ER and he was so smug because the doctor was like “that was a really really sharp knife it cut so cleanly.” In the corner of the tweet, Athena Cykes and Simon Blackquill’s faces are doodled. Athena looks exasperated and has her mouth open to speak. Simon has his eyes closed and is humming with a smug grin.
ID 2: A two-panel comic, featuring flat-color Ace Attorney characters on a red-to-grey gradient background. In the first panel, Simon Blackquill, shown from the chest up, brandishes his sword and gestures to it with his free hand. He smugly speaks a text post by tumblr user yourhourisup, which reads, “while you were attending therapy i was studying the blade.” The back of Athena’s head is visible and shows anime sweat-drops. In the second panel, Athena is visible from the chest up and Simon is visible from the waist up. Athena puts her hand on Simon’s shoulder. She looks concerned. Simon now looks annoyed and confused as he lowers his sword, the hand that was previously gesturing clenched into a fist. He speaks tumblr user yourhourisup’s follow-up post, adding, “what do you mean i need better coping mechanisms.” /End ID]
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